Of course, the Sepia players would think of themselves as the ones causing things to happen. But their choices would be limited. I don’t think Chrissie would get the playable option to rejoin her old crew, much less to tell them anything that Bandit would never say. The only player in Chrissie’s friend-group who was still active at that point was Daniel, and if he tried to say something like that, either he’d find his dialogue restricted or E-Merl would end up rambling into his beer. He could try spelling out a message with E-Merl’s fireballs in a fight scene or something, but it’s unlikely anyone would pick up on that.

And also, even if Daniel could tell Syr’Nj, “You’re just a brain in a tank. Wake up!”, that might not be helpful. As we now know, Syr’Nj’s player was no longer alive to awaken. But even if she were, as Daniel and company hoped she was, then she’d still be suspended in a life-support tube with no way out. So all he would’ve accomplished would be yanking her out of a generally fulfilling existence into a nightmarish glass coffin that could drive her hopelessly insane before they rescued her. (Syr’Nj is a remarkably resilient mind; the player who conceived her, not so much.) All things considered, I’m not surprised that Daniel and Chrissie let sleeping dogs lie.

Extremely interesting but also pretty convoluted … maybe a good thing we don’t get to see that.