“Yes, yes! Don’t you remember? It’s me, Muse!" said the shapeshifting man.
Nautilus completely forgot what the man's name was, but he remembered a bit about the man's face, and the answer confirmed that he indeed had seen his man before. During Muse's previous interaction with him, the man claimed to be able to fly, and that was the only thing that Nautilus remembered from Muse. But Muse kindly retold the full story for him, helping him regain his memory.
"I tried my hardest to keep you and the other roleplayers safe, but I spent too much time running around and not enough time teaching you what you needed to know to survive on your own, and before I knew it that damn Godmodder showed up in that fucking wolf skin and… I thought you were dead, man. So sorry if I’m not as upbeat as I was the first time we met – so much in fact that you didn’t recognize me – but seeing so many people be murdered in cold blood while you’re helpless to stop it can kind of be a downer.”
Muse's speech made Nautilus thought for a while. He finally remembered that there were other roleplayers in his previous interaction, and he hadn't seen any of them since the 'restart', or so Nautilus called it. He waited for an opportunity to ask the question about the fate of the other roleplayers, but apparently Muse went on a filibuster. Can we just finish this and move on? he thought, but suddenly Muse kneeled down in front of him and three other people, all likely to be roleplayers. "Stand up, comrade," he told Muse as he tried to pull him back up, using the term 'comrade' as both the generic term and to reflect his view that there was no hierarchy in the five-man team. "No one's above or below anyone else here. As for questions, though," he continued. "Mine's rather a request than a question. Would you please introduce yourself clearly to this young man?" Nautilus asked, pointing at the youngster he had been with, "I think he may be confused with all these things". But soon he remembered the question he had been holding up, "Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you one question. Have you seen the other roleplayers? Those in the forest the last time we were before?"