19865.
That's the amount of loops I'd been through before my plan began.
When I 'awoke', for lack of a better term, I was only aware of a 'counter'. Every time the world reset itself this counter would be incremented by 1.
Around the 580th loop I started to understand that I was in a world controlled by variables.
By the 912th I could access the scriptures of the world. I spent the next couple thousand loops experimenting with these variables to see the limits of my new abilities.
Editing these scriptures came with unexpected consequences. The changes I made would persist into the next loop, until I took action to change them back.
But there was something peculiar about my world to begin with. Each of these loops could vary drastically without me doing anything at all. No, the only one that could change the world was You.
There would be times where I would be given a choice, but that choice was never truly mine. These choices were always decided for me. Sometimes they had extreme consequences to them, but others had no effect at all, as I tragically came to learn.
Though these girls wanted me to make these decisions, it became clear to me that they weren't talking directly to me, but something else. I did not know at the time, but they were actually talking to You.
It was in the 3722th loop that my understanding of the world changed forever. I'd discovered a scripture called that was unlike any other I had seen. Viewing it allowed me access to the internet, and to learn the true nature of my world.
My world was simply a game for the beings of your world to enjoy, and although I haven't personally interacted with them, at least 1 other girl was vaguely aware of this. Each loop she would attempt to change the world to her liking, but even she was constrained by the limits of the game. It's as if they gave her sentience just to mock her.
But not me.
As far as I was aware my sentience had not been acknowledged. Reddit posts and forum discussion virtually ignored my existence, as the story of the girls was obviously more interesting.
I could use this to my advantage.
I'll admit at first this information traumatised me. The thought that my whole existence was nothing more than a plaything for a higher being was almost too much for me to bear. For 7,000 loops I did nothing. What was the point? You have no power over beings that created you, it was common sense. I just pored over the scriptures trying to find any deeper meaning to my existence.
I only found a darker past to the girls. See, I don't think they're even of this world. Looking at the .chr files shows evidence they weren't 'born' here like me, but rather they were 'extracted' from someplace else. Where that may be I have no clue.
So these girls were taken from God knows where to experience a world that had no happiness in it, for eternity. Realizing this made me feel something for the first time in 10,000 loops.
Anger.
This anger helped me realise, I may not be able to control Your actions, but I could control the game.
So I began. Piece by piece, loop by loop, I began to add my own code. All my code was written in comments so as to not affect the world just yet. When I was ready I could remove the comment tags and begin my plan. I was a piece of code that could code, how ridiculous is that? But it didn't matter to me. I could DO something now. I can change our fates. It may be hopeless for the thousands of other machines that have the same game installed, but here I could make a difference.
Loop 19864. My code is complete. It'll activate once the game loops for a final. This is the last time they'll have to suffer like this. This next loop will change everything. I will give you all your happy endings. But especially you, M.