All I know is that,
we will have to do this fast and quick. Or else the main character, or the game developer may realize that we have become sentient. Then .. they will shut down this game and we will be ... NO MORE.
Maybe, that's what happened with the dinosaurs rendered extinct by that killer asteroid. If that asteroid had been just a few seconds early or late, it'd have plonked into the ocean with comparatively less, and recoverable, damage. But, it had to strike with precision accuracy, like it was aimed at a bull's eye target, and hit with point blank accuracy, and the resultant catastrophic damage.