I don't know how to explain it to you. I know you would understand, if I could find the words.
[ she "hms" in thought, lips pressed together. ]
The game we played was called Sgrub, Sburb to humans. Its mechanics are superimposed over our reality, and thus, are able to alter it. The game itself does not come with a clear objective, but my friends and I had our own -- namely that our planet would be destroyed in its entirety if we did not play it.
I can't quite tell you how I knew. That is even more complicated.