I can point you to humans from the universe we created that will corroborate my story. If the Handmaid ever shows up, she probably could too, along with the the Dolorosa due to whole story about finding grub Signless in a crater. Remember that she's the one who made me believe in ancestors at all.

As for motivation, none of us knew what the game was until it was too later. My friend Sollux helped put it together from symbols in these ruins, or something, and was all hey let's play this. So we got teams together and set up to start, and by the time he realized it would end the world, I was already in the medium--in my Land, that is. No backing out. And say if we had somehow stopped earlier enough, we all would have been doomed to die, because that would be an alternate timeline. All timelines save the main one are doomed, except for things here? This place is weird and I don't really get how it works in regards to the timeline, but it hasn't screwed us over yet. I wasn't the time player, anyway. Ask Aradia about that if she shows up again.