Time traveling and a certain pair of goggles.

[Iscah]

Oh, I understand what you are saying. I never said they experienced it however (well Mide did when she realized what happened during the failed summoning). To them (Mide and Dayan) that's just the way it happened. We, outside the game, can see it as a loop because we know that they are destined to do this again and again.

That's perhaps down to interpretation and/or terminology (and the large stealth-edit I may have made to the last post while you were writing this). But I don't see it as them being "destined to do this again and again". It relies on an interconnected chain of events that loop back into the past, but they only experience it once.