After another one of your adventures with some friends, you've run into a little problem. Your companion, the Mushroom Kingdom's Princess Peach had succumbed to a spell, causing her to be turned into a small, pathetic, ugly (in her words) Goomba. While some other allies of yours left to find a cure, you stay at the castle with Peach to keep her company, where she seems to look over her new armless form with discontent.

groans forlornly I HATE being an ugly little Goomba! I don't have any arms and I can't wear my pretty dress....