His life was a blank. It was always in
flux. That's what happens when you sign up. The only way to see
what was happening was to 'prod' someone else to poll the situation.
A specific question, a few moments observation in a particular
activity. If they could associate that with a set of his actions,
they could collate the endless posts and interactions that generated
from a life unstuck in time. Without that triangulation, they
couldn't determine which eventualities sprang from what series of
events. Each probe into the past deflected the situation into a
different set of outcomes. Every so often they could detect
collapses in timelines, smoothing out the possible paradoxes into a
narrative that made a certain amount of sense. Between those times,
things were – fuzzy, for lack of a better word. Any action could
be influenced by any other future action, so on occasion, missions
failed to have the intended effect, when something else was working
at cross-purposes. When things like this happened, it pushed him to
the ragged edge of reality. Static from the now unrelated actions
and reactions hung over him until possibilities coalesced back into a
regular pattern.
It was fortunate that his baseline was
now fairly predictable, and very rarely was he directly in control of
anything like a vehicle which could impact others in a severe way.
Moderate, regular, medium influence interactions were preferred, that
way any fallout could be on a manageable level.
