Goals of the Before-Time

 

It was hard to say what he wanted to accomplish. It seemed that everything would be reset anyway, so there wasn’t much point storing up things physically. Skills would carry over of course, but it was up in the air as to how long it would be till what he could get back to what he normally did – or if it would have to be relearnt as well. He wasn’t fussed about relating to other people, that seemed like a dry well.

There was a number of small things to do, but nothing that amounted to much. He didn’t mind small projects, or large ones, but anything of medium sized didn’t seem to fit. 

 

 

Ai Assisted

What he pictured to be the end of things was more than a little removed from the standard version. Most importantly, things didn’t happen in a set order. At least not to all people. The ordinary approach had too many loose ends. Not everyone was accounted for, and not all the avenues had been exhausted. It was sufficient for the core of the experience and the standard deviation from the bell curve. There was, however, an outlier. A kind of fuzzy edge where if people looked closely enough, things didn’t line up exactly.

An ebb and flow of time had been happening on a kind of meta level, and he had been caught up in the most turbulent part of it. As a result, things started to break down from the most basic retelling of events.

Absolute perfection required a very specific set of circumstances. Some doors opening, and others closing. While not everything was visible, nor did he have the full picture, he couldn’t see a straight line from the goal to the destination, at least not without a lot of stuff off the books. 

>> The problem with that is there were no rules. The only thing you could do was try to fit the >> pieces together as best you could. The normal version of this story would've ended with him >> being stuck in the past, but that wasn't what happened.