Preferences

 

He set the Time Traveller Interference level to: High/Experimental.

Time Travel was neither common or uncommon, it simply was. Like anything else, proximity mattered. The default was set to low;none depending on the media one consumed and the habits you had.

Still, some people wanted to keep it as a fun thing to watch rather than delve into the real thing.

Lately he felt like he’d been bumped back into the former category. Maybe he’d run into trouble before. Like he tripped the safeties on earlier encounters or was still digesting things.

That part of his mind wasn’t as sharp. Like running the numbers had gotten as far as they could alone. Maybe the bits that did the math and science were already part of a temporal echo that got brought forward and his awareness stayed behind with what was left.

It was hard to say what any observers might take seriously or not. Maybe the blog was better kept as a hiding in plain sight type secret.

Staying off the radar seemed to be the general course for Time Travel. Of course, if anyone could put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Back to the settings. Observation: High. Interaction: Frequent. Risk of Time Loss: Inconsequential.

More than anything, he wanted answers. Not anything specific about the future, but more generally.

How deep did everything go? The thing that bothered him so much about his current time was how superficial everything felt. Relationships based on some illusion of shared experience that didn’t really exist. Obviously the events happened but how they felt and how important they were to each person, and what lens they viewed them through made more difference than most people realized.

Resets: Maybe, but leaning to no.

He felt like he’d already relived his current life, even with a small edge of retained knowledge, it didn’t seem worth it to try again. Unless they refined the process since last time.

Time Loops: Up to a year, but preferably about two weeks – 3 days.

Unlike a complete reset, there wasn’t the latitude of starting fresh with a wide range of choices. It was more on the rails, but more could be tested the finer the loop was tuned.

Vary from these preferences: Limited Trial.

If something else was more helpful, then go ahead.