How Do You KILL A Time Traveler

hey there let me describe to you a hypothetical situation what kind of hypothetical situation the worst kind you are a time traveler and you've really up usually the socks on the other foot isn't it now that you know how it feels yeah no one deserves this fate still you knew this would have been the inevitable outcome one day you've just wished he'd not been there with you that too was inevitable I suppose it always felt like you were The Shepherd of the flock back home anyway but that's just the burden of the elder child in

general I suppose isn't it you can't really complain anyway this bubble where trapped you now makes Discerning who being positioned where in time and space are relevant doesn't it let's start from the beginning you've both come here following reports of a timeline anomaly annoyingly this anomaly isn't a splinter in the timeline no the SpaceTime Continuum is jumping erratically left and right stopping and starting like someone rewinding a videotape and then pressing play at the good bits the anomaly keeps trying certain things over and over sometimes they change their mind and Achieve something completely separate to

what they were currently set to achieve on their original course it's almost random but it also looks far too planned as well this all culminates in the entire timeline of this bubble being reset and everything returning to a single point a reset the worst timeline anomaly outcome to be trapped in how many of them have already happened what possible end could this anomaly want anyway you've seen the paths the timeline has taken they must have taken all of them by now everyone made incredibly happy everyone made incredibly Dead everything turned over and thoroughly examined what

could it possibly be trying to achieve it's clear the anomaly is neither loving nor are they inherently evil they are either completely insane or psychotically pragmatic you and him you can only offer your help advice and companionship to anomaly but what could you two offer that nothing in this world couldn't also offer therefore logically you couldn't offer anything that the anomaly actually wants the fact that nearly all of the possible timelines have played out only serves to prove one thing the anomaly cannot be satisfied and cannot be trusted they have likely killed as easily as

they have loved meaning this is now a survival situation for both of you could be worse technically you've not seen it yet you pray you don't see it the timeline that ends and nothing resets nothing forever not even time at least the normally doesn't want that or it would have happened already you'll have to keep an eye out for anyone that would want that anything for now you'd have to figure out what it is in this timeline the anomaly is after you suppose it's worthless to speculate on this until you walk out that door and

gather the necessary data but is the anomaly an entity that can even be happy be satisfied with any ending to the timeline you've seen that the anomaly sometimes meets this universe halfway killing some and sparing others sometimes they get the closest to creating a loving family they probably will ever get but in relation to their murderous escapades that just means they aren't creating these bonds because they like these people they don't like anyone they aren't good or bad person they must either have different motives or if they can never be satisfied no motives at all

they may also be trapped and we're trapped in here with them a normal person with goals wouldn't be resetting like this unless they're bored upon your arrival here your transport broke you are stuck here unless it can be repaired you can't escape this bubble but at least the anomaly can't either thinking about your situation it was probably the best decision made by anyone for everyone's sake no one can make it out of here until the anomaly is dealt with you see the problem with an anomaly that resets time and space in the way that you've

observed is that it is very apparent that the anomaly remembers what it had done through each reset this is explained by the timelines jumping left and right if not a random Choice which you highly doubt it is it means they are testing for an outcome something they would never be able to do if they were to forget each time the timeline reset and when they can't get an outcome they want the timeline stops and then they start at a different point trying for another Vector another outcome and the problem with facing an anomaly like that

is you've probably already walked out that door plenty of times before haven't you you might not remember doing so but it does but the space in here the space you occupy this shell you've bought here the anomaly couldn't have accounted this space existing this is the anomaly's anomaly as well are the people and information contained within it we know the anomaly isn't here in this place that's impossible but outside of that door that's their realm yes the first couple of times you exited that door you may have gone undetected since arriving in their realm assuming

they aren't omnipotent but inevitably this anomaly with infinite time on their side will eventually spot you research you understand you you have to assume that it knows all and and hence definitely knows who you are and where when how and why you arrived the only thing you have is in this room and everything within it until you don't you can't stay in here and survive you must venture out into their realm which means ultimately you're at their Mercy but let's not get too D and out about this situation let's start with the possible yet improbable

outcome you two both walk out the door the anomaly greets you let you know who they are and how or if they can help you're both safe even if you're possibly trapped here forever the anomaly even if not benevolent does not and will never through multiple resets ever see you as a threat or an impediment to themselves this is the best outcome the anomaly being classified as good or pacifistic the second outcome you both walk out that door and you both immediately killed like I said the anomaly probably already knows who you are and why

you're here they will not waste time in disposing of you if you're a threat or an impediment to their activities or just something new to torture if they're bored this is possibly the worst outcome the anomaly being classified as evil or genocidal the third outcome you walk out that door and no one greets you you're alone however it's likely impossible that the anomaly doesn't already know everything about you though that's depending on the amount of resets that have happened but you must assume that many resets have already happened and therefore it already knows everything about

you therefore they have already depleted with the niceties and possibly torches they could have possibly put you through meaning you are now as useful to them as anyone else in this bubble maybe the anomaly is just Gathering data for some reason or maybe they're just playing in a finite space through infinite repeating time like a child with a video game the anomaly being classified as apathetic or neutral to your existence but that leaves you with a fourth and fifth outcome the fourth outcome is the worst in terms of personal sacrifice you know what it would

entail you know what would have to be done in this outcome the anomaly is in fact evil it wants to kill you but can't for whatever reason it's not powerful enough it's not wise enough it doesn't know enough which would explain possibly some of the timeline jumps and starts it's not testing outcomes as much as it is failing to reach them due to a personal lack of ability or knowledge it may just be as powerful as anyone else in this world which means if you're not immediately killed upon leaving this place through that door the

fourth outcome is that you are being hunted by the anomaly scoped out and researched and cornered you'd never be able to let your guard down and the anomaly would hide from you so as to not give you any information about its physical makeup or how it resets time you'd never be able to fight it you'll always be trying to gain the upper hand and once it has it as soon as you walk out this door you'd be dead which is just the second outcome so if you walk out that door and you don't meet either

your friend or your deaths it is ultimately very likely that you're being watched by an entity that doesn't yet know how to kill you but is trying to finally the fifth outcome the anomaly is a Mad God either an imbecilic doad or a childish Maniac or an amalgamation of multiple different people a squabbling mess however the resets and jumps seem too precise to indicate Randomness to that degree you wonder to yourself if multiple people can have the power to determine time well you'll have to find out what entities exist in this world right now you

have to enact the plan don't you you know the outcomes so what do you do outcome one everything is fine live as best as you can outcome two everything ends Die With Honor outcome three four or five well you have to find and eliminate the anomaly don't you because it has the possibility and the likely propensity to become outcome to but how can you eliminate an anomaly that knows everything about you and thus knows how to avoid you how can you learn about a timeline anomaly that knows you're here to eliminate it it it just

reset time until it killed the threat itself you wish he wasn't the one here with you right now right there is one way to kill a time traveler like this if the anomaly assumedly can know everything it can about you then that is the way you can control it if you are facing an anomaly outcome like the third fourth or fifth outcome that I've described then the anomaly after exhausting all coercive and friendly measures can only learn about you from observation it knows you aren't natural to this world therefore naturally it would never trust you

however within this specific State of Affairs you two being two anomalies it knows nothing about initially you can control what it observes use what you have here now to control what it knows then and decide what Secrets you'll take to the Grave yes it may be able to capture you possibly torture you try and get the information it needs to destroy you no matter how much of an oxymoron that may be in this context but logically if it can't kill you or completely eliminate you from reoccurring in this timeline it probably can't or has no

use for capturing and or torturing you right that means you have nothing to fear for the time being and since you know you are likely to be hunted you know you must cover Your Tracks which means you must lie to everyone you ever meet you lie your only weapon is the flow of information to the anomaly you can shape its perception of you mold the anomaly's reality essentially you can just make up about yourself and has no reason not to believe you but not out there you can't make anything up out there only in here

your secrets must be made here where the anomaly isn't it will be impossible for both of you to actively gather information on the anomaly without the anomaly one day being able to discover that you know about it and hence going into hiding forever in every timeline inevitably resulting an outcome too sure you can try to be secret about it but that's far too risky so you both can't actually try and learn anything about it in any sense without the anomaly censoring itself from you forever but you have to learn about it to have some hope

of eliminating it and hopefully the timeline resets stop basically you're in a stale mate aren't you there is one way to learn about the anomaly without showing your hand and that's if the anomaly voluntarily gives you information about itself unwittingly but why would it ever do that how would it ever do that how would you get it to do that across multiple resets that's where your plan comes in but the plan it requires a second person essentially a sacrifice yeah you really wish he wasn't here with you the plan is for one of you the

first person to hide nothing not that the first person won't try and hide their activities from everyone I mean you don't know if conventional methods of just trying to keep secrets might actually just work in terms of controlling information going towards the anomaly it's just that it's very unlikely to work but also in addition to that fall on Hope is that it allows you to not raise suspicion amongst the non-anomalous members of this world as to your true nature and intentions and therefore eliminating other vectors the anomaly may use to infiltrate and observe the first

person's activities this means the first person can still adopt a relaxed and Casual demeanor but work towards finding and eliminating the anomaly that's easy enough isn't it the activities the first person will partake in involves researching the anomaly the world you are in now how time works here and ultimately if they see even a shred of the anomaly they will destroy the entity where it stands hopefully ending the timeline issue once and for all this person will eventually become known to the anomaly as a threat to their existence or at least someone trying to counter

them that's their job to do what they were sent here to do knowingly be a threat to the anomaly and the anomaly knows about them the person for the anomaly to avoid and study the person who gets to defend themselves the person with the easy part of the plan the second person will die a lot the second person must never ever show any intention or capability of causing any permanent harm they must be a perfect fool who knows not of the world around them and almost reacting purely to stimuli like an insect only obsessed with

the superficial and insignificant they must show no knowledge or care for the first person activities they must be so naive to the danger and manipulation posed by others suspected anomaly or not as to not even defend themselves from lethal harm they cannot eliminate the gravest of threats to themselves and they cannot kill anyone or anything they suspect of Mal feance they have to let themselves be duped and possibly inevitably killed and pray that this timeline is a timeline that the anomaly resets they will have to face their death constantly the first person will have to

play along making sure they both stay the course keeping in character No Matter What by doing this the anomaly is given what they will think to be a back door into manipulating or learning about the dangerous first person what they will perceive to be the only threat to be eliminated via the buffoonish naivity of the second person without knowing that these two people are actually in cahoots sure the anomaly assumedly knows that the first and second person know each other as you'll exit the same door so there's no point in hiding your relationship but that

doesn't mean that the anomaly inherently knows that the second person is as switched on as the first person or that your arrival was based around stopping them this is how you will get the anomaly to reveal themselves to you isn't it those are the secrets both of you will keep no matter what from now until forever you must act an eternal play until you needed or can't of course how will either of you know if somebody's manipulating the second person and how would you know if that manipulative entity is the anomaly you're searching for that's

the beauty of the plan you control the information so you control what the anomaly knows in the plan the second person as an ie fool must be completely susceptible to flattery and brbes but in order to identify the anomaly accurately and succinctly every time the timeline is reset by the anomaly the second person must have a secret hidden desire that trumps all their other desires the anomaly will eventually learn of this and inevitably use it to make friends with the second person every time the timeline is reset and as always the second person must let

themselves be duped but this secret desire will be the tail that gives the anomaly away so therefore we must make it that the things the second person wants more than anything are unlikely to actually be often occurrences in this world something no one would think of something so esoteric that if a random person actually knows about it that would be a definite indicator that the second person had told them about this near impossible to no information in a different timeline and therefore that person can remember across timelines that person is the anomaly this information would

also only be shared with somebody the second person really considers to be a friend this unknowable desire needs to be compounded by the second person having a single-mindedness in terms of obsession one simple food they really love one easily undersood goal they wish to achieve this way anyone who has a varying opinion as to what the second person actually likes and wants gives themselves away as the anomaly like if the second person secretly loves I don't know oatmeal with a dinosaur egg but all observable evidence in the second person's life points to them loving something

entirely different and then someone comes up to them one day with a smile and a dino egg porridge asking what the first person is working on that person is clearly the anomaly that plan would also require the second person to try and make as many friends as possible you cannot alone assume that the anomaly would try and make friends with and bribe the second person on their own accord they may come to that conclusion but they may also be stupid and or socially isolated so you must open the back door for them be as inviting

as possible however as stated the second person must accept these bribes and flattery no matter what the consequences if need be actively help the anomaly with its plan if need be harm the first person if need be die this needs to happen consistently over and over again so as to create a solid feedback loop grou with the anomaly the second person is leverage the second person is the back door you need to implant into the anomaly the idea that doing these certain actions bribery or flattery or whatever of the second person will always work to

be a back door into what the first person is doing you'd also have to find ways to effectively and ctly communicate with each other to transfer what the second person has learned turned to the first person and vice versa it will always allow you to identify the anomaly no matter what you will be able to control the information to it and get you ever so closer to eliminating it at which point you don't know do you it's the only way to even possibly correctly identify the anomaly but if killing it if it can be killed

doesn't end the timeline recess then what's to be done what's the point of all this control the anomaly would never allow you to destroy them if it can be helped and if we can destroy them but it doesn't stop the recet then assumedly it's because the anomaly can reset time after their own termination in this scenario the likelihood that you'd ever have gotten the drop on the anomaly is so low that simply destroying it is almost worthless before that you need to figure out how time works here what controls the resets how does the anomaly

harness the anomaly assumedly would also try to control the information the first person receives as well in terms of the world around them so how would you ever learn how to break the cycle of resets and what causes them however if you learned of how the anomalies time trael works or gain that power for yourselves the anomaly would assumably just reset time before you had that knowledge and power and you'd be stuck back here in this small dark room of certainty at that point point the only way to beat the anomaly is the introduction of

a stronger anomaly that counters it an angel to either save you or put you out of your misery how could any hopes of survival or dreams of a happy ending exist in such a state of affairs how could anyone just not give up the door's not even open yet and you're already mentally exhausted oh wait I forgot to ask how did you decide who was the first person who's the second person did you flip a coin you really wish he didn't come with you didn't you anyway Once you walk out that door it may be

a hellscape Eternal suffering Eternal nothingness it may be a handshake a sweet smile it may be murder it may be the beginning of the longest day of your life [Music] [Music] [Music] he he he