Here’s another one that’s both bizarre, and involves multiple realities.
You’ve probably heard of would you rather games. These can range from
innocuous questions for children, to really raunchy, unsavory, or sadistic.
Would you rather be blind, or deaf? Would you rather only be able to breathe
from the bottom of your feet, or only ever smell smelly feet? They can be fun,
they can be embarrassing, and they can be impossible to answer without looking
bad. But one thing they’re not is consequential...unless you live in
Hypothetiverse. In that world, every answer you give comes true. It happens to
someone. It happens to an alternate version of you, one whose only real
purpose in life is to suffer whatever circumstances you’ve forced upon them.
Not all hypothetical questions lead to this. You have to ask it in this very
specific way, but if you do, it will happen every time, and each time it
happens, reality as a whole becomes more complicated. It almost feels like
there’s some kind of intelligent design to all this, and not because of the
inextricable connection between the main reality, and all of these offshoots.
It’s also that the bare minimum number of realities exist to accommodate these
realized hypotheticals. Some questions contradict each other—like if you were
asked whether you would want to go without the internet, or without TV, for
the rest of your life, and another one later that asks whether you would
rather only be able to visit porn sites, or advanced scientific databases, for
the rest of your life. Those two versions of you will live in their own
respective realities, because they would not be able to coexist. But beyond
that, all the hypothetical alternates live in the same reality. That is, as
long as they don’t contradict each other, they’re together, so it’s not like
there is one reality for every single would you rather hypothetical. Here’s
where things get interesting, though. Each of these alternate realities has to
be inhabited by a full population, and not everyone has answered one of these
questions ever in their life. So their alternate is just walking around,
trying to lead a normal life, amongst a neighbor who can only walk on their
hands, and a co-worker who has to eat everything with a butter knife. They
don’t know they’re in a realized hypothetical reality, so they can’t explain
this odd behavior, and if they were to ask one of them about it, that person
is also unaware of what they are, so they would just think it was normal, and
not be able to articulate their reasoning. “Well, I don’t understand the
question, I can only drive on Sundays. How would it be possible for me to ever
drive on any other day of the week? You’re not making any sense.” I won’t get
into specifics, but this universe doesn’t have anything to do with the Darning
Wars, because these realities eventually collide after too many would you
rather questions are asked, and things get ever crazier from there on out.
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Current Schedule
- Sundays
- The Advancement of Mateo MaticNow stuck in a foreign universe, the team must help the natives fight back against the Ochivari threat as diplomatically as possible.
- The Advancement of Mateo Matic
- Weekdays
- Pleadings from BoreverseAn alternate version of me is trapped in the dullest brane in the bulk. He must first find a way to survive...and then find a way to escape.
- Pleadings from Boreverse
- Saturdays
- Extremus Vol. 4Six people try to survive their conflicting personalities on a planet and return home. This is the fourth of nine volumes in the Extremus multiseries.
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
Microstory 1624: Would You Rather
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