Most of the time, The Omega Gyroscope makes big changes to reality. It
causes the global population to go back in time, or alters their perception
of it. Or it instantly switches everything to a new timeline. Some of the
time, however, it makes small changes, and it all has to do with the person
wielding it. The Gyroscope is basically a wish fulfillment device, which
reads its user’s mind, and makes changes to the universe in whatever way
it’s capable of, getting as close to the user’s desires as possible. It’s
not really trying to do that. It’s not really trying to do anything. Some
people are just better at forming a psychic connection with it, and it
accepts this input like a computer. That’s all it is, a very fancy and
advanced computer with no buttons or monitor. The results of a user’s
desires are often not what they truly wanted, but not because of a be
careful what you wish for aphorism. It’s more that the Gyroscope has its
limitations, and can’t just do whatever you want. Before the little powerful
device ended up in the museum, where it would later be used by a number of
people, it was discovered in an attic by three adult children who were
cleaning out their father’s house after he passed. Since the Omega Gyroscope
is so small and seemingly innocuous, the three of them thought little of it.
They just threw it in a shoebox, and focused on the rest of his effects. It
was only later when one of them, bored at the estate sale, idly spun it. At
the time, she was thinking about her father, and how she wished he had never
died. Apparently, the Gyroscope interpreted that to also mean that he
wouldn’t ever die, even in the future.
The daughter stayed in her seat for the next hour or so before realizing
that something had changed. The sale was still on, and she was still in
charge of handling the money, but it was no longer an estate sale. It was
just a regular garage sale. Evidently, in this new reality, the four of them
decided to clean out the father’s house anyway, and sell what they could
before donating the rest. He was still very much alive, and just as she was
noticing that the sign by the street was different, he was returning from
having helped transport his kayak to its new owner. Only she seemed to
remember that he had died in the other reality, but by then, there was no
way for her to make the connection that the Gyroscope had had anything to do
with it. She didn’t even consider it as a possibility. She also didn’t try
to explain what she could remember to the others. She kept her mouth shut,
and decided to be grateful for the gift, no matter what had actually caused
it, be it her magical powers, or simply a welcome relief to a bad dream.
Since she didn’t know that the Omega Gyroscope was responsible for the gift,
she let the thing be donated to an antique store, where it would one day be
found by the curator of a museum. For the next ten years, the daughter
watched her and her siblings continue to age while their father stayed the
same. No one could explain it, and it was eventually decided it was best
that they keep him a secret. Other people would start asking questions. What
would happen in the next ten years, or the next hundred? They didn’t know if
there was a limit to it, so they all moved, and started a new semi-anonymous
life in a new city. Their intention was to move again, and start referring
to him as their brother. Before this was necessary, the Omega Gyroscope
precipitated a major global phenomenon, which saw the entire human
population sent back in time to their younger bodies, and father and
daughter would find themselves at the center of the action.
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