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Research Journal Day 132: I've done
it! My time reversal experiments have borne fruit. Twenty long years of
research have finally paid off.
I can see it now, praise, awards,
accolades, the jealously of my peers and the embrace of a cheering public. Just
a few more tweaks and I'll be ready to share it with the world.
Day 131: Oh dear, I've done it now.
My time reversal experiment was too successful, but I have little need to
worry. I've already completed the steps necessary to fix this error, I hope...
Day 129: From my perspective I'm
recording this entry the day after my previous. Yet, it is somehow two days
prior. Not only is time still reversing, but it appears to be reversing at an increasingly
faster rate. All efforts to prevent this have ended in failure, or rather they
never had a chance to begin. It's becoming difficult enough to construct a
sandwich without all the ingredients returning to my cupboard. Let alone
conduct sensitive adjustments to my research. Which is also disassembling
itself. I would pontificate about the irony of observing my life's work literally
destroying itself, but I haven't the time.
Day 124: Time continues to flow
back, but I've come to some revelations. Only I am being rolled back through
time. At least that's what I can gather from the birds flying backwards outside
my window. I've also determined the rate at which time is reversing. Within
four days (or rather four "un-days") It will be almost thirty years
ago. Within five un-days it will be nine centuries ago and a few un-days later
it will be the beginning of time. So, I'll either blink out of existence due to
the fact I won't have existed yet, or I'll live through a reverse big bang days
later. I'm literally running out of time. I have some ideas on how to save
myself, but not nearly enough time to test them all.
Day 104: Time still running out, no
time to write I think I'm on to something.
Day 24: Scratch that I'm not. Three
days pass every hour, acceleration starting to lose sync with certain objects.
Toast turns back into wheat, toaster now a pile of unrefined metals...
Day -616: Nearly a month passes
every hour, can't even work with my research anymore as most of it doesn't
exist yet. Can barely even write in journal, ink returns to pen half the time.
Day -10856: I am now about thirty
years younger. I'd probably feel spry if it wasn't for disorientation from the
time reversal. A year and some change passes every hour, at this rate I'll
blink out of existence before the day's over.
Day ???: Am now thought, journal
only thing I still have. It's now nine centuries ago, it's real nice, won't
help fix this though.
Day ???: Still a thought, time has
gone back tens of thousands of years. Civilization not really a thing yet. I
have nothing else to say.
Day !@#$#%%: Forgot to update
journal for a few days. Too busy watching universe form in reverse, really
fascinating. If there is a god I hope they take pity on me.
???????: Nothing...
???????: Less than Nothing.....
????????@##$#%%!!: Something?
Day 132?: As it turns out I went so
far back in time I looped around the end of time and back to where I started. Thankfully,
I managed to stop myself from making those last few tweaks that started this
disaster. The good news is I'm back home, the bad news is I've got a very angry
duplicate of myself here. He's not happy that his experiment was interrupted.
He only grew more upset when I told him his life's work almost killed him, I
mean me. He'll get over it eventually. Then we can get to work on the 2.0, this
time it'll work for sure!
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Another MTG inspired story, this one basically wrote itself, just don't take it too seriously. Time travel is a fun, if confusing, concept to write about, especially when you throw out all logic and science and write whatever (I can't tell if that was sarcastic or not). I did do a little math to keep the timescale consistent, it wasn't anything fancy though. I have nothing to say about the story itself, but more stories inspired by MTG cards are to follow.Until then Read, Comment and Enjoy.
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