A Change to the Collective Conscious
A world with a twist (or two)
Chapter 1
by tyranus
I'm floating in a weird space, infinite, yet concise. In front of me, part of me, yet not, is all of humanity sans myself. Well, not quite not me as well. I'm aware that I can do something, but not sure what it is that I can do.
I ponder it, what is it I can do, what is this? An eternity passes in an instant, and eternities pass before and after. An odd sensation.
I know something. I'm me. Whoever that is, and that, that infinity amalgam is everyone else, and I'm part of it, I think, but also not.
As eternities pass, I realize the only way out is to do something to it, some change, but what?
If I make a small change, I think it might not notice, at least not right away, and I can get back in. If I do something more drastic, I have a feeling it might reject it, or me, somehow.
What is a small change though? A quick swap of related concepts? Yeah that might work. Like if I swapped homonyms Ball(Dance) for Ball(round object). It'd be weird, but I could get back.
But what if I wanted to use this to my advantage? What could I bend without breaking? How far is too far? I feel like the more ingrained the change the worse the feedback. If I made cannibalism the preferred food source, I have a feeling that the combined rejection would kill me, if other people didn't.
I've got something in mind...
I reach out and...
What level of change do you make?
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Our protagonist (or more likely Antagonist) finds themself with brief access to the collective conscious, able to make a singular change to every person but themself, but a bigger change will lead to psychic feedback, and unforseen negative consequences. Given unlimited time, can they come up with a viable change to get what they want?
Updated on Jan 10, 2022
by tyranus
Created on Jan 8, 2022
by tyranus
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