Reality Hopping
In this story you can hop between realities following these rules:
No more then
- 1 a Day
- 6 a Week
- 20 every 4 weeks
- 50 every 12 weeks
- 180 every 48 weeks
These measurements are based on your home reality.
Your home reality is the one where you start your journey from.
When you hop to another reality you switch your mind with anybody who is there already.
If you hop to a different reality then your home reality from another reality then:
Reality 3 contains you.
Reality 2 contains the person from reality 3
Your home reality contains the person from reality 2
If someone dies then the person whose reality he/she home reality changes to that of the person who died. (Using the example above , if the person in your home reality dies your home reality becomes reality 2. If the person in reality 2 dies then the home reality of the person from reality 2 becomes
3.)
Written by Catprog on 22 August 2004
Alterntive Scenarios from Other Stories
This is for characters from the other stories in other scenarios.
Written by catprog on 21 February 2016
Costumeverse People
People in the costumeverse
Written by Catprog on 14 October 2017
Tyler
Tyler was sitting on a park bench, reading a novel. It was a personal favorite pastime of his; he got to feel the sun shine down on him, hear the birds singing, and of course watch all the dogs being walked. Who didn't love seeing some happy dogs? There were other reasons he chose to read out in the park, one of which was because he was a helpless romantic. The 23-year-old hadn't had a date since his junior prom in high school, and he wanted to get back out there. He had a whole lot of love to give with no one to give it to.
He did have a few things going against him. Tyler was quite the shy fellow, and never made the first move. His date to junior prom had happened quite by accident, namely through a lack of communication. Tyler and his "date" didn't hit it off, and spent most of the time away from each other and drinking virgin drinks from the little bar the venue had. It wasn't a fun time for either.
So, Tyler would always read in public places in hopes of someone approaching him to talk about the book he was reading. It had worked once, somewhat. The woman who talked to him was happily married with children. This had been going on for a few weeks, and it was getting to a point where he was ready to move on and try something else. Perhaps get into online dating, it'd make it easier to meet people guaranteed. That is assuming the two parties would successfully trade messages consistently.
Before abandoning his reading idea, Tyler decided he would try it for one more week, reading a different book each time. Today, he had opted for a novel called "Ten Little Scoundrels" by a casual writer turned novelist. Tyler's idea of reading involved looking at the middle of the book to make it seem like he was far in and invested. If they wanted to talk about any point in the book, he'd just reply with a "I want to wait until I'm done to avoid spoilers." That did work with the married woman from earlier, so it's worked every time so far. Tyler sat down and randomly went to the middle of the book as he feigned reading.
"Excuse me, is that Ten Little Scoundrels you're reading?" a woman's voice asked, Tyler surprised that this plan actually worked.
"Why yes it is! Very good one so far."
"I know! And how about that part where Liz-"
Tyler held up his hand hastily. "No spoilers! I'd like to save discussion until I get through it all. Seems very much like the book to do that for."
"You got me there. I'm Lisa by the way." she said with a smile, holding out her hand.
"Tyler, it's a pleasure." he answered with a smile and handshake.
"What brings you to the park to read anyways? Why not a library or at home?"
"Well, I like seeing some dogs." Tyler replied back with a laugh. "Can't see excited dogs in libraries."
"Guess that's a good reason for it!" Lisa giggled along with Tyler.
The two chatted for a good while, about an hour passing. Tyler was enjoying her company quite a bit. However, he was also getting worried. Did she feel the same way or was she just passing time? Did she think they were hitting it off like Tyler thought they were? He decided to prod the romantic waters even if it meant it could end the interaction.
"Say...I hate to be upfront like this but, are you seeing anyone right now?" Tyler asked twiddling his thumbs nervously.
"Aside from the people who walked by no." she replied with a wave of her hand. "Why's that? You liking what you see?" Lisa added with a giggle.
"Oh I uh...y-yes?" Tyler said rubbing the back of his head. "Sorry for being super forward it's uh, it's been a while since I talked to a girl in this way."
"Here then," Lisa said taking out an old receipt and pen from her purse and wrote something down. "My number for future reference."
"J-jeez, thanks!" Tyler was feeling quite ecstatic now.
"Say, I'm going to check out this new bar that recently opened. I think it was called ‘A New Dive’, care to come with me?" she asked with a smirk.
"Yeah, totally!" Tyler shook his head up and down. "Kinda early don't you think?"
"What are you talking about? It's already 5! By the time we get there it'll be 6. Perfect time to start getting hammered no?"
"I-I'll take your word for it!" Tyler said with a chuckle. "Did you need a ride there?"
"I won't say no to one!" Lisa laughed. "My little Uber driver."
Tyler blushed a little bit as he took Lisa's hand, going to his car and making their way to the bar.
"What's so special about this bar anyways?" Tyler asked over to his passenger.
"I don't really know, they didn't really advertise it much." Lisa replied. "I just feel like getting some drinks if I'm being honest."
"Can't argue with that!" Tyler chuckled.
Soon enough, they arrived at the bar's location, the door's seemingly just having opened. There was a small crowd of people there already, the small handful going in after the bar opened it's doors. Lisa let out a small groan.
"Dang it, I wanted to be the first one in. Ah well, let's go inside anyways."
"Sorry, traffic wasn't our friend today." Tyler said back with a small frown.
The two got out of the car and went into the doors before Tyler realized he forgot his wallet in his car. "Dang it..." he muttered to himself. "I'll meet you inside, I gotta get something from my car."
"Sure thing, I'll save you a seat." Lisa nodded and walked into the building.
Tyler ran back down to his car before he felt someone tap his shoulder. He was a bit weirded out but gave it the benefit of the doubt and turned around. "Jack?"
Written by vinomath on 01 June 2017
The Lab
"Yeah, it's Jack. Where have you been these last two years why didn't you say anything, blah blah blah." the man said to Tyler. "I don't have time for any of them and can say later, you gotta come with me."
"You don't expect me to just drop everything and go with you. I'm with a girl right now! You know how long it's been since I had a date?"
"She's not interested, she just wanted to use you to get free drinks and a free ride. I hate to break it to you." Jack said back.
"How could you say that? You haven't even seen her!"
"Listen, I don't lie, not to you or anyone because I quite frankly don't care enough to. I ran a test on her from afar. Call her Drew Barrymore cause she's just not that into you."
"Ah man...I thought we had something." Tyler said looking down. "Wait, how'd you even do that!?"
"Love is a chemical and chemicals are science. It's actually really easy. Come on though, we have to go back to my lab. I have something important you need to help me with."
"I-I guess. I should tell Lisa I'm leaving. She said she'd save me a seat." Tyler said getting ready to turn around.
"Not enough time. Come on then." Jack said wrapping his arm around Tyler and hitting a button on his watch. There was some kind of blue ball that formed around them and in an instant, they were gone from the bar's parking lot and inside a shiny laboratory.
"Ugh...couldn't you have warned me you would do that?" Tyler said shrugging Jack's shoulders off, dusting himself off.
"I didn't really want to have to wait, this is more of an urgent thing okay?" Jack said going to one of his machine, typing something into a computer. "I need your help for a while because I can't exactly do it myself."
"And why me? Couldn't you of picked anyone else?" Tyler asked back a bit confused at the whole situation.
"It won't work unless it's someone who trusts me, and believe it or not you're kinda the only person who does, so congrats?"
"Really? No one else trusts you? Don't you have like a bunch of subjects you used to use?" Tyler asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I literally just said because they don't trust me, plus I've known you all my life and I did that thing with your brother so he, you know, didn't die?" Jack retorted.
"I don't even have a brother!" Tyler rebutted.
"Then who did I give cow legs to..." Jack pondered for a moment. "Gah, never mind! There are much bigger stakes at hand!"
"You know you say that, but you haven't really said what the stakes are? Is the world in danger? A giant egg flying towards it? What?" Tyler asked starting to get annoyed.
"Well uh, yes and no." Jack said rubbing the back of his head. "There's this alternate planet and universe that's in danger and I need your help."
"And why can't they help themselves?" Tyler crossed his arms.
"Jeez Tyler, how selfish can you be? There's this woman scientists there, she stopped replying to my messages and I fear something had happened to her."
"Wait-wait-wait, this is about a girl who stopped texting you? You took me away from my date because of this!?"
"Tyler, look at me. Shut up." Jack said holding his shoulders. "I already told you she was using you for free drinks, and besides if something did happen to her then a whole world is missing their top scientists. She cured speckles! You know how hard that is to cure?"
"Uh...no? I don't think that's a word..."
"Tell that to the four people that died from it. Now, are you going to help me or not?" Jack asked shaking him.
Tyler let out a heavy sigh then nodded. "Fine...you’ve never led me wrong before. I'll do it."
"Great! Now then, things are going to get pretty complicated from here." Jack said going back to his computer.
"Quite frankly I'm all ears at this point.” Tyler said leaning on the wall.
Written by vinomath on 08 June 2017