A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. That person is the woman that you love.
Should you flip the switch or do nothing?
CONTINUE TO FLIP THE SWITCH
CLOSE THE PAGE TO LET THE FIVE OTHERS DIE
You are a religious youth. You are kidnapped and taken to a faraway land with five people tied before you. You are told that in order to save these five people you must abandon the faith you keep and adopt the kidnapper’s own distorted religion as your own. You will be closely monitored, for if you screw up the five people shall be executed, but you will be sent free.
CONTINUE TO AGREE TO THEIR TERMS
CLOSE THE PAGE TO SAVE YOURSELF
Your daughter is trapped inside an incinerator and your spouse is strapped to a chair with a gun mounted in place, aimed at their head. The door to the incinerator shall open to the sound of gunfire, and the cuffs around your spouse’s wrists shall open to the rise in temperature of an incinerator going off.
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CONTINUE TO SHOOT YOUR SPOUSE
CLOSE THE PAGE TO LET YOUR DAUGHTER BURN
An old man gives a young girl a pretty stone, and as fate would have it, she gives this pretty stone to a boy she likes. This singular event becomes the crux of the universe, and sets the universe on the path toward its current destination. You, a derelict, wandering soul, have the chance to not give this girl the pretty stone, and avoid all of the catastrophe and despair. You will, however, erase all of the joy and love that this world has experienced. All of the kindness and the sorrow, the gain and the loss. Everything shall be reset back to zero.
I’m standing back at the fair I went to when I was a young child. This was the fair that I had first met Alex at. Of course, I’m not in my body of that time, but I’m still in Roland Duschand’s body. At my waist hangs the blue Queoquartzite from a thick brown band. I don’t ask questions to how it is there or I am here, ICARUS is involved. I look across the way to a wandering Alex, she’s so...young, and innocent. I was innocent at this time...too, but maybe I wasn’t totally. This decision right here being the crux of the universe? Just why would the universe pick this silly memory to base the entirety of its timeline on?
Maybe it didn’t, maybe it’s just the center of this timeline. Noah had dreamed of another life where Bonnie died from surgery and cancer. Maybe in that life things had gone different. Maybe.
The choice that I have to make. I think I know what I have to do. I don’t know if I would have been able to do it when I first talked with Gavin, but I think I’m ready to make my choice if you are ready to make yours. I’m by your side no matter what happens.
CONTINUE TO STOP THE GIRL AND THE BOY FROM MEETING AND LET THE WORLD RESET
CLOSE THE PAGE AND BEGIN READING RADICAL-9 TO BEGIN THIS HISTORY OVER FROM THE BEGINNING
“Thank you.”