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DO-OVER

A mysterious room provides people who regret their past interview for a promising job or a one-night stand that ruined
decisions a chance to try again — sometimes at a terrible cost. a loving marriage.
Infrastructure Blueprints

A dingy 24-hour diner in a US city or large town serves A person in this town, who has previously been to the
decent food and is otherwise unexceptional, except for the diner and who carries serious regrets about a past decision,
door next to the restrooms that most people can’t see. Those begins having a recurring dream. In the dream, she visits
who casually notice the door and try it find it locked — unless the diner, speaks with someone about the regretted incident
they have dreamed of the room or have previously entered it. and then leaves, and wakes up knowing her past could be
The Truth: The diner itself is concealment Infrastructure, different.
guarding the room. The room is one of several such devices When the character next visits the diner, she sees a door
that the God-Machine uses to rewrite time. This one just hap- next to the restrooms that she never noticed before, and feels
pens to be accessible to normal people. It’s possible that this a desire to open this door. Inside is a couch with tattered
room has simply slipped from the God-Machine’s attention, upholstery, large enough to sleep on. Upon seeing the couch,
or it could be that every rewrite of time that happens using she becomes certain that taking a nap on this couch would
this room has to happen in order for some other important make her feel better about the decision she made. As soon
time-shift somewhere down the line. as the person lies down on this couch, she falls asleep and
Interchangeable Parts dreams about the incident.
This dream is exceptionally lucid and clear and the
dreamer is convinced that her actions in this dream change
The characters all have at least one serious regret about how the incident went. She is then free to act, with full access
their past actions, such as a stupid remark that spoiled an to her memories of how events previously occurred. Whether

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