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title: Nim Fanfic
credits: Gersande
contents:
    - July 2056, the Nim population has hit a point of stagnation.
    - My name is 1, I am a proud, yet worn out, nimizen of what is known as the Nimation for now more than five centuries.
    - Since our formation in Europe in 1532 our population has not decreased nor increased.
    - We remain a steady and horrifyingly tiresome sixteen individuals,
    - "stuck in what is now a seriously embarrassing hierarchical structure: the pyramid."

    - Our society used to be organised in the following structure
    - 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 #TODO: replace with image?

    - We respond to a very simple set of rules

    - (i) Only one couple is allowed at the time in Nimation
    - (ii) Nimizens are only able to communicate with their immediate neighbour, i.e 1 and 7 can never be in touch
    - (iii) Only Nim’s of an identical position within our pyramid structure can navigate outside of the pyramid together at once

    - As you may imagine, the referral to multiple 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s was quite unsettling,
    - raised jealousies and could get outsiders confused.
    - The Nim Revolution, 1904, marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen
    - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

    - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 #TODO: replace with image?

    - Embracing each nimizen as individuals,
    - through distinct names and physical features became the norm.
    - Our diversity had finally become the trope for
    - a fair representation of the self within a co-dependent society.
    - The following year, 1905
    - the L-group composed of 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16 and myself
    - wanted to go even further and re-considered our architectural ideologies.

    - We wanted to implement a new set of rules

    - (i) Nimation is opened to groups as much as individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience.
    - (ii) A nimizen should be able to engage with any other nimizens and not only their immediate neighbour
    - (iii) Identity and social stature is not limited to one’s position in the pyramid
    - (iv) Nimizens should be able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only the ones of similar structural stature
    - (v) The traditional pyramid structure has to become a structure amongst others, not the default structure
    - (vi) One’s fate shouldn’t be set in stone, one should have agency as to the path one chooses
    - (vii) Nimation should be open to the growth of its nimizens as well as its annihilation, retirement of its nimizens or replacement of its nimizens

    - Unable to convince the others of the necessity of the institution’s rewriting
    - our structure remained the same.

    - 1: Psst.
    - Silence.
    - 1: Pssst!
    - 2: What?!
    - 1: I’m not talking to you.
    - 2: 3.
    - 3: Hm?
    - 2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you.
    - 3: What is it?
    - 1: I’m lonely.
    - 3: We already talked about this.
    - 1: Well it still hasn’t been solved.
    - 3: I’m sorry there is nothing I can do about it at the moment, you could...
    - 1: People assume because I’m at the top of the pyramid, everything is great for me!
    - 1: Ha, sure is a great bore. Five centuries of solitude, an omnipotent perspective that has no witness.
    - 1: No one to share my point of view with.
    - 1: To get any mundane experience across I need a waterfall of information
    - 1: to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand.
    - 3: I understand you! Or at least try too.
    - 2: Quiet you two I’m practising.
    - 1: And when I go, I go alone.
    - 3: Well at least you don’t have to suffer the unreasonable ones of this row.
    - 1: And when I fear, I fear alone.
    - 3: You talk to me, sometimes.
    - 7: Is one having a moment again?
    - 3: Yes, yes, we’re trying to figure it out.
    - 2: Sssh.
    - 6: This again?
    - 2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again.
    - 6: Let them be, they will be picked at soon enough again.
    - 2: Hmm.
    - 1: And when I dream, I dream alone.
    - 7: They got everyone up again.
    - 3: Everyone’s up now.
    - 1: Well not enough.
    - 3: Let’s keep it quiet for now.
    - 1: You know?
    - 3: Tell me.
    - 1: In dreams... I walk with you.
    - 3: Roy?
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