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title: Nim Fanfic
credits: Gersande
contents:
    - PLACEHOLDER COVER

    - 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 has 
        been known as the 
        Nimation for now more 
        than five centuries.
    - |-
        Since our formation in 
        Europe in 1532 
        our population has 
        remained stable.
    - |-
        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:"
    - img: nim_1-1.jpg
      alt: ''

    - "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, arousing jealousies that could confuse outsiders.
    - "The Nim Revolution of 1904 marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen:"

    # do we need the numbers as text ? or just the img is ok ?

    - img: nim_1-2.jpg
      alt: "the new names after the Nim Revolution"

    - 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.
    - img: nim_illustration_1-4.jpg
      alt: ""

    - "We wanted to implement a new set of rules:"

    - (i) Nimation is opened to groups and individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience.
    - (ii) Nimizens are able to engage with any other nimizens, not just their immediate neighbour.
    - "(iii) Identity and social stature are no longer limited to one's position in the pyramid."
    - (iv) Nimizens are able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only with those of similar structural stature.
    - (v) The traditional pyramid structure becomes 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.

    - img: nim_illustration_1-1.jpg
      alt: ""
    - nw: "1: Psst."
      se: "Silence."
    - ne: "1: Pssst!"
      sw: "2: What?!"
    - "1: I'm not talking to you."
    - nw: "2: 3."
      se: "3: Hm?"
    - nw: "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you."
      se: "3: What is it?"
    - ne: "1: I'm lonely."
      sw: "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, to slightly hope one will get some kind of input and they might never understand."
    - nw: |-
            3: I understand you!     Or at least try too.
      se: |-
            2: Quiet you two,    
            I'm practising.
    - ne: |-
        1: And when I go,
        I go alone.
      sw: |-
        3: Well at least you don't
        have to suffer the
        unreasonable ones
        of this row.
    - nw: |-
        1: And when I fear,
        I fear alone.
      sw: "3: You talk to me, sometimes."
    - ne: |-
        7: Is 1 having a 
        moment again?
      sw: "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out."
    - nw: "2: Sssh."
      se: "6: This again?"
    - nw: "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again."
      se: "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again."
    - sw: "2: Hmm."
      nw: |-
        1: And when I dream,
        I dream alone.
    - nw: |-
        7: They got everyone 
        up again.
      se: "3: Everyone's up now."
    - nw: "1: Well not enough."
      se: |-
        3: Let's keep it quiet 
        for now.
    - nw: "1: You know?"
      se: "3: Tell me."
    - nw: |-
        1: In dreams...
        I walk with you.
      se: "3: Roy?"
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