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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 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:"

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        1 
        1 2 3 
        1 2 3 4 5 
        1 2 3 4 5 6 7

    - "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:"
    - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

    - img: img_nim_3_small.png
      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: img_nim_2_small.png
      alt: "shape nims"

    - "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: img_nim_small.png
      alt: "human nims"
    - "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, 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 1 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 on 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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