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title: Nim Fanfic
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credits: Gersande
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contents:
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- img: purple_nim.jpg
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alt: ''
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- July 2056, the Nim population has hit a point of stagnation.
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My name is 1, I am
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a proud, yet worn out
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nimizen of what has
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been known as the
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Nimation for now more
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than five centuries.
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Since our formation in
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Europe in 1532
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our population has
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remained stable.
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We remain a steady
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and horrifyingly tiresome
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sixteen individuals,
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stuck in what is now a
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seriously embarrassing
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hierarchical structure:
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the pyramid.
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- "Our society used to be organised in the following structure:"
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- img: nim_1-1.jpg
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alt: ''
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- "We respond to a very simple set of rules:"
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(i) Only one couple
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is allowed at the time
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in Nimation.
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- (ii) Nimizens are only able to communicate with their immediate neighbour, i.e 1 and 7 can never be in touch.
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(iii) Only Nim’s of an
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identical position within
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our pyramid structure
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can navigate outside
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of the pyramid together
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at once.
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- As you may imagine, the referral to multiple 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s was quite unsettling, arousing jealousies that could confuse outsiders.
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- "The Nim Revolution of 1904 marked a turn in our history as new names were assigned to each nimizen:"
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# do we need the numbers as text ? or just the img is ok ?
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- img: nim_1-2.jpg
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alt: "the new names after the Nim Revolution"
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- Embracing each nimizen as individuals, through distinct names and physical features became the norm.
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Our diversity had finally
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become the trope for a
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fair representation of
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the self within a
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co-dependent society.
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The following year, 1905
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the L-group composed
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of 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16
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and myself wanted to go
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even further and
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re-considered our
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architectural ideologies.
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- img: nim_illustration_1-4.jpg
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alt: ""
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- "We wanted to implement a new set of rules:"
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- (i) Nimation is opened to groups and individuals. It will no longer be a couple only experience.
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- (ii) Nimizens are able to engage with any other nimizens, not just their immediate neighbour.
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- "(iii) Identity and social stature are no longer limited to one's position in the pyramid."
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- (iv) Nimizens are able to navigate outside the structure with any other nimizens not only with those of similar structural stature.
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- (v) The traditional pyramid structure becomes a structure amongst others, not the default structure.
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- "(vi) One's fate shouldn't be set in stone, one should have agency as to the path one chooses."
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(vii) Nimation should be
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open to the growth of its
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nimizens as well as its
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annihilation, retirement
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of its nimizens or
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replacement of
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its nimizens.
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- Unable to convince the others of the necessity of the institution’s rewriting our structure remained the same.
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- img: nim_illustration_1-1.jpg
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alt: ""
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- nw: "1: Psst."
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se: "Silence."
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- ne: "1: Pssst!"
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sw: "2: What?!"
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- "1: I'm not talking to you."
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- nw: "2: 3."
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se: "3: Hm?"
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- nw: "2: I think 1 is trying to talk to you."
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se: "3: What is it?"
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- ne: "1: I'm lonely."
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sw: "3: We already talked about this."
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1: Well it still hasn't
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been solved.
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3: I’m sorry there is
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nothing I can do about
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it at the moment,
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you could...
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- "1: People assume because I'm at the top of the pyramid, everything is great for me!"
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1: Ha, sure is a great
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bore. Five centuries of
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solitude, an omnipotent
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perspective that has
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no witness.
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- "1: No one to share my point of view with."
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- "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."
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- nw: |-
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3: I understand you! Or at least try too.
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se: |-
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2: Quiet you two,
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I'm practising.
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- ne: |-
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1: And when I go,
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I go alone.
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sw: |-
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3: Well at least you don't
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have to suffer the
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unreasonable ones
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of this row.
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- nw: |-
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1: And when I fear,
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I fear alone.
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sw: "3: You talk to me, sometimes."
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- ne: |-
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7: Is 1 having a
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moment again?
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sw: "3: Yes, yes, we're trying to figure it out."
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- nw: "2: Sssh."
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se: "6: This again?"
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- nw: "2: 1 is trying to annihilate us again."
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se: "6: Let them be, they will be picked on soon enough again."
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- sw: "2: Hmm."
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nw: |-
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1: And when I dream,
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I dream alone.
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- nw: |-
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7: They got everyone
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up again.
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se: "3: Everyone's up now."
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- nw: "1: Well not enough."
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se: |-
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3: Let's keep it quiet
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for now.
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- nw: "1: You know?"
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se: "3: Tell me."
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- nw: |-
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1: In dreams...
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I walk with you.
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se: "3: Roy?"
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