Time for Adventure

The tiny writing on the back of the device contained a passage reminding the prospective traveller of the danger of using the device’s ‘interact’ mode. Watch and learn is best you see You learn lots but risk nought Not one will even see you there No need to get distraught But should you wish to interact At risk are lives you see As there are but 1000 trips Available from me There may be even fewer For I have been used before So if you use me one more time It may be your last tour. Zy explained that this meant that a person could travel through time as many times as they liked ... if they just watched things unfold using the ‘watch-learn’ mode. However, if they were to activate the ‘interact’ mode and interact with the environment, there were infinitely more dangers. Firstly, each device was only able to transport a traveller (or a party of travellers) a thousand times in ‘interact’ mode, and each trip to the past counted as one and the return trip as another. To compound the problem further, previous users of the device may have decided to undertake more trips before returning to their point of departure. To add to the dilemma even further, each device was deliberately made not to display the number of trips undertaken (or remaining) so that the intending traveller (or travellers) would have to seriously consider their choice of travel mode before they activated the ‘interact’ mode –effectively because each trip could be their last.