IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR READERS

First of all, thank you for being part of this admittedly complex and confusing storyline! This post is meant to set the stage for the adventures to come!

Going forward ALL POSTS WILL APPEAR ON MERRITT’S INSTAGRAM PAGE. There and here on Blogger, there will be a very small, but critical detail that you should watch for.

Since IG is, in fact, a part of the plot, posts that are listed as “by” are the posts that the characters actually make (e.g. by Emma, by Merritt, by Hannah). All of the other characters have posts written “for” them (and they are in 3rd person.)

Readers can assume that the characters in the present can see any “by” posts. (Though some have agreed to NOT read them.)

ONLY YOU READERS can see the “for” posts.

When you look at the contents, any "for" posts are seen ONLY by the readers. The "by" posts can be seen by any of the PRESENT era characters.

Now, for a little catch up…

As the real life year 2024 comes to a close, there are 4 cohorts of time travelers. Posts on Merritts site will always begin with the date that the events happened. They will include the POV character’s name and date of birth. For example…

2024-11-24 “Closer Than Ever” by Emma (born 1861)

This happened 2024-11-24 and is the first person account of the version of Emma born in 1861.

The most confusing matter is that there are duplicates of many characters, some time shifted, some not. In the post above, the Emma born in 1861 is living in 2024 at the time she made the post.

Going forward the majority of the plot will focus on the cohort found “normally” in the  PRESENT. 

PLEASE NOTE that ONLY Merritt and Emma are shifted to (and from) 2024. The rest are natural to the present, with a few shifting from time to time to the past.

It turns out that one of the things making Time Travelers interesting is also very confusing. The underlying premise is that some people (8 known) exist at various points in time.

There are three cohorts that may be (characters don’t know) at different points on the same timeline. The image coloring is consistent for any era: sepia for 1880, vintage for 1984, and vivid for 2024. 

The 1880 cohort includes 8 people, 4 of whom are shifted there from other times: Emma, Hannah, Merritt, and Kent.

The 1984 cohort includes 4 who are time shifted (Emma, Hannah, Merritt, and Kent) with unshifted versions of Tom and Addison having been mentioned or having appeared.

The present time cohort includes only 2 who have shifted there (Merritt and Emma)

When more than one version is mentioned in a story, they are described by name and date of birth.

Emma-1961 shifted in 1880 to 2024.

Emma-2005 shifted in 2024 to 1984.

Emma-1965 shifted in 1984  to 1880.

Detailed accounts of who is where can be found on the Blogger page.

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TIME DIVISIONS

In November of 2024, a new complexity was introduced. Four of the characters “divided” or “split” (as opposed to shifted). They ended up back on their natural timeline, but on a different version of it. 

Emerging from the time division phenomenon is important evidence (that READERS will have–not the characters): there is more than one universe/timeline, but the characters are 1.) essentially duplicates and 2.) metaphysically connected to themselves across all “instances.”

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Reiterating, going forward the vast majority of content will involve the PRESENT TIME cohort, and the main characters there are:

Merritt-1960 (shifted)

Emma-1861 (shifted)

Hannah-2002

Devon-2002

Kent-1998

Shay-2001

Jacob-2002

Addison-2002

Also found there non-travelers: Will, Tom, Tia, Liza, and others…