Graphene · Timelines

Two choices.
Four endings.
Cross-timeline dreams.

Walk one timeline. The characters on it have dreams about the timelines you didn't pick — fragments of what was happening in parallel. Come back, walk a different path, and recognize the dreams as the other timeline's reality.

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How it works

The Trellis

Each Timelines season has 12 unique chapters arranged into 7 paths. You'll walk 7 of them on any single play-through.

shared
Chapters 1–2
↓ Choice 1 ↓
Timeline A
Chapters 3–4
Timeline B
Chapters 3–4
↓ Choice 2 ↓
AA
Ending 1
AB
Ending 2
BA
Ending 3
BB
Ending 4

Twelve unique chapters total. Seven on any walk. Four endings of equal dramatic weight.

1
Two choices, both moral
Choices aren't 'do X or Y'. They're 'tell her the truth' vs. 'protect her from it.' They reveal who the protagonist is, not what happens next.
2
Four endings, equal weight
Every ending is engineered to the same dramatic intensity — climax stake levels, tension types, character arcs. No throwaway branches.
3
The dreams
Inside every timeline, characters dream of events from a parallel one. On rewind, you'll realize what you heard was real — just somewhere else.
What makes Timelines feel different

The road not taken haunts you.

Branching fiction usually punishes replay. You've seen the setup, you know the world, the second walk feels thinner.

Timelines does the opposite. The first time you walk path A, you'll hear a character describe a dream — vivid, specific, unsettling. You'll think it's atmosphere. Character interiority. A small dread.

Then you walk path B. The dream comes true.

Every leaf path dreams of at least one other. Walking all four is walking a single story from four different directions, with the dreams as the lattice that connects them.

Active Timelines

Walk one.

First Timelines season is in production.

We're engineering the parity critic before launching the first trellis. Drop your email and we'll let you know the moment it ships — no other emails, no Graphene+ subscription needed.

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