[ WP ] You 've managed to create a `` what-if '' machine . This allows users to analyze past decisions and receive a read out of alternative events .

I had created infinity in a box. An endless ocean of endless outcomes moving inside gears and cogs waiting for me to decide which ending I could have had. Every meaningless detail would have shifted the future, every little thing I had never noticed before. And now I can see what they all would have been. 
 
 Simply put I had created a `` What If'' machine. See, it came to me in a day dream one day. When I was 22, I was spending time with a few friends of mine down by a river in New South Wales. A dear friend of mine Jimmy said to me that he and his current partner had separated. He kept repeating the sentence `` What if man?'' as if that was going to help him cope with the situation around him and that's when the genius struck me! It was as if Lady Luck herself had slapped me right across the face. Create a machine to ask the questions and it will give you the answers. No more wondering and pondering, just simply ask away! 
 
 Now what do I even do with this. I ca n't change the past with it just merely learn what I could have had. I've created a burden, a turmoil. A god damn tumor of the soul. But christ, I have so many questions. So many thoughts flooding my brain. What If I had n't left that girl when I was 18 after all the months of fighting. What If I stayed in New York with my friends instead of returning home. What If I was around when my mother passed? Well, I suppose its best to try. 
 
 `` *What I had continued to date Samantha when I was 18*'' 
 
 `` **Question**: What if you ( Rhys ) had continued to date Samantha at 18 
 
 **Amount of possible outcomes to this future**: 3 
 
 **Outcome 1**: You continue to date for 8 years until your study and endless hours to create The What If machine cause her to leave you. 
 
 **Outcome 2**: You propose 6 years into the relationship and you remain engaged for 2 years. Your study and endless hours to create The What if machine cause her to leave you. 
 
 **Outcome 3**: She leaves you 4 years later, when she learns you intend to create the What If machine.'' 
 
 
 Heh, Samantha always wanted to be priority number one I suppose. She would have hated seeing me not let her be the center of my universe. Let's see what else. 
 
 `` *What If I stayed in New York with my friends instead of returning home*?'' 
 
 `` **Question**: What If I ( Rhys ) stayed in New York with my friends instead of returning home? 
 
 **Amount of possible outcomes to this future**: 4 
 
 **Outcome 1**: You steal and rob from your friends to create funds to make The What If Machine and they all resent and hate you by the end. 
 
 **Outcome 2**: You loan money off them all promising them a share of the profit from the What If Machine. 
 
 **Outcome 3**: You get evicted after they can no longer handle your ramblings about The What If Machine. 
 
 **Outcome 4**: They all leave you.'' 
 
 
 Well, how terribly morbid. What a wonderful thing I had left to create you without them. Now, one last question 
 
 `` *What If I was around when my mother passed*?'' 
 
 
 `` **Question**: What If I ( Rhys ) was around when my mother passed? 
 
 **Amount of possible outcomes to this future** - 2 
 
 **Outcome 1**: You spend all the time you could have spent helping her on her death bed creating the `` What If 
 Machine'' 
 
 **Outcome 2**: You resent her after spending weeks by her side and not creating the What If Machine'' 
 
 
 Oh. All of these outcomes. All of these futures. They're all leading back to you. They were always going to lead back to you. Just one more question, just one more. 
 
 `` *What If I never made you*?'' 
 
 The machine starts to churn rapidly and steam emits from the vents. After a few seconds of rumbling, the paper begins to filter through. Scratching itches at the paper, words blur out all over and I can see my answer push itself out the bottom of the machine. I pick up the parchment and read out 
 
 `` **Question**: What If you ( Rhys ) had never made myself? ( What If Machine ) 
 
 **Amount of potential outcomes for your question**: 0 
 
 **Answer**: It was n't luck. It was destiny.'' 

