[ WP ] At the age of 18 , everyone picks an unlikely life event . They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens . After that , death is permanent .

God, I hate waking up. 
 
 Reincarnation was sold as this beautiful, delicate event. You died and are reborn anew at the ripe age of 18. 
 
 *Live your lives to the fullest! * 
 
 No, rebooting was traumatic. It was also optional, but the choice to reboot locked you in until your final death. I would n't have done it if I had known the truth. I had these ideas of waking up peacefully in the same place I died; that, of course, was n't possible because they were afraid people would get stuck in boot loop. Die, reboot, die again. I guess you would n't stand much of a chance if you died in the middle of the freeway or the bottom of the ocean. 
 
 Every reboot starts the same. A flood of memories as soon as you're rendered conscious. It can take a while to for them to upload depending on how many cycles you've been through. The real caveat is you do n't always make it through with your memories intact. It can really fuck up your *Ultimatum* when you miss a cycle like that. I feel like I was close this time. It slipped right through my fingers, though. I'll remember more as the day goes. 
 
 Time travel. That was mine. It seems a little cliché, I know. A lot of people picked it as their *Ultimatum*. No, no, wait... I did n't actually pick that. I set a date so far in the future, my consciousness would deteriorate well before I reached it. They usually terminate the program when you reach that point, but some of the programmers live for the suffering and will watch you bumble through a few cycles before they shut it down. They can fix it - it is n't hard. Fuck is it ever expensive, though. You'd have to hit three or four cycles of wealth and leave every penny you earned to them. 
 
 I want to experience time travel for more than one lifetime. After that, I'll just travel to my *Ultimatum* and end it there. I want to see the dinosaurs and the pyramids and the gardens of Babylon. I want to visit California before the Great Quake. Want to see what the first Mars Colony looked like before we terraformed the whole damn planet. They do n't let you reboot there, but it is n't strictly against the rules to visit on a cycle. 
 
 I've done all those things already. I know I have even if I ca n't remember. It's stored on my permanent data logs. I must have pissed someone off this time. I must have gotten too close to a forbidden time period. Looks like the creators of Reincarnation have their lives protected from the time of conception to the time of program creation. 
 
 This does n't feel right. We should n't be subject to the whims of a few programmers. We should n't be liable for the lofty ideals of our 18 year old selves. If I could just find a way to.... 
 
 God, I hate waking up. 
 
 Edit: Sorry for multiple posts. Posted from mobile and it kept saying it failed.
