Writing Prompt To kill a time looper

[SsemouyOnan]

Prompt: For your hypothetical character, choose any gender and any age from 18-25, power and wealth are of middle class. You have recently discovered that someone can loop time. This person is a relatively impoverished, paranoid young adult, but that is subject to change. Because plot, it is imperative they must die by your hands, indirectly or directly. The setting is Earth, 2015(because curse the pandemic). The time looper is unaware of you. You are currently acquainted with them, but not too friendly.

As far as you are aware, their time powers work like so:
1. They can set a "checkpoint" any time, at will as long as they are conscious. You do not know when they do. But you could probably notice some non-verbal cues when they do it(provided they aren't on guard).

2. They may return to the checkpoint they last set. This works like setting one. It is also automatic upon death.

3. Upon returning to a checkpoint, they take 2 seconds to snap back to reality.

4. You will be rendered completely unaware of any events that occurred once they rewind a checkpoint.

5. Unrelated to their powers, but they have a love for potatoes and hate the word "carefully".

 

[TotallyHuman]

carefully

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

Prompt: For your hypothetical character, choose any gender and any age from 18-25, power and wealth are of middle class. You have recently discovered that someone can loop time. This person is a relatively impoverished, paranoid young adult, but that is subject to change. Because plot, it is imperative they must die by your hands, indirectly or directly. The setting is Earth, 2015(because curse the pandemic). The time looper is unaware of you. You are currently acquainted with them, but not too friendly.

As far as you are aware, their time powers work like so:
1. They can set a "checkpoint" any time, at will as long as they are conscious. You do not know when they do. But you could probably notice some non-verbal cues when they do it(provided they aren't on guard).

2. They may return to the checkpoint they last set. This works like setting one. It is also automatic upon death.

3. Upon returning to a checkpoint, they take 2 seconds to snap back to reality.

4. You will be rendered completely unaware of any events that occurred once they rewind a checkpoint.

5. Unrelated to their powers, but they have a love for potatoes and hate the word "carefully".

Seduce them lol

 

[Erys]

Turn every time loop into a death loop.

 

[TroubleFait]

First things first:
Make sure a repeating deathloop with no end in sight doesn't precipitate the heat death of the universe.

 

[autumnveir]

Feed him a poisonous potato. Problem solved. Side note: Ever heard of cyanide? There's a close relationship between potatoes and cyanide.

 

[Esper]

hm... I would try seeing how often they set new loops, make sure that I have as good of a grasp upon how they like to set them up. Then during a time that would be advantageous (such as when they are likely to set up a new loop) throw them a curveball and see their reaction, if it feels forced at all (as in like they knew something TOO well) note that. This would take a lot of time, but over a period of a few months you could set up a complete profile of them and how they use their powers. In the background you should have been saving large sums of money, keeping and getting as many jobs that you can that can keep you in range of them (heck, get them a job working with YOU!); now here is the trick, you need to make sure any plan is as indirect as possible, maybe cruise or something like that, make sure they checkpoint when you already have something set up (My personal plan would be thermite in the hull) and then set it off AFTER they checkpoint, allowing for a certainty that they won't know it was you. Now this only works if they can only have one checkpoint at a time, if not then you have already failed as they will always have a checkpoint near the time before you could have even planned this.

 

[K5Rakitan]

carefully

Seduce them lol

My work here is done.

 

[SsemouyOnan]

carefully

My work here is done.

(ಠ_ಠ). Both of you are crushed by a giant potato

Seduce them lol

Seduce me, then you can roll a d20.

Feed him a poisonous potato. Problem solved. Side note: Ever heard of cyanide? There's a close relationship between potatoes and cyanide.

Then he loops back and is out for blood.

hm... I would try seeing how often they set new loops, make sure that I have as good of a grasp upon how they like to set them up. Then during a time that would be advantageous (such as when they are likely to set up a new loop) throw them a curveball and see their reaction, if it feels forced at all (as in like they knew something TOO well) note that. This would take a lot of time, but over a period of a few months you could set up a complete profile of them and how they use their powers. In the background you should have been saving large sums of money, keeping and getting as many jobs that you can that can keep you in range of them (heck, get them a job working with YOU!); now here is the trick, you need to make sure any plan is as indirect as possible, maybe cruise or something like that, make sure they checkpoint when you already have something set up (My personal plan would be thermite in the hull) and then set it off AFTER they checkpoint, allowing for a certainty that they won't know it was you. Now this only works if they can only have one checkpoint at a time, if not then you have already failed as they will always have a checkpoint near the time before you could have even planned this.

Good plan, they can only set 1 at a time, power rule #2. You receive .

 

[BearlyAlive]

Poison works best for loopers as they don't know what happens after they looped.

Step 1: aquire partner
Step 2: poison loopy with slow poison
Step 3: poison yourself with a quick-working poison and "die" in front of the looper (your partner saves you)
4: hire thugs to silence the witness
Profit

 

[SsemouyOnan]

Poison works best for loopers as they don't know what happens after they looped.

Step 1: aquire partner
Step 2: poison loopy with slow poison
Step 3: poison yourself with a quick-working poison and "die" in front of the looper (your partner saves you)
4: hire thugs to silence the witness
Profit

That could work, but the "slow-acting poison" doesn't need be slow, quite the contrary. Normal poison takes a few days so that would give our time looper enough time to counter act their poison and unravel the plot.

What would be nice is to poison yourself beforehand with a relatively non-lethal poison THEN you can poison them with a fast and deadly one. Even better, use a lethal dose of atropine on them and non-lethal organophosphate for yourself(or similar nerve agents that'll have you looking like you're on death's door). If your partner/you has medical knowledge, you can use the very thing you killed him with to cure yourself to be poetic.

Then you can laugh at them as they grovel on the ground, unable to do anything about their impending death while your life is absolutely secure. Then right before they perish, tell them:
"I ate your potato stash, carefully."

 

[Ninini]

I don’t kill them. Torture, drugs, a lot of mind altering. So mixture of Russian-Nazi-America torture techniques to fully break them
Hopefully get them stuck in a new time loop with them forever broken. Probs kill there family, maybe torture them too just break him more. Good torturing method is the potato peeling on. Peel all there skin off, and touch their exposed flesh. Just little pokes each time, slowly start digging deeper and deeper. Let them heal. Repeat other things. Turns there toes an fingers into meaty pastes.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I don’t kill them. Torture, drugs, a lot of mind altering. So mixture of Russian-Nazi-America torture techniques to fully break them
Hopefully get them stuck in a new time loop with them forever broken. Probs kill there family, maybe torture them too just break him more. Good torturing method is the potato peeling on. Peel all there skin off, and touch their exposed flesh. Just little pokes each time, slowly start digging deeper and deeper. Let them heal. Repeat other things. Turns there toes an fingers into meaty pastes.

Won't work. They can go to the checkpoint at any time. It is only automatic upon death. Therefore, a soon as you start his nonsense, they blip.

 

[Jailbreak571]

...
I would probably put some kind of trap at their checkpoint and when they set a checkpoint (like in an instant), bind them with some kind of sealing power. It will make it so that he cannot die when he is sealed and if he somehow died then he will go back into the moment that he is about to get sealed. 2-3 seconds is enough to seal them again.

 

[Ninini]

Won't work. They can go to the checkpoint at any time. It is only automatic upon death. Therefore, a soon as you start his nonsense, they blip.

Well shit. I’ll just bomb the family every start of the loop.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Well shit. I’ll just bomb the family every start of the loop.

See, the problem is this is like trying to kill Pun-Pun. If I had a Reset whenever I want, Technically, I could never lose.

Let us turn it around:
Is there any way of this person to UNDO having a reset?

See, the problem is, this guy has a reset point. He can Move up the reset point, but he can never go back to a previous reset point. Eventually, we are going to have a situation where the entire universe is stuck in a loop where NOBODY can get free. Why? Because sooner or later, he will die of old age.

When that happens, he blips back to his last save. When was that? 20 years ago? 100 years ago? 10 minutes ago? IT DOES NOT MATTER. We are now STUCK in a loop that can ONLY get smaller. THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS STUCK, no matter what.

The only solution is to explain this to the person. To explain that no matter what he does, he will eventually die and... then reset... and nothing he has done will have any meaning. Nothing he does has any purpose. The only solution, THE ONLY WAY HIS LIFE CAN HAVE MEANING... is that he eventually has to die and stay dead.

So, the question then is, What sort of world will outlive him? What sort of legacy will he leave behind? He can create a near perfect world, but it will only be perfect up to the moment when he finally stops living and the world DOESN'T reset.

How can he get married? How can he have children? If he has a child, but he reset to before it's conception, it will never be the same child. He will NEVER impregnate his woman with the EXACT SAME SPERM on any reset that goes back before he did the dirty. Then this applies to ANY CHILD CONCEIVED during a loop. Yes, time resets and anything that happens is the same except what HE does, but I promise you, he will have an affect on the world. A few minutes won't be a problem. but a few days, a few weeks, a few years? HE WILL BE WIPING PEOPLE FROM EXISTENCE, sooner or later.

And then there is the way he will eventually die and destroy the entire world. How So?

Every time he goes back in time, he remembers what happens. Well, MEMORY IS STORED AS ENERGY.

So, either his brain has a finite amount of storage space, so eventually he will be wiping out his own memories and eventually destroying himself by wiping out his own personality. (Trust me. I know how this works. I have progressive memory loss. You'd be surprised how deleting just a few foundational memories can radically change who you are.)

OR... (and this is the worst case scenario)

He remembers EVERYTHING from each loop.

Why is that a problem? Because memory is stored as energy. So, the more memories you have, the more energy must be in your brain. The more energy in your brain, the more it is going to be a problem with each loop. EVENTUALLY, you are going to have so many memories jammed into your brain with each loop, that your brain starts to overheat. You will eventually reach a point where you will faint immediately after each loop. And god help you if you reach the point of BRAIN DAMAGE. Then you won't be able to STOP the loop. And so, eventually, you will die, and blip back in time, AGAIN, and AGAIN, an AGAIN...

Each blip carries back more energy. Each blip making a larger amount of build up in his mind. Each blip overheating his brain more and more. Each blip will get worse and worse until, eventually, you will reach a point where upon bliping back, his brain will explode.

Then we have a 2 second loop, according to the rules, where the Time looper loops, his head explodes, and 2 seconds later, he goes back in time and explodes again. Each loop adding on just one more planck moment of information, and each planck moment building upon each other.

Eventually, we will reach 4.16 x 10^46 degrees and the mind will achieve a Klugleblitz singularity and collapse into itself.

IF WE ARE LUCKY, this will create a closed loop in time-space, and being closed in time space, the singularity will no longer drag the rest of the universe along with it. It THAT happens, since singularities evaporate, and the singularity will be formed by inching up on the threshold of singularity one planck moment a loop, the singularity will then immediately evaporate. There will be a rather intense blast of Cosmic rays and chances are it will go off like a Tzar bomb. Which while killing everything out to the horizon, will be limited by the curve of the earth and thus the planet will survive.

IF WE ARE NOT LUCKY...

Well... the looping continues until the entire planet is sucked up into the singularity and a black hole the mass of earth will be our headstone. A small twisted bit of Time Space as the only monument to where we all used to live and love and laugh and play. On the upside, the moon will continue on just as it always has, orbiting where we once were. The gravitational collapse is unlikely to absorb anything outside low earth orbit. Anything at Geosynchronous orbit or further out will probably survive... for a while, at least.


AND SO... My method of killing this guy?

I'd just explain all this. I would explain how the longer he lives, the worse it will get and once it reaches the point he cannot "loop" and retain his mental faculties, the planet will be doomed. If he doesn't willingly end this before that point, nothing he does will matter. EVERYTHING HE TRIES TO BUILD WILL BE REDUCED TO NAUGHT BUT ASH.

So... why don't you figure out what good you can do with what time you have left, then check out in a way that lets everyone remember you as a hero, instead of being the ticking time bomb that will eventually, by the inevitable march of thermodynamics, result in the destruction of everything and anything that would leave behind any sort of record that you ever existed.

 

[SakeVision]

Capture them, and keep them tied up in basement alive or something. Don't even try to kill them until 50 years pass or so, ideally they should die from some incurable disease.

If they must die by your hand, cause that disease, for example by poisoning them with mercury over the course of many years before you kidnap them. The trick is that they should feel safe, and keep making checkpoints, even as undetectable poison courses in their organism. That way, no matter how many months or years they loop back, they will still be poisoned and dying. It's checkmate.

 

[Marmalade]

Prompt: For your hypothetical character, choose any gender and any age from 18-25, power and wealth are of middle class. You have recently discovered that someone can loop time. This person is a relatively impoverished, paranoid young adult, but that is subject to change. Because plot, it is imperative they must die by your hands, indirectly or directly. The setting is Earth, 2015(because curse the pandemic). The time looper is unaware of you. You are currently acquainted with them, but not too friendly.

As far as you are aware, their time powers work like so:
1. They can set a "checkpoint" any time, at will as long as they are conscious. You do not know when they do. But you could probably notice some non-verbal cues when they do it(provided they aren't on guard).

2. They may return to the checkpoint they last set. This works like setting one. It is also automatic upon death.

3. Upon returning to a checkpoint, they take 2 seconds to snap back to reality.

4. You will be rendered completely unaware of any events that occurred once they rewind a checkpoint.

5. Unrelated to their powers, but they have a love for potatoes and hate the word "carefully".

can you keep killing them until they become a fetus and dissappear. or like if checkpoint is in the past why not make it so that ceck point can never happen. changing any part of what you once sis will cause new possibilities and au to exist

Prompt: For your hypothetical character, choose any gender and any age from 18-25, power and wealth are of middle class. You have recently discovered that someone can loop time. This person is a relatively impoverished, paranoid young adult, but that is subject to change. Because plot, it is imperative they must die by your hands, indirectly or directly. The setting is Earth, 2015(because curse the pandemic). The time looper is unaware of you. You are currently acquainted with them, but not too friendly.

As far as you are aware, their time powers work like so:
1. They can set a "checkpoint" any time, at will as long as they are conscious. You do not know when they do. But you could probably notice some non-verbal cues when they do it(provided they aren't on guard).

2. They may return to the checkpoint they last set. This works like setting one. It is also automatic upon death.

3. Upon returning to a checkpoint, they take 2 seconds to snap back to reality.

4. You will be rendered completely unaware of any events that occurred once they rewind a checkpoint.

5. Unrelated to their powers, but they have a love for potatoes and hate the word "carefully".

just make them fall in love with you but your suicidal and they go mad trying to save you but seeing you die in front of them time and time again