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Unit for to what degree you affect the timeline when time travelling (i.e. the unit for timeline variance), measured between -100 to 100. A vital term used in the far future in relation to time travel.
Time travelling (or 'time-jumping') at 0 sqwimbles would mean you'd interact with all beings and objects normally in the timeline, without changing the future (often referred to as 'deterministic'). At 100 sqwimbles the full effects of the butterfly effect would take place when time travelling. At negative sqwimble numbers you'd be remembered as close to a ghost, dream or memory than a being. It is not recommended to time-jump at very negative sqwimble numbers as the traveller or 'jumper' would undergo rapid decorporealization, and may be stranded in whichever time they jumped to.
Known origin: it was revealed to u/Wurstpunkt in a dream. Future origin unknown.
"You're telling me you want to go below -20 sqwimbles on your next time-jump? Are you crazy?! I'm not coming to get you if you get stuck."
The more colloquial term for time travel used by time travellers.
Not to be confused with 'time skip', a plot device in fictional stories.
Refer to 'time jumpers' or simply 'jumpers' for the similar colloquial term for time travellers.
"Only way we can fix classified is if we time jump."
"We're never jumping at -25 sqwimbles again, I don't know why I listen to your ideas."
"Gear up, we're jumping in 5 minutes."
The term used colloquially for time travellers. 'Jumper' is used interchangeably.
Used widely among time travellers. Sometimes used as an insult by those who dislike time travellers.
"You're a jumper too?! Finally! I've been meaning to ask someone else to help calibrate my classified".
"Being a time jumper is more than just an action or a habit, it's ingrained in my identity, that's why I never gave it up back then, how can I give it up without giving up who I am?"
"This is my restaurant and I won't serve you, we don't entertain time jumpers here."
"Ahhh a jumper in our town! What ya doing in our run down neck of the woods? Kid, bring me back a souvenir from the Ancient Greece if you ever drop by, they musta had some good drink to be praying to Dionysus!"