Pilgrims journey to confront a time-manipulating alien entity (the Shrike), each carrying a story that reveals how the threat has touched their lives, creating a mosaic of how civilizations process existential dread.
Models how individuals and institutions process incomprehensible threats: each pilgrim represents a different coping strategy (religious, military, scholarly, parental). Relevant to existential risk communication.
Domains: Existential Risk and Civilizational CollapseTime Travel and Temporal MechanicsEthics and Philosophy of Technology
Scenario Types: Thought experiment / What-if
Outcomes: Ambiguous / MixedTransformative