We've all played the game at your best friend's 8th birthday party. You get a piece of paper and write on it the name of a boy. Fold the paper over and pass it on to the next person, and they write the name of a girl, fold the paper and pass it on. This goes on until you have a place, something they did and the consequence. Unfold the paper and read the paper and you get a complete story. However, the 8th birthday party ended shortly after your sister threw up in the punchbowl and you leave with a slice of cake in a Thomas the Tank Engine party bag. We're all a little older now, and although you still wonder if anyone drank from the punchbowl after your sister has deposited that afternoon's jelly and icecream, the days of playing consequences have long gone. Hyperconsequence_ is a more mature version of that game, except you can see what those before you have written, and it is anything but a few people folding paper. Somebody writes the first passage of a story and posts it to hyperconsequence_. Any registered user can then add a follow up passage. Any number of follow ups can be posted to that first passage. Then, when that 2nd level passage has been approved and is viewable on the site, other users can go and post a follow up to that passage, and so on ad infinitum. After time, a complex tree will have built up containing linked passages as storylines, and when the story is complete, you can choose any route through those passages, reading a different story each time. The idea is very simple even if the explaination is not, the technology to create the hyperconsequence_ is here on this site, all we need is your help, support and creative juices to build the hyperconsequence_ into something worth reading and taking part in. The hyperconsequence_ is currently in development, and we hope to launch in early 2004, so to keep up to date with developments, please give us your details, and we will let know how things are progressing. If you have any ideas, would like to be involved in developing the system, would like to write content for the hyperconsequence_, or just fancy saying hello, please drop us a line at info@hyperconsequence.com Thanks for visiting! Matthew Knight, Hyperprotagonist.