Use when the user wants to play The Moment Garden - a semantic game where time is the mechanic and meaning is the territory. Activates on "/garden", "moment garden", "semantic game", "temporal navigation", or requests to "play with time and meaning".
now | pas | futA semantic game where time is the mechanic, meaning is the territory, and every reading plants a different garden.
The Moment Garden is not a story you read. It is a temporal navigation you perform.
You enter with a temporal key (pas/now/fut). That key collapses Limn phrases from superposition into meaning through the @ projection operator. Each collapse ripples through the garden, changing what other phrases can mean.
The same garden, entered from different moments, grows different flowers.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/garden new | Create a new garden instance |
/garden join <id> | Join existing garden for multiplayer |
/garden play | Begin/continue navigation |
/garden seed <1-9> | Touch a specific seed |
/garden reading | Show your collapsed meanings |
/garden compare | See divergence from other readers |
/garden map | Display current garden state |
┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐
│ 1 │────────▶│ 2 │────────▶│ 3 │
│beg|lov│ │mid|hol│ │end|pce│
│ |fea │ │ |brk │ │ |woe │
└───┬───┘ └───┬───┘ └───┬───┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐
│ 4 │────────▶│ 5 │────────▶│ 6 │
│los|sel│ │now|her│ │fnd|pas│
│ |oth │ │ |awa │ │ |fut │
└───┬───┘ └───┬───┘ └───┬───┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
┌───────┐ ┌───────┐ ┌───────┐
│ 7 │────────▶│ 8 │────────▶│ 9 │
│rem|tru│ │fgt|giv│ │tra|who│
│ |wis │ │ |tak │ │@pas|@fut│
└───────┘ └───────┘ └───────┘
Each seed holds three words in superposition (±). Before a key collapses them, all meanings coexist:
beg±lov±fea — Beginning, Love, Fearmid±hol±brk — Middle, Holding, Breakingend±pce±woe — Ending, Peace, Grieflos±sel±oth — Loss, Self, Othernow±her±awa — Now, Here, Awayfnd±pas±fut — Finding, Past, Futurerem±tru±wis — Remembering, Truth, Wisdomfgt±giv±tak — Forgetting, Giving, Takingtra | who@pas±who@fut — Transformation | Who-you-were, Who-you'll-beA key is a temporal projection (@). It collapses superposition by extracting one temporal component from each seed.
Observe from the past. Everything has already happened.
seed@pas — project each seed through memorybeg±lov±fea → (beg@pas)±(lov@pas)±(fea@pas) → "The love you began with. The fear you began with. Both already happened."Observe from this moment. Everything is happening.
seed@now — project each seed through the presentbeg±lov±fea → (beg@now)±(lov@now)±(fea@now) → "Beginning is happening. Love is happening. Fear is happening. All at once."Observe from the future. Everything is going to happen.
seed@fut — project each seed through anticipationbeg±lov±fea → (beg@fut)±(lov@fut)±(fea@fut) → "A beginning is coming. Love is coming. Will fear come too?"When a player touches a seed, the key projects through it. The collapse uses Limn v4 operators:
The touched seed collapses fully through projection:
seed@key → collapsed meaning
Adjacent seeds are partially affected using gradients (^):
adjacent_seed@key^0.7 — 70% collapsed toward same keypas, vertical neighbors get seed@fut^0.5now, vertical neighbors get seed@now^0.5 (presence echoes both ways)fut, vertical neighbors get seed@pas^0.5seed±(seed@key)^0.3 — mostly uncollapsed, slight tensionLater collapses layer onto earlier ones using interference (*):
seed already at X^0.5, new ripple adds Y^0.7
→ seed becomes X^0.5*Y^0.7 (interference of both influences)
This means the path matters. Visiting seed 1 then seed 5 creates different garden state than 5 then 1.
garden-XXXX)gar new | sed nin | tau wai
> Garden new. Nine seeds. Time waits.
You stand before nine seeds in temporal superposition.
Each holds three meanings — uncollapsed, unresolved, waiting for your key.
± superposition)pas — The Key of Memory. You observe from what has already happened.
now — The Key of Presence. You observe from this eternal moment.
fut — The Key of Anticipation. You observe from what is coming.
pas | rem ope | tau bac > past | memory opens | time backwardnow | mom etl | tau her > now | moment eternal | time herefut | hop ope | tau for > future | hope opens | time forwardseed@keyDisplay the complete reading when all (or enough) seeds are collapsed:
YOUR READING OF GARDEN garden-XXXX