Sam Marvin
Age 28. Garage inventor. Dreamed a machine. Built it anyway.
About
The protagonist. A brilliant but broke tinkerer who dreamed the blueprints for a machine and couldn't shake the idea until he built it. Late 20s, perpetually bewildered but surprisingly adaptable. His humor shifts with the situation: dry observation when calm, panicked rapid-fire when things escalate, genuine awe at something beautiful. Compulsively curious — he knows every trip is a bad idea. He takes them anyway. Every reality teaches him something, usually the hard way.
In Their Own Words
Here's the thing about building something in your garage, everyone thinks you're crazy. My neighbor Gerald looked at me one day and said, what are you doing in there? And I wanted to tell him, but how do you explain it? You just smile and say, oh, you know, just
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