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Worldbuilding Week 3: Monday Again


In this primitive world, every single day is the exact same day, from morning which begins on Monday, at roughly 6:00 a.m. and ends on Tuesday at about the same time, 6:00 a.m. at which point all things are reset back to their original locations and states on Monday. The current "year" is roughly 350, based on counting purely from memory, though it is not universally agreed upon that this is the correct year or even how many Mondays should constitute a year.

This gives the primitive cave dwelling people of this world exactly 24 hours to do whatever it is they feel like doing on that particular day, only for it to be completely undone and reset back to normal when the day is done. People in this world retain their memories however, and thus are quite aware of the unending cycle of this Monday. In fact, as this cycle has gone on for many years, the people are surprisingly brilliant in spite of their appearances, all having the intelligence and wisdom of someone who has been alive for many centuries and still having the faculties of young to middle-aged humans.

Due to the constantly resetting nature of the world all information and language is oral, for anything that was written down would be erased on the next day anyway. Most of society has geared itself toward advancing itself as quickly as is possible, based purely on their memories of previous progression and inventions. This has had mixed success, as some things, generally more advanced technology, is reliant on a complex series of industries that has proven extremely difficult, particularly when it is somewhat hard for the people to agree on exactly what things they should focus the limited efforts possible in a single day towards.

Survival has become extremely routine, as the game and forage always can be found in the same places every day, and most everyone has committed these to memory and implemented them into their daily routes as they travel to meet up with collaborators in their various schemes or retrieve other essential materials to execute them. This has made it possible for these people to focus all of their efforts on breaking out of the restriction of the unending Monday, though once again there is no consensus on what is the best approach to do this.

Occasionally there have been brief attempts at violent coercion towards popular theories, though these 'wars' only last for a few Mondays due to the time involved in creating new weapons and reorganizing groups, as well as the impermanence of death which frustrates the purpose of forcefully silencing a dissenting opinion. The ineffectual nature of these conflicts has led to murder and death being seen primarily as an inconvenience rather than any kind of grievous crime, because it will be undone in the next Monday.

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