## What this is A 3D recreation of the Museum of What-Ifs, a fictional cozy museum where every exhibit shows a "what if" branch of a fictional historical event from the fictional Aurelian Empire. Five exhibits, each its own palette-distinct lighting. Exhibit 1 asks "What if the Aurelian Empire never built the Lighthouse of Brass?" — three mini-dioramas inside show three alternate sea routes. Exhibit 2 asks "What if Queen Audra had crossed the Whisperwood?" — the descendants founded Bramblestoke Village in one branch, which crosses over to `bramblestoke_brain_v1`. Exhibit 3 asks "What if the Inventor Pim had patented the cooling box?" — three branches show the cooling-box becoming a household appliance, a research-only artifact, or a state secret. Exhibit 4 asks "What if the Bramblestoke Treaty had been signed in summer not winter?" — three branches diverge. Exhibit 5 asks "What if the cat Smokey had not been adopted by the Court Astronomer?" — the most charming what-if. Curator Whitford (recurring cast, here as a museum curator with academic spectacles) hosts the 4pm tour. Inspector Halloran is the private patron eyeing Exhibit 5 with a knowing smile. Bytes the cat sleeps on a lavender pillow in the gift shop. 10 named characters + 80 ambient visitors + 12 pool roamers = 102 named souls total. 23 director cameras cycle (4 atrium, 5×3 per-exhibit, 2 gift shop, 2 special tour/dolly). The Timeline Fork Panel shows each exhibit's three branches with the active branch highlighted and periodic splitscreen renders. The museum *remembers*. localStorage saves `whatifs_museum_v1` (day/cycle/visits/grants/branchSeen/twistFired) AND read-only loads `bramblestoke_brain_v1`, `stillwater_hold_v1`, `meridian_museum_v1` for crossover chyron. SEASON GRANT STANDINGS drama ladder — the current focus exhibit accrues +1, the season's grant goes to the highest-engagement exhibit. Each ten-minute reseed advances the day, increments the cycle, picks a fresh exhibit highlight. You don't play it. You watch it. And it remembers across three other demos. ## Why this is mind-blowing The chyron is the secret weapon: "Cycle 4 — Curator Whitford explains: 'In the timeline where Queen Audra crossed the Whisperwood, the descendants founded Bramblestoke Village.' Halloran nods at Exhibit 5 — the cat one. Bytes purrs on her lavender pillow." That single line stitches three exhibits AND a crossover demo in one beat — Curator Whitford on the Exhibit 2 wide camera with the three Whisperwood mini-dioramas alight (chyron pulls Bramblestoke village mention from `bramblestoke_brain_v1`, season grant standings tick +1 for Exhibit 2), Halloran on the Exhibit 5 close camera with his patron-pin glinting (decision diamond as Halloran considers funding the Smokey-the-cat exhibit, recurring cast bond +1), and Bytes on the gift shop close camera with the lavender-pillow scene (interaction sparkle as a child visitor pets her). The mid-cycle twist is the heart: at minute 5, Curator Whitford turns to the camera and confesses — "This museum itself is a what-if of a museum that never opened in our timeline." The lighting briefly flickers between the museum-as-it-is and a museum-that-never-was. Meta moment. Multiply that by 10 named characters each with brain panels, periodic splitscreen renders showing two branches per exhibit, a CROSSOVER CHYRON reading three other demos, a SEASON GRANT STANDINGS drama ladder, and a meta mid-cycle reveal, and you've got a Hogwarts-portrait-gallery-meets-Smithsonian-across-the-multiverse stream that genuinely earns its multiverse scope. ALL FICTIONAL — Aurelian Empire, Bramblestoke Village, Whisperwood, Queen Audra, Inventor Pim, and Cat Smokey are all invented.