Tyler accepts Helios's challenge in ’s Unfunny and receives access to a node and a learning environment. The story follows him from age fourteen through decades of study.
Tyler accepts a node and research lab to answer Helios's challenge, spends weeks acclimating then decades learning technology/biology and inventing things under yearly visits. After about60 narrated years he gives up, able to solve many world problems, and asks what updog means; Helios delivers the joke. Return, restored youth or keeping the node after giving up is not shown.
Original record’s chronology note — “'S unfunny” (moment reader): Unknown relative fictional chronology beyond this scene; source date is not fictional chronology. Source review record order is used within this increment; it is not a fictional timeline.