Everyone in Ulysses, and the day they cross

Base document 01 · interactive artifact — the rings of the day: 51 characters, four circles, 40 relationship threads. The written document lives at the Character Map. The artifact below is prior work, published verbatim. Open the artifact on its own page, full width — it is a standalone file, and nothing in it links back to this site.

Revised for narrow screens, 5 August 2026 — on a phone this artifact's labels used to render at around four pixels and its nodes were slivers, recorded in the project's own playtest on 18 July and left standing because the file is published byte-verbatim by a binding rule. The author commissioned the revision; below 760 pixels the ring is now a sideways-scrolling region you can reach with a keyboard, the labels read at about sixteen pixels, the nodes are full-size targets, and choosing someone brings their panel into view instead of updating it out of sight. Nothing about the artifact changed on a larger screen. The written Character Map carries the same material as continuous prose.