Time to Time Rules

1. The first rule of time travel is there is no time travel.

2. Don’t bring anything anachronistic unless you want to run afoul of the Time Bureau. It doesn’t matter whether you did it on purpose or out of ignorance. The penalty is the same: Four years confinement to your native timeline.

3. You may only relapse to a given time period once in order to avoid the creation of a recursive loop time hole. For this reason, violation of this rule carries the Time Bureau’s highest penalty: lifetime confinement to your native timeline.

4. You are only there to observe. Do not interact substantively with anyone. Violation of this rule carries the penalty of a) reimbursing all of the Time Bureau’s expenses associated with repairing the resulting butterfly effect and b) lifetime confinement to your native timeline.

5. Obey all instructions given by agents of the Time Bureau. Interfering with the actions of a Time Bureau agent in the course of discharging their duties is punishable by a ten year confinement to your native timeline plus all of the expenses incurred for repairing any resulting damage to the Space Time Continuum.

6. Any agent for the Time Bureau who is found guilty of using the authority of their office to alter the flow of Space Time for their personal gain will be subject to the penalty of death by traveling to a time either before or after the Earth is habitable.

7. When time traveling bring nothing more than your curiosity and leave with nothing more than your memories. Smuggling anything between timelines is expressly forbidden and punishable by lifetime confinement to your native timeline.

8. You must be fully vaccinated against all known pathogens in the timeline you are visiting. You will endure a three-day quarantine before visiting any timeline and a ten-day quarantine upon your return. Travel to times beset with plague and pestilence will only be granted to medical professionals on a case-by-case basis.

9. If you see something, say something. Help our Time Bureau agents to preserve the integrity of history and to ensure the health and functionality of the entire Space Time Continuum. Monetary rewards and free time travel will be made available to anyone whose tips result in a prosecution.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.