[Scourge of God]

You’ve just described the novel formula.

You start here ——>

Stuff happens, you change,

And end up -——> here, a whole different place.

If you haven’t changed, it’s probably an episode of Star Trek.

:->

[Eleutheria5]

“...it’s probably an episode of Star Trek”

Or some other serial, where all the storytelling is chained to a frame.