In Episode 10 of Allergic Reaction, Lisa Lomax takes on extreme weather in Southern California and finds herself in two parallel battles. In one scene, she steps into the role of a concerned parent on the evening news, demanding that school officials to provide shade for students as heat waves intensify. In another, she finds herself almost 10 years earlier at an Airsoft convention inside an abandoned Mojave Desert waterpark—suddenly cast as a UN peacekeeper in a Star Wars-style clash between the Rebels and the Imperials over control of California’s most precious resource: water. What connects these moments is our ability to be multidimensional in how we live and tell stories. If the world is a stage, then we’re all playing parts and rehearsing futures before they arrive. This episode blurs the line between reality and performance, showing how the roles we act out and rehearse, in real life and online or LARPing varieties, really do shape the worlds to come.