RE: Mini-Grand 5113 (Round 1: Chateau Securise!)
08-21-2013, 03:35 PM
On this clear, bright day, the Oracle of Meow foretold that she would go into the kitchen.
She also knew she would step outside for a touch of fresh air, from the tradesman's entrance.
She also knew that when she did, she would inadvertently - or perhaps purposefully, now that she knew - trigger security alarms all over the restaurant, causing the traitorous waiter on staff to panic and send the signal too early.
Armed men would try and take the restaurant. What happened then...
Well, the future was slightly fractured round the edges. That would be her great secret. She would not dare tell her followers that she would see most futures - the ones closest to occurring brighter than the ones farther away up the slopes of Mount Probability, but the faraway, dim ones no less possible... It didn't bear thinking about. Besides, prophecy would hardly become an empirical science for a long time yet.
It was beginning to hit her that she had no followers here. Nor would she, in the near, safe future.
Well.
The unsafe beckoned, then.
She also knew she would step outside for a touch of fresh air, from the tradesman's entrance.
She also knew that when she did, she would inadvertently - or perhaps purposefully, now that she knew - trigger security alarms all over the restaurant, causing the traitorous waiter on staff to panic and send the signal too early.
Armed men would try and take the restaurant. What happened then...
Well, the future was slightly fractured round the edges. That would be her great secret. She would not dare tell her followers that she would see most futures - the ones closest to occurring brighter than the ones farther away up the slopes of Mount Probability, but the faraway, dim ones no less possible... It didn't bear thinking about. Besides, prophecy would hardly become an empirical science for a long time yet.
It was beginning to hit her that she had no followers here. Nor would she, in the near, safe future.
Well.
The unsafe beckoned, then.
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