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Subject: Re: Gaming Prophecy?
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:59:46 -0700
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On 31 Aug 2024 01:48:09 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
<tednolan>) wrote:

>In article <vat82j$k24v$1@dont-email.me>,
>Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 8/27/24 6:11 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>> We touched briefly on Cugel today, and this sequence was on my mind:
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> 	<snip transcription of Cugel doing Cugel things> >
>>>=20
>>> I know that Offut & Lyon's "War Of The Wizards" trilogy has a good
>>> example (not to mention they are really fun books!) and I understand
>>> there was a run on "Thor" where Odin tried a strategy of making all
>>> the Ragnarok prophecies come literally true in a survivable way.
>>>=20
>>> What are some other good examples of characters trying (succesfully =
or no)
>>> to game prophecy?
>>
>>When I read this post three nights ago:

<snippo>

>>2a) In guruneelcbggrefrevrf, the Big Bad Guy tries to kill his=20
>>prophesied nemesis, not realizing that the nemesis didn't actually=20
>>didn't become his nemesis until the moment Big Bad tried to kill him.
>>
>
>Interestingly iirc that one, the prophecy could also have applied to
>Arivyyr

I wondered through the next book or so if that would turn out to be
the case. It was not to be, although he did show considerable courage
in the final showdown.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"