Do you believe in fate, Roger?\u00a0 Deja vu?\u00a0 Any of that shit?<\/p>\n
I never really gave much thought to it before, but lately it’s almost as though something’s \u2014directing<\/em> me, almost.\u00a0 Like, as long as you steer right it’s clear to the horizon, but every time you try to go left there’s a pile of wreckage or an alien stronghold or a sheer cliff blocking you.\u00a0\u00a0 Or, say you want to go back and get something you had to leave behind in the lobby because you were carrying too much other shit \u2014 but the stairwell just happens to collapse behind you and there’s no other way back.<\/p>\n That’s been happening a lot lately.\u00a0 Almost as if something was \u2014 directing<\/em> isn’t exactly the word.\u00a0 Herding<\/em>, maybe.\u00a0 As if the fires and collapsing buildings and the very fucking weather <\/em>are conspiring to move you towards a single endpoint.<\/p>\n You think the Ceph might have that kind of influence?\u00a0 Think they’re powerful enough to just \u2014 nudge the game board this way or that, turn all of fucking Manhattan into a maze for us to run?\u00a0 Maybe all their stomping around, all that incompetent ham-fisted shooting and smashing \u2014 maybe that’s all just a distraction, to keep us from noticing all these subtle machinations masquerading as random entropy.\u00a0 Maybe they’re ten steps ahead, they’ve got the butterfly by the wings and they’re using it to herd all of us.<\/p>\n What do you think, Roger?\u00a0 Ever get the feeling we’re not entirely in control?<\/p>\n Ah.<\/p>\n Well, maybe it’s just me then.<\/p>\n [Ed.:\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 We\u2019ve departed from commentary and broken the 4th<\/sup> wall: this can\u2019t happen, sorry man.<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you believe in fate, Roger?\u00a0 Deja vu?\u00a0 Any of that shit? I never really gave much thought to it before, but lately it’s almost as though something’s \u2014directing me, almost.\u00a0 Like, as long as you steer right it’s clear to the horizon, but every time you try to go left there’s a pile of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiblet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}