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Parable - 169 - HD

🕑 Added 2020-10-13 03:52:26 +0000 UTC

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James C

*Completing* the game, not winning. You can join the villain, and destroy the world, and that works just fine too — just ask Dr Bashir

Daniel

But following the script isn't necessarily required to win. As for the safety overrides, following the script isn't a guarantee that you won't die, *as it is a game*. Dying happens in games. Sometimes BY the script, even.

Daryl Sawyer

Yeah, you don't want to learn the hard way that the holodeck safeties are off.

Foradain

However, not knowing whether this is a dream or someone's simulation, or what safety overrides might or might not be in effect... In short, what if "winning the game" is the only way that Susan (and Jay) can get out of this?

Daniel

Well... considering that said script is for a _game..._ Failing is always an option.

Warren (Stephen) Rose

Good question!

Michael Brewer

I'd say that it really depends on the exact circumstances. If you're trapped in a "no win scenario" or you're pretty sure that they made you like someone, only for them to get murdered later, or you might have to make a heroic sacrifice, or something, changing the script and/or "cheating" might be your only option. On the other hand, if you know it's not "real," you're very confident that you can get out if you win, you're concerned that the game might break in half if you go too far outside the game's parameters, or something like that, the best thing to do is probably to run through the main quest as fast as you can