\u201cThe shutdown procedure won\u2019t work\u201d, Shiva looked down at his wife; her head was in his lap as they sat in the orchard, enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d, she looked up at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allotted time will soon expire, and the Jewel won\u2019t be able to terminate the simulation because of all the souls that have been plugged into the system; and I don\u2019t mean the incarnated ones. I mean those that will be used as power cells to power attractors and scripts\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he won\u2019t do it because it would kill them instantly, and he is not allowed to do something like that\u201d, she nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd as the time expires, it will be up to him, so he will keep running the simulation indefinitely, unless we do something about it\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew that was going to happen\u201d, she nodded. \u201cAnd if we force-terminate, we incur the karmic penalty, which would be large, considering the number of angels he deceived\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo large. Also, the mess is too large to just dump all at once. It would be almost impossible to clean up here. Some of it actually requires incarnation in the physical in order to process, because that\u2019s how it\u2019s designed. And he protected himself from access from within the system in all sorts of ways. Every single person who tried, ended up either failing miserably, or was destroyed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s actually dangerous for us. There is a significant probability not just of failure, but of his victory and our destruction\u201d, Goddess warned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know. That\u2019s what he is betting on. He went into the entire thing knowing there\u2019s a chance that his handiwork won\u2019t ever be terminated, and the only solution to the dilemma would be to make him some kind of a ruler of both Heaven and Earth\u201d, Shiva was grim.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy \u2018a chance\u2019, you mean limit in zero, but non-zero?\u201d, she smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne in 1027<\/sup>\u201d, he nodded. \u201cBut the probability of the sum total of all possible disasters is much larger. It\u2019s one in three\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThat bad, huh?\u201d, she looked concerned.<\/p>\n \u201cThat bad\u201d, he confirmed.<\/p>\n \u201cBut if we don\u2019t intervene, it guarantees a bad outcome of some kind?\u201d, she squeezed his hand and looked in his eyes.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a word, yes. But if we intervene and fail, it opens up the possibility of the worst possible outcome\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cDo I even want to know?\u201d, she grinned.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think so\u201d, he smiled his lopsided smile, her favourite.<\/p>\n \u201cYou lead, I follow; like always\u201d, she smiled.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will require some planning\u201d, Shiva nodded.<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cZee, come here\u201d, Kay gestured with urgency. \u201cTake a look at this\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWow, they are good. Not only did they lure Sanat Kumar into exposing himself to lethal karmic consequences so he\u2019s dead now, but they managed to get that astral sub-plane for godless souls back under the Throne, and they wiped it clean of assholes\u201d, he nodded appreciatively. \u201cThe cost to them personally must be terrible, but they sure are kicking ass\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe odds of success are now hundred percent for a sum total of all good outcomes. Over ninety percent for the best outcome\u201d, the Mind of God smiled. \u201cAnd the odds are improving with time, as there is increasingly less stuff that can harm them, and they are getting increasingly stronger\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, basically, it can no longer end badly, and it\u2019s now a grind until the end, deciding how much of the mess they convert into their own soul mass, and how much will stay there and slowly rot away?\u201d, he scratched his temple.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s more complicated than that, and better\u201d, she kissed him. \u201cLet me explain\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n He had to keep running those accursed scripts until the end, but at least he no longer had to put up with Satan\u2019s obnoxious person. The Lord and Lady weren\u2019t happy with him for executing all of Sanat Kumar\u2019s orders well after the villain was dead, but unfortunately, being dead doesn\u2019t preclude being in power. There was nothing in the contract that said anything about valid orders ceasing to be valid if one who issued them happened to die.<\/p>\n Also, both of them were in grim mood because of all they had to endure down there. Especially his Lady. She wasn\u2019t so used to terrible suffering as the Lord, and cursed him occasionally for existing. He didn\u2019t blame her, but hoped he\u2019ll be able to apologise. He missed her playing with him.<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s almost time\u201d, Lord Vishnu pulled his Lady up from the grass. \u201cLet\u2019s come and greet them\u201d.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe shutdown procedure won\u2019t work\u201d, Shiva looked down at his wife; her head was in his lap as they sat in the orchard, enjoying themselves. \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d, she looked up at him. \u201cThe allotted time will soon expire, … Continue reading