Sample Space lasts at most a couple seconds but couldn't that time be extended by entering dreamspace?
For this exact example: Your perception of time within the Dreamspace is fluid, but actual time passed is not. You won't think of ideas any faster or slower in there, it's not a Flow Power, it struggles to have any sort of meaningful memetic effect.
{Sample Space} is one sub-power, underneath {Imposition of Intent}, within a Mythic Ethos. Its scope is narrowed through multiple filters of specificity.
Now, if only you had a power specifically geared toward answering questions which you could use to find the inherent limits of that specificity... oh well.
(On the balls-to-the-wall insane side, Lilly is now capable of trying to move sub-powers over between Ethea which would change how they function, but I'm going to go ahead and recommend you don't try. True Song's breakage almost became something called the {Shatterheart Malignancy} back at the start of the Alpha attack, these things have a propensity to go six hundred and sixty six different sorts of wrong.)
"It's a Girl's World," not "It's a Girl's Small Town And Immediate Environs."
In fact, you guys will be getting a slightly more zoomed out map in 2.3
So, in order for Slyvena to have made such a prophecy, Waters has to be coming after us, using a reliable tracking method, and soon--forcing the outcome.
You guys could ask {The Ladder} once it recovers. It takes a bit of adjustment time to throttle down to such a specific question, but it could be done.
There is still the possibility of us intentionally destroying Petal then replanting her in the middle of some other anonymous forest... but I suppose that's easily ruled out.
Lilly is nowhere close to being capable of proactively killing an intelligent thinking being, much less one she'd have a front row seat to the pain of. I can see it happening in self-defence, but you are going to have to do a lot of growing up through the school of hard-knocks to reach the point where you can be that brutally pragmatic.
@Slyvena is this prophecy backed by QM fiat, or just in-setting weight?
Since this is a sticking point for people, I'll throw you a bone.
{Contention Prognosticator}'s prediction is utterly immutable for Lilly
as she is now. New Powers could open up potential futures that did not exist previously. But not just any power, it would need to be something dynamic and far reaching, allowing for entirely new types of action that were not in any way conceivable before. Something that redefined the playing field in a way that specifically countered the reasons the fight is currently unavoidable.
This limitation is because {Contention Prognosticator} cannot easily see outside this material plane, so Integration Vectors are an outside-context program for it.
Distant future means somewhere between a month to a few years. It could be within the month, it could be that he'd volunteer for a hunter-killer team tracking you down further along the timeline, it could be many things.
Subversion might have made a good person out of him yet.
You'd have to get very good at Subversion to build an actual personality. That is a whole different ballpark to just promoting a mental trait you already possessed to a more dominate position (which is what you did).
I'm gonna speculate that she got her Ethos from having {NSFW}
Secret Challenge Met
Marigold received her Ethos on her thirteen birthday, which was also her wedding night. (Almost 4 years ago). By law, it was all above board; she disagrees.
You get her Ethos description and names of her powers/subpowers.
Honourary mention to
@Alectai for basically name-dropping her primary power, impressive even though I hadn't set that as a challenge.
[We all Drown Together] - The Sanguine Ocean (Apotheotic): (Deific)/(Legend)/(Flow)/(Oath) | Unique
113th Generation Bloomling | Flower: Red Rose-Marigold {Transposition}
Your plea has been heard child, rescue is at hand and an exchange is offered. We are all unified beneath the deep maroon ocean. The endless river coursing through all life that is and ever was. Plunge into that endlessly repeating link and draw upon the pulsating rhythmic strength swimming inside all creature's veins long before any Ethos ever touches their skin. There is a cost that must be paid, but it is fair and true. To draw from what is spilt, you will join them in their sacrifice. Drag them into your embrace and breathe from their lungs anew. Accept, Marigold, and the beatings will never hurt again. A small cost now, then no more pain; only the sweet throbbing heat. Blood's
Gift, for Blood's
Price.
Marigold <> Lvl 15:
Lvl0: {Hemokinesis} Tier 31
"Life's nectar ran in every direction inside her, and them."
- Flow Override
- Origin Seek
- Vicious Memory
- Wed and Dead
Lvl 6: {Concept-Lock} Tier 20
"There is nothing new under the sun. All we are and could be is inside each other already."
- Borrowed with Pain
- Gifted in Grief
Lvl 8: {Reborn in her Currents} Tier 13
"The second birth is a poor imitation of the first. That which delivered us to our mortal homes."
- Lifeblood
- 'Family' Tree
Lvl 11: {Red Fountain} Tier 8
"Why seek the external? The yolk gushes forth."
- Tideswell
Marigold's powers scale quite well against more powerful opponents.
I'm off to bed, see ya'll tomorrow.
