The question before you is the same one that obsessed Operant PROBABLE during the period of their precipitous decline.

The question before you is the same one that obsessed Operant PROBABLE during the period of their precipitous decline.

'It' rides into battle under polychrome banners, lance shining with the hopes of the people. 'It' wears a suit of steel. Women and homosexuals throw flowers at its feet.

In their final reports, PROBABLE speculated that 'It' had disappeared completely from this material plane, and could only be recovered by undertaking a dangerous 'meta-quest'.

Take up the lance for 'It'.

Luck and skill, CASCADE. You will need both.

Not enough slots.

Leave 'it' to the metaphysicians.

Better that way. 'It' is probably lost for good anyway.

This is a dangerous path you are traversing. CASCADE.

In the subterranean halls of the Opera, the ancients are whispering about you. They're saying CASCADE has gone looking for 'It.'

But what is 'it'?

A question that's plagued centuries of poets, athletes, aging rock stars, and operants -- each driven to utter distraction in their own mental wilderness.

In the end, 'It' cannot be known, only had or not had.

No spiritual, chemical, or therapeutic substitute.

Usually, not had.

I am very much looking for 'It'.

Then you've already lost.

Some are born with 'It'. Those who go looking for 'It' more often than not end up destroying their lives in pursuit of the elusive ideal, like Operant PROBABLE before you.

I need to understand the nature of this 'it'.

I already have 'it' potential.

The ancient ones shake their heads with despair. There goes another one, they're whispering.

The Opera's psychomancers had high expectations for your levels of 'It', based on their initial examinations...

I don't need 'it'.

You say that now, but extended time in-theatre is highly correlated with 'It' obsessions.

I haven't committed to anything, I'm just considering my options.

That's how 'it' starts. Idle fancies become habits, habits become obsessions, and before you know it you are trying to phase-shift through a wall at full speed, like Operant PROBABLE before you.