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** Oracles see connections everywhere, including where they don't really exist.
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** The Oracle is perfectly composed and sane - however they are very careful how they speak because they know enough that to utterly crush hopes resulting in either HeroicBSOD, DrivenToSuicide or GoMadFromTheRevelation if too much is spoken say that everything they hold dear will collapse in a century with nothing they can do about it.
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** The Oracle is perfectly composed and sane - however they are very careful how they speak because they know enough that to utterly crush hopes resulting in either HeroicBSOD, DrivenToSuicide or GoMadFromTheRevelation if too much is spoken spoken, say that everything they hold dear will collapse in a century with nothing they can do about it.
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* '''Implied''': Bob diplomatically states that gaining insights from oracles is quite trying on patience but worth it.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Oracles tend to state hilariously inappropriate [[SkewedPriorities conclusions of actions to taken in response to events they foresee.]] Like to bring marshmallows when the capital burns, or soap after a great battle.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Oracles tend to state hilariously inappropriate [[SkewedPriorities conclusions of actions to taken in response to events they foresee.]] Like to bring marshmallows when the capital burns, or soap after a great battle.
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* '''Inverted''': Only the most strong willed, focused and sane can see the future.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** Only the most strong willed, focused and sane can see the future.
** Only the most strong willed, focused and sane can see the future.
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* '''Parodied''': People treat the random gibberings of a passing person as prophesy with no evidence or track record.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** People treat the random gibberings of a passing person as prophesy with no evidence or trackrecord.record.
** The Oracle's visions are coming from further in the future than anyone realizes; her ravings are actually just contextless pop-culture references.
** People treat the random gibberings of a passing person as prophesy with no evidence or track
** The Oracle's visions are coming from further in the future than anyone realizes; her ravings are actually just contextless pop-culture references.
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** The Oracle is perfectly composed and sane - however they are very careful how they speak because they know enough that to utterly crush hopes resulting in either HeroicBSOD, DrivenToSuicide or GoMadFromTheRevelation if too much is spoken say that everything they hold dear will collapse in a century with nothing they can do about it.
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* '''Exploited''': ???Alice does brisk business selling tranquilizers and sleeping droughts to oracles - they have plenty of gifts from petitioners and welcome a relief.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???The Oracle is mostly coherent and clear, but shows signs of severe stress and suffers from mental health problems.
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* '''Subverted''': The mad old woman everyone thinks is an Oracle is just a mad old woman.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but the attendant priest can use her gibberish as the medium for a form of Divination.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but the attendant priest can use her gibberish as the medium for a form of Divination.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** The mad old woman everyone thinks is an Oracle is just a mad old woman.
** Alternately, the mad old woman is [[ObfuscatingInsanity actually completely sane]].
* '''DoubleSubverted''': ...Subverted''':
** ...but the attendant priest can use her gibberish as the medium for a form ofDivination.Divination.
** ...at least until [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow one vision]] causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
** The mad old woman everyone thinks is an Oracle is just a mad old woman.
** Alternately, the mad old woman is [[ObfuscatingInsanity actually completely sane]].
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** ...but the attendant priest can use her gibberish as the medium for a form of
** ...at least until [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow one vision]] causes her to GoMadFromTheRevelation.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Deconstructed''': The very fact that one can see the future alters the nature of their mindset, they become detached from humanity in a way that causes them to appear insane to other humans. They are in fact a different kind of sane, operating as they do on a different level of consciousness and are able to plan and communicate with each other with perfect clarity.
* '''Reconstructed''': The future is so nebulous and fluid that it defies attempts to speak of it clearly. Oracles speak in riddles and gibberish because it is the closest they can come to expressing it.
* '''Reconstructed''': The future is so nebulous and fluid that it defies attempts to speak of it clearly. Oracles speak in riddles and gibberish because it is the closest they can come to expressing it.
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* '''Invoked''': The Oracle knows that to get taken seriously he will have to seem insane.
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* '''Invoked''': The Oracle knows that to get taken seriously he will have to seem insane.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': The very fact that one can see the future alters the nature of their mindset, they become detached from humanity in a way that causes them to appear insane to other humans. They are in fact a different kind of sane, operating as they do on a different level of consciousness and are able to plan and communicate with each other with perfect clarity.
* '''Reconstructed''': The future is so nebulous and fluid that it defies attempts to speak of it clearly. Oracles speak in riddles and gibberish because it is the closest they can come to expressing it.
* '''Reconstructed''': The future is so nebulous and fluid that it defies attempts to speak of it clearly. Oracles speak in riddles and gibberish because it is the closest they can come to expressing it.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Justified''': The strain of seeing the future renders it difficult for the Oracle to properly refocus on the present.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** The strain of seeing the future renders it difficult for the Oracle to properly refocus on the present.
** The strain of seeing the future renders it difficult for the Oracle to properly refocus on the present.
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** The sheer volume of information packed into the Oracle's brain makes it hard to organize her thoughts, and some of her visions are pretty cryptic to start with.
** Sometimes seers [[GoMadFromTheRevelation see things that are better off unseen.]] Sometimes, they see them a little too often.
** Sometimes seers [[GoMadFromTheRevelation see things that are better off unseen.]] Sometimes, they see them a little too often.
