I feel like this should have led with the fact that the oracle was the medicine. Sort of the whole really good reason to not do it since it involves harming a conscious being that can at least talk to Henri, maybe more if he can cast the spell on others. I feel like Henri yelling “don’t cut the plant since I am talking to it” would have been a better bet for prevention.
If it was the first thing that the oracle told him along with telling him to yell it at his friends I think that he would have had a chance. Also there is being cryptic vs withholding extremely important information until the last possible second that you were going to tell him anyway. I’m guessing that the oracle didn’t know that this is why they lost the ability to talk, but it seems pretty common sense to mention that first, at least to me. That being said, they are really focused on telling what they know about the future, so it could have just skipped their mind until this point. Nothing wrong with the story telling, I’m just grumbling about the character’s choices. It’s hard to have a story without bad choices being made, so it makes sense.
Consider the opposite, that the oracle knew exactly what was about to happen. If it’s confident that it can see the future, then it knows it’s about to lose its head. It can spend its last moments trying to subvert prophecy (which never ends well), and potentially lose the chance to tell Henri anything at all, or it can try to impart as much information as it can in the few moments it has left.
I feel like this should have led with the fact that the oracle was the medicine. Sort of the whole really good reason to not do it since it involves harming a conscious being that can at least talk to Henri, maybe more if he can cast the spell on others. I feel like Henri yelling “don’t cut the plant since I am talking to it” would have been a better bet for prevention.
Henri never had the chance to tell anyone anything… it was over in a blink…
besides, aren’t Oracles SUPPOSED to be cryptic and nigh unfathomable?
If it was the first thing that the oracle told him along with telling him to yell it at his friends I think that he would have had a chance. Also there is being cryptic vs withholding extremely important information until the last possible second that you were going to tell him anyway. I’m guessing that the oracle didn’t know that this is why they lost the ability to talk, but it seems pretty common sense to mention that first, at least to me. That being said, they are really focused on telling what they know about the future, so it could have just skipped their mind until this point. Nothing wrong with the story telling, I’m just grumbling about the character’s choices. It’s hard to have a story without bad choices being made, so it makes sense.
Consider the opposite, that the oracle knew exactly what was about to happen. If it’s confident that it can see the future, then it knows it’s about to lose its head. It can spend its last moments trying to subvert prophecy (which never ends well), and potentially lose the chance to tell Henri anything at all, or it can try to impart as much information as it can in the few moments it has left.