"The Auguries" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Data servers

Overlooking the city of Las Vegas from his apartment, a man prepares for his day, loads his gun, and drives out to a meeting at the Hoover Dam. He and his associates contemplate why someone would want to buy up so much of the land around the old city; it's mostly worthless. When the buyer arrives, it turns out to be William.

The group takes a tour of the facilities and William is informed that recent upgrades were made. The dam, after all, is used almost exclusively to power data servers located within. William is looking for something with resilience and he's reassured that the Hoover Dam can offer him something that lasts forever. That's longer, William says, than anyone ever expects.

Answer: He does not pay

William lets the sellers know that he's looking to buy the entirety of the Hoover Dam platform as what he's looking for is already located inside. It was stolen from one of his facilities and he's aiming to reclaim it to keep it stowed away. When he receives push-back, he ends up giving an ultimatum; the group can receive a handsome payment and give him the dam or the can take it from them for free the following day. The negotiation ends up ending there as William departs empty-handed.

That evening, the dam owner returns home to find an infestation of flies in his bedroom. Staring up at the swarm, he blacks out until morning, awakening on the floor where he stood. He returns to the dam shortly after, heading back to the board room and murdering his associates. All said and done he walks out to the dam, bloody knife in hand, to find William waiting for him. He hands over the land rights to the dam and William relieves him of his work before departing. The man slits his throat; William doesn't look back.

Answer: Christina

Christina awakens in her New York City apartment and gets ready for work. Her roommate, Maya, asks what she'll be wearing to her date in the evening. Both women are having trouble sleeping. While Maya had nightmares throughout the previous night, Christina keeps receiving calls from a someone she doesn't know. Though she blocked his number, he seems to be getting through. Maya insists that despite the calls, Christina should still go on the date as she only ever leaves the apartment for work.

Answer: Creating narratives

Nonetheless, Christina heads to work at Olympiad Entertainment, arriving to take a seat at her work station and record a pitch. As she lets a story unfold, her work station logs her narrative. She pauses her work for a performance review and is told that if she wishes to advance in her role at Olympiad Entertainment, then she needs to step up her work as she has a tendency to craft overly-saccharine narratives, and most consumers want melodrama, violence, and tragedy. Her boss suggests that she save the sentimental stuff for her diary; if she can't put forth something that works, he'll find someone who can.

When Christina returns to her desk, she finds that she's received three new voicemails from the same creepy caller. In one, he tells her to stop doing what she's doing; the game she's making is ruining his life.

Answer: Seven

In Los Angeles, Caleb plans to work through his anniversary. In light of the riots seven years earlier, there are plenty of hours he can work. Not much has changed in his life, he realizes, since the destruction of Rehoboam. He returns home to his daughter and wife, just in time for dinner.

In a log cabin, deep in a snowy mountain region, Maeve Millay meditates to the sound of a radio and dreams of her daughter, her past companions, and Caleb. The memories are so affecting that her thoughts cause a power outage in the nearby village. The next day, Maeve stops by the general store. The shopkeeper asks if she's picking up a number of items for her friends. She's not expecting anybody, however. She picks up an axe before she returns home.

Answer: William

When she heads back to her cabin, Maeve parks at a distance and finds a group of armed men surrounding the building. Using her truck as a decoy, she gets the upper hand by sniping from a distance, winnowing down her pursers until only one remains. The last one left lets her know that her little power outage was enough of a signal to alert his men. More will be after her, and they won't stop.

Maeve decapitates the man and brings his head back to the cabin, breaking into it and hooking up to his core inside. When she rewinds its memory banks, she finds out who sent him. It was William. She douses the cabin in kerosene and lights it ablaze before departing on foot.

Answer: For herself

In New York, Christina returns home and looks around to ensure she's not being followed. She receives a call from Maya and realizes that she forgot about her date and, with a bit of prodding, prepares to head back out to attend (despite her reluctance). She's about to leave when she hears glass breaking outside; a flowerpot on her balcony fell over.

Christina ends up at her date and starts to tell a bit about herself and her work. It doesn't take long before she realizes her date doesn't have much depth; he speaks on his disinterest in her work-- coding non-player characters, something she finds great enjoyment and escapism in doing-- and he suggests that maybe she's depressed. She could take a tab for her feelings, or at least to erase the bad ones. She excuses herself and goes to the bathroom. It's not going well.

Answer: The Tower

Christina's phone rings again while she's freshening up in the bathroom and this time she picks it up, hearing out the man on the other end. He begs her to stop what she's doing as it's destroying his life; what she's doing is real just like 'the Tower' is real, and the doctors think he's crazy. She insists that he stop calling, but he says that she can't hide; he will find her and he will stop her.

Christina heads home alone while Maya stays out with a work friend, and when she makes it to her street she's surprised by someone waiting for her, a man named Peter who begs her to leave them alone. She tries to race inside but he grabs her and holds her at knifepoint, saying that she wrote him and others into the game. If she doesn't change their story, he says, then bad things will continue to happen.

Christina is only saved when a shadowy figure knocks Peter away and beats him to the ground. She turns away for one moment, but by the time she looks back, they're gone.

Answer: Falls off a building

Caleb reads to his daughter before tucking her into bed. She asks him to keep the lights on when she goes to bed, but he promises everyone is safe and sound. That's when he hears the sound outside, goes to the safe, and grabs a gun. His wife has to remind him that everything is alright; the past was dangerous, but the present is not.

Christina wakes up in her apartment the morning after the attack, prepares for work, and heads out just as she receives another phone call from Peter. She insists that Peter is just confused; the stories she writes aren't real. He tells her to look up and she finds him standing atop one of the nearby buildings. Is it up to him, he asks before stepping off the ledge, or did she write that ending too?

Answer: Senator

Caleb cleans the house as he's confronted by his wife; his daughter is sleeping with a BB gun under her pillow. She asks him to be conscious of his PTSD as it's affecting their child. That night, however, when his daughter drops her teddy bear out the window, she goes outside to collect it and is met by a man standing outside. Caleb barely makes it outside in time to protect her from a gunshot, but it's Maeve who fells the host, slicing through him with a samurai sword. Caleb has no choice but to leave his family behind and pick up the fight once again, this time to save them.

Maeve's next course of action is to speak to a California senator that William had in his sightline. Caleb comes along for the ride, insisting that he wouldn't be able to sit idly by.

In New York, Christina records a narrative pitch from her balcony, this one about a girl who's searching. She doesn't know what she's searching for, but she knows there's an emptiness in her life. If she finds it, it'll all make sense and have a happy ending. Down below, she doesn't see the man watching from the shadows, someone who looks like Teddy Flood.