Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Stealing Atahualpa's Ransom

"The Year of the Ransom."

The Exaltationists, based in Machu Picchu in 1610, would have sent some of their number to steal Atahuapla's ransom in 1533 and carry it to their base in 1610:

"'As isolated as Machu Picchu is at present, it will not be noticeably affected by changes in the near past - for instance, by such a detail as Atahualpa's ransom unaccountably disappearing one night.'" (p. 665)

Although Machu Picchu will not be affected immediately, it will nevertheless exist in a different timeline where the ransom did disappear and where consequences are propagating from that disappearance. Thus, any Exaltationists who remain at the base will be left in a deleted timeline. Those who did travel into the previous century to steal the ransom will carry it to a Machu Picchu where their base does not exist.

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