Dirk Gently and The Waking Sea of Reality

Slightly Chaotic

       Needless to say, Plato was a brilliant mind. His theory on Atlantis was flawless. Except for one thing. The location.

It's highly improbable, this scenario.

It's highly improbable that Atlantis does not exist in the Mediterranean, or off the coast of Africa, or IN the Sahara desert like most people these days theorize.

It's highly improbable that it exists off the southern coast of Alaska. Sightly South-West to be exact.

See, you have to take into consideration the size of the world, the amount of all of the water on Earth and how much space it takes up, the size of Atlantis, the population of the world, the population of the west coast of the US and Canada, the population of Seattle, and take into account the four people in which our story follows that happen to all be together at the exact same time the world is about to end with all of the materials they need to prevent the end of the world.

When taking this into account you end up with the number four to the power of one-hundred and thirty-nine thousand and forty-seven to one against. Very improbable indeed. But not impossible.

And it's even more unlikely that Plato would know of the existence of Atlantis given its true location. But I have an easier answer for that one.

One day, Thor came down to Plato. Yes, that Thor. Plato thought it was Zeus given the thunder, lightning, and his true state of not being so good looking. Although Plato couldn't pin down why Zeus was wearing a big fluffy coat...

Anyway, Thor said to Plato, "Listen carefully and write down everything I am about to tell you. Because one day all of this will become very useful information to a group of four people consisting of a college student, a badass, an ex-successful-punk-band-member, (don't ask what that is), and a soon to be, if you mean 2,400 years is soon, friend of mine who is connected to the fabric of reality. Because all of this information is vital to their mission of saving the world. And they're going to get all of this information out of a book about you that was covered in notes written by a crazy, druggie, college student who is best friends to the other college student I mentioned. Yes, they are different, keep up. This one majors in American History. What's America? Don't ask, it's not important. America sucks. Just listen to me and write down everything I tell you, it's very integral to my plan."

And Plato said, "If you're friends with one of these people, then why don't you just tell them this yourself?"

And Thor-who-is-thought-to-be-Zeus said, "Well... I never said it was a good plan, did I?"

And Plato said, "Well maybe you should use my plan."

And Thor said, "Well I like this one."

And so Thor told Plato everything about Atlantis and gave him The Icarus Crystal with the instructions to pass it through generations, it would eventually end up where it needed to be. And everything about it Thor said was true. Except for one thing. The location.

Thor deliberately lied to Plato and told him that it existed near Heracles's Pillars, which is a strait of water between Spain and Morocco. This was to throw off Cydney and Don with the information in the book and give enough time for our heroes to make it to the real Atlantis without any interruptions.

All of this was highly improbable, yes. But it happened.

It makes you wonder what sorts of things the universe is planning-not-planning.

Is the world going to end? Is the world not going to end?

Well, I think you know the answer to that one already. But you don't know how, and you don't know the train of events that lead up to it.