Bullet bounces off 3 for the kill?

Waaait, that crystal mine hallucination effect...
Does it mean that Paladin will perpetually be suffering it on occasion (like a persistent infection or however it is called) or simply the madness still lingers until some time passes?
Because she's clearly hearing voices.

I could see that madness induced prophecy being self fulfilling, she attacks because she thinks *he* will, leading him to kill her, which he would not of otherwise done.

Meanwhile, Nale with a sniper rifle sits behind the entrance.

She could just take her hood off and never wear it again, since she was shot wearing it!

Trying to outsmart visions of the future! Always works out great!

@Whispers of Sorrow

It has been well established that knowledge of the future can be used to prevent it. But if those predictions cannot account for being foretold, then knowledge of the future cannot be a prerequisite for a vision to come true.

So either this is magic psychosis or the gods that talked to Tobi are trying to warn the Paladin about being a loose end that is at risk of being "dealt with" or are trying to manipulate her to alienate her to the order to keep Tobi out of their hands

@Silver

Well that is the example Bindy named, but I think that would just get her shot without her hood on, only technically changing the future. Restraining Klaassen and taking his gun should work, assuming there really is no sniper nearby.

Remember this guy is with Nero not the Paladin unit and he didn't have an exactly good view on them.

Still can get shot by Levin emerging from that door...

Paranoia kicking in !

Also, you may have paranoia and be persecuted at the same time, just saying

So two possibilities here:

1 - Self-fulfilling prophecy. In trying to stop the phorphecy, pally ends up fulfilling it.

2 - Breaks the prophecy, but by killing this guy before she has any proof he'll actually try to kill her.

Don't forget the rifle on shalia's back...

Its the danger of being shown a very context light vision of the future. All we know is there is a series of unknown events that result in her dying in the desert and if she was correct, it was by bullet to the back of the head.

It would be a pretty hard shot to hit the back of her head with that egg in the way. Maybe in that future she didn't have Tobi. Its possible the vision she saw has already been changed. Maybe not enough to be safe though.

That looks like a memory flashback, not another hallucination.

And I'm betting the prophecy isn't going to be self-fulfilling OR broken; it will simply succeed, because she tried to prevent it in the wrong way (misunderstanding what it meant).

@Brownie24128: With regards to your first post I would point out that the avoidance of prophecies is (incidents of prophecies losing their potency due to widespread knowlesge aside) essentially limited to Foxy and Binky surviving. And judging by the conversation with the ghoul Xzalclock (https://www.neorice.com/hoh_tobi_4085), that was more a case of the ghostly thing (that was once agent Housten) plotting to change their future and failing.

With regards to the second, well, you make defeating Klaassen sound so easy. But there are many who would make swift work of her if she tried any nonsense: She's only really been shown to overpower normal humans and people with specific vulnerabilities to her cursed powers.

"Wait, correct that it's still dangerous, or correct that it can't attack humans?"

"Yes."

Poor Three doesn't deserve this nonsense. :( ...Probably.

Let's face it, it's a bit late to be thinking about avoiding her fate, she's already walked right into it, Binky and Foxy turned away from theirs. I suppose Xzalclock had a lot to do with that, convincing Foxy to just leave (and arguably staying his hand in Binky's case). But all the same, Foxy never reached that potential face melting situation and Binky would have died with her, so...

Shalhia just waltzed out the front door of this mine, knowing full well what that would mean.