"The universe is a game of dice," says Dr. Aris Thorne, a theoretical physicist who has written papers on probability manipulation in closed systems. "Normally, we try to load the dice so we win. A Fate Injector loads the dice so we lose, or so that a specific 'loss' happens at a specific time. It weaponizes entropy."
The BREQ (branch if equal) instruction fetches a corrupted opcode → both unlock() and lock() are skipped, leaving the system in an unlocked state.
We may soon find ourselves in a world where "freak accidents" are no longer freakish. We may find that our luck hasn't run out—it was stolen, syringe by syringe, by the architecture of our own design.