Forty-one runs at the same boss. The wiki says the drop rate is 8%, which means the odds of my last week happening were roughly one in thirty. I have done the math so many times the calculator app shows up in my recently used.
At some point, farming a drop stops being gameplay and starts being a devotional practice.
Every house has one drawer that answers to no organizational system. Mine contains, among other things, three unmatched batteries, a hotel key card from a hotel I cannot name, and a rabbit’s foot of uncertain provenance.
The junk drawer is not clutter. It is a portfolio of things that might be useful someday, diversified across every category of maybe.
There is a gas station forty minutes past Sedona that sells burritos out of a warmer older than I am. I stopped because the fuel light demanded it. I stayed because of the sign taped to the register.
You don’t pick the burrito. You just find out which one was yours.
