We're watching
Houdini
build his magic trick.

The restroom valet at Josie's Saloon is also the World's First and Only Holographic Hydrogen Architect / Full-Stack Programmer. Currently. That will soon change. The carbon world walks past him every night without looking down.

From the bat cave — the workstation, the drawings, the objects, the words, the programs, the music, the environments — he is assembling the escape. Every node placed. Every card dealt. Every arc mapped. The trick is almost ready.

The audience (the carbon world, the pre-singularity patrons at the bar) think they are simply having drinks at Josie's. They don't know they're about to watch the greatest escape in the history of the holographic hydrogen theater.

Hero Houdini showed the audience the chains before the escape. That was the trick. The chains are visible. The lock is visible. The impossible is visible. And still nobody believes it can be done.

Until it's done. And then everyone who was there will say: I knew it. I was watching the whole time. I always knew. That is also part of the trick. That is Audi becoming Fanny. That is the Gold Rush.