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Originally Posted by WaterAndWindSpirit
Serendipity allows one "fortuitous but plausible" 100% positive coincidence (...) " which is a canonical example of Serendipity.
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Indeed, you can employ serendipity to make for a single (plausible) coincidental event; however, most of the examples you describe (in the OP) are not events, they are a succession of events. On the other hand, serendipity is not the same as buying success in advance (it mostly is about situational benefits).
It already is fortuitous turning a single event into your favor, now you want to justify forcing a succession (not an event) into your favor through a single use of serendipity (and at discounted value); I don’t think that’s appropriate.
If you want to connect a succession of events into serendipity, this means you need to buy several levels to connect all of the dots that make your “wish”
more likely to come true.
Your shrapnel & pilot narrative is a perfect example.
A fair use of serendipity under the same situation is this: The enemy has orders to shoot the pilot. However, the enemy decides shooting you instead (defying his orders), because John Doe is his lifetime rival. That is a fortuitous event that may save the pilot (from that enemy).
On the other hand… If you want to notice the shrapnel, that’s the first serendipity level, if you also want to be in the way of the shrapnel that’s a 2nd level, and if you want to take all the bullets that’s a third level.
And well, neither of these deserve a discount, at all. It could have been worse if you did not have serendipity.