@IanDSmith Achillean task: you're really good at this. Just don't fuck up one specific thing.
Thesean task: no part of your original plan or instructions will remain by the time it's done.
Hermetian task: your entire job is to courier messages back and forth between other people.
Odyssean task: the vast majority of your time will be spent on sidetracks.
Pandorean task: you're going to regret doing this, but you just can't let it go.
But he did trust, didn't he? Isn't it:
Orphean Task: where success is declared just too soon
@rvedotrc @iris @IanDSmith
It's probably been a few decades since I read the story originally, but in my hazy memory he was gripped with a sudden doubt that his wife was actually following him and turned back to look.
@PTR_K @iris @IanDSmith Ah, the version I heard (and only a couple of weeks ago) didn't go quite like that. There is, I assume no One Correct Version.