This comes from YourCre8tivity’s Say What? Take Four, though I used the? quotation more as an Inspiration Tag. Here’s the quote:

“Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
and toss them on the wheels of Chance.”
–Juvenal

Fortuna smiled as she watched the fools below maneuver for position. Not one of them had any idea she was watching, much less that they were there for her pleasure. The lure of wealth and the illusion of power were the bait that had drawn these self-important businessmen and power-brokers.

A few would be granted potentially lucrative contracts. It would be entertaining to see what they did when those contracts proved more difficult than expected. What would they do when the future of their fortune rode on their own efforts and Chance?