One of the PCs was a fortune teller, which became an easy way to foreshadow threats.
I once had her get to see through the eyes of an assassin, who they then had to stop because the person who hired them needed to call them off but they didn't know how to reach them. They knew they had until that night to learn about how the assassin fights, and to decide how to prepare a safehouse for the target, a-la Home Alone.