Carot

Feb. 7th, 2005 01:16 am
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I have rediscovered an old project of mine and taken it up again: a set of cards for use in LRP fortune telling. If one uses tarot cards one risks drawing down the fury of the universe the ire of goth pickles everywhere, so I concluded that an alternate set should be devised.

This will not be a full and complete set (there may be other Turtles cards, for instance, but it is doubtful they will number from one to ten); I was intending to slavishly reproduce Pratchett's described Carot deck, but I soon realised that with eight suits of eight cards and four minor arcana, I would hardly have any cards remaining for interesting major arcana (I had bought 100 notecards). So I abandoned that and decided to draw whatever seemed funny at any given moment.

I am still trying to think of a way to represent The Importance Of Washing The Hands, and The Your Wife Is Sleeping With Robert Rodriguez (suggested by [livejournal.com profile] bacony as I recall).

Thus far there are six. I present them to you along with possible interpretations, though naturally these will not be fixed as it's a roleplaying tool.

The Four Of Turtles The Four Of Turtles

Support; balance; stability; instability; balancing chelonians.
The Five Of Hats The Five Of Hats

Suave sophistication; charisma; unwarranted pride; five hats.
Death Death

Usually not literal death, refers to a change or new beginning. May do several duplicates, so that I can look askant and mutter "There's only supposed to be one in the deck..."
The Orang-Utan The Orang-Utan

Strength; cunning; stupidity; monkey ape.
The Happy Squirrel The Happy Squirrel

The worst possible draw. Horrible pointy doom from a completely unexpected and unpredictable source. DOOM.
The Wizard The Wizard

Intellect; curiosity; investigation into things about which man should not wot; old man in a pointy hat.

Date: 2005-02-07 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-dragonsbain.livejournal.com
The Happy Squirell,
see how it dances,
blistfully collecting the last of the nuts,
it knows of the Horrible Doom approching,
for it is the Happy Squirrel that Summonded the Might of Mr C
and there Is Noithing the Party can do about it....

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