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[kingandy]

Five more cards. I am noticing that the cards with areas of black are more pleasing to the eye. This is why I am not an inker.

	The Ace of Triangles Watchful vigilance; secret conspiracy		The Ace of Turtles I have no idea.
	The Three of Triangles Safety; isolation; turrets		The Ancestral Moon-Moths Something old; something new; something borrowed; giant moths that come from the moon to rain destruction upon puny mortals with their fire breath
	GIANT SQUID Peril at sea; calamari

Comments

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Can I post a link to these cards on my journal?

[kingandy]

By all means, the gallery itself is here.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

If the cards are to be used in a LRP enviornment, you need a card whose significance is "An annoyingly powerful entity will force you to collect a variable number of odd items in a fetishistic way or the world will end." Maybe something like "The Stick" or "The Stupid NPC Plot" or something.

[blue-room.livejournal.com]

Mark W: The stick works, especially if it's dangling sword of damocles like over a player.

[r-dragonsbain.livejournal.com]

The Ace Of Turtles...

Lafargic, useless, going noware, the what I think you can do with the Plot Stick :) (Less Plot More Lesbians)

[kingandy]

I have been trying to place your icon, and I've only just recognised it. An excellent choice!

[kermix.livejournal.com]

Aces are also beginnings, so the Ace of Turtles can also be a very slow and steady beginning of whatever it is decided that the Turtles govern.

Same with the Ace of Triangles — the beginning of a journey into the land of three-sided pointy things.

[kingandy]

I remembered that soon after drawing the Ace of Hats. I do not think I have properly reflected it, except perhaps in a numerical sense ... on the other hand this is not intended to be entirely serious.

I've always wondered if there's any correspondence in the other number cards, like Threes are about personal growth or whatever, but I've not found a guide that describes things in that way (first going through the suits, then face values, then finally the combined results). On the other hand I've never really researched it in any actual depth.

Maybe it will appear in a future volume of Mr Alan Moore's Promethea (I think he's slipped in the occasional reference - such as "Four is the number of solidity because it's the fewest number of points with which you can create a three-dimensional object, being a pyramid", but hasn't done it in any great depth). At which point I shall tut and say Mr Moore, get back to the story.

[kingandy]

Ooooh. I don't suppose you'd still have a copy of that particular still, and be willing to distribute? I would be most appreciative. :D

[kermix.livejournal.com]

Offhand, the only reference I remember is from here: "Each Ace represents the qualities of its suit in their purest form."

Their general explanation is a good start, but what I remember from one source is that Ace through Ten of each suit have parallels to the first ten "Trumps" or Major Arcana of the standard tarot (Magician, High Priestess, etc.) and represent a journey from the beginnings of the idea in the suit to their logical conclusion.

I used the generalities in the "overall" column here to construct a few ideas, but I forget where I nicked them.

[kingandy]

kingandy at livejournal dot com should do it, I have been meaning to try that out. ;)

[kingandy]

You are a gent sah.

I will enjoy it.