#lper tarot

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The Empress

((Honestly, the LPrpg cards have essentially just been "The card, but with..." so I'll drop them))

Having decided what he will create with his tools, the Fool strides forward, impatient to make his future a full-grown reality. This is when he comes upon the Empress. Her hair gold as wheat, wearing a crown of stars, and a white gown dotted with pomegranates. She rests back on her throne surrounded by an abundance of grain and a lush garden. It is possible that she is pregnant.*

Kneeling, the Fool relates to her his story. And she, in turn, smiles a motherly smile and gently gives him this advice: "Like newly planted grain or a newborn babe, a new life, a new relationship, a new creation is fragile. It requires patience and nurturing. It needs love and attention. Only this will bring it to fruition." Understanding at last that his creations will take time to develop, the Fool thanks the Empress and continues on his way.

The empress arcana would have an image of Donnabellez in the empress's outfit, and smiling kindly and almost maternally out from the card. She would rest on a wicker chair rather than anything, with the garden behind her, and Baxter resting on her lap, along with another few, baby puppies on the ground in the garden.

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The High Priestess

Continuing his journey, the Fool comes upon a beautiful and mysterious veiled lady enthroned between two pillars and illuminated by the moon. She is the opposite of the Magician, quiet where he was loquacious, still where he was in motion, sitting while he stood, shrouded in the night where he was out in the bright of day. Sensing that she is a great seer, the Fool lays out his sword, chalice, staff and pentacle before her. "The Magician showed me these, but now I'm in a quandary. There are so many things I could do with them. I can't decide."

The High Priestess doesn't speak. Instead she hands him a pair of ancient scrolls. Seating himself at her feet, the Fool puts his decision-making on hold and reads by the light of her crescent moon.

"I did not know any of this," says the Fool. The scrolls, like a secret manual, have given him insight into his new tools. "This information helps me to narrow things down, but I'm still afraid of making a wrong decision."

The words come to him then, not from without but from within: "What do your instincts tell you?" The Fool reflects on that, and that's when he knows what he should do. Decision made, he rises to leave even though he suspects that the High Priestess has more secrets she could reveal to him--like what lies behind the pomegranate curtain. Right now, however, he is focused and ready to be on his way.

Thanking the High Priestess, he heads off. But as he leaves he hears that inner voice, rising like the waters which spring and flow from beneath her throne: "We'll meet again...when you're ready to travel the most secret path of all"

The Priestess holds scrolls of arcane information that are withheld, so the LPer priestess, Lucahjin, holds shut guides in her arms, standing in front of two buildings. She has a moon-designed flower in her hair and a crescent buckle on her shoes.

The LP RPG Priestess, however is once again identical to what the card is, just with Lucahjin replacing the priestess.

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The Magician

Traveling on his way, the Fool first encounters a Magician. Skillful, self-confident, a powerful magus with the infinite as a halo floating above his head, the Magician mesmerizes the Fool. When asked, the Fool gives over his bundled pack and stick to the Magician. Raising his wand to heaven, pointing his finger to Earth, the Magician calls on all powers. Magically, the cloth of the pack unfolds upon the table, revealing its contents.

To the Fool's eyes, it is as if the Magician has created the future with a word. All the possibilities are laid out, all the directions he can take: The cool, airy Sword of intellect and communication, the fiery Wand of passions and ambition, the overflowing Chalice of love and emotions, the solid Pentacle of work, possessions and body.

With these tools, the Fool can create anything, make anything of his life. But here's the question, did the Magician create the tools, or were they already in the pack? Only the Magician knows - and on this mystery, our eloquent mage refuses to say a word.

Jon stands in place of the magician, so to make the card more modernized, the bindle is switched for Chugga's backpack, the sword, wand, chalice, and pentacle spilling out of it. The infinity symbol above the Magician's head remains, along with the pointing to the sky and ground, but rather than a wand and being elaborate, Jon simply has a finger pointing upwards, possibly a stylus in hand, and the other pointing down.

For the LP RPG, however, Jon's own sword is in place of his wand, and the rest is almost identical to the card.

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The Fool

The Fool's Journey notes are copied and pasted from http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot

With all his worldly possessions in one small pack, the Fool travels he knows not where. So filled with visions, questions, wonder and excitement is he, that he doesn't see the cliff he is likely to fall over. At his heel a small dog harries him (or tries to warn him of a possible mis-step). Will the Fool learn to pay attention to where he's going before it's too late?

To create a more modernized LPer tarot card for this, using Chuggaaconroy as a baseline, I would probably put Chugga wearing a small backpack about to walk into the middle of a crowded street, distracted with a handheld console while Kirby, his cat, stands at his feet.

For one involving the LPRPG, it'd be almist identical to the card's symbolism, with his sword taking the place of the bindle and, once again, his cat instead of the dog.

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LPer Tarot cards

0    The Fool- Chuggaconroy 1    The Magician- Protonjon 2    The High Priestess- Lucah 3    The Empress- Lucah 4    The Emperor- Jake 5    The Hierophant- Tim 6    The Lovers- Mayrune and Xavier 7    The Chariot- Donna 8    Strength- Lucah 9    The Hermit- Jon 10    Wheel of Fortune- Mayrune/Me 11    Justice- Jake 12    The Hanged Man- Logan/Myself 13    Death- Donna 14    Temperance- Tyler and Chugga 15    The Devil- Tyler 16    The Tower- Donna 17    The Star- Brooke 18    The Moon-Donna 19    The Sun- Chugga 20    Judgement- Masae 21    The World- ALL