Okay. A. The Playing Coward is a weird but oddly awesome tavern name. B. Huinn, Auric, and Sorinne carousing is basically nightmare fuel. C. Morgezka showing up anywhere Huinn is will be bad news for our draconic friend. D. Morgezka's a dragon, and needs absolutely no help taking care of a drake. And E. No, Huinn can't be trusted.


Nasina: From the stories I have collected, I think he would like to be buried with it.
Maral: I just want to get rid of the thing. This is as good a place as any.


Oh. My. Goddess.

Orcish, take note of this prompt. Thorneau's not going to know what hit it.


Kala: I should not trust you, Archmage, after The Taskmaster, and Ashkanar, but...please help me.


Well, he could, but...


Gigantic Giants! Ha!


Raiker: "There once was a fellow named Morgan,
Who thought with his netherly organ,
He set out from Voor,
met up with a wh..."

Larasa: "Okay, that's enough!"


Huh. Well, I guess that's kind of what happened.


It sounds like the travelling bard took some serious liberties with his interpretation of "Before the Dawn."

The Generator really is the gift that keeps on giving.



Case in point.



Why isn't there a "rubs chin while deep in contemplation" smiley?

This is all surprisingly plausible.


I can't help but feel this one is connected to the last one somehow...


You don't say...


I know we basically already have two samurai, but Troll Samurai should probably be a thing.


Alar: "Did I ever tell you about the time I met Eyeless?"
Blink: "What?"





Gruff: "This place is shiny!"

Ha!


"I really want to have the right outfit for the prom! Most of the time at things like this, I feel like people are just looking right through me!"


You don't say?

Ha!


Yeong Eode: "Here, you seem to have the maternal instinct. Raise it to be strong."


Morgezka meeting Aloise would prove very interesting, methinks.


I think Eyeless is at a slight disadvantage playing cards. Also, this prompt made me realize how crazy-good at card-counting and card-cheating Denner would be, having both a flawless memory and the ability to know where anything is, like, say, any one of the cards in a deck...


I would say that neither Raef nor Ygraine have the right idea here. I would never, as Raef does, explore this story. That's...nightmare fuel. But I also wouldn't stay in that library with that creepy child...


Antine and Sava are a very strange combination. I like it.


Anyone else think this hints at a conflict between the Dual-Walkers and Dorn?


This actually sounds pretty interesting.


Look, I realize that Kor stick together and all, but that seems like a very poor decision.


And thus does Keeper's legacy live on.

I'm now imagining a very bored Denner and a very bored Alessa playing the most futile game of Fox's Run with each other.

Alessa: "Just give me 10 chips."
Denner: "Why?"
Alessa: "Because I raise to steal the antes, and you know I have a better hand. Just give me the 10 chips."
[Alessa starts to deal. Denner shakes his head.]
Denner: "Don't bother. My cards are terrible."
Alessa: "Yeah. I know."
Denner: "...Well, this is fun."

I had a very similar thought, with the same two characters. The only difference is that in my version, Alessa is getting increasingly frustrated that every possible future sees Denner playing the hand exactly right.

And now I'm imagining them playing against Antine, who is gleefully unaware at how thoroughly he's about to get taken for a ride.

Alessa can literally alter chance.
...She'd probably end up drunk to deal with the backlash, but it would frustrate the hell out of Denner.

That seems odd and interesting to me. With Denner's information, what counts as chance? Is it the deal? Denner should know where in the deck a given card is once it's set. How about the shuffle? 'Randomization' is occurring, but Denner might be able to track a card through the shuffle. Assuming the shuffle isn't being performed by either of these two or the one shuffling isn't skilled enough to manipulate it in a controlled (rather than chance) fashion, I guess Alessa would influence where the cards would end up and Denner would know?

I feel if we go deeper down this rabbit hole we'll hit debates over the Copenhagen Interpretation.

Bender: "Do you know what I'm going to do before I do it?"
God: "Yes."
Bender: "Well, what if I do something else?"
God: "Well, then I don't know that."

I always feel like I should watch more Futurama. I never did much when it was in its first run, but a lot of what I've seen since is pure gold.]


This is just begging for some sort or explanation.


I love this prompt because sometimes it seems a legit mystery and sometimes Donagut seems like Inspector Clouseau. This time he probably got his man, but probably shouldn't be surprised.

He's also a great searcher because he could be investigating a missing person or he could be just a little Javert. Also I have a feeling he calls Ygraine "doll" to the confusion of everyone.


What is a Volver anyway. I mean, really? Why is it still a creature type? Is it some sort of innate Dominarian Voltron? How does that interact with being a troll? Can they assemble into strange super forms? I ask this because I assume the Troll Volvers were how they actually got Raiker captured, using strange and undefined Volver powers.


Internal Monologue: ... I'm a historian! I know plenty about mathematicians! but it seems like I need better to go past basic algebra...


Aaaaand a delerious, hallucinating supervillain has attained an artifact of ultimate power. That seems like Raiker alright. Payback for the Troll Volvers?

The way her chaos magic works is to create a bubble where the normal rules don't apply. So, in the sense of Find the queen, she could splice a limited space from a reality where the queen never left the deck. And that's not even getting into the extreme improbabilities where reality straight up doesn't function in the same rules.

But explaining the magic does diminish how it's Magic.

Denner: "Look, just calm down, okay? All I said was..."
Beryl: ~starts to catch fire~
Denner: "Okay, okay! Clearly, you heard what I said, but..."
Beryl: ~starts to crackle~
Denner: "I should get going..."


She's already cursed, Morgezka. You could at least let her down easy.


And that's what we call a bad day.


Mel: "What, another pyromancer?!? I don't believe this...


Aerik gets transported back in time to battle an Amphin. Could happen...


Well, if anyone should have it...


I'd go with the chesseburger, personally.


Rematch.


Ohh, that darn cat! Well, so much for civilization on its plane.

Hah!

That is not how I envisioned Jade and Dorn's second meeting going.


Clade: "That's no ordinary rabbit! He's got huge, sharp... He can leap about... Look at the bones!"


This is infinitely more horrifying being set on New Phyrexia.








Best of luck, Denner. It was nice knowing you.





This is not a story combination I would have come up with, but hey, I'd read it!


Sounds like fun!

For whatever reason, I'm imagining that the "crime" Denner is trying to bring Beryl to justice over was that time she stole Astria's birthday cake, and something about that seems inordinately cute to me.

Denner: "I'm sorry, but you're wanted on three counts of pastry theft."
Beryl: "Three counts? Leave it to Astria to trump up the charges."
Aloise: "You can't take her."
Denner: "I'm sorry, but it's my job."
Aloise: "No, I mean you clearly have the wrong person."
Denner: "But, she just confessed."
Aloise: "You said yourself that she's wanted on three counts of pastry theft. Cake isn't a pastry."
Beryl: "Astria never was very good in the kitchen."
Denner: "I smell smoke coming from yours."
Beryl: "..."
Aloise: "..."
Denner: "..."
Beryl: "...Shut up."

Very interesting. The fact that The Mute came up as the very first card for Lia Xin is very telling, and yet it was inverted, and connected to The Archmage. Perhaps this indicates that Lia "speaks" through her magic? Or maybe it is suggesting that Lia will encounter a powerful mage who is her opposite? The strong aquatic theme, with the Fish and the Well coming up, is also interesting, as is the fact the all but three of the cards came up as inverted. I don't blame Lia Xin for being confused by this reading.


The terrifying sequel to Keeper's "To Call the World to Heel."


Does this make anyone else want to create a new part of Jakkard with sapient, malevolent sand? Just me? Okay.


Larasa: "Calm down, Morgan. It's just a game!"
Morgan:





I can see the headlines now: Vicious Villain Vocalists Vie Voraciously!


Poor Antine...


I see the Generator still has a vendetta against Beryl, but hey, at least its creative about it.

...is it nuts that I would read this in a heartbeat?

Well, I think you nailed the inverted mute/archmage connection. The Inverted Orphan alongside the Inverted Fish suggests that, per orphan inverted, she might find her place, so to speak, and the fish inverted could indicate that the place of that occurring would be a dry: this would be auspicious given the fact that she was most recently seen coming into some wealth in the Waste of Jakkard. The remaining two spokes are harder to interpret. The inverted manacles play well with the inverted orphan, but the meaning of the anvil is somewhat hazy. It suggests, perhaps, that craft or industry will be a source of liberation? Lastly, we have the Lost Inverted leading to the Well. The inverted Lost indicates, perhaps, an entity that is found, an entity that is seeking, or an entity that makes others lost. The Well, well, what is a well? It is a source of water and life and as such is something of a center of community and creation. It's an origin, center, and source. If we take Jakkard from what we know about Lia and the previous spokes, though, a Well could simply indicate a town -- a place that is found or makes lost.

All this is looking OK for Lia, but then we get the crossroads. Both the Dreamer Inverted and Teacher Inverted are pretty grim, potentially. The Dreamer Inverted could be just the sacrifice of fanciful dreams for practical reality, but even beyond the necessary tragedy in that, it could also indicate that Lia will suffer in such a way as to make of her a cynic. The Inverted teacher, well, I doubt Lia will be doing much teaching so it probably doesn't represent a student? It could be a non-traditional teacher though, perhaps indicating that Lia's growth towards the Inverted Dreamer won't be governed by any entity, but rather that she will learn by general experience and at the hands of the world.

... It's not perfect, but I kind of want to keep this in mind for when I get to Lia's next story arc as there are ways the reading could kinda sorta predict it.