Morgana's Tarot Readings

Morgana the undead robot is a 7th-dan go player, chess grandmaster and is always the Minister of Internal Security in Junta games. On occasion she sees fit to reveal potential plot arcs through the incredibly unequivocal medium of Tarot readings, enabling our glorious GM to sit back, sip his daiquiri and giggle.

Readings from Session 11

• Cat asks, "Do you know who you were before? Morgana shuffles cards, pulls out the High Priestess.
  • The High Priestess seems to represent Morgana, at least in the set of 9 women.
• Cat asks, "Are you happy?" Morgana shuffles cards, pulls out the ten of pentacles -- a large family gathering.
  • Seems like a yes.
• Cat asks, "What do you want?" Morgana shuffles cards, pulls out the two of pentacles -- a juggler trying to balance two large coins.
  • She's got a tricky job to do, maybe.
• Hans asks, "Or would you prefer to be dismantled and returned to the crypt where you can rest?" Morgana rolls back a bit and swivels so she has her back to Hans.
• Cat asks, "Is there anything we can do for you?"
  • Morgana then begins dealing cards. First, Judgement (people rising from their graves at the call of an angel's trumpet), on top. Then The High Priestess. Then eight cards in a row. These last eight cards each depict a single female character. There's a gap between the 6th and the 7th. The High Priestess card is above that gap. Finally the Ten of Pentacles goes below the whole arrangement.
  • Morgana takes The Magician out of the deck and carefully places it next to Judgement at the top of the layout. Then slowly shifts each card from the row of eight up to line up with the High Priestess.
  • She wants us to resurrect the other women? Or carry out their judgement somehow? How does the Ten of Pentacles play in? (If they're vampires, maybe we're supposed to un-vampire them.)
• Cat asks, "Where can we find them?" Morgana sweeps up all the cards and lays three down: Death, the Seven of Swords, and Judgement.
  • We know they're in the tomb, so this must mean that somehow. Perhaps it means they're all dead, resurrected like Morgana, or seven-of-sworded.
• Hans asks, "Seven of them are deceased?" Morgana flashes the eight of swords at Hans and returns it to her deck.
  • "No, eight." -- so who's deceased but seven-of-sworded?
• Unanswered (?) questions:
  • Hans asks, "Wait. Are you asking us to resurrect the rest of your family as chess-boxes as well?"
  • Arvid asks, "this doesn't have anything to do with vampires, does it?"
• Hans asks, "Do you think it's wise to leave the area at this point?" Morgana sweeps all the cards back into her deck. Pulls out the Six of Swords (a family travelling in a boat) and turns it upside down.
  • Seems like a no.
• Arvid asks, "do you know what Professor Trujillo is doing with corpses? Or planning to, or whatever's going on with Pedro?" Morgana shuffles, draws the Fool.
  • Probably this refers to us being fooled by Trujillo being Pedro's construct. Or else saying that Trujillo or Pedro are fools.
• Arvid says, "I don't suppose you have any thoughts on Edgardo and Lucea, while we're asking questions?" Hans asks, "And do you want to stay in the workshop, or would you prefer a room away from the tinkering?" Morgana shuffles, draws the Knight of Swords and the High Priestess; pauses a moment, then places the Fool below them.
  • Later this is corrected to the Six of Cups (?), a boy and girl with flowers with symbolism of 'a gift or something from the past'
  • Probably this means Edgardo is the Knight of Swords and Lucea is the High Priestess. Possible she's the High Priestess because, like Rosanna (ie, Morgana), she's a Fate Witch. The Fool/Six of Cups is probably Stefan Kramer, who's a gardener and they're after him for something in his past.
• Agathe comes up to you. "It's my wedding ring. It's disappeared -- one moment it was there, next moment it was gone." Morgana shuffles cards and draws the Seven of Swords -- the thief.

Readings from Session 16

Morgana is all alone in a darkened workshop. She is sitting perfectly still. There are nine cards spread across the table in front of her. The cards are face down except for #7 (the High Priestess) and #2 (the Queen of Swords).

• Cat asks, "Is the Queen of Swords Annette?" Morgana whirs for a moment, then turns the Queen of Swords face-down, and turns #8 (Strength) face-up.
• Arvid asks, "where is the existing copy of the letter Lady du Sices wrote renouncing claim to Helvetica? or how can we find it before Elena does, or something like that"
  • Morgana sweeps up the nine cards, shuffles, and lays the nine of coins on the table. (A woman in front of her mansion)
• Arvid asks, "and can you tell us anything about where Brother Etienne is? he's not that wolf, is he?" Morgana lays down the Hierophant. Then covers it with The Devil.
• Cat hisses, "are there any non-awful boys in my future?" Morgana hands Cat the Seven of Cups (some guy faced with a choice of seven possibly good but probably awful things) then begins to shuffle the deck.
• Hans asks, "Do you have any tips for us?"
  • First she puts down the the High Priestess and the Knight of Swords, side by side, and the Six of Cups (a boy and a girl exchanging a basket of flowers) underneath them. She places the Emperor and the Queen of Wands below those three. Then she sweeps everything up again.
  • She lays down the Hierophant, with The Devil covering him. Then the Ace of Cups. Then the Nine of Cups -- a man at a banquet table, nine cups in front of him. She sweeps everything up again.
  • (At this point, Hans asks "How many vials of antidote were there?", which I don't think pertains to the ongoing answer.)
  • She lays down the Magician and the High Priestess. Then those eight other cards from her nine-card spread. #2 (The Queen of Swords) and #8 (Strength) are face-up, the others face down. She puts the *** of Coins (either the eight or the seven). A craftsman at his bench. She sweeps all the cards up again.
  • Now it's the Nine of Coins -- woman and mansion -- and the Queen of Wands. She places all the Page of Wands (the messenger) below them. Sweeps everything up again.
  • Lays down The Lovers. A man standing at the gates of a maze, one woman pointing off in one direction, another woman pointing in the other. Unlike in other decks, the two women (potential lovers) in this card do not look like opposites of each other. She folds her arms and sits back.
• * If anyone's curious, the cards in the nine-card spread are: Queen of Cups, Queen of Swords, Page of Coins, The World, Six of Cups, The Star, The High Priestess, Strength, and the Nine of Swords

The Glacier Tombs

• Tomb #1 is Wilhelmina Murray. She taught music. Queen of Cups.
• Tomb #2 is Elisabeth Sommer. She taught fencing. Queen of Swords.
• Tomb #3 is Serendipity Smith. She taught Theology. A bit of a heretic? Page of Coins.
• Tomb #4 is Tineka Van Rijn. She taught dance. The World.
• Tomb #5 is Elise de L'Isle. Languages, elocution, rhetoric. Six of Cups.
• Tomb #6 is Nora Alice Kelly. Astronomy. The Star.
• Tomb #7 is Rosanna Scardanelli. Strategy, tactics. The High Priestess.
• Tomb #8 is Annette Locksley. Apparently she also taught Theatre when she wasn't off chasing monsters. Strength.
• Tomb #9 is Lucille, whom you know all about. Nine of Swords.