For most of the second day Gilbert the Yeoman had followed the course of the river as it meandered into the depths of a forest until, as dusk was descending, he came to the village of the Magus. It was a small settlement consisting of five buildings, a watchtower, a barn, a windmill and…
What manner of man is the Magus who was revealed to us in the arcana for day two, in the Two of Rods, and what are his circumstances? This is a question for the Marseilles Tarot deck to decide. But first, I wanted to know a little more about his outward circumstances. I put…
The three watches of the night passed without incident (no doubles came up on the throws of two ten-sided dice), and there was no change in the fine weather (6-sided dice roll = 2 = even = no change). The Party Splits In the morning, Sir Richard decided to press ahead with the plan….
With the dawning of the second day of the quest of Sir Richard Radcliffe, one Brother Janus of the Order of the Golden Balls of Famagusta presides over the drawing of the Tarot of the Day… Day 1: The Five of Rods The first day of the quest was ruled over by the Five…
Sir Richard and his men escorted the two prisoners back to their camp where they were interrogated. It turns out, by a series of dice rolls, that they and their three fallen comrades were a group of five outlaws. They insist that there are no others in their band and that they are of…
Here are the tarot spreads that show us the state of mind of the two captives and what they reveal to Sir Richard as he interrogates them. What we discovered during the skirmish was that the first fellow to surrender, the one in the blue doublet and red breeches, was keener to negotiate than…
As Sir Richard returned to the camp he mulled over what to do with the two captives. They were clearly not noblemen and so it was unlikely that they could be ransomed. To kill them in cold blood or torture them for his sport was not in the nature of our chivalrous knight. To…
Just as Sir Richard was about to put on his armour, assisted by Squire Patrick, Christopher, Peter and Perkyn the page, his two hounds, Merriman and Belman, began barking and ran out onto the heath, alerting the company to the arrival of trouble, as was prefigured by the 5 of Rods in a previous…
Christopher the cook killed one of the hens, and sweated over the cooking pot. The party enjoyed a meal of stewed chicken, cooked in a vegetable broth that consisted of herbs plucked by the river, some pickled veg from one of the pickle jars, and a portion of hard tack. Gilbert’s First Report Gilbert…
As Sir Richard and his party travel through a strange land and sit down by the river for their repast, their location is plotted on a shogi board. The landscape they have discovered is also laid out. The coloured 1×1 Lego bricks represent the people in the party. Red = Sir Richard; white =…