Tarot memory share [Phoenix]

[guillotineroom]

The room you enter this time is an ostentatious fortune tellers tent. Colourful silks drape the walls with intricate golden constellations embroidered on the ceiling. Various crystals, candles, magic 8 balls, and other superstitious sundries are scattered throughout the tent.

In the centre of the room is a table with ten chairs around it, and three cards laid out for you:

HIEROPHANT, STRENGTH, SUN

[ RULES | TURN-IN ]

Comments

[briarliar]

She's here too? Oh goodness! Well, I haven't met Mr. Wei Wuxian only that you told me he was previously your herdmate and wrote in blood, so I wondered if that meant you would recognize if he or Mr. Lan Wangji offered a memory since you used to be on the same team.

[mountanoffensive]

It's a strange memory for him since Reim was a werewolf. If Wei Wuxian was afraid of dogs, that must have made things very uncomfortable.

[briarliar]

Oh my, it certainly would be. I don't know if I could be so calm if someone was possessed by a giant bug.

But Mr. Reim and Mr. Wei Wuxian got along all right?

[mountanoffensive]

Really well. I don't think I ever remember seeing them fight.

[briarliar]

Mr. Wei Wuxian must be a very strong person to overcome a fear like that for the sake of getting along with someone! A-and I'm sure Mr. Reim was very understanding as well.

[mountanoffensive]

I'm not sure if Reim knew... If he did, he never mentioned it.

[briarliar]

[ sighs wistfully ]

It must be nice to be able to hide your feelings well enough that others don't notice it...

Mr. Wei Wuxian might have thought it was impolite. Although I wonder if memories like these might help people get to know each other better. A-at least the less...fraught memories.

[mountanoffensive]

He probably didn't want to explain things.

[briarliar]

I-it's admittedly a difficult thing to confess to. I wouldn't have brought up my fear if Miss Frederica hadn't first done so in the other game.

[mountanoffensive]

Why do bugs scare you?

[briarliar]

They're so creepy looking!

[briarliar]

And, um, honestly I've never had a wonderful relationship with animals. We have a family dog, Bond, and I think we mostly get along but when it's almost dinner he likes to hide from me until Loid gets back...

You're actually the first I've never had any awkwardness with! I hope that's not strange to admit.

[ she says as Stoat has sulked off under the table from their last talk ]

[mountanoffensive]

I think I've lost the ability to find things creepy anymore...

Well, I'm not really a normal horse anymore either. It probably helps a lot that we can talk to each other.

[briarliar]

I think it helps a lot too! Maybe the horses back home would be less skittish if I could explain things to them...

But I also think it's because of who you are. A-and maybe part of that is you are very fearless and don't find things creepy or as weird as others might.

[mountanoffensive]

I wouldn't say I'm fearless. I'm definitely afraid of losing people special to me.

But it helps being a warrior too.

[briarliar]

Hmm, but that's an understandable fear. And not one that makes you instinctively recoil and punch a wall because it's an emotional thing and not one that has six spindly legs...

But thank you for sharing your memory for the Sun card, that was very generous of you!

[mountanoffensive]

I know I'm not very good at sorting these things out so I figured I could help best that way.

[briarliar]

You were very helpful, and I'm glad you had a happy memory to share! I-I think I'd be a little worried for the teams that had to offer things like Death and Devil. We had a hard enough time with the Hierophant card...

And we're also very lucky to have so many smart people on our team like Stoat, Mr. Sholmes and Mr. Inui!

[ the latter two who are probably bickering about how pretty Sholmes is in a dress right now but they contributed ]

[mountanoffensive]

Yeah, I'm glad we didn't have any of the really nasty ones.

[briarliar]

From what Stoat said it doesn't have to be nasty necessarily, but it's a shame so many of them are very sad. I would hope something that's supposed to predict the future would have more happiness than those eight ball answers.

[mountanoffensive]

I don't believe in that stuff anyway.

[briarliar]

I'm not sure how to believe it until after the future becomes the past but, um, I suppose if the predictions are frequently wrong it would make sense not to believe it.

[mountanoffensive]

Do people here have any experience with them?

[briarliar]

I only know about Stoat's friend, h-he said he would be cryptic and vague about future predictions too. But Stoat also said he hated him and he wasn't good at it...

[mountanoffensive]

Stoat has friends?