Tasks / The You Ching
Come up with a divination system. Practice it on a stranger.
1 to 100 players
25 points
Level 2
Created by Not Here No More
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This is awesome, Someone!
I love the play on words and the short, simple-but-cool task!
They do that.
What was your original title?
"The Six of Rubber Chickens, Doom is Upon You"
Not as good as You Ching.
It turns out that 4chan.org is a great place to test this on strangers. I gave out more than fifty fortunes in ten minutes, using my futhark-rune-based made up system.
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The You Change Coming Up With It Divination systems these days are all controlled by experts. You can't look up at the sky and figure out if Mercury's gone retrograde, and most people don't carry I Ching pieces on them. Tarot cards are portable and...
I did that once.
For some reason it kept predicting the style of doom which, when you take a bunch of readings in aggregate, implies the forthcoming end of the world.
And no, this wasn't deliberate. Hey, perhaps Arkham Zero wants a reading?