[OPEN] *draws a tarot card* oh sh—

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who: Noah & You
what: Tarot readings~
when: Post-Disney fieldtrip, so 02/12 and on
where: Dorm Common Room
warnings: I'm on my pagan bullshit again it's fine

[If you venture into the dorm common room at any point after the fieldtrip ends, you will find Noah sitting in the middle of the floor with a deck of tarot cards, Trying His Best. He only recently acquired these cards (they were scattered about his room, see) and he hasn't had too much time to play with them.

Obviously, the correct thing to do is to play with them now. Step right up and get a very amateurish tarot reading free of charge! He has a book open in his lap about how to do this, including multiple spreads that he can use. If he spots you while he's nose-deep in studying, he'll wave you over with a hand and ask if he can read your fortune — you just have to tell him what you're interested in knowing. Past, present, future? Love? Interpersonal relationships of a non-romantic nature? Just ask!

As a disclaimer, Noah is not responsible for any harm that comes to you if he divines your future and it turns out really badly. That is not his fault. Your fate was written in the stars, after all.]

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[The numbers make Noah's head spin. What the fuck... alright. He collects the card he drew and starts shuffling again, contemplating exactly how to lay this one out.]

I guess you're asking me how you'd obtain this information? Fortune-telling is kind of vague, but I'll see if Fate can point you in the right direction...

[Okay... with the cards shuffled sufficiently, Noah cuts the deck, keeping the question in his mind. What are they looking for? What can they do to find it?

...

Two cards, then.]

The first card is the Ten of Cups, Reversed. It represents what's "missing" — so what you could be looking to find or obtain. Keeping in mind that it doesn't necessarily mean a tangible object or thing... the card says what's missing is love. I know that's cheesy, but the Ten of Cups is usually an omen if it appears in a reading. It says something is going wrong, that harmony and contentment have disappeared and been replaced with strife. Something somewhere is disharmonious. It can also indicate that people aren't being true to themselves, too.

[He pauses, looks Add in the eye, and then flips the second card.]

It's the Ten of Wands, Upright. This card represents what you can do to find the information you seek. It's... a bit nebulous, but this card is much simpler in this case: You've strayed from "the path" and you need to find your way again so that you can find what you seek.

If you want my personal opinion, I think the cards are referring to the exchange students — maybe we need to find harmony and balance somewhere. Maybe we need to be true to ourselves. Maybe that's the path we strayed from. We're all out here killing each other and deluding ourselves, and maybe that's not "it". The "you" in the reading could be referring to everyone, so make it a "we". "We" need to find harmony. "We" need to be true to ourselves.

[Maybe honesty and peace gets them all out of an awful situation.]

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[He maintains his serious expression the whole way through, though when he gets That Look he returns a confused stare of his own. What? What's that for?? He's always true to himself, what's any of that got to do with him??]

... another pointless prediction. Obviously, internal conflict is going to get in the way of an investigation. If that's the best your cards can come up with, fate is as useless as ever.

[or maybe it's giving the only useful advice it can, since Add has already made it clear that he'll just undo any unpleasant endings... so, really, it's more useful to be reminded of what's getting in the way. not that Add would ever admit to any of that.

fate sucks and can't foretell shit, science and logic still rule supreme]

Hmph... well, whatever. If the answer is within Yogen, we'll figure it out. [and, after a slight pause] If you come up with any ideas... let me know.

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["He's always true to himself" sure buddy, and Noah's never been an emo goth kid.]

Uh-huh. I guess predicting the future really is useless for the guy who moves through it so effortlessly, huh? Maybe having a fortune-teller around would be useful so you know which timelines to avoid and which to pursue, that way you're not wasting precious time?

[Noah shrugs. Somewhere in his head he thinks he might be appealing to Add's logic.]