Deck of Changes

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The Deck of Changes is found in Mage Curan's back room in Camille, but you will have to prove your worth to him first before partaking.

Playing with the Deck of Changes is a sure way to ruin a perfectly good character. You've been warned.

Yep, yep.

This whole thing is a spoiler so the rest is....

Spoiler warning: information below includes details, such as solutions to puzzles or quest procedures, that you may prefer to discover on your own.

Leolla here. I've drawn the deck, oh, a couple of times...

You have drawn the Axe from it six times, the Talon five times, the Idiot, Juggler, Rainbow, Shield, Void and Wolf four times, the Comet, Fool, Gambler, Gem, Healer, Hierophant, Jester, Knight, Lens, Nova, Rebis and Skull three times, the Chameleon, Crone, Donjon, Flame, Gateway, Hoard, Horde, Leper, Lion, Peasant, Rogue, Ruin, Sun and Throne twice and the Balance, Chain, Eye, Menagerie, Moon and Star once. You have seen the Axe, Balance, Chain, Chameleon, Comet, Crone, Donjon, Eye, Flame, Fool, Gambler, Gateway, Gem, Healer, Hierophant, Hoard, Horde, Idiot, Jester, Juggler, Knight, Lens, Leper, Lion, Menagerie, Moon, Nova, Peasant, Rainbow, Rebis, Rogue, Ruin, Shield, Skull, Star, Sun, Talon, Throne, Void and Wolf cards drawn from it in your total experience. You have seen the Axe, Axe, Axe, Axe, Axe, Axe, Balance, Balance, Chain, Chameleon, Chameleon, Comet, Comet, Comet, Crone, Crone, Donjon, Donjon, Eye, Flame, Flame, Fool, Fool, Fool, Fool, Gambler, Gambler, Gambler, Gateway, Gateway, Gem, Gem, Gem, Healer, Healer, Healer, Hierophant, Hierophant, Hierophant, Hoard, Hoard, Hoard, Horde, Horde, Idiot, Idiot, Idiot, Idiot, Jester, Jester, Jester, Jester, Juggler, Juggler, Juggler, Juggler, Knight, Knight, Knight, Knight, Lens, Lens, Lens, Leper, Leper, Leper, Lion, Lion, Lion, Menagerie, Moon, Nova, Nova, Nova, Peasant, Peasant, Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow, Rebis, Rebis, Rebis, Rebis, Rogue, Rogue, Rogue, Rogue, Ruin, Ruin, Ruin, Shield, Shield, Shield, Shield, Skull, Skull, Skull, Skull, Star, Sun, Sun, Talon, Talon, Talon, Talon, Talon, Throne, Throne, Throne, Void, Void, Void, Void, Wolf, Wolf, Wolf and Wolf cards drawn from it since the last time you saw it cycle through (though the appearance of cards more than once must mean that it cycled through out of your sight), leaving, to your knowledge, no further cards.

...

So anyway, the Deck itself says: This is a deck of large, white-lacquered horn cards. The backs of the cards bear a series of eight golden symbols arranged in a circle. It is a Deck of Changes, imbued with powerful magicks. Its power is such that its properties are not wholly known, and its use can be quite dangerous. One may choose to draw cards from the deck and reap the rewards or suffer the consequences of the drawing.

Please, PLEASE read this as "the more you draw the more you'll likely regret it".

I do it for fun, because I like seeing new and strange stuff, and that's what a game's all about, right?

By the way, I have horrendeous amounts of luck and Chaos favour and it doesn't seem to matter.

I'm going to be drawing for awhile to confirm what affects there are--some of these are guesses or rememberances, but I'll mark those as such. Honestly, I'm pretty sure on most of them, but just for full disclosure, they'll be noted as such until I draw and verify. (Or someone else does! =D )

So, without further ado:

--Chops off a limb. Hasn't been my head, yet.

Balance

--Remembrance: alters your alignment to the opposite.

Chain
Chameleon

--Possibly: changes your colors (hair/skin/eyes/etc).

Comet

--Remembrance: an admantium longsword you can use. It smack talks. It's at least a decent weapon, not sure exactly how uber it is.

Crone
Donjon

Locks you up. You can beg for folks to come find you in the Exoma and free you.

Permanent boost to int (do show attribute development) and possible talent !

Flame

It BURNS, IT BURNS! You (and anyone else around) is set on fire.

Fool

--90% sure I got this yesterday... -1 level (and at minimum of that level) in XP. Ouch.

Gambler

'a voice intones, you must draw three more ...', well there ya go .. heh!

Gateway

Ports you somewhere randomly. Also drops your things beforehand, making it kinda interesting =D

You draw the Gateway card from the deck of changes.
The room shimmers and disappears!
You feel completely disoriented.
You have been stunned.
a fishing village outside a smithy [n, s, e, w, u, in, ei, wi]
   Above you is a still, clear sky.  Waves from the ocean lap gently onto the white sand of the beach.  The ocean stretches off unbounded to the horizon.  There is a small region of shallows and tidal pools here, after which the depth of the ocean drops off rather sharply.  Northward and westward is the ocean surface.  Southward and eastward is the island's fishing village.  A pair of small docks extend into the bay here, connecting at the end with a perpendicular dock, in a sort of double-T.  A house is on either side of the docks.  A granite building, fairly low to the ground, is further up the beach here.  It is obviously a smithy. Waves of heat emenate from a chimney, and an oak plank above the door bears a picture of a katana.  There is no path or road, but the villagers keep the ground fairly free of rocks and overgrowth. 
Obvious exits are north, south, east, west, up, in, eastin and westin.  A couple of tan-skinned male human fishermen, a yellowish-skinned male human fisherman, a black female dog, an elderly brown-skinned male human and a yellowish-skinned female human child are here.
You fall painfully to the ground.
You recover from being stunned.

Pouch of gems for you. Moneys.

Healer

Heals you of wounds at the minimum, potentially other stuff..

Hierophant

imho the best card to get. Permanent boost to a random number of skill by a random ammount. (I've had chars with 'trancendental' level skills with htis card, could have been a bug tho.)

Hoard

--Remembrance: random items.

Horde

A bunch of mobs appear. Some may actually befriend you, some will attack you.

Idiot

--Remembrance: permanent negative Intelligence. Doh. (also steals talents)

Jester
Juggler

--Remembrance: switches your handedness.

Knight

Summons a Knight Templar. May be friend or foe. I think it's based on your current alignment, but that's a guess.

You draw the Knight card from the deck of changes.
A Knight Templar of Cianna appears.
The Knight Templar of Cianna exclaims, "Die, evil one!"
The Knight Templar of Cianna attacks you.

Lens

--90% sure: a bunch of lenses of insight and one lens of changes appear. See below for the lens of changes.

Leper

--Remembrance: You get diseased. Nurgle's Rot, if I recall correctly.

Lion
Menagerie

another random horde .. all angry with ya !

Moon

Nova

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

You draw the Nova card from the deck of changes.
A fiery explosion envelops the room!
A beelzebug is smashed violently, and it is slightly staggered by the attack.
A beelzebug's right wing is seared into uselessness.
A beelzebug's left wing is seared into uselessness.
A beelzebug has been stunned.
A beelzebug catches fire.
A beelzebug is pummelled, and it is slightly staggered by the attack.
A beelzebug has been stunned.
A beelzebug catches fire.
The apagion's glow is smashed violently, though it is largely unaffected by the attack.
The apagion catches fire.
You are pummelled, though you resist the attack slightly.
Your right wing is seared into uselessness.
Your left wing is seared into uselessness.
You have been stunned by the pain and trauma.
You have been blinded.
The world goes silent.
You catch fire.

Peasant
Rainbow

--Possibly: changes your item's colors.

Rebis

Changes your sex.

Rogue
Ruin

--Remembrance: your stuff is destroyed

Shield

--You are protected by some shield-like aura. Not sure what it does.

Skull

--A death appears. You have to kill it. It will teleport to you if you flee.

Star
Sun

Plus one level in XP.

You draw the Sun card from the deck of changes.
You feel a rush of power.
> xp
You currently have 5,580,000 experience, requiring a further 0 experience to  attain the next level.

Talon

--All your items are stripped from you.

Throne
Void

--Welcome to Spiritual disjunction: population, you. Lasts quite awhile.

Wolf

Lens of changes

This item lets you look at the top card and know what it is (so a safe draw, potentially). Really, really rare. Don't give these to Eris!

Mechanics of the deck

Commands that can be used with the deck of changes are 'cut deck', 'draw card', and 'choose <number> (to choose the number of cards you will draw, from 1 to 7). Choose carefully, because you will not be able to draw from the deck of changes again for one day.

If you leave the room (some cards will make you...) you forfeit all other draws.

End of spoiler information.

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 Locks you up.  You can beg for folks to come find you in the Exoma and free you.
 * Eye
+Permanent boost to int (do show attribute development) and possible talent !
 * Flame
 It BURNS, IT BURNS!  You (and anyone else around) is set on fire.
 --90% sure I got this yesterday... -1 level (and at minimum of that level) in XP.  Ouch.
 * Gambler
+'a voice intones, you must draw three more ...', well there ya go .. heh!
 * Gateway
 Ports you somewhere randomly.  Also drops your things beforehand, making it kinda interesting =D
 Heals you of wounds at the minimum, potentially other stuff..
 * Hierophant
+imho the best card to get. Permanent boost to a random number of skill by a random ammount. (I've had chars with 'trancendental' level skills with htis card, could have been a bug tho.)
 * Hoard
 --Remembrance: random items.
 A bunch of mobs appear.  Some may actually befriend you, some will attack you.
 * Idiot
---Remembrance: permanent negative Intelligence. Doh.
+--Remembrance: permanent negative Intelligence. Doh. (also steals talents)
 * Jester
 * Juggler
 * Lion
 * Menagerie
+another random horde .. all angry with ya !
 * Moon