2012 DW Convention ~ Cripple Mr. Onion Card School
- Thread starter Jan Van Quirm
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Jan Van Quirm said:
I know these don't look too different to normal cards but if you look carefully at the Kings especially you'll see that there are clues to places on the Disc (or associated with places anyway). 
Subtle or what? 
In fact so subtle it went completely over my head.
Is the king of clubs meant to be Klatch, the King of spades AM, the king of hearts Howonderland and the king of diamonds somewhere where they hit each other with those horns that go "parp"?
They do look good though.
Look at the orbs and the swords/weapons and what they might represent
Some clues
Spades are associated with power/nobility and life/death (think veggies)
Pirates are also associated with Louisiana (New Orleans) as well as the Caribbean (also veggie, but not as realistic apart from the colour)
Hearts - all you need? Or myths and ship launching perhaps? (more veggies, but seasonal)
Diamonds - niche market forces and supply and demand (no veg but a decidedly short shelf life)
Some clues
Spades are associated with power/nobility and life/death (think veggies)
Pirates are also associated with Louisiana (New Orleans) as well as the Caribbean (also veggie, but not as realistic apart from the colour)
Hearts - all you need? Or myths and ship launching perhaps? (more veggies, but seasonal)
Diamonds - niche market forces and supply and demand (no veg but a decidedly short shelf life)
Obviously Meerkat and I are on a different plane here
Spades - It's a cabbage (a round white one) - Sto Plains and well known associations... The sword is roughly a cavalry sabre for the Hublander conquerors of Sto Lat
Hearts - pomegranate/apple & love etc - that's more a 'spear' than sword
Clubs is supposed to be a small pumpkin (granted it's a very round stylised one) and the sword's a cutlass type for mulatto piratical types with voodoo/soul food and music leanings
Diamonds - yes moneybags and that might be a bottle of some kind of merchantable liquor to sweeten the deal or alternatively something to see off a business rival 8)
Spades - It's a cabbage (a round white one) - Sto Plains and well known associations... The sword is roughly a cavalry sabre for the Hublander conquerors of Sto Lat
Hearts - pomegranate/apple & love etc - that's more a 'spear' than sword
Clubs is supposed to be a small pumpkin (granted it's a very round stylised one) and the sword's a cutlass type for mulatto piratical types with voodoo/soul food and music leanings
Diamonds - yes moneybags and that might be a bottle of some kind of merchantable liquor to sweeten the deal or alternatively something to see off a business rival 8)
poohcarrot said:
Excuse me for still being particularly dense today, but are those the answers, or more clues?
Jan Van Quirm said:
Look at the orbs and the swords/weapons and what they might represent
Some clues
Spades are associated with power/nobility and life/death (think veggies)
Pirates are also associated with Louisiana (New Orleans) as well as the Caribbean (also veggie, but not as realistic apart from the colour)
Hearts - all you need? Or myths and ship launching perhaps? (more veggies, but seasonal)
Diamonds - niche market forces and supply and demand (no veg but a decidedly short shelf life)
Some clues
Spades are associated with power/nobility and life/death (think veggies)
Pirates are also associated with Louisiana (New Orleans) as well as the Caribbean (also veggie, but not as realistic apart from the colour)
Hearts - all you need? Or myths and ship launching perhaps? (more veggies, but seasonal)
Diamonds - niche market forces and supply and demand (no veg but a decidedly short shelf life)
Jan Van Quirm said:
Obviously Meerkat and I are on a different plane here
Spades - It's a cabbage (a round white one) - Sto Plains and well known associations... The sword is roughly a cavalry sabre for the Hublander conquerors of Sto Lat
Hearts - pomegranate/apple & love etc - that's more a 'spear' than sword
Clubs is supposed to be a small pumpkin (granted it's a very round stylised one) and the sword's a cutlass type for mulatto piratical types with voodoo/soul food and music leanings
Diamonds - yes moneybags and that might be a bottle of some kind of merchantable liquor to sweeten the deal or alternatively something to see off a business rival 8)
Spades - It's a cabbage (a round white one) - Sto Plains and well known associations... The sword is roughly a cavalry sabre for the Hublander conquerors of Sto Lat
Hearts - pomegranate/apple & love etc - that's more a 'spear' than sword
Clubs is supposed to be a small pumpkin (granted it's a very round stylised one) and the sword's a cutlass type for mulatto piratical types with voodoo/soul food and music leanings
Diamonds - yes moneybags and that might be a bottle of some kind of merchantable liquor to sweeten the deal or alternatively something to see off a business rival 8)
Or did I get, as always, the wrong end of the stick?
They're answers more or less
Nah, the word we're looking for is hubris.
Not really. I know what I put there and meerkat's been talking to me about the Caroc side of it, so she knows the way I'm thinking and the significance of the suits that follows trad Roundworld symbology.
PS - am taking a sample deck with me to Rotterdam to show my Monk's of Cool event organiser contact who's also doing the Rotterdam registrations
Quatermass said:
poohcarrot said:
Both complete stonebonkers more like.
PS - am taking a sample deck with me to Rotterdam to show my Monk's of Cool event organiser contact who's also doing the Rotterdam registrations
And a little update for this after the weekend. I met Eelco, one of the Monks of Cool in Rotterdam and he's very upbeat about there being space for us to have use of one of the small function rooms for a 'gambling den' come Temple to the Lady at the convention, although I think it'll be on a share basis with other groups/activities. However, with Thud and the other board games mushrooming up now, I don't think that there's going to be a problem with staging it somehow throughout the convention.
What that will amount to is having people around to look after the table(s) where convenient and it'd be up to us to run things and how it's themed etc with the committee really there just to give us house space. So - we've got a Cripple Mr. Onion workshop/card school event to host at Birmingham and forum volunteers to help will be appreciated.
Meerkat's been working on the Caroc for me so that's the next batch of 'artwork' to delegate to our artists - how's all that going chaps?
What that will amount to is having people around to look after the table(s) where convenient and it'd be up to us to run things and how it's themed etc with the committee really there just to give us house space. So - we've got a Cripple Mr. Onion workshop/card school event to host at Birmingham and forum volunteers to help will be appreciated.
Meerkat's been working on the Caroc for me so that's the next batch of 'artwork' to delegate to our artists - how's all that going chaps?
