Writes Naughty Stories: Anamnesis of The Chariot

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I went ahead and started this this evening, I confess I had not read anything more than the description at itch.io before I began this play-through, so special thanks go to @IsabellaRose for accepting the challenge and prompting me to get something played.

A word about the seemingly cryptic title of this topic. Anamnesis begins with drawing a Major Arcana as a Shadow that represents who you were before your memory loss. I drew The Chariot: discipline, focus, success, progress. If anyone else post an Anamnesis report, please let us know what your Shadow was.

A couple of notes: the game uses a Tarot deck as a randomizer - common enough in the journaling game space - and I own several (although not a Rider-Waite deck). I chose the Tarot of Dreams by Ciro Marchetti because its art is exceptionally evocative for me without straying too far from the traditional symbolism. However, it has extra minor arcana cards called Palaces. I didn't think too much about how that would interact with the game's prompts beyond: 'We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.' and 'It's unlikely to come up anyway.'

The Palace of Coins was my second prompt.

I was happy with what I'd already written though and decided to keep going. The Palace cards are symbolic of home, the current environment or atmosphere - they are where the Minor Arcana Court live according to Marchetti. There are several prompts about what's around you in the first set of prompts so I opted for a more literal interpretation - 'What do you remember of home?' And of course the Major Arcana card I drew to answer that was Death.

Despite the self-inflicted difficulties, I'm very happy with what I've gotten so far. And, should anyone care, I'm writing long hand rather than typing.

Edited 2 hours ago by WritesNaughtyStories