The deck
THE MASK
A role built to be seen while hiding the face.
THE TRICKSTER
Belief is infrastructure. Somebody is going to exploit it.
THE FALSE KING
Authority survives even when identity does not.
THE FOOL
Prestige dies; the proposition may survive.
THE SLAIN HERO
The heroic role arrives already damaged.
THE LOST CHILD
Somebody is learning the available ways to become a person.
THE FIXER
A job description becomes a metaphysics.
THE WITNESS
The evidence is real. The archive may not be.
THE OUTSIDER
The rules become visible from the edge.
THE IMPOSTOR
The copy is not the original. It still works.
THE ELECTRONIC LOVER
Intimacy has acquired an interface.
THE MONSTER
The category “human” begins to fail.
THE ARTIST
Genius, worker, saint, fraud, hostage, salesman.
THE DEMON BREEDER
Borrow cosmic pressure; distrust the authority it brings.
YOU
The work has assigned you a job.