A few months ago I posted a report about the first skirmish in my minifig questing game, "Legendorama". ( @hirohurl/legendorama-6-sir-richard-and-the-5-brigands )
The skirmish ended in complete victory for Sir Richard Radclyffe and his men and the two surviving bandits surrendered.
What to Do with the Prisoners?
As Sir Richard returned to his camp he mulled over what to do with the two captives. They were clearly not noblemen and so it was unlikely that they could be ransomed. To kill them in cold blood or torture them for his sport was not in the nature of our chivalrous knight. To keep them prisoner would lay an additional burden on the venture and peradventure cause it to fail.
I decided to look into the state of Sir Richard's mind, and to find out more about the character of the two prisoners by consulting the tarot...
First I did a tarot spread for Sir Richard.
Here is the scene of the consultation.Sir Richard is the knight on the white horse, flanked by his trusty servants, Squire Patrick Forse on the black horse, and Gilbert the Yeoman on the chestnut charger.
The prisoners have their hands raised and are being guarded by Christopher the cook and Peter the servant, with young Perkyn the page looking on.
What the Tarot Reveals about Sir Richard
The spread for Sir Richard is very revealing! His underlying temperance is now informed by a need to judge the situation wisely; he sees the situation as having come from a place of material want, whether that is his own sense of (relative) poverty that has driven him out upon his quest, or the poverty of the bandits that drove them to confront his party. He sees the immediate future as one of his having to bear the burden of his decision and actions in relation to the bandits.
He is aware that he must deal with the situation as a “King of Swords,” that is both a martial lord and a wise ruler in the tradition of David.
Sir Richard feels that he has been foolhardy in sallying forth on his quest and certainly risks looking like a fool if it fails. He was driven to seek new lands, and his questing spirit is seen in the 8 of Chalices as he and his party move into an unknown land, but right now they have been confronted by a reversal in spite of their victory in the skirmish. Sir Richard fears that the new situation that has brought them to a halt may keep them stuck with a distracting problem overturning his knightly plans to cultivate the land into which he is moving.
In spite of Sir Richard’s fears and self-criticisms, or perhaps because of the hermetic humilty that informs them, the outcome, in which Sir Richard works with temperance and good judgement and bears his responsibilities with dignity, will be to his and everybody’s satisfaction, at least in the short term...
In my next post I will look into the respective characters of the two minifig bandits!