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[NShen]

Considering that the narrators in both the Daisy Hill email and in Myth Obs (who I assume is Marsh-Ayre in both cases) ask for "safe passage," I assume that he's looking for the Path of Passage ...

[ambien]

I would have thought it's the Path of Passage that's needed to escape the mirror (because of all Marsh Ayre's references to "safe passage").

I think one card he definitely has now is the Fool - I think he swapped the World for the Fool in his latest update. He says "you have made a fool of me" to the character who gives him the card. In the game rules, one player makes a fool of the other by giving them the fool card rather than the one they asked for.

[Cabbage]

[veebee]

[Amadeus]

Well, given he now has the fool card he could very well take the Path of the Fool. This is achieved by holding The Fool plus a royal household of the minor arcana i.e. Ace, King, Queen, Knight & Knave.

The Path of the Fool is worth 44 points.
This seems most practical to me.

EDIT: Who's he trying to beat, anyway?

[Cabbage]

[chelec]

[ambien]

[Cabbage]

Please bear with me here.

If he was trying for the path of Passage, then he had five cards and needed one to make the total up to 100. But then he was made a fool of and lost the world card, so now he would need two cards (one to replace the World, and the remaining one to make up the difference to 100).

Does this make sense?

Oops didn't see your post, ambien. Yes, in a nutshell, that's what I was thinking, and I agree, without knowing any of the cards, there are numerous possibilities, though a lot less if the World is unavailable, since the lowest card that would work is the 10 with the five highest cards.

[CCS]

We know that M-A is playing the game and is one card short. We also know that he has been dealt the Fool.

We do not know which cards he currently holds, although it may be possible to deduce some of them from his "writings", and it seems that he was aiming for "Passage", so that should tell us something.

In the game, he either needs to pass the Fool along to someone else or change his strategy to attempt the "Path of the Fool." Those are his only two choices for winning, IMO.

So, we need to try to learn what cards he holds. He seems to be able to communicate through stories, so look for clues in his "messages."

AND, we need to find the last card. I believe he has told us where to look. I'm trying to work out the clues, and I'm focused on the part that begins "The venue ... is hard to conceive."

If we can work out what he's holding, and what the last card is, then we can tell Alice what strategy he should follow.

[Cabbage]

I agree with what you're saying except for the bit about the fool, since looking at chelec's post above, the rules dictate that after a duel, the two duel cards are discarded.



EDIT My mistake

[Amadeus]

[Cabbage]

[ambien]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Do we know for sure the Fool card has come up? In the article he says "you have made a fool of me" but it's a small f.

Did it say somewhere else?