Trickster: The Fool's Wager

Everyone at this table has made a promiseCandles. A worn tarot deck. Five faces you can't quite read, and one you're working very hard to keep still.Before a single card falls, every player says out loud what they believe is going to happen. The rest of the night is spent finding out who was lying — to the table, or to themselves.Confidence is the currency hereSpend it too freely and you'll be paying it back for the rest of the evening. Hold onto it too tightly and you'll watch someone bolder walk off with everything.The safest promise is always the hardest one to keep.There is a card in this deck you'll learn to fearIt answers to no suit. It bows to nothing. It can end a hand with a flick of the wrist — and it sits just as comfortably in someone else's hand as in yours.Pull up a chairFriends scattered across the world, a room full of