I took the tests I mentioned last time, and they say I'm Hope/Greed, which would make my card the King of Coins: "Your faith in a better future ably equips you to build for it, and even when you fail you can start over with good cheer. With some luck and discernment, you can accumulate great wealth and power, and that is when you must choose. Will you spend what you have in pursuit of that brighter future? Or will you decide the bright future has arrived?"

Doesn't really sound like me, not with the same "Oh very yes" click the Hermit did. [Added 9.45 PM: The Hermit, for the record, is Trump IX.] Does sound like one of the cards I might pick for max_a_mercer, though. So take it with a grain of salt. Or just take it honestly, which I'm not sure I did.

Well, the Paths of Fate results from actual people are in, and here's what they look like:

digitalraven's Virtue is Charity, and his Vice is Pride. His card is the Hanged Man [Trump XII], the same result md_donighal got when I tested my pups: "Wealth, indulgence, the pleasures of the flesh — these are nothing to you compared to the rare nectar of adoration. You can suffer any indignity for a chance to show your quality. Be bold, make no small plans and prepare yourself to endure for others what they cannot. You can survive anything except insignificance."

hooper_x's Virtue is Justice, and his Vice is either Lust or Pride. If it's Pride, his card is the Last Judgment [Trump XX], same as good_or_awesome: "Even before the trumpet of heaven and the gates of hell, you show no doubt. Questioning your judgment is the most perilous thing you can do, far worse than actually being wrong. You must never doubt yourself, any more than you would tolerate the doubt of others." For Lust, it'd be the Seven of Rods: "Raise your weapon against anyone, great or small, who represses you. A life of insurrection is fraught with difficulties, so you must choose carefully. Any time you refrain from striking the oppressor, no matter how overmatched you are, it is a taste of your own defeat. But while flying heedlessly into an ideological battle has rich inner rewards for you, be aware of its more material dangers." Hoop allows as how "Both of those work, atcherly, although I think the latter one is a little awesomer."

lostfactor's Virtue is Justice, and his Vice is Greed. His card is the King of Rods: "The power of the sword is the power to destroy, but the power of the rod is the power to build. It is your power. You long to have more than all you survey, but it will be empty to you unless you deserve it. Labor without ceasing to develop your kingdom, but do so by paying honest due to friends and honest ire to foes. In that way you will rule with a steady hand."

nakedblueninja's Virtue is a three-way tie between Fortitude, Justice and Prudence, but her Vice is unmistakably Wrath. She remarks that, in fact, each of these applies in different situations, depending on the severity of the sin. (Curiously, I managed to peg each of these cards to a significant nova from Aberrant, based on their roleplaying notes.)

Justice and Wrath would point to the King of Swords: "You mete out judgment, stripped bare of any soft garb of mercy. Your nature is to be harsh and stern, doling out second chances only if they are earned, not as a matter of course. While you pride yourself on clear sight because you are unswayed by begging, make sure that you are equally clear when it is necessary to hold punishment back. Your natural tendency towards heavy-handed vengeance can overwhelm your urge for justice." (This card, in my opinion, she shares with Shelby "Caestus Pax" Eisenfaust.) This is how she reacts to the little things, "like people being jerks or minor assaults on my moral code".

Fortitude and Wrath would mean her card is Death [Trump XIII*]: "Locust warrior, crusader, insatiable devourer — you can sustain, indefinitely, a fury that would exhaust weaker creatures in an instant. But your path is a lonesome one, for any who would walk beside Death risk falling into her shadow." (She shares this card with Michael Brandschmidt, "Grimskull" of the Dark Altar, the Might of the Beast.) Those who hurt her loved ones, or come after her with active malice, get this treatment.

Prudence and Wrath would indicate the Five of Coins: "The thoroughness with which you can grind down an enemy, whether the cause be personal, political or philosophical, is breathtaking in its awfulness. Never act rashly — such passion is not you. Instead, make your plan with care, plot each deed with foresight and step by step you can produce total ruin." (And this card, she shares with the Mind of the Beast, Brian "Belial" Petford.) That's how she deals with betrayers: "I do my best to strip them of everything they cherish. Right down to paying some friend of mine to pose as a Jehova's witness [sic] dosed up on snake juice so right after his pitch about god, he throws up on their shoes." (I remarked, on reading that, that she needs to friend thessalian at least as soon as possible. When she added that "Apparently, this is the scariest thing any witnesses I've ever had have ever seen. I think I can understand why", I asked if she knew of any Neilsons in her family tree.)

If anyone else gives enough of a toss, the test is still open to taking.

* All trump numbers belatedly added 9:44 PM.

Welp, I've heard back from three of the four people who took the Paths of Fate quiz. (Seriously, Hoop, if you had too much of a life to take the test or even let me know you didn't have the time, why'd you raise a brother's hopes by asking me to send it to you in the first damn place?) Only one of those three has agreed, however, to let her results be posted, so I'm not going to post any of them just yet. Rather, I'm going to post the results I got from taking it, in character, as each of my three RP pups, with my comments on how it could have gone differently.

good_or_awesome's Virtue (make your own jokes, I'm a busy man) is Prudence (at least, that's what the cards say) and his Vice is Pride. That would make the Queen of Swords his card: "Your place is not wielding the rod of authority, but sitting beside the one who does. Balanced between prudence and pride, you can be a schemer, a usurper or a slave to ruthless ambition. But your better place is as counselor, cautioner and mediator. Accept that your rewards must come from a higher authority, and you will support that authority well. Envy your master, and you can become the most poisonous of traitors."

(Out of the cards within one row/column of that one on the chart* that cross-references Virtue and Vice, his behavior strikes me as more in tune with Trump XX, the Last Judgment, the card of Justice and Pride: "Even before the trumpet of heaven and the gates of hell, you show no doubt. Questioning your judgment is the most perilous thing you can do, far worse than actually being wrong. You must never doubt yourself, any more than you would tolerate the doubt of others.")

last_master's Virtue is Charity, and his Vice, surprisingly, turns out to be Sloth. (Well, Sloth or Greed, but when the two came into direct conflict, Sloth prevailed.) That means his card is the Six of Cups: "You are not one to set forth and strive to change the world, but rather one who is well able to change herself to fit the world as he finds it and — perhaps more importantly — to help others change themselves to be more fit as well. Indeed, your greatest triumphs are likely to be those you achieve through others."

(If it'd been Greed, his card would be Trump IV, the Emperor, so I'm sure he's glad it flipped the other way, despite how that card is described: "For every hundred people who claim that they are gathering funds for their righteous cause, there is one person who is genuinely doing so. You can be that person. When you labor to improve the lot of yourself and others, you are at your strongest. When you are conflicted between helping others and your own comfort or security, you are at your weakest.")

md_donighal's Virtue is also Charity, but his Vice is Pride. His card is Trump XII, the Hanged Man: "Wealth, indulgence, the pleasures of the flesh — these are nothing to you compared to the rare nectar of adoration. You can suffer any indignity for a chance to show your quality. Be bold, make no small plans and prepare yourself to endure for others what they cannot. You can survive anything except insignificance."

(That works, arguably, but I also think he fits, perhaps a little better, with Trump XIX, the Sun, the card of Faith and Pride: "The glory of the cause is your glory — whatever cause you choose. You have the heart of a true believer, but you will never be content to labor in humble obscurity. Be the paragon of your creed, or your soul will starve. Be a saint or a great sinner, but never permit yourself to be eclipsed.")

* On p.89 of the Ordo Dracul covenant-book.
** Edited September 14 to add trump numbers.

Remember this post from over a year ago, when I polled people on their Virtues and Vices in Storytelling System terms?

Since that time, we've been gifted with an invaluable tool for that sort of thing: the Fate Cards described in the Ordo Dracul covenantbook. The description of the personality type they call the Hermit, for instance, is me to a T (for Temperance and Sloth, as it happens). Curiously, when I took the "Paths of Fate" test described in the book, I came out as the Temperance card (Temperance and Pride). Even more curiously, this is within the possible margin of error for dice rolls that simulate the effects of the test (since Sloth is one row down from Pride on their cross-reference table).

Anyone who wants to take this test and doesn't have the Ordo covbook, please contact me with an email address so I can administer it in all its Ultima-esque glory. (I'll be subjecting my pups — good_or_awesome, last_master and md_donighal — to it whether they want to take it or not, and the results of that should be interesting to say the least. (Particularly where Obi-Wan is concerned.)