Driver
Value: 7
Mysteries • Rats • Mirrors • Stone
Meanings: Impetuous, travel, forward motion, speed
Always moving forward. Sometimes there is no other recourse than to simply get away. Escape is often the best option, and the best escape is a quick one. Like a shark, the Driver can never stop moving. She’s always racing ahead, always moving forward, making sudden, abrupt turns down new avenues without warning. They say that it’s not the destination that’s important, it’s the trip. Well, if that’s true, the Driver does it best, because ultimately, she has no destination in mind. It’s never the point. The point is speed, motion, and the ability to change one’s mind from second to second and yet do so fluidly and flawlessly.
The Driver is the defender of the Mysteries family. She protects by enabling others to get away. She carries them to safety. Always moving forward.
Divination: The Driver indicates an upcoming trip. It suggests that speed is important, but most of all it says that one should keep moving forward. Ostensibly, “forward” means toward one’s goal, but there’s an impetuousness to the Driver that suggests—at least sometimes—that the best way to get to where one’s going might not be straight toward it. The Driver moves in quick turns to get around obstacles and befuddle those who try to follow her.
Game Narrative: An NPC takes an important journey. Someone is in a terrible hurry. The impetuous decision that someone makes has huge ramifications for many others.
Joy: The PC moves faster than normal in a crucial moment. An impetuous decision on the PC’s part results in astonishing success.
Despair: An NPC ally makes an impetuous decision that turns out poorly. An NPC foe moves faster than normal. Something the PC wants or needs is a very long distance away.
There is nowhere she cannot go if she is behind the wheel.