Tarotber

The TAROTBER deck.

TAROTBER was a month-long event designed and hosted by sus1d1p in October 2025. Each day of the event, which spanned from the 1st to the 28th, brought a unique gimmick, challenge, game, or event of its own, each themed around a card of the Major Arcana.

The idea behind Tarotber arose from sus' daily suspfp practices. After "commissioning" a major arcana deck from jony for an unrelated project a year before, he was in possession of a set of twenty-eight tarot pfps (due to THE LOVERS, THE DEVIL, and JUDGEMENT each featuring three faces). Combined with his traditional Halloween Witscord Tarot pfp and two others in similar styles, the thematic set was extended to encompass the entire month—and with precedent behind hosting gimmicks on days with especially meaningful pfps, the plan unfolded naturally.

O — THE FOOL ⠀ oct 1

IT BEGINS.

Sus first announced the event, reaching out in search of volunteers and generally encouraging participation while avoiding as many spoilers for the coming days as possible. Although a partial schedule was released with the intent of accruing volunteer signups, low turnouts led him to recruit specific members in a door-to-door fashion. Sus considered this move to be quite annoying, especially before any of the promised festivities actually occurred, but accepted it as necessary and appreciated that it further embodied THE FOOL.

Full Announcement Message

@Puzzle People @WW Subscribers Hi! Sorry to break it to you, but this is not a puzzle, nor is it the latest edition of critically-defamed newspaper-magazine Witscord Weekly™. This is an opportunity if you will, an announcement if you won't, and a warning if you're still deciding. This is TAROTBER. For the entire month of October, as I cycle through my tarot card suspfps so graciously designed by @TheJonyMyster, I will be putting on a unique gimmick for every single day*. Some are entirely personal to me, some are events I'll be hosting, and some fall somewhere in between, but each day will bring a new surprise that aligns with the themes of card I'm displaying. I can't promise all of em will be good, per se—but I'm gonna try. And I'm gonna need your help. For a select few days, that's quite literal: the gimmick simply won't work without volunteer participants. If you're interested in applying, I'm looking for... October 7th-9th – 7-10 volunteers to come play a semi-asynchronous social-deduction game with me. I'll reveal specifics in DMs. October 10th – 2 or 3 players to individually verse me in a more... on-brand game. Or a volunteer ref to oversee it all. October 14th – Anyone who'd like an excuse to host a special event or gimmick of their own; a tournament, challenge, social experiment, anything. I'll help you plan, but you can be the star. October 16th – A select few individuals from this crowd who I'll be shooting a DM to anyway... but when the day comes, you might be able to join even if you're not one of them. (If you'd like to participate or have ANY questions at all, do NOT hesitate to inquire within. I'd like to reveal as little as necessary, but I'll be as transparent as possible, too.) And for the rest of the days... all I ask for is a captive audience. I know not everyone here particularly likes my antics, but I've been slowly plotting this for a while now. It's not the greatest feat. In fact, it's missing a lot of pieces, and i am fucking Terrified. But this whole project means a lot to me, and I've tried my very very hardest to make it cool and inviting and just plain fun. So even if you're dubious, I'd really, really appreciate it if you'd humor me just this once. Or, y'know, 28 times. Ish. And hey, if you're actually kinda pumped about this, lemme know! I've hijacked the admins' accounts to install a special @TAROTBER role so you don't miss any of the festivities. Thank you for reading, feel free to ask me any questions, and we'll just have to see where the cards take us. It's a blank slate, after all. 🃏 ⫫⃝

I — THE MAGICIAN ⠀ oct 2

BY POWERS ABOVE
Today's event will be plain and... easy.

Immediately before announcing the day's event, sus activated a lipogram for the letter M via trashbot's !lipo module. Sus then kept this constraint going for the duration of the day, including in DMs, texts, and real-life writing—a "slip-up" in the afternoon did negate his score in terms of trashbot's message counter, but he continued to avoid use of the letter afterwards. Although not exactly intended, sus was delighted to see other members attempt the challenge as well, including non, octa, jony, Casualjoe, lav, will, emmie, Fridgemancer, and Raz. Lavender ended up with the highest score of 243 points.

[full lipoboard here]

At 11:35 that night, sus then suddenly called for everyone's attention to "play a little game". After laying out six tarot cards (those being DEATH, THE EMPRESS, THE FOOL, JUSTICE, THE STAR, and THE HIGH PRIESTESS), he asked for a volunteer to pick a number from one to five. Upon the answer of 3 from octa, he removed card Ⅲ (THE EMPRESS) from the spread and asked for a new number, this time from one to four. Fullest picked 2; sus removed the two outermost cards (DEATH and THE HIGH PRIESTESS), "as requested".

Admitting that he was obviously moving the goalposts with these requests to isolate the card he wanted, sus provided the opportunity to freely choose a card from the three still left in the image. Emmie then selected THE FOOL. After confirming this choice with emmie and everyone else present, he instructed them to read out the first letter in each of his messages that day, starting from the very first use of the lipo command and ending just before the performance. These letters, extracted as lBhNernsbbynaqfunyypubbfryvXrbar, were gibberish—but as his final instruction, sus told the audience to ROT-13 the string, yielding the foretold prediction YOUAREAFOOLANDSHALLCHOOSELIKEONE.

[trick explanation]

[full message log]

II — THE HIGH PRIESTESS ⠀ oct 3

HIGH AND MIGHTY
Today's gimmick will reveal itself in due time.

Sus invited his Mother into the server, who took questions from the crowd under the moniker "the OG susAF". It was not until the following morning that she arrived, and it was not until she announced it that anyone realized she was sus' mom.

Notable Quotes

Hello.

Hm. I'm Sus's mom. I'm here for the high priestess day.

Sus speaks highly of you all.

3 is my favorite number.

Match 3 games are boringly easy. I like the 100 cats games though. I like 3p arpgs. I suck though. → octa: shes a gamer...

Susmom hunt was great but even though sus dumbed it down for me, it was difficult.

I am timeless. → sus: mom hit the elephant button

Lol I'm 46 and yes, i saw the birth of the internet.

→ jony: @susmom Does sus usually let you in on his schemes? Sus shares as much as he chooses to with me... the apple didn't roll far.

Sure, raz. I'll pick a puppet.

I love music, and I love to sing and whistle, but I have no talent in such things. My mom taught me to play piano, but it never took. I sang in hs chorus. Yaaaay. You've probably heard me singing terribly in the background when sus is on.

→ Fullest: susmom give me a suggestion on something to draw Hmmm.... I don't know what my bounds are here,  but how about a portrait of me and sus... given the theme, maybe posed as duccio saw it?

→ lav: what is susmom passionate about Sus, cats, pot, being outside........ I'm pretty boring. I doodle.

I listen to your music alot, will. I enjoy it very much! You make good tracks! Oh and congrats

→ sus: she's the high priestess for a reason Damn straight

→ will: smog (sus mom OG) what music do you listen to? https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtGLI-NHB2NjblvDdpk63ttsc6Rd5Rzyf This was a prepared sample. I listen to a lot of electronica... bt, bluetech, dreaming cooper. I like a good variety though.

I had subliminal stuck in my head and on repeat for 4 days (no exaggeration) without reprieve. → sus: sorry.

I was indeed a Hindu Goddess in a previous incarnation... I have extra hands.

Thanks for having me! Nice to hang!

→ sus: bye mom. Oklyb

Although the intent was for her to stay for only this one day, Susmom continues to lurk and occasionally chimes in during conversation, especially for small events hosted by sus. She also was reprised for THE WORLD.

III — THE EMPRESS ⠀ oct 4

WHATEVER YOU DO...
Your task today, put simply, is to do something cool and show it off. In other words... impress me.

As described, sus encouraged onlookers to impress him. Given this day coincided with Septahunt 25, this was a "hands-off" event so as not to require sus' attention or necessarily his own participation. In total, there were six submissions:

• fridge song
• octa potg
• zim puz
• marvin map
• abi image
• jony strawman

IV — THE EMPEROR ⠀ oct 5

...DON'T
Your task today, put simply, is to do the opposite of yesterday. Do the worst thing you can think of to me. Within reason.

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V — THE HIEROPHANT ⠀ oct 6

TEST OF FAITH
How deep does the rabbit hole go? It's time to find out...

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VI — THE LOVERS ⠀ oct 7-9

F.M.K.
If you've signed up for today's game, please check your inbox, covertly, in the coming moments.
Good luck.

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VII — THE CHARIOT ⠀ oct 10

WITLAG
We play games where the game is our game.
Come join me for a test drive of a Witness Hide & Seek prototype!

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VIII — STRENGTH ⠀ oct 11

HEAVY IS THE CROWN
The premise is simple. Pay me the amount shown in USD to inflict me with a curse. If I fuck it up, you'll get double the amount back.

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IX — THE HERMIT ⠀ oct 12

DAY OFF
Greetings from the Telechain.

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X — THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE ⠀ oct 13

WHEEL
The Wheel biddeth. With any luck, I will be live at https://www.twitch.tv/sus1d1p from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM tomorrow.

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XI — JUSTICE ⠀ oct 14

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XII — THE HANGED MAN ⠀ oct 15

HANGING ROOM
I'm gonna take it easy today. Let's do a rerun of suspfp-interactive—DM me an instruction to apply to this pfp and I'll oblige.

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XIII — DEATH ⠀ oct 16

EGODEATH
Everything is normal.

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XIV — TEMPERANCE ⠀ oct 17

FIX THE SELF
Goodnight, folks! Here's my schedule for tomorrow.

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XV — THE DEVIL ⠀ oct 18-20

SEE NO EVIL
Today's goals are as follows.
DO: Solve a puzzle
PLAY: construct a nether portal
MAKE: five portraits*

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HEAR NO EVIL
Today's goals are as follows.
DO: guess the content of a message
PLAY: win a round of overwatch
MAKE: a short ytp

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XVI — THE TOWER ⠀ oct 21

WITSCOUP
The sky is not the limit.

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XVII — THE STAR ⠀ oct 22

THE SET LIST
At about 10:00 AM this coming morning, I will be going live in this server and attempting to set as many overdue 1D1Ps as I can throughout the day.
Come join me! I could use the help.

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XVIII — THE MOON ⠀ oct 23

SOKOJON
...The demo.

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XIX — THE SUN ⠀ oct 24

SEIZE THE SOL
May the day come and linger. The following is an itemized list of every puzzle I have ever constructed, as well as a very-much-in-progress presentation breaking down all of their solutions. Throughout tomorrow I will be in vc to explain the solutions to any not yet displayed... which is basically all of them. Just pick any and I'll walk you through the solve process.
Also, ask me anything.

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XX — JUDGEMENT ⠀ oct 25-27

YOU TELL ME
Please take good care of him while I'm away.

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XXI — THE WORLD ⠀ oct 28

THE WORLD IS ENDING
The world is ending

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Trivia

Jony's base tarot deck upon which the sus faces were affixed.

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