The title card of the deck is a card like any other. You leave it in the deck when doing a reading. (Years later, I found the same practice in the game of Zarcana.) The labyrinth is generated by the usual algorithm.
There really are four pencils.
Ooh, a partially-erased face shows up in the scanning.
I like the Evil Eyebrows.
The device of my teenage dreams: the Disk Zorcher, an absolutely perfect floppy duplicator. No copy-protection can foil hardware that replicates the magnetic pattern bit-by-bit! (The folly of youth. And an interesting contrast of attitude. These days I write software for a living, and the idea of piracy makes me furious.) The labels read "Zorcher", "Go", "Original", "Blank".
The label is nonsense, sorry.
"S.S..." (for Sadistic Software)
"Penqueriel"
Of course, the only kind of armor a Redundan could wear.
This is before Macintosh. I lusted after a tablet as the perfect input device, not a mouse. (Note that the tablet is actually a flat-panel display as well. I'm still waiting for that development.)
A Redundan throne can't have a solid back.
Very definitely an Apple tied up in string. And the correct kind of floppy drives.
The first card I drew! (As you can tell by the erase lines.)
Such a great "action shot".
Knaves wear black cloaks, although this one is split high to allow for the tail. Knaves also attack people from behind. Those are frisbees that the Redundan is trying to defend himself with.
My perspective needed work.
People keep calling this one the "Two of Feathers". Sigh.
Rotating propellor beanies!
The scimitar is straight out of Martin Gardner's Aha puzzle book. It's a good thing it's not in a sheath, because it could never be drawn out! (I wish I remembered what the symbol on the knight's silly helmet meant.)
Black cloak and he's twirling his moustache. Couldn't be more evil.
The crown of the King of Silly Hats is the silliest crown one could possibly imagine. I put ankhs on it, for some reason.
Monorail station.
All five species, including the rarely-seen Snudlian-2.
Anyone can see the throne is pentagonal. But did you notice that the the portrait shows five people?
"Protractors" is a slight pun; each suit contains a "ruler", after all... I didn't go so far as to put the Ruler of Protractors in the deck.
Piers Anthony's tarot had a blank "ghost" card; I could do no less.
Sort of the opposite of the Blank.
All of the display screens are from Sundog, an old Apple starship-trading-and-fighting game. Very fine game.
The Roman numeral XXIV (24) is meant to imply an ordering of the Uncarrot trumps. Of course, there is no such ordering, and only the Card and the Misprint have numerals. The darkening, spiralling effect is from Hofstadter's comments in GEB about pointing a camera at its own monitor.
From Ann Maxwell's Fire Dancer.
I never did figure out how to draw flames well.
No comment necessary. Except for the robotic Mascot. Oh, and I think he's holding a Sonic Toothbrush.
The badge says "ARML", for Atlantic Regional Math League, a math competition that I competed in back then. Above it is a round badge showing the outline of a hypercube. The five Platonic solids are (badly) drawn on the chalkboard; but I have entirely forgotten the significance of the symbols on the clock.
The legs of the Rider-Waite Hanged Man form a cross. The tentacles of this Redundan form part of a pentagram. (Well, I thought it was clever at the time.)
Here is the text of this card.
I love marble machines. If I ever build a house, it will have a marble machine strung all through it.
This is a Praser Maze, as you can tell from the hedges and teleporters and gates.
See, the cardstock got folded in the printing press...
He wears a pickle in a pickle-holster, his garments have many pockets, and he's got the Corellian Pinstripe on his pants. I don't know what this means, but I have some vague memory that this card was originally titled the Pickle-Master. ("Blong!") The background is architecture from the study rooms of the Shadek-Fackenthal library of Franklin and Marshall College, PA. (The study rooms have since been remodelled and converted to offices. I am sad.)
I never quite knew whether this was the Pickle, a major arcanum, or just the Ace of Pickles.
Voltornion, seen from space. Most of the planet should be dark, given the angle of the sun, but so what?
I seem to have erased part of the body and forgot to redraw the floor stripe. The stripe is probably part of some puzzle. This is the Znutar's Robot, but "buzz, whirrrr" is the sound made by the robot in Zork 2.
Probably a reference to Ann Maxwell's Fire Dancer, although I recently re-read Sylvia Louise Engdahl's This Star Shall Abide, which I was also familiar with when I drew this.
A not completely terrible anatomical drawing from the Sime/Gen novels, by Lorrah and Lichtenberg.