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    Adam Bolander Senior Member

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    Card Pictures?

    Discussion in 'Plot Development' started by Adam Bolander, Oct 31, 2020.

    In my book, everything is done with magic cards. These cards all need to have pictures of what they do. Most are easy (a card with a sword creates a sword, a card with a fireball lets you hurl a fireball) but others are more...abstract. Like, a card picturing a running man gives you speed, and one that has a person cloaked in shadow makes people ignore you.

    One in particular is giving me trouble: a card that heightens your sight and hearing. At first it just had a pair of eyes since I only wanted it to affect his sight, but now that I need it to affect his hearing too I can't think of what to put on it. A pair of eyes and a pair of ears would make for a silly looking card, and a hawk or falcon would be confusing when there are other cards that can summon living creatures. Any ideas?
     
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    An owl. Just the head, not the whole body, which would differentiate it from actually summoning an owl. I can think of no other creature more renowned for both sight and hearing.

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    Musical notes?
     
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    Egyptian Scribes: Am I a joke to you?
     
  5. LucyAshworth

    LucyAshworth Active Member

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    Could this be a plot point? How vague and nebulous these pictures are? Is there a company trying to standardize the cards into instructional graphic designs?
     
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    Malisky Malkatorean Contributor

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    Wreybies post gave me an idea. Two actually:

    1) Left side of a human face joined with the right side of an owls face, to show that the human takes an owls gifts, or

    2) A human face with a semi-transparent image of an owl's face on top of it. Somewhat like a video dissolve effect, where one image falls and intersects on to another. The human head looks solid, while the owl's head resembles that of a spirit. (I hope I'm making sense).
     
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    Yugi: "I play... The Eye of Horus! This card enhances my senses and enables me to see like a falcon and hear like a bat!"

    Kaiba: "...yeah, I know what it does."
     
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    In a world where trading cards turn into fireballs and swords I think this is a negligible concern
     
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    This all reminds me of the anime Cardcaptors Sakura, is this where you got inspiration from? (I read your piece by the way)
     

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