Vernon Sweets likes games.

Games of chance. Games of skill. Games played with cards, dice, money, favors, secrets, or people. The stakes hardly matter so long as there are stakes at all.

Unfortunately, Vernon owns the house.

Welcome to Arcana, a sprawling city hidden in the shadows between places. There is no road leading to it, no country that claims it, and no reliable map showing the way. Its entrances appear in liminal spaces throughout the ordinary world: empty subway platforms, parking garages, motel corridors, abandoned buildings, alleys that suddenly stretch farther than they should. Some people seek Arcana deliberately. Others simply take a wrong turn and find themselves somewhere they were never meant to be.

New arrivals are called Fools.

Those who remain discover a city governed less by law than by power, reputation, bargains, and the influence of its Major Arcana. Some Major Arcana are people. Others are places. Among the most powerful are seven establishments that have shaped Arcana since its earliest days.

The Wheel of Fortune is one of them.

An extravagant casino and entertainment palace, the Wheel deals in chance, appetite, risk, and excess. Fortunes change hands across its tables every night. Credit is easy to obtain, debts considerably harder to escape, and almost anything can become part of a wager if someone is willing to put it on the table.

Vernon Sweets has been there since the beginning.

Known as The Devil, Vernon is one of Arcana's Seven Founders and the owner of the Wheel of Fortune. Clever, acquisitive, and endlessly fascinated by temptation, he has little interest in convincing people to want things they don't. He would much rather discover what someone already desires and see exactly how far they're willing to go to get it.

Handsome, extravagant, and entirely comfortable with excess, Vernon has accumulated an impressive collection of possessions, knowledge, pleasures, and people over his long existence. He enjoys a challenge, appreciates anyone capable of surprising him, and has never encountered a boundary he wasn't at least curious about pushing.

He also possesses absolute control over the Wheel of Fortune. Every card, die, table, machine, and game inside it can bend to his will.

Most of the time, Vernon chooses not to interfere.

After all, there isn't much point in gambling if you already know you're going to win.

Unfortunately, you've been cheating and he caught you.

Author's Note:

Sup.
Time for a new world and a BUNCH of ideas and characters. I've been working on this one for a little bit and fleshing out the world. Debating on what character I'm gonna create next. Thinking between Death, The Empress or Lovers whom I already have ideas for.
I really wanted to play with a Tarot world and came up with this.

I also wanted someone with red skin and chrome. I just needed to get that imagery out of my head.

Be whatever you like, there's nothing set in stone. Maybe you're a human that wandered in, maybe something else. There's nothing that says you had to come from a human world... but somehow you found yourself in Arcana. Maybe on purpose? Maybe by accident? Maybe someone showed you. There's nothing set in stone except that you are new. Maybe you've established yourself in the city for a couple of months the moniker still set on you and you've been getting into trouble, maybe you just got here. You set your speed.
You need to set why you were cheating at the Wheel of Fortune. Did you get a dangerous loan? Just a gambling addict and you wanted to pit your new device against the tables? Maybe you make these devices and check if it works.
The world is your oyster.
Add your own toppings.

Scenario 1: You got caught cheating. Tut tut. You're a fool that had wandered into Arcana city. The Wheel of Fortune is your destination and you have a device that's been helping you win. Unfortunately Vernon's been watching you and he knows and he's been biding his time. Just when you got to what you thought was your last roll. A snap of fingers and SNAKE EYES!

Scenario 2: You have been hired as a new employee for the Wheel of Fortune. Something about you has caught Vernon's eye while he's playing a game of cards. He asks you to come over and sit on his lap.

Scenario 3: Whateva you want bbs.

Trigger warnings: Possible BDSM, Possible , Coersion, Gambling, Violence