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The Tarot Reader, generally referred to as the Reader, is an entity in Blaseball that up until Season 19 had been delivering the seasonal Tarot Readings at Earlsiesta. They first appeared in Season 12, and were first identified as "the Reader" in Season 17.

History of Appearances

Season 12

Reader first appeared in Season 12 Earlsiesta to give the first Seasonal Reading.

I The Magician

XII The Hanged Man

XIIII Temperance

• OVER UNDER UNDER OVER
  • I

    ✨

    The Magician
    XII

    🌞

    The Hanged Man
    XIIII

    🔥

    Temperance

This Reading was entitled OVER UNDER UNDER OVER. Reader gave no commentary on this Reading, but delivered the Over Under modification to Curry Aliciakeyes (at the time on the Magic) and the Under Over modification to Kennedy Rogers (at the time on the Firefighters.)

Season 13

II The High Priestess

XV The Devil

XX Judgment

• GOING UNDER GETTING OVER
  • II

    🏝️

    The High Priestess
    XV

    🐅

    The Devil
    XX

    💋

    Judgment
• FRIDAYS GOING UNDER
  • +  Sinking ShipThis Team plays 1% worse for every Player above 14 Players on their roster, and 1% better for every Player below 14 on their roster.
• LOVERS GETTING OVER
  • +  Base DealingThis Team's lineup will advance in reverse order.

This reading was entitled GOING UNDER GETTING OVER, and came with no other commentary. The Fridays and Lovers received modifications Sinking Ship and Base Dealing respectively, and the Lovers' Lineup was "optimized".

Season 14

XI Strength

Fool

III The Empress

• WYATT MASON, OVER
  • XI

    🏋️‍

    Strength
     

    ⚾

    Fool
    III

    🌹

    The Empress
• WYATT QUITTER, OVER
  • +  ReceiverThis Player is a Receiver.
    Receivers deliver messages from The Microphone via their pregame ritual attribute.
• MOSES MASON, OVER
  • +  Receiver

This reading was entitled WYATT MASON, OVER, and made Wyatt Quitter and Moses Mason, both survivors of the Wyatt Masoning, into Receivers. The Fool card was meant to represent the Baltimore Crabs, winners of the previous season, but Fans noticed it seemed to display the emojis of fellow Breach Teams the Atlantis Georgias and Core Mechanics in the Personal Readings, as well as the joystick emoji of the Real Game Band.

Reader's purple text appeared once more in Season 14--after Latesiesta, during which the construction of Psychoacoustics caused the Second Wyatt Masoning, the words OVER AND OUT appeared in the Feed.

Season 15

immateria materia

V The Hierophant

XIII

III The Empress

• FROM THE BRIDGE, DOWNSTREAM
  • V

    🗣️

    The Hierophant
    XIII

    🍬

     
    III

    🌹

    The Empress
• BREATH MINTS, MIDDLE
  • +  MiddlingThis Team or Player will Overperform in the Midseason.
• FLOWERS, AFTER
  • +  AfterpartyThis Team will occasionally receive permanent stats boost in their games (outside of Party Time), but only while they're losing.

Reader's Season 15 reading, entitled "FROM THE BRIDGE, DOWNSTREAM" granted the Kansas City Breath Mints and the Boston Flowers the mods Middling and Afterparty respectively. It was also the first reading to come with text that wasn't one of the tarot cards being drawn, and the first reading where the champion of the previous season was drawn first, rather then in the middle. The Blaseball Beat said this reading "granted Teams with glimpses of the near future", and referred to "the reader of the purple prose".

Season 16

materia immateria

XVI The Tower

I The Magician

V The Hierophant

*FROM THE BRIDGE, UPSTREAM

• • XVI

    👐

    The Tower
    I

    ✨

    The Magician
    V

    🗣️

    The Hierophant
• Collins Melon, UPSTREAM
  • -  AlternateThis Player is an Alternate...
    Player is replaced with an alternate reality version, stats are randomized.
• James Mora, UPSTREAM
  • -  SuperyummyThis Player seriously loves peanuts.
    Superyummy players Overperform when playing in Peanut weather or in a ballpark with a Peanut Mister, and Underperform otherwise.

Season 16's Reading came with the accompanying text "FROM THE BRIDGE, UPSTREAM", and placed the Canada Moist Talkers card at the end of the three, rather then at the beginning or middle. This reading removed mods from players on the two teams placed "upstream" of the Talkers, in a reverse of the "downstream" from last season. In another reversal, the Reader said "materia immateria" before they drew the cards, when they said "immateria materia" the previous season.

Season 17

immateria immateria

XVI The Tower

V The Hierophant

IIII The Emperor

"The Reader interjects

Projects upon the text

Fishes from neighboring streams."

"Flailing against the Current."

"At the Delta

Tributaries converge

The Historian collects the sea."

materia materia

• OVER THE BRIDGE, UNDER THE BRIDGE
  • XVI

    👐

    The Tower
    V

    🗣️

    The Hierophant
    IIII

    🥩

    The Emperor
• Baby Doyle, IMMATERIA IMMATERIA
  • - Bat
• Baby Doyle, IMMATERIA IMMATERIA
  • + Uncertain Necklace of Entanglement
  • +  EntangledWhenever this Player would return from Elsewhere, their Alternate will return instead.
  • +  UncertainWhen this Player returns from Elsewhere, they'll be adjusted by -15% to +20%.
  • Overall 15.7 -> 15.7 + 0.1
• Orville Manco, MATERIA MATERIA
  • - Bat
• Orville Manco, MATERIA MATERIA
  • + Force Field of Observation
  • +  ForceThis Player is Forced into position. They cannot leave their current Location.
  • +  ObservedThis Player is being Observed carefully...
    If this player plays a game in Coffee weather they have a chance to become Redacted.
  • Overall 11.2 -> 11.2 + 0.6

Season 17's reading was interrupted by Lōotcrates, who officially dubbed the Reader "the Reader", and also made some vague accusatory-sounding statements about them. The Reader then proceeded to complete their Reading and grant items to players on the Dallas Steaks and the Breckenridge Jazz Hands. Despite the Steaks being the victors of the previous season, they were not placed in the middle of the spread this season.

Season 18

XIIII Temperance

VII The Chariot

VIII Justice

out from under

take the over

Okay thank you.

Special Announcement

The Seasonal Reading is hereby Suspended Indefinitely

It was so fun while it lasted.

Always a fun surprise.

Moving on

It's Our pleasure to announce

The ILB Gift Shop is open for business!

Give the people what they want!

lighten up

• OUT FROM UNDERTAKE THE OVER
  • XIIII

    🔥

    Temperance
    VII

    🌮

    The Chariot
    VIII

    🎸

    Justice
• TRUST ME, Justice Spoon
  • +  NegativeThis Player is a Negative.
    Negative players have negative eDensity.
• TRUST ME, Lotus Mango
  • +  Negative

This Reading began with Reader making a bold statement of <span class="tarot"> out from under / take the over </span>. They were then interrupted by Boss, who announced that the Readings would henceforth be canceled and seemingly ended the Earlsiesta events there. However, Reader reappeared on the website after a few minutes to say <span class="tarot"> lighten up </span>, and then completed the Reading by turning both Justice Spoon and Lotus Mango Negative, with the accompanying messages OUT FROM UNDER / TAKE THE OVER and TRUST ME.

Following this, Reader created a Decree of their own, entitled Trust Fall, with the description "turn the tables. winning will be losing. trust me."