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Spin around until you are incredibly dizzy and collapse onto a circle of letters. Whichever letters you stumble upon form your prophecy. It's the most…
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When you are completely lost, throwing pointed projectiles into the dirt is the obvious solution. You mark several arrows, toss them onto the ground, and…
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Tossing a bunch of marked pebbles onto the ground to see how they arrange themselves. It is functionally identical to throwing dice, but with the added rustic…
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Examining the internal organs of a fish or watching how living fish swim in a tank to make major life choices. It gives an entirely new, deeply uncomfortable…
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Pendulum boards combine the subtle muscle twitches of dowsing with a printed alphabet. It takes ten times longer to spell out a vague message from the beyond…
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Shamans would scatter the charred remains of hunted animals across the dirt, reading the deep cracks left by the fire to glimpse the future. The ash and…
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