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( MINGLE - WEEK 2 )
 The sun is shining, the air conditioner units hum as they always do, and a gentle morning breeze blows against the windows. The scent of pine cones and evergreen follow you wherever you go in the motel, save for the parking lot and outdoor pool. It seems like someone was very generous with the detergent while moping the floors. The two grandfather clocks (one on each floor) will ring with each passing hour, indicating the time of day without fail. With this knowledge — they'll note the motel will continue to be surrounded by fog until 8:00 AM on the dot. It is at that hour that the fog will begin to recede. Not enough to reveal the whole city, but enough to allow residents to explore some of the buildings surrounding the motel. And speaking of the motel, it seems like the Storage room has unlocked itself overnight. How quaint. Welcome to Week 2's mingle, everyone! As of this week, we are now accepting murder proposals. If you're interested in having your character murder someone this week, please send in your proposal before Tuesday, 9:00 PM EST. We'll be contacting you on plurk over the week to finalize the details, or ask for rescheduling if necessary. As always, feel free to PM us or send us a PP over plurk if you have any questions! ic rulebook | locations | statuses | room assignments private conversations | ic profiles | graveyard | full navigation |
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[ After discovering the blood in the lounge? Yeah, suffice to say that Seto's not really looking forward to hanging out in the motel at least for the rest of what passes as daylight hours in the motel. So he's venturing to places that he hasn't managed to investigate or look over through the course of the previous week.
The Gas Station and Minimart is going to be victim to Seto's poking around, actually - he'll probably nick a couple of pamphlets on Lake Crotin
(since it was the execution site, and the fog doesn't allow him to cross over to investigate the lake for himself????)and also poke around the minimart to see if there's anything else of note besides completely archaic supplies that may or may not be useless. ]TUESDAY: POOL AND OUTDOOR DINING AREA
[ ok so if you're in the motel from Tuesday onwards you're going to see Seto seated at one of the tables next to the pool area, staring at a deck of bootleg Duel Monsters cards with terribly drawn stick figure art in lieu of actual painted art - THANKS CRAFTLY - although the flavour text of the cards and the attack/defense values have been left untouched.
small mercies???? it's definitely better than nothing but HE'S JUST GOING TO SEETHE QUIETLY WHEN HE'S FLICKING THROUGH HIS DECK, OK.
why couldn't you have given him his original cards, craftly, it's not like he can summon giant holograms of them or anything you know. ]
WILDCARD
[ give me anything! fingerguns. i'm on plurk at
it's time to d-d-d-d-d-d-duel
Kaiba-san? What do you have there?
[Belatedly, she realizes that she sort of just invited herself over - and she looks contrite, but... she's interested enough in what he's doing to keep from backing off immediately.]
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To be fair, she's only seeing the mostly-normal back of the cards, and not the fucking disrespectful stick figure art on the other side. ]
Duel Monsters cards. Except that Craftly has decided that the original cards are security hazards, so-- [ He flips over the cards to show her what he means. ] --I'm stuck with these.
[ The cards are going to get reshuffled into his deck again, before he draws out one card, glances at it and slams it down onto the table, face-up. Monster Card: Blade Knight, summoned in attack position.
... Please tell him he's being overly dramatic, Yukina. ]
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Oh, so these are...
[...she almost... expected something more impressive than this. But, wisely, she keeps her mouth shut, focusing not on the unfortunate-looking artwork but on the cards as a whole, watching as he shuffles his deck, draws a card, and -
Damn. That was dramatic. He'd get along with Suzaku.]
Blade Knight...? [She leans forward to get a better look at the flavor text.] "When you have 1 or less cards in your hand, this card gains 400 ATK. If you control no other monsters, the effects of Flip monsters destroyed by battle with this card are negated"...
[That makes little sense to her.]
Um... what's a Flip monster?
why am i writing a duel monsters tutorial in a tag!!!!!!
He's the one that probably started the whole dramatic card game duels thing since you know, people have had to start yelling across the field at each other??? He's also a lot more dramatic if there's actually like a giant audience, which the motel unfortunately doesn't have.
But still, he's passionate enough about Duel Monsters that he doesn't mind the question, in fact, he shifts enough so that Yukina can read the flavour text on the card. When she asks her question, Seto is flicking through his deck.
No matter, he's just going to pull out another monster card at random. ]
For each turn, I can either summon one monster in face up attack position-- [ He points to the Blade Knight card. ] --or in face down defense position. [ He reaches over to place the new card that he's drawn in front of Yukina, as if it's on her field, horizontally and with the backing facing up instead. ]
Blade Knight's effect, as I don't have any other cards in my hand-- [ He doesn't, right now, and he points to the ATK value printed on the card. ] --it now has 2,000 attack points. If I were to attack your monster, the card would be flipped face-up because of the attack.
[ He reaches over and flips over the card. It's X-Head Cannon. ]
I don't have any Flip Monsters in my deck so I can't actually show you one, but-- [ He points to the flavour text of the card. ] Flip monsters are just monsters who have effects that are triggered only when they're flipped over, with details written out there.
[ And he's going to draw the top five cards from his deck and just lay them out on the table with a flourish (listen, he's not about to just give up the dramatics) - there's different types of cards, if Yukina is inclined to ask about them. ]
this is the fate you consigned yourself to by playing a card game maniac...
[you lucked out because i lost my first draft of this tag to a connection glitch and am way too tired to write out everything i had before, so this time yukina will be asking like 3 fewer questions
She examines the cards he lays out with interest, though, reading the descriptions with wide eyes, before she looks up at him with a smile.]
There are even Trap cards, too... so it's not just your opponent's monsters that you need to worry about? What an interesting game!
tuesday
after a few more moments of watching the other man grovel and pout over his tainted deck, he will eventually step forward and sit down in a chair on the other side of the table. Akira is smiling like always, even if his face is still healing from the trial. ]
Is this what that profile meant when it said "competitive gaming", Kaiba-san? I would have expected something a little more... professionally made...
[ sorry, not sorry. ]
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So understandably, to have them defaced in such a manner, yeah, Seto is still upset. Especially so when he flicks out one of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards from his deck, the crudely drawn image a poor representation of its beauty and strength.
At the risk of sounding overly dramatic
(hahahahahahha when are you not), the avatar of his very soul does not deserve such desecration. ]The cards I use are infinitely more professional than these. Something about thinking of the safety of the guests and staff, according to Craftly's bullshit.
[ He's going to scowl and then draw out another card and flip it over - Trap Card: Crush Card Virus - if Akira can read the card text and the flavour text upside down, that is. ]
Former World Champion. [ ha. thanks, Yugi Mutou. He's still Bitter. He's going to draw out another card and lay it next to the two cards already laid out. Magic Card: Fusion.
If you ask him nicely he might explain the rules of the game. ]
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Oh. I was just thinking that you were somehow able to draw them from memory. [ why are you so rude, Craftly. :( ] It's a shame he wouldn't provide you with the real thing... I'm interested to see how the legitimate cards would look.
[ Akira tilts his head to the side to try and read the second card he places down. that's waaaay too much text for him to read, however, so he just pretends it makes sense and nods like he understands it all the same. ]
Former because they take your title away if you disappear mysteriously, I take it? [ HAHA IF ONLY. ] These cards seem intricate, even if they aren't the quality they should be. Is it easy to learn?
DUELS
What are these...?
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Duel Monsters cards. [ He still sounds upset and angry. ] Or rather, copies that Craftly has seen fit to provide me with, since apparently the original cards cannot be given to me due to safety considerations.
[ He's calling fucking bullshit on this. ]
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Duel Monsters? [ She tilts her head in curiosity. ] What a shame, I would have loved to see their original forms.
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He nods. He's just going to pick up his deck and shuffle his deck expertly before drawing the top five cards instinctively. ]
I play on the professional dueling tournament circuits. [ A smirk. ] I built and invented holographic stadiums and projectors for this purpose, back home. it's quite a spectacle to see.
[ It's a pity that there's no way to see that here because all the technology here is archaic. ]
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That's quite impressive. Could you tell me about your sport?
stop making him wax poetic about stupid card games
Still, there's pride, even as he fans out the beginning hand that he's drawn, ignoring the crude art. ]
Duels are battles. For pride, for glory, and when you summon your monsters-- [ Here he plucks out one card from the middle of his hand, slamming Monster Card: Blood Vorse down onto the table with all the dramatic flair of someone who was used to doing it for a professional audience. ] --to fight for you as loyal vassals, when they come to life to defend your honour and crush your opponent--
[ yeah he's just. stupidly into this card game and the entire spectacle that comes with it, ok, pls forgive him. ]
Each Duelist starts with 8,000 life points. Deplete them to zero, and you win the the duel.
just as keikaku
An intellectual game, I take it?
[ She'll watch. Maybe the flair was attuned to male egos, but still something intruiging to observe. ]
deadeyes at you
It's a game of war. Only the finest minds deserve to be called Duelists. [ ... uh, yeah, about that elitist streak... ] Trap cards, magic cards... these buffer the playing field. Shape the terrain you battle on. Strategy is only the beginning. Cripple your opponent so that they're only left with weak, ineffectual monsters, or let them think that they've gotten the upper hand before you strike back.
[ It's... not actually just male egos, actually. Seto's just the only one who's turned Duel Monsters into gladiatorial grunge matches no matter who's fighting. Read: everyone in this stupid canon just rolls with it because they're all Extra. ]
GOOD
Are there any other Duelists around?
tuesday :)
Did you miss your deck that badly?
thank goodness i don't have to write a tutorial
[ He's not going to explain it any further, but then again, Seto Kaiba is a Duelist, so it kind of goes without saying that it's entirely possible that his entire identity is defined in these cards, built painstakingly and carefully.
Ryou probably would feel the same attachment to Monster World, wouldn't he??? ]
It's not the same. [ The art, for one, is the most obvious difference. The cards don't feel right, but maybe that's because he's so used to his own Deck. ]
explain the detailed inner workings of vr, kaiba-san
Maybe. ]