The book of bad juju

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Happy to be back in the center of attention again, Aya decided to humor the two boys a little. Maybe it was a bad idea to tell your opponent everything they needed to know to beat you, but these guys weren't her opponent just yet. And maybe if she played her cards right, they wouldn't have to be. A brief fantasy flashed through her mind, and she bit the inside of her cheek trying not to say it out loud. Instead, she fanned out her deck in her hands, picking out a single monster and handing it to Matt.

"See, this is one of my monsters." She said, handing him a sliver of cardboard illuminated in the blacks and reds of a burning populace. Somewhere over a burning wreck of a city, at a scale almost too large for the human mind to contemplate without making a mess of it's metaphorical trousers- A figure, upright, vaguely reptiloid, with a heavy, dragging tail that shook aside skyscraper and mountain alike in it's wake. Two leathery, bat-like wings sprung from it's carapace, wreathed in the smoke and dust of the thousands of cyclones, storms and hurricanes the thing left in it's presence, and the eye was drawn, trembling and unsure, all the way up to the burning embers that crowned this hideous shambling monstrousity, all but confirming in the gaze of that flame-ringed eyes it's superiority over all life. "He's a cutie, isn't he? I call him Doggie!"

"But that's not really important right now, I want you to read the card, first, because nearly all the Kaiju monsters i can pull out have that effect of being able to be given to my opponent basically whenever i want. There's nearly never a situation where you don't have someone else's monster looking at you from across the field, so it's not a problem to get out Kaijus from my deck to my hand, and summoning Kaijus to fight each other is super easy, and - HEY!"

That last remark wasn't so much addressed at Matt, but at the newcomer who'd decided, out of nowhere, to come up to her and start insulting her cute beasties. Even if he didn't appear to have noticed her, he'd insulted her honour. No dignity to anyone who would ever do something so cruel as insult someone's deck. "Beep beep!" She began, putting both hands on the headrest of her chair, trying to hold herself up as she rose out of her seat. She'd presumably interrupted whatever he was going to say to the redhead by screeching all over it, but that didn't matter right now. "Ya wanna back up that trash, or do you just want to get run over?"

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"Oooh, Nekroz!" She tittered, turning to the raven-haired girl in the seat behind Aya's own. "Pretty strong back in the day, when they had them Djinns and stuff to combo in, and they had those Ice Barrier Dragons and Gishki stuff from way back, too! I've always loved the theme of them, and the idea of them being these big blue rituals you could also discard for effects. So, whaddaya concentrate on, getting out Trish as fast as you can and removing the opponent's hand, or is it more of a Krystia build-"

She stuttered to a halt. Nobody seemed to be paying that much attention to her. Not the girl whose deck she was speaking about, nor her blank-faced confidant. Even the redhaired guy who'd been sticking around near them for a while now, not really contributing to the conversation seemed to be ignoring her. "...sorry. " She went back to cutting her deck, experimentally drawing five cards off the top of it. Immediately, her mind went to work. Go second, Terraform into a Kyoutow, discard Dogoran with a Trade-in, which lead to a counter on kyoutow and... A Twin Twister, to destroy anything face down on her opponent's side of the field, use Kyoutow to search out a Jizukiru, give the opponent Radian, summon Exodius and Jizukiru, overlay for Ravenous Tarantula into Pain Gainer into Seven Sins, summon Gamaciel to negate anything and attack for game. She smirked, then shuffled the hand back into her deck, resolving not to stack the deck so flagrantly in a real duel. That just wouldn't be fair.

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Trying to match everyone's color to their speech is hard.

Do you guys want to talk more on the bus or move as a group over to the Fuubi-Marina duel, so everyone in the game can meet up with everyone else?

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Deep breath in. Deep breath out. In. And out again. Gradually, with a lot of effort, Aya managed to stop her heart from bursting out of her chest and making a mess of the upholstery. She'd barely even paid attention to what the girl in front of her (Behind her? Like, she was behind her on the bus, but in front of her now, how would you ever write that down?) had been saying, but it seems she didn't really have to. Matt was introducing the two of them to the small pack of kids who had turned up. Is anyone hurt? She heard someone say, and she shook her head, not really registering who exactly it was who had spoken.

"...And if that sound is anything to go by, the evidence is on-hand. The culprit will be found. Eventually. I hope. That aside, since you've done me the honor of not having to speak first, I hope you don't mind a self-introduction... Especially seeing as how you and your seatmate have already begun to hit it off. My name is Yukishima Ayumi, and I'm to be living in the Dark Magician House. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." "Well at least no one's hurt." Came another voice, closer to Aya. "In case you missed our introductions, I'm Matt Ronwell of the Dark Magician House, this is Aya Tsukasa of Utopia House. Nice to meet someone body else from my house, though I hear that's not so uncommon. You said you use Kajus?"

That got her attention. She turned her head, looking almost over her shoulder back towards Matt again. Seemed so strange, in her eyes to move so quickly from card games when barely a minute before, she'd been staring at four pounds of clay ceramic death moving very fast and incredibly close. She pulled out her deck, currently in a hip-side holster, and began shuffling it slowly and deliberately. It was relaxing, like lighting incense. Just what she needed right now, after the excitement and shock. "Ive always liked being able to play both sides of the game." She mumbled, like some sort of excuse." "Used to play Artifacts and Graydle too, but right now i'm just using Pur-""

"I'm afraid I'm not my well versed in my archetypes so that doesn't help me much. Truth be told I only started playing very recently because I won my current deck in a... Game. My deck is just a big gamble, or perhaps a bunch of little gambles. Either way I came to this academy because I know very little, though I hope to learn a lot." That threw her for a loop.

"So what, you're going to a big prestigious Duel monster school and don't really know how a lot of Duel monsters is played? Just how good are you?"

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@Archmage MC

Hey, don't diss toons. With Comic hand and Toon Kingdom being made into real cards, along with Dark Magician and Red-eyes toons being easy to pull out in massive amounts, you can make a pretty fun Rank 7 focused Toon deck. It's not going to take the meta by storm or anything, but it could totally work. Of course, the problem is that this game runs on the anime rules, and i distinctly remember Pegasus mentioning at some point that only he had the Toon cards. Somebody correct me if i'm wrong, i usually am.

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@Ammokkx

Oh, that's a pretty big change! Never heard about it. I'll go ahead and revise that.

@Doc Doctor

It's part of the same rules change that allowed two field spells to exist on opposite sides of the field at the same time, just as a heads up.

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Part of the application process is finding the application process.

Good luck.

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I've left it kind of ambiguous who was sitting behind us on the bus, so if Carnel or Ayumi want to get involved in it they can go right ahead and not feel too left out. A brick narrowly missing your face is as good a reason as any to make friends.

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"Pure Kaijus" She replied, before pausing for a moment, scanning her partner's face for The Look. There was always one, on every duelist's face the first time she mentioned her cute city-crushing critters. The Look always came out in different ways, a slight tightening of the jaw or glance downwards or nervous nose twitch. Every duelist had that one match where they'd gotten their boss monster out on the field lusting after life points only for it to be quashed by a Gamaciel, costing them the game. Aya lived for that look. Every time she saw it on the face of some Six Samurai sycophant so singularly set on summoning Shi En only to watch it be flattened by her pet turtle, she felt all warm and fuzzy inside. Even if they managed to claw back and win the duel afterwards, which they usually managed to do. The corners of Matt's mouth tightened a little, and his eyes became glassy and unfocused. It was music to her ears. She tried not to let the smug self satisfaction show on her face, until she realized that it wasn't aimed at her at all. He was looking behind her, and as she turned to see what it was she quickly found out why.

It was big, oblong, faintly reddish, and wrapped up in more gauze then a mummy. She shut her eyes, instinctively, bracing for the shattering sounds of impac-

-Thud-

She opened her eyes. The brick was gone. So was the guy on a motorcycle who'd, presumably, thrown it. The only thing that reminded the world of it's existence was a small faint three sided dent in the half-open plexiglas window that had, against all the laws of narrative practice, failed to shatter. Aya breathed out, turning to her companion in sheer relief. "Ohmygosh did you see that? It nearly hit us, ohmygosh!" She turned around in her seat, climbing the backrest of her chair, repeating her question in between bouts of "Ohmygosh" to the quiet youth sitting all alone behind them. If she was shocked by what had happened, everyone near her vicinity needed to know. "Didja see where it landed, the thingy? The brick?"

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Playing devil's advocate here, it could be that for Prostagma doesn't want to split apart their posts in between scenes of her character talking and scenes of her character playing a card game. It's totally reasonable that, to take an example out of thin air, she wants to have scenes of her talking to other people, developing her character and interacting with other people during her duel completely on the fly, where a post could be structured as "character talks to opponent, then talks to guy in the audience, then plays a card, then has an inner monologue about her feelings, etc." If she used the system you're suggesting, hiding away anything card game related away to the audience, her example would read like:

"

Hider

character talks to opponent,

then talks to guy in the audience,

Hider

then plays a card,

then has an inner monologue about her feelings, etc."

This would force people to write their posts either entirely about playing card games or about roleplaying, and it would hamper their creativity in trying to blend them together, so I could see why somebody would be against it.