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STATUS: The one adorned in the red of heroes had need to finally drop his mask. A funeral for summer, for our youth. Goodbye, those heated days... youtube.com/watch?v=UxwHkqk… 26 days ago
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Current The one adorned in the red of heroes had need to finally drop his mask. A funeral for summer, for our youth. Goodbye, those heated days... youtube.com/watch?v=UxwHkqk…
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It seems the long summer, which gouged with fangs and gave us hope, has come to its end...
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Late in it, but happy Kagerou Day!
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In Symphony on High → 9 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay
Marrie Knight


Marrie watched in what seemed like slow motion as Oros turned to face her and fired a melody of her own. Regardless of what it was, it meant that Finn would end up getting hurt, despite her efforts. She had been half hoping that Oros would try to deflect it and she'd switch places with her sword, but she didn't expect the pink haired girl to anticipate a feint like that. Surely it would have made more sense to assume she was attacking her, right?

... Her head hurt, and she found herself standing where Finn had just been. Still, she turned quickly to look at where she had started, only to see as Finn lost his legs. She couldn't react. She couldn't think. She couldn't even move. And that paralysis continued as Oros walked over and asked for a reward for only taking off one person's legs.

Marrie's mouth was agape. If she weren't somewhat traumatized by the day, she might have thought that Oros' request was unwarranted. As it was, though, she could see the logic behind it. Holding back when you want to go all out is hard; she wouldn't have been able to hold back against the cultists who slaughtered the homeless people.

"... I don't know how to respond to you. Like, in general. As a concept." Marrie closed her eyes for an instant, before opening them and looking over the scene that was (now) in front of her. She couldn't see the truck, but she could hear it, so its tires must be missing. Oros was standing right in front of her, and behind her were the remaining cultists who seemed to be leaving. Leaving? Was she going to let them leave after that? Rage boiled up from her gut before she continued dragging her gaze across the area. There was the boy who had saved her. She had almost forgotten about seeing him losing his lower limbs from all the shock of Oros' comments. And on seeing him laying there all of her anger left her, the void left by it quickly filling with worry.

Welp, time to be a smartass, she figured as she cast a melody.

{Bronze Beam - Rain - Stabilize - Heal}

And as the beam fell from the sky towards Finn, she focused on Oros. What kind of thing would someone like her even want? Her mind went blank. After a quick reboot, she tallied the espers who she knew were there. There was herself, Sovereign, that one who was on the roof, and now the boy who had saved her and was (hopefully no longer) bleeding out. If Oros was bothered by the others, but not Marrie, that left three. She hurt one of them, pretty severely, so... That left two and a half out of three, right? "Well, you half killed the guy who saved me, but you haven't hurt anyone else, so..." A pause. "I'm not sure what kind of thing you'd want, so I guess it's like a giftcard instead of an actual present sort of situation."

Then it hit her. Why was she even here? "A fourth of the water, maybe? Otherwise I don't have a ton of things to give out, and I'll probably get in trouble for even that, bu-" The hamster in her mind fell off its wheel, and she was suddenly once again aware that the water wasn't secured yet.

Shit. Marrie glanced over her shoulder to see... holy shit where did that mantis thing come from!? Turning back to Oros, she gave a quick request. "Quick raincheck, we can figure something out in a bit?" Then she began to run towards the palemancerguardmantisguy, putting her Instrument in her left hand and pulling out the pistol she was glad to have brought with her with her right.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@RickyG85
Yep, personally just trying to get some stuff done unrelated to this before making a post.
In Symphony on High → 9 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay
Marrie Knight


She was lucky that she was used to flying around at this point in her esper carreer, or she might have lost her lunch. She even managed to fire off her Melody, in an even better position than she had planned! Silver linings, right? And speaking of silver linings...

"Oros!?" Marrie blurted out, once the shock had died down enough for her mind to process what had just happened. The rush from being grabbed out of the air before she could react was still running through her, causing her mind to run at a million Tails, er, miles an hour. At first, seeing Oros was mixed news. On the one hand, Marrie had no ill will towards the esper that everyone seemed to hate, but on the other, her being in the group of cultists was a bad sign. As she began listing off the other freelancers there, though...

God really does hate me, wow.

In all the commotion, she hadn't even noticed the exploding tires or the now crashed semi. As she looked to follow Oros' movement towards Finn, the truck entered her sight and she blanched. Did that mean the water was toast now? Well, if she assumed that, then the only remaining points of importance were defeating the cultists and keeping the other espers alive, not necessarily in that order. So seeing the debatably most dangerous esper in Pax rushing at the guy who saved her, and who she was pretty sure she had seen during the Diver fight, she subconsciously made a pretty simple decision. Chances were that she'd respond, but if Marrie was right about this, that'd work out just fine too, and so she cast a Melody aimed straight at Finn, right over Oros' shoulder.

{Silver Beam - Transplace}

A life for a life, huh?


In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Randomguy
It would be hilarious if none of the PCs won the tourney.
In Symphony on High → 9 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay
Marrie Knight


"Tch!" That was all Marrie was able to get out of her mouth as she was tossed over the paleguard with its rather impressive technique. But this was fine, she had expected something like this. She let go of the grip of her Instrument, and with the very last instant of her flight Melody, she adjusted her course so as to only clip Finn rather than barreling into him. It was only a few degrees off from the aim of the throw, but hopefully he'd be able to put that change to use. Much more importantly, she was glad that her Instrument had changed as much as it had since coming to Pax. When she was flung she initially had horrible flashbacks of her first mission again, and wondered if something similar would happen.

As she rolled to her invisible feet, relief washed over her. It seemed that her chain was working well. And to better use that chain... She prepared to rip Apexer Predator up and through the paleguard's shoulder, hoping to sever it complete, when the giant snake slammed into the MicroMart. As the cultists swarmed out of the snake, Marrie had a single thought.

Why does god hate me?

It didn't help that the truck began to take off, rightfully so, or that the homeless were beginning to be-

Fuck... She slapped herself on both of her temples, just hard enough to hurt but not enough to knock her unconscious. Rationalize later.

Did she dare try to switch places with the one-and-a-half-armed man, on a moving vehicle, with the only cast note that could do it giving a huge warning to him that it would happen? ... Probably not. But what was she supposed to-

And then it happened. Something, some fucking THING, slammed into the front of the truck. Well then. I suppose that solves this mission. She tore her gaze away from the truck before she could see what happened to it, but she'd made up her mind on what to do. If these bastards were going to hurt genuinely innocent, unlucky, fucked-over people... To kill them... Were they any better than any of the few people Marrie'd been forced to kill? Was self-defense the only acceptable reason, or did protecting other count? Even if she couldn't save any of the homeless people who were here, wouldn't she be saving people in the future from the same fate?

Rationalize. Later.

With her Instrument still stuck in the paleguard's back, blade pointed upwards and its chain laying across its shoulder next to its next opposite the stab-wound, she couldn't just leave it. But these things were fighting for the mob, right? They were trying to protect them from the Freelancers like her. Would they fight for them against this group of trash? She could only hope so.

Besides, better to fight them than another esper, in her experience. So she stood up, jumped forwards as hard as she could, and hoped the monster was stronger than it looked. The instant her feet left the ground, she retracted her Instrument's chain, using the paleguard, who moving in the opposite direction, as a weight in an attempt to trebuchet herself at the actual cultists. The musculature was hopefully just strong enough for her to highschool physics class her way out of this, and just weak enough for AP's blade to come loose once the stronger force was put on it from the launch, letting it come back to her hand as she flew. It was up to fate-

- that she would succeed. As she flew the few yards that her maneuver had afforded her, AP would return to her hand as she instantly began casting a Melody, pointed directly at the group of cultists. She'd make sure not to hurt anything other than those fuckers.

{Silver Beam - Scatter - If Foe - [Warm (+1 Rank) Damage X]}

- that she would fail. After quickly regaining her balance after being swung about slightly, she'd dash forwards and retract her chain, now from the direction of the paleguard's back, to return AP to her hand and cast a Melody through her foot onto the ground.

{Silver Touch - Portal}

In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Randomguy
It's player to player, there's no bot. It's basically playing the game in person at a table, you have to manually do everything the cards say. But, once you're used to it, it works well, and it allows custom cards to be made/used. So it would work best by having us play the duel out between the RPers and put the dialogue/etc. in the log as we do. Then it's just a matter of prettying it up and adding things that would be known to the reader but not the other player (ie thinking "Oh, thank goodness, I drew Pot of Desires right when I needed to. Good thing my opponent doesn't know that") since putting that in the log would obviously be telling the other player what happened.

The biggest downside, if you consider it one, is that you do need to make an account for the site, but it's super easy to do so. Then just make a private duel with a password and you can duel a specific person by giving them that password and having them put it in at the duel table you make.

But, uh... It's probably a good idea to ignore the front page messages/statuses. Back when I was on Duelingbook much more often, there were times things there got sort of stupid.
In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Luna Abbott

"SHIT!" That was all the girl could say as her opponent summoned her first monster... The freakin' girl used Sky Strikers!?



"Sorry about that, that's why Magical Mallet is my favorite Spell card, hehe." Luna said as she picked up her cards.

"I really need to ditch the Bamboo Sword cards in my deck, anyway. I bricked once you had Egyptian God Slime out. Good game."

"I could tell. Yeah, good game."

The two shook hands and stood up, collecting their decks. As she did, Luna wasn't quite sure why she was here. She wanted the packs, yeah, but why was her first instinct to go to a game store when she got to Old Domino City? Familiarity? Was there such a thing for someone in a new town, or worse yet in her position? She sighed and went off to an empty table as near a corner as she could get and began shuffling her deck. Having totally forgotten her standard playing card deck and having to really ration her money, she decided to substitute her Duel Monsters deck for it.

Shuffle twice, draw six cards... So she did. She placed the cards in a pentacle with a sixth card in the center, all face-down. She spun the outside cards once, clockwise, and then began divining her fortune from the top right point.

The first card she flipped was Cyber Jar. Renewal, a new chance that's neither good nor bad, but a strong possibility of taking things too far... Nothing new there. Taking things too far was Luna's MO.

Her second card, opposite Cyber Jar on the top left point, was Loris, Lady of Lament. Another card of new beginnings, though much more of a "second" chance than Cyber Jar. It made sense given that this was her second attempt, but it also meant there were pitfalls ahead. She'd have to be careful.

Her third card, the bottom right point, was Scapeghost. Pretty obvious answer, she was either blaming someone unfairly or would be blamed for something unfairly, but whoever it was that was blamed would come back stronger. She would have to check the next card to get more context.

Fourth, the bottom left point of the star, was Swords of Concealing Light. She'd be in a slump for a long while, and her enemies would take advantage. She could only hope that those enemies weren't her family.

The final card of the star was Metal Reflect Slime, one of her go-to cards. Also fairly obvious, she would be on the defensive but likely to be victorious in the end. Finally, she flipped the center card...

Upstart Goblin. An excellent representation of her current situation. Starting from nothing, giving her enemies something nice but gaining something in return. Leaving her horrible aunt and uncle would have made them happy, she was sure, so learning that she'd at least thrive from it was nice.

A perfect reading. Even the positioning was great! Victory through renewal, a dip in prosperity, unfair decisions leading to trouble, and a new start for everyone. She was content with that, but she wished it had been better for her. So she decided to check a card, not for the reading, but to just see what fate had in store in the moment.

Luna placed her hand on the rest of her deck, and closed her eyes. She slowly pulled the top card off the pile... And opened her eyes.

Juragedo... She'd be helping someone soon, in a big way, it seemed.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Hmmm...Yeah, for action duels, maybe just use it for deck shuffling (unless we're heart of the cards-ing those since they're PVE) and use it for the usual kind of duels otherwise? I don't remember Duelingbook having a time limit, and while there is a chat system I don't know if it lets viewers talk in it. (The reason I'm pointing to Duelingbook instead of other programs is that it's all manual, and you can make custom cards on it because of this, so it seems to fit well.) The big issue would be having to RP it out as the duel goes on so we could copy-paste it all into a collab, then do any edits necessary as a duo before one of the two duelists posts it.

@Double
Well, Darkness Metal Dragon is a fantastic card so obvious it would be really good in any dragon deck, but maybe add it back in and then he builds a red-eyes deck as the RP goes on? Alternatively, there are less situational ways to handle a Horus Synchro if you decide you want that concept. I just thought that since it'd be really strong it would make sense to have it be a "Majestic Dragon" Synchro.
In Symphony on High → 9 mos ago Forum: Advanced Roleplay
Marrie Knight


As Marrie got to the group of homeless, she felt nothing but elation that her attack hadn't killed any of them. Bonus points for it taking out what definitely looked like contaminated water. It wasn't until she was three people deep into the group of homeless that her mood soured from having a chair swung at her head. It was easy enough to block, but the timing was terrible as she got punched from her blindspot and was quickly overwhelmed, knocked prone on the ground.

A shitty situation, but she was given a little happiness from having been practicing a little in the past few weeks; she felt like she had a way out, if only she could think straight for half a second without being pummeled again. Before she could even put effort towards getting herself out of the mess, suddenly there was electricity covering her. But instead of the pain she expected, probably similar to the incident with Sofron, she was met with a rush of relief as some of her injuries were healed.

"GO! NOW!"

Didn't have to tell her twice.

{Silver Self - Flight}

In the moment that her assailants were distracted by the attack, she pushed herself up with all of her strength as she cast a melody, flying several yards into the air. While she would have preferred to be a good distraction, her apparent savior wanted her to stick close to him, so she obliged. As fast as she could, she flew over and attempted to strike from behind at the same target he was engaging.

Still though, in the moment that she was mid-air she decided that she would use her Instrument to its advantage. She was poised to stab through the chest of the paleguard, but was prepared to release her grip from Apexer Predator's hilt and fly backwards out of reach if it managed to deflect her attack. Perhaps she'd finally get a use out of its Heavenly Chain, though hopefully she wouldn't.

In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night → 9 mos ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@RickyG85
All of that sounds good, but if I were to make a suggestion, it would be to have pvp duels be done in some dueling program, like Duelingbook, if it's supposed to be an actual duel. On the one hand, this allows for a legit duel to happen, meaning luck plays a large part and there's no fudging of the game. On the other, it'd be tougher to write the duel if you know how it happened from beginning to end, unless you write as the duel goes on. Another thing to factor in would be if the opponents are collabing or writing post by post for a duel, since that could influence whether using a program is a good idea or not. And if nothing else, like King Cosmos said, a program would at least shuffle the deck for us and let us know what our hand and field are at a given time.
But since it's less "regular" dueling, I don't know how effective that would be.
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