card games for everyone

[tokenloveinterest]

Who: Rei, the YGO cast, and you!
Where: The gaming car for the open part, the gym for the closed part
When: Horseshoe, Day 20, afternoon to evening
What: Rei attempts to solve timelines, and also teach everyone how to play cards.
Warnings: None

i. gym (closed to cast)

[Rei has, after the shock of the phantoms has settled down, been running around to get all of the other duelists in a room together. Some of them, she just has to lie to get them there, some of them, she just doesn't explain.

But when they're all gathered in the gym? Rei has Ronan's whiteboard.]

So, I know we're all from different timelines, but I want to figure out all the differences. Maybe there's something important in here, as to why it's only bringing in one person from each timeline. We should figure out what the points of divergence are in everyone's timeline, I think, to try to find some kind of clue. We can use Yugi's timeline as the 'prime' timeline, since he's the most important person in any timeline, it seems like...

[She's just going to draw a big line on the whiteboard and label it 'PRIME YUGI TIMELINE'.]

ii. video and gaming car

[After the time meeting, Rei is going to make a post on the network.]

I know no one should be alone right now, so does anyone want to learn how to play Duel Monsters? It's a super-popular card game from my world, and Kaiba has a bunch of cards here, so I can make decks for people interested in learning! I'll be in the gaming car for a while, so if you want to learn, go ahead and come there.

[True to her word, she's in the gaming card with Kaiba's huge briefcase full of cards. Did she ask before taking these cards? Absolutely not. But she's here to teach anyone who wants to learn, anyway.]

Comments

gym

[blue_ice]

[ A very tired Kaiba approaches the board. He scribbles the highlights of the notes from the last time they had this discussion, under four neat columns for each of them. ]

Ask any questions you want.

[ He's just gonna...sprawl on the floor here. Yeah, that's nice. ]

[tokenloveinterest]

[Rei is going over the notes, and.]

Uhhhhh.

I can at least say that the theme park with serial killers never happened in my timeline. That would have been on the news.

[blue_ice]

Mm. That happened for all the others...I couldn't believe they forgave their timelines' versions of myself after that.

[ He shakes his head. ]

We have to remind ourselves that we're not all operating from the same memories, before we start making wild accusations.

So next we'd be looking at the differences with you and Alexis?

[tokenloveinterest]

I think so. Which is hard, for... a few reasons.

[Namely, that Alexis has flat-out admitted to the brainwashing.]

gyeeeeem...

[luckydragonsfoot]

Gonna be hon'st I kinda jus' wanna get more sleep...

[There's no way it's morning but here he is, saying that while he holds a galaran ponyta and leans against a wall.]

Y' got everythin' y' needed righ'..?

[...Oh right wait shit crap-] ....NyyyyhhhhI guess I c'n add th' stuff I had t' come clean about later.... [FORCING HIMSELF UP AND TOWARD THE WHITEBOARD NOW...]

[tokenloveinterest]

I mean... You're definitely a pro in my time, not a, uh, sheep... cotton candy horse.... farmer? So there's some big differences, anyway.

[luckydragonsfoot]

....They're pokemon...

[Why is he looking for somewhere to add stuff under the timelines. Oh no.]

An' anyway that stuff ain't from our worlds, 's from th' one I fell int' before wakin' up on a platform, totally differen'. I ain't even outta highschool..!

card games on voidtrains?

[sunbloom]

[Itsuki doesn't answer the video call first; today is a day for doing the thing and not asking first because being by herself is not a good plan. Instead she simply shows up, hoodie a little rumpled and with lint from assorted blankets she's apparently missed but generally no worse for wear.]

I have to admit, I'm curious - people have mentioned Duel Monsters a bit, I feel like, and it might be fun to have something else to do for fun? [Something other than working out? Itsuki no] Are the rules complex?

[tokenloveinterest]

[aw YESSSS.

Seeing her latest victim, Rei waves Itsuki over.]

It's really fun! And don't worry, the rules are simple... It's a game that's easy to learn, but hard to master.

[sunbloom]

That’s reassuring, then. I was worried it’d be one of those kinds of games that takes an hour to set up, and then four hours to play, and everyone argues over the rules the whole time. Ah, you said it’s a card game, though, so I guess there’s a certain maximum amount of complexity it can have.

ii

[ramengroupie]

Good to see you!

[ Wormmon waddles in ahead of Ken. He is starting to wonder whether the card games girl lives in the gaming carriage, but making sure Ken-chan is doing things together with people comes first.

....Ken is equally determined not to let the void storm get to him. Under these circumstances, perhaps something else to focus on is precisely what's needed...? ]

Hey. Sorry we're late.

[ Interacting with others is how to weather this crisis....right....?

HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S DOING ]

[tokenloveinterest]

[Rei waves him over, and sets down a deck in front of him!]

Hey! Welcome. I already put together a good deck for what you wanted, since we talked earlier.

[ramengroupie]

[ Ken is impressed, and slightly touched. She'd thought that seriously about what Wormmon had wanted. ] Thank you. That was fast.

[ May he...look through this?

If so, he will pick up the cards one by one and read them together with Wormmon. It's just as important that his partner sees them, after all. It was made to Wormmon's specifications.

Playing a deck that makes Wormmon happy probably wouldn't be bad. ]

GYM - LATE

[shadowslipping]

[Yuume wasn't invited to the cast discussion, because while at least one person knows she Is part of things, it was only one person- one person who Rei may well not have thought to necessarily invite.

She still doesn't have work out clothes, but it's fine- she has a polo, and the cargo pants have cutoff options, so she's walking in in shorts.

It's a good thing she doesn't have tight work out clothes.

In any case, she finds herself automatically looking toward the side of the carriage she's already grown familiar with- and...]

Ehh...!?

[Now her attention is All on the board. She's pretty sure there's others in the room behind her, but right now this sort of takes precedence.] W...what on earth...

[tokenloveinterest]

[The board now also has a detailed explanation on Duel Academy on the bottom! so that's great!]

Huh... Who's that?

[shadowslipping]

[Oh...oh it's adorable actually...

Anyway um.] Ahh...it's you! [Well what a surprise.] I didn't expect to see...a white board in here?

When I think about it now though we never did trade names did we... [she chuckles, resting a hand on her hip.] Just what on earth were you using that for though..?

[Curiosity is all over her of course- she can't help but come near the board to read it.]

Gaming Car

[dreamtamer]

[Takato had been looking for distractions to keep his mind off the voices from the void. This was perfect. He'd been interested in learning ever since Kaiba had mentioned the game.

He comes running into the game car, with Guilmon staying close behind him. After earlier, Guilmon wasn't letting his friend out of sight.]

I'd like to learn! If that's alright.

[tokenloveinterest]

Oh, good. I was hoping you'd show up! I found a good card for you.

[Rei tosses a card to him.

It's a perfect card for him.]

....That really is perfect

[dreamtamer]

[He catches the card, looks at it, and laughs.]

I don't really know much about this game, but I think you might be right.

[He holds it out so Guilmon can see, and the digimon laughs at well.]

It looks a little like me! Neh, are there any Guilmon cards in this game?

[Guilmon, there aren't even any Guilmon cards in your world's Digimon card game.]

Gym

[storms_eye]

[Silvia did mention being a duelist, but without much emphasis. Either way, one way or another- she ended up here and was more or less observing the proceedings. She wasn't really sure what she had to contribute, or what they would deem as important enough to note- so she was kinda lost.

The contents of the white board were just sort of merging together into one confusing pile of details like a yarn ball that had come horribly unraveled. So at once point her eyes sank down to look at the hands folded tightly in her lap.

She'd just... wait her turn. Or something.]

[tokenloveinterest]

[And then Rei's finally going to point to Sylvia with the marker.]

Okay... What about you? Any of these events seem different to you?

[storms_eye]

[The sudden motion, caused Silvia to jump slightly]

Oh.. uh.. well... [She stood up abruptly and smoothed her hands over the tail of her shirt to make sure it was in place before moving closer to look at the board.]

I guess... some of the names are ... different.

gym

[sizedoesntmatter]

[Yugi sat there with his Kuriboh plush because you never know when someone might need comforting because with things like this it was always possible.

He quietly looked over the board checking for what is similar and what could be different. But as soon as he was able to he went and wrote the parts he knew or had been told by either his friends from his timeline or Atem...if he told him bits of what happened when he blacked out.]

I know you were using my timeline, so this is pretty much it for mine... A lot you probably wouldn't have known.

[tokenloveinterest]

Yeah, your timeline seems most likely to be the 'prime' timeline... You're important in every timeline, it looks like? Or change the least.

[She folds her arms, thinking.]

Man, I wish I'd paid more attention to Professor Zweinstein when I had the chance...

[sizedoesntmatter]

Timelines are probably never something one would think would exist honestly. We know people talk about it and use it in things like television and games, but one never thinks of it as an actual real-life thing.

[But he paused for a moment looking it over.]

Out of all of us whose timelines do you know so far?