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.

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..!

[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.]

[tokenloveinterest]

Soooo... If you're not out of high school, does that mean you don't want to hear about all the Red-Eyes support you get in the future?

[luckydragonsfoot]

Hoh?

[Whaaaaaaat! Red Eyes himself pokes out at that.]

Aourn?

Pfffhahahah! Hey see tha'? Th' Tenmas are lookin' out f'r ye after all!

AOouUUuuuUUR?

[Katsuya continues laughing.]

Anyway uhhh...Jus' addin' small stuff at th' bottom of mine... [...'asshole kills village to make spooky items' leads all the way up to 'yugi puts together spooky item' now....']

Anyway uh. Pr'tty sure I'm th' only me who can do th's kinda thing. [A point at the dragon, who now wonders if Rei has hands that can pet.]

[tokenloveinterest]

[how solid is the dragon

because if rei can see it and it's solid, she's just gonna try to. scritch its chin?]

Yeah, one day you'll get the Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon... It'd be considered meta-defining if more than like, five people had it.

[luckydragonsfoot]

[Since 'Red Eyes' is a fully woken up Ka Beast/'Shadow' as he puts it, Very. To the point where he can only get a bit of his head and neck out- his head is about the size of a horse's own! It looks a bit like he's melting into the floor and shadow as a result.

Yesssss the chin scritches....] Hehhhh, 'Darkness' metal..? Crazy...

Hah! Kinda weird t' think Red Eyes could be 'meta definin' or whatever though- I just ran w'th what I had!

[Some key notes he's putting on the side; 'spaces out sometimes. dw abt it'. Katsuya...]

[tokenloveinterest]

I think it's 'cause President Pegasus likes you. He's rated you, Kaiba, Yugi, and Johan as the four greatest duelists in the world, so that's probably why you guys get so much card support.

[hahaha that's probably fine.]

[luckydragonsfoot]

[Pegasus..............................]

Nyyyhhhhhhhhhh....yeah he's super dead, so I'll jus' hope the Tenma's are as chill as the Pegasus you apparen'ly got is...'cause uh...

[He just. Grimaces.] ...Mine was creepy t' th' end...

[tokenloveinterest]

I mean... Pegasus saved my life? And everyone else's at the Academy. I heard later that he actually put himself in pretty severe danger to get what he needed to save us, too... Some crazy lady had a bomb, or something?

[luckydragonsfoot]

....I'm gonna be hones', sounds like 's entire personality 's a difference here...'cause he def'nitely wasn' 'saving people' material...

[tokenloveinterest]

He went to find a lost ancient Roman ruin, to make the card that could cross dimensions to save us, so...

[luckydragonsfoot]

[That does not make him any less better for his world! SO. Jou just holds the sad grimace and shrugs.

Dunno what to tell you Rei.]

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?

[blue_ice]

We don't need to know everything. Just enough to know how to approach each other.

I already know to avoid her, heh.

[tokenloveinterest]

[ALSO SHRUG]

But, let's see... You're a pro, President Kaiba mostly handles his company and does events, and Yugi never went pro, but he still helps out in official events from time to time...

[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.

[tokenloveinterest]

I'll talk to her more, and see if I can't help her... She doesn't act at all like the version I know.

Though I wonder about her world. It's like... That old superhero show that America took and made everyone American? Except it happened to reality. Or something.

[mighty morphin card game rangers]

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. ]