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[likemybooks]

Hello residents of LILITH!

I am in possession or nearing possession of a few board games (how is not relevant) and I came up with a brilliant idea: How about we form some kind of game club? We can meet up regularly to try out new games, have some food, and have fun that doesn't involve going out to town.

Please, I can't play these by myself.

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un: sanda

[thundercrashes]

[A game club you say...]

Depends. Would card games be allowed to be brought and played once in a while too?

[likemybooks]

I was thinking of games that involve more strategy and intellect than poker but I suppose I will allow it. It's a socialization activity.

[thundercrashes]

Oh, I wasn't talking about poker: I'm talking about Duel Monsters, or any other games that can be played with other types of cards than just your typical kind used for poker or go fish or whatever.

[Real quick, he sends an image of some Duel Monster cards like an Armed Dragon and a magic card as examples of what they look like.]

[likemybooks]

[Holy shit.

Taryon has heard of roleplaying, of board games, and of video games, but a card game where you use monsters and spells? Why hasn't Exandria invented anything like this??]

You have these here??
How does it work?

[thundercrashes]

Yeah, I have my own deck from home, and I'm in the process of getting copies made of cards I know about from home made here too so that people can collect whatever cards they wanna use to build their own decks.

I can teach anyone who is interested how to play as well.

[likemybooks]

Count me in. Scratch that, come over and give us a demonstration!

[thundercrashes]

Sure. Where do you want me to meet you at?

[likemybooks]

library

[Taryon likes hanging out there, anyway, and he can spend the waiting time going over new books.]

--> action

[thundercrashes]

Sounds good. I'll head over now.

[Give or take about five minutes, Manjoume will arrive at the library, looking around a bit before he spots Taryon sitting at a table.]

Uh, hey. You're the guy that was asking about games on the network, right?

[likemybooks]

[Taryon is partway through the first chapter of a book on electrical engineering when Manjoume arrives. Sometimes, people wander inside while avoiding conversation, and he doesn't care to look up until he's directly addressed.

He slides in a bookmark and closes the book.] You're the one with the card games? [He sets the book onto a nearby chair, then folds his hands and plants them on the table.] I'm listening.

[thundercrashes]

Yeah, that's me: name's Manjoume Jun, from the Brimstone team. I can explain how Duel Monsters is played while showing you my cards here.

[So, Manjoume sits down across from Taryon here, taking out his Duel Monster cards from their deck holder and spreading them out on the table for the other man to look at. There are more of those Armed Dragons as well as few other different monster characters, more of those green magic cards, some purple-colored cards that Manjoume will refer to as "trap cards" if asked about them...]

[likemybooks]

Taryon Darrington.

[He holds his head a little higher when he shares his name.]

So you fight monsters with magic, is my guess.

[thundercrashes]

Yeah, you can. You summon monsters to go up against your opponents monsters and fight to try to make your opponent's life points hit zero to win the game. Magic and Trap cards can be used to make your monsters stronger, to try to weaken the opponent's monsters, or the game in general more difficult for your opponent to be able to take out your monsters that easily.

There's a lot of strategy involved in figuring out which cards are the best to use at the right time.

[likemybooks]

Oh. So we're the ones commanding the beasts to fight one another. What a novel concept! Instead of our wizards or rangers fighting, we have a team of monsters, battling like our small personal armies.

[Don't tell him about other creature-collecting video games.]

[thundercrashes]

Correct. That said, I should note that there are Duel Monsters that are humanoid in design, or even have names that include "magician" or "ranger" in them. It all depends on what kind of cards you're drawn toward the most and like using in terms of skill and design: my deck I've built just happens to be focused around dragons, machines, and the occasional weird creature that happens to work with my other cards.

[Aka, whatever the hell an "Ojama" is supposed to be--is it an animal or is it a weird humanoid, who can say.]