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Rex Raptor and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Island Tournament (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Quest)

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TempestK said:
Kind of wishing we'd led with our fusion now. Though would that or the other plan have worked out for us?
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I'm not sure, tbh. Lots of variables. Burning DD to field Three Spheres Imperial Lord early could have led to a major tempo shift since it can bounce one card per turn, which is a really valuable skill. Maybe it would have been enough to run Yugi down before Atem stepped in, but I'd have to actually play it out to be sure. It was, in my head as I wrote up the voting options, the one most likely to net a good early presence and lock down Yugi's options by bouncing back spells he's trying to save for later, making it more difficult to combo two or more spells in a turn.

Atem waking up was based on a turn counter. First turn he's show up if I rolled 6, then 5 or 6 turn 2, 4-6 turn 3, etc. The fact I rolled low the first three turns maybe saved Rex from just being stomped. If that fourth turn die roll had been a 1 or a 2 and Atem wasn't around to get Yugi's confidence back after the Monster Recovery field wipe, then he probably would have lost pretty soon after that too.

The fact that I knew Atem was stepping in the moment Yugi flips Monster Recovery, and that he had access to one Destiny Draw if need be, is why I was not too broken up about missing the use of Survival's End to pop the facedown at the end of last update. If you'd had an opportunity for a direct attack at that moment, he'd drop his Kuriboh on you, and then turtle up with his monsters one at a time until he can pull that Brain Control + Monster Reborn + Catapult Turtle combo, burning his DD if needed to protect his monsters with Magical Hats or something along those lines.

Pop SoRL with Survival? Turtles up until Brain Control + Reborn. Pop Celtic when it first gets big instead of letting him do his ritual play? Now he has 2 other monsters on the field still, so he turtles up until BC and Reborn.

Frankly, the fact that his randomised deck order dropped BC and then reborn back to back, as well as Kuriboh, Swords, Luster Ritual and Catapult in his hand refresh after monster recovery, was just straight up anime nonsense.
 
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So that's what it means to fight The Hero, huh.

(I've been following for a while, just chiming in to say this is a great quest).
 
[x] Try to appeal to the integrity of this tournament as a competitive event.
[x] Try to make amends with a former ally.
 
I am now imagining that in the future Jonouchi Ryuzaki duels always sells out because of the sheer rope tight danger appeal of the duels

Ryuzaki hitting like a fuckin truck and Jonouchi constantly weaseling out by the skin of his teeth, then Ryuzaki just countering out of nowhere showing he is wary and knowing of his opponent's tactics
 
Black.Horus said:
So I don't remember, but if the Quest continues after DK we wouldn't get our fusion because we didn't get to the finals right?
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Pretty sure you're thinking of Walnut's quest on SpaceBattles, Dueling It Away, where Lara receives physical copies of the fusions she made during DK at the Italian duel tournament event. I don't believe I've said anything like that, considering that in the manga it's ostensibly still wildcard fusion rules all the way through Battle City as well, without any physical Fusion and Ritual cards. It's only in Dark Side of Dimensions that physical cards for fusions and rituals first appear, so in the manga timeline that revamp of design occurs sometime between the Battle City arc and DSOD, probably around a 7-8 month gap.

In the quest this change may happen earlier, if certain plot threads play out differently or I just get sick of there not being physical cards for fusions and rituals lol
 
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Very interesting. Looking forward to seeing where things go from here. Wonder what we're going to get up to during the finals and the interim leading up to Battle City.
 
This duel was amazing, we threw all we could at Yugi and he swung back with as much as we did. It sucks we lost but to be honest we were facing the Protag, our chances of winning were slim, they were there, but really really small.

Though one thing I'm wondering @Vagrant we still had Tail swipe set in our field right? Couldn't we have activated it during Yugis turn to return our Gale lizard back to hand before Yugi blasted us with it? Pretty sure we can activate spell cards too during the opponents turn if they are set.
 
Is there a reason our guy couldn't chain Survival's End to the Ritual to destroy Celtic Guardian, fizzle the ritual and keep better field presence?
 
Lambeard said:
Is there a reason our guy couldn't chain Survival's End to the Ritual to destroy Celtic Guardian, fizzle the ritual and keep better field presence?
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It's probably to do with me messing up PSCT on the ritual spell, because I'm trying to jank together a coherent card that sort of reflects how the rituals work, but I pictured it as all being similar to a fusion or a synchro on the field. The intent was that once the ritual starts, it's happening unless you negate the actual ritual spell. I probably need to change how cost/effect works on the ritual spell, to make it clear that just like tributing 2 monsters, attaching the spell is part of the activation requirements. By the time the card is played it already happened at activation, so you can't just pop the monster being used as the medium.

Probably need to shift around my : and ; placement in the text of the ritual spell (or just stop insisting on having no physical ritual monster cards and needing to work around that limitation).

Kingster said:
This duel was amazing, we threw all we could at Yugi and he swung back with as much as we did. It sucks we lost but to be honest we were facing the Protag, our chances of winning were slim, they were there, but really really small.

Though one thing I'm wondering @Vagrant we still had Tail swipe set in our field right? Couldn't we have activated it during Yugis turn to return our Gale lizard back to hand before Yugi blasted us with it? Pretty sure we can activate spell cards too during the opponents turn if they are set.
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Uhh. I forgot that card because it had done nothing for the whole duel? Oh wait, no, I just checked my duel notes, and hey! I didn't forget it when I was choreographing the duel, but I did when I wrote the update. In my choreography I had Atem use Brain Control on King Rex. When writing the update I was like "you know what, I'll have Atem be nice and take the weaker one even though it makes more sense to take Rex and shoot it", completely forgeting that the reason I had him take rex in the first place was because Tail Swipe was on the field and not just because Atem was being a dick.

I'll have to correct it to the original choreographed version and rex can watch his dino get shot out of a gun and take the hit like a man. I guess this will teach me to change my thought out duel choreography on the fly when I'm writing at 4 am and only half coherent, even if it is the literal last turn of the duel.

And it's done. Death by flying t-rex is official now.
 
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[X] Try to bargain your way in as Koyo's +1.
[X] Try to slip by when Jonouchi and Honda beat up the security guards.

That couldn't have been more Anime a duel if it was scripted.
Atem wakes up at the exact moment things look bad for Yugi, draws Swords of Revealing Light to stall, then blocks a fatal hit with Kuriboh to win the duel.

Our plan went better than just playing the cards we had without DD to save us, so I'm happy to have spent 100 DP to be a bit more of a speedbumb to Atem and not just get crushed the moment he showed up. In hindsight should have been more explosive earlier, but shoulda coulda woulda
 
chrisleech said:
Why would he know to play around that?
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He wouldn't, but taking rex and firing it results in rex and gale both dead. Taking gale results in only gale dead. From a tactical optimisation viewpoint, Atem would have been better taking rex to fire it off, just in case something goes wrong. It had nothing to do with Tail Swipe, just him being pragmatic about the situation. Like I said, it was my just feeling a bit of late night "inspiration" when writing the actual update that caused me to have him make the less pragmatic decision, which is not really his style.

EDIT: To be clear, I had the meta-choice to make regarding which monster to steal, knowing that Tail Swipe would foil the play. Atem's in-universe reasoning had nothing to do with Tail Swipe since he didn't know about it, but I think his in-universe reasoning was sound when I did the choreo. Then I went and changed it, forgetting both my in and out of universe reasoning for the choice in the first place, and atem being randomly a little bit soft results in him embarrassing himself so I reverted it once that was pointed out.
 
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Was the catapult turtle sacrifice the same chain as the brain control? Because if it wasn't we could have Tail Swiped to bounce Catapult Turtle since it only specifies that the target dinosaur needs to be faceup, not that it still needs to be controlled by you.
 
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chrisleech said:
Was the catapult turtle sacrifice the same chain as the brain control?
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Nah, you have to have taken over the monster already in order to sacrifice it for turtle. So basically, Yugi has no monsters on field, Ryuzaki has Gale and Rex. Yugi activates Brain Control, and takes Rex. Once resolved, he activates Monster reborn, summons Turtle. Once resolved, final chain starts by destroying Rex to destroy Gale.

If Yugi had any monsters on the field then Ryuzaki could chain Tail Swipe to Brain Control to bounce Rex back to his hand, but Yugi didn't at that time so no luck. By the time there was a monster on the field that Ryuzaki could target to make Tail Swipe legal (Catapult Turtle), Rex was not a monster he controlled, so Tail Swipe couldn't be activated.
 
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Vagrant said:
If Yugi had any monsters on the field then Ryuzaki could chain Tail Swipe to Brain Control to bounce Rex back to his hand, but Yugi didn't at that time so no luck.
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He actually couldn't have bounced Rex back. It specifically says up to 2 monsters which are lower in level than the targeted monster or face down.
 
chrisleech said:
He actually couldn't have bounced Rex back. It specifically says up to 2 monsters which are lower in level than the targeted monster or face down.
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I remembered it as equal or lower, not specifically lower. Whoops.Well, good thing I didn't have Ryuzaki try to do that, then. My hypothetical error in a scenario that never happened, my bad.
 
So question, what are chances we get those Spare Star chips from Mai now that Yugi has ours? Joey is pretty much in, and Koyo is in
 
Honestly, yeah, we are too prideful for Mai, so unless Yugi gives them too us since we don't need them, I'd rather not beg or anything.
 
antsx said:
I think its this option


however I prefer one of these

[X] Try to bargain your way in as Koyo's +1.
[X] Try to slip by when Jonouchi and Honda beat up the security guards.
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Just to be clear for everybody, since you said you prefer "one of these", the top two will both happen, and certain combinations have different likelihoods of success, as well as different outcomes.

So it's not so much voting for two options and hoping for one of them, so much as it is a tiny bit more complex chain of events being voted for.
 
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