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Draw, Summon, Battle! (Yu-Gi-Oh! Quest)

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Draw your card, summon your partner, and battle for... whatever reason you may have to be here.
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    Sir Giraffe

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    In dreams, everything is possible. It is a place where the real, physical, living person doesn't matter because only imagination and thoughts affect that intangible world. The human mind has no limits for what a dream can be; like reliving a memory from simpler times to create a new world where nothing makes sense. Each dream is an experience but it is common for most to forget them as soon as they wake up, and only the most impactful dreams are remembered for days to come.

    When people don't forget the dreams they have, different things may happen. Some only take them as the byproduct of the subconscious, nothing to worry about. Others, however, believe those dreams are warnings and advice. There are the ones who would rather live in their dreams while others hate to sleep because nightmares plague them.

    For you, the end of a dream means the start of another school day. Like many times before, you don't remember what dream you had. You just know it wasn't a dreamless night.

    It doesn't matter. Not when your alarm is beeping loudly without pause and no one is going to turn it off for you. You grumble in dissatisfaction, you are still somewhat tired but you force yourself out of the comfort of your warm bed.

    With a single tap on top of the clock, the alarm ends and the temptation to jump back under the blankets arises. Instead of losing to sloth, you march to the bathroom. Before leaving your room, you pick your uniform and place it next to your school bag, ready to be dressed as soon as you return.

    [ ] It is a dark blue jacket and a pair of trousers with the same color. (You're a boy)
    [ ] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)

    In the bathroom, you do the basics. Relief yourself, wash your hands and face, brush your teeth, things everyone does after waking up.

    You give a look at yourself in the mirror, and you see…

    [ ] A 12 year old in high school, a certified genius skipping grades. (You have to face restrictions and limitations along the way for being too young.)
    [ ] A 16 year old in the right grade, an average student like most. (You don't have extra challenges thanks to being just another teenager.)
    [ ] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)

    You nod at your reflection and leave the bathroom. Time to get dressed and eat something.


    Hello, everyone. I'm a giraffe trying to write something. This laidback project is inspired by these three works: Nothing is Sacred, Have You Tried Dueling It Away?, and The Domino City Effect. If you have never read a Yu-Gi-Oh! Quest before, I advise you to take a look at them before this one since they have more updates and high quality. It will also make it easier for you to play this quest since most mechanics were imported from there. And yes, it is another quest in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Get ready for another run in the Duelist Kingdom shenanigans with random bullshit.

    First things first, the vote for your starting age. It will determine your character archetype: the genius child, the average teenager, or the suspicious delinquent; it is a generalization, don't worry about getting 'locked' away from a certain type of personality or attitude. Your age also influences the quest's difficulty; a child will have harder times being taken seriously or allowed to travel alone, and everyone will keep an eye out for the delinquent or expect bad things from them. Being younger or older might provide some benefits but be aware that it is a tool to make things harder for you in the first place.

    You may have noticed there is no name or appearance vote right at the start, and I have a 'good' reason for that. In early Yu-Gi-Oh!, the deck spoke a lot about the person and their interests. Before we vote for name and face, I'll run some votes for your cards in the same vein as in The Domino City Effect. How your deck ends will define some things about you.

    About deck building, I'll say beforehand that each monster will only have one copy unless they need to have copies to work (like Thunder Dragon). For now, there will be a lot of Normal Monsters and Effect Monsters will appear slowly in the quest, I want to play around with cards' lore while we are in the era without well-set rules.

    Ah, There will be cards available for selection that didn't exist back then, and I have that in mind. I'll be careful to not pick future cards that will break this era, don't worry.

    Everyone loves custom cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! Quests and I'm not different. However, I won't just do any random fusions for you to get extra beatsticks, and you may lose a duel if you try to fish for more custom fusions. And remember, fusions are not the only way to get custom cards!

    You, of course, can earn cards in the normal way of beating duelists for Dueling Points (DP) and buying them. DP might have other functions but their main function is for you to buy cards, you shouldn't have to fear saving up except if you want a specific card later. You also can earn DP through completing objectives, more about that when it turns relevant.

    Unless stated beforehand, cards will follow the IRL effects instead of the anime effects.

    Finally, votes are by line in most cases. I'll warn you when a vote can be by plan, otherwise default to the usual.

    Let's duel and have some fun.
     
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    [X] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)
    [X] A 16 year old in the right grade, an average student like most. (You don't have extra challenges thanks to being just another teenager.)

    Going to go with this for my vote. Curious as to what archetypes we will have access to and the like.

    Personally I have a love of the Dragon Maid Archetype but I am well aware that they are a bit too strong for old style Yugioh. Still hope that they get a chance here.

    Alternatively we could get our hands on Seiyaryu and lead in to the Starry Knight archetype.
     
    Sinsystems said:
    Going to go with this for my vote. Curious as to what archetypes we will have access to and the like.

    Personally I have a love of the Dragon Maid Archetype but I am well aware that they are a bit too strong for old style Yugioh. Still hope that they get a chance here.
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    It is going to be more a 'theme' than a proper archetype considering YGO is in its first steps. Unless we are counting Field Spells boosting the right Monster type as an archetype :oops: A monster or two of future archetypes should be fine, though.

    Sinsystems said:
    Alternatively we could get our hands on Seiyaryu and lead in to the Starry Knight archetype.
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    *looking at the Ace Monsters available for the next update*

    Well, well, well, look what we have here, a seer :V

    Ah, thanks for voting!
     
    [X] It is a dark blue jacket and a pair of trousers with the same color. (You're a boy)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)

    Curious to see what we can do with character having a bad reputation.
     
    [X] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)


    Why play cards when we could just beat up our opponent?
     
    Hmm, do I wanna play as Yuga, Yugi or Yusei?

    [X] It is a dark blue jacket and a pair of trousers with the same color. (You're a boy)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)
     
    Sir Giraffe said:
    It is going to be more a 'theme' than a proper archetype considering YGO is in its first steps. Unless we are counting Field Spells boosting the right Monster type as an archetype :oops: A monster or two of future archetypes should be fine, though.
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    I am fine with that, so long as one of the Dragon Maids gets some time to shine I am happy. Really in this era they are pretty good, hell even Laundry would be a nasty surprise.
    Sir Giraffe said:
    *looking at the Ace Monsters available for the next update*

    Well, well, well, look what we have here, a seer :V

    Ah, thanks for voting!
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    To be fair it is a monster from this time period with decent stats. So it made sense in my mind, plus it would have a clear route of expansion in the future.

    Also the simple fact that it would likely result in our character being a bit of a Christmas fiend would be hilarious.
     
    Given the time period it's suggested to be in, I'm hoping for potential options like Big Koala/Beast, Gaia Knight/Warrior and Gogiga Gagagigo/Reptile, though he might be a bit strong, so maybe a Wingweaver/Fairy deck instead.

    EDIT: Or a generic Forest/EARTH deck with a smattering of Beasts, Beast-Warriors, Winged Beast and Plants might be a decent spread and theme. Spearhead it with a Sengenjin or something like that.
     
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    [X] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)
    "Female delinquent/school drop-out" isn't an archetype you often see as protagonist, so curious to see where we could end up going with that one. There could be some fun combinations depending on the deck we end up with, like...

    Sinsystems said:
    Also the simple fact that it would likely result in our character being a bit of a Christmas fiend would be hilarious.
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    " I cannot go to classes, I need to buy/steal some Christmas gifts to preserve the Holiday spirit! " :p
     
    [X] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)
    Sir Giraffe said:
    A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)
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    This wouldn't happen to apply to Duel Spirits wouldn't it? (assuming we have Spirit World shenanigans, that is)

    Another assumption: monsters like Cosmo Queen, Goddess of whim and Time Wizard won't be in the initial Card buy, make thing more unique to the character.
    Sinsystems said:
    Alternatively we could get our hands on Seiyaryu and lead in to the Starry Knight archetype.
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    You know what would be neat, a Starry Knight retrain of Wingweaver.
     
    Vagrant said:
    Given the time period it's suggested to be in, I'm hoping for potential options like Big Koala/Beast, Gaia Knight/Warrior and Gogiga Gagagigo/Reptile, though he might be a bit strong, so maybe a Wingweaver/Fairy deck instead.

    EDIT: Or a generic Forest/EARTH deck with a smattering of Beasts, Beast-Warriors, Winged Beast and Plants might be a decent spread and theme. Spearhead it with a Sengenjin or something like that.
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    I'm hoping for the good old chess Archfiend (but with the restriction of the deck building, hard to do)
     
    [X] It is a pink coat with a blue ribbon tie and a blue skirt. (You're a girl)
    [X] A 12 year old in high school, a certified genius skipping grades. (You have to face restrictions and limitations along the way for being too young.)
     
    Ashen Cross said:
    This wouldn't happen to apply to Duel Spirits wouldn't it? (assuming we have Spirit World shenanigans, that is)
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    The bad reputation is only with the human characters.

    Unless the spirit have something related to order or education, it won't be a problem with spirit. But a spirit not liking you for X or Y can happen with any option since it is their thing not clicking well with yours.

    Ashen Cross said:
    Another assumption: monsters like Cosmo Queen, Goddess of whim and Time Wizard won't be in the initial Card buy, make thing more unique to the character.
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    A correct assumption. Lara played a lot with those cards, so they won't be an option. I'll avoid Suijin and things too close to Tsurugi as well, and Magician of Black Chaos.

    To throw another thing for people to discuss and think about, all options for your ace monster AKA strongest won't have more than 2500ATK.
     
    [X] It is a dark blue jacket and a pair of trousers with the same color. (You're a boy)
    [X] A 18 year old repeater, close to dropping out of high school. (You will have a bad reputation and it will be harder to connect with others.)
     
    Sir Giraffe said:
    To throw another thing for people to discuss and think about, all options for your ace monster AKA strongest won't have more than 2500ATK.
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    Perfectly fit Summoned Skull the first Archfiend card.
    Also if we go for Chess Archfiend deck they got a "retrain" in 2013 with card like Archfiend Emperor.

    Card like Fiend Mega-Cyber can also work if we try to build an machine deck.
     
    Sir Giraffe said:
    This restriction is only for this first selection, after that it is free game when you get the options to buy those cards or meet them in spirit world if happens.
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    Neat. This also implies we can get future cards super early.

    I do like the lore between Dragon Horn Hunter and Dragon Core Hexer, will they be a possible Ace Monster?
     
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