Revan. We found Revan. And then started arguing philosophy with him.
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
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Why not write one yourself? You don't need to rely on someone else for that and you can only get better with practice.
Cecylene
Eternal Idea Engine
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Revan's Holocron was deliberately built to fail after being viewed once and nearly didn't actually finish due to a constant degrading during use. Darth Bane studied it to develop his own powers and the Rule of Two from Revan's teachings.
Jack_Trade
Chasing the Green Fairy
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you know I always did wonder how Reven would react to the Rule of Two all things considered. I mean in fanfics he's rather dismissive to say the least but those are fanfics so yeah.
Doomed Wombat
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Well he only had one direct apprentice, but on the other hand he knew the Sith as they were. Good and the bad.
He also trained thousands of Sith Knights and assassins, including setting up several Sith academies.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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Ya, but only one direct apprentice successor style ya know.
If there was a slightest chance of that happening, such as rolling a dozen consecutive 1s (after rerolls) we ought to let Palpatine win. Lesser evils and all that...
Panory
The Omake Dragon
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Working a full time job to pay my way through college, coupled with being hit with inspirations for omakes in other quests.
Though I do have the next two days off, coupled with the rough ideas of an entire fucking omake arc, so hey, we'll see where we are in a bit.
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lets not please
Aramis
An unwilling witness
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But that is for penitents and would make any character who takes it unavailable to any of our goals... Why do you wish to include it?
In the comics, it is implied that this is the same vow that Luke Skywalker took after his first attempt to create the Jedi order was ended by Ben Solo.
So we could find some useful Jedi among the vow takers.
Perhaps, raid the Jedi archives to find the info?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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Well if we're going in there might as well clean them out
.I want them fire crystals. (tis a joke..., but I do want all the Jedi's stuff.
Aramis
An unwilling witness
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Hmmm, I don't think the Jedi who are wholly dedicated to the Force would appreciate our pragmatic view and use of it. The Jedi are trained from the crib to become spiritualists. Of course, they would be great force-users but I believe they aren't the kind of people we are interested in.
As far as I recall, Ciaran doesn't match the type to take that sort of vow. She's the kind of person who deals with mistakes by immediately dealing with them and ensuring that they won't happen ever again.
Also, dedication to the Force would mean spending quite a few personal actions in a time when we have precious few to spread amongst our many issues. There are other ways of attaining powerful allies.
Edit: I am all for a Mission Impossible in the political center of the Jedi; it sounds like a great way to test our Abyss Walkers...
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Panory
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"So you said you found a new game?" said Ahsoka, sitting down opposite Thrawn in the Abyss Watcher's recreation room.
Thrawn looked up from the two piles of cards he had been busy shuffling through. "Yes, courtesy of a trader I bumped into. Apparently it's a card game, similar to pazaak, though more complicated and based more off of strategy than chance."
"Alright, I'm interested. How do we play?" Thrawn slid a small booklet across the table to her. The thing looked like it had been through hell and back over the course of several decades, worn and tattered, barely still legible.
"The trader was considerate enough to include a copy of the rulebook. He mentioned that it might be a tad out of date, but it should be good enough for beginners such as us?" smirked Thrawn. Ahsoka knew better. If Thrawn partook in a game of strategy, he dominated. She'd likely flounder a bit as she tried to come to grips with a new system of rules, but her Chiss opponent would take to the game like a fish to water.
The two sat in a comfortable silence as Ahsoka flipped through the short little rulebook and Thrawn continued shuffling the two piles of cards, which she was guessing were the decks the rules kept mentioning. Finally, after coming to grips with the somewhat simplistic rules, Ahsoka set the book off to the side. "So which deck is mine?"
"In the interest of fairness, I've deigned to not look at either in any particular depth, though you'd understandably be a fool to blindly trust an opponent. To that end, you may pick which one to use." said Thrawn, setting the two decks between them and gesturing towards them with a wave of his hand.
There was really no way to be familiar enough with the game to know which was better, so Ahsoka bit the bullet and grabbed one at random. Giving it a quick shuffle, she set it down on the table to her right and picked up five cards. Thrawn calmly did the same with the other.
"Since you picked, I believe it's only fair if I go first." he said, drawing another card. "I summon Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"Three thousand attack!?" exclaimed Ahsoka. "We only have two thousand Life Points. That seems a tad overpowered."
Thrawn shrugged. "Those are the rules. If it's any consolation, I can't attack on the first turn. You may draw something even stronger."
Ahsoka looked down at the cards in her hand resentfully. "And here I thought two hundred was a lot…" Resigned to being beaten down by Thrawn's powerful dragon, Ahsoka drew one last card, noting with excitement that it was a different color than the ones in her hand. An effect, either from a monster or a magic card could change the momentum of the duel.
"I activate the magic card Pot of Greed." said Ahsoka. "It lets me draw two new cards from my deck."
"That seems like a very useful effect with literally no downside." said Thrawn, cocking an eyebrow. "Why wouldn't you play that card?"
"You have a monster with enough attack to kill me one and a half times over. You can just be quiet about how this seems broken." chastised Ahsoka, pulling two more cards and adding them to her hand. There was another normal monster, this one with two and a half thousand attack, and an effect monster with low attack and a long winded effect.
Thrawn waited patiently as Ahsoka read the card's text. Then the Jedi set down her entire hand face up. "I think I win."
"What?"
"If you have all five of these cards in your hand, you win." explained Ahsoka, pointing to the one effect monster. Thrawn picked up the copy of Exodia the Forbidden One and read through the effect, taking note of the weak pieces of Exodia that also lay on the table.
"There was a bit less strategy than that trader promised me." mumbled Thrawn, leaning backwards.
"Yeah. It doesn't really feel like I actually beat you." agreed Ahsoka.
"…This is a dumb game." the two said in unison.
AN: I think someone requested a Yu-Gi-Oh omake, and it's no secret that early Yu-Gi-Oh is a completely broken, unplayable mess of a game.
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Sinsystems
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There is a reason for its long ban list.
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Let not talk about how the rule are now, with all the different summoning methods.
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I got really excited when I saw the title and ended up being really disappointed. Nothing happened. No build-up, no stakes, no nothing, just BEWD then Exodia then end. It was short and then it was gone.
Only thing that surpasses it is later Yu-Gi-Oh because with the right people and agreements you could at least have fun with Yu-Gi-Oh after the initial one, but after that the rest is an insane mess I have long since given up in keeping track of.
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See, this was good setup. It established Yugioh as a game of strategy with Ahsoka as the underdog player who was facing someone that was far superior in strategy.
This is where the first hint of a payoff should've come up, but instead the moment was completely wasted. In the first paragraph we have Thrawn straight up telling her not to blindly trust an opponent. This is good. It hints that Thrawn indeed has something up his sleeve, but it also gives a much more subtle hint that Ahsoka might something up hers, even if she doesn't know it. Good paragraph that makes the story better.
It's the second paragraph that mucks it up. Ahsoka just grabs a deck at random. That's it. That was a complete waste of an opportunity. Instead, she should've had picked one at random with hints that maybe, at least subconsciously, her pick wasn't as random as she consciously thought. In other words, the Force should've been here.
Then we see the duel play out, where Thrawn's noted superiority at strategy is played off and he even perhaps enacts a ruse, calling back to his lesson of "don't trust your opponent". This entrenches Ahsoka's position as the underdog and gives her and the audience a bit more motivation to see her win (to beat Thrawn despite him cheating) as well as giving some payoff to that Chekhov's Gun. It looks like Ahsoka's on the ropes and about to lose, only for Ahsoka to flip the tables in the end thanks to unknowingly tapping into the Force to both pick the Exodia deck and to draw the Exodia cards. This gives her the underdog win, gives extra payoff to the early scenes, and throws in a bit of "surpassed the master" by giving Thrawn and Ahsoka a game where their abilities make them equals.
Instead, we got *BEWD *Exodia* "This game is dumb"
It was just such a waste of a good omake idea and a good setup.
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