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Welcome to Harmonia United!


Harmonia United, the most prestigious Dueling Academy around the globe. Founded one-hundred years ago by the now-legendary man known as Hideo Hasao, this prestigious academy has fostered many of the greatest pro duelists since its inception. Students from around the world looking to make it big in the world of Duel Monsters have applied here and, each year, five graduates go pro instantly without any additional tests required! The only requirements are being a third year... and being the grand champion.

Haronia is divided up into eight dorms, each of them themed after something from Duel Monsters. The first six are themed after the six elements of the game: Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Dark and Light. Each of these six compete over the year to be the best dorm, pushing each other to the limit. But they can't do it alone. There are, in fact, two more dorms, to help them in this goal: The Synchro dorm and the Xyz dorm. Centered around constant progress and never giving up respectively, these special dorms provide huge boons to whoever ally with them.

But how do they compete? Well, each dorm houses duelists, who each have individual ranks. The first years start off on a blank slate, the second years carry over the results from last year and the Third years have their own unique bracket separate from the first two. Only third years can represent an entire dorm, and only the five best students in them. Because of this, each dorm has a champion, one who rises above the rest. The champion is the single most important duelist in it and is often the determining factor for whether or not a dorm wins the grand title at the end of the year.

You all? You will be those third years. Those champions who aim to push their dorm to the top, who earn their keep... after all, the champion of whichever becomes number 1 earns their title as Grand Champion of Harmonia United. Not only will the entire dorm be recorded in the hall of fame, the duelist who pushed them that far will be given special recognition. They are the duelists who enter the pro circuit, becoming a beacon of inspiration for those who look to find their future in Harmonia United!

Locations


Harmonia is set on a remote island off to the coast of Japan. It's not too large, but houses enough space to accomodate a student and teacher population of about 500 people. Most of the students who go here are Japanese and do speak the language, but it's not unheard of for a foreigner or two to sneak in. Foreigners aren't looked down upon in Harmonia, and their inclusivity is known world-wide. Locations on the island include:














Characters


Harmonia United is home to many different types of people. These are all of the relevant ones to our story:












Dorm members are to be revealed at a later date.

Now it's up to you!


At Harmonia, there is only one true victor. Will you beat the competition and come out on top, or will you crumble underneath it all?
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EDIT: FOR ANYONE READING IN FUTURE, CHECK OUT THIS POST


Hey, whaddup nerds. As you can see, Satoshi's made a thing. A good thing. And, I'm helping. He'll be your GM, I'll be your co-GM, and this post will be to show all y'all the OOC information you'll need:

1: The world isn't set in any continuity of YGO. Anime, manga or otherwise, this is a completely separate universe. Therefor, there's way less restrictions on what cards are plot-important and, thus, allowed to be wielded by the player characters. Still, there's a few ones we think are important to leave out;
  • The God cards, the Wicked Gods and the Sacred Beasts. These cards are gods, anti-gods and corrupted gods respectively, and we believe they were a big enough deal to be a big deal in this universe too. Deal. Big deal.
  • Z-Arc: The Dimension Dragons are all regular cards, but their fusion has a legendary status in this world. It's unbelievably rare, and the few who hold a copy have a hard time summoning him.
  • Exodia: Exodia and his variants are more like a collector's item in this world. The few that have it don't like to play it, preferring to use a deck more tailored to them.


2: So uh, about dueling. I'll just give you the long and short of it: They're all scripted. Neither me nor sat want any RNG involved with the RP, and for that purpose, we have done away with deck lists and actually playing out a duel. Decks will follow certain guidelines rather than be a set list, think as how the anime decks all have a theme but keep shifting. This also means you can't actually play YGO, so instead you'll have to write up a script and write that out in RP form. We believe this is a lot less restrictive, gets across the character's play style better and makes the both of them seem competent (unless you want it to be a curbstomp).

All duels will be in 4k life format, too, as 8k is a bit too high to effictively script with and will cause the duels to be longer than they really need to be. Also, naturally, there will be a predetermined winner for each duel. If two players duel and can't decide which character wins, the GMs will decide.

3: You will all play one of the six dorm champions of the elemental dorms while we, the GMs, will play the Xyz and Synchro dorm. So this means you all will be able to play the Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light and Dark dorms but not the Xyz and Synchro ones. Aside from your champion, however, we also expect one more thing out of each of you: 4 NPCs. These NPCs will be the 2nd best through 5th best of each of your dorms and will serve the purpose of both giving your dorm some more character as well as tailoring each dorm to the player's imaginations. With approval, of course. By the way, the five that go pro? They're the top 5 of the winning dorm, so there you go.

4: Deck guidelines, eh? You can use any non-banned card that's available in the game, TCG or OCG. We'll go with the ruling that if it's not banned on one forbidden list but it is on the other, you can still use it. As for Anime and Custom cards... both only with approval. Me and Sat don't mind anime cards if they're not on Nibelung's Treasure level of crazy, but to be sure, we'd like to have them go through us for approval. As for customs, we'll allow each player to create up to 6 with GM approval. We don't want you to completely rely on them, so limiting it to just 6 will make it so you'll only have to create one if your niche isn't filled by another already-existing card.

Also, two more things on this: Just because a character's in a certain dorm doesn't mean their deck has to adhere to that dorm's typing. Dorms are based on personality rather than decks, so while characters with FIRE decks would naturally gravitate to the Fire dorm, it doesn't mean they couldn't have an EARTH or DARK deck. You can also include any extra deck method of your choosing, except...

5: No links, no Master Rule 4, no Cyberse.
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Hey! I've talked to @Ammokkx a lot about this project on Discord, and I signed up to join in on it!

I'll start reading through everything in a bit, I'm still trying to wake up this morning. Hope we can have some fun with this, guys!
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Happy to have you, let's hope we can ride the wave of success here or at least fun

Edit: Wait that makes no sense
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I'll bite. Might be either wind or earth.
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lol

I ended up just reading through it anyways... And I've got to say I love what you guys put together!

I am glad we're not in Master Rule 4, I can actually play the game in an enjoyable fashion again

I'll go ahead and claim Fire. Fiery Friday is the best day! I already have some ideas on my characters, too. Man, I'm hyped!
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Ohhey look who it is. Ohhey, look who I am. Been a while, eh @Ammokkx? I only just came in from the cold (literally) but I'll have a proper eyeball at this shortly.
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*From the ashs of a fallen two roleplays rises a third tale. No Vincents no Ignia's only solid fun.* (Elemental lord fun. (Unless thats a bit too far with the system-)

Okay so, I would like to reserve Dark Dorm for reasons.
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Was oohing and ahhing about this RP for quite the while, but @1Charak2 said through DM that I should join. So I am.

I see someone already picked up Fire, so I'll probably take Earth then, if you don't mind.
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I was presuming we'd wait 'till the actual OOC thread goes out to pick roles. Well, guess if I snooze I lost, right? xD

Anyway, after discussion with Ammok, I've definitely got my eyes in and a prototype for a character (who could probably be the Kaiba to someone else's Yugi, if you catch my drift), although bearing as someone else seems to already be dark I'm gonna have to do some rethinking.
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Yeah, we're not letting people reserve dorms here. It's not a 'first come first serve' type of deal. If two people want the same dorm, we'd let both of them post a CS and pick the best one.

EDIT: This also makes us one short, still.
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Question: Will things such as Turbo Duels or Action Duels or whatever-the-duel-type-is-in-VRAINS-because-I-didn't-watch-VRAINS-yet be a thing?
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@Plumbumthe island is too small for things like turbo duels unless you want to crash into trees drive into the sea or crashing into ruins or, you know what I'm suggesting I mean the island is big enough to race on but its a bit too dense, action duels I might consider for now lets assume not, speed duels won't be a thing.

erm or just ask @Ammokkx he might have a better answer I'm not good with words
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Nah, I know what you mean. Especially remembering D-wheels go at like... 120mph ~ 200km/h easy. Good to know though.

I may have a bit of a bias being a biker IRL is all. xD
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I'm the same as Sat when it comes to Turbo dueling. As cool as it is to drive around on one of those things, the island's a bit of an ill-fit. We'd consider it if there was a big enough demand, but it would also be without speed spells most likely as it just adds another layer of complexity that isn't really needed.

I'd also say no to Action Dueling because while the tech is there, it often felt like an excuse to get lazy with the duel writing in Arc-V and I doubt it'd add much here either.
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But what if crashing and dying is a crucial part of my Y.G.O experience?

Kidding. I don't have any issues with no turbo/action dueling, I don't really care about them anyways.

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Action Dueling would've been nice, but I guess I can't ask for too much. I'm just glad we get to script the damned things. If duels were to be settled by actually playing the game, my char's loss record would rival that of Weevil Underwood's or Rex Raptor's... knowing my luck <_<

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Speaking of scripting, what exactly will we be using in that regard? Piratepad? Etherpad? Whichever one of the two we and our dueling partners can agree on?
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I'd personally create a skeleton on something like etherpad/gdocs/whatever (think how duels are summarized on the YGO wiki, if you go look at an episode synopsis) then RP the actual character work as would normally be done PbP so that spectators can still in essence see the duel unfold.

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Alright, so to explain the scripting part, I'll use an example I've showed to a few others already. It was used for a different RP which is already dead by this point. The other guy's deck was pretty bad, so I had it so we scripted the thing so he didn't get to be shafted while my character dominated. I make all my scripts in a google doc, but there's other options such as PMing it or making it in a pad.

Here is the actual script.

Of course, you can't post this in a thread and call it a day. After you've got your script, you've got multiple options. Either you make like Plum and play-by-play it in the thread (not a fan of it myself, but unless sat says otherwise, I'm not going to stop people from doing it), you can PM your posts to each other or you can set up a pad or google docs and collab it that way. I've done every method under the sun, they all have their ups and downs.
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@AdmrlStalfos19good to see someone shares my sentiment, duels that play out as real duels are lame, this is not the game this is a roleplay it can turn a supposedly pro player into a loser
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