The Grey Dust

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No people are just... Being people I guess.

I suppose if no one posts by tomorrow night's GM post I'll have to move us along.

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Well given this is a more active Bit, I will most likely have a post up next Friday night, giving everyone a chance to post for the week, and I'll get another post on Monday night going.

After this Giant snake, you will have to face the King of Wraiths.

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Would really appreciate it if you guys posted an OOC about a future IC post that you have planned which involves correcting my character on basic and stupid stuff. I have build a character and am trying to behave like him the most, really play it's role so forgive me if my earthly self can't come to par with his more collective reasoning and knowledge(that he is supposed to have etc). I'm not trying to be all knowing but please message me for little errors in logic that I might make instead of taking me as a duffis. Also if you're not happy with my actions, you think I'm ending things too fast and this sort of thing, then just message me and I'll get around to it if your complaint is reasonable. And again I would appreciate it if you respected my request.@The Grey Dust@Wraithblade6[@Everyone else]

@Bishop

In light of this, you had your character attempt to 1-shot the first combat encounter by himself.

While yes it may be in character to do so, these are all renown heroes of the land. All of them would attempt to do the same probably. So all attempts will be evaluated accordingly. Since there is only 1 target at the moment, this fight is relatively easier than the next combat encounter.

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The light was rather dire, neither welcome nor radiant, but pale and unnerving as it flittered through the icy woods from above. Gaze above at the false sky, your eyes seeing the roof of Limbo itself, the bleak white untouched by clouds despite the permafrost to suggest snowfall must occur at some point. Yet, compared to the bitter cold from whence they came, the true chill of the arctic they had to venture through to arrive at this, Limbo was but a welcoming place. The cold was met with windless light, the greenery still abound by the ancient evergreens which stand tall beside the river's course. Had they not known it was indeed Limbo, perhaps they had found an ancient forest, a lost grove hidden away from mankind to grow tall enough to shade their travels through this strange land. It certainly not be the weather to break their spirits and dissuade them from their journey. No, they have each come far to earn this right, their souls bought by their gods to protect them from the twisted nature of this place. Where the powers would corrupt the unblessed mortal, demigods alone had the will to be untouched by the condemnations of each layer to poison the very essence of being. Gold was incorruptible after all, and why else would the gods demand a tribute of earthly material if it were not to craft such sacred charms to protect their champions?

The spirits cannot harm thee, only if you allow them to will they be of threat. Their bodies were incorporeal and require a host to physically work the world around them. These damned were unlike those in the deeper layers who were of flesh renewed for their sins were not only of spirit. So they shall move about, like wisps, encircling the old boat was it drifted on its own path through the cold and quiet river. Their whispered warnings certainly eerie to hear, but only to test the resolve of the Demigod who hears them. They who were sent here for they claimed no god in life, and so no god claimed them in death, they who needed no god to do work of their own nature, of their own design, forever unable to set upon the world their will. Only a host shall appease them, a husk for their torment, rage and ire, fuelled by their grim reckoning of how cruel the gods can be, or perhaps how petty and human they often are.

Movements from below the river. A shadow, long and serpentine. The first guardian of the damned, which had been vanquished by those who came before you, long before there were no human souls in this layer the Serpent lies coiled and submerged. Its dead body runs across the river and back, the lifeless carcass preserved by the river's chill. Upon its steel-like scales, embedded deep into the reptile's thick hide, the swords and daggers, arrows and bolts of demigods and other heros who have come here seeking immortality. Some made it, some did not, yet the river only flowed one way, and turning back would require them to fight both the current and the boat's own mind as it set their mystical course through Limbo. Certainly the guardian was dead, its body cut apart into threes by some great warrior and an overwhelmingly large sword which butchered it apart. But now it is a puppet, a puppet to the more spiteful spirits in Limbo...

A crash through the waves, sending the boat back as the giant broke through the surface. Fangs ready to strike as the gaping maw hissed a forked tongue at the party, a raging monster with lifeless eyes, staring back at with the burning possession of the spirits of the dead. Behold the great serpent of limbo, called by many names, now reduced to nothing more than a socket puppet as its head and neck moved about on spiritual strings for the restless dead. It moves to attack the boat and her crew, coming down upon the longboat with wicked fangs to tear into the hull and capsize them overboard.

Your first combat encounter heroes. The great snake attacks your boat who amongst you shall come to its defense? You must draw its attacks towards yourselves, perhaps even fight upon the land for certainly one would not want to risk damaging the only thing that can travel between the layers. To be stuck here in limbo, neither dead and alive is only a matter of waiting. Eventually, the body shall tire out, or the mind shall wish for peace. Or perhaps you shall become the king of this realm, and make a paradise of Hell? Either way, think quickly and slay the beast, strike it where it is weak, not the heart which does not beat, nor the brain which does not think...

"Your Godsssssss are weak!"

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Posting, if anyone had anything before hand just blend it accordingly to your next post/Reaction to the giant enemy snake.

Guess what's the snake's name :P It should be fairly obvious.

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[@everyone]

GM post shall be up in approx 2hrs.

Enjoy the first combat encounter. This one should either be a one shot kill, or a long drawn out battle depending on how things are approached. Again logic rules over all here, so if you can think of a way for your character to deduce a way to kill the opposition, attempt to do so and I will grade/reward your efforts accordingly as in my last post.

Normally it does take at least 2 to put things together, ie the Boat and ice. Hence I wonder how many people will be able to take the hints I'll leave in the post.

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Just a heads up, GM' post is going to hit Monday night.

That being said no one posted as of yet so... I'm a bit concerned.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

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Yo, look at this bruhs.

@Eklispe

I'm not saying valid or not. I'm saying it's fine, but he does have to admit the deck is one the more archetype heavy decks just by looking at the numbers. He's trying to refute me and say it isn't archetype heavy I think, but I'm not seeing proof that it isn't what I claim it is to be. Someone else said it was a competitive deck, I'm saying it probably looks that way because of how the numbers fall making it unusual for a typical structure deck.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

Yes I built Ben's deck to be based completely around the noble knights because that's what they worked best on but i didn't put in galvachad, i didn't put in artorgius, i didn't put in the field card, and i didn't put in eachter, avalon (you know banish five knights and pop the entire field), and i completely neglected to put in laudsallyn's noble arms (it's spelling evades me and ammo said to remove it so i did). I made a build based around the king himself. I could put in lightstray grepher, dawn knight, and a few other cards but all those do is put more noble knights in my grave or let my mill more of those cards in to my graveyard. Or you know Honest. Honest solves a lot of problems.

While I admit that Ben's deck is stronger than some decks, it also heavily relies on drawing the right cards. Also I don't intend to play Ben as a power player. He brought out Artorgius in his first match up only because he had no other way out of the situation at hand. If he could've fought Angelo with him or high laudsallyn he would've. I don't intend to be spamming the hell out of Ben's cards unless he feels he has to. I just played a couple test rounds on yugioh pro against the ai and due to the ai for some reason constantly getting stupidly good hands that i would never get he wrecked Andre's deck rather easily which more than likely won't end up happening here due to my own player put constraints.

Likewise Noble Knights Aren't spellbooks. I can't just spam the hell out of them. the most i get out with my build is noble knight borz, meduraut, and gawayn (that's three cards from my hand right there (medraut, gawayn, a noble arms) and one removed from my deck) two of which are in defense mode with piss defense unless i got destiny on gawayn or borz or the queen on borz. The King Artorgius is the power monster here and he gets blown to hell if he doesn't have his arms protecting him. Unlike spellbooks skill drain murders any chance i have of mounting any sort of strategy unless i get gawayn in and special summon a level 4 and have a noble arms, i can get trap holed, i can get my monsters banished or even my arms banished. Spell books you play the cards and you don't need to worry about them unless they somehow got horus out. In fact horus fucks me pretty hard too. Likewise my monster can be tribute summoned.

It's when Artorgius comes out with his giant fist and punches you in the face is when you need to worry about things. If things have gone completely right that means he has a bunch of equips and can't be destroyed or targeted like my first duel. If things go horribly wrong you got a 2(2/0)00 beater who can't pop anything in the case of the level four or is only good for holding your ground for a turn with two noble arms at his disposal. Lava Golemn, level 5-8 with monarchs stormforth, destiny hero plasma (without king having excaliburn), and volcanic queen can completely circumvent artorgius and just remove him as a none factor and if there are no other noble knights i just spent a good chunk of my deck and strategy pulling out a field with little to no defense and i need to get lucky and either pull last chapter or another medraut and hope i have a queen in my grave to bring out noble knight level 4.

Likewise he can be stepped on. U.A's are a perfect example of that. Stadium, midfielder, U.A Dreadnaught dunker, U.A Power Jersey 4000 atk, punch artorgius in the face, blow up his excaliburn, swap out for perfect ace, discard card next turn if he tries to activate his effect. If you're even luckier use U.A Penalty Box to just remove him from play for two turns burying all of the noble arms and he comes back without material or noble arms.

@vancexentan

You can defend the strategy, but the numbers don't lie. Just like your deck, U.A. needs the right hand to work. Same goes for any deck though. Spellbooks have tremendous spell searching power, but a properly timed skill drain stops them dead. Mind crush also stops them, along with DNA surgery declare machine. But that's how they play, hence it would be advantageous for me to have multiple copies of the searchers to quicken up the pace, however my original build only includes 1 blue boy and 2 secrets, So the chances of drawing them are lower than a real competitive deck. Thus hopefully effectively reducing the searching power of the catalogue. So if you want to talk tactics we can, however without a strong search engine, which I ended up replacing with a rml draw engine, spellbooks isn't that scary since most of their monsters are push overs. Their boss monster is priestess which is a quick summon, but also easily destroyed, so it's more of a control deck which uses fate, priestess, and wisdom to pull through most obstacles.

Arthur with 3 swords however is easily summonable on the first turn with 2 cards. Any one sword and medraut or Merlin (which effectively will ss medraut). Grab Borz, sword switch to borz, eff borz dump 3 (probably destiny, Excalibur and gwenny) and get 1, use added sword on medraut both 5, xyz for rank 5 Arthur, eff Arthur on summon, pick up 3 from the 4 noble arms. Now he's difficult to get rid of and only needs 2 cards to be summoned out first turn. Priestess requires 4, herself and 3 others. So you have a 5/40 chance of getting Merlin or medraut, and a 9/40 chance of getting a noble arms spell. Pretty darn good odds. Compared to 1/40 and a need of 3 decreasing chances of spellbooks.

So it's not the strategy we can examine, but rather the ratios of cards, so far I'm seeing the noble knight deck as acceptable in uniqueness, but very poor in variety. Most hands you get will play out like a pure noble knight deck due to low variety.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

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Agreed.

But on the topic of the validity of Ben's Deck, both sides have had their, uh, say.

I think it'd be best if we let this topic rest until Ammokkx arrives, before it gets out of hand or whatnot.

@Poke

I'm fine with it, but just pointing out the mathematics stacks the deck heavily in the favor of the noble knights despite the 60% appearance of archetype cards relative to other cards so it is deceptively weighted due to multiple multiple copies making the Varity lean more heavily towards nobles.