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Post by Panda on Apr 18, 2023 8:38:49 GMT
[Initiated by Yves.]
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 19, 2023 2:24:32 GMT
Sometime after arriving on the pleasant deserted island hellscape, Yves bursts into the casino like an El Niño, striking a confident stance with a hand on her hip, a classic iconic pride flag painted finger pointed forward, and action lines surrounding her face as the camera snaps to a close-up zoom of it.
“Caitlin! I know you’re in here! Show yourself, you slippery Irish snake!”
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 19, 2023 12:41:11 GMT
Caitlin was sitting at a broken slot machine, endlessly pulling its lever. She had dark circles under her eyes and a cigarette was nestled between her lips. She looked in Yves’ general direction before letting out a confused, “Huh?”
It took a few seconds for the information to process, and she seemed a little annoyed once it did. “Slippery? Snake? Well, I dunno about either o’ those things. Yer talkin’ some nonsense over there. Can I help ya with somethin’? Ya here to kill me?”
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 19, 2023 15:35:54 GMT
“Oh, um, sorry, that was rude of me to call you that…”
Yves shakes her head softly after her apology, “not at all! I’m here for a rematch!” If there was a crowd assembled, they would surely be gasping right now, as their faces flashed on screen! “With you!” Woah!
“I’m not satisfied with the results of our previous bout, what with you training me and teaching me how to punch and what-not. That’s why I’m here to challenge you to a duel! An area in which I’ll have years of competitive experience to tip the scales in my favor!” To punctuate her declaration, Yves tosses a bulky, wrist-mounted card-playing apparatus, a Duel Disk, if you would, in Caitlin’s general direction. It promptly clatters to the floor and fumbles along the tacky casino carpet until it slams into the side of the slot machine.
“What do you say, old girl?”
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 19, 2023 15:43:13 GMT
Caitlin stood up and ran her fingers through her hair as she sucked the life out of her cigarette, its ashy droppings falling to her feet and fucking up the carpet. She grabbed the Duel Disk, fumbled with a little, and strapped it to her arm.
“I don’t know a fuckin’ thing about this game, but that won’t stop me from bendin’ ya over and teachin’ you another lesson.” Her eyes narrowed, very dramatically, then she said, “I accept yer challenge, Glasses.”
Her eyes fell to the Duel Disk. “…now how do we play?”
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 19, 2023 16:02:39 GMT
“That’s simple.” Yves remarks as she straps on her own Duel Disk, which, considering Yu-Gi-Oh! has over 70,000 cards and is very well-known for barring new and returning players with its complexity, was a total bullshit lie.
“The first turn player, that’s me, because I say so and Konami has no sanctions in the hellscape we’ve been trapped in for months, draws five cards. Then I can play whatever cards I want, get my one Normal Summon on my turn and all that, but I can’t enter the Battle Phase. You also draw a hand of five cards, but you draw a sixth since you’re going second. Aren’t I so nice?”
“From that point on, either of us can enter the battle phase on our turn, so you get first crack at me… that about covers the basics.”
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 20, 2023 0:51:04 GMT
“Very well… draw yer cards, Yves. I’m gonna show ya why I’m a force ta be reckoned with!” Caitlin declared. She stared down the other girl with a piercing gaze. Surely she could kick ass at a game she’s never played, right?
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 20, 2023 2:15:20 GMT
"I'm no slouch either... now it's time to duel!" Yves dramatically yells as she quickly, softly, and gently draws five cards out of her Duel Disk and arranges them in her hand. A devious little smirk flashes on her lips, instead of her usual frowning or squiggly-lining or throwing up or whatever it's usually doing, as she slams a card onto the hologram projector/monster card zone thing.
"For my first move, I'll Normal Summon Rescue Shark in attack mode!"
As she announces that, a hologram of a strangely fuzzy, dark blue and white shark appears in the air in front of her. Its beady eyes are big, and look as if it's about to burst into tears at any second, and if a shark could frown, this one looked like it was having a bad day. It was wearing a little white hardhat with a green plus on it, though, that's kinda neat. Also, a box with 'ATK 500' appeared right next to it, whatever that means.
"That will be the end of my turn. Your move, Caitlin!"
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 20, 2023 15:55:02 GMT
“Right…” Caitlin said as she drew her cards. She looked at them, a little confused, and picked what she thought would be the best one. “Alright, let’s see whatcha can do, Jolly Bear!”
Then, a hologram of a cartoony grizzly bear appeared before her. It stood upright, had a big goofy smile and huge eyes, and held a giant lollipop in one of its paws. “Oh, and, uh, Attack Mode!”
Like with Yves, a box appeared next to Caitlin’s monster that had ‘ATK 500’ in it. She seemed focused, trying to grasp the nature of what the fuck was going on. “I’m endin’ my turn there.”
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 20, 2023 17:45:10 GMT
Yves smirks, which looks very off on her face, and draws a card from her deck. “Cold feet, hm? Anyways, my turn…”
“I’ll bring out another monster… Sappholopod Stars!” As the girl slaps the card onto the zone next to her shark, two women with squid and octopus tentacles for hair appear in a flash of light— the squid is shorter, pale, with a white-pink ombre on her hair-tentacles and a devious, gremlinesque grin on her face, and the octopus is taller, with dark, dusky skin, black-teal ombre tentacles and a look between concern and anxiety on her holographic face. The funny little stat box says they have ‘1800 ATK’. Super!
“Hope you’re ready for this one, Caitlin! Sappholopod Stars, attack Jolly Bear, it’s Now or Never!”
At Yves’s command, the taller Sappholopod leans down and presses a kiss to the dwarf goblin one’s cheek, immediately triggering some kind of squid color-changing technique, oh wait, that’s just blush on her cheeks, and she rears back unleashing a massive sonic shockwave blast out of her mouth, rocketing towards Caitlin’s poor hapless bear.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 20, 2023 23:32:56 GMT
Caitlin watched in horror as her poor, stupid bear took a shockwave to its face. It was barely standing and its eyes began to well up with tears. She searched her hand for anything else that might be useful and hesitated to throw down her next card. "Time to find out what this one does! Go, Chaos Queen Lilith in Attack Mode!"
The creature resembled a lanky young girl, barely covered by ragged prisoner's clothes, with dark hair, pale skin, and large, bat-like wings on her back. She cackled upon being summoned, and the funny little box read, '1500 ATK'. "Send 'em back out to sea, Lilith!"
Lilith immediately charged up some kind of beam attack that shot a ray of crystalline, purple energy at Safety Shark.
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 21, 2023 0:27:47 GMT
Instead of breaking down and crying that her disaster-rescue shark that looks shockingly like the floatie she brought to the pool whatever amount of time ago that happened, Yves starts to laugh like the evil monster she is inside.
"Oh, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin... before your attack connects, I activate my Rescue Shark's special ability!" She thrusts out her arm wearing her duel disk, finger pointed ahead as her shark pal wriggles about, then dives into the fucking carpet and disappears, "By letting my shark swim down to the deep end, which is my theatrical way of saying I'm sending it to the Banish zone, I can have it call out two other fishy friends to take its place from my deck!"
As her voice rings out, a tan mermaid with way, way too much energy, and flowing blonde twintails, as well as a giant yellow moon jelly with what appears to be the torso of a pale, willowy girl with a shock of brunette hair covered in a black skin-tight bodysuit inside of the jellyfish's body burst onto the field, with 2100 ATK and 2100 DEF, respectively.
"Say hello to my Wave Spiker and Moonlight Controller! They're only weak, Level Three monsters individually, which meet the requirement for Rescue Shark's tag-out ability, but together... they get a major power boost! Still feel like attacking one of them with your Lilith?"
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 21, 2023 0:40:27 GMT
Caitlin stared at the battlefield, completely baffled at the sudden inflation of ATK and DEF scores. She started to count on her fingers to check some math and then looked back at her unfortunate monsters. Her poor Jolly Bear... Getting an idea, she snapped her fingers. "I activate Jolly Bear's, er, special ability!"
As she spoke, the bear began to swell and turned into a giant, cartoon bomb. It then exploded and dealt 300 points of damage to each monster on the field, including Lilith, who had ceased attacking. Then, Caitlin revealed a new card. "And now, it's time fer the Wallflower Book-Keeper to come out and play!"
A giant book appeared next to Lilith and opened itself up. The form of another thin, pale girl with dark hair rose from the pages, with the book acting as a sort of 'base' for her. Her DEF initially appeared to be 1300, but then rose to 2200. She appeared shy and withdrawn, though, she sent several glances Lilith's way, who then reciprocated by lowering her prisoner shirt a bit and exposing more skin. "Alright, they like each other. Fan-feckin'-tastic. I end my turn."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 21, 2023 2:24:43 GMT
"Dang it..." Yves mumbles under her breath after her super cool and fair quick effect was thwarted by the big dumb bear, clicking her tongue and tapping her foot against the disgusting carpet as her monsters' attack and defense points all dropped by 300. I'm not going to keep track of them in this post for you because I'm a little heehee haha evil bitch like that.
"My monsters are getting outclassed in stats, and in how gay they are? No wonder all the manchildren that come by the shop complain about power creep all the time..."
Huffing her bangs out of her face, Yves draws a card, and then stares at her hand for a few seconds. Long enough that Caitlin could be really catty and call a judge over and report her for slowplay, if they were at an actual tournament and she wanted to be an asshole like that.
"Speaking of power creep, it looks like I'm going to have to pull out all the stops!" Pointing her hand up towards the sky, Yves shouts as her three summoned monsters all turn into little balls of light with strings of data flying out of them, towards the screen and through the 3D glasses the audience is wearing, "I'll use my Sappholopod Stars, Wave Spiker, and Moonlight Controller as the materials for a Link Summon, to bring forth my Abyss Princess Lleviathan!"
The disgusting casino carpet ripples like, well, water, and from it a multitude of sharks identical to the furry one Yves summoned previously come surging out of it, eventually revealing harnesses and reins strapped around their midsections. The reins were attached to a gigantic chariot, shining as if it was handcarved into shape from a giant pearl, and sitting atop it, leisurely staring down at Caitlin with a smirk on her face, was a massive woman with incredibly sharp blue hair that stretched on and floated behind her like a jellyfish's tendrils, contrasting with the deep, shiny purple-black of her skin. She was wrapped in a thin, light blue toga, and a trident as obscenely large and pearlescent as the chariot rested over her shoulder.
Laughing, now, Yves pointed her hand out, fingers akimbo, towards Caitlin once more, "And she's as deadly as she is beautiful! Since she was summoned using three fish-esque monsters as the material, she can wash an equal number of monsters from your field back to your hand... so say goodbye to your entire field!"
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 21, 2023 3:05:05 GMT
Caitlin looked down at her Duel Disk, then at her monsters, who both looked back at her somewhat expectantly. She scratched her head and read their cards for a few minutes, trying to understand the minutiae of their abilities. She was mumbling to herself the entire time.
"Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah, no, that makes sense," she said. Her eyes met those of Abyss Princess Lleviathan. "I can do that, too. Well, they can."
Lilith and the Book-Keeper turned to face one another and gazed longingly into each other's eyes, lacing their fingers together and breathing heavily. Quickly, their lips collided and their faces turned a little pink. The Book-Keeper began to grind her body against the demon's, who grabbed her by the waist and began to do the same.
"I don't remember this being in the cards..." Caitlin muttered, skimming them again. Her monsters continued to grind and rub all up on each other, their breathing getting more and more frantic until, finally, they each began to glow and moan. Their forms merged into one -- a giant, armor-clad warrior. Her shining, purple armor was complemented by the flaming sword she held. Purple smoke rose from beneath her helm, as well as the gaps in her armor. Caitlin smirked. "Meet Daemonica Knight, a fusion monster that, um, says 'Fuck yer sea lady!'"
Then Daemonica dropped her sword and pulled out a fully-loaded, gigantic Glock 25.
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 21, 2023 3:20:59 GMT
"N-no!" Yves screams, throwing her hands up and clutching the sides of her head, somehow not spilling all of her cards off of her wrist apparatus as she stared at the holograms in horror. The Daemonica Knight making her fish princess stare down the barrel of a Glock, to be specific. Her face went bright red as soon as Lilith and the other demoness started giving a whole new meaning to "Contact Fusion" and she had to avert her eyes and cough into her clenched fist a few times while it was going on.
"Lleviathan doesn't have any protection against that kind of effect!"
The dark-skinned fish-creature-woman daintily leaps off of her shark-drawn chariot, landing on the tentacles she apparently had instead of feet, right in front of the badass demon knight's piece. She makes some weird cooing noises as she points her clawed fingers at the lady knight, then back at the Glock, little yellow excitement lines popping up above her head as her face turned into a little '^_^', blush darkening her already black-as-night complexion. Her pantomiming and animated visual cues were indications that she thought the gun, and also the knight monster, were very cool indeed.
"There goes my Abyss Princess... is your Knight at least gonna take her out for dinner, first?" Yves nearly rolls her eyes, shoulders slumped, as she awaits Caitlin's response.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 21, 2023 3:27:56 GMT
"I... don't even understand what's happening anymore..." Caitlin muttered. She looked on as her knight removed her helmet and revealed the stern face and elegant blonde hair. A question mark appeared in the air next to her, which then turned into an exclamation point. She knelt down and took the Abyss Princess's hand, giving it a chaste kiss. Together, they walked arm-in-arm off the field, disappearing.
"So... now what?" Caitlin was, admittedly, a little flustered by the fusion, herself. "It's warm in here... did I win? How does this work?"
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 21, 2023 3:32:13 GMT
Yves, at a loss, cleared her throat for the umpteenth time, stared at the cards she held for a second, and then- "I... I set a card." She places said card face-down in her spell/trap zone, and motions her arm at Caitlin. "And I pass it back to you."
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 21, 2023 3:37:28 GMT
"O...kay..." Caitlin summoned a new monster card. Everything just felt really awkward at that point. "This is... Green Ooze..."
The new monster was, true to its name, a giant blob of green slime that jiggled and bounced around. It looked really... happy?
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 21, 2023 3:45:18 GMT
Yves leaned forward and squinted at the green blob, then trained her eyes back on Caitlin. "Is... is that it? Do you attack? Can it attack?"
She asks all these questions, the weird tension in the room following the homoerotic fusion summon and subsequent impromptu rendezvous making her forget that priority was passed to her when Caitlin summoned her ooze, just in case her facedown was a card like Trap Hole or Compulsory Evacuation Device or something she could've activated when the glob of goo was brought into play.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 23, 2023 3:13:35 GMT
Caitlin was completely lost. “I… have no idea. Uh, let’s see… no. No, it does nothing.”
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 23, 2023 6:47:22 GMT
"That's... unfortunate." Yves gives the little pile of gunk an empathetic look as she draws a card for her turn. Assuming that it's her turn now. I could've just had her ask if that was all for Caitlin's turn, but this expedites that in the case that she had nothing else to do. In the case that she had another play to follow up the pitiful Normal Summon, I'm godmodding the rest of your turn away. Guess we'll never know because I'm continuing anyways. Tragic!
"I summon... Abyss Princess Egg!" Blah blah flash of light, the form of a small, short-haired girl sitting in the middle of a multicolor clam shell appears in front of Yves. The girl is sitting in the fetal position, hugging her legs, and the expression on her face looks like the ones I describe Yves making in like every other thread. She has 0 Attack Points.
"That's, um, that's all I've got. Your move!" Yves yells the end of her declaration to hopefully pump some more energy back into the duel. The fans are probably going to rip this episode to shreds if this bummer energy continues for any longer so she's trying to push through.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 24, 2023 0:13:02 GMT
“I’m guessin’ that thing’s got a feckin’ trick up it’s ass, too,” she muttered as she searched her hand. She placed down a card in Spell/Trap Card Zone and looked at Yves expectantly. “Yer move.”
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 24, 2023 1:06:18 GMT
"Thrilling gameplay..." Yves just throws that out as she plucks a card from her deck and adds it to her hand.
"Wait, that's right... your goo can't attack. Guess I'll have to do this the hard way... I activate my set Trap, Pyrrhic Conclusion!"
Her holographic card flips itself up, revealing a crude crayon drawing of a ponytail-sporting redhead spartan warrior stick figure smooching a short, orange-haired valkyrie stick figure, with red and orange hearts strewn over the rest of the blank background.
"By discarding one card from my hand, I can have both of us choose one of our own monsters... to destroy and send to the graveyard. I select my Abyss Princess Egg." She explains her card's function with a hint of a dddddevilish little grrrrrin, as she feeds a card into the graveyard slot of her Duel Disk.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 28, 2023 0:17:08 GMT
"NO.... NO NOT THAT CARD!" she shouted. "I... I... I have no way to counter it... my slime, no..."
She teared up a little as she trashed her monster. "I'm terrified of what that grin is about."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 28, 2023 1:50:13 GMT
"Heh..." Is Yves's only response at the moment, in a grating tone that will definitely have a few people that watch the show even though they fucking hate it ranting on Twitter immediately, watching with that same smug look on her face as her Egg hugs itself even tighter, tears pooling at the corners of her shut eyes as she fades away into little particles like Tom Holland.
"When my Abyss Princess Egg is destroyed by a card effect— any card effect— she allows me to summon a higher level Abyss Princess from my hand, her evolution from a dysphoric little caterpillar into a beautiful, proud butterfly! That, um, has gills and fish features and lives at the bottom of a deep, dark ocean. Anyways-"
Yves slaps down a card and starts yelling again, "Arise, my Abyss Princess Manaria!" This fish creecher is another incredibly big bitch, dwarfing the two duelists by a good ten feet or so, with bronzed skin and flowing locks of vibrant pink hair that turns into sprawling jellyfish tentacles as it flows outwards. She's dressed in a sleek, nearly-skintight white suit with a black bodysuit beneath the open jacket, contoured to the chiseled muscle underneath, and the tips of her fingers fade from the warm tone of her skin to a garish, fluorescent red color that pulses in the dingy casino lighting. A sea, haha get it, of luminescent spots are scattered all over her face like freckles, highlighting the predatory look in her mismatched green-blue eyes.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 28, 2023 2:33:30 GMT
Caitlin fell to her knees. "I... have been bested. All I have left is this..."
She summoned her final monster, similarly-sized feminine figure, with bright green skin, darker, green hair that went down to her waist, and wore a futuristic, skin-tight space suit. It hugged her "features" in a very flattering way. In one hand, she held a ray gun and in the other some kind of glowing, purple laser sword. She gave a flirtatious wink to both Yves and Manaria.
Smirking, Caitlin said, "Just be careful. Miss Martian Elite isn't afraid to probe ya if yer too rowdy."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 28, 2023 3:32:26 GMT
Yves's monster chuckles heartily as Caitlin mentions the probing, despite the fact that these hologram things don't emit sound, not showing a single crack in her lackadaisical demeanor as she stares at her new opponent. Yves also looks particularly unfazed, as she thrusts her hand out before speaking for the umpteenth time.
"Oh, Manaria is plenty rowdy. Especially when it comes to pretty women like your Martian-"
Her face scrunches up as soon as the words leave her mouth, and her shoulders sag, "Um. Her effect. Manaria gains attack points for every lower-level Abyss Princess in my graveyard! Of which I have... a lot!" On cue, the little box shows up, showing the '2500 ATK' the futch (that stands for fish-butch, in this case) has steadily rising to 4400. You can imagine her flexing, with the camera zooming in on her incredibly toned abs, or having an aura of energy surround her as it happens, or whatever you want. "And now she's going to put all that strength towards delivering your Miss Martian Elite to a watery grave! Go, Abyss Rising Uppercut!"
Manaria rolls her shoulders, cocking her head and winking at the hot alien warrior lady as she raises one of her poison-covered fists to her lips and plants a kiss on the knuckles. In an instant after the loud 'smack' of her lips she's dashing forward, sending holograms of whipped-up air and dust spiraling outwards as the aforementioned fist she kissed dips towards the floor and nearly drags along the disgusting ground. The imposing fish princess reaches the Martian as quickly as her attack began, bending her back at an extremely stylized angle to come face-to-face with her soon-to-be-victim. The holograms' faces are so close, the alien could feel the heat of Manaria's breath on her skin, be drawn in by the smoldering set of eyes staring into her soul as she gives the other woman a wink... had she the faculties to do so, and wasn't, you know, also a hologram. The brawler puckers her lips, almost touching the Elite's as she blows another kiss... and punches between the other fighter's legs hard enough to send another massive blast of pressurized air all around the surrounding area, knocking over whatever tacky plants and decorations are scattered around the casino and rattling the busted slot machines.
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Post by wintercoat on Apr 28, 2023 3:38:46 GMT
"...man, that was kinda fucked up... never punch someone there..." Caitlin muttered as she watched her monster got effortlessly one-shot. The poor thing never stood a chance, though, perhaps if she learned the game more, she'd stomp Yves someday. With not much else to do, Caitlin surrendered and removed her Duel Disk. Though she lost, she was still smiling.
"I had fun, Yves, even with all the weird sexual tension our monsters had with each other," she said, awkwardly. "Do ya think that, maybe, if we make it outta here... ya could teach me how to play better? I-I guess I'm askin' if ya want to, like, be friends. If we live. It's grim, I know, but..."
She chewed on her lip anxiously. "We could share contact info once we get out, or somethin'..."
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Post by Akkordian on Apr 28, 2023 4:17:44 GMT
"Y-yeah, that was..." Yves's noncanon bravado deflates immediately, as she takes her own duel disk off, shuffling her feet, "Fun. Really, um, interesting. But still fun...!"
She gives Caitlin a meek nod, eager beneath her usual air of timidity. "I'd like to, if that's what you want. Maybe you could teach me how to fight, some more... or we could just work out together in general, or something. You're... not as scary as I initially thought you would be... you're a really good person. I think."
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