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<PLAYER1> If you're looking for someone you knew as Yugi before June, you've found him! It's Atem, leave a message.
 
 
Main handle: < Player1 > Anon: < turtleluck >, < actuallydied >, < burner >
vroomkeeper: (boss // behold: my opinions)

to: <Player1> from: <hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-06 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you dueled the Fog?

[ no context no identification no nothin just. this ]
vroomkeeper: (petulant // huge eyes ohgod)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-07 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The timing's right. Last month's crisis has weakened her, so she's more likely to misplay.

[ seriously how has this not occurred to the

hm

let's sweeten the pot ]


I'd do it myself but we both know you're the superior duelist.

[ IT'S NOT EVEN A LIE! amazing. ]
vroomkeeper: (ring // all the single ladies)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-07 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What is the Pharaoh talking ab----Oh.

Oh, gods. What the hell. ]


Duel Monsters. For those of our day and age, it possesses powers as infinite as our own strengths of heart. The Millennium Items seem dormant, but there's nothing saying they're not capable of being re-awoken now that the Fog's hold on this peninsula has loosened.

So unless you're hiding any other resurrected Pharaohs, yes, I mean you. Please don't make me ask the Ring-Spirit. He's lost on my behalf twice already. It's embarrassing.
vroomkeeper: (scars // why battle city was fought)

<hotrod> (link is not icly there i am just obnoxious)

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-07 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm suggesting that if you duel, whatever latent power sleeps in the Millennium Puzzle will be awoken. With a Millennium Item in play, wielded by the one who can command the Gods of dueling himself, the results of any Duel Monsters game should bind even a God.

A pity said "Gods" aren't here to fight by your side. Ra's flames would vanquish any Fog!


[ not that he is biased!! it's a metaphor!!! sun!! fire!! fog!!! totally just for the metaphor!!!! moot point anyway khahahaha ]
vroomkeeper: (pic#15006995)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-07 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You've heard of them?

[ hope is the thing with feathers

on fire

it can't be, though, right, right, that would make no sense, right ]
vroomkeeper: (pic#14989293)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-07 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ after the rift - what, like the tablet from his home he found on the beach smashed into a bazillion pieces, you know, the one the pharaoh needs to - show the -

are you trying to tell him that ryslig delivered to them everything necessary to restore the pharaoh's memories

AND THEN WRECKED ALL OF IT SO NONE OF IT IS USABLE

is that really how his long-term stay here is gonna start?? you tryin to pick a fight, peninsula????!??!?!?!?! do you have any inkling, any IDEA, who marik ishtar is, who marik ishtar knows, yugi can probably put the tablet back together like a giant puzzle (if all the pieces are on the beach) and-

....hey wait back up ]


Define...not in very...good condition.
Edited 2021-08-07 18:39 (UTC)
vroomkeeper: (pic#14998782)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-08 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Marik is usually a fast typist. Impressively so, for the 90s!

But after this message there is a pause. And then ]


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vroomkeeper: (YGODM_EP221_20593)

<hotrod>

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-09 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He. He got mold. On. He got mold on the. On the.

....honestly, if Marik were thinking a little more clearly he might realize this is, perhaps, proof his plan will not work, as no one is being smote for such blasphemy. But he is not thinking clearly. He is thinking like Marik. So. ]


Give me your address.

[ WHAT TIME IS IT? WHAT DAY IS IT? DOES THIS MAKE THINGS HELLA AWKWARD CONSIDERING ALL THE THREADS HE HAS GOING WITH THE MEMBERS OF THIS HOUSEHOLD?

WHY SHOULD MARIK ISHTAR CARE FOR ANY OF THESE CONCERNS??? ]

vroomkeeper: (pic#14998759)

<hotrod> - > action

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-09 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Be there in

[ And Marik lists a time that's quite a bit shorter than one might expect, given Bavan traffic.

Does someone knock on the door precisely after this increment of time has passed, regardless?

Of fucking course! DAMN, HE'S GOOD!

(Just...ignore the rubber squealing that happened like a minute or so before the knock happened.) ]
vroomkeeper: (pic#15007001)

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-10 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Marik sniffs as he comes in. He's got a bag of books slung on his back - all topics. The only thing they seem to have in common is that they're hardbacks. ] I figured it'd be bigge--

[ But his opining about living quarters that are not his SWEET-ASS PENTHOUSE is abruptly cut off when he sees the object of his quest, and reacts as if some invisible third party has punched him in the immaculately-toned gut. Complete with a slight bending over. Jaw dropping. ]

T-that....!!

[ It had been bad to hear they were damaged, on the computer. His mind had gone all kinds of places and then worked itself back to a convincing argument about how it couldn't possibly be that bad, the Pharaoh has made miracles happen before, etc., something something every now and then he listens to his sister, destiny, something. But this....This.

Marik sinks to his knees in front of the coffin, bag thudding unneeded to the ground (sticking the cards in a book will...probably not help, here). The problem with hope is that when it leaves your body there's a hole where before you hadn't realized you were empty.

He's going to murder Ryslig. Like. As a concept. He's going to figure out a way to make it pay. He had an entire custom-built table created to house one of these things once, that's how valuable they are, how important they are for the future of the -

It's blasphemy, is what it is! The symbols of a King!

Marik trembles. He wants to explode. But he can't move. ]
vroomkeeper: (pic#14998766)

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[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-11 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Time. Time. They don't HAVE time - they have until the fog thickens again, until the power grows.....turn to the Fourth? But these are Gods themselves, they won't like a manmade God attempting to meddle in their powers....

...the gods for whom he endured a lifetime of pain, so easily rendered USELESS.... ]
vroomkeeper: (brilliant!! // or the precise opposite)

2/2 i had to make an icon for this

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-11 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
--No. It's fine. This is....This is proof. Proof we'll succeed.

[ The pieces start clicking into place for Marik. Ryslig tossed him out of the vortex, but it's also been tossing things that could aid them, or be of value, taking great pleasure in destroying them. The memorial tablet the long-lost Priest erected for his rival-slash-friend - and now, these, the source of that friend's power - Marik himself - ]

It's mocking us. Trying to demonstrate its power over us. But the fact it's compelled to make us abandon this tactic is proof it's AFRAID! Even if we don't have the God Cards, the Fog is scared we'll challenge her to a Duel....she's trying to DETER us!

[ That has to be it. It makes sense to Marik, and therefore is the only possible solution. He grabs his bag, starts pulling books out - pulls a case of cards out, too, puts it on the counter. this is why his pockets are so huge ]

I'll try to salvage them anyway, out of respect. These are spares I happened to have on me. Fortify your deck.

[ A depressingly large number of the cards in that case are burn or lockdown. Whoever assembled this card collection duels like an absolute dickhead. ]
Edited 2021-08-11 13:51 (UTC)
vroomkeeper: (pic#14998993)

[personal profile] vroomkeeper 2021-08-11 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yugi, huh...

[ Yes, that makes...that makes sense. (Well, not the part where he had been told he was only half-right. Marik is always full-right. Atem will see. It's okay.) The Pharaoh is preoccupied with the well-being of his partner, who is in the process of growing monstrous. He's working with the same time crunch Marik is, except on another person's behalf. So Yugi is going to have to feed on souls.....

He's going to starve. Marik knows it. Yugi Mutou is quite possibly the only person on the planet who can rival Marik's sister for the title of Incredibly Decent Human Being. No wonder the Pharaoh is so tense, so grasping at straws. He probably hasn't been making time for - other things Marik has plans to counteract - as a result, too.

But Marik can use this.

While his brain schemes, Marik's hands keep moving, securing each of the cards within nice clean leaves of different books and setting them down to press and dry. He'll shift them to new pages, further into the books, once some of the moisture has been absorbed. Marik Ishtar is rather shit at giving up. ]


I don't want to see that happen to Yugi either. [ A pause, picking up the final God Card. Oh, Ra, Ra, what has the nasty humid lady done to you, this was not how you were meant to return to your Pharaoh in glory.

When he thinks he's waited enough for brooding effect, he adds, casually: ]
It's bad enough that it's happened to Ryou.

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