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DUEL MONSTERS TOURNAMENT ♠ ROUND 1

WHO: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
WHERE: Central Park and Harbor
WHEN: Saturday March, 20th early afternoon
WARNING: Swearing and card games
SUMMARY: Round 1 of the duel monster's tournament.
FORMAT: Whatever you want!

Months of planning and recreating an empire from the ground up was finally reaching its climax. Fireworks shot into the sky as the workers ran out of the way trying to avoid the large screen to which the firework stands were attached. If there was still anyone who had not heard that a Duel Monsters Tournament was being held in the city, the sights and sounds quickly informed them.

The same set up was found in the two locations. One at the center of Central Park and the other stretched next to the water by the harbor. The rules the duelists had been given told them where to meet and when to be sure they would be there for the beginning. Since Kaiba couldn’t be in two places at once, especially as he had his own duel to prepare for, a video had been pre-recorded to start the event. The screens turned on at the same time, the KaibaCorp logo flashing across the screen. It disappears to show a montage of duels fought by different monsters. Those who are paying close attention may even notice cards that Kaiba could have only found out about in the City. The montage ends with a Blue Eyes White Dragon destroying everything in its path and causing the screen to fade to white.

The blank screen suddenly changes again to a video of Kaiba. “Welcome to this City’s first chance at a Duel Monster’s Tournament!” it started. “You have had plenty of time to prepare, and now it’s time to show exactly what you can do. At the end of this announcement the tournament will officially start.

“Find your opponent and duel! The winner will go on to the next round. The loser can go home. You have all been given copies of the rules. Any cheating will be punished.”

The Kaiba in the video paused, emphasing a big-brother idea about how cheating would be caught and punished. The look changed into a smirk as he threw his hand forward and dramatically proclaimed,

“Game Start!”

(Make your own threads here for your individual duels. You can log as much of the action as you want. Remember you need to PM me with the winner of each duel before Sunday 11pm CST (whether or not the log is finished). If I don’t have a winner I will proclaim one for you to keep things moving. In case you've forgotten the brackets are here)

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"My move." Alastair drew, ordered his cards in his hand, and then grinned widely. "You have a hand, now. That leaves your Infernity Guardian vulnerable to attack. But first, I think Gorlag needs a little power-boost." He slapped down a monster from his hand. "I summon Flame Spirit Ignis, in attack mode!"

The other Fire monsters on the field were solely there to boost the Gorlag up to 2500, even if they had minor effects of their own. They were also too weak - there was only one that could take out Kiryu's last monster. "Gorlag, attack his Infernity Guardian!"

"Trap card, open! Depth Amulet!" Kiryu waved the card in his hand and slipped it into the Graveyard slot. "Depth Amulet lets me negate an attack at the cost of a card in my hand. And it is continuous, for three of your turns."

Alastair took a step back in surprise, as his Gorlag shrank back to its side of the field, thwarted. "What the hell card...? Nice move," he complimented, though with his serious face on. "So as long as you keep discarding the cards in your hand, you're almost untouchable." And his other two monsters were not strong enough to attack, now. It was an excellent strategy, he had to admit.

"Fine, then. There's nothing else I can do, so I end my turn."

Kiryu smiled a little at the compliment, but he didn't look too thrilled to be using it beyond actually saving his monster. "Heh, and usually I want to get rid of them...Draw!"

Kiryu hardly glanced at the card he drew before slipping it into a Spell/Trap slot. If he didn't get another monster soon...

"I set one card face down. Infernity Guardian attacks Tenkabito Shien."

The monster blasted away in another flashy shower of holographic battle effects. Kiryu was chipping away at Alastair's life points little by little, but also whittling down Gorlag's attack points. He had to maintain it, if he wanted to have a chance, but right now nothing could stop the one-off attacks.

"End turn."

"My draw." Crap crap crap. A monster that required him to remove a monster from play in order to summon. That was a decision he had to think about before making, even if he had already used Monster Reborn. No, wait! There was that other card in his hand...

Alastair slapped it onto the duel disk. "I summon Gaia Soul, the Combustable Collective." A blobby-looking ball of fire rose up on the field, with 2000 attack points. He couldn't attack this round thanks to the trap card on top of Infernity Guardian's effect, but that was fine for now. "And I switch Flame Spirit Ignis into defense mode. End turn!"

"My turn." Kiryu's attention was focused more on Alastair's newest monster than the card he just drew. He hated sitting here, waiting for the cards he needed to get rid of those monsters. He didn't have any way of boosting Infernity Guardian's attack, at least not that much.

"I play a monster in defense position. End turn."

Alastair drew, and quietly tucked the card into his hand. It was an important one, but only for emergencies. He wanted to attack that new defense monster, but if it was also an Infernity monster, it would be for nothing. No, better off to wait one more round rather than waste effort. He didn't care if the stalemate didn't appeal to the handful of onlookers checking out the giant holograms. "No moves this turn, I'll just end it and see what you've got."

"Depth Amulet is destroyed at the end of your turn." He slipped that card into the Graveyard. It had done what he needed it to do. "Draw!"

He hardly looked pleased by the card in his hand. Another one he couldn't use without his God. He never really expected his God to quickly find its way to the top of his deck--that was what his dragon's effect was for, but the cards that went with it didn't need to be here either.

"I'll set one card face down and Infernity Guardian will attack Flame Spirit Ignis."

Alastair let it go to the graveyard without fuss, watching Gorlag's attack strength fluctuate again. Both of his strongest monsters were now 2000 points, and Science Soldier was clogging up one of his monster slots. He's stalling for something, he warned himself. I bet it's the god card. I don't know what it does...I need to take him out before he gets it. But even if Gorlag and Gaia Soul were strong enough, he was stuck thanks to Infernity Guardian's effect. What to do?

"End turn."

Alastair was almost right; he would love to draw his God right now. But it wasn't quite his ace, not in this deck. Too bad his ace was sitting in his extra deck where he couldn't get at it...

"Here we go!" Alastair drew, and immediately slid the card into a trap slot. "This face down. Gorlag, attack his face-down monster and bring it over to my side of the field!"

Kiryu smirked as Infernity Revenger briefly appeared only to be destroyed and reappear on Alastair's side of the field. Gorlag would get 500 more points, but Alastair wouldn't get much else out of that attack.

"Infernity Revenger's effect only activates in the Graveyard. Nothing to worry about with him."

"...ohh I see." Alastair's lips twitched - he'd just enslaved another monster with no attack value. Wonderful. "Shit, man, how many Infernity monsters are there? Fine, that's all from me. End turn."

Despite them being in a near dead-heat for so many turns, Alastair was surprised that the people watching their duel hadn't wandered away out of boredom. They seemed to be sticking around - maybe because they were so close and at stalemate. It wasn't over in a flash like other duels around the pier. Or were they scoffing at the guy with four monsters not being able to take out the single one facing him?

Kiryu chuckled, drawing his next card. "13 or 14. I don't use all of them. One card face down. Infernity Guardian attacks Infernity Revenger!"

Crap, that hurt. The drawback of Gorlag's effect was that the monster came over in attack mode, so it was the most vulnerable. Alastair was now down to 4500 after that, and since he had four cards in his hand and owned no Infernity monsters, the Revenger's effect was pointless for him. "Dammit!" he yelped again, mostly out of frustration. How could he change the Guardian's situation and make it vulnerable?

"End turn."

"Draw." Before even looking at the card, Alastair tapped the button on his duel disk's unusual face. "First I activate my Backfire trap. From now on, every time you destroy one of my Fire monsters, you take 500 damage." Oh, he had so been waiting for that. He glanced at the card in his hand, and blinked. He had forgotten he had this one. "This goes face-down, and I remove Flame Spirit Ignis from play to summon Inferno, in defense mode."

The monster popped out of his graveyard, and he slipped it into his back pocket. Back to four monsters, though one was Dark and not Fire. He still couldn't attack, so he had to, "...end turn."

"Draw." Kiryu's expression fall as soon as he checked. Another trap he couldn't use. And he already had three traps on the field; placing another that wasn't likely to go away wasn't the best idea.

He paused, going over his other cards in his mind. he could still hold on to this... "And I end my turn."

Alastair hesitated before drawing. He left a card in his hand, and didn't attack Science Soldier.

"Hey. Kyosuke." His duel-disk arm lowered slowly. "Are you really giving me everything you've got? I could win on this next turn, you know."

Kiryu had to smile at that, but it was one of his nastier ones that he usually saved for his ex-teammates. "I never hold back. Try it."

That was more like it. "All right then. My move."

He didn't need to activate the trap, now that Kiryu was holding a card. "Gorlag, attack that Infernity Guardian!"

Kiryu braced himself and took the 800 damage, only looking vaguely annoyed at losing life points. They had to go for this to work.

"Trap card, open! Rope of Life!" Kiryu slipped the card in his hand into the Graveyard. "When one of my monsters is destroyed, I can discard my hand to Special Summon it back from the Graveyard, and it gains 800 attack points."

Alastair made a similar face at being denied the chance to special summon that monster to his side of the field. Infernity Guardian was now as strong as his Gorlag - but stronger than Gaia Soul. "Smooth," he commented, regaining his smirk. "All right, then. I'll play the magic card Junk Dealer, to bring back a monster from my graveyard with half its original attack points. And I pick...Tenkabito Shien,' he declared proudly.

"So you stopped me this turn. Think you can get hold me off one more round?" he teased. He'd been behaving himself up till now, but there really wasn't anything stopping him from trash-talking. Even if he did like and respect Kiryu more than most people in the City. "I've got moves up my sleeve you've never even seen before."

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