capeandcowllogs | Duel Monsters Tournament ♦ Round 2

WHO: ANYONE AND EVERYONE
WHERE: Central Park and Harbor
WHEN: Monday, March 22
WARNING: Card Games are a warning in and of themselves.
SUMMARY: Round 2 of the duel monster's tournament. If your character has already been knocked out of the tournament, or if you didn't sign up, but want to duel you are welcome to do so! Instead of making a separate non-tournament dueling log we can just keep it all in here. So make a thread for your matches and have fun! I need the winners for the Novice by Tuesday 23rd 9pm cst
FORMAT: Whatever you want!

The second round of the tournament began with far less dramatics than the opening round. There was a more serious air to the event as the field was whittled down to the top duelists. There had been surprises in the first round. With top duelist eliminated so quickly it was impossible to know who would advance to the semi-finals.

This uncertainty was affecting Seto Kaiba more than he wanted to admit as he looked for his next opponent. He had made peace with Yuugi defeating him (to a point), but that only lasted so long as he remained on top. Being defeated by the best was a lot better than being defeated by someone who lost in the first round.

None of this was showing in his expression after his initial outburst the night before. However he was on a mission to find the person who had defeated his rival and see for himself what kind of duelist he was.

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Unfortunately for Alastair, he had to wait until after work to make his second duel of the tournament. It was chillier than over the weekend, and the gray skies threatened rain, but he was still riding his motorcycle around the City. As long as it wasn't snowing, by god he was going to ride.

He parked alongside a building at the harbor's edge near the ferry that took tourists to and from Ellis Island, and stepped out into the open. If he was on time, his opponent would see the duel disk on his arm and come to meet him.

Having been wandering the City for the past few hours without challenging or being challenged, Juudai stopped to rest when he inadvertently reached the harbor. Typically, having no sense of direction hadn't hindered him when he was traveling because it didn't matter where he went most of the time, but it seemed that this time, it had caused him to hit a dead end.

He hoisted himself up to sit on a railing for a moment with a yawn, glancing first at the sea and then at the inner harbor. Among the crowds of tourists and locals mingling together, though, he spotted someone with a duel disk who'd just stepped off a motorcycle by the looks of it.

Better late than never, he thought. Hopping off the guardrail, Juudai made his way over to Alastair casually, the arm with his duel disk down by his side, but still plainly visible.

"Hey, you're in the tournament?" he asked once he was close enough to be heard.

"Yeah, I am." Alastair turned toward him and set the left hand with his duel disk on his hip. "Oh, hey. It's you. Juudai."

"That's me," Juudai agreed amiably, and then tilted his head to look at Alastair blankly. "Uhhh... you sound kinda familiar, come to think of it. Have we talked before?"

Alastair nodded. "Yeah, on the comm. I'm Alastair." He lifted his hand in a lazy wave.

"Hey, Alastair. Guess there's no point in re-introducing myself, then, since you already know me." Juudai shrugged. "Hehe, so since you're in the tournament... wanna duel?" He held up his Academia-issue duel disk to emphasize the question.

"Yeah. Yeah, I do," Alastair replied, raising his bootleg disk as well. He was feeling very confident after taking down Kiryu, and felt himself just one small step away from getting to challenge Kaiba. "You're on! I want to see what you've got, kid."

"Hah, no problem! You're going down!" he retorted playfully, though he was about as equally sure of himself as Alastair was -- which was to say he was feeling pretty good about this one. He took a defensive stance and activated his disk.

"Duel!!"

Likewise, Alastair brandished his duel disk and let the scythe-arm clack out into position. This was going to be good.

He played hard and fast, but in the end it wasn't enough. He struggled to hold his own, and did well for a while, but he couldn't keep his Gorlag on the field long enough to do serious damage. Juudai had the upper hand through most of the duel and clinched the win.

The holograms vanished with a soft whirring as Solid Vision deactivated at the end of the duel. Juudai assumed his customary victory pose so quickly it was almost like second nature.

"Gotcha! That was a fun duel!" Grinning sincerely, he trotted over to Alastair. "That was awesome, Alastair! Man, there's so many good duelists here...! This tournament's really turning out to be awesome so far!"

Obviously, Alastair was disappointed by his loss. How could someone have such ridiculous good luck drawing the right cards? It was almost like Yuugi. But he lifted his chin and faced it as bravely as he could for now, in front of his opponent. "Yeah. You're pretty damn good yourself. It's...uh. Refreshing, to face strong duelists instead of pathetic newbies."

[It's a close match, but Anzu's superior experience with the game eventually triumphs over Calvin's unpredictability. Calvin takes the loss with his customary grace and good sportsmanship, which is to say not well at all.]

DAMN YOU LJ COMMENT CHARACTER COUNT.

Our log is here.

tl;dr, Dark Bakura won and is apparently the last, best hope for ~~peace~~ DM.

[Because I suck an didn't post it up last night because I thought TODAY was the 23rd.

Basically Aki won. Ikki was slightly injured and the crowd booed her. Yeah.]

Duel Monsters Tournament ♦ Round 2

Alastair vs. Juudai

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Winner: Juudai

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Calvin vs Anzu HANDWAVE

Dark Bakura vs. Ruka

Aki vs. Ikki HANDWAVE