Test Drive Meme - March & April

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Comments

[crystalmaster]

Oh, definitely not.

StaryuTube is for people and Pokemon to post videos they made. A channel is someone's account.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. People don't feel physical pain, but I hate seeing them in pain. I don't battle unless I have to.

[duelingexpert]

Oh.. yeah. Of course. I knew that. Videos and stuff.

[No he didn't]

So it's different than capsule monsters. I wondered since these creatures spend most of their time in their own sort of capsules if there were any other similarities. That's good to know.

[crystalmaster]

Capsule Monsters, huh? It's been a while since I've heard about that. It didn't make it as big as Duel Monsters.

[duelingexpert]

That was true even in my time.

[Wait. Does this mean he's buying into the idea that this guy is actually from the future?]

.. but it was weirder than that. Instead of being just a board game it was like it was a real thing, and you were inside the game. Kind of like this place, but without the elevator music.

[crystalmaster]

... That is out there. So was that a slice of life thing like this or did you have to play out the basic plot of the board game?

[duelingexpert]

Neither, but it used the game mechanics of the board game. Er, I guess it's more like the board game came later and based it's rules on the actual place?

You see there were these 5 riddles to solve and it was all a huge headache.

[crystalmaster]

Yeah, that makes more sense, I guess.

Riddles, huh? I might have been pretty good at those.

[duelingexpert]

It really doesn't. Go on, you can say it. I can take it. If someone made a game based off of that real location that means they would have had to have had prior knowledge of that place. Considering that it was concealed by a thick forest in the middle of nowhere in India... then I have no idea how they could have managed it.

If I could remember them, I'd test you. Let's see.. there was something about going to the valley of light, breaking an unbreakable rock and using a power that's greater than brute force.... I don't know, it was written in hieroglyphics, I couldn't read it.

[crystalmaster]

... That complicates things. So you have no idea who created it? I didn't look too deeply into it, but I thought that it was probably invented by Pegasus, or at least by his company. Pegasus did a lot of traveling to get the ideas for Duel Monsters, after all.

Hmm. Well, that last one sounds like it could mean something cheesy like the power of love.

[duelingexpert]

I don't really remember that part. Yugi would know.. but.. he's not here to ask.

The power of love sure took on an odd form then.. [Thinking back on that duel armor that the pharaoh was sporting when he rocked into the battle to stop it] You're not far off though. The point of the riddle was that fighting wasn't the answer at all. Maybe you would have been useful on the trip.

[crystalmaster]

At this rate, I really won't be surprised if he comes.

Huh, interesting. Yeah, I might have liked taking a crack at it.

[duelingexpert]

I wish he would, if anyone could figure out what's really going on here it's Yugi.

... but that would kind of be impossible now.

[crystalmaster]

He really earned his title, that's for sure.

Yeah, right now we've got this other situation going on.

[duelingexpert]

So.. if you're from the future, is Yugi still a big name in the dueling circuit?

That's the truth. At least thanks to you I have an idea of where to start.

[He's already got a list of contacts, and he knows that he won't be hit with the same damage his monsters are. It's a good start]

[crystalmaster]

[Radley isn't sure how much he should say about the details of the future. Maybe something vague, but true....]

He's most definitely a dueling legend! Everyone knows the name Yugi Muto.

I'm glad I could help! A lot of us seem to be showing up here.

[duelingexpert]

[To be fair, Tristan isn't sure how much he should ask either.]

So... what about his friends. Does anyone know who Tristan Taylor is?

[The ego has to ask]

Yeah, it's kind of strange how that's happening.

[crystalmaster]

If they really pay attention to their dueling news. I definitely heard about you in magazines when Yugi was interviewed.

Maybe whoever's doing this thinks we're a good fit for this place.

[duelingexpert]

That's not bad, I can live with that.

[That's better than he could have hoped for really]

Maybe- I can understand why they would have selected some people you mentioned... but...

[Look. He knows he's not much of a gamer. Sometimes he plays the odd game with his friends, or when he's forced to for survival but he's not a big name in the industry. His selection seems random]

[crystalmaster]

Yugi always wants to mention his friends.

Honestly, I don't get why I was chosen either. I'm a businessman.

[duelingexpert]

That's the Yugi I know. It's nice to know he doesn't let the fame get to him.

Aren't you a duelist? Huh, I was kind of under the impression that you were.

[crystalmaster]

Yeah, I can't picture that happening to him.

I duel, but I wouldn't call myself a Duelist. I could be if I wanted to, I suppose. I'm more in the business of ... hiring Duelists, you could say. Or I was, at least.

[duelingexpert]

Me neither, but I had to check in on him.

Hiring them to do what exactly?

[crystalmaster]

Of course.

Duel, naturally. It's ... complicated. Another man and I were fighting for control of a mining town. He set up a system of each putting up a Duelist every night, and the loser would go to work for the boss of the winner in the mines. We paid them well, and Duelists came from all over the place to fight for us. It wouldn't have been a bad set-up, only my rival is a cruel man and he let his guards torture his miners. I could never prove it, but as time went on, it was obvious it was true. I tried to overthrow him, but the best we were able to do was hold him off from taking over completely.

[duelingexpert]

Yikes, so if you lost the duel it meant you'd be doing manual labor the next day? For how long? That's backbreaking work, and you really found enough competitors to go for it?

Man, that just burns me up the way some guys think they can treat their employees however they want. None of the miners would ever come forward?

[crystalmaster]

Yeah, exactly. You'd be surprised how many people were willing to risk it just to get rich dueling for us. The set up was to work in the mines indefinitely.

Malcolm and his men were real pieces of work. The miners are coming forward now, but back then, they couldn't. Whenever any of them tried to escape Malcolm's mine, they were caught again.