Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Academy: Eternal Retribution Discussion

I think in the anime it's both- in the games it's only booster packs, and I've never seen a preconstructed deck inside, but single cards are in the anime I think... when they had the "rare cards" before Chazz fought Jaden in that tournament thing if I remember correctly...

But I really like the "Black Market" card shop, myself. Of course, I'd think there'd be "cursed" cards, too...

Darnpenguin said his character might pick up Dreadroot, and if it's in a black market then it's obviously stolen, and thus it explains how a card like that wound up on the market. Plus, I'd imagine a stolen "Wicked God" card would probably carry a LOT of bad mojo on it.

If you're really desperate for cards, you could always go fishing in the old well in the Northwest corner, but you'll only be getting cards that other players tossed down there due to uselessness.

Speaking of the well, will there be a way to bond with a duel spirit in this?

Okay, discussing possible north side use with GM.

Dramatic duels, you say? What about crater of said freaking volcano? That would seem pretty epic to me.

The shop also sells snack food. I would think it has the starter decks, as well.

Also, if there's a black market for bad mojo, wouldn't the bad mojo king, the old abandoned dorm, qualify as a nice place? (After all, it's all just 'superstition', right? :P)

darnpenguin: wouldn't everything in that well pretty much be completely unusuable due to water damage? Even if the well is empty, it has to rain sometime...

Insane: The volcano? At some point, someone has to throw a particularly scary card into it, Lord Of The Rings style. :)

And nobody goes shopping for bad mojo. It just comes free with certain purchases. ;)

edited 8th Jun '10 9:17:07 PM by Scrounge

... Yes. For both the volcano crater and abandoned dorm black market.

... I get the feeling that Duel academy still has stuff that is missing that it should have and doesn't. Maybe a small market area? For students to use personal money at? For clothes for off days if they want it, or food if they'd like something other than cafeteria food, or recreational activities not related to a card game? Just a thought...

...I bet if they get caught playing Uno, they get expelled. :)

I'd imagine that certain sudents would also need a place to work, seeing as how cards aren't free. Well, except for water-damaged useless ones. And probably people passing spare Giant Germs to their friends.

Yeah, work makes sense... Of course, in the games, the students get a special form of currency called DP for dueling... Mainly used for cards, actually. (And sandwiches in the Tag Force games) Though jobs to get even more DP make a lot of sense.

...Since one of the characters is a teacher, and therefore has to pay real-money bills, I'm not sold on the DP thing, since it means that either he can't shop where the students do, or he's kinda screwed in terms of paying for a car. :)

...Sandwiches?

edited 8th Jun '10 9:38:04 PM by Scrounge

Entirely to raise your partner's affection for you, actually. They serve no other function in the game that I recall, besides having a chance of a card inside if I remember correctly.

Well, that's true too, but then again he may just be paid real money for his job and given DP on the side or by dueling like the students. I mean, the teachers have been duel-able in most of the games, if not all of them(I only have Tag Force 2 and Spirit Caller, sorry ^_^;)

edited 8th Jun '10 9:46:02 PM by Kuiper

Jobs could be in the cafeteria and card shops, maybe the garage for Duel Runners, etc.

About the DP thing, it actually seems to be the currency in the world... I know in at least the Duel Academy game, your parents send you dp every month as an allowance.

Yeah, but that's just a game mechanic for simplicity's sake, and to provide a universal currency that makes sense regardless of region (150 bucks for a pack of cards? My god, Warhammer 40 K is cheaper than this!)

Come to think of it, they probably have duelists of all nationalities at the academy, so a universal currency for the island kind of makes sense.

Yeah, but I don't think DP=anything close to USD. Maybe Yen, or it's own currency, or just 1/6 of a dollar. And the multi-nationalities also figures in, I guess.

Since we now have a player using a Gravekeeper deck, might I suggest the cult leader gets some Sphinx Control?

I'm still working on the Cult leaders' deck, don't worry.

Fair enough, but if it's not Sphinx-based, I will dress up like a Roman soldier, come to your house and kick you in the groin. Then I will exclaim "that was for the sphinxes" before running out the door and disappearing, never to be seen again.

edited 9th Jun '10 2:23:25 PM by darnpenguin

...I don't think the sphinxes care, dude.

Roleplay!!! I haz intenetz!

Today will be really slow though, because I have a party to go to. So the liner won't get to DA for a while :P

Tip for Cyrus: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

(Also, I'd imagine blind skydivers tend to have very short careers.)

edited 12th Jun '10 4:31:45 PM by Scrounge

Who cares, i like this guy already. GO CYRUS!

For some weird reason, when I saw Cyrus jumping, my first thought was: "So what, people aren't used to seeing blind sky-divers jumping out of helicopters onto moving boats?" Not quite sure why, but it seems to be something that I remember in the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise happening an awful lot...

XD Cyrus is nuts, but in a good kind of way. Especially since he has that crazy bad curse on him.

And while you do have a point, Evi, which would be more fun- people screaming and scrambling to help, or just going "Meh, saw someone do it last tuesday, only he was missing a leg" and walking away as if it bored them to tears?

No, I wasn't saying it was normal, I was just amazed by my own initial reaction to the stunt.

I'm thinking of making Cyrus beyond the impossible... but I'm at least going to try and stick to things that can be preplanned. For example, he won't be racing or things that require changing plans. That might get... messy.

It doesn't really matter, as long as it's cool enough. Just... don't expect things to go that well when drama is involved.

Also:

Congratulations, you have managed to make one of my characters speechless in less than 1 page of posts. That's a new freaking record.