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[A game club you say...]

Depends. Would card games be allowed to be brought and played once in a while too?

I was thinking of games that involve more strategy and intellect than poker but I suppose I will allow it. It's a socialization activity.

Oh, I wasn't talking about poker: I'm talking about Duel Monsters, or any other games that can be played with other types of cards than just your typical kind used for poker or go fish or whatever.

[Real quick, he sends an image of some Duel Monster cards like an Armed Dragon and a magic card as examples of what they look like.]

[Holy shit.

Taryon has heard of roleplaying, of board games, and of video games, but a card game where you use monsters and spells? Why hasn't Exandria invented anything like this??]

You have these here??
How does it work?

Yeah, I have my own deck from home, and I'm in the process of getting copies made of cards I know about from home made here too so that people can collect whatever cards they wanna use to build their own decks. I can teach anyone who is interested how to play as well.

Count me in. Scratch that, come over and give us a demonstration!

Sure. Where do you want me to meet you at?

library

[Taryon likes hanging out there, anyway, and he can spend the waiting time going over new books.]

Sounds good. I'll head over now.

[Give or take about five minutes, Manjoume will arrive at the library, looking around a bit before he spots Taryon sitting at a table.]

Uh, hey. You're the guy that was asking about games on the network, right?

[Taryon is partway through the first chapter of a book on electrical engineering when Manjoume arrives. Sometimes, people wander inside while avoiding conversation, and he doesn't care to look up until he's directly addressed.

He slides in a bookmark and closes the book.] You're the one with the card games? [He sets the book onto a nearby chair, then folds his hands and plants them on the table.] I'm listening.

Yeah, that's me: name's Manjoume Jun, from the Brimstone team. I can explain how Duel Monsters is played while showing you my cards here.

[So, Manjoume sits down across from Taryon here, taking out his Duel Monster cards from their deck holder and spreading them out on the table for the other man to look at. There are more of those Armed Dragons as well as few other different monster characters, more of those green magic cards, some purple-colored cards that Manjoume will refer to as "trap cards" if asked about them...]

Taryon Darrington.

[He holds his head a little higher when he shares his name.]

So you fight monsters with magic, is my guess.

Yeah, you can. You summon monsters to go up against your opponents monsters and fight to try to make your opponent's life points hit zero to win the game. Magic and Trap cards can be used to make your monsters stronger, to try to weaken the opponent's monsters, or the game in general more difficult for your opponent to be able to take out your monsters that easily.

There's a lot of strategy involved in figuring out which cards are the best to use at the right time.

Oh. So we're the ones commanding the beasts to fight one another. What a novel concept! Instead of our wizards or rangers fighting, we have a team of monsters, battling like our small personal armies.

[Don't tell him about other creature-collecting video games.]

Correct. That said, I should note that there are Duel Monsters that are humanoid in design, or even have names that include "magician" or "ranger" in them. It all depends on what kind of cards you're drawn toward the most and like using in terms of skill and design: my deck I've built just happens to be focused around dragons, machines, and the occasional weird creature that happens to work with my other cards.

[Aka, whatever the hell an "Ojama" is supposed to be--is it an animal or is it a weird humanoid, who can say.]

sounds fun. what kind of games do you have?

There's this card-based based that I helped to fund online that's about pretending to be dwarves working on a mine. I need a few people to try it out with me.

And there's some popular strategy games I picked up. Ever heard of Battleship?

haha that sounds pretty wild, sure i'll help try it out

and we don't have precisely that game where i'm from, but looking up a description it sounds like we have something similar. i'd like to see how battleship compares to it

That's interesting. There really are some similarities between our worlds.

I was surprised a while back that they have games set in worlds almost exactly like mine, with magic and all. But it's all fiction here.

we don't have magic in my world either, so learning that it's real for some people is pretty wild. it must be weird to hear that it's just fiction to other people though too

and a lot of places don't have mechs like we do back home, so it's probably just as weird for those people to see the stuff in the hangar

[Is he remembering Taryon's absolute delight and fascination at seeing the Raynos before he died? Yes. Is he maybe a little completely unsure how to handle this issue, should it come up? Also yes.]

[At least he got to experience seeing Raynos for the first time twice. Taryon senses the latent tragedy in knowing that he's seen everything before, but that is mostly balanced out by the wonder of exploring modern technology.]

It kind of is. But I though large robots like the ones in the hanger were stuff of fiction, and here they are, right in front of me. Just goes to show that we're all very creative people no matter where we live.

that's a nice way of looking at it. like magic and technology are just different manifestations of the same thing.

i guess they do sort of serve the same purpose, letting people do stuff they wouldn't be able to on their own.

I mean, I have magic equipment, some of which cast spells a druid or wizard can do with their years of practice. It's nearly the same thing where I'm from.

is that what your roombas do?

and i gotta ask: what is the difference between a druid and a wizard

Yes! They're my magical tools that deliver spells across the battlefiled, all which I made myself.

So a wizard studies spells and uses arcane power to cast magic that can manipulate the elements and the world, while a druid calls upon the power of nature. There's lots of overlap between the two forms of magic, but ultimately their specialties are different. I'm not a wizard, though my runes are based on arcane research.

That's not even getting into other types of arcane magic casters like sorcerors and warlocks and bards, in a sense. But don't worry about those.

so you make your own spells instead of getting them from books or something? what are you if you're not a wizard?

man i didn't know there were so many kinds of magic users. i've seen most of those words used in fantasy stories but they're all used to describe the same thing, pretty much. a wizard is a warlock is a sorcerer, except warlocks are usually evil, for some reason. and they're almost always old guys with long beards and robes.

except bards, they usually just sing.

Alright, no, wizards cast spells out of nothing. I build things that cast spells for me. Wizards don't know a thing about engineering.

I never met a warlock, but I wouldn't assume they're all awful people. And most I've seen are pretty young and charismatic.

[You can't be a Charisma-based caster and not make an impression.]

Bard sings. Some of them do magic. Lots of us can. It's just how we use it that makes the difference.

If you proceed with your plans, I'll attend your club's sessions.

[ There is no harm in it, he reminds himself. ]

I'll put you down as a member for now. See you soon!

Then I'll await further updates. It's likely that I am unfamiliar with these games, however.

I'd be willing to try, when I can find some time. What kind of games?

Collaborative games. Ones where we have to strategize together to reach a goal. Some where we are all competing against each other.

[And stuff that he got from a Kickstarter that he backed before he died? It's a free game from his perspective.]

Sounds interesting. I've never played many board games, but they seem fun.

Count me in, time permitting.

Board games? Like chess?

[It's the only one they know]

Okay, yes, we can include that. But I was thinking something along the lines of a game that includes some sort of narrative that we, the players, make up as we go along.

Oh, you don't have to. It was just the first thing that came to mind.

Honestly, what you described there sounds much more interesting to me.

I'm happy that you agree. I hope that from this group, we can create a few multi-day campaigns with the most dedicated of us players.

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