Inspired by my enjoyment of the Warcraft Universe and a certain trading card game that involves the concept of Dueling and Monsters.
Hearth of the Cards! An Hearthstone Story!
Prologue: The Invention of the Duel Platform.
Hearthstone was a strange kind of card game that was invented during the war for Pandaria, while the forces of the Horde and Alliance were busy both fighting each other and vanquishing the Mighty army of Lei-shen the Thunder King, The card game was invented by a simple Dwarf Innkeeper in the middle of the cold region of Dun Morogh, the card game instantly became a hit, being both a game for the one's who desire fun and the ones who play to win.
Hearthstone was like a disease, infecting everyone with the game, soon enough, Hearthstone in of itself was like a battle or a duel, a more dignified way to solve issues, conflicts and grudges, not with a blade or a magical spell, but rather, with a thirty-card deck for a set of nine different classes.
In the village known as New Tinkertown, a town where the Gnomeragan exiles now reside in there was a single gnome within his gear-ridden home, busy at work as he hammed and drilled in some nails into a strange wrist attachment that was still in its early stages of development.
It was the dead of Night as the Gnome worked on his latest creation within his mechanical-enthused hobble.
The gnome's was bald but his beard was as thick and braid as the most prideful of Dwarfs, he hummed to himself in a joyous manner as he was tinkering on something on his desk, aside the thick-bearded Gnome was a plethora of broken and unfinished contraptions and machines, all of them were considered defective or not good enough for the perfection-seeking Gnome.
"Just a little more screws here...Some welding here...A spring in there..." The Gnome said to himself with a grumble, despite his best efforts his creations was constantly frizzy and easy to break down, but he could bet all of his gold that this invention will surely be working perfectly for the Gnome.
The Gnome inventor's name was Huey Motor, he used to be a mage, a fire one as well, blasting away Leper gnomes and Rockjaw Troggs with a pair of searing hands and fireballs, nowadays however, he spends his day, within and around his home, challenging against several friends and passerbys to a fun game of Hearthstone, however, one problem that the Gnome noticed that whenever anyone wanted to play, they had to need two things, a table and the game board.
Huey Motor was an ambitious Gnome, he was tired of having to trudge around a Hearthstone game board, its heaviness and general oversize complicated things, as he would search for an empty perfectly-spaced desk and then finally get to playing, he wanted to invent something that got rid of that process.
"And the finishing touches..." Huey said as began to draw some beads of sweat, drizzling down his beard as with some metal clamps, he proceeded to insert a glass jar that consisted of many motes of life, the motes danced around like fireflies as it was inserted into the module of the arm-band, the motes causing the blade-like bracer to glow brightly with its mystical blue hue.
The contraption looked like some sort of wrist-blade but it was dulled and not used for fighting, it was able to slide into someone's wrist, it was heavily adjustable, meaning that anyone, may they be a murloc or a Tauren can wear the machine with a sense of comfort.
"There! its finished! My greatest invention has been completed! Behold! All of Azeroth...With this contraption that latches onto your wrist, you can now play Hearthstone! Without the need of a board or a table! I call it...The Dimensional Unrestrained Energy Layer Platform, or...The D.U.E.L. Platform for short!" Huey said as he lifted the Duel Platform over his head as his Gnomish laughs echo'ed throughout the night-basked Tinker Town.
"SHUT UP! Some people are trying to sleep here!" A random Gnome called out, clearly cranky from being woken up from the high-pitched laughter of a gnome, it was enough for Huey to pipe down his successive cackles, he grumbled underneath his breath in annoyance, clearly not wanting his loud spirit to be caged.
"I'll show that guy what for, just you wait until I get an investor to mass produce this, but first...I think I should test this with someone...I just need to make another one..." Huey Motor said with a quiet laugh as he proceeded to get back to work, making another D.U.E.L. Platform for demonstration.