Wait, am I really about to tell this? Quick, I need an excuse to stall, they won't believe me anyways. They'll think I'm just some whiny rich kid.

"B-but, I think, I need a duel to calm down first!", I say, "Maybe some more training would be good!"

"Considering you had what looked like a panic attack and got threatened with a gun, we should probably oblige.", Frankie says.

"Let's look if there's a small arena or something around here.", Hit says.

We find something that looks like a run-down version of Mausoleum of the Emperor.
Or more like run out since literally nobody was in there.

"Thank Loki for this randomized architecture.", Mrs. Robotto says.

"So, how are we gonna do this? Battle Royal?", Pipsqueak says.

"I have a better idea. We make this a 2 vs 4. Me and Curran vs the rest. Turn order is player of smaller team-player of bigger team. Curran goes first, then I go. If any player goes to 0 LP, then their team players will get turns more frequently."

"It could be really long though.", Pipsqueak furrows his nonexistent brows.

"8 turns. Should be enough to calm me down. And everyone would have had a turn by then.", I say, I don't wanna drag this too much.

"Let's begin!", Hit says.

Curran (4000lp) and Acorno (4000lp) vs Effect Veiler (4000lp) and Pinecono (4000lp) and Robolady (4000lp) and Hitodenchak (4000lp)

"I begin.", I say.

I thankfully have no card with Pikeru on it. I will take them out later, why the *uck did I not do that already? At least I wasn't stupid enough to put in Divine Grace Northwemko and the red-cloaked Dark Magician in here.

"I start with Foolish Burial. I foolishly Bury myself.", that feels wrong to say after a traumatic event like that.

"Can you go back to saying Swearwords all the time?", Pipsqueak gives me a disturbed look.

"I discard the butt ugly but trusty bunny Igor to resurrect myself. If I or my retar*ed sister is summoned, Quigley the Palace Cook can be summoned. He's a level 5 tuner, so I can Synchro Summon Clear Wing Synchro Dragon. Now Quigley can a monster mentioneing me or that *lut to my hand. I choose Princess' Gift. I use Inferno Reckless Search, I add 2 more Gifts to my hand, then one of you gets all other copies of a card in their hand to their hand. I choose Acorno, exploiting a *cuking loophole in this ruleset!"

"I had a nickname, didn't I?", Aco- Ace says.

"Maybe, we are overreacting here.", Hit says, "And can she even do that move?"

"If we didn't specify otherwise, that loophole exists. I knew that meeting with Sandgambler was horrifying, but I didn't know it cut this deep.", Ace says, "I add 2 more copies of myself to my hand."

"Then I activate Polymerization to fuse 2 Gifts into Starve Venom. He doesn't gain any ATK yet, which is *hitty but I am fine. I end my turn. Satisfied with me cursing like a sailor again!"

"It seems this dragon duo is becoming some sort of security blanket for you.", Frankie points out.

"So what? Should I stop using 2 very good cards now?", I ask back angrily.

"No, but you should not START wasting moves to get them out or fall into despair if you do not. Did that happen in the last duel?", Frankie adds.

"I will manage to get some better deckbuilding then, so I CAN summon them consistently without making wasteful plays.", I say, "Make your move now."

"I start with Bento Synchro. For 1000 Life Points I summon Combo Veiler from my Extra Deck. (Frankie LP: 4000-3000) Then I activate Veiling Cloak adding myself to my hand. I use Combo Veiler's effect to summon myself and Scar Veiler. I activate Level Junction, combining the levels of all my monsters. I overlay my three level 10 monsters to Xyz Summon Knowledge Veiler. (ATK: 3300) I detach an overlay unit to draw 3 cards. With each one it will be one card less to draw for me.
I set the Pendulum Scale with Billowing Veiler and Knowledge Veiler. Their scales in the zones they are now are 0 and 10. I pendulum Summon Double Veiler. Upon summon she summons a statless token. If she wasn't normal summoned, she instead summons 2."

"Another Synchro or a fusion this time?", Pipsqueak wonders.

"So she does have all types of summoning. Did she do a ritual yet?", Robotto wonders.

"No, she definetly did not. You did not make a super-embarassing mistake.", Ace says.

"I follow up with the spell card Woven Veils, fusing Double Veiler and the 2 tokens into New Veiler (ATK: 2800) Now I can use my Veilers by milling them from my deck or summoning them to the field. I attack Starve Venom with Knowledge Veiler!" (Curran LP: 4000-3500)

"How will you prevent me from nuking the field with Starve Venom?", Curran asks.

"Did you read Flowing Veiler? I negate this mass destruction and even draw a card.", Frankie says.

"But to be fair, you used like, so many new ones!", I justify myself mostly righteous. I mean most righteously, „On a totally not distracting note, is there one named Guidance Veiler? Would be a very cool name and a waste if it didn't exist. Also, *uck, *it, *ock, to keep you from worrying about my degrading personality."

"New Veiler then destroys Clear Wing (Curran LP: 3500-3200) I set a card and end my turn."

Dammit, if this is how it goes, how can I ever stand up against my family?

"Hey, now worries, we still have chances to turn this around!", Ace says, "I set my Pendulum Scale with Pendulumucho and Focault's Cannon! 0 and 2 would normally be very bad pendulum scales, but level 1 is all I need! I pendulum summon 3 copies of myself! I overlay them into Lyrilusc Assembled Nightinggale! She has 300 ATK and can attack three times!"

"I know what you might be planning, but I use New Veiler to mill a copy of myself and negate her effects.", Frankie counters.

"I did not make a super-embarassing mistake either!", Acorno coolly declares, "I activate overlay shift, I replace Nightingale with a new xyz monster, and transfer her overlay units to it! I summon Number 4, Numeron Gate Catvari!"

"Wasn't this in one of our many world-ending conflicts?", Robotto asks, „as a threat?"

"They do often end up in the decks of normal people once the world is saved from them.", Hitodenchak, „I wouldn't have number monsters otherwise either."

"Maybe I should get an Armityle deck.", Pipsqueak suggests.

"I activate Overlay Superstrike, Catvari has 3 overlay units, so that's how many times he can attack! If he still has any after this turn, Catvari will be destroyed. I attack-"

"I could let you damage yourself, but I will play it safe.", Frankie says, "I counter with storming Mirror Force, Catvari will be bounced into the Extra Deck."

"I set a card and end my turn. Hah, I hope this doesn't with a loss in the 8th turn."

*sigh* we're going to lose terribly. And definetly before turn 9, but I will take it to that limit.

"I go! I discard myself to summon Acorno! Now I can revive myself. I activate Fast Fertilizer to get 2 more copies of me to the field.", another Machine Dupe counterpart, " I overlay into Sylvant Princessprite and Slacker Magician (Princessprite ATK: 1800 Magician DEF: 2100) I detach an overlay unit from Princessprite to reveal the top card of my deck. It is the equip spell Plougshare Scythe.
It gives Princessprite 800 ATK. (Princressprite ATK: 1800-2600) If she battles an Earth monster, it will loose 500 ATK. I attack Acorno!"

„I flip up Spiritual Sword of Rebealing Light! I pay 1000 Life Points to negate this attack! (Acorno LP: 4000-3000)"

„This allows me to use the effect of Billowing Veiler, our attack was negated, so I can recover a copy of myself from my GY."

„I set a card and end my turn.", Pipsqueak says.

„Me again. I first use Shard of Avarice, shuffling Clear Wing into my Extra Deck and getting one card. I use Magical Mallet to reshuffle my whole hand in my deck and redraw it. I normal summon Princess' Retainer Obea! I can now Special Summon a card that mentions me from my hand. I pick Princess' Cupbearer Yirisho! He is a high-level tuner! I synchro summon Clear Wing again! Yirisho would inflict damage now, but-"

„Indeed. I use New Veiler's effect to summon Extra Veiler from my deck.", Frankie says.

„The damage, which is 200 per material is reflect to me.", I sigh, (Curran LP: 3200-2800)

„But, wait! Clear Wing gains 400 ATK too, even if you managed to reflect it!", I say, „It has 2900 ATK now, which I can use to defeat New Veiler! That ends my turn. (Frankie LP: 4000-3900) Ch, I need to do better..."

Not gonna bother throwing out some random swears again.

„You're a bit too rash about this. I'm sure even Frankie and... huh, I don't actually know who has the second strongest deck of us... but anyway, even this combination would have to train and deckbuild for quite some time before they could duel evenly in this mode.", Hit says.

„But other people apart from Sandgambler might be out there to fetch me.", I grumble, „I have to perform better than that!"

„Hm, you know, after this duel, no more delays. You WILL tell us what's going on. I start my turn by normal summoning Nemuriko. I use Gift of the White Elephant. I sacrifice Nemuriko to draw 2 cards. Then I use Silent Doom to bring Nemuriko back immediately.
I use two copies of Transmodify, first, I turn Nemuriko into Water Omotics and then into Giant Turtle who feeds on flames. (ATK: 1400)"

„What an overdramatic name for a normal monster.", Robotto says.

„Yeah, I hope we have the actual one as a rival at one point!", Pipsqueak says with a gleam in his eyes.

„It's not even over yet!", Hit says, „I also have the third and last copy of Transmodify in my hand! I summon Boulder Tortoise! (ATK: 1450)"

„I expected more ATK, but you probably have a card that can summon a lot of the previous monsters back.", Acorno notes.

„Yep, Level Row brings all of them back, since they go from 3 to 4 to 5. I attack Acorno directly with Nemuriko!"

(Acorno LP: 3000-2200)

„I attack with Water Omotics!"

„I pay with my Swords!" (Acorno LP: 2200-1200)

„Then with the Turtle!"

„I pay again!" (Acorno LP: 1200-200)

„Tortoise has to finish it." (Acorno LP: 200-1450=0), „I set 3 cards and end my turn."

„I'm sorry.", Acorno says.

„I-, you know we'll discuss performance later. I draw!"

„I have Drastic Drop Off. The card will be discarded.", Hit counters.

„I'm gonna attack Nemuriko for at least a little bit of damage!" (Hit LP: 4000-1900)

„I'm going to spare you from my effects.", Frankie says.

„Don't you effin' dare pity me!", I yell, „I also end my turn!"

„My turn. Should I make it quick or spectacular?", Robotto asks.

„Pick one. It's not like we get to pick how a potential baddy takes us out.", I say, „But mostly because I don't know which one would be a case of taking pity of me."

„Okay. I put Neo Roboyarou and Neo Robolady into my pendulum zones. They have the scales of 2 and 7. I pendulum Summon Roboyarou and Robolady. Now Yarou adds the Ritual Spell of my archetype to my hand, as well as its monster.
Lady adds the Fusion. I activate the Ritual Spell Two Robotic Variants. I tribute the two monsters on my field to Ritual Summon Retro Robolady (ATK: 3000) While none of you have monsters, my monsters are immune to card effects. I attack Clear Wing."

(Curran LP: 3200-3100)

I'm past whining and muttering by this point. Against a threat I would've given up before even reaching turn 8.

„Since I defeated a Synchro monster I activate Greed Grado. I draw two cards! Then I activate Tremendous Fire! (Robotto LP: 4000-3500 Curran LP: 3100-2600) I use Machina Crash! I destroy my monster to deal the damage of a direct attack. (Curran LP: 2600-3000=0)"

WINNER: Not Curran's team

„So, now what was the reason for Sandgambler looking for you?", Hit demands.

„Ugh, fine, I'll keep the promise. Do you know Divine Grave Northwemko?", I start.

„Oh, she is now running the secret village of spellcasters, after the thing that Gil Garth did was over or something.", Pipsqueak says, „though now it is the open city of all monster types, or something, I guess."

„She's my mother.", I reveal.

People went as silent as you would expect.

„And the Red Dark Magician is my father.", I add.

People keep being silent.

„They're...", do I really want to go into detail? No, I dont, „kinda really mean about how they like Pikeru more than me and about how she is better at everything. So, I fled. To pretend they care about me after all, it seems they've put a bounty on me."

„I'm pretty sure it cannot be this horrible.", Hit says, of course he does, „they probably do indeed care for you and were desperate to get ideas from anywhere and well... bad people want money. He probably was a good liar in front of them."

„So what! You can't tell me all of you are adults having left the nest! I'm only certain for Robotto, who had some weird financial troubles!", I yell back.

„I'm older than you think.", Pipsqueak mopes.

„Well, what DID Northwemko and Dark Magician do to you?", Frankie asks.

I should tell them, but will they even believe she would do that? No, there is only one option I have.

„We'll go back to that city. You'll see what kinds of people they are.", I say.

My only hope is Pikeru babbling it because she doesn't see what they are doing as wrong.
If it doesn't work... well the brief time we were a team was fun. I will have to escape from home a second time, though they will be more careful. Maybe the dragons will return in the nick of time someday.


Why does this has a duel? My PC was broken, I had to write on a different one while it was repaired and I didn't have my chapter notes ready, but I wanted to write at least SOMETHING.

time since last: 141 days

Carryover from Arc-VRAINS:

Inferno Reckless Search

Bento Synchro

Magical Mallet Anime effect

OC cards:

Quigley the Palace Cook

Level 5, DARK, Spellcaster, Tuner, Effect

ATK: 1900

DEF: 1300

Effect: If you normal summon "Ebon Magician Curran" or "White Magician Pikeru", you can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is used as a Synchro Material, you can add one card from your deck to the hand that lists "Ebon Magician Curran" or "White Magician Pikeru" in its text from your deck to your hand. You can only use this effect once per turn

Veiling Cloak

Quick-Play Spell

Effect: Add one "Veiler" monster from your deck to your hand. You cannot use its effect in the next turn.

Level Junction

Normal Spell

Effect: The level of all monsters you control becomes equal to the sum of their levels.

Knowledge Veiler

Rank 10, LIGHT, Spellcaster, Xyz, Effect

ATK: 3300

DEF: 1900

Material: 3 or more level 10 spellcaster monsters

Effect: Once per turn, you can draw one card for every xyz material attached to this card and if you do, detach one xyz material.

Double Veiler

Level 2, LIGHT, Spellcaster, Tuner, Effect

ATK: 300

DEF: 500

Effect: If this card is summoned, Special Summon one "Veiler Token" (ATK/DEF: 0, Level 2, LIGHT, Spellcaster), if you did not normal summon this turn, Special Summon 2 instead.

Flowing Veiler

Level 5, LIGHT, Spellcaster, Pendulum, Effect

ATK: 2300

DEF: 1100

Pendulum Scale: 0/0

Pendulum Effect: If multiple "Veiler" monsters would be destroyed by card effects you can negate that effect and destroy those cards.

Effect: If multiple "Veiler" monsters are destroyed by card effects, you can add this card from your GY to your hand.

Billowing Veiler

Level 5, LIGHT, Spellcaster, Pendulum, Tuner, Effect

ATK: 1100

DEF: 2300

Pendulum Scale: 10/10

Pendulum Effect: If one of your card effects is negated, you can add a "Veiler" card from your GY to your hand

Effect: If one of your card effects is negated, you can add this card from your GY to your hand.

Woven Veils

Normal Spell

Effect: Fusion Summon 1 "Veiler" monster by sending the Fusion Material from your hand or field to the GY. If you have activated the effects of "Veiler" monsters from your hand 3 times a turn, you can add this card from your GY to your hand.

New Veiler

Level 7, LIGHT, Spellcaster, Fusion, Effect

ATK: 2800

DEF: 2050

Materials: 3 "Veiler" monsters with 2 different names

Effect: Once per turn (quick effect), you can send a "Veiler" monster from your deck to the GY or special summon it from there to use its effects.

Fast Fertilizer

Normal Spell

Effect: Target one plant type monster you control with 500 or less ATK, Special Summon up to 2 monsters with the same name from your deck.

Ploughshare Scythe

Equip Spell

Effect: Equip only to a plant monster. It gains 800 ATK, reduce the ATK of every EARTH monster it battles by 500.

Overlay Superstrike

Normal Spell

Effect: Choose 1 Xyz Material, this turn, it can attack once for every overlay unit attached to it, in the End Phase, if it still has overlay units attached to it, destroy it.

Overlay Shift

Normal Spell

Effect: Return one Xyz Monster you control to the Extra Deck, Special Summon one Xyz monster with the same rank, but a different name from your Extra Deck, attach the previous monster's material to the new monster.

Princess' Retainer Obea

Level 2, DARK, Spellcaster, Effect

ATK: 800

DEF: 900

Effect: You can Special Summon one monster mentioning "Curran" or "Pikeru" in their card text or containing it in their name from you hand. You can only use this effect once while this card is face-up on the field.

Princess' Cupbearer Yirisho

Level 5, DARK, Spellcaster, Tuner

ATK: 1900

DEF: 1800

Effect: If a monster is summoned from the Extra Deck, while you have a "Curran" monster on your field or GY, including when using this card as material increase the monster's ATK by 200 for each material used and inflict 200 points of damage to your opponent for each material used.

Level Row Summons

Normal Spell

Effect: Chose three normal monster with the same type and attribute and consecutive levels from your GY, special summon them. You can only use this card's name once per turn.

Neo Roboyarou

Level 5, Earth, Machine, Pendulum, Effect

ATK: 2100

DEF: 1200

Pendulum Scale 2/7

Pendulum Effect: If you succesfully pendulum summon a machine monster(s), you can add "Two Robotic Variants" and "Retro Roboyarou" and "Retro Robolady" from your deck to your hand.

Monster Effect: If this card is tribute or pendulum summoned while your opponent controls a monster, you can add one "Robolady" card from your deck to your hand.

Neo Robolady

Level 6, Earth, Machine, Pendulum, Effect

ATK: 1200

DEF: 2100

Pendulum Scale: 2/7

Pendulum Effect: If you succesfully pendulum summon a machine monster(s), you can add 1 card with an effect that permits fusion summoning from your deck to your hand.

Monster Effect: If this card is tribute or pendulum summoned while your opponent controls no monsters, you can add one "Roboyarou" card from your deck to your hand.

Two Robotic Variants

Ritual Spell

Effect: This card is used to Ritual Summon "Retro Roboyarou" or "Retro Robolady", you must also tribute normal and/or machine monsters whose total levels is 6 or more.

Retro Robolady

Level 6, Earth, Machine, Ritual, Effect

ATK: 3000

DEF: 2500

Effect: While your opponent controls no monsters, your monster are unaffected by your opponent's card effects. If a "Robolady" monster you controls succesfully attacks directly, all "Roboyarou" and "Robolady" monsters you control become unaffected by your opponent's card effects until the end of your opponent's next turn. You can return this card to your hand to summmon one „Retro Roboyarou" from your hand. (this is treated as Ritual Summon) You can only use this effect once per turn.

Retro Roboyarou

Level 6, Earth, Machine, Ritual, Effect

ATK: 2500

DEF: 3000

Effect: While your opponent controls a monster, your monsters cannot be destroyed by battle. If a "Roboyarou" monster you controls inflicts battle damage or destroys a monster by battle, all "Roboyarou" and "Robolady" you currently control cannot be destroyed by battle, even after this card leaves the field. You can tribute this card to summon one „Retro Robolady" from your hand. (this is treated as Ritual Summoning.) You can only use this effect once per turn.

Machina Crash

Normal Spell

Effect: Destroy one machine monster you control, inflict damage to your opponent equal to its ATK.

Shard of Avarice

Normal Spell

Effect: Shuffle one card from your GY into your deck and draw one card.