Dscore started looking through his menu. He was level 1, of course. He had a starter deck of 30 cards, with 25 commons and 5 rare cards. He had 20 HP, and 5 mana. He also had 20$ of in-game currency. Dscore closed his menu, took a deep breath, and stepped into town.
The Town of Beginnings sounded like a cheesy name for the first city in the game, but Dscore couldn't complain. The graphics and NPCs looked amazing. There were several players here as well, most people looking like beginners who had no idea what they were doing. Dscore started looking for his friend, B_Boss. Boss said he would show Dscore around, and teach him things the tutorial had "forgotten" to mention. Dscore looked all over the place, but saw no one with a gamertag of "B_Boss" above their heads. Dscore then turned around, and bumped into someone. He fell flat onto the hard stone.
"Oh, sorry bud." The tall, bulky man apologized.
"No problem." Dscore said, standing up, and noticed a crowd gathering in front of him.
"What's the huge line for?" Dscore asked. The man laughed, and said,
"New here, huh? Well, every Saturday, this guild comes into town, offering great deals on card trades." Dscore looked up ahead, and saw a shopping booth ahead of him. It was a cart run by some guy with the gamertag "Uncle Death". Dscore shrugged, and walked out of the line. He didn't have time to shop with what little money he had, for he had a friend to find.
He walked around for several minutes, eventually getting tired and annoyed. Suddenly, Dscore saw a purple streak across the sky. It looked like a shooting star, almost. Dscore then noticed the direction the streak headed towards. A tavern across the street. Dscore figured he might as well go in. He entered the tavern. It looked like a pretty simple place. There was a bar where people drank and talked, tables where people traded and played poker, and some slot machines where people could burn excess money. Dscore looked around, and finally saw him. B_Boss. His character looked much like his real self, a short and stubby kid somehow looking threatening under a black hoodie and deep voice. Boss was at the bar, talking with some girl with the username WalkinSharky. Dscore walked up to Boss, and said
"Heya. Where've you been?" Boss looked up at his long-old friend.
"I've been here waiting for you. Also, I found us a new friend." He said, pointing to the girl.
"Hi, I'm Sharky!" She said with an enthusiastic voice. She had red hair, with freckles covering her face. She was also wearing a shark hat.
"Alright, looks like we've got a party." Dscore said. Suddenly, the door to the tavern slammed open. Everyone turned to look up at the player. It was Uncle Death, from the trading booth. It was a guy wearing black robes and a skeleton mask with sunglasses. He looked like a modern-day grim reaper. He looked around the tavern, and said,
"Anyone here by the name of BBoss?" Boss turned away, and Dscore whispered,
"What the fuck did you do now?" Boss was always a bit of a troublemaker. Boss thought for a moment, then replied,
"I may have swiped a legendary card from the owner of the trading booth." Dscore facepalmed. Legendary was the highest card rank in the game. This Uncle Death guy must have been pissed.
"YOU!" Uncle death shouted from across the tavern, before dashing up into Boss's face. "You must have some nerve to steal from the Phoenix Guild...now gimme my card back, or we're gonna have some trouble here." Boss sighed, then replied,
"I don't have your card. I pawned it 'cause I already had one of it."
Uncle Death shouted, enraged, "Alright, we've got trouble then!" Two other men entered the tavern behind Uncle. They had card holders out and ready to fight. Sharky cowered behind Dscore, and Boss held up his wrist holder, as well. His holder was a more shiny blue color, with the letters B-T on the side of it. Indicating he was a beta tester. Death attached his holder as well, and declared,
"This is gonna be fun…"
"This isn't fair!" Dscore said, "It's 3 on 1." He bravely said, then pulled out his card holder, and stepped next to Boss. Sharky took a deep breath, and walked up next to Dscore, looking nervous. The enemy players held their arms up, beginning the duel.
Dscore gulped, and remembered he only had a starting deck.
DUEL START!
Dscore drew his starting hand. Well, more like it was drawn for him by the game. He saw he now had only 1 mana, out of his supposed 5.
"Mana charges as the duel progresses on, by the way." Boss said, noticing Dscore's confusion. Dscore didn't see anything he could play, so he ended his turn.
Uncle looked through his hand. Dscore saw he was level 40, and had 60 max HP, and started with 4 mana. Uncle played deadite skeleton shield master, costing 2 mana. Soon after, a skeleton rose out of the ground, holding a giant spiked shield. He had 4 HP, 1 ATK, and Taunt. Uncle also played an action, roar of rage, to give his shieldmaster +2 HP. He then ended his turn. Boss drew his hand. Dscore saw Boss was level 19, and Sharky was level 4. Boss played a deadite skeleton jouster. It had charge, so it attacked right away. The skeleton rode on his horse, ramming his lance into the other skeleton's shield, but the enemy slammed its shield into the Jouster's face, knocking him off his horse and killing him. Shield master suffered 3 damage, half of his health.
The bodyguard to the left of Uncle drew his cards, and played life surge on the teammate's shield master. A green aura surrounded the skeleton, and restored all 3 lost HP.
Sharky couldn't do anything, and ended her turn.
The bodyguard to Uncle's right played an action, evil's might. It gave the ally skeleton +2 ATK.
Finally, play rotated to Dscore. He drew a card named "Pumpkinhead". He never saw the movie, but it was a pretty powerful card, and a rare. There was still nothing he could do with 2 mana, so he ended his turn. Uncle chuckled. He had this in the bag, and he summoned a deadite skeleton jouster. The skeleton rode on his horse and the other skeleton raised his shield in a battlecry, as the two ran into Dscore and slammed their weapons into him. He fell to the ground, taking 7 damage. Dscore struggled to his feet from the powerful attack, and play rotated to BBoss. He drew a card and summoned Chucky. A small, tattered doll appeared from the ceiling, and fell to the ground, doing a flip on the way down. Chucky has 3 ATK and 4 HP, plus dodge and taunt. I looked up what dodge meant, and it meant that during enemy player's turns Chucky could dodge one attack. Boss then played an action called Charge on Chucky, giving him the charge ability so he could attack right away, and +2 ATK. Chucky curled up into a ball, and rolled towards the shieldmaster while letting out a sinister cackle. He jumped up to the skeleton's head, and sliced at the skeleton's neck. Or, at least, where its neck should be. It dealt 5 damage, and left it with only 1 HP remaining, before the skeleton moved its shield upwards, launching Chucky across the room, and he landed back down on his feet, in Boss's side of the field.
The bodyguard to the left of Uncle chuckled, and said,
"I'm sorry, but, we don't like our only defense being at one health." He played two life surge cards, restoring the shieldmaster to full health. The shieldmaster and jouster began to charge, and ran into Chucky. Chucky stood his ground, jumped up, and stabbed the jouster off his horse, but the shieldmaster slammed his shield into Chucky, and killed him. The minion disappeared in a cloud of dust and ashes. It became apparent that ally minions could attack during any ally player's turn as well as their owner's.
Dscore, Boss and Sharky began to sweat. None of the enemies were injured, and they kept buffing a single shieldmaster with taunt, and they had no minions on the field anymore. Boss looked at Sharky and Dscore.
"Give up yet?" Uncle Death taunted them. Boss sighed and said,
"Fine, here's your card back…" Boss then threw the golden card across the room, and Uncle Death caught it. He looked relieved, and pressed the dull white button labelled Surrender. The minions and the field disappeared, as the match ended.
