Friday 2nd August

Ooh, I Have Internet on This Ship!

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Sorry, I haven't stopped since we arrived in Tokyo so I haven't had a chance to update the site. However I got lucky in that I managed to connect to the internet even right out in the middle of the ocean, thanks to the expensive but useful satellite coverage I purchased from KC a while back.

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I'm fully registered now and we've all received our DimDisks. To be honest they don't look that different from the KC Duel Disk except they don't have the holographic projectors attached making them much lighter than KC's design. Apparently the entire island is riddled with projectors so it won't matter where you are on the island, you'll always be able to summon your cards. I'm tempted to test this.

I'll have to work quick though, the way they've set up the Disks for this tournament means that when you hit zero life points the DimDisk will lock down and you'll be unable to access your deck until you report to the registration tents which will board you back onto the boat. The last 16 standing, and apparently there will be a sign projects when it hits that point, will go through to the quarter finals.

So basically I will be able to stick around, but once I lose, which, let's be fair about this, I'll probably do quite quickly, I'll lose access to my deck which I'm not overly pleased about. I suppose it's a good way of preventing people who get knocked out from causing aggro for the remaining Duellists. It just means I'll be wandering around with a useless piece of tech for the majority of the two days.

On the plus side though, no Ante rule which is good because I would have refused to enter if there had been one in place. My green clothed Dark Magician Girl is one of a kind, created for me by Pegasus himself and I'd hate to lose her.

Had a look around at the Duellists on this boat, it looks a lot like the usual crowd, Yugi Mutou, Joey Wheeler, Seto Kaiba, Mai Valentine, the new girl who worked her way up the ranks swiftly, Kari Ironhide, Mako Tsunami, Rex Raptor, Weevil Underwood etc, etc. Most of the usual posturing from Rex and Weevil too so I escaped them rather swiftly.

Mako was talking about retiring at the end of this Tournament Season, apparently he's nearly earned enough money to buy his own boat and go looking for his father. I say good luck to him.

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I was going to interview Yugi about what happened at the shop last night, but his friends have closed ranks making it hard to get to him. Not only that but the Yugi on the boat is NOT the 'normal' Yugi. It's the Yugi who's normally only around when he duels and he appears to be in a rather foul mood. I thought it might be best, after watching even Weevil, who normally has no sense of self preservation, back away from him, to try interviewing him again at a later date.

The question is, since that particular Yugi tends to hang around when all the weird stuff we've noticed at tournaments over the years kicks off, am I walking into more than I realised?

Unlike the rumours I've heard about the boat to Duellist Kingdom there are separate sleeping quarters for everyone, which is a blessing since I doubt we'll be sleeping on beds tomorrow night if we're still in the tourney. Again though, as I was walking to my room, I noticed that Joey Wheeler had to be ordered away from Yugi Mutou's bedroom door. Since it's pretty much common knowledge by now that to get to Yugi you have to get through Joey, this too suggests that there's a bigger problem going on than I was aware of.

Since I've managed to miss the big incidents with things supposedly involving magic, it might be nice to get caught up in it for a change so I can give you a factual report as opposed to conflicting stories from eye witnesses.

Anyway I'll post again tomorrow, breakfast is at 7am so I'll be up long before we arrive on the island.

Posted by DMG at 21:51pm

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