Lesson 5: The cards of the game
Clip typed on his console and the board changed to a 7 by 5 board "okay now Odd I want you on the left side and Aelita I want you with me on the right side"
Odd gulped and said "Hey wait you mean I got to fight Aelita?!"
Aelita smiled slightly "Is there a problem Odd?"
Odd glanced back at Jeremy and said "I just don't want Einstein to shock me because I'm…"
Jeremy said calmly "I'll shock you if you don't follow Clip's Instructions" He shot a death glare "now get up there."
Odd flinched and said meekly "Okay"
Ulrich chuckled "Jeremy I like the new you"
Aelita thought to herself "So do I."
Liz thought to herself "He could be a little less tough acting in my opinion… I think he's faking it a little"
Odd took his place at C1 while Aelita took her place at C7
Clip said "Alright you all mentioned you hate not knowing what are Rulebreaker cards." He pulled out a small card shaped packet like a packet of baseball or trading cards and opened it "Rulebreaker Cards are cards that allow you to modify various aspects of this game like summon programs to an active game, restore lifepoints, modify stats of both you, your allies or your opponent, and some even attack opponents directly. I think there at least 100 different cards but don't quote me on it.
Kat said "So what type of cards are out there?"
"There are four different level of cards in this game." He pulled out four cards and they showed on the main screen. Each one had a Z symbol in the center of the card and they were different colors. Clip continued "There are Bronze Cards, Silver Cards, Gold Cards and Platinum Cards. Each one is stronger then the other and therefore they take different sacrifices to use them. Bronze disables the Move Phase, Silver disables the Attack Phase, Gold and Platinum disables both phases but Platinum added an additional effect. It disables using another Rulebreaker for the rest of the battle which means once you use a Platinum Card that it's but sometimes it just takes one card to turn the tide of the battle. Bronze Cards are usually Item Cards like Potions, which restore lifepoints or stat plus cards which are stat enhancer. Silver Cards are either Program Cards which summon programs to a game or Attack Cards which attack opponents directly. Gold Cards are usually continuous recovery cards like my personal favorite the Step Recovery or they are elemental field cards with affect elemental users by either enhancing or dampening their element.
Jeremy said "So can you play two cards on the same turn"
Clip nodded "Yes you can play as many cards you have just not on the same person. The limit is only one card per program per turn. This prevents you from using a Bronze card that boosts an attack power greatly to your attack by adding damage to attacks taken then using a silver card that shields yourself on the next turn. That's just plain unfair.
Odd raised his hand "But you can use a shield move to defend yourself right"
Clip nodded "You can but then it negates the card effects and you just wasted a Rulebreaker Card which is not recommended."
Odd nodded "Oh okay"
Jeremy said "Can you give us a list of what are the different cards and their effects?"
Clip said "I can't do that off the top of my head but you can record what cards that will be used in this Damage databattle."
The group said "Damage databattle?"
Clip explained "Instead of starting with a certain amount of lifepoints according to your stats. You start with 0 damage points. The battle proceeds like normal but everytime someone takes damage from an attack that person damage points increases. At the end of a set number of turns the person with the lower amount of damage points wins but for this lesson the more damage points you inflict to the other person will tell how many experience points you will earn. You will each have 5 Rulebreaker cards to use in six turns how you please but don't tell each other what you have. So here are your cards, study them carefully and plan your moves.
Five cards appeared in each player hands and they studied them over
Odd's Cards:
Range +2 (Gold) Boost Range of both attacks by 2 panels
Move Rate +2 (Bronze) Boost Move Rate by 2 points
Super Charge (Silver) Charge yourself tripling your attack power for the next turn
Rapid Fire (Silver) Ability Card: Shoot 5 Laser Arrow at half power
Anger Boost (Silver) Drops your range to 1 and counter all opponents in range with 1.5x damage that was dealt to you on the last turn.
Aelita's Cards
Attack +20 (Silver) Boost your attack power by 20 points
Range +2 (Gold) Boost your Range of both attack by 2 panels
Focus Boost (Bronze) Focuses your power allowing double attack power and range however this drops your defense and you take 30 more damage next turn
Stun Touch (Silver) Ability Card: Touch someone within 1 range and stun them dropping their move rate to 0
Anti- Shield (Bronze) Any player with a shield will take double damage this turn
Aelita and Odd both thought deeply "Hmm…"
Clip said "Are you ready"
Aelita smiled and said "Let's play"
Odd chuckled and said "Time to go wild"
Damage Databattle Begin!
Character Name: Odd Della Robbia
Move Rate: 3
Life Points: 100 (Ignore for Damage Battle)
Attacks: Shield, Laser Arrow
Shield: Projects a shield to blocks attacks
Laser Arrow: Shoot a fast arrowhead at opponents 20 damage range 4
Character Name: Aelita Schaeffer
Move Rate: 3
Life Points: 100 (Ignore for Damage Battle)
Attacks: Healing Song, Energy Field
Healing Song: Heals 20 lifepoints to each ally on field
Energy Field: Shoots an Orb of Energy at opponents for 20 base damage. Range 4 Effect: For every range point Aelita does not use add 10 damage points to this attack
Odd's First Turn
"Alright to start I'll play my Range +2 card" Odd said as he flashed the gold card picture which was a target symbol and a plus two sign "and it says here my range increases by two points for each of my attacks. It's a Gold Card so that ends my turn I guess"
Odd's Range for Laser Arrow increased to 6
Aelita's First Turn
Aelita nodded slightly and said "Well if you're going to target me from a distance I best move away so I'll move to the top right corner at A7." She moved to A7 and flipped a silver card which had a picture of a punch symbol and a plus twenty sign "then I'll play my Attack +20 card to boost my attacks by 20 points and end my turn"
Aelita Energy Field attack power increased to 40
Clip started acting like an announcer "One Round and neither decided to attack and just improved their stats using Rulebreaker cards, the next turn begins now"
Odd's second turn
Odd took a quick glance at Aelita profile and said "I don't like that variable damage idea so I'm going to prepare myself to move when you start shooting and use my Move +2 card and increase my move rate to 5 points" He flashed the Bronze card picture which showed a sneaker and a plus two sign
Odd's move rate increased to 5
Odd said "and to be on safe side I'll use my Shield move" and casted Shield around himself
Aelita smiled and asked innocently "What the matter Odd you afraid of me?"
Odd said quickly "No it's just"
Kat spoke up for him "He just doesn't want to get his tail kicked by a girl in any type of battle"
Odd growled fiercely "Kat"
Aelita sighed and said "It's understandable most boys don't like to happen, Right, Jeremy?"
Jeremy looked up from a screen he was working on typing down the cards and their effects. "huh what"
Liz said "Boys don't like it when girls show them up in anything Right?"
Jeremy looked down at his screen and said "uh I guess…"
Yumi sighed "They won't admit it but they are jealous when a girl shows them up, right Ulrich?" She nudged him
Ulrich chuckled in embarrassment and said "Yeah let's go with that. Anyhow Aelita isn't it your turn"
Aelita said "It is, but you all are avoiding the subject you know that"
The boys said in unison "Yes"
Clip laughed at this
Aelita Second Turn
Aelita sighed "Well you didn't have to worry about me attacking you Odd because I too have a Range +2 card and I'm using it now" She played the card her Range for Energy Field increased to 6 "Your turn Odd"
Clip said "Second Turn and still no damage, but this starting to sound to me like a quick clash of swords. Let's go to the third turn"
Odd's Third Turn
Odd said "Okay… hmm…" He looked at his three remaining cards and flipped a silver card which showed a silhouette of a humanoid with a red sphere in between it's hands "I think I'll hold my position and play my Super Charge card which tells me to charge up and next turn I'll attack for triple the damage so you better stay away Aelita if you don't want to get hurt" Odd charged up and a red aura surrounded his gloves
Aelita Third Turn
Aelita gave that smile and said "Why Odd I didn't know you cared but it's alright I can attack you from here"
Odd said "What!"
Aelita pulled out a bronze card and showed the picture with a close up of a silhouetted head with a blue aura to it. "I'll play my Focus Boost card which overall doubles my attack power, and doubles my range for this turn, and it lowers my defenses for your turn so," She charged up a single pink sphere of energy in her hand "Hate to tell you Odd but this is going to hurt."
Odd gulped as he tried to do the math of how much damage Aelita was going to do
Jeremy pulled up a calculator on his screen "Let's see that 40 start then Aelita uses 8 range for the attack leaving 4 which give it another 40 making it 80 for base damage times that by 2 for a total of 160 damage points.
Odd gulped and said "uh meow?"
Aelita shouted "Energy Field" as she shot the orb
The Orb slammed into Odd with a massive explosion making him cry out and knocking him off his feet which gave him 160 damage points
Clip said "Oh, and a powerful long shot from Aelita for the first damage in this battle can Odd counter Aelita moves for even more damage?"
Odd's Fourth Turn
Odd shook his head and recovered from that last attack by standing up "Oh man Aelita you sure know how to knock a cool cat off his feet but I think you hate me when I say I got as much power up my sleeves as you do." He moved to C3 "Last turn I charged up allowing me to do triple my attack power and I now look at one of my cards and notice it's allows me to shoot off five arrows at half power so if I do the math right I got 150 damage points coming at ya. I play the Ability Card Rapid Fire" He played the silver card and he aimed at Aelita and took five shots
Aelita whimpered a little bracing for the attack and took it crying out and taking 180 damage points.
Odd jumped at this "A hundred and eighty damage points but how"
Clip explained "Focus Boost lowers Aelita defense making her take 30 more damage on her next turn it's a bit of cost in normal databattles but it's usually quite useful since it allows a distant power attack."
Odd nodded "right well it's your turn Aelita!"
Aelita Fourth Turn
Aelita said "Thank you Odd and now I'll move to C6 and use my Energy Field attack on you" She moved to C6 and used Energy Field which hit Odd for 70 damage (40 base plus 30 for unused range)
Odd damage point increased to 230
Clip said "At the end of four turn Aelita in the lead with 230 points to Odd 180 but let's see what else he can do"
Odd's Fifth Turn
Odd said "Well if I move back you'll just follow me and keep nailing me with distant attacks so I'll just get up close and personal and use my shield to prevent you from attacking me" He moved to C5 and used his shield
Aelita Fifth Turn
Aelita smiled slightly and said "Well Odd the problem with that is I've got an Anti-shield card" She flashed it
Odd gulped and said "Oh no…"
Aelita said "Your shield just makes it worse and being this close to me make it even sweeter for how much damage Jeremy?"
Jeremy said "180 damage points, 40 base plus 50 for unused range and time that total by 2 "
Odd said "oh man… not cool"
Aelita smiled and slammed him with a close blast
Odd fell to the ground and his damage points increased to 410
Clip said "and Odd takes another one straight to the core he's got to recover ground, can he do it? This is the last turn"
Odd sixth turn
Odd said "Yes I can because I knew you were going to have to get close one of these turns to do heavy damage" He pulled out his last card which had a silhouetted head with a red aura around it "I got this silver Anger Boost card which allows me to counter your last attack with 1.5 time the amount of damage but it only works if I drop my range to 1 so time to let the tiger out of the bag" He charged up and roared sending out a powerful surge of energy
Aelita screamed out and fell to the ground taking a total of 270 damage points
Her damage points increased to 450
Odd relaxed and said "Sorry Aelita didn't mean to over do it"
Aelita sixth turn
Aelita looked at him and smiled slightly "I still won though" She charged up another sphere and sent it at Odd legs tripping him up and making him do a face plant on the ground.
Odd took another 90 points ending at 500 points even
Clip said "And the final score is 500 to 450. Aelita wins the battle"
Databattle End
Odd sighed and just stayed on the ground face down in defeat. "It was too much for this cat to handle."
Databattle Result
Damage caused 500 points / Odd's Lifepoints stat (100) = 5
Aelita earns 5 EXP
Level Up
Damage caused 450 points/ Aelita's Lifepoints stat (100) = 4.5
Odd earns 4 EXP
Level Up
Choose a stat to upgrade
Aelita
Move Rate to 4
Life Points to 110
Odd
Move Rate to 4
Life Points to 110
Aelita answered the question "Move Rate!"
Aelita Move Rate increased to 4
Odd noticed the question and said "umm… Move Rate cool"
Odd Move Rate increased to 4
Aelita is now at Level 1
10 to Level 2
Odd is now at Level 1
10 to Level 2
Aelita sighed and stood up "That was kind of fun. I didn't know that much damage could be inflicted in one battle"
Clip said "It can if you have the right cards… So does anyone have any questions on rule breaker cards?"
Jeremy said "You said the only way that we can earn rule breaker cards is to win them in a perfect databattle or in a databattle against another person. But I noticed you pulled out what appears to be a packet of cards like they were trading cards or something"
Clip said "Ah yes…" He pulled out another packet "These packets are sold by various Ex-Agents who decided to turn their old job into a fun new game. However these cards have a different code then cards used in hacking in the Internet. I sell both types"
Liz said "Isn't hacking looked down upon?"
Clip said "Somewhat… it is illegal to hack sites without the companies authorization or the Agency allowing it. If you hack into a site illegally and manage to defeat the security the Agency is authorized to come down on you like a ton of bricks. You will be judged accordingly to how many offenses you do. The first one is pretty much a slap on the wrist, Two to Five is Fines, After Five you will be marked as a Black Hat and the security of the sites will be warned you are entering their sites and to be on the look out for suspicious activities. Any attempts of hacking after that will result in heavy fines and jail time."
Jeremy said "Ah so if we are to hack into site legally we got to get authorization from the Agency."
Clip said "Hmm… To do that you have to get to their HQ the problem is they have locked their pathway so that only Agents have the key and I'm sure not one of them will give it to you… and I don't have one personally."
Aelita sighed "Well maybe we'll ask the Chosen One I'm sure he's got some influence..."
Clip said "He might but he's been giving everyone the silent treatment, no contact what so ever since Central closed but he's worth a shot in any case since you are working for him."
Jeremy said "Clip do you have some sort of phone or message system that can transmit a message to the Chosen One?"
Clip said "There a private videophone in my office you're welcome to use that"
Jeremy said "That will work. Anyhow I think the rest of us could use a little free time but we best stay here at the arcade."
Clip nodded "There food and refreshments at the lounge if you all are hungry. I keep my food rates low compared to other places"
Ulrich said "You guys eat food too?"
Clip said "Of course last time I check so did humans. That didn't change by any chance did it?
Odd said "uh no it didn't." He rubbed his stomach "At least I think my stomach would knows if it has"
Yumi said "we just haven't seen a world that so human like. We are too used to Lyoko"
Clip blinked at this and said "Hmm… well you all need me I'm around just give me a holler"
Aelita said "We will Clip"
Kat said "uh Clip before you go you said you throw in some tokens for your games as part of our deal?"
Clip said "I did say that didn't I?" He chuckled and pulled out a small plastic bag filled with at least 40 tokens "Make sure you share." He handed the bag to Kat
Kat took the bag and smiled "I will"
Clip walked off followed by Jeremy
When they were out of hearing range Kat said "NOT!" and took off out of the classroom like a bolt of lightning
Odd sighed "You know I'm not even going to try and stop her this time… besides" His stomached mysteriously growled "All that battling with Aelita made me hungry for some reason"
"It would." Ulrich commented "Come on let's see what they got here."
The group exited out of the classroom
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