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spokeSince I left off in no coherent place, rather a tangle of squee:
This whole time, five issues in, the Pharaoh has been more or less (lots less) happily relieving his memories.
So has Bakura, since the majority of them involve the Pharaoh getting his butt kicked. ;p
(as for Seto, wait for it - it gets there - or, skip to the bottom ;p)
(yes, I mean that as a pun)
But he really. Really. Thought he was in his own memories, and steadily ignoring any signs otherwise. He hardly blinked when time reversed on him, the dork. :P It's only when first TK Bakura and then Kalim turns to sand that he finally realizes something is not right here. And it still takes mocking from Bakura to pull him out of his total immersion in the game world. XD
And, to be specific: the piece of Bakura that he had originally sealed into the Puzzle. Shows up sort of hovering and with a white fire-outline, and: "That's the rules. When a pawn is no longer needed, it disappears from the game... Got it, Yugi?" *pause for reaction shot from the Pharaoh* "Oops, my bad... I forgot, you're not Yugi... you're the nameless Pharaoh..."
...forgot my eye, he's mocking him because Yugi isn't there. XD
He then congratulates him on how well he's gotten into character, and pretty much spells out ' This is a game. Based on your life. And I'm winning, nyaaa!'
Pharaoh: What? *glare*
Bakura: Look, Akhenaden's betrayed you! >:D
Pharaoh: What?! Why!
And of course, he tries to stop him and finds that he is as frozen in time as everyone else barring Akhenaden and Bakura. And then we get this terribly gruesome scene of Akhenaden ripping out the Eye. o.o With the blood and the screaming and Bakura encouraging him to place them all in the Tablet, and probably Pharaoh-boy is over in his corner thinking 'worst day ever!' but we don't get to see that. ;p
Just one horrified closeup of his eye. His right eye. Evil! XD
He's walking up to the tablet and Bakura actually has to spell it out again, reminding the Pharaoh this is a game. No, really, game! You = pawn!
At which point we switch over to Yugi-tachi, who have noticed the world freezing around them. Mercifully, Yugi is a bit quicker on the uptake! All he needs is to see things frozen and hear Anzu pondering how this feels like that game they played with Bakura once. The evil one, where they were all dollies. >.>
Yugi: *looks at her* >.>;;
*looks at everything* >.> .....
*looks up, triggering the pan outside of their immediate surroundings and into the Game Room of Doom!* ohcrap
Now, there is something that's not clear here - has the Pharaoh been playing on auto-pilot all this time? Or has he, still in their body, been perfectly aware of what's going on? ...actually, there are a lot of unclear things, like how was Akhenaden's mummy found! And how did Yugi-tachi end up neatly laying in coffins, what - did Bakura come back once they were all unconscious and pick them all up! :P
Certain game rules are explained: How the pieces on the board are represented by cards in the players' hands - and any card could belong to any player. If, say, the Pharaoh were stupid enough to hand one over. Or the exceedingly more likely event of Bakura stealing one. ;p
That when not directly ordered to by himself or the Pharaoh, all the paces will proceed about their daily business and react to things in-character; or as Bakura puts it 'actors whose only purpose to be purposeless'
Also, aside from Bakura's hourglasses (I think explained well enough in the anime) the Pharaoh has five instances of an 'Imperial Decree' where he can attack when it isn't his turn. ...I don't like that. >:P *biased*
And things are going wonderfully, up until Bakura just has to give the Pharaoh a hint because one-sided games aren't fun. I say, and I mean this is in a loving and amused sense: Dork!! As bad as the Pharaoh!! XD And he tells him that the souls of Yugi-tachi wandering the game are the key, because subtle hints just don't work with the Great and Clueless Pharaoh. AUGH
More talking and game explaining, while Yugi tries to figure out what he's supposed to do with this new-found knowledge of the unreality of their surroundings... and then unreality proceeds to go pear-shaped as Bobasa lights up like some demented Christmas tree and we find out some of what's actually going on there.
Bobasa = Hasan = spirit of the Millennium Tablet. Which actually explains why he has those Item-shaped cavities in him. >.> He then tells them that the reason he was able to change was that all the Items are in (let's not think about that too hard, yeah? ) and that it's very very important that they get the Pharaoh's name. Very! And now, he must go to help the Pharaoh! *whoosh*
He flies away. Flies away, while on the ground are a staring Yugi-tachi, all O.o;;; XD XD XD
And then Yugi decides that since this is a game, he can fly too. :o ...of course, being that it is Yugi, he is right ;p
Cut to the actual players! And possibly the most amusing piece of something I have ever seen. Keep in mind that the Bakurae are the rpg players, and the Pharaoh only knows what he's doing because of the stupid preternatural luck. :PPP
Pharaoh: *points* Bakura... You said that mummy is playing this game...
Bakura: *flat/pulling back stare* Yeah... Akhenaden's soul is animating the High Priest of Darkness! With me as the player...
(please to be noting he specified, and is at this moment wearing a tiny tiny smirk)
And then the Pharaoh holds up a card we can only half-see, because the reaction shot is tripled - himself, Bakura and Ahkenaden's mummy. And it is all with the shock! O.O
And then Bakura goes right back to smirking, with one of those lovely eyes-hidden shots. "So, you're going to use that card... ...as a shield against Zorc...? I see. As players, we both know the 'back-stories' of all the characters in this game... Such as the relationship between Akhenaden and Seto..."
Pharaoh: "Yes!"
Bakura: *flat/annoyed* "If he attacks now, Zorc will take Seto's life as well... Which means..."
Pharaoh: *perfectly serious glare, without humor* "...if you're a real role-player, the High Priest of Darkness should stop Zorc from attacking! After all, he's Seto's father!"
And then? And this is the really shiny bit, that killed me! :D
Bakura, with that flirty sneaky smirk! : "If he chose not to attack... Would you give me that card...?"
BWAHAHAHA!! XD JOY!
Pharaoh: *with a twitch to his smirk that is so pronounced it looks painful* "I don't think so! Seto's part of my team!
Even more JOY! XD
Because, you know, alternately:
Bakura: *purrrr* *making with the grabby at Seto* >:)
Pharaoh: AHHHHH NO! MINE!!!! >:O
And imagining Seto's reaction to this if he were present, or even the reaction I'm getting from headspace - to the effect that they are both going to die (though of course they would react that way, who wouldn't want him on their team?) (except they'd be on his team if there was going to be any kind of a team to start with) (and so on and on!) - omg XD XD XD
Unfortunately for the Pharaoh, Bakura trumps him - warned him when they started, too. He's the one controlling Zorc, not Akhenaden. And I don't even care, because for one thing Seto's not really there? Presumably, he's hard at work whilst all this is going on? The second is, just about anything would have been worth seeing that conversation. *love* XD
Postscript to be added once I return from work! @.@
ETA: or, the day after...
Just to clarify - resolving that Ahkenaden-not-killing-Seto problem went, essentially:
Zorc: Look, buddy, you belong to me now. Screw your parental concerns, I'm blasting them! *blasts*
Not even a sign of exactly how that went down from Akhenaden's perspective. ?
Hasan: *arrives! shields! tries to encourage Pharaoh while shielding!*
So, after the Pharaoh's butt has been saved by someone else yet again!
Bakura gripes, in an amused sort of way, that he didn't think an NPC even he did not know about would go and tell Yugi-tachi where to find the Pharaoh's name.
Pharaoh: :O They found it?! O.O ...hey!!! Out-of-character information!!! *rar* How'd you know!
Bakura: *smirk* Oh, I sent a spy into the game. Piece of my soul. It beat them to the tomb, by the way, it'll be waiting to kill them all. >:)
And so it is! >:D
Meanwhile, Yugi-tachi land and proceed cautiously into the tomb. Until they get to the maze trap, where Jou flings caution aside and tries to fly across the dungeon! :PPP
#1. Rule about dungeons in Yu-Gi-Oh, no matter where they show up? You cannot fly in them. He knew this already. But being Jounouchi... ;p
It takes all three of the others to haul his butt back onto solid ground, where Yugi tells him off in his own way - pretty much patting him on the head with a glare and 'Don't do that!'
It's while crossing the maze that Yugi finds a DM card lying on the ground and realizes some one is here ahead of them - and the card? Is Destiny Board. Big enough hint, there? Not that he needs one, since the next few steps bring him face to face with said spy, perched on the altar where the Puzzle used to be and grinning like mad!
Lovely montage of evil grinning Bakura, and Zorc blasting Hasan, and Hasan getting blasted, and the Pharaoh being all 'no, doomed! o.o;;' so that it falls to Hasan to say who sent him as a way of rallying the Pharaoh's spirits. (If it were just the Pharaoh here I'd say let's fast-forward to the part where Yugi kicks his butt. But there's still Seto and Kisara stuff, and Bakurae! And Exodia, and the kickbutt that is Saimun. >:) So he gets to stay awhile yet. ;p )
Oh, Hasan. Apparently? Daddy sent Hasan from the afterlife to be protecting his kid. Zorc called Hasan a spirit.... and I'm wondering. Is that his Dad's ka/duel monster? >.> And what does this mean about everything else coming...
And how will I survive until October?! *wail* ...except, you know, there's Battle City between then. eeee, Seto. ^_^ meep!! evil Marik!! o.o
This whole time, five issues in, the Pharaoh has been more or less (lots less) happily relieving his memories.
So has Bakura, since the majority of them involve the Pharaoh getting his butt kicked. ;p
(as for Seto, wait for it - it gets there - or, skip to the bottom ;p)
(yes, I mean that as a pun)
But he really. Really. Thought he was in his own memories, and steadily ignoring any signs otherwise. He hardly blinked when time reversed on him, the dork. :P It's only when first TK Bakura and then Kalim turns to sand that he finally realizes something is not right here. And it still takes mocking from Bakura to pull him out of his total immersion in the game world. XD
And, to be specific: the piece of Bakura that he had originally sealed into the Puzzle. Shows up sort of hovering and with a white fire-outline, and: "That's the rules. When a pawn is no longer needed, it disappears from the game... Got it, Yugi?" *pause for reaction shot from the Pharaoh* "Oops, my bad... I forgot, you're not Yugi... you're the nameless Pharaoh..."
...forgot my eye, he's mocking him because Yugi isn't there. XD
He then congratulates him on how well he's gotten into character, and pretty much spells out ' This is a game. Based on your life. And I'm winning, nyaaa!'
Pharaoh: What? *glare*
Bakura: Look, Akhenaden's betrayed you! >:D
Pharaoh: What?! Why!
And of course, he tries to stop him and finds that he is as frozen in time as everyone else barring Akhenaden and Bakura. And then we get this terribly gruesome scene of Akhenaden ripping out the Eye. o.o With the blood and the screaming and Bakura encouraging him to place them all in the Tablet, and probably Pharaoh-boy is over in his corner thinking 'worst day ever!' but we don't get to see that. ;p
Just one horrified closeup of his eye. His right eye. Evil! XD
He's walking up to the tablet and Bakura actually has to spell it out again, reminding the Pharaoh this is a game. No, really, game! You = pawn!
At which point we switch over to Yugi-tachi, who have noticed the world freezing around them. Mercifully, Yugi is a bit quicker on the uptake! All he needs is to see things frozen and hear Anzu pondering how this feels like that game they played with Bakura once. The evil one, where they were all dollies. >.>
Yugi: *looks at her* >.>;;
*looks at everything* >.> .....
*looks up, triggering the pan outside of their immediate surroundings and into the Game Room of Doom!* ohcrap
Now, there is something that's not clear here - has the Pharaoh been playing on auto-pilot all this time? Or has he, still in their body, been perfectly aware of what's going on? ...actually, there are a lot of unclear things, like how was Akhenaden's mummy found! And how did Yugi-tachi end up neatly laying in coffins, what - did Bakura come back once they were all unconscious and pick them all up! :P
Certain game rules are explained: How the pieces on the board are represented by cards in the players' hands - and any card could belong to any player. If, say, the Pharaoh were stupid enough to hand one over. Or the exceedingly more likely event of Bakura stealing one. ;p
That when not directly ordered to by himself or the Pharaoh, all the paces will proceed about their daily business and react to things in-character; or as Bakura puts it 'actors whose only purpose to be purposeless'
Also, aside from Bakura's hourglasses (I think explained well enough in the anime) the Pharaoh has five instances of an 'Imperial Decree' where he can attack when it isn't his turn. ...I don't like that. >:P *biased*
And things are going wonderfully, up until Bakura just has to give the Pharaoh a hint because one-sided games aren't fun. I say, and I mean this is in a loving and amused sense: Dork!! As bad as the Pharaoh!! XD And he tells him that the souls of Yugi-tachi wandering the game are the key, because subtle hints just don't work with the Great and Clueless Pharaoh. AUGH
More talking and game explaining, while Yugi tries to figure out what he's supposed to do with this new-found knowledge of the unreality of their surroundings... and then unreality proceeds to go pear-shaped as Bobasa lights up like some demented Christmas tree and we find out some of what's actually going on there.
Bobasa = Hasan = spirit of the Millennium Tablet. Which actually explains why he has those Item-shaped cavities in him. >.> He then tells them that the reason he was able to change was that all the Items are in (let's not think about that too hard, yeah? ) and that it's very very important that they get the Pharaoh's name. Very! And now, he must go to help the Pharaoh! *whoosh*
He flies away. Flies away, while on the ground are a staring Yugi-tachi, all O.o;;; XD XD XD
And then Yugi decides that since this is a game, he can fly too. :o ...of course, being that it is Yugi, he is right ;p
Cut to the actual players! And possibly the most amusing piece of something I have ever seen. Keep in mind that the Bakurae are the rpg players, and the Pharaoh only knows what he's doing because of the stupid preternatural luck. :PPP
Pharaoh: *points* Bakura... You said that mummy is playing this game...
Bakura: *flat/pulling back stare* Yeah... Akhenaden's soul is animating the High Priest of Darkness! With me as the player...
(please to be noting he specified, and is at this moment wearing a tiny tiny smirk)
And then the Pharaoh holds up a card we can only half-see, because the reaction shot is tripled - himself, Bakura and Ahkenaden's mummy. And it is all with the shock! O.O
And then Bakura goes right back to smirking, with one of those lovely eyes-hidden shots. "So, you're going to use that card... ...as a shield against Zorc...? I see. As players, we both know the 'back-stories' of all the characters in this game... Such as the relationship between Akhenaden and Seto..."
Pharaoh: "Yes!"
Bakura: *flat/annoyed* "If he attacks now, Zorc will take Seto's life as well... Which means..."
Pharaoh: *perfectly serious glare, without humor* "...if you're a real role-player, the High Priest of Darkness should stop Zorc from attacking! After all, he's Seto's father!"
And then? And this is the really shiny bit, that killed me! :D
Bakura, with that flirty sneaky smirk! : "If he chose not to attack... Would you give me that card...?"
BWAHAHAHA!! XD JOY!
Pharaoh: *with a twitch to his smirk that is so pronounced it looks painful* "I don't think so! Seto's part of my team!
Even more JOY! XD
Because, you know, alternately:
Bakura: *purrrr* *making with the grabby at Seto* >:)
Pharaoh: AHHHHH NO! MINE!!!! >:O
And imagining Seto's reaction to this if he were present, or even the reaction I'm getting from headspace - to the effect that they are both going to die (though of course they would react that way, who wouldn't want him on their team?) (except they'd be on his team if there was going to be any kind of a team to start with) (and so on and on!) - omg XD XD XD
Unfortunately for the Pharaoh, Bakura trumps him - warned him when they started, too. He's the one controlling Zorc, not Akhenaden. And I don't even care, because for one thing Seto's not really there? Presumably, he's hard at work whilst all this is going on? The second is, just about anything would have been worth seeing that conversation. *love* XD
Postscript to be added once I return from work! @.@
ETA: or, the day after...
Just to clarify - resolving that Ahkenaden-not-killing-Seto problem went, essentially:
Zorc: Look, buddy, you belong to me now. Screw your parental concerns, I'm blasting them! *blasts*
Not even a sign of exactly how that went down from Akhenaden's perspective. ?
Hasan: *arrives! shields! tries to encourage Pharaoh while shielding!*
So, after the Pharaoh's butt has been saved by someone else yet again!
Bakura gripes, in an amused sort of way, that he didn't think an NPC even he did not know about would go and tell Yugi-tachi where to find the Pharaoh's name.
Pharaoh: :O They found it?! O.O ...hey!!! Out-of-character information!!! *rar* How'd you know!
Bakura: *smirk* Oh, I sent a spy into the game. Piece of my soul. It beat them to the tomb, by the way, it'll be waiting to kill them all. >:)
And so it is! >:D
Meanwhile, Yugi-tachi land and proceed cautiously into the tomb. Until they get to the maze trap, where Jou flings caution aside and tries to fly across the dungeon! :PPP
#1. Rule about dungeons in Yu-Gi-Oh, no matter where they show up? You cannot fly in them. He knew this already. But being Jounouchi... ;p
It takes all three of the others to haul his butt back onto solid ground, where Yugi tells him off in his own way - pretty much patting him on the head with a glare and 'Don't do that!'
It's while crossing the maze that Yugi finds a DM card lying on the ground and realizes some one is here ahead of them - and the card? Is Destiny Board. Big enough hint, there? Not that he needs one, since the next few steps bring him face to face with said spy, perched on the altar where the Puzzle used to be and grinning like mad!
Lovely montage of evil grinning Bakura, and Zorc blasting Hasan, and Hasan getting blasted, and the Pharaoh being all 'no, doomed! o.o;;' so that it falls to Hasan to say who sent him as a way of rallying the Pharaoh's spirits. (If it were just the Pharaoh here I'd say let's fast-forward to the part where Yugi kicks his butt. But there's still Seto and Kisara stuff, and Bakurae! And Exodia, and the kickbutt that is Saimun. >:) So he gets to stay awhile yet. ;p )
Oh, Hasan. Apparently? Daddy sent Hasan from the afterlife to be protecting his kid. Zorc called Hasan a spirit.... and I'm wondering. Is that his Dad's ka/duel monster? >.> And what does this mean about everything else coming...
And how will I survive until October?! *wail* ...except, you know, there's Battle City between then. eeee, Seto. ^_^ meep!! evil Marik!! o.o
