The Only Way Out Is In.......The ::House::

[Houndoom_Lover]

::House::
::The Mildly Live Action Roleplay Game of Choice::

….Base on the novel by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker…

THE ONLY WAY

OUT

………………............................................ .................................………………………………..... ……….IS IN

:House Rules:

Please try and keep the time between posts under a day. I think you can manage, yes? I'll try too....

The House will smite godmoddling, power playing, and out of characterism. You will only type for your character, think of as taking turns. The House will require each player to fill out Character Sheet(s) to join. All NPC (None Player Characters) will be played by the House. The NPC may or may not be on your side.
Each Character starts with 40 Starpoints. Starpoints will be depleted when a monster, a trap, or a magic card is summoned in the House. Starpoints will also be used to load weapons, open doors, and run water, ect.

[Quick Activating- 1 Starpoint]
[Normal-2 Starpoints]
[Equip- As many Starpoints as the level of the monster it is equipped to, by turn it is up]
[Field- 2 Starpoints per turn it is up]
[Continued- 3 Starpoints per turn it is]
[In the act of Summoning Monsters: The House will take rent in the form of Starpoints. For example, a level seven monster will use seven Starpoints per turn the Monster is on the field. The Starpoints will be taken during the drawing phase of the dueling Characters.]
[Starpoints can also depleted through special character actions]

The House will keep track of Starpoints. If Starpoints fall to zero, the Character will die. Death this way will not count towards rule 3.

Each Character will start with 8000 Life Points. Direct attacks, Monster attacks, physical attacks, ect. will lower your Life Points. If you are defeated by a House Monster, it will not count toward rule 3. If another House Guest beats another House Guest in a duel, the winner will be given a set of instructions via the House.

Once the game starts, at every fifth post, a three sided die and an twenty sided die will be rolled. They will be either added, multiplied or dived. This is how the House keeps time. The House has the right to add time for player misbehavior, like not posting or breaking a House rule. Breaking a House rule may result in death. You want to stay alive.

Let the games begin…




Eleven years…Yugi Motu looked up at the ceiling of his bedroom (in the Kame game store that his Grandpa owned) as he lied sprawled out on his bed. This bedroom, small and friendly, was filled with childhood memories. It was good to return home, even if it was only for a little while. He was famous, famous thanks to his other…to his partner. It’s been eleven years since he said good bye… His eyes slowly moved from the ceiling to the desk, where he put the puzzle together for the first time. He could almost see it happen, a ghost, a memory of the past. The things that covered the room still hadn’t been picked up. Everything was just the way he left it, as though his mother could bare to clean it. Who know, maybe they even run tours through the house. Yugi closed his eyes and watched his memories, as rainfall played the background music.

A steady rain fell over Domino City, Japan, like a steel sheet down from the steel wool clouds, on the unclean sink that was the sky. A mailman chuckled as he thought this, sitting in his poorly upholstered mail-truck, with his mail bag at his side. He should’ve been a writer; instead, he was delivering the written word to people in the form of bills and junk mail. When his mother said that she wanted him to go to college, he should’ve listened… Should’ve…got a cup of coffee at the Quikfill when he was filling up. Oh well, back to the job. He swung the door open, and jumped out of his truck, the wind surging so hard suddenly that it almost took the door off. Man, the weather anymore! It was right out of control. The mailman, hunched down, sloshed down the next street. Letter after letter, slot after slot…until…

He was always proud of his route, always proud…because he delivered to the Kame Game shop, home of the world famous Yugi Muto, the Duel Monster champion, who conquered every tournament he’d ever entered. A young man with a future bright…like him, a long time ago. The mailman sighed, and dug into his mailbag for the Muto’s mail. An electric bill, three free credit card scams, and the biggest wad of fan mail you ever did see- wait, it wasn’t all fan mail. He looked down at the hulky envelope, and shrugged. The wind was picking up. He stuffed at the mail in the slot, too many to go through. As he walked away, he felt the ridiculous urge to go snatch the letter back up. He shook himself, such ideas get you fired.

The wind rattles the letter. A letter with no return address, and no stamp. The only thing that is on it in the Kame store address, and the big bold block letters that read: Yugi Motu, you’ve been invited.

“Yugi!” His mother called from downstairs, “Mail’s for you!”

He glanced over to where his mother’s voice was coming from, metaphorically speaking, a decided to pretend that he was asleep. Right now, he didn’t want to read fan letters. He just wanted to pretend he was in school again, playing all sorts of games with his friends. Back when it wasn’t just one game he was expected to play all the time. Not that it wasn’t fun, just same days he wished he could go back-

“Yugi!” His mother called again. Yugi closed his eyes tightly, silently curing and then replied, “Coming!”

He reluctantly rolled out of bed and went down stairs to the kitchen. His mother had left already, leaving the mail on the table. Yugi sighed and with a quick swipe of the hand, spread them across the table.

One of them caught his eye.

It was an envelope, bulky, huge. Curious. He grabbed it and pulled a chair away from the table so he could sit. He opened it messily and pulled out the contents. A very large letter, written on thick animal skin like paper, and as he unrolled it, star chips fell from the inside.

His stomach lunched. This couldn’t be good. It just couldn’t be.

He gathered the star chips into on pile, as they fell all over the place. Once they were gathered up, he started to read the letter.

“Yugi Motu,” It read in bold swirling letters, “You have been invited to partake in a game of endurance. Included in this letter is a map and stair chips. The game will be Duel Monsters primarily, but many others will be incorporated to test your skill. As you read this, many others will be opening their letters. Should you choose to accept, you must leave now. Tickets have been included-“

Yugi, utterly bewildered, dug into the envelope. There were indeed tickets. For the bullet train, do to leave-

“Twenty minutes!” He shouted much too loud, causing his Mother to ask what was wrong. He ran upstairs without answering, thinking about what he was going to do. He grabbed his book bad, still doubting, still unsure. He stuffed everything into his bag. Checked his duel disk and deck, and gloves, placed some gummy fruit snaxs in a front pocket, put it on his back, wrote a quick note and ran out of the door.

“Gracious!” His mother said as she walked into the room, “I wonder what the hurry was…?”

Yugi’s Grandpa scuttled in, holding a broom, “He’s a busy boy, our Yugi…?” He noticed the note, “What’s this?”

“Out to buy pickles. See you soon,
Love Yugi

Yugi, running as fast as he could, made it to the station in time and boarded, ignoring the whispers around him. Once, they caused him anxiety. Once, they made him swell with pride. Now, they were just annoying, something to sigh at.

You have just read your letter, boarded your plane/ship/bus and as soon as arrive at the station, a man holding a sign with your name on it will take you to a Limo. This is where you will all meet. Start.

[Roy Karrde]

Name: Saotome Rei
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Deck Type: Maiden Deck
Cards: See Attachment
Description: Saotome is one of the youngest known duelists and is considered a bit of a genius in her dueling skills due to her young age. She has very long dark brown hair that trails almost all the way down her back, she tends to be small for her age, only 4'8" and can pass for some one much younger. She has a boyish figure and could easily be mistaken for a boy while wearing her blue baseball cap. She has traded in her duelist academy red dorm jacket in favor of a blue jacket with dark blue highlights and a white undershirt, that along with her blue jeans tend to confuse most that she is a boy.
History: Rei has had a adventurous life so far, having been introduced to duel monsters at a young age she grew frustrated with having to grow old enough to take the entrance exam to the High School Duel Academy and snuck in to try and pass herself off as a boy student. She was eventually found out and expelled from the school under the promise she would get to return as one of the higher ranked duelists there when she was old enough. Several months later she dropped out of school with out her parents knowledge, instead focusing her time on tournament play believing that she would be the first to enroll in the duel academy as one of if not the highest rank student there.
Other: Most of the time she keeps her hair hidden under her hat, coming off as a boy so that her opponents wont go easy on her

Name: Jason Karrde
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Deck Type: Beat Ground
Cards: See Attachment
Description: He's very tall and lanky, some one that looks like they should be playing Basketball and not card games. His hair is a deep dark brown and incredibly messy, the back tied up in a small pony tail, he tends to grow it out to avoid haircuts. He wears a dark blue American Football Jersey over his shirt, with the a large white number 70 on the front and black. He keeps his deck in a case attached to his belt, which seems to hang a bit lopsided on his hips almost gunslinger style.
History: Jason was a late edition to the Duel Monsters card game, having become interested in it after being shown the basics in High School. Early on he found a unique strategy with a pair of cards, and has continued to revolve his deck around it. The combination of field clearing and locking proved to be a hit, frustrating his opponents to the point that he easily moved up the ranks in the local tournament scene.
Other: He is a bit of a sadist, enjoying the annoyance his deck causes his opponents

Saotome Rei
Star Chips: None/40

Rei surveyed the field, it was a three on one challenge, one in which she was close to winning, all that remained was two pesky face down cards that could put a cramp into her plans for three direct attacks to finish the duel. She gazed down at her hand, letting a few strands of hair slip into her eyes before jerking her face back up to look at her opponents.

“Draw” She commanded, pulling the card from her duel desk, a slight smile crept across her face as she slid her card into the activation slot. “I play Heavy Storm!” A gust of imaginary wind swept across the field, as the two face down trap cards disappeared in a burst of digital sparkles.

She quickly pulled the third card from her hand, activating it as the tall noble ‘D.D. Warrior Lady’ was summoned to the field. “D.D. attack player one, Breaker attack player three, and…” She smirked slightly knowing this was the ultimate insult to a school age boy. “Maiden attack player two”

In one swoop all three young boys lost their life points ending the duel as the school bell rang signifying the end of lunch. Rei quickly repacked her duel disk into her backpack and made her trek back inside, wiping a bit of sweat from her brow. The three duelists were amateurs to her; the only way they presented any challenge was for them to face her in a group.

By the time the last bell rang for the school day her mind was analyzing the duel again, their tactics were amateur, their cards pathetic, none of them ranked up with her experience at the Duel Academy a few months ago, none of them ranked up with Judai.

She allowed her daydreams to walk her home, her head full of wishful dreams of wearing the Duel Academy jacket again, of being among worthy duelists, of those that could provide a challenge and even provide her defeats. She let out a sorrowful sigh as she reached home, the sight as well as the sight of a large bulky letter sticking out of her family’s mail box catching her attention.

She snatched it up and worked her fingers across the seal as she read the letter stapled to the door. Her parents had left again, off on another business journey to work on opening overseas markets in china. “Thanks guys..” She groaned as the envelop ripped open, the contents inside falling onto the ground.

She let out a surprise yelp noticing the star chips on the ground, or at least what she thought were star chips she hadn’t seen them outside of the computer articles about the old Pegasus tournament.

“Rei Saotome. You have been invited to partake in a game of endurance. Included in this letter is a map and stair chips. The game will be Duel Monsters primarily, but many others will be incorporated to test your skill. As you read this, many others will be opening their letters. Should you choose to accept, you must leave now. Tickets have been included-“ The letter read, the young girl’s eyes re read it a second and then a third time, no one but a select few knew about her journey to the academy, and she wasn’t ranked in any significant tournaments, how did this person know about her?

Rei looked back at the letter hanging on the door and then back at the letter. She picked up the tickets up off the ground and placed the rest of the stuff in her book bag. “Sorry mom, looks like I have a place to go too”

Will post the other character later.

[Houndoom_Lover]

“Doktor …..”

There was a pulsing. In the lights. She could hear it as they were trying to drain the blood. Faster and faster, the heart rate when up until the patient flat lined. She didn’t even know his name. She kept-on-trying to get the blood out. Frantically. Two of the nurses had to pull her away.

Her glasses had fallen off somewhere. She sat on the cold tilt floor, covered in blood from finger tip to elbow. There was blood on her smooth round face; there was blood on her front. So vivid against the white of her Doctor’s coat.

What right had she to wear this? She looked up at the light. She could hear it pulsing like butterfly wings against the ear drum.

“Doktor?” One of the nurses said, calming. The room felt like God had punched it in the stomach, “Die Zeit?”

She pulled up a bloodied sleeve and gave the time.

What right did she have?

She sat and stared at the lights. She could see the tears of the family. The loving wife, their children-

“Doktor …”

What right-

“Doktor …”For the fourth time nurse Angelica had said her name before Doctor Rome acknowledged her. And even when she did it was no more than a tilt of her head. Angelica took that to continue, “Es gibt ein paket für Sie.”

“Ein paket?” Rome inquired, leaning forward; she had changed out of her Doctor’s jacket. Instead of getting it cleaned, she through it against the wall. Under the bloodied wall it sat on top of a shelf.

“Es war nicht Ihre schuld,” The nurse said abruptly, handing her the bulging envelope, “Wir könnten ihn nicht…Wir könnten ihn nicht-über einsparung hinaus! ”

“Denken Sie,” The Doctor countered quickly, “Das dort ist mehr?”

“….” The nurse nodded her head and slowly bowed out, taking the hint. Before she exited out of the door, she said, “Ja, Ich denken... Es muss haben… Gute Nacht, Doktor.”

Doctor Rome grabbed her elegant letter opener that was propped with a real human heart on top, and sliced the top open…..

In her dimly lit office that smelled of blood and discontent, she began to laugh.

[Blademaster]

OK, let's see where this goes...


Name: Roy Budokai

Age: 17
Gender: Male
Deck Type: Video Game
Cards:

Monsters (19)
-Solar Flare Dragon x2
-Victory Viper XX03 x2
-Gradius x2
-Gradius' Option x2
-Big Core x2
-DUCKER Mobile Cannon x1
-Maoi Interceptor Cannons x1
-Brain Golem x1
-Space Mambo x1
-B.E.S. Big Core MK-2 x1
-B.E.S. Tetran x1
-B.E.S. Crystal Core x1
-B.E.S. Covered Core x1
-B.E.S. Blaster Cannon Core x1*

Magic (16)
-Boss Rush! x2
-Cyclon Laser x2
-Power Capsule x2
-Shield Recovery x2
-Mystical Space Typhoon x1
-Pot of Greed x1
-Graceful Charity x1
-Monster Reborn x1
-Dark Core x1
-Overload Fusion x1
-Double Attack x1
-Destroy The Core! x1*

Traps (6)
-Negate Attack x1
-Option Hunter x1
-Mirror Force x1
-Raigeki Break x1
-Full Salvo x1
-Continue? x1*

Fusion Deck (1)
-B.E.S. Big Core RIV 1.2 x1*

* = Made-up card

Description: http://superblade.deviantart.com/art...okai-115981149
History: Nothing of interest here, sorry... His parents got along well, he lived in a decent house growing up, he isn't an angst-ridden bastard like most teens his age... He had it easy growing up.
As a little kid, he played on his big brother's old Atari 7800 and NES pretty much nonstop; from then on, he was addicted to video games, trying out and playing every game he could get his hands on, selling them for new ones, taking them apart... He wants to design his own video games someday, but his lack of an educational stepladder is kinda hindering that. He'll be lucky to get a job at Microsoft swapping Ringed Xbox 360's at his current rate.
Because of the hologram technology used in Duel Monsters, Roy treated the card game like a video game as well: That is to say, he picked it up, obsessed over it, and formed an entire deck of video game cards. As of April this year, he holds the title of the #1 ranked duelist in Florida.
Other: His catchphrase is "This isn't a video game, you know!".

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Roy

Roy sat in the living room, sweat beading on his brow. He'd been in a heated game of Team Fortress 2 on his Xbox 360 for 4 hours now, dominating the leaderboard as a BLU Sniper with 384 points. The RED team, conversely, was led by a Pyro controlled by a guy with the gamertag "Kernel_Kustard," who Roy had declared his impromptu rival as soon as he, too, passed the 300-point mark.

"The middle point is clear." Roy said through his headset.

Roy had been playing on the map Granary, where both teams control two points and a middle point is up for grabs. Whichever team grabs it first can then capture the next point, and if they successfully defend all their points while capturing all their opponents' points, that team wins. Normally the match is good for a half an hour at best, but both teams relentlessly continued recapturing their second points as well as the central one, adding more time to the clock since early in the day.

"Are you sure?" one of Roy's teammates - an Engineer coming up behind him by the name of "smokeonthewater2238" asked. "They have two Spies now."

"I know." Roy replied. "One of them got cocky and tried to facestab our Heavy; I just headshotted the other one. Disguised as me. Put a Sentry on the crates before they can regroup."

Smokeonthewater2238 didn't reply; the Engineer turned and ran back inside the tunnel and up a series of ramps, leading to a stack of high crates surrounding the point. With the Engineer's trademark call of "Eeeerectin' a Dispenser!," a block-shaped building appeared atop the crate, buzzing loudly.

Roy kept an eye on the Engineer as he repeated the procedure, this time building a round object on a stand. It beep once as it sweeped its visor back and forth across the middle point.

"Roy!" a deep voice boomed. "Roy, you got a letter!"

Roy grimaced; a split-second later, a swishing, roaring filled his ears as his Sniper was engulfed in flames and screamed, falling over dead.

"Dominated, Budokai!" a voice yelled over his headphones.

"Damn it!" he growled as the Pyro who killed him ran off, away from the hail of bullets issuing from his teammate's machine.

"ROY!"

"Coming, Dad!" Roy called, switching the mic off for a second. "Smoke, I gotta go AFK for a sec. You got the point covered?"

"I think so." the Engineer replied.

"Yeah, I got it." another voice added; a Demoman scrambled onto the point and began firing sticky bombs onto it. "We got a Heavy on the way, too."

"Great." Roy replied, taking off his headphones. "Bee are bee."

Roy got up and ran to the kitchen.

"What is it Dad?" he whined. I'm in the middle of a match!"

"That's fantastic." his father replied, handing him a thick envelope with a wax seal on it. "You got a letter. You know, those things people used before instant messaging?"

"That was years ago. Everyone uses Skype now."

"...Just open it."

Roy grabbed a knife and stuck it under the seal, breaking it and tearing the envelope open. Several shiny objects fell from it and clattered to the floor.

"Roy Budokai." he read, eager to return to his game. "You have been invited to partake in a game of endurance. Included in this letter is a map and Star Chips. The game will be Duel Monsters primarily, but many others will be incorporated to test your blah blah blah tickets included blah blah blah whatever."

"ALERT!" a voice called from the living room. "The final Control Point is being contested!"

"OH SHIT!" Roy barked, turning and running... and slipping backwards as his father grabbed his shoulder.

"Watch the language, Roy." his father scolded. "And pick up all those star things before your mother gets home and slips and breaks her neck."

"YOU FAILED!!!"

Roy frowned and did as he was told, cleaning up the Star Chips and then looking more closely at the letter... It said that if he wanted to join, he had to leave immediately for the airport.

The airport was a half an hour away.

The tickets said that his plane lifted off at 4pm.

Roy looked at the clock in his kitchen.

3:14pm.

"...Dad, I need a ride."

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Got bored towards the end and rushed it. Whatever. Everyone's present and accounted for.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Time Remaining
All of It

Current Goal
Get in the limo

[Houndoom_Lover]

Yugi stumbled out of the train with the rest of the people who seemed to be in a hurry because he was quickly pushed out into the clearing. A conductor was yelling for people to keep going. Yugi wore a look of confusion crossed his face. On the map, grasped firmly in his hand, provided to him have a red X where the station was. In fact, it looked eerily right where he stood.

This whole thing made Yugi’s stomach turn quite a bit. Something not right was going down. He should have told his friends, at least, before running off, but if he had, he would have never made it in time. It was times like these that he wished he had invested in a new cell phone sooner. His old one was smashed in a duel several weeks back and he didn’t really feel motivated enough to buy a new one just yet. It was nice not being called all the time.

But right now…he wished he had one. Something didn’t feel right.

“Mr. Motu?” Yugi just about jumped out of his skin. A man had came out of nowhere, he stood behind Yugi with a sign around his neck, bearing his name. He was dressed in a black suit and tie, with sunglasses.

Yugi lost his ability to speak momentarily, still trying to dislodge his tongue from his stomach, so he just nodded.

“Right this way, sir.”

Ignoring the awful feeling he had, Yugi followed the man. Maybe, this wouldn’t be the kind of disaster thiese things always turned out to be, maybe- this time, things would be different.

Yugi followed behind this man, up the steps that led from the subterranean world of the trains, up to the streets. There was a white limo waiting for them. The man, without a word, walked towards the vehicle, opened the door and motioned Yugi to get inside.
He did. There was no one in the limo. He hoped that there would be others. Yugi had, of course been in limos before, and every time he thought they were unnecessarily big.

This one even had a bar.

The man closed the door after Yugi got in, and walked back to the station. He started to fiddle with the edge of the letter, nervously.

[Roy Karrde]

I am very very sorry it took so long.

Name: Jason Karrde
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Deck Type: Beat Ground
Cards: See Attachment
Description: He's very tall and lanky, some one that looks like they should be playing Basketball and not card games. His hair is a deep dark brown and incredibly messy, the back tied up in a small pony tail, he tends to grow it out to avoid haircuts. He wears a dark blue American Football Jersey over his shirt, with the a large white number 70 on the front and black. He keeps his deck in a case attached to his belt, which seems to hang a bit lopsided on his hips almost gunslinger style.
History: Jason was a late edition to the Duel Monsters card game, having become interested in it after being shown the basics in High School. Early on he found a unique strategy with a pair of cards, and has continued to revolve his deck around it. The combination of field clearing and locking proved to be a hit, frustrating his opponents to the point that he easily moved up the ranks in the local tournament scene.
Other: He is a bit of a sadist, enjoying the annoyance his deck causes his opponents

Jason Karrde
Star Chips: None/40

Jason emerged from the terminal, his body slumped, his movements slowed, and a long yawn escaping his mouth. Every inch of his body screamed that it was six in the morning, that he had been up all night struggling to get even two hours of sleep on the long flight from the United States to Japan. Yet as his eyes surveyed the skyline and watched the last of the sun’s rays stream across the Japanese sky, he knew it wasn’t dawn but twilight.

“This is not how you start a tournament” He let out a long yawn, running his fingers through his hair as he kneeled down in front of his suitcase, opening it to retrieve his duel disk and deck, as well as the weird letter that he had received just a day before. “Doesn’t look like anything is broken” He made a few last checks on his duel disk, making sure nothing had damaged it mid flight.

“And nothing is missing here” He flipped through his cards before sliding them into the holster and placing it on his belt. “So.. what now” He began to look around, there were a assortment of cars outside of the terminal, including a few men holding up signs in Japanese.

“This doesn’t bold well..” He wasn’t one to panic but being in a foreign country with very little grasp on the language, and having no idea where to go, it did make his heart race just a bit faster than usual. It was then that his eye caught a sign that stood out among the others, for one it was in English and not Japanese.

As he moved closer his spirits lifted “Yeah, I’m Jason Karrde” He spoke in English to the driver holding a sign with his name on it. He reached into his pocket to show his passport as the driver opened the door to the limo. He could only hope that they took him to the hotel first for a long peaceful night of sleep.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Yugi was still nervously fiddling with the envelope when the drive who had previous just walked away, opened the door and let someone else in. His face lit up with joy. If someone else was here, this confirmed that this wasn't a scam or a hoax or something. It also confirmed that he wasn't being kidnapped....

Then again, he could have been in on the kidnapping...Yugi flashed him a small smile anyway. He realized he was still fiddling with the envelope and stopped, taking his hands away and placing them on his lap. The acclaimed King of Game's mouth hung open as he waited for the new comer to get in

[Houndoom_Lover]

(One of you better post :L Before I flip a shit, how'bout...I'm gunna post tonight after I sleep on the bus for hours, kay.)