The shelter looked like two slabs of earth that had met in the middle. Probably something that someone could make as fast as possible. Its roof was completely charred by lightning like the surrounding area, so no surprise I couldn’t spot it from the air.
I got inside the earth ‘tent’ and saw a load of people sitting around. Lua was next to Zayaan, seemingly using healing magic on him. Wolf was on his knees, next to Jack who was sitting upright and one other member of their team that was laying on the ground. The guy on the ground didn’t look that good. He was completely charred by lightning. He still had armor on so I couldn’t tell if he was even breathing anymore.
There were three others I saw that were in a similar state to him. Completely charred. They had dark lines running through their bodies and the area around the dark lines had turned almost purple. I didn’t recognize two of them, but one was one of the two guards that came with us to the dungeon.
I almost started pulling out cards that can heal people, but I need a better idea of the situation first. I followed Alex towards Lua and Zayaan. On the way I spotted Brandon and the butler … What was his name again? They seem to be mostly fine. I think I see some of those lightning burns on the arm of the butler and his sleeve on that arm is shredded, but at least they aren’t laying on the ground. I would assume an arm at that state can be healed. And if it can’t, you might be able to heal it by cutting it off and regrowing it. Maybe.
“Hey. You feeling alright?” I casually asked Zayaan. I was honestly just trying to calm him down.
“Been better, but I’ll live.” He answered. He didn’t have any visible injuries, but he might still have been hurt.
“I can summon a monster that can heal people if that will help.” I offered.
“Thanks, but… “ He turned his face. I followed his gaze to see the lightning charred body of Rico. “I don’t know if even you can fix that.”
I walked over to Rico’s body to confirm it. I thought some of them might have died, but I honestly didn’t want to accept it. Alex was already next to it, hanging his head down.
I squatted down next to Rico’s body and checked his pulse. … But of course I couldn’t find it. I knew I wouldn’t, but I still needed to make sure. If he was on the brink of death I would have taken him for a ride on Blue-Eyes as a farewell gift, but it’s too late for that. Only after I would try to heal him with every card in my arsenal.
I couldn’t take looking at his dead body anymore, so I stood back up and walked away from him. I know that is rude, but I need to consider myself as well. This is just how I deal with things like this.
I moved over to where Brandon and the butler were.
“Thank you for saving us.” The butler said.
“Yeah, sorry I was late.” I told them as I looked at the right arm of the butler.
(Laura, what was his name again?)
(It’s Henry.) Laura reminded me.
“No. If you hadn’t come, we would have all died.” Brandon said to me. “Those sprites were focused on us and weren’t letting up. Thank you. For saving us. If there is anything you need in return, just ask.”
“... I might have an idea or two, but those can wait.” I told him. I then opened my collection and pulled out Dancing Fairy. “Dancing Fairy.” I said quietly to summon my monster.
The three small fairies appeared from a card and looked around at all the hurt people. I could feel their will to help everyone, but they were waiting for permission.
“Go heal them.” I gave the permission to my summon.
I saw them get to work on everyone. The first patient was Henry, as he was the closest. I saw as his charred arm regained color and all the dark lines disappeared slowly.
But I didn’t stick around to see my fairies heal everyone. I needed a moment alone so I stepped outside the earth shelter.
I know there is a card. I don’t have it, but I know it’s in some of the sets I have unlocked. And I could use it. But would using it bring more problems than it’s worth?
Monster Reborn. Or as it is known in the OCG, Resurrection of the Dead. It should be able to resurrect a dead person. I have all my daily pack tokens so I could try to get it. But should I? If I get a copy, who will be resurrected? Will I just bring more trouble than it’s worth? Is it my business to choose who gets resurrected?
(Master. It might not be my place to say anything, but I think you should at least try. If you don’t get the card you need, there is nothing more you can do about it. And if you do get it, you can offer the decision on how to use it to them. I feel like if you don’t at least try, you’ll blame yourself later.) Laura told me.
… She does have a point. I probably will blame myself. But can I really deal with the backlash from this? What if they just begin to use me as a revival factory or something? I just feel like this won’t end well.
FUCK! I don’t know what to do. I know I need to just go for it. But…
NO BUTS! Just DO IT!
(Laura, what sets have Monster Reborn in them?) I asked.
(Only Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon and Dark Beginning 1.) Laura answered.
(Well at least that makes the choice for me.)
F*** No Monster Reborn there. Rain of Mercy could heal everyone and Upstart might be fun to put in a toploader, but they don’t help at the moment.
Well there is a super rare spell. But it’s not the one I need. Or even one I really want. I already have one. I guess having a second one is not terrible, but it just hits me in the gut that the super rare I get is just a repeat of a card I already have. Let’s hope these packs give me another one.
What part of ‘I don’t want extra polymerizations’ did you not understand? I would be happy if I wasn’t searching for a card that can literally save someone’s life at the moment. … Would reviving the dead be considered saving a life? Please give me Monster Reborn so I can answer that.
Okay, now you are just pissing me off. WHY??!!?? How can I be this lucky, while being this unlucky? These fucking polys are useless.
Okay, just calm down. We can still do this. We have two more chances. And I swear to God if I get another poly, I’ll just fuse someone with one of my cards.
Oh, oh, oh. It’s not a Monster Reborn, but it will give me two more chances.
(Laura.)
(On it.)
2x Flame Manipulator, Dark Energy, 2x Tyhone, Forest, 2x Tripwire Beast, Larvas, 2x Darkworld Thorns, Flower Wolf, The 13th Grave, 2x Man Eater, Armored Starfish, Sand Stone, 2x Two-Mouth Darkruler, Two-Pronged Attack, Dissolverock, 2x Misairuzame, Drooling Lizard, Trial of Nightmare,
(Apply them to the Pot. I need to activate it now.)
(It’s ready Master.)
I took the toploader Pot of Greed and immediately activated it.
Would you like to consume 1 ‘toploader’ ‘Pot of Greed’ to increase your daily pack tokens by 2? |
[Yes] [NO] |
Yes.
[Daily pack token number increased by 2. Total is now 12] |
Now, the two last packs.
I GOT IT! I FREAKING GOT IT! Thank you God!
… Let’s calm down a little. Getting the card is only half of it. The difficult question comes next. Who are you going to revive? And I should probably open the last pack as well. I could always get a second one. Especially after that Poly straight.
I guess one will have to do. I’m not happy about it, but one is better than none.
(Laura, I need another toploader and sleeve combo for the Monster Reborn.)
(Of course, Master.)
While I was waiting on Laura to choose the sacrifices, I took a quick look at the effect of Monster Reborn. As I thought, I can resurrect a person, but only if it has been less than 24 hours from their death. And it doesn’t heal any external wounds so those need to be healed first or there is a chance the resurrected person will just die again.
Even with the toploader Monster Reborn, I’ll only be able to resurrect one of them. After all, it will enter the 24 hour cooldown and that will say bye-bye to the activation window for the others.
(Master, the sacrifices for the sleeve and toploader.)
Hitotsu-Me Giant, Basic Insect, Silver Fang, Dark Gray, 2x The 13th Grave, Monster Egg, Firegrass, Darkfire Dragon, 2x Dark King of the Abyss, Fiend Reflection #2, Fusionist, Turtle Tiger, Root Water, Ray & Temperature, Mystical Sheep #2, Beast Fangs, 2x Violet Crystal, 2x Witty Phantom, Larvas, Man Eater, Meda Bat
And now I have a toploader Monster Reborn. Let’s head back into the shelter and see what everyone wants to do with it.
@nro_8 hey, i dont know if this ever asked, but i rly curious.
You said that you use pack generator for opening pack. But what if you have a plot like this monster reborn case,
Did you really depend on the generator & advance your story based on it, or did you just add that particular card nontheless??
It depends. I can to an extent manipulate the pack opener by just rolling the packs over and over again, before choosing to take one. But in this case in particular, I actually did the pack opening part first, before I chose who was going to die. Then just manipulate the number of dead people depending on the number of Monster Reborns I got from the packs. For example, had I gotten a second one (or already had one from previous packs) I would have just had Brandon Watchman also die, so he would take the first priority for resurrection. Then just go as I did.
And had I not gotten one, I would have let the dead stay dead. This was just a way to have Brian confront the idea of having the power over life and death, before he has enough copies of Monster Reborn to just resurrect everyone.
But at the end of the day, the generator does have some power over this story. Yes, I do manipulate it to my advantage something, but usually I just go with the flow and use the cards as I get them. (or try to use them)
Wonder if you make a sleeve purely out of the same card you are sleeving, if it would give a bonus. Like sleeving a poly with 5 other polys
No. The cards unique qualities is lost when it/they are turned into a sleeve.
It is a little hard to follow which set he is opening. I almost posted that he didn't open the reprint, but decided to first count how many.packs he opened and just wrote this post.
I think Rico will be the one to get it at the end, like even if he is a douge, he is still the only one he knows the name of.
I don't see the point of reviving him at all tbh. He was a douche and no loss that he's gone. Reviving ppl is a game changer if he shows he can do it once nest case scenario the whole world hounds him to save theyre loved ones, including higher authorities like the King (and logic of the card limit won't dissuade such emotional ppl or worse make them resentful and target him). Worst case they see it as dark necromantic magic and want to off him. Its a lose lose situation for a duche bag or some one random. Maybe if it was someone important and he could do it in private.
@Lameduck987 he is the only one he know, doesn't matter if he was a douge. He doesn't even know the name of anyone else there nore he had any bond with them. None of those that died were important people either, just guards and adventurers.
@Ruiso Exactly my point, no need to revive any of them when they mean nothing to him and potentially brings him harm instead.
Then again maybe I'm just callous p.o.s
@Lameduck987 if you have the option to safe a person, you will not do it because the mean nothing to you?
It is like that, but he didn't want to use his own judgement as he didn't knew them well enough, to choose the only one that he knew from the dead, so he let someone else that know those people more choose who to safe, he also passed the responsability.
It is a similar kinda thing to Uncle Ben, the great power, great responsibility talk. If you have the power to safe someone, but choose to not do anything, then you are also part of the reason said person died, it is all psycological.
@Ruiso It was also to leave it up to faith. Brian would need to first get the card from the packs. If he didn't, he could have just given in as he wouldn't have the power to do anything at that point. But not even trying would potentially leave even deeper scars than trying and failing.
@Ruiso Ofc I would try to save ppl if i could. Just like how he rushed to save them, that was absolutely the right thing to do. But once theyre dead, and you have to revive them when absolutely no one else in the world can and it can bring huge problems to you I would be very selective of that. Then again this is just reading a story, maybe it'd be different if I was in his place looking at their dead body. Then emotions would come in to play, but logically speaking it's a stupid decision to make.
@Lameduck987 logic is only used by villains in emotional situations like that, not talking about the bad guy or whatnot as good or bad is irrelevant as it depend on the point of view. If you went to safe someone, and that person die, you might feel guilty, not your fault... but your brain will tell you otherwise, specially if you have something that can be used to reverse said sittuation.
@Lameduck987 "maybe it'd be different if I was in his place looking at their dead body" I love this. And this is why I had Brian try. I (as the author) let fate (and RNGesus) decide the fate of the people.
Brian also already has the entire system support problem to deal with so what bad could come from some revival powers?
@nro_8 Maybe I've just read too many other iskei novels where the world is against the protag and deem their powers evil. So far everything has only been improving his situation so I can see why he wouldn't be worried about this.