capeandcowl | [voice; English] -- recorded from a new communicator.

...I know that voice.

... Eh? I'm afraid I don't know yours?

I suppose that's not much of a surprise. I didn't really ever talk to you that much, only to taunt you about stealing your God cards. The English is new, though, not bad.

...this is Yuugi, right?

Yeah, my name's Yuugi.

...Are you a Ghoul?

No, I'm a guy. Alastair.

Shit, somebody said something about future and past timelines...don't tell me you're from my past? Our run-in hasn't happened yet?

Alastair... No, we haven't met. You mentioned the God cards before, and... stealing them?

Are you an enemy?

Well, that's kind of a sticky question. I was. I don't know if you can call me that anymore. Not after...y'know, saving my soul and all.

...

Hm, all right.

I guess we can puzzle out the hows and whys later. I suppose I should just be glad you don't remember and aren't going to get all up in my face about what happened.

... What happened?

The short version? My pals and I beat up your grandpa and stole the Eyptian Gods...and sort of awoke an ancient power that ate souls and tore a rift between dimensions...

...

That's... a lot. Why did you..?

It was what our master wanted. But...he's not in the picture anymore, thanks to you. You and Kaiba and that blond-haired friend of yours.

Huh. I never expected Kaiba to do something like that. Then again, some of the other things I've been told about Kaiba's exploits... It's not that far-fetched, maybe.

As long as everyone ended up safe, I guess.

Heh, yeah, I thought the same thing. Jerk saved my life, now I owe him.

Yeah. Yeah, it's long over as far as I know. I don't have any powers anymore, I'm just a random duelist now.

I'd like to play with you some time, then. To get to know you better now.

Really? You'd do that? Heh, great! I'll take you up on the challenge. You'll probably kick my ass, but it's all about playing when our souls aren't at stake.

I just got here like, yesterday, though, so...I'm still trying to find my way around.

"An ancient power that ate souls" ?

You were a Dark Signer?

A what? I've never heard of Dark Signers. We were...well, we didn't have a name. Servants of the Oricalcos maybe, if you wanna be real technical.

I don't recognize that name, either. But if you come from Yuugi's world, then maybe...

Did it collect souls through dueling?

Well...yeah, it did, actually. The Seal of Oricalcos trapped souls that lost a duel. Oh good, someone else who knows dueling...

It only took the one soul of the losing duelist, then? I guess it's not as destructive as the ones I know...

But ... defeating it brought those people back?

Of course, because if the winner lost his soul too, he can't go and take more souls. Mast...uh, Dartz groomed us to be winners and collect as many souls as we could, kinda hard to do that when your own is trapped.

Yeah. Yeah, it reversed everything.

Huh. It seems like it would take a very long time. The Dark Signers are a little similar to that, but when they duel, a burning geoglyph appears, and anyone trapped inside except for those two duelists are sacrificed to summon the Earthbound God. The loser of the match... dies.

But if defeating that one released the captured souls for you, then maybe the same is true for us.

Edited 2009-05-22 02:31 (UTC)

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that was terrible cap

XD

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oh god his curiousity

sorry about this!

At least you didn't mention "stealing partner's soul away".

he'll save that one to blame on Raphael later

the concept of saving the world is new to him

MY HERO ohwait.

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/slowly threadjacks

*gasp*

NOW WE CAN THROW OUR RIDICULOUS CANONS AT ONE ANOTHER AND GO BWUH

OMG this is going to be epic

wait until we start getting into riding duels!

he'll LOVE that

and she's going to have to explain SYNCHRO SUMMONS ohgod

gasp