melodiesoflife | Event || The Festival Of Light

Event || The Festival Of Light

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Aqures Ixen.
When: July 27th - August 03rd
Summary: Feel free to use this post to participate in the Festival of Light. Post your own threads or jump into someone else's thread-- This is a free for all mingle post!
Warning: N/A

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The tournament a few months ago has made a regular player out of Kaji. At the very least, he feels the need to test that title of champion that he's got. Beginner players, even some higher level ones, he can beat. But he knows better.

Kaji stubs out his cigarette when his next opponent appears. The one he'd been hoping to see here. "Chiaki Nanami. The person who should have won that tournament."

Mr. Kaji. Congratulations.

[Chiaki nods back at him with a smile, shuffling her deck.]

Kaji nods as he shuffles his own deck. "Thank you. You and I both know I ended up winning because of bracketing. Which happens in a tournament sometimes."

"But I'm not going to make this easy on you." He puts his deck down solidly, leaves his hand on top. There is an excited challenge in Kaji's eyes. Does he really think he's gotten good enough to beat The Ultimate Gamer?

No one wins every time, even among the best players. It would be boring if the same person always won.

[Chiaki seems quietly excited at the prospect of a motivated opponent.]

Good. That would be boring too.

Kaji has two things going against him in this match. First is that his deck is just not as powerful as Chiaki's. He's been winning matches, sure, but it's all against other people who don't have the top cards.

But Kaji has been trying to make up for the difference by playing the opponent, figuring out their strategy and toying with their personality. Getting a hyper-aggressive opponent to overextend themselves. Putting a timid opponent on the defensive quickly. Which leads into his second problem, because Chiaki is giving him noting to work with. His opening moves try to box in a trap in the corner.

[Chiaki's come up against all of those sorts of strategies before, and she's able to adjust her play style on the fly. Her own opening moves are neither aggressive nor conservative, trying to draw out a decisive pattern from Kaji.]

She won't passively fall into a trap, she's too smart, and her cards are too powerful. Frustrating, but Kaji keeps his cool. Kaji finally takes a risk for a directly aggressive action, using one of his strongest cards. It's not smelling weakness, but an attempt to prompt a reaction out of her, just to see what she'll do.

[Chiaki sets a card of equal strength next to it. Not enough to flip it for herself, but enough to neutralize one of its best numbers by taking up the adjacent space.]

Kaji wants to swear so much. He just can't compete against her cards. He's able to take one of his own cards back, exploit his own deck's weakness, but it's the best he can do. As they're running out of spaces, he's also running out of options.

[Chiaki is calm and patient, calculating each move well ahead of time with the predictive power of a true veteran of the game. By the time all the cards have been laid, she's claimed an impressive 7-2 victory.]

Good game.

Seeing his defeat before him actually brings a wide smile to Kaji's face. He shakes his head, not in disbelief, but in acceptance.

"I don't mind losing when it's to somebody really good. And you are. But you already know that." Kaji can admire that; there's no false modesty in Chiaki. He offers over a hand to shake on it.

Thanks.

[Chiaki smiles, reaching out for the shake.]

You played a really good game too.

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