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Well, isn't this a fine how do you do! After somehow being ousted to the ranks of Middle, Popoi's first fight is against some sort of demon? Pfft! This is crazy! Popoi has fought far fiercer creatures trying to get out of bed in the morning! The fact of the matter is that Beatrice's main trick, the ability to put someone to sleep, has no effect on our dear Sprite. With a simple accessory, all of Beatrice's tricks are put to rest. Not to mention Popoi's parasitic healing and magic-draining spells that can keep him alive while doing incredible damage to the demon. Sorry B, but you're just outclassed! |
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How disappointing. After hearing that she was slated to fight a former Heavy, Beatrice had expected some sort of challenge for her first match in a long time. Instead, she's scheduled to fight some little squirt of a Sprite. Laughable. Simply laughable. As if a faerie with a boomerang and some feeble attack magic could defeat the dream demon in all her glory. A few doses of Nightmare should show the androgynous twerp the error of his/her/its ways while giving him/her/it more than a few sleepless nights. Hopefully, Popoi won't get killed too soon. Faeriefolk do tend to be rather frail. |
Dark Holy Elf Beatrice has a problem. Being a creature of dreams, memories, and computer data, she finds actually materialising into a physical form, a state the RPGDL requires for its duels, very taxing. Sure, she could probably defeat Popoi in a straight battle with her impressive HP and Nightmare spell, but would she have enough energy to win four such battles in the space of a few weeks? It wasn't something the calculating demon was willing to leave to chance. So, she found a solution: challenge Popoi to a different sort of duel, one in which each would attempt to put as many members of the RPG Duelling League to sleep in a two hour period. Normally, Popoi wouldn't be stupid enough to accept this - after all, his Sleep Flower is not only less potent than Beatrice's Nigthmare, and shorter-lasting, but he has a limited supply of MP to cast it with. But he accepted the challenge anyway. Who knew that sprites were incredibly susceptible to hypnotic suggestion while sleeping? Beatrice, apparently. Nobody ever expected her to play fair, anyhow. And so, when the appointed time came, Beatrice simply wandered the halls of the DL in her immaterial form, striking anyone sleep-vulnerable she came across with a Nightmare spell. It was effortless. Though it did strike her as odd that she was finding fewer people around than she expected... *** ... and as she later discovered, it was because the large majority of the RPGDL roster was attending a lecture on Randi's characterisation and personal conflicts with his friends and adversaries in Secret of Mana. With special guest lecturer Bordam Daravon. Sponsored by none other than Popoi. Needless to say, Popoi won, easily. How did he get everyone in place to listen to such a lecture in the first place? Simple. He enlisted the help of Purim, a Godlike. Even weak Godlikes tend to command attention in the DL, and they command far more when they arrange a session where they will permanently paralyse Zidane with chained Blaze Wall spells, and invite duellers from all over to come and use him as a punching bag. So Beatrice was forced to concede victory, and to recede, once more, into the shadows, to plot her next run to domination of the RPGDL subconscious, and the entire world (strange that such plans hinge on a getting a Middle championship first). She did get the last laugh, though. It turns out that hundreds of sleeping people in one place attracts the attention of large numbers of Gengars. The DL healers' union ended up suing Popoi for damages due to all the healing they had to perform on the legion of Dream Eater'd Suikoscrubs and Shining Force filler. Popoi will be fighting random encounters sixteen hours a day for the next month to raise the cash. Popoi: 45 |
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