365 Days of Starshipping (Part 2)

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10/12/19

"Hey! Guys, over here!" Carly called them over, waving as she came through the portal entrance to the event area - she had roughly the same reaction that they'd had as well, practically tripping over her feet when she saw the darkened, Halloween-laden environment. It was very different compared to any other place in the game, even with the existence of caverns since caverns were designed with dueling and the story in mind, and Judai was itching to just run around and explore it.

"Hey Carly, what's up?" Judai greeted with a wave, walking towards her with Yusei in tow. Even if it'd been a while since they'd last played the game, they had immediately defaulted back into holding each other's hand going anywhere and everywhere, mainly to make sure all the couple ring effects could be used. It was fun for Judai to show off all the unique items and effects they had and they both enjoyed essentially showing each other off as if to say 'this one is mine'.

"This place is so cool, isn't it?! I'm gonna get a ton of pictures for this article, maybe put a little gallery section in it to keep people interested," Carly replied, still gazing around with wonder before snapping her attention back to them, "Oh, hope I didn't keep you guys waiting too long, by the way."

"You're fine," Yusei smiled, "It was only five minutes and there's lots to just look at around here in general." Plus... we had to move the time back anyway because of the cat fiasco this morning."

Said cat fiasco resulted from Jack joining them for breakfast right when they were about to leave and go play, then proceeding to actively try to provoke a reaction out of Pharaoh through teasing him with food. Needless to say, Pharaoh walked out of the end of that encounter alive and happy while Jack arguably did not.

"What he said," Judai agreed, nodding along with his own grin before asking, "So, you said you needed us for something?"

"Yes, okay - so basically I have the ability to create temporary dummy items in my inventory of any item thanks to being a reporter character model, and I wanted to get a few pictures of you guys wearing the new event rewards to put in the article," Carly explained, pushing her glasses up with a single finger (Judai was sure that those glasses weren't an in-game item of any sort, so he had to give her props for managing to convince someone, somewhere to code it in for her), "You don't have to obviously, but I just really wanted something easy to slap onto the front page."

"I don't mind, do you Yusei?" Judai answered, looking over at Yusei and getting a shake of the head in agreement.

"I don't mind, just give us what we need and tell us what to do, " Yusei said, pulling Judai lightly with him as he gestured towards a side bench and started walking over to it, "Let's sit, at least - don't want to be in the middle of the road."

He and Yusei sat and sorted out their quest logs and inventory while waiting for Carly to make everything she needed, making their interfaces look even more smooth and different thanks to some new options being added to the options menu. Soon enough though she was ready and sent them both trade requests containing the ten-minute temporary cosmetics, which they equipped quickly before standing up and looking over each other.

"This is pretty cool, not gonna lie," Judai whistled, looking at the new items on the both of them before laughing, "Still, wasn't expecting this of all things. A suit?"

"Yours basically looks like the bad-boy casual wear kind of suit, though in Halloween style," Carly snickered, pointing at him before turning to Yusei, "And yours is like if your regular outfit was adjusted to look like a vampire."

"At least it seems to work well," Yusei mused, looking between both himself and Judai before saying, "Alright, tell us how you want us."

She took pictures of them in a couple poses, making sure that they were at angles were their held hands were visible and that the auras that popped up as a result weren't too bright and preventing their outfits from being seen. Luckily she was satisfied with what she'd gotten before the items expired and their previous items were automatically re-equipped, though she did take another picture of them in their regular outfits for good measure.

"I'll share these with you guys," Carly stated, swiping through her screens and organizing at an impressive speed, "Thanks for help! If you need anything from me, just feel free to ask. I know which items come from which quest line, so if there's a specific one you want just tell me and I'll tell you what to do. There's tons of event quests around here and half of them are just for completion's sake."

"Hmm... do you know if there's any aura rewards?" Judai asked first, glancing down at their ribbon laced hands and all the hearts and stars surrounding them and joking, "We ought to get as many as we can and see if eventually people can't see us past the effects anymore."

"Ooh, I think I saw something like that, give me bit," Carly grinned, accepting the task easily and getting to work finding it, "I've gotta read through the descriptions, so I'll just message you the info. You guys have fun doing whatever it is you plan on doing, okay?"

"Alright, thanks!" Judai replied, sending her a mini salute in farewell while Yusei simply waved goodbye with a smile, "See you later Carly!"

Now, the time for exploring the spooky area had come! Judai was absolutely sure there were some hidden places just waiting to be discovered, and that alongside obtaining cosmetics was his main goal here - well, that and just having fun with Yusei. He wasn't entirely sure if there would be any scares along the way, but he supposed that even if there was, it'd be okay since they had each other to latch onto if needed.