<BB> Cajun's Battle Board [Cygari of the Thousand Steps]

Atop My Gleaming Throne: 8/10 It's a cool idea, but also if you draw it at the wrong time you would abandon it immediately. (On the other hand, you would probably want to, to draw better schemes.)

"As for why she would do it, I think she mentioned something about "failing an interview". Not that that explains much to me." Xander closes the book he was looking at, and leaves the tower. "As for why I would seek her out, I figure trying to find her now and settle things is less likely to end with a surprise sword through my chest."

Actually, I suppose it's equally likely that I find her and then she just kills me anyway. 

Xander walks down the street, if it can still be called a street, then begins projecting his thoughts to Saia.

"I seek her out... because I imagine it would go better for me if I were to find her, instead of her finding me." The voice that says these words is not quite the same friendly voice Xander had been using before. This voice was more serious, maybe even scared.

Pervasive Truth 
Instant 
Counter target spell unless its controller reveals their hand.

As I approach the building, it feels... off.  Completely normal, but yet not.  And why?  Have I been here before?  I don't... think so?  But maybe I have. 

"Greetings," I call into the aether.  No, that saying doesn't work here, does it?  "Eternity Project for Interplanar Cooperation."

Empty Call 
Sorcery 
Reveal the top four cards of your library.  If no creatures are among them, put two of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

Does anyone live here?  No response, even at this time of day...  An open door?  If someone does, maybe I should leave a note on their table.  Leaving a door open like this without anyone to watch it could be bad if some others showed up instead.

// Seiva reaches a notebook out of her backpack and starts to write a note on it as she slowly enters the door.

Less abusable than Second Sunrise, so that seems fine. Like this a lot.  9/10

Security Check 
Sorcery 
Creatures can't be blocked this turn.
Investigate.

cajun

Realities Fold Before Me: Seems like a good silver-bordered scheme, though I’m a bit disappointed that the silver-bordered part feels kind of like an afterthought with this implementation. 9/10.


Sabok turns the page.

No.

I turn the page.




I step out of the book.

I am no longer on the Arena.


A few days earlier, a young man holding a large tome appears on the Arena.

"This is the place, right?" I carefully flip through the pages, looking for… something. Why am I pawing through the World Book, anyway? I’m Outside! This is my first day as its Chosen, and it’s about time.

Still, it feels like something is missing…

I brush off the thought. It’s time to find some stories.


Parsul has refunded Herevite-Encrypted for 50 Valor!

There is not much to the house, seeming to be only a single room. Blank pages are spread across the floor. A spool of rope sits on the floor in the corner. Near the window is an unusually clean spot, as if something was recently moved from there.

A familiar glint catches Seiva's eye. Set on a table along a wall is a faintly gleaming spear, an open bag, and an Entelan transceiver.

A Chilling Discovery
Covert Scheme
(Rather than set this scheme in motion, you may leave it face down. You may look at it and may turn it face up to set it in motion at any time.)
When you set this scheme in motion, you may pay any number of times. Creatures attacking you get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of times you paid this way.

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can have this crossover with the one on your post at your decision
as far as i can tell, the closest thing we've got for this is Ghostform, i suspect this + investigate is too much at 4 but dunno. 7/10
(west and toadette, i'll get to you shortly)

I recognize that.  I recognize all of that.  I approach the transceiver to confirm what it is before I jump to any conclusions.

Beep.  That's a transceiver contact.  Who from?  Hannah.  Don't need to check the transceiver any more, do I?

"Connect," I command.

"Miss Seiva, have you seen Karina? She was supposed to be here."

I stare at the assorted things on the table.  A kidnapping?  Surely these aren't valuable enough for it to just be a theft.  A mostly mundane spear, a transceiver that you can get from Entela without crime?

"I haven't.  Check around Entela, then ask Master Sara.  Maybe she's had a precognition about it."

There's a moment before Hannah responds again.  "Anything else?"

"Nothing.  Good luck.  Disconnect."

Once I'm certain the line goes dead, I take a deep breath for another command.  "Alert EPIC, Message.  Our little Karina has gone missing, without her weapon or transceiver.  I have them here, they'll be with me.  If you're not immediately busy, I need you to try to locate her.  If these are here, I doubt she planeswalked away."

Whoops, goodbye creatures. Lots of snow being paid. 9/10

Spark Location 
Instant 
Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature or planeswalker card.  Put it onto the battlefield under your control.  Then that player puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order.
"This plane isn't big enough to hide forever.  We'll find her.  Don't worry."

As Seiva takes the items, she may see a swirl of green beneath them, chewing through the spells trying to watch them.

Outside, a horned skull nods. The woman should have a few minutes before the witch figured out what had happened. And he should have a few weeks before she realized he was involved.

The lich vanished.

Sins of Your Past
Scheme
When you set this scheme in motion, exile any number of nonland permanent cards from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, destroy up to one target permanent that shares a type with it.

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Spark Location - hm, think this is better than Polymorph which is a bit alarming, but it does feel better than Polymorph 9/10
The floorboards creak as she leaves. Any secrets here remain safe another day.

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re:Nothing - if you use it as a land it gets locked when your normal lands don't (kinda hard to do anything with a vanilla)
re:Land Creatures - lands with costs/conditions to become creatures like manlands, or even like Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle.

The smell of paint is backed by the stench of gall as a young woman comes around the corner of the house, trailing fumes, and holding a scribbled map. It's the apothecary from before, still in the same clothes, and sporting dark circles beneath her eyes. "Pidge, was it? I owe you an apology. It was terribly rude of me to leave you, and I never introduced myself. My name is Lettie Wormwood. Would you like to do business?"

Renatured Creeper
Creature — Plant
When Renatured Creeper enters the battlefield, target player reveals his or her hand. You may choose an artifact or enchantment card from it. If you do, that player discards that card. If you don't, you draw a card.
2/1

cajun
As Pidge works away at her workbench, a man, who looks like he is in his late 20s and and dressed in a blue cloak, walks in and glances around until he notices the Kithkin working away at the workbench. 

"Is your name Pidge?" he says in a rather meek manner, to which Pidge turns to see who it was (I assume she would do that), "Excellent! My name is Henry Brayden. I'm new to the Arena, so I thought I would be good to introduce myself to the denizens of the arena. It says on the sign out there that this place is some sort of Post Office, Is that correct?"

Curious Wizard 
Creature - Human Wizard 
Whenever Curious Wizard deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card
1/2
"Why, Hello!"

Lettie laughs, with a hint of bitterness. "Most everywhere, huh? I can only begin imagine what that's like. I just got here, after all. But-" A shop's alarm goes off, and she grits her teeth. "I'm the only one minding the stores. Maybe I could use some interplanar solutions myself." Lettie pulls the book close and gives a wave and smile. "I'm looking forward to our... future, on this grand market. Good day!" She steps out the store, before stepping out of the plane. Most everywhere, huh. I need to keep an eye on that one.

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Worldwise Outpost — Being able to give this away and benefit from it, but not being able to take it all back since you can't activate the ability is weird. This is also remarkably easy compared to a card like Zedruu, which would make sense considering Zedruu's draw value, but a good deal of donate cards don't let you just take your ball and go home like this. Nonetheless, the last ability is amazing flavour, and I wish I'd done it first. 8/10

Previously, on [redacted]...

What is it, E. The vampire spoke in her mind.

"What is it, she asks. I think you know quite well what is is." The blonde cryomancer stared her down.

Nope, the vampire thought with a shrug.

"We had spoken on a Xander Dirigo, did we not?"

Yea, and? I sicced the dragon on him, easy. She held her hands behind her head.

"And yet he's looking for you." A wave of her hand, and a distorted memory played itself on countless shards of shimmering ice.

"I'll not have my requests half-carried out, do we understand?" The vampire just stared a hole through her. "But I can show one last act of kindness. I'll make the next one easy on you. A simple abduction, a mindrip or two, and you go on your merry way. All is forgiven."

She did not answer for a long time. Her fist clenched at where her old sword would be, had Lindri not proven herself good for something and destroyed it. Saia had no troubles waiting. She had far more time to spend than Mei.

Who? she finally relented.

"No one who will give you any trouble, of course."

Who. Is. It.

"Oh, fine, I'll spoil the surprise. It is someone you know after all. Something like a Karen Oblay or some nonsense, I can never keep your names straight."

Mei's teeth gritted. That's right, Mei, she thought to herself. Make your choice.

So that's how it's gonna be.

A glint of silver flashed from her cloud.

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The air grew cold as Saia arrived at her headquarters's lab. Sparking machinery ran up and down the walls of the place, and she could never be sure what was working and what was breaking. But of course, it did not matter if she knew.

A young woman with a mechanical arm and pigtails ran over to meet her. "So what's the story, did you get—" Saia held up the 7CI communicator to cut her off. Kiku squealed and ran off with the device, placing it into thick steel box surrounded by sparking wires and next to a impossibly complicated control box. Dials and switches and spells fired at seemingly random as Saia inspected the other device she had brought with her, a small earpiece she almost certainly would've missed had it not had so many all-too-familiar spells all over it.

"Okay, so, we've got enough intel to know they'll try something once they know its gone. We're not entirely sure what but that's why we've got so many backups!" she waved wildly at all the machinery like it was obvious what any of it did.

"Take whatever you can while she's occupied." Saia turned and walked for one of the few walls of the lab not covered in shelves of broken experiments and spare parts.

"Yes sir miss ma'am sir!" Kiku called before tinkering with the communicator.

A sheet of ice formed on the wall as she approached. Images shimmered in from her cones all over the Arena. The chronomancer was operating out in the open. The idiot. The girl was contained, but to no one's surprise he'd attracted the attention of the Phyrexian... and the woman from EPIC. She let out a heavy sigh. "No worries, we're getting stuff from this, I think! I can't read a word of it, but it's something!"

"An... ally is complicating matters," she said simply. She would be unable to interfere directly. As great a loss as the anomalous child would be, she could always be taken again, though it would be a great deal trickier. The same would not be true of EPIC's allegiance. So she had to wait and hope.

She would not have to wait long. It seemed like the chronomancer cared more about the Phyrexian than their arrangement. A pity. She estimated it would be another week before the child had really recovered, another few months before her paranoia had died down surely, and... wait, what was that? All but one image faded away, the last taking up the whole wall.

He'd done it.

He shoved the girl towards the EPIC woman and turned his attention toward the Phyrexian. The girl unfroze and thrashed wildly as the woman ran to soothe her.

As soon as they were out of sight, she disappeared to secure her prize.

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Saia and a giddy Kiku looked over the steel box holding the girl's communicator. "So, in the past few days, we've had a few signals come in to it, and we've successfully cut them off. A few look like regular communication, a few look like kill switches, but! we've gone three days without one of those. I have a feeling they're done sending those!"

Saia pulled the communicator out with a gloved hand. The screen lit up, and for a shining moment, she had a free door into the 7CI. A message was waiting for her. She went to read it.

The screen went black. The air froze around her. "H-h-h-h-h-ey it's ok-k-kay," Kiku shivered beside her. She glanced around at the layer of ice crawling across the lab and its gadgeteer. She was supposed to be better than this. She was better than this. She exhaled, the air returning to its normal chill as she breathed.

"Yes. It's okay. This was the consolation prize, but we got the main one, didn't we?" she smirked. "I've acquired a few Volarian language books. Please do look through them, we'll be meeting with them before long."

"Weeeeee?" Kiku grinned as she wrapped her mechaical arm behind Saia's back. Her smile faded again. The metal of the arm began to crack from the sudden cold.

"Yes. To transition into you taking the Elbryn Tunnel project. Alone." She walked off, pausing for a moment after a few steps to add, "And fix that arm again before we go."

"Still worth it!" Kiku shouted, pointing with her other hand.

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"Good with working we'll is!" Kiku said confidently in Volarian to a member of EPIC. Saia forced a smile. "She'll get better, just give her some time." "Better? What? I rocked that!"

Before she could add anything more, a booming thought echoed through the outpost. INSPECTOR AEVIA. The members of EPIC looked around for the source of the voice. A few would find it suddenly behind Saia, holding a silver blade to her throat. A thin mist surrounded the stranger, who seemed quite overdressed for the heat of this particularly sunny day.

Kiku's breathing became panicked. A combat caster jumped to attention. Saia tried to keep her cool. "Oh hey, Liva. Nice for you to finally drop by. You know, I was looking for you—" I KNOW. BUT NOT ANYMORE.

The blade cut through her in an instant. Spells fired off, but the assassin had vanished as quickly as she had appeared. The bleeding inspector tumbled to the ground. Kiku fell to her knees, grabbing at what she already knew to be a corpse. Seiva remained on guard, seeming to know the assailiant was still nearby.

At a safe distance and happily invisible, Saia watched over the illusory scene with a smile.

"You know, I think I'm going to like working with you," she said to the vampire in the wide, purple hat.

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Pip has opted to tap out on the Marston fight, so we figured out the main details. Marston gets the sample, Saia gets her cut, and the wheels move ever forward.
With Saia now officially out of BB play, Pidge has picked up the Heroes Remembered point.

A man with a few scars came by the house. He looked very tired walking through the roads.

"Oh thank god this is here." He replied. "It's...Pidge? I'm Januti, and I need help restoring my supplies I lost a while ago. Long story. Many things probably had changed here since I got knocked down a few months ago, even I wonder how I survived. In return, I can probably make some stuff for you to sell or a vehicle to get around, how about that?"

(Yep, I'm back! sorry for cutting out my story a while ago, had some work to do.)

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Manufacture Blueprint
Artifact
, : Create a 1/1 Artifact Vehicle Token. Activate this ability only anytime you could cast a sorcery.