Hey all :3 I'm in Hawai'i for an awesome family vacation, and this blog will get updated day by day, involving a mix of what I do, CF & BF, and a varity of other things. This honestly an awesome change from what I usually do and its nice to get out of Nevada and into a more fresh climate. Anyways I hope everything goes great for me :3
Day 1 []
Well its been a fair journey getting here to Hawai'i @_@ I am beat. I had to take two different flights in order to get to the big island, it was rather brutal as I hate flying, I just really really hate flying. I'm finally at my grandpa's house and the story getting here was horrible. I left in 1 am and had to "sleep" on the plane, which mostly involves freezing to death & people kicking your seat all night. Another thing thats got me really down is the fact my bro is a lot better at Vanguard than me . . . and he wants to main Kagero. I taught him how to play and now he uses my Sealed Dragon deck, which he uses with fair skill as now in every match we've done against each other, he's always beaten me, now its up to 4 loses in a row for me, even using my best deck of D-Robos "R" Daiyusha Crossride build. Also after playing against him . . . it really made me realize how much I miss Narukami, like I really miss playing them a lot. I'm honestly thinking of re-making the Eradicator deck, make peace with Gauntlet Buster. Well we'll see how things go. I have no idea what I'm doing tomorrow, but I'll update it here as soon as I find out for the next day!
Day 2[]
Already an interesting start off the day, a very bizzare, very realist in a sense dream I had. It was this massive battle taking place in the large jungle like tree house in the middle of the sky, it was rather insane, and at first it was between humans & this dark orcs. As they fought I was just running around being helpless, till I ended up running into a friend, who was stabbed in the chest. I took him onto my shoulders and took him to the Great Hole in the middle of the battlefield, which lead all the way down to this other tree house like place down in Europe. I threw him in there, saying if he killed someone down there, he would at least be able to redeem his meaningless death. After I threw him, I shot two different dark orcs in the chest and ripped out both their hearts. I took their hearts and I went higher and higher into the tree house, ignoring all the combat till I reached this sleeping dark dragon. I fed him the two orc hearts and he woke up, and than he and I fought, me with my blade and his claws & Fangs we fought, bursting from the top of the treehouse till we ended up on the ground, my blade deep within his neck. I them whispered into the dragons ear that he now has to make a pack with me, to grant me my one wish. He asked what it was and I yelled out loud "To become a vampire, to become a true vampire" He than closed his eyes and melted and his essense went through my skin and I felt the power flow through me. I stood up and looked at myself, I was in now dark crimson armor, and I had a blade which was a heavy boardsword. I laughed as than a soldier was on the ground in fear asked "Who are you!?" and I replyed with "I am Dracula" And I impaled the soldier and his blood just drained instantly into my blade, and into me. I than began a mass slaughter of both humans & dark orcs, absorbing them all into me. Than I reached the a secret room in the large tree house, where I saw a man, a women who looked like my ex gf, and their child gathered around a small circle. Instantly I threw my sword at my ex's head, sending her flying into the wall. I than turned to the man, who drew his blade and chanted a small spell and his son disappeared. I smiled as I pulled my blade from the wall & we began combat, we were pretty evenly matched in skill, but not in power as he slowly was being worn down from my powerful blows. He than chanted to himself as I was about to bring down the fatal blow and he disappeared, but no one can run from me. I chanted to myself and jumped through with him. I than appeared outside a small tree house and I saw the man walking into it. I instantly followed and broke down the door. He turned surprised and in fear as I stabbed him in the chest. "No one can run from Dracula" I than slit his throut and started to make my way up stairs. He gurggled for me to stop and spare the boys life as I opened the door to see a sleeping boy. I smiled "No one is spared" and I closed the door, and than I was awake on the couch here.
Well . . . it was really intense, I haven't had a dream like that in a very very long time. My family is all getting up now and we're getting ready to go to the beach soon. The dream is really stuck on my mind but the beach should let me cover that up for awhile.
The beach was freaken awesome! My family and I had an
awesome time at the beach. I had a lot of fun being thrown around in the waves
it was just tons of fun for everyone there. I also ran into some local wildlife, and I mean that as in Sea Urchins! :D Other than that, the rest of the day went by with nothing much going on, playing vanguard wtih one hand however is not really that easy at all. One cool thing though was a girl actually tried to hit one me while we were in the water, until I jammed my hand into a sea urchin xD, and than everything went down the drain. Also kept losing matches afterwards against both my step dad and my brother, rounding to about 5 matches in total from both, I used Granblue for all of them but I kept getting wrecked.
Day 3[]
Today was a blast! We woke up and instantly from there visited the downtown Farmer's Market. There was a massive varity of fruits and veggie all around. We than all stopped by for snowcones -w- they were very, very good, I got the watermelon flavor. From there we just roamed around from shop to shop, just chilling, everything was really fine till we came to the Sally's Thrift Store I believe it was called. I looked around in there for awhile but than I came across a small box with tape on it. I asked the clirk what the box was and he had no idea where it came from as they wasn't ever accounted for. He said I could have it and I took it with. I opened it outside and it revealed a small collection of cards, from Buddyfight, Vanguard, Magic and Yugioh, an odd little colletion. I just ignored the Yugioh ones as they were all different forms of Kuribo, and the Magic ones were mostly land cards with a few goblins here and there. What really caught my eye was the small collection of Buddyfight & Vanguard cards. The Buddyfight cards were some Thunder Knight commons with one Thunder Knight, Drum Bunker Dragon, which I thought was pretty freaken awesome, so thats some extra stuff for my future Thunder Knight deck. From there I started to look through the Vanguard cards and than my jaw dropped as what I ended up finding in there. It was a deck, a full 50 card deck, and it looked pretty complete. It was a Link Joker deck, with the ride chain involved, including full breakride, but no perfect guards. I was rather surprised to find that, and also the few extra Vanguard cards that were included with it. There was:
1x Overlord "The End"
1x Ethics Buster EX
2x Ethics Buster "R"
4x Garmore Liberator
2x Alfred Liberator
2x Gust Jinns (I really needed those xD)
11x Bargals (I am still laughing my butt off at that XD)
It was an interesting little treasure trove to find in a thrif store, and I really wonder who left that, but it really does appear it was recent as of what I found in there in terms of the Buddyfight stuff was from the newest set. Other than that find, we kept roaming downtown, and eventually met up with family for a massive cookout/family reunion. It was really fun, everyone had an awesome time, and I stuffed myself with so much crab. Now it is getting time to settle in and chill, and I hope to eventually figure out who owned this little box I found, maybe when I go to the card shop next week(I plan on going next Monday) I'll find the original owners of this.
Day 4[]
Today has mostly been a slow day, surprisingly nothing really much happened today. I was denined my chance to go to the card shop, instead we went to go watch boat racing. It was pretty fun, I kept putting bets on the green one, and it only won twice out of the five races, so I feel some what good about it. We also got to roam around the park & enjoy the animals and scenery. It was over-all a very chilled out day with nothing much going on. Here at home base however, things did get interesting,
"R" DAIYUSHA!!
I went on a Vanguard frenzy due to already built up frustration from losing many matches throughout the week already here, so I re-worked my "R" Daiyusha deck and went to town! I had a really good time using the new and improved D-Robos, and I was able to beat down my step dad's Madala Lord deck & my brother who is currently using my Sealed Dragon deck several times now. I had two different gimics I used. The first one was breakriding on Daikiaser on Daikaiser, abusing Larual to build up hand and preasure throughout the beginning part of the game. The 2nd gimic was either going straight to "R" Daiyusha OR breakriding "R" Daiyusha and going for a slow kill, and when I ran out of counterblast, larual just helped as I sniped rearguard to build up hand and triggers for the vanguard. It was overall very very fun to play and it felt good to finally win matches again. Thats me in the picture going to town on my step dad with "R" daiyusha, he took the picture. Now we're eating ramen for dinner and wrapping up the night now as tomorrow we're going up to the family farm to visit my grandpa.
Day 5[]
Hey, Reaper here, Day 5 has just ended here, its just been a very laid back day over-all, nothing really much has happened today. In the morning, I went off to the family farm! It was very interesting actually picking macadamia nuts for the family, we filled up about 7 buckets in total if I recall correctly. I also was able to go through the whole process of cleaning the nuts, than setting them up to dry so in a few weeks they could be packed up & shipped to be used in several different treats. I also got to eat some other fresh fruits right off the tree, like guave & oranges, they were really really good, it was very different from eating the same fruit from the supermarket in Vegas. Shortly before we left the farm, I was able to get the chance to drive the ATV around the whole farm, it was a blast! I jumped little hills & other little fun things. Now for most of the day we actually just chilled back at home base. It was rather intesting as I was able to talk with Sean from Team Honey Badger on the wikia for a bit, and it was rather nice as we actually have been on the same comment threads on a varity of different Youtube channels, so we had a nice chat. Now to end the night, and I hope to talk with Sean a bit more when I get the chance. I also call out to any Cardfighters here in Hawai'i. On Tuesday, around 4:30, I will be going to Toys R U Gaming(I think the name is, Sean told me but I forgot it throughout the day) for the tourney. If there are any Cardfighers here in Hilo, I would like to meet some of you guys for sure Tuesday at the cardshop and enter the tourney with or against you guys, most likely both!.
Day 6[]
Once again, a chill day here in Hilo. I went on an early morning hike with the family. It was over all very chill and relaxing walk. I was even able to spot some wild boar in the area. We went through some of the lava tunnels & checked out the steam vents. Afterwards we went to the large flower farm, where I've been forced to put a flower on my right ear to show I'm single, and I've been challanged to wear it for the rest of the trip. So I hvae to keep the flower safe & on at all times while we're out. Now that I'm home I've just been relaxing, getting really excited for tomorrow to meet new cardfighters, and anyone else on the wiki that may be at the tourney here tomorrow. I'm all pumped up, been practicing with my D-Robo deck, which is the deck I plan to use. I also plan to see if I can sell my Kagero(Sealed Dragon) deck there as well, and if anyone REALLY wants it, my Great Nature deck. I also will be bring Buddyfight as well so I'm open to both games. Once again, I hope to see fighters from here there! :D
Day 7 []
Well, today has so far proven interesting. This morning, was watching all these Ice Bucket Challenges and I just keep saying to myself "I'm glad i'm not being challenged for this xD". So family gets ready and we go out to go see visit the grave yard to visit some lost relatives, it was a really amazing bonding moment, the grave yard was also very beautiful. From there we went to the Observitory & had an awesome time looking through the exhibits. As we get back home however, I look on facebook to see one of my friends have done the ice
Ice Bucket Challenge
Curse this person :/ This is the guy who challenged me.
bucket challenge. . . and I've been challenged to do it!! XD There is much rage within me but at the same time I'm willing to do it, so eventually I'll be putting a youtube link to that challenge as well on my youtube & facebook, and I have an idea of a few people I'm tagging to do the challenge as well. Just a quick update, but now I'm going out to the cardshop for the tournement!! :D Lets see how this goes!!
I am back! WIth very epic tails to bring along. So here we go! To start things off, we got lost trying to find the place xD didn't realize it was actually on the 2nd floor of a building, so that was a fun to start off with. So we ented the place and its already fairly filled with players . . . .All of them Magic xD It was very funny. So My step dad, my brother, and my older sister along with me come up to the front and sign up for the Vanguard tourament. I was able to get my whole family to sign up along with me and it was very funny seeing my sister play Vanguard for the first time. So after we signed up we sat down, than we found out that we were the only ones that actually signed up, so family tourney!! We kicked things off with me fighting my brother, who is using my Sealed Dragon(Crossride) build. It was done best 2/3, from which I used my D-Robos for all battles throughout the tourney. So everything went fairly well as I dominated over my brother who nearly killed me during our 2nd game using Inferno to blow up my whole field, it was rather brutal, but 3 PGs later (My hand cried), I was able to pull through using a Daikaiser over Daikaiser beatdown to win game. So than I turned to see my sister lost to my step dad, from which they only did one game as it was mostly teaching my sister the game, but she still drove my step dad to 4 dmg, which was pretty awesome, and now shes hooked on the game, she just got a generic Bermuda Triangle deck & a generic Pale Moon deck, sadly she wants to build SIlver Thorns, so its gonna take awhile to help her make. Back to the match, I faced my step dad next. For the first match, he beat me down as I was grade stuck at 0 the whole game, but I still got in 2 dmg from trigger checks :P. Than the next two games I won abusing Daikaiser on Laruel to build up hand quickly and preasure the vanguard throughout both games. The last game was really close at we both were driven up to 5 dmg for most of the game till I got a lucky draw trigger that let me break a weak guard. From that, I got first place in the small tourney, it was really fun as we all won stuff. I won 2 packs from which I took from Set 14 to add a pack to my wall and 13(from which I actually pulled an energy charger, which I needed :P), and 3 promo packs, from which I didn't get anything special. Afterwards, we did a lot of card shopping leading to my brother buying an Eradicator Trial Deck(He's trying to find out what clan he wants to play, but he has no real idea), and my sister got the generic decks. My step dad got fodder for his now under-construction Nubatama deck, and lastly for me, I got ALL this stuff here for $6.00:
-1x King of Mask, Dantarian(Need 1x more now <3)
-1x Juggernaut Maximum(For my friend Craig's Spike Brother deck)
-2x Amon "R" (Just a place holder for now till Echo of Nemesis, also like the artwork)
-1x Wisdom Keeper, Metis(Got this from my brother as a discount to my Sealed Dragon deck which is now buying now)
-1x Bloody Calf (Need 1x more now for my DI deck)
1x Tidal Assault (For my friend David's AqF deck)
1x Fearless Jewel Knight, Julia (This is also for my friend David, but for his Jewel Knight deck)
1x Cursed Spear Revenger, Diarmuld
1x Jet Raizer(Lucky pull from Promo pack, great for my future Raizer Legion deck :3)
1x Amon Follower, Psycho Glave
3x Wyvern Guard, Guld(For my future Brawler Deck)
4x Bad End Dragger(Once again for my friend Craig's Spike Brother deck)
Over-all, this was a very wonderful day for cards, and I'm very glad because now officially my brother and sister are into Vanguard, and are now both working on upgrading their decks, my brother working on Tempest Bolt, and my sister working on Silver Thorns. Now I'm here with building my DI deck & working also on Revengers & getting some stuff for Link Joker, a lot to cover in a few months, but I'm sure I'll handle, also with Buddyfight going on, its going to be interesting all around! And tomorrow morning, I will be doing my ice bucket challenge along with donating to ALS. Once again, AWESOME NIGHT!!
Day 8 []
Another good day, with a chilly surprise as well. So right off in the morning, I did my ALS Ice Bucket Challenge :P Which you all can watch and laugh at me for doing so. Anyways, now that that is over, the rest of the day comes by!
RagingReaper ALC Ice Bucket Challenge
Yup, I look freaken stupid doing this
Me and my family went on over to Coconut Island to have a small picnic & also enjoy the small beach there, it was rather fun, didn't really do much, just swim & chill out. It made me feel a little lonely as I'm seeing all these couples together and I'm just half buried in sand with a sand fort on top of me. Anyways I'm back home now just chilling for the rest of the night, I keep hearing I may go again to the card shop tomorrow night so I'll make sure to bring in more news. I'll update again if anything goes on tonight.
So we tried out an awesome new game! :D we played a game called "Forbidden Island" which is one of those "You vs the board game" which got very stressful to play as we actually lost the first time, and barely won the second time(and we were playing on the beginner setting). It was really fun, I was the "Messenger" on the 2nd run through, basically throwing items at my fellow adventurers to help them out in claiming the treasure. It was really fun overall. Also started to plan my day for tomorrow in going to the card shop again, I don't know what I'm going to pick up, I just know on my list:
-Grab more stuff for my DI Deck
-Maybe grab a few things to help my Revenger deck if I find anything needed
-Any suggestions from you guys? XD
And that ends this night, its actually kind of freaky that my vacation is already almost over, I feel rather sad in a sense ;-;
Day 9[]
Another wonderful day! To start things off, we basically chilled here at home. I went through my cards and such and played against my brother and sister, teaching them more and more about the game. Than we all went out to breakfast to Freddie's, It was very awesome. Afterwards we came back home & got ready to roll out to the Zoo!! It was very pleasing to see a large varity of animals(some of which were just wandering around the park to be petted and interaction). I think my favorite part was when I was literally talking with one of the birds and holding a decent conversation with the bird with simple questions like "Are you Hungry" & "Do you like me?". It was really cute with the answers I got . . . with one of them being No to "Think I'm cute?" XD.
From the Zoo, while my little sisters & mom went back home, Me and the rest of my cardfighter part of the family went back to Toys R U for another round. It was pretty awesome for as soon as we got there, we were instantly greeted by everyone there who knew use. I even got a free poster of the BT14 poster few minutes I got in there, it was freaken awesome! We sorted through all their common cards & I was able to build my sister & brother a bunch of decks for which they paid for. I made for my sister an AqF, Angel Feather, & Kagero deck with a nearly completed Dark Irregular deck, and for my brother I made a Nova Grappler deck. I than helped my dad in upgrading his Murakumo with better units like Bloody Mist. From there, I decided to start getting more cards for myself, which the guy running the place gave me at great discounts due to my help sorting their common box that was in horrible condition:
-1x King of Mask, Dantarian(Got my last one! :D Grade 3 Line up is finished for now till FC14)
-1x Bloody Calf (Now my Di will kill starters more often hue hue hue)
-1x Vlad Specula PG (First DI PG, love it!)
-3x Deadly Nightmares(Replacing a few guys for Deadly Swordsmen ride from drop zone)
-2x Deadly Swordsmen(My replacement till Nightsnow comes out & also the face Coyctus "R" works better as a tech in than run at 4x)
-1x Lord of the Abyss(Got this for my sister for her Di deck, shes making a LOTA & Blade Wing Rejiy deck, I have no idea hows shes gonna pull it off but it should be interesting)
-A bunch of Spike Brother triggers!! For my friend Craig who needs them
-2x Doreen the Thrusters(Cause having a bunch of Doreens is epic no?)
-1x Cat Butler(Got this for 10c . . . . heheheheeheh)
-2x Deep Green Lord, Master Wisteria(To be honest, I only have these cause I got them for free :P)
So that is it! Another nice haul for one of my last nights here in Hilo, they gave me their business cards and from now on I have discounts to them, within reason ofcourse, and also one of their go to people if they want to make an apperence in Vegas as my step dad does hold a high role with Casear's Palace, so now we have business ties! Now to plan out the rest of my DI deck, build it, and also get the Revengers & MC rolling as soon as Set 15 comes out, but while I wait for them, Buddyfight is also gonna be taking some awesome upgrades fairly soon!
Day 10[]
The last day here in Hawai'i . . . sadly also a fairly mellow day with everything thats been going on lately. For all of today we've been just chilling pretty much. I was able to cardfight my brother and step dad a bit with my updated Granblue deck using breakride from drop zone instead of using Cocyctus "R", which honestly has been turning out much better lately as I'm able to more often than not actually pull off 2-3 breakrides a game, now sometimes even 4 as I'm now also using Deadly Swordsmaster when he's milled from the drop zone. I've even done 2 breakrides in one turn to get a full backrow of banshees to fill my hand a very strong Blueblood, hitting for very high numbers all around & ending the game, it was glorious. Pirates are awesome!!
Anyways, everything was fairly mellow. we pretty much chilled at home all day, doing really nothing, not really a good ending for the last day in Hawai'i, but family time is good.
So now I really just wrap everything for my amazing time here in Hawai'i, it was honestly a wonderful week & a few extra days. I've made a wonderful haul in cards, I've also had a good time cardfighting & buddyfighting my family, and just my over-all experence here, its been a really good change for me, but as soon as I get back, I'll be going into college & slowly working towards my dream of my own game shop, it shall be completely glorious! :D
Good Bye Hawai'i, I loved it here, now back to my little desert hole in Vegas . . . Welp . . . wheeeeeeeeeeee :P
This is the end of my adventure blog, no more updates to come from this, thank you for everyone who read and kept following this.