[OOC] One Piece: On Stranger Tides

[Eklispe]

One Piece: On Stranger Tides

_{Borrowed from Scio}

Seventeen years ago, the world changed. One man of implacable zeal and indomitable will, the Pirate King, met his end after sharing with the world the existence of his greatest treasure. Lust, greed, and pride brought a slew of pirates, invoking the wrath of the World Government and the Marines, starting something more akin to a war in this new age of piracy.

Some seas fared better than others: the Grand Line saw a boom of commerce as adventurers and pirates alike arrived, but with so many bloody accidents, costly miscalculations, and gruesome battles, the death toll seemed to rise much more. The East Blue remained mostly tranquil, as it had often been, as did the West. The North boomed loudly, but in the South, there was trouble. Though it was the largest of the seas by population, it did not have the peace of the East, the technology of the North, or the history of the West. Without the staying power of tranquility, craft, or tradition, the South saw the largest boom in piracy from the Blue Seas. Some tales traded of chaos at Reverse Mountain where too many ships tried to enter simultaneously in the dawn light, rushing as if One Piece was just on the other side. Worse yet, the increased piracy left less of the able bodied to defend cities, making it all to easy for failed pirates to return to their seas with many undefended islands to plunder. Some failed pirates turned to other avenues of crime, abusing the fact that the Marines and law enforcement were spread thin.

Countries fell, only to be replaced with new regimes, just to fall once again. Marines, fatigued from the constant struggle, fell to corruption and greed to ease their burden. The seas have quieted in parts, but under the surface lies a thick layer of blight, and thundering skies approach. The seas have never been stranger.

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Alright folks here's the deal. We're going to have at least 1 pirate crew, possibly more, and possibly a marine crew. Basic gist is the crews have known each other for a week or so and they'll sailing to an island where they run into an adventure. After that finishes they head off to another adventure. Each player will be responsible for creating at least the outline of an adventure for the crew. These adventures can include specific plot points for your characters, item upgrades, devil fruits, etc. Your characters aren't new to the gig, but they aren't pros either. Something along the lines of Luffy before gear 2nd might be a good comparison. Logia's are fine as long as your character can't transform into the element fully, so they're still vulnerable to most methods of attack. You can start without a devil fruit and have a chance to get one later on. If you have a certain way you want your character to progress feel free to PM me and we can work your intended progression in with the various adventures as they come along. If you have any question please feel free to speak up, I'm by no means an expert GM so I don't expect to do everything perfectly. Post your characters sheet in the OOC and when approved put in the character tab. Please use hiders for your character sheets as well.

Character Sheet

Name:
Gender: Sometimes its confusing
Appearance: Pic or Description
Personality: A paragraph or so is fine but go as much as you like
Bio: A paragraph or so is fine but go as much as you like
Inventory: Any items of note like weapons or dials
Role in Crew: Put whatever fits

[blumenk]

Application

Name: Elliot

Hider

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Personality: Elliot strives for adventure, hating monotony with passion. Altought he cares about the crew as if they were their family he prioritizes his survival above all others, since once he is dead he wouldnt be able to explore the world. When a fight breaks out he prefers to stay on the sidelines and leave fighting to the pros, only interfering in the fight when he feels its absolutely necessary to do. He is still learning to use his devil fruit powers and partly laments eating it.

Origin Story: Son of a local doctor on an unknown island, Elliot worked as his assistant as soon as he was able to walk and when he was 22 he handle a few of patients when his father wasn't available. Life was good for Elliot, the people of the island didn't get sick enough to overwhelm both of them, the pay was good and the future was generally bright but the tranquility of his life bored Elliot to no end, every day he did the same thing he did yesterday with the monotony of his life was driving him mad.

His opportunity to escape that kind of life came when the pirate gang “Ignis” came to his island looking for loot and when they did not find enough money were prepared to raze the whole village to the ground. Elliot approached the captain and with all the courage he could muster asked the captain to take him instead of destroying the village offering his qualities as a doctor.

Elliot was accepted reluctantly by the captain which admitted that their previous doctor had died a few battles ago and that no other man in the crew knew how to mend wounds and that is the beginning of Elliot´s pirate life. Many battles were fought aboard the Ignis with Elliot barely participating in them instead he concentrated on patching up injuries and putting their wounded men on fighting condition, little by little his reputation went from dirt to a true member of the crew.

But everything has an end and Elliot learned one fateful night after being with the ignis crew for three years, that night after pillaging a nearby marine base the captain and the rest of the crew came to the ship, with many treasure chests, their incursion on the base was a success and they had enough money to upgrade the ship to something that can withstand the grand line.

All of the crew was celebrating their success when a “BOOM” was heard across the ship. In their celebration they hadn't noticed the marines sneaking upon them or that was what everyone thought a first, with the next idea on everyone's mind was that someone had snitched them to the marines. In the next moment chaos began on the Ignis ship with members of the crew fighting among themselves and more booms were heard in the distance as the marines started getting closer. Not wanting to get executed Elliot grabbed one of the stolen treasure chests and jumped unto the sea, holding the chest as a lifesaver.

He would eventually drift into a desert island where he would open the chest and see that it had a devil fruit inside that he could sell for a good amount of money and restart his pirating career. Sadly the lack of food on the island coupled with his inability to wait made him eat the fruit just three days after arriving on the island, he would be found two days later by the a certain crew where after hitting himself repeatedly in the head for not waiting more, offered his services as a devil fruit user and a medic.

Skills/Abilities: Despite not being officially a medic, Elliot has been the assistant of one from his childhood and worked as one for 3 years specializing on herbology, using local herbs to cure common illnesses like water salt poisoning, infections and sea sickness and identifying poisonous and edible fruits.

Ban-Ban Fruit: It grants him the ability to turn parts of his body into bandages and control them as extra limbs. The bandages can appear from any part of his body making him capable of partially transform parts of himself to avoid attacks. Each bandage has the same strength of one of his arms, which isn't much since Elliot isn't a fighter, but with multiple bandages he can manage to fend himself in case of danger and use multiple limbs in surgeries. A thing to take in mind if the extension, which is inversely proportional to its durability, its current range is 15 m before it breaks.

On the weakness it has the most important is liquids, the bandages will get heavier and more difficult to control, which makes it difficult to fight against enemies with water related powers or in the rain. Another weakness is that it is highly susceptible to fire, it spreads quickly and the only way to stop it would be submerging the bandage in water which would make it useless or cutting it off in which depending on how what part of the body was transformed and how much of it was transformed, cutting it off could be fatal or a mere loss of mass..

Equipment: Jars full or herbs to make remedies to fever, seasickness and salt water poisioning. An stolen surgical knife

[Eklispe]

Looks good to me, feel free to put that in the character tab.

[LostDestiny]

Anna

Name: Annabelle “Dead Eye” Pond (goes by either Dead Eye, Anna, or Pond)

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Appearance

Please excuse the staff in the picture, she does not carry around a staff.

Personality: A rather mild mannered person for the most part. She is hard to anger unless the lives of the people she considers friends or family are threatened. She has a tendency to be rather monotone at times, especially when discussing things she has absolutely no interest in, or simply doesn’t like.

Bio: Annabelle was abandoned as a young child by her parents. She has no clue why but she could assume one of two things, either they couldn’t take care of her, or she got in the way of whatever it was that they were doing. She was left on the doorstep of a old Marine captain. As she grew up she slowly began to lose the image of her parents that she had in her head and instead began to invent fantasies about them. Her favorite was that they were pirates and they had left her behind so that they could sail the ocean in search of treasure.

As she grew up she was trained in self defense and how to shot. She had a natural talent for shooting and was quickly able to out shoot many of the men on her adoptive father’s ship. By the age of 16, when the man who raised her finally retied she was one of the best shots anyone had seen. Everyone was convinced she would become a Marine when she became an adult. So nobody expected her to go missing after she turned 18.

She had taken very few things with her. Only a pistol, some ammo, some clothes, and a mask she had purchased at a festival. She had left and began going by the name Dead Eye as a hired gun. She stayed in that business until recently, when she decided to join a pirate crew as their sharp shooter. She still uses the name Dead Eye, but the crew knows her full name as well.

Role in Crew: Sharp shooter

[Eklispe]

Seems alright, I'll give that an accept as well, feel free to put in CS tab.

[Ryteb Pymeroce]

Name: Blake "Demon Brawler" Hunter
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Appearance: The first impression people have of Hunter is his outfit. He wears a Marine Captain's coat dyed red with blood. Under the coat, his outfit is smart but rough. He wears a red dress shirt, with the top buttons undone, with a black waist coat made from some form of leather. Across his torso and waist are holsters for his guns and knives. His trousers are a deep brown, and look to be made of a hearty material. On his feet he wears a pair of black naval boots that come up to his knee. His hair is prematurely grey, and comes down to his shoulder in wild waves, and he has a scruffy doorknocker beard. His frame is above-average in height, with a musculature built from a lifetime of fighting. The origins of Hunter's family is probable the equivalent of Italian, as his features and tanned skin reflect this, though his piercing grey eyes suggest a much more northern heritage.
Personality: The name of "Demon Brawler" doesn't seem to belong to Hunter in his day to day life. A stoic person by nature, he spends most of his time pouring over maps and charts, trying to make sure the crew is on the right track, as his dream is to see the world. He is a man of his word, and is far more literate than the averge pirate. But when a fight erupts, his namesake becomes apparent. He is a brutal fighter, often ending up drenched in his enemies blood, continuing to mutilate a fallen foe even after they have long since perished.
Bio: Not much is known about Hunter before he massacred a Marine Outpost in the middle of South Blue. A base of a hundred people wiped out in a single night, for reasons that Hunter has never disclosed. He was twelve years old at the time. From that point on, the boy moved from one crew to another, constantly being betrayed due to his tantalisingly large bounty on his head. After an escape gone wrong, he ended up at a fishing village where he made a life in anonymity for a time. He was just tired of all the backstabbing both literally and figuratively. Over the years he built up a connection with the villagers, and even thought of giving up on the sea... but alas fate had other plans. A Marine ship docked for supplies, and Hunter was unfortunate enough to have been in the market for the same reason. The two encountered one another, and the village was caught in the crossfire of their fight. Realizing the village would be in danger as long as he was there, Hunter left, taking the bloodstained coat of the captain to add to his intimation. Eventually, he found a group who he could actually put his trust in, and set off with them for adventure.
Hunter is an above average marksman and a superior brawler, able to take on multiple foes simultaneously without breaking a sweat. He possesses a knack for reading both the winds, and people's intentions, which has saved him on more than one occasion.
Inventory: On his person Hunter always has four flintlock pistols, as well as two knives for close range combat. He also has a satchel filled with various navigation tools, but he often leaves it on the ship.
Role in Crew: Navigator

[jynmi88]

Sweet! Glad to see this made it to the OOC. I'll get started on my Character sheet in a little bit :D

[Eklispe]

It's a wee bit edgy, but not excessively so. If you fix the formatting to more like I made it, or just copy-paste this one, then you can put it in the cs tab.

Fixed CS

Name: Blake "Demon Brawler" Hunter
Age: 29
Gender: Male

Appearance: The first impression people have of Hunter is his outfit. He wears a Marine Captain's coat dyed red with blood. Under the coat, his outfit is smart but rough. He wears a red dress shirt, with the top buttons undone, with a black waist coat made from some form of leather. Across his torso and waist are holsters for his guns and knives. His trousers are a deep brown, and look to be made of a hearty material. On his feet he wears a pair of black naval boots that come up to his knee. His hair is prematurely grey, and comes down to his shoulder in wild waves, and he has a scruffy doorknocker beard. His frame is above-average in height, with a musculature built from a lifetime of fighting. The origins of Hunter's family is probable the equivalent of Italian, as his features and tanned skin reflect this, though his piercing grey eyes suggest a much more northern heritage.

Personality: The name of "Demon Brawler" doesn't seem to belong to Hunter in his day to day life. A stoic person by nature, he spends most of his time pouring over maps and charts, trying to make sure the crew is on the right track, as his dream is to see the world. He is a man of his word, and is far more literate than the average pirate. But when a fight erupts, his namesake becomes apparent. He is a brutal fighter, often ending up drenched in his enemies blood, continuing to mutilate a fallen foe even after they have long since perished.

Bio: Not much is known about Hunter before he massacred a Marine Outpost in the middle of South Blue. A base of a hundred people wiped out in a single night, for reasons that Hunter has never disclosed. He was twelve years old at the time. From that point on, the boy moved from one crew to another, constantly being betrayed due to his tantalizingly large bounty on his head. After an escape gone wrong, he ended up at a fishing village where he made a life in anonymity for a time. He was just tired of all the backstabbing both literally and figuratively.

Over the years he built up a connection with the villagers, and even thought of giving up on the sea... but alas fate had other plans. A Marine ship docked for supplies, and Hunter was unfortunate enough to have been in the market for the same reason. The two encountered one another, and the village was caught in the crossfire of their fight. Realizing the village would be in danger as long as he was there, Hunter left, taking the bloodstained coat of the captain to add to his intimation. Eventually, he found a group who he could actually put his trust in, and set off with them for adventure.

Skills: Hunter is an above average marksman and a superior brawler, able to take on multiple foes simultaneously without breaking a sweat. He possesses a knack for reading both the winds, and people's intentions, which has saved him on more than one occasion.

Inventory: On his person Hunter always has four flintlock pistols, as well as two knives for close range combat. He also has a satchel filled with various navigation tools, but he often leaves it on the ship.

Role in Crew: Navigator

[LostDestiny]

Awesome sauce. I shall move it to my goof up post spot. :D I am a doof. Lol oops.

[LostDestiny]

So. Random thought that just came to me after admiring the art that is the picture I chose for Anna. It appears she is wearing a necklace that could very well have the Jolly Rodger symbol for the crew. Or not. We have to come up with a name too.

I apologize for the double post. Again. I am a doof.

[Catchphrase]

Dibs on ships cook

[blumenk]

Well in the original interest thread the name was the "Dawn seeker". I do agree that Sachiel mask is a good symbol for the crew

[jynmi88]

Abigail Hennar

Name:
Abigail Hennar

Gender:
Female

Appearance:
Abigail stands 5'0


Personality:
So many deaths have taken place in Abigail's life she can't help but focus on it, existence, and why. The need to prove herself, as well as protect those little lives that never do any harm and can't defend themselves, whom are forgotten as soon as something greater tramples, and continues on not even realizing there's something on its foot. Her relationship with fighting is strange. On the one hand no part of her enjoys experiencing pain and likes inflicting it even less. Then, on the other side of things, every time her fists finds flesh or a rival's attack scratches her skin there's a rush; an arrow of ice and thunder shoots from her tailbone all the way up to the base of her skull. Attacking, being attacked, defending, and being beaten are all proofs that the world hasn't one yet and a part of her is hard enough to continue existing despite an outside force's resistance.

Bio:
Abigail spent the first half of her life living comfortably with her parents and seven sisters. The second half was spent pirating with the exact same people after a battle between marines and pirates left her home town destroyed along with everyone one of her friends. The only reason her family was able to survive was due to an old nearby cave nobody else knew about. While they were hiding Abigail's father found a chest with several strange fruit inside. As the fighting was still going on and had been for nearly four days at the time, the family decided to take a chance and each took a bite of a different fruit. The fruits, it would turn out, were devil fruits and was the reason the marines had taken an interest in the island.

Several years passed with the family sailing the seas, attacking the marines when the opportunity presented itself, or trading and doing small jobs for different towns and villages. Sadly, these adventures came to an end thanks to some strong bounty hunters who managed to catch up to the family's ship at night and attack. Abigail wasn't sure exactly how she survived as the last thing she remembered from that night was something hard smashing against the side of her head. The next thing she knew was she was alone, on a large piece of driftwood, heading towards a town.

Skills:
Denka-Denka no mien(Charge-charge fruit)-A paramecia type devil fruit that grants its user the ability to manipulate an object's charge (+/0/7) as well as the force behind it. This is done by either direct physical contact with the wielder's body, or with an object whose charge has already been altered. The total area of effect is dependent on how long Abigail is able to maintain contact with an object. If an object 'inherits' a charge the total area of alteration is limited to the physical contact present at time of inheritance. Once a charge has been created a symbol (+/-/0) will appear on the item. Identical charges repel, and opposite charges attract. The '0' charge is neutral and doesn't react with the other two types. When a +/- charge come together all the kinetic energy involved is transferred into the + positive symbol. Abigail is capable of switch the charge of an area that's already been altered. The maximum range of her devil fruit is thirty meters.

Abigail is a proficient at boxing.

Inventory:
A heart locket she wears on her neck with a picture of her family.

Role in Crew:
Captain

[LostDestiny]

@blumenk Dawn Seeker seems more like the name of the ship rather than the name of the crew. Like how the Straw Hats had the 'Going Merry' and the 'Thousand Sunny', but the crew was called the 'Straw Hats'. If you catch my drift.

[Eklispe]

Abigail Hennar

Name:
Abigail Hennar

Gender:
Female

Appearance:
Abigail stands 5'0


Personality:
So many deaths have taken place in Abigail's life she can't help but focus on it, existence, and why. The need to prove herself, as well as protect those little lives that never do any harm and can't defend themselves, whom are forgotten as soon as something greater tramples, and continues on not even realizing there's something on its foot. Her relationship with fighting is strange. On the one hand no part of her enjoys experiencing pain and likes inflicting it even less. Then, on the other side of things, every time her fists finds flesh or a rival's attack scratches her skin there's a rush; an arrow of ice and thunder shoots from her tailbone all the way up to the base of her skull. Attacking, being attacked, defending, and being beaten are all proofs that the world hasn't one yet and a part of her is hard enough to continue existing despite an outside force's resistance.

Bio:
Abigail spent the first half of her life living comfortably with her parents and seven sisters. The second half was spent pirating with the exact same people after a battle between marines and pirates left her home town destroyed along with everyone one of her friends. The only reason her family was able to survive was due to an old nearby cave nobody else knew about. While they were hiding Abigail's father found a chest with several strange fruit inside. As the fighting was still going on and had been for nearly four days at the time, the family decided to take a chance and each took a bite of a different fruit. The fruits, it would turn out, were devil fruits and was the reason the marines had taken an interest in the island.

Several years passed with the family sailing the seas, attacking the marines when the opportunity presented itself, or trading and doing small jobs for different towns and villages. Sadly, these adventures came to an end thanks to some strong bounty hunters who managed to catch up to the family's ship at night and attack. Abigail wasn't sure exactly how she survived as the last thing she remembered from that night was something hard smashing against the side of her head. The next thing she knew was she was alone, on a large piece of driftwood, heading towards a town.

Skills:
Denka-Denka no mien(Charge-charge fruit)-A paramecia type devil fruit that grants its user the ability to manipulate an object's charge (+/0/7) as well as the force behind it. This is done by either direct physical contact with the wielder's body, or with an object whose charge has already been altered. The total area of effect is dependent on how long Abigail is able to maintain contact with an object. If an object 'inherits' a charge the total area of alteration is limited to the physical contact present at time of inheritance. Once a charge has been created a symbol (+/-/0) will appear on the item. Identical charges repel, and opposite charges attract. The '0' charge is neutral and doesn't react with the other two types. When a +/- charge come together all the kinetic energy involved is transferred into the + positive symbol. Abigail is capable of switch the charge of an area that's already been altered. The maximum range of her devil fruit is thirty meters.

Abigail is a proficient at boxing.

Inventory:
A heart locket she wears on her neck with a picture of her family.

Role in Crew:
Captain

@jynmi88

Accepted, feel free to put in CS tab.

[Catchphrase]

CS

Name: Jack Gallows

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Appearance: He is about 5'9"


Personality: Despite his youthful appearance, Jack is older than he looks, and acts. He acts as if he is still in his late teens, always enjoying causing mischief and chaos to those he dislikes or thinks little of. He can also be prone to melancholy and being over dramatic at times, but usually snaps out of it after a short time. He finds cooking for people as equally as enjoyable as fighting people.

Bio: Despite Jack's mannerisms and appearance he is, or rather was, a nobleman. Though he doesn't tell anyone his real name, this doesn't change the fact that at one point he belonged to an extremely powerful family. When he was old enough to walk and talk, his family got the best tutors they could find for him, and he was taught everything a young noble should know. From proper table manners, how to read and write and even how to weild a sword.

But Jack never liked the style of a noble, there were too many rules and restrictions for his taste. At every chance he got he caused mischief around the family estate, from petty vandalism to theft and pickpocketing from staff and visitors. He did however take a liking to being around the kitchen, finding everything from food prep to even cleaning dishes fun.

At age 16 he ran away from home, taking a set of clothes, some food and coin and the family's ancestral swords. Despute the best attempts by the people his family sent after him, he managed to escape them and leave the family home far behind him.

He took jobs as a cook wherever he could find them, and only recently started working on pirateships. He proved invaluable as both the ships chef, and as part of the boarding parties.

Skills: He is excellent at cooking, baking and highly skilled in swordsmanship.

Inventory: Smoking pipe and tobacco, his own katana and tanto blades.

Role in Crew: Chef/Swordsman

[Eklispe]

CS

Name: Jack Gallows

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Appearance: He is about 5'9"


Personality: Despite his youthful appearance, Jack is older than he looks, and acts. He acts as if he is still in his late teens, always enjoying causing mischief and chaos to those he dislikes or thinks little of. He can also be prone to melancholy and being over dramatic at times, but usually snaps out of it after a short time. He finds cooking for people as equally as enjoyable as fighting people.

Bio: Despite Jack's mannerisms and appearance he is, or rather was, a nobleman. Though he doesn't tell anyone his real name, this doesn't change the fact that at one point he belonged to an extremely powerful family. When he was old enough to walk and talk, his family got the best tutors they could find for him, and he was taught everything a young noble should know. From proper table manners, how to read and write and even how to weild a sword.

But Jack never liked the style of a noble, there were too many rules and restrictions for his taste. At every chance he got he caused mischief around the family estate, from petty vandalism to theft and pickpocketing from staff and visitors. He did however take a liking to being around the kitchen, finding everything from food prep to even cleaning dishes fun.

At age 16 he ran away from home, taking a set of clothes, some food and coin and the family's ancestral swords. Despute the best attempts by the people his family sent after him, he managed to escape them and leave the family home far behind him.

He took jobs as a cook wherever he could find them, and only recently started working on pirateships. He proved invaluable as both the ships chef, and as part of the boarding parties.

Skills: He is excellent at cooking, baking and highly skilled in swordsmanship.

Inventory: Smoking pipe and tobacco, his own katana and tanto blades.

Role in Crew: Chef/Swordsman

@Catchphrase

Also seems acceptable to me, feel free to put in the CS tab.

[Catchphrase]

@Eklispe awesome, thanks man/woman

[LostDestiny]

I realized I forgot to include Anna's stuff. Geez Lost, get your shit together! I will edit that in a hour or two cuz I am in a class and my phone sucks!

[Catchphrase]

We getting this show on the road or what?