[OOC] One Piece: The Next Voyage

[Crimson Raven]

Hm...make an entrance now, or wait for things to really get going...?

[ladyonyx04]

The mushroom liquid that Lexi is going to be using comes mainly from a book called ¡Viva Jacquelina! from the Bloody Jack series, and it’s effects will be extremely hallucinogenic. But not deadly. For example: when the protagonist Jackie Faber finds the purple mushroom with orange spots, she’s been going hungry for some time and thinking nothing of it, eats it. She then proceeds to believe she sees Jesus, and has a conversation with a toad about eating said toad, but the toad ‘tells’ her about other food she can have.

[GubGar]

Join status says jump in, but my roleplay etiquette is forcing me to ask anyway.

Room for a Marine to hop into this roleplay? I'm a big One Piece fan and am always down to roleplay it.

[Reflection]

@NachoBachoPacho Yeah, it's still open. We're still on the first island, so you're fine jumping in and making a character.

[Crimson Raven]

A useful Note: Balthier's Haki is not yet developed enough to turn things black, but it is enough to null devil fruit invincibility.

[GubGar]

Groovy. Here's my sheet.

Navy Boy

Name: Dan Dishes

Age: 26

Height/Weight: 5’11, 167 lbs.

Pirate, Navy, Citizen: Marines

Bounty/Rank: Commander

Personality: Dan is considered to be the ‘savior of the slackers’, due to his view on Justice that he calls Balanced Justice. This form of Justice is the belief that every single good act is equal. That helping an old man repair his fence is just as valid a form of Justice as stopping a pirate from blowing up an island. Because of this, Dan throws himself into every activity with equal intensity. You will find him planting a flower bed with surefire conviction equal to what he has while combating a criminal.

Other than his strange views on justice, Dan is a fairly reserved person, he prefers to listen than to talk, but when he does talk, it is almost never about himself. His passion is a quiet kind, focused nearly entirely on his career, and his two hobbies; cooking, and sculpting. Though that doesn’t mean he’s a softy.

Dan believes that everyone should be treated with respect, but also that all criminals must be stopped, which leads to encounters were Dan refuses to throw even a minor insult, but will be trying his hardest to hammer his foe into the ground with absolutely zero hesitation.

Devil Fruit:

Porcelain Man

Name: The Jiki Jiki no Mi, also known as the Porcelain Porcelain Fruit

Type: Paramecia

Description: This fruit allows the user to generate and manipulate porcelain and other forms of ceramic. They can generate the porcelain in raw chunks, or in the form of various porcelain creations. The more complex and larger the creation, the longer it takes to produce. The porcelain generated can be manipulated in various ways, the most often used method being the ability to move the porcelain with one’s mind.

However, the porcelain cannot be manipulated into different forms than what it originally was, unlike most devil fruits that allow generation and manipulation. If the user wants something different, they must generate it.

The porcelain produced is fairly durable for porcelain standards, which itself is the most durable form of ceramic, but still not exceptionally strong. The user can make up for this by making the porcelain thicker, or layering it. Both options allowing superior durability. It should be noted that Porcelain can be used as an electrical insulator. And can retain heat with great efficiency as well, meaning if it is heated up, it will remain heated.

A unique aspect of this fruit is the fact that the user can remotely ‘break’ any of his/her creations, causing the porcelain to shatter and launch shards in all directions like shrapnel. The user loses most of their control over the shrapnel, but can still guide the shards away from themselves and allies. These shards are exceptionally sharp, and could be compared to obsidian in cutting power and fragility.

While not currently available, if the user trains the fruit well enough, they will be able to create life-sized porcelain dolls that are able to fight like allies, controlled by the devil fruit. Before gaining this, the user must learn how to make porcelain joints, and then gain a fair bit of experience.

Natural/Learned Skills: Dan has always had a talent with using his hands, his hand-eye coordination is just naturally impressive, meaning delicate and swift tasks can be carried out with great efficiency. He has used this talent to become a respectable sculptor, though this is a hobby, it is a hobby with purpose, as sculpting allows him to understand his Devil Fruit more, and thus use it with more efficiency.

Dan has trained himself rigorously in the art of cooking, due to his fear of starving. His method of cooking is one of efficiency instead of gourmet. Dan can live off the land, and make acceptable meals out of very few, very underwhelming ingredients. During his training as a chef, Dan has learned the skills of the Capsaicin Chef style of cooking, which is a method of cooking based around incredibly spicy food. Dan can make food so hot, that it makes the user’s breath so hot it can cause discomfort to others, or use chili extract so potent it causes immense pain to those who fall victim to it.

Physically, Dan is relatively decent. He’s no master martial artist, far from it, but he has honed his body to become a weapon in the most basic sense. Dan’s life as a Marine in training has granted him basic knowledge of weaponry, and made him decently strong and durable (significantly compared to normal humans, but he is not particularly impressive by superhuman standards.) Where Dan really shines, is his agility. His natural coordination lends itself well to agile maneuvers.

His agility and coordination is so great that Dan has learned a very weak version of Kami-E.

Currently he has no skill in any form of Haki, and isn't even aware of its' existence. But Dan has great potential when it comes to Armament Haki.

Inventory: Cooking supplies & ingredients, chili pepper extract, first-aid kit, standard issue flintlock rifle.

Bio: Dan was born and raised on an underwhelming island in the West Blue. The island was so downright boring that barely anyone recalled its’ name, save for those who lived on it. Unfortunately for this island, one day, soon after Dan turned ten, a group of pirates calling themselves the West Blue Smugglers arrived. They wreaked havoc across the entire island, and made off with a large number of captives. Including the young Dan Dishes.

However, as they sailed away, they unknowingly sailed right into a brutal storm. The ship was battered and knocked off-course, most of the food was water-logged and ruined, and their sails were torn. What followed was several weeks of borderline starvation. The captives were barely given anything to eat, and gradually passed away one-by-one, until only Dan remained. Alive only because some of the elder captives gave him food.

He knew he wouldn’t survive much longer, so Dan acted. It was a risky, stupid plan that wouldn’t have worked if the pirates weren’t exhausted. When they came to check on Dan, he played dead, and when the pirate entered the cell, he slammed into their legs, knocking him over just long enough for Dan to stumble out, and lock it behind him.

Afterwards, he crept up onto the deck, and snuck into the captain’s quarters in an attempt to find food. There, he found a single fruit. Some strange white razzberry covered in swirls. Dan ate it whole, ignoring the horrid flavor as best he could.

As fed as he was going to be, Dan waited until the crew fell asleep, and stole an escape raft they kept in case of emergencies. He floated in the raft aimlessly, until sleep claimed him.

Dan woke up at a Marine base two days later. After refusing to be returned home, in fear of being captured again, Dan was allowed to stay at the base provided he helped with chores. As he grew, he began learning from the chefs how to cook, and the soldiers how to fight. Eventually, Dan managed to convince the soldiers who had no work at the time to train him properly. Eventually after becoming an adult, Dan enlisted.

Several years went by, with Dan Proving his abilities as both a leader, and a fighter. Eventually he gained the rank of Commander and was transferred to the Grand Line, Alabasta in particular.

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[Infinite Cosmos]

Reply up in 24 hours or so.

[ladyonyx04]

Put him in the character sheet and have him be wherever you think it good for your marine to be. Welcome to being the first marine on the list

[GubGar]

Will do.

[Crimson Raven]

Reply up in 24 hours or so.

@KillBox

[Infinite Cosmos]

@Crimson RavenCorrect.

[Crimson Raven]

@KillBox

While I appreciate that you posted, considering that he was caught by surprise, and presumably didn't see Balthier who was a fair distance away, there's no reason he'd dodge that attack. Especially not with very basic observation haki vs a bullet.

I'm not asking for a mortal wound or even a serious one, but at least let him get hit.

[Infinite Cosmos]

@Crimson Raven

I would be happy to edit. However, hear me out perhaps.

He was in motion to cut someone down. It would have been unlikely for him to stand completely still. Considering my character's motion to be fluid and continuous, would it not have been plausible for him to have taken the two steps and leaned while speaking to Caitlyn and then dashed forward as his sentence was finished?

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven

I would be happy to edit. However, hear me out perhaps.

He was in motion to cut someone down. It would have been unlikely for him to stand completely still. Considering my character's motion to be fluid and continuous, would it not have been plausible for him to have taken the two steps and leaned while speaking to Caitlyn and then dashed forward as his sentence was finished?

@KillBox

Yes, that is all plausible, but Balthier would compensate for movement by adjusting his aim. Here, the range could be a bit far so it's feasible one would go wide, but unlikely for both.

He's not an amazing marksmen, not by any means. But, barring bad luck or high winds, he can hit a man on the deck of one moving ship from the deck of another at short range. (I hesitate to add numbers because I'd have to make sure they are accurate.) He's probably directly horizontal, and a little back from the pair, having emerged from the same direction but further up the docks. Not a difficult shot.

My main problem is Jōichirō using Observation to evade. He's not developed enough, by the sheet, to accomplish that, considering the circumstances.

[Infinite Cosmos]

I will edit tomorrow as it is a work night for me. For now, consider one shot hit his left shoulder and all of this other actions go unhindered please.

[Crimson Raven]

@KillBox

Acceptable

[Crimson Raven]

@ladyonyx04

Do you want to post before I do?

[Infinite Cosmos]

@Crimson RavenEdited.

[ladyonyx04]

@Crimson Raven
I did post I’m sorry I’ve been busy the last few days

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven
I did post I’m sorry I’ve been busy the last few days

@ladyonyx04

Oh no need to apologize, you’re fine.

I was asking for the sake of continuity.