Okay, here's the thread. We can post up our characters and add the rest of the crew mates/notable enemies as we progress.

Don't know if it's the greatest first post, but there you go. Figured Ryu could enter here. There's still a good number of pirates left since Mitsuki only took out two.

Gotcha~ =3 I'll get something up there myself. Also, perhaps for clarification's sake for anybody curious to read out little thread here, maybe you should add One Piece to the title.

Also is it possible for you to make me Co-GM? I've never made a thread before outside of the OOC/Interest Check sections, so I'm not quite sure how it all works. xD

Anyway, I'll get my character up soon and my post made later. =3

Apologies if I kinda streamlined the fight. Figured it would be a good time to end it since Mitsuki didn't want Ryu's secret outed as well.

I also figured, given our history, Mitsuki would be the stronger of the two starting out. He'd know and train towards things that might not be apparent to Ryu, like Haki, since he had a formal teacher for years. The gap will dwindle significantly, of course, but I didn't think this would be too farfetched to begin with. XD

Let me know if you have issues with it, though. I'm happy to work with you on that because I know how easily one can god mod in these types of stories. Don't want to overstep my boundaries.

Yeah, I am perfectly fine with him being particularly strong. The only restriction I'd really want to put on him at the moment is probably barring the Haki. I get where you're coming from on his character but I would definitely like not having a reliable counter to Logia-type fruits.

Oh, sorry. My thought there is that he knows the concept. He has no training there. He just might show signs of an unrefined version of it. The closest I ever planned him to have was an unrefined version of telling his opponents' movements. Though, that is more due to increased senses from his fruit than Haki itself. He mistakes it for Haki.

Aaahhh, okay. Yeah, that's perfectly fine with me~ =3

Okay. I figured since Ryu never had a solid training as a warrior, Mitsuki might fill in the preliminary training so he isn't only relying on his fruit's power. I don't know how much you wanted your character to know when it came to fighting, but it sounded like, from your history, he through himself into research rather than training. Only reason I'm offering that thought.

Heheh. yeah, he's not really all that strong in terms of combat yet. He's just got the power and speed behind his transformations and has been relying purely on that. He was taught how to defend himself using human martial skills, but he was more focused on learning what the dragons knew about the world. So he's definitely more the bookworm type. In particular, he's got great medical knowledge, so he can also function as the crew's doctor as well.

Ah, cool. I think the two will turn out well. How big are you thinking of wanting the crew to the ship being? Going based on what was dictated by Luffy was captain, first mate, cook, navigator, doctor, engineer, and musician. So we have the Captain, First Mate, and Doctor. I haven't really decided if my guy can second as anything in particular. Might just be a powerhouse to support the captain. xD Of course, we don't have to limit it to just those positions since we've seen pirate crews that have formed full armadas. xD

Also, apologies for the short post. I couldn't think of how to extend it with what we had.

Heheh. yeah I'm not really sure. xD Luffy wanted 10 guys, but since it's just us atm, I don't think we need something quite that large. xP A navigator and shipwright are probably rather important to have, though. Probably a cook as well. And I do have an idea for a long-range fighter character that might be good to have.

I imagine we can probably get ourselves a shipwright at about the same time we get ourselves an actual pirate ship for the crew. xD

Oh. We'll also probably one a couple of non-Devil's fruit users. Y'know. In case we need somebody who can save them if they fall into the water or somebody not weak to Seastone. xP

Very true. Yeah, I figured we would have some non-Devil's fruit users, but I've been thinking up abilities for other characters as well. Allies and villains. xD

As far as the number of crew, we can easily go with less. I don't mind splitting a larger cast either. So, really, whatever we feel works with the story. We can also have allies that aren't necessarily our crew. Like, for instance, the Kuja Pirates to the Straw Hats.

Also, for the RP itself right now, just reminding you, Mitsuki's just initially refusing. You can start things with the marines and he'll reunite with him. We can figure out how we want the fight to go once the two are together. Don't want to make Mitsuki steal the spotlight or anything, but I wasn't sure how you wanted us to include the fact that Ryu is largely unskilled in combat against a marine officer. xD

Heh. Well, the neat thing about One Piece is that the action seems to get split up quite often, with different crew members going to different places on an island or not really doing anything but watching the main fight(s) go on. We could probably get away with having a large crew if we do something like that. Cut from battle to battle across the island during each arc. =3

Oh yeah, allies will definitely be fun. And on top of those, I'd definitely like for them to start making alliances with other pirates in the distant future. Heh...and you're certainly not the only one busy coming up with Devil's Fruit powers and users. xP

Right right, I remember that. Although I was a little bit curious. How do we plan to transition from here to the Marine battle? I'm trying to come up with ways for Ryu to get involved...although the obvious power abuse is obvious I suppose, but I'm not sure exactly.../how/ he witnesses that abuse.

As for the fight itself, I think Ryu would more or less be capable of defending himself...but probably not actually winning. Especially not if the Captain also has his two Commanders with him at the time. In that case, he'd probably be losing the fight due to the numbers disadvantage. But if the Captain is singled out, it'd probably come out to a stalemate, with neither of them really able to inflict any major damage.

Very true. That's probably how we'll end up going about it. Pan between separate fights between crew, some of the tougher guys needing more than one crew member to fight. Like, I'm thinking the first time Ryu and Mitsuki fairly fight an Admiral will be teaming up rather than solo. Before they can handle them one-on-one and all. Other than that, we can cut from battle to battle just fine with the crew.

As for the rest of it...that's fair for the fight. So he'll fight the Captain to a standstill and the two Commanders will lose to Mitsuki before he goes to help Ryu. To get to the point of the marines, we could do various things. You could see them bullying citizens and get involved, earning the attention of the others. You could hear about another warrior being executed, like in the anime itself. He probably wouldn't approach the base without a reason, though. So the first point is probably the best, unless he hears rumors.

Hey. Are you still having trouble with a post?

Yeah, on top of being a little bit on the busy side. But I'll definitely have it done soon. =3

Ah, okay. I just wanted to check since it had been close to a week. Was worried you lost interest. ^^;

Change of plans. I'll have to finish the post tomorrow. But it will be done then~ =3

Working on a post now. If you can't answer before I finish, I'll gladly edit if it goes against what we wanted to do.

I just wanted to be clear on the situation. You're facing one of the two marine commanders now? He's waiting on the captain that Ryu is gonna fight? I was going to have Mitsuki hold off until it became three on one or if he was just having trouble with this one. Wasn't sure how you wanted me to write it, but I don't want to take control of your character or anything to lengthen my post or speed up Mitsuki's intervention. So just thought I'd clear this up so we knew where we were going with it.

Heh. Yeah, he's fighting one of the Marine Commanders now, and he did call the Captain to come take a look after recognizing the ability that the Marines have very recently gotten the call to be on the look out for. The Captain is going to bring his second Commander with him, not wanting to take any chances on letting this target (and probably his ticket for a promotion to Commodore) get away. =3