Age 737:
A space pod sent from the planet Vegeta hurdles into its targets atmosphere at great speed. The space pod, containing a small child with a tail, finds its point of landing inside the ashes of a home it destroyed. The home, on mount Paozu, belonged to a renowned martial artist by the name of Son Gohan (now dead via collision of the space craft.) The pod opens, revealing the small boy with a tail weeping at the top of his lungs; nobody comes. The world forgets about Son Gohan and the boy is left to survive in the wilderness on his own.. Age 748:
Trouble begins to brew in the world. An ambitious military force known as the Red Ribbon Army ascertains four balls of legend said to grant any wish to the gatherer of all 7. It is at this time that Bulma Briefs, heiress to the capsule corporation wealth, begins her search for the dragon balls as well. Her initial goal is changed when the leads in her search turn her onto the Red Ribbon plot to gather the dragon balls and conquer the earth. Despite her best efforts (and massive amounts of zenni) the world's monarchy, at the time controlled by King Furry, ignored the girl's pleas. Red Ribbon has control of 3 dragon balls by the end of 748. Red Ribbon attempts the annexation of the Northern territory, and succeeds. Age 749-750:
Red Ribbon continues to have trouble locating the four other balls. Bulma Briefs, using capsule corp's resources, assembles a resistance force to halt Red Ribbon's advance into western territory. Red Ribbon controls East capitol city, the northern territories all the way to Emporer Pilaf's castle. The castle is the last "friendly" territory before the helpless cities of the west; Bulma Briefs and the resistance stand firmly against the advance here. The world cowers as Red Ribbon's advanced weaponry and technology continue to easily trump the rest of the world's military forces. The hermits continue to stay out of it, but the turtle hermit takes a student by the name of Krillen, who hopes to become strong enough to help the resistance. Age 755/current:
Krillen leaves the kame-house a master martial artist and practitioner of ki, making him a rare fighter among the world. He begins his journey to castle Pilaf in order to join the bloody fight against Red Ribbon, who allegedly now have five balls. At this time Tien-Shenhan (tenshenhan) embarks on the same journey after chaotzu, his best friend, is murdered in a razing of the crane house by Red Ribbon. The resistance forces are lacking in strength and numbers as Red Ribbon's five year siege of the castle finally begins to make major progress. Kami begins to worry for the world, and sends Popo out to find powerful fighters for the resistance, less they lose the planet to tyranny and his dragonballs be used for great evil. Explosions rang off in the distance as the sound of artillery cannons went off and crashed simultaneously. Pilaf's screams could be heard down the corridors of his massive castle. "My castle! Everything is falling apart! BRIEFS!" Pilaf screamed in frustration as he watched the beautiful but hardened blue haired woman ignore him. Bulma pressed into an earpiece she was wearing on the right side of her head to communicate with her men outside.
"Yamcha it sounds bad from in here. What the hell is going on out there?" she spoke calmly into the earpiece. After a moment of static the earpiece rambled back.
"It's ugly Bulma," bullets could be heard whizzing past via the live feed from the piece, "Our foot soldiers can't stop the advance of their tanks. They also have...I dunno, cyborgs? Androids? Whatever, they're strong as hell! I'm using up a lot of explosive ordinance out here." The feed cut as Yamcha displaced his finger from the button. Bulma turned around and glared at Pilaf who was sitting on his throne panting and sweating. He knew what this look meant. Pilaf leaned over to the arm of his oversized throne and pressed a big red button. Speaking in a reluctant and miserable tone, he addressed his top henchman.
"Mai, scramble the Pilaf machines." After a brief moment Mai would buzz back with a quick roger that. Pilaf's henchmen and castle had been quickly appropriated for military use, but even he would admit it, it was a surprisingly good fit. The decision to side with the west's defenses had ultimately been made on the promise that Pilaf would be appointed "Supreme leader of the world" directly afterward. The thought made his mouth water. Moments later a guard ran in and put up a four finger salute pointed towards Bulma.
"The next wave of recruits have arrived safely ma'am!" the guard shouted in an officiating tone. Bulma turned around and grinned snidely. This wave of recruits may be there saving grace; at least thats what reports said. Fighters selected by the guardian of Earth, some would call him god, himself. Hopefully they could save the resistance.
Synopsis: This is a roleplay that I thought might be interesting to pitch. It follows an extremely diverted timeline from Dragonball in which Son Gohan is killed by Kakarot/Goku's space pod and in which Red Ribbon has flexed their military might over the world in their search for world domination via the eternal dragon. You are a character who, for one reason or another, is selected by Kami to join the resistance and hopefully put an end to it. In the roleplay you will encounter canon characters (obviously) and fight them/alongside them. I know the timeline and intro need a little fleshing out but I just wanted to put this out there to see who might be interested. I was thinking high casual probably.
