It occurs to me that we also need to decide which islands each character hails from. I imagine in Dirk's case, he'd have spent most of his life on and subsequently escaped from the Yuushuu's home island, which is presumably a fairly large, but otherwise relatively standard place. In fact, maybe they're the de facto rulers, so let's call it Yuushuu Island, or Excellence Island if we don't want the language melding.

@Banana I don't mind BS meeting with Cedric early on. He could join at the same time or almost the same time as lily. @yoshua171 I think that BS and Lily can meet one another before Boone and start their close relationship before a crew is even formed. It would create a very strong bond not necessarily shared by anybody else other then your characters. Also, Boone doesn't have to have the ship before starting the crew as you have all mentioned in Skype.

I should establish that BS doesn't know where exactly he was from, nor does he know his real parents.

Edit: BS was born in Little Garden as a bab, but he would never be able to tell you that because he wouldn't know.

I haven't considered my character as of yet. I'll see what everyone thinks first.

My idea of the crew timeline (so far).

1 - BS meets Lily and the two of them begin traveling together because Lily wouldn't leave a child alone.
2 - Cedric meets up with Isuza, pays her debt off, and hires her on for the Red Rum Pirates.
3 - BS and Lily meet Cedric, who hires them aboard the crew and takes BS under his wing as a first mate.
The rest of the crew joins between these times, possibly Dirk first as a stowaway when Cedric picked up BS and Lily.
4 - Caesar is picked up out of the ocean and recruited.

I would prefer if the crew met me after the grand line. Preferably at an island that holds an endurance trial. It could have been a competition with multiple groups.

I guess the crew's reason for participating is anticipation. Rumors and stories from previous islands convince them to participate as they wanted to see how difficult the trial truly was.

Things happen where other parties become dangerous to others and Feya can't complete the trial by herself.

Trouble ensues and by the end, Feya joins the crew who helped her complete the trial.

@Leaves That sounds like a good idea, except that I think all crew members have to have arrived before the Grand Line specifically because the story will start at Reverse Mountain.

@Leaves That sounds like a good idea, except that I think all crew members have to have arrived before the Grand Line specifically because the story will start at Reverse Mountain.

On the way to Reverse Mountain.

Conqueror's Haki rolls were made, everyone! I wasn't satisfied with the results of the first round of rolls, so I made three and compounded them together. In addition to the captain, we have two ambitious crew members who got a 6 during any of the three rounds of rolling! Theeeeey are!

The first is a man with big dreams and a big purpose! He likes hiding in the shadows, sneaking about, and murdering slavers horrifically, iiiiiiit's "Dark Hood" Dirk Messir!

And next up, she's driven, she's competitive, she really doesn't like it when things don't go her way, iiiiiiit's "Fitness" Feya Nelson!

Both of you may now add "Conqeror's Haki - Locked" to your CSes.

Conqueror's Haki rolls were made, everyone! I wasn't satisfied with the results of the first round of rolls, so I made three and compounded them together. In addition to the captain, we have two ambitious crew members who got a 6 during any of the three rounds of rolling! Theeeeey are!

The first is a man with big dreams and a big purpose! He likes hiding in the shadows, sneaking about, and murdering slavers horrifically, iiiiiiit's "Dark Hood" Dirk Messir!

And next up, she's driven, she's competitive, she really doesn't like it when things don't go her way, iiiiiiit's "Fitness" Feya Nelson!

Both of you may now add "Conqeror's Haki - Locked" to your CSes.

Awesome, I am so thrilled!! I was thinking about "What are going to be the chances?"

@Leaves You didn't mark that your haki is currently locked.

@ProPro Pardon me, on the way to Reverse Mountain is what I meant. And it's great to hear he has Conq-

>"Dark Hood" Dirk Messir

You know full well that ain't his epithet, busta.

Also, regarding Dirk's backstory, I've figured out his possible introduction arc. At some point or another, the Rum Runner gets attacked by Marines who claim to be after an escaped "criminal", and that they received a tipoff that the "criminal" was on this ship. Sure enough, after fending the Marines off and taking a look round the ship, the criminal turns out to be slavery escapee Dirk Messir, who's actually in his second round of stowing away after the first round ended up with him deposited on the same island that the Red Rum Pirates were visiting at the time.

Unfortunately for him, the next island they're headed to is the same island he just escaped from Yuushuu Island - or Excellence Island, if we don't want to mix Japanese and English languages - a largely-industrialised land ruled over (and essentially used as a cash farm) by the Yuushuu nobility that recently lost a patriarch to Dirk's actions, as well as certain valuable Devil Fruit that the matriarch would rather have back to resell in order to recoup some of their losses. Naturally, the people are fairly downtrodden, and whilst Dirk really would rather they just moved on immediately, the inevitable happens, and the people begin to rise up thanks to the Red Rum Pirates' influence, starting to rebel almost entirely by the time the Rum Runner casts off again.

What the Red Rums don't know is that the rebellion is largely doomed to failure - whilst Yuushuu Kireina is more destitute than ever before, "destitute" is relative for a family which previously owned millions of Beli's worth of wealth and income; and whilst it does help delay future retaliation via Marine influence, hired security and the return of one of her children from within the Marines ultimately proves useful in quelling it and restoring the natural order, after which steadily increasing funds (now highly focused on one goal, rather than being spent laviciously like before) allow for an ever-expanding bounty upon a certain ex-slave's head, consequently fuelling assaults from both ever-more-powerful Marine forces and ever-more-intent bounty hunters, not to mention the occasional hired goon or fifty going after the Red Rum Pirates.

@ProPro Pardon me, on the way to Reverse Mountain is what I meant. And it's great to hear he has Conq-

>"Dark Hood" Dirk Messir

You know full well that ain't his epithet, busta.

Sorry. Let me redo that. *Ahem*

"Shadowy Hood" Dirk Messir!

Better?

I'll be lurking and keeping up with the story/secretly hoping you decide to start accepting again. Good luck with the RP!

I'll be lurking and keeping up with the story/secretly hoping you decide to start accepting again. Good luck with the RP!

You and me both lol

@Demon Shinobi@Geyter
inb4 this turns into a sitcom.

"Welcome back to One Piece : New Horizons! On the last episode..."

Move over Johnny and Yosaku. Jango and Fullbody? We've got some new lurkers in town.

@Banana
"Will Cedric and the Red Rum Pirates escape Impel Down? Will we ever know how to get to Raftel? Are you confused about the term Raftel? Will ProPro ever ban Demon from his thread?! Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball One Piece Z!"

Okay, I'll stop this time lol

Y'all are having way too much fun with this. Ima need you to stop on account of this being a no fun zone. :|

*Secretly hides the piñata and karaoke machine*