[OOC] Romance Dawn - A One Piece RP

[pr3acher]

30 years have passed since the last Pirate King roamed the seas. Monkey D. Luffy and his band of merry men were notorious throughout the world for traversing the mysterious Grand Line, conquering the New World and obtaining the truth about the origins of both the World Government and the network of sailors who call themselves, Pirates. Towards the end of his journey, Luffy had obtained the respect of many islands and focused his attention on cleaning up the seas of those who he deemed to be 'bad'. However, although he managed to rid the world of many evil Pirates and Marines alike, the world inevitably keeps turning and history continues to repeat itself in the form of new dreamers setting sail onto the greatest sea in the world. Not long after he ascended to the seat of Pirate King, the greatest crew in the world simply vanished. Without a trace or word, there was nobody left alive who could account for the whereabouts of the Straw-Hats, some hypothesized that in order to live a peaceful life the Straw-Hats had took it upon themselves to flee to Raftel, or one of the Sky-Islands, where they would forever remain undisturbed till the end of their days. On the year of the turtle, Luffy declared that he had left the greatest treasure ever to have existed, One Piece, in its rightful place, waiting there for the next crew who were destined to become the new kings of the sea. Ushering the world into the next era, whispers float through the Grand Line and the Blues, the seat of Pirate-King is once again up for grabs and those who seek power, fame and fortune are once again sailing towards their dreams.

The race for One Piece has once again, begun.

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Premise

Romance Dawn is a semi-sandbox type role play based on One Piece. You will be part of a single crew of rookie pirates starting in the South Blue. After some time in the four blues, and we'll move on to tackle the Grand Line itself. More emphasis would be directed towards sailing and the journey in between islands. Improving your ship via parts and upgrades will be options granted to you. Goals throughout the story would probably include improving your skills and abilities, amassing wealth beyond your imaginations, become infamous beyond measure, and engraving your name in history to name a few. Be as cunning as Law, reckless as Luffy, profane as Bartholomeo, or as merciless and bloodthirsty as Kid or Akainu; your choice really.

Character Sheet

[Appearance]
Quote - Optional

Name: What you want to be called. Include nicknames, monikers, and epithets.
Age: Preferably stray away from the extremes.
Gender: Go nuts.

Race: You may create your own as long as you provide some information regarding them. No giants or giant-variants though.
Height & Weight: Feet/Inches & Pounds

Personality: Help me get to know your character a little bit better. Include likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses, and other quirks your character may have.
Bounty: Maximum would 30M Beli. Include the reason for your bounty. If you want to go over the limit, you better have an incredibly convincing and detailed reason.
Origin Story: Weave me a tale. How did you come to meet the crew? Why did you come along with them? Why did they let you? Include what you want to get out of the pirate life in this section. Are you looking for something in particular, or do you just particularly enjoy murder and theft? Just make sure to explain what made you wanna follow or at least join up with a guy like Sunny. If you want to have secrets and a bit of drama for your character, PM me the details.

Abilities: Listed under this would be the things your character would be proficient in. Some examples would include fighting styles, weapon-wielding, carpentry, navigation, a special weapon, and powers granted by Devil Fruits. To promote the blossoming of creative geniuses as yourselves, we won't be creating lists of specific techniques or moves anymore. Instead, with each ability, you will provide a general description of what it allows your character to do; that itself would act as a limiter of some sorts. You are free to do whatever you want as long as it is within the scope of your abilities. Throughout the RP, these abilities will gradually and constantly become better. When achievements are and certain milestones are reached, you will be allowed to to add more facets/aspects to your abilities or improve already existing ones. You start with a maximum of four (4). Keep them bulleted to make things easier for me.

Inventory: Pertinent weapons, armor, clothing, et cetera.
Others: Miscellaneous items the do not go elsewhere. May omit if you have nothing to put here.

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Character Progression: Include what you wanna go for in terms of abilities both in and out of combat. Be it learned skills and some sort of special item or equipment.
Arc Suggestions: A personal arc or just some stories that you wanna be included in the RP.

Character Sheet Code

[CENTER][Appearance]
Quote - Optional[/CENTER]

[b]Name:[/b] What you want to be called. Include nicknames, monikers, and epithets.
[b]Age:[/b] Preferably stray away from the extremes.
[b]Gender:[/b] Go nuts.

[b]Race:[/b] You may create your own as long as you provide some information regarding them. No giants or giant-variants though.
[b]Height & Weight:[/b] Feet/Inches & Pounds

[b]Personality:[/b] Help me get to know your character a little bit better. Include likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses, and other quirks your character may have.
[b]Bounty:[/b] Maximum would 30M Beli. Include the reason for your bounty. If you want to go over the limit, you better have an incredibly convincing and detailed reason.
[b]Origin Story:[/b] Weave me a tale. How did you come to meet the crew? Why did you come along with them? Why did they let you? Include what you want to get out of the pirate life in this section. Are you looking for something in particular, or do you just particularly enjoy murder and theft? Just make sure to explain what made you wanna follow or at least join up with a guy like Sunny. If you want to have secrets and a bit of drama for your character, PM me the details.

[b]Abilities:[/b] Listed under this would be the things your character would be proficient in. Some examples would include fighting styles, weapon-wielding, carpentry, navigation, a special weapon, and powers granted by Devil Fruits. To promote the blossoming of creative geniuses as yourselves, we won't be creating lists of specific techniques or moves anymore. Instead, with each ability, you will provide a general description of what it allows your character to do; that itself would act as a limiter of some sorts. You are free to do whatever you want as long as it is within the scope of your abilities. Throughout the RP, these abilities will gradually and constantly become better. When achievements are and certain milestones are reached, you will be allowed to to add more facets/aspects to your abilities or improve already existing ones. You start with a maximum of four (4). Keep them bulleted to make things easier for me.

[b]Inventory:[/b] Pertinent weapons, armor, clothing, et cetera.
[b]Others:[/b] Miscellaneous items the do not go elsewhere. May omit if you have nothing to put here.

[color=ed1c24][b][u]SEND THE FOLLOWING VIA PM[/u][/b][/color]
[b]Character Progression[/b]: Include what you wanna go for in terms of abilities both in and out of combat. Be it learned skills and some sort of special item or equipment.
[b]Arc Suggestions:[/b] A personal arc or just some stories that you wanna be included in the RP.

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Item Tiers

From swords to ships, cannons to hull plating, awesome sails to flintlock pistols, everything has a quality level. A tier if you will. For example, a Tier 2 sword will be better than a Tier 1 sword. It may be sharper or tougher or have jewels in it's hilt or whatever, but something will set it apart from a regular old Tier 1 sword. The same can be said for most anything in this world. Some things are simply better. And you know you only want the best, rarest, most ass kicking stuff don't you? Well here's a handy list of what you can expect from the tiers:

Tier List

• Tier 1 [Ordinary]
  The stuff you can find in any market.
• Tier 2 [Uncommon]
  The stuff you'd be lucky to find in that one overly friendly man's market stall.
• Tier 3 [Special]
  Things you'd find in specialty shops that cater to specific purposes.
• Tier 4 [Rare]
  Things that specialty shops try to out bid each other on.
• Tier 5 [Epic]
  These are the kind of things the wealthy pay huge sums of money for so they can put it on a shelf and just look at it for hours. Very high quality.
• Tier 6 [Legendary]
  Things in this realm tend to be a higher tier for more than just their quality. These are items that have a history. The sails of a famous pirates ship for example.
• Tier 7 [Mythical]
  Things that have achieved, or have been used to achieve, incredible feats. Items of impeccable quality, with a history to match. Some of these things have literally helped forge the world as we know it.
• Tier 8 [Dream-like]
  Actually seeing one of these items is pretty much unheard of. These are the sort of things the great Pirate King and his crew might once have used.

[Saltwater Thief]

Subbed, still interested, gonna see what characters some others put forward.

[Duthguy]

Kago

Name: Human Hive Kago
Age: 35
Gender: Male

Race: Human
Height & Weight: 7 Feet & 275 Pounds

Personality: Kago isn't a fan of the World Government due to them giving his home country to Wapol and generally tends to think all marines are assholes unless proven otherwise. He also easily sympathizes with anyone he believes oppressed, despite his usual stoic act. Most of the time he can keep the act going but when he breaks it, it's hard to miss. His habit of immediately going back to stoic and acting like nothing happened isn't nearly as convincing as he likes to think.
Bounty: B1080000
Origin Story: Kago grew up in the Black Drum Kingdom where Wapol was as lousy a king as ever. While not technically slaves the citizens all worked for him, whether it was in one of his factories or not, and for minimum wage unless they sufficiently sucked up to the king. Sick of that life Kago one day stole a rowboat and an oar and left the island.Not knowing that Wapol would be angry enough to demand a bounty placed on his head, not that he would have cared otherwise.

Hours later he came across an abandoned ship that had been attacked by pirates a while back and despite not expecting to find anything he checked it out. By pure luck he found the Bachi Bachi no Mi in a hidden compartment in the captain's quarters. Not knowing what kind of fruit it was but starving he ate it despite it tasting terrible.

A couple of days after that happened he came across Sunny and since going after the One Piece would be a good way to either become strong enough to rid his homecountry of Wapol or simply become rich enough to buy the Black Drum Kingdom he saw no reason not to join the former monk's crew.

Abilities: Kago has eaten the Bachi Bachi no mi which allows him to house hornets inside of his body that he can control individually. He also wields a metal oar that can transform into a total of three forms, the regular form which has the longest reach, a metal bat for more damage and a small buckler to block attacks.

He is also somewhat stronger than the average human, due tho his size and the fact thatb he had work hard to make a living.

Inventory: An oar made from Wapometal, that can change into a metal baseball bat or a buckler.

[pr3acher]

@Duthguy So far so good. I had ideas of a passible oar-weilding NPC, but wasn't that relevant to the plot anyway.

[Vrrak]

Just a note I'm working on a gun fanatic, will probably have the sheet ready some time tomorrow night.

[alexfangtalon]

Hello, I have stumbled upon this and, as it is One Piece, I am very interested. I have two character ideas but I am not sure which would be best.

Character 1

Name: Adelinde Dey

The basic premise of her story is that she lived in a very poor town that was one day raided by pirates. The captain had a habit of collecting DF and if he ever had enough would take the most defiant people of a place he attacked and force them to eat a DF and fight to the death. He would then tend to kill the final one. Well, he had two DF's and Adelinde was one of the ones forced to eat a DF and it was a paramecia type that gave her control over soundwaves. The Onsei Onsei fruit. Through ways, I haven't determined yet she and the other person barely defeated the pirate crew. When the Marines arrived they mistook the new DF users for pirates as well and attacked the pirates as well as the two. The two ran but her ally died in the ensuing chase and she got away but received a bounty soon afterward. In order to keep her family safe, she sailed off from her home island.
Another thing of note, for now, is that she could potentially be the cook for the crew as she is a fairly talented chef.

Character 2

Name: Cassie

I haven't figured out too much about her other than the fact that she has Bipolar Disorder, and if you don't want something like this I can easily change it. Her dream is to become a master of many different types of weapons. Currently, she only has three weapons she uses but has not mastered. In order of most skilled the Emei Piercers, Kusarigama, and Daikyū.

[SubjectVision]

Maid to Order

Appearance

"My job's hard enough as it is. Don't make it harder."

Name: "Aqua"
Age: 21
Gender: Female

Race: Human
Height & Weight: 5'10", 142 lbs.

Personality: The best way to describe Aqua would be "No fun". Serious to a fault, there's always a tinge of irritation on her face at the events surrounding her, letting snide and venomous remarks out to that which is bothering her at the moment. Nevertheless, she is not above ocassional bouts of dramatism outside of her maid persona: speaking in theatrical tones whilst posing in order to make herself sound more sinister or mysterious on purpose.
Despite everything, Aqua is rather good in her position, a fact she takes a lot of pride in. She also relishes in this image of a mysterious maid she has built for herself quite a bit, which makes it easy her up by complimenting her enough, leading to her dramatic tendencies taking the reins of her actions and words.

Bounty: B3.250.000 (Murder of a Nobleman)
Origin Story: Aqua deliberately keeps her past in a veil of either too much or too little information to properly garner anything from it. The truth behind it all is that she was born a servant of a noble family. From child, she was groomed to be a maid, and she eagerly took the role as she knew nothing better at the time. However, when she was 18, an incident happened at the mansion. The master had died, his throat slit during his sleep and the bloody weapon on her hands. Other servants chimed in that they saw her speaking with a man of a shady reputation in a back room a couple of days ago. The man was seen later that day, helping her escape the rage of the family that housed her and providing her with the money that they had agreed on for the hit: half a million bellies and a chance at a new life.
Now, some years after that, she is now left with only a small fraction of the money she previously had earned and a minimal image of herself built brick by brick through her employment in several minor hit jobs. However, such a reputation has brought a price to her head and she began to feel the weights limiting her newfound wings from spreading. However, one fateful day a man approached Aqua and began to flirt with her. What started as a mere nuisance soon shifted into an offer: to accompany him in his journey to get the One Piece. And on his eyes, on that hand outstretched to her, she saw a glimpse of that man that once gave her the path to freedom. So Aqua accepted the offer to become part of Sunny's crew and taking him as her captain.

It may have been a bad choice.

Abilities:

• Housekeeping: Be it cleaning, cooking or even gardening, Aqua is capable of doing it without problems, and most of the times even better than anyone else, thanks to her experience as a child.
• Stealth: From the couple of hit contracts she took, she has a grasp of how to be discreet and move silently. However, this is merely good enough to get past crowds. A perceptive enough eye would be able to spot her without much issue.
• Chain-sickle style: Recently she's picked up to use a chain sickle because of several reasons: it's easy to carry, it can help her disarm oponents without putting herself at risk and it's certainly cool and distinctive. She still has ways to go, but she can put up a fight using her weapon of choice.

Inventory: A small, double-edged iron sickle that is connected to a weight through a strong chain, about eight feet long.
She also has several changes of the same maid outfit, which is slightly padded to defend her torso and arms from blunt strikes like punches and kicks.
Finally, she has a minimal amount of cash from her personal savings.

Others: May add VA/Theme/Other stuff here later for increased weeb power.

[pr3acher]

@Vrrak Gotcha fam.

@alexfangtalon I'm leaning more towards Adelinde, but you go do you. Either seems kay.

@SubjectVision A kunoichi maid? The weeb is strong with this one. Everything seems all good. I'm gonna be adding some stuff in the CS sheet. I'll hit you up with a mention once I edit it in.

[SubjectVision]

@pr3acher Kunoichi Chuuni maid. I'll be editing that one amd mentioning you with the additions/modifications.

[Vrrak]

Guns and more guns

There's not much you can't solve with a little bit of extra firepower.

Name: Violet Screed
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Height & Weight: 5'11 160lb

Personality:
Boastfulness, pride, and a hint of madness. She'll use any excuse to fire off a firearm, and has an almost unhealthy love for them. She has solid confidence in her abilities and an eagerness to use them, a very dangerous combination. She has no qualms about using thievery or tricks to get her way, but has a soft spot for the more common folk and usually avoids going after them. She also adores showing off gun tricks.
She values companions, for they are spectators to her glorious firearms and things are generally more fun if one has a crew backing them up. She does not have too much care for money and is happy to spend it away for her companions.

Despite being a semi-crazy gunwoman, she does not shoot to kill. Taking people's lives goes against her code. She will never intentionally take a shot that would be fatal to someone. She will bluff about it though.

Bounty: 15 million for her, 10 million for her gun. Wanted for injuring navy soldiers, robbing and then detonating a navy ship, theft of a priceless prototype and a devil fruit, setting a town on fire, and general highway robbery.

Origin Story:
Violet is a gun maniac a bit on the extreme side. Her parents were experts in firearms, and she'd always sneak off to do shooting practice and do all sorts of dangerous tricks with them. Growing up and splitting off from her parents, her boastfulness and skill landed her in with the wrong crowd, minor bandits who robbed and stole off travelers to get by.

One day, she caught wind of a truly extravagant and well guarded ship visiting with her holy grail aboard, a prototype experimental gun made for navy and world government elites. While the rest of her crew recognized the target as far too big, she still went after it alone. After an insane plan gone awry she made off with to the precious cargo of the ship, both the gun and a devil fruit. Cornered, she ate it, and with her newfound abilities went a bit wild. It turns out firing wildly in a storage room with gunpowder in it was not the best plan, but it worked gloriously leaving her an escape route at the cost of a few burns and singed hair.

Blitzing in to the town, further chaos would ensue as she accidentally set fire to the town escaping from the officer. Eventually she met up with Sunny and with the navy after her decided joining up with pirates was her best bet of not ending up in jail. Plus she'd probably get to use her guns a lot. She's mostly hoping to replace the void left behind by leaving her gang, particularly with people less afraid of bigger targets.

Abilities:
Crack shot – Has almost sniper like accuracy with a pistol given enough time to aim.
Quick Draw Prodigy – Can take out a weapon and shoot it with almost unnatural speed and without losing accuracy.
Ballistics Savant – Has a natural affinity for things that shoot bullets or similar projectiles (like cannons)

Fruit power: Repeat
She is able to record a short action with an object and have it repeat it over and over. It creates a slightly fuzzy version of the original that floats in place and continues until it's disturbed by anything physical besides her own doings. She primarily uses this of course with her weapon of choice: Guns. She also uses this power to reload her guns. Theoretically the power would work on other things but why would she need to use it on anything besides guns?

Inventory:
2 normal but extremely well crafted flintlock pistols.
1 pistol made to shoot large bullets, extreme kickback and high power.
1 extremely exotic gold plated revolver with intricate designs in the metal. It's a stolen priceless prototype capable of shooting exotic experimental bullets of which she has none. It shoots regular bullets with amazing precision though, on top of looking amazing.

[Saltwater Thief]

@pr3acher So, when we put together a backstory, should we include meeting Sunny, or will those meetings and the formation of the crew be the subject of the RP's opening act?

[pr3acher]

@Vrrak Everything seems good, but I kinda need more detail on the fruit. Let's say she's holding a gun and assigns the actions to shoot and reload repetitively, would that create a floating copy of the gun that would shoot non-stop at one direction?

Maybe you could give me 2-3 scenarios on how it would be used.

@Saltwater Thief We'll be skipping the whole meet up and just include it in your histories. You can do collabs on your origins with other characters or just by yourself. Just ask me anything if you need certain info. I'll be making a discord server in a few.

[Duthguy]

@alexfangtalon If you're going with Adelinde, you might wanna check out Soundbite's tab on this page as they have eaten similar devil fruits.

Also I myself am fine with any position in the crew for Kago

[pr3acher]

@Saltwater Thief@Duthguy@Vrrak@alexfangtalon@SubjectVision Made the needed edits to the CS sheet. Just check it out, include some edits in the coding as well. If you guys are ready to get reviewed, just hit me up.

[Vrrak]

If she shoots a gun, her power would leave behind a sort of afterimage that continuously shoots at the same spot until something interferes. If she shoots her own image, it would send it flying off shooting all over the place until it hit a wall/floor. If someone else throws a rock at it (hell even a leaf), it would shatter the image and negate it. Anything more complicated than that I've set aside for future progression.

Anyways I'll plug in the extra stuff. I think it's ready for review.

[SubjectVision]

Edited the inventory, bounty and backstory.

[pr3acher]

@Vrrak Alright, I'm understanding it a bit more. But what do you mean by shooting her own image?

Also, it was in red text that the new stuff was for the PMs, but oh well.

[Solotros]

I am tentatively putting forth interest in this, it will depend on whether or not I manage to figure out a good character. But I love the concept and all of the characters I have seen so far.

[Saltwater Thief]

Here Fishie Fishie

"Freedom isn't a privilege- it's a right. And I will have it."

Name: Mera
Age: 22
Gender: Female

Race: Fishman (Sandbar Shark)
Height & Weight: 6'0", 175 lbs

Personality: Mera is a bit reclusive and more than a little shy, but this is owing to the conditions she's been forced to endure in her past. She's actually a very sweet, outgoing girl once she's decided to trust the person who will see it. However, she doesn't take betrayal well, and once broken her trust is extremely difficult to earn back. Furthermore, nothing makes her angrier than imprisoning or enslaving others.
Bounty: None at present.
Origin Story:
Mera's hardly a stranger to fighting for survival in the world.

She and her mermaid sister Calma were born in the waters near Sabaody Archipelago to a fishman father and a mermaid mother. The Archpelago was still more than moderately risky for their people, but for their family it was home. Her father and mother wanted their daughters to be raised living alongside humans, regardless of the risk to themselves. And for all of their adolescence, things went swimmingly (heh). A few close calls here and there, and more than a little bigotry, but they had each other and they made it through.

That changed a few months after they both turned 18. Mera and Calma had gone into the Archipelago, in their usual guises and precautions, to do a little shopping. What they didn't realize, however, was that a notorious Slaver had managed to see through them and was following them to the little cove they called home. A few days later the Slaver returned- with an entourage of armed men behind him. Their parents immediately took action, putting up as much fight as they could while urging their daughters to run. They ran for the water, but not before seeing their father gunned down and their mother clapped in chains. The pursuit then turned on them, even as they both dove down to the deep. Calma was far faster, owing to her mermaid abilities, but this only resulted in her running into the nets that had been prepared ahead of them first. With little regard for her own safety Mera tried to save her sister, but as she tried to break the nets Calma called up a current to sweep her away and out to sea.

By the time Mera recovered she was far away from the cove, and much as she wanted to go back and fight... in her heart she knew it was hopeless. So she started swimming, far away from the Archipelago, as fast as she could. Over four years she wandered the ocean, eventually making her way to South Blue. All the while she made every attempt to grow stronger, in the hopes that she would one day return to Sabaody, find her family, and liberate them. It didn't take long for her to realize she would need allies to get there, however, and somewhere along the way she had a run-in with one Captain Sunny, who also happened to be looking for comrades to enter and best the Grand Line. After they bailed each other out of a jam, a partnership was struck. And the rest is history...

Abilities:
-Fishman Physiology: Being a fishman grants Mera all the benefits of her species, such as increased strength, high speed swimming, and the ability to breathe and speak underwater as well as communicating with other aquatic creatures.

-Fishman Karate, Swordfish Style: A variant of the Fishman Karate martial art taught on Fishman Island, Mera incorporates a sword into her technique because she found it imropoved her focus for manipulating water in her vicinity, as well as giving her an extra edge in a very literal sense should she find herself engaged on dry land.

-Voice of the Waves: Having spent most of her life traveling by water, Mera has a very keen sense for reading the waves and currents of the ocean both at the surface and in the depths. Long term navigation is not a skill of hers, but if she's shown a patch of sea in front of her and asked to find the best way across it such is right in her wheelhouse.

Inventory:
Her personal sword (Tachi, 30" in length, pommel is decorated with a seashell)
Her day-to-day clothes (usually some sort of wrap that covers what it needs to without impeding movement)

[Vrrak]

@pr3acher
Normally when the images get 'attacked' they get destroyed, but if scarlet is the source of the attack they are not. Therefore if she were to shoot one of the gun images, it would go spinning in to the air (still firing) until it hits the ground or a wall and is destroyed by that contact.

Basically it lets her make extremely reckless attacks in a dire situation since a randomly spinning gun basically fires in random directions.