[OOC] One Piece: The Great Age of Piracy (Sign-up's Always Welcome!)

[Infichi]

Welcome! This Roleplay will always accept New Members with open arms!

Two years ago, in loguetown, the great pirate Gol d. Roger’s life was taken. During his time as a pirate, He amassed great power and greater wealth, and on the day of his death, he had this to say… My treasure? It's yours if you want it! You'll just have to find it first. I Left everything I had...in One Piece

And so the race was off, To find the legendary Treasure One Piece. Should you be able to find this treasure, you will be able to claim the title… King of The Pirates.

Getting Started

Want to join? Well the first thing you need to do is fill out the character template below. When you're done please feel free to post your character in this thread. Once a GM has approved your character then you can begin RPing.

Characters: You're free to make a Pirate, Bounty Hunter or even a Marine! You can have however many you feel comfortable playing.

Character Level: Obviously, you're not going to be op at the beginning. so for marines, the highest rank offered at creation will be Lt. For pirates and bounty hunters, try to keep it reasonable!

Devil's Fruits: Every fruit is available for you to choose from, BUT! Powerful devil's fruits will need to be run by a GM or Co-GM (if we can be so lucky) Logias may be reserve red at creation, but please wait till you enter the grand line to obtain them.

World Powers: Things like the Admirals, The Yonkou, The seven warlords... all that, will come in time! I'd like to give people the chance to create them when the time is right!

Haki/Rokoshiki: Currently unavailable to all you rookies out there! But will become available as time moves on! Which leads me too...

Bounties: As your character progresses in the story, your exploits will obviously earn you the ire of the world around you. But this is to your advantage! A bounty is a mark of honor to a pirate! Each week, I'll read through the IC thread and gift you a bounty!

What about Marines: You wont be left out! The world government sees everything you do as well, though you aren't given bounties, you will receive medals and accommodations! Earn enough of these and you can say good bye to that low rank of yours and hello to a wonderful promotion!

So as you can see: bounties and medals are both a reward for active players as well as a means of letting you know, when your character can start moving up into bigger and better things! Obviously, if you've received a large bounty, or a few promotions, you have the strength to match!

STORY

The story of this RP is very simple. We'll follow the lives of these characters and their crews on their adventure to find One Piece... or to stop pirates. Whatever their goals may be. The world is free to be shaped by you for the most part, all I ask is, if you have an Arc you'd like to do, run it by me so I can help out and approve anything that might be a little out there. But for the most part: Have fun. There's tons of islands that have yet to be discovered and they range in all sorts of styles. So let's have fun with it... But also...

MAJOR STORY ARCS will happen! Though I understand some people don't always want to be involved with them: So if you want to ever skip out, you can... just know, you may be missing out on a sweet bounty, amazing sword, great treasure... or maybe even a devil's fruit!

Character Sheet

Name: Pick something piratey.

Age: How old is your character?

Starting Location/Current Location: Every journey has a beginning. This is the starting point for your character. All characters must begin in one of the four Blue's: North, South, East, West. After you begin your journey try and keep your character current location as up to date as possible.

Appearance: What does your character look like? Picture or Description!

Personality: How your character thinks and responds. Be as in depth as possible.

Dream/Goal: One Piece is about dreams. What is your characters dream or goal? Whether it's conquering the world or becoming the worlds greatest swordsman, every character needs a purpose.

History: How did your character get to this point? Why do they behave the way they do? The more in depth the better so we can know what makes your character tick. Explain also your characters reason for pirating/being a marine.

Crew: Give the name and short description of your crew. Try and form crews before we start in this thread and then edit your character template with the correct info. It'll be more fun that way.

Ship: What kind of transport does your character use to travel from island to island? Be reasonable in the beginning. If your character is starting alone, then chances are that they won't be traveling around in some huge Galleon. Marines always have a Marine HQ version of a boat.

Specialty/Profession: What does your character specialize in (swordsman, cook, shipwright, navigator, etc)?

Rank: Only for Marines. Starting characters can only have a maximum rank of Lieutenant. Please update this as your character gets promoted.

Fighting Style: How does your character fight? Try and be as inventive and in depth as possible. Please list any named techniques and attacks here as well.

Weapons: Describe the weapon(s) that your character wields, if any.

Devil Fruit: Is your character a Devil Fruit user? If so, you'll start off with the fruit in its basic form. You cannot combine Devil Fruits. The Devil Fruit needs to be described, outside of how it works, what it can do, what it limitations are and some examples of use. (When putting up to be accepted, it should at least cover what it can do at starting level)

Items: What items your character currently has, if any.

Bounty: Your character starts off with no bounty. Bounties will be issued every week and will be raised according to your characters actions. Please keep this updated.

Color: What color dialog you will be using in the RP, so its easy to distinguish the different characters in there.

I will add more as time goes on!

[King Cosmos]

@Infichi I'm wondering how crews are going to work in this RP?

We could team up with other players or write multiple characters to fill out the number, a few of us will probably do both to be honest, but we'll all end up with very small crews if we do that.

Are we expected to create NPC's to fill out the rest of our crews for these ships? With only the "important" roles being filled by PCs?

Also, might as well get the ball rolling, anyone want to start a crew together?

[SubjectVision]

Sure thing. Hit me up in DMs, or in Discord if you have me, so we can coordinate what we have in terms of ideas for our characters.

[Slendy]

I would be down as well I was planning on making an archeologists/cat bugler type of guy.

[Infichi]

@Infichi I'm wondering how crews are going to work in this RP?

We could team up with other players or write multiple characters to fill out the number, a few of us will probably do both to be honest, but we'll all end up with very small crews if we do that.

Are we expected to create NPC's to fill out the rest of our crews for these ships? With only the "important" roles being filled by PCs?

Also, might as well get the ball rolling, anyone want to start a crew together?

@King Cosmos

Yeah you can fill out the crew using NPC's if you want to, with the important roles filled out with PC's, or you can have like 2-3 characters and have the world's smallest and most powerful pirate crew... eventually.

[JackDLemmy]

@SubjectVisionwhat's your discord?

[SubjectVision]

Laplace#6431. If you message me, tell me your handle here first so that I know who it is.

[Reflection]

Still a Major WIP at the moment. But I wanted to get this down somehow.

Nikko the Red Lion

Name: Nikko the Red Lion

Age: 19

Starting Location/Current Location: East Blue

Personality: How does one describe an interest? For Nikko, his life is the search for that next special interest. That thing he cares about deeply. That nips at that bud of inspiration and allows it to blossom. Even as a child he was like that, addicted to his special interest. In this case, Gold Roger. And while he was shamed for it, he never found a reason to stop caring about it. In short, he's a man who cares deeply, about the things that interest him. If they don't?
Needless to say, he has killed before. With disinterest in his eyes. It wasn't hard killing that disobedient pirate. It was just a thing to do. That is Nikko. A pirate who just treats anything outside his few interests as something... Irrelevant, or just outright boring. Killing is easy when you don't care about the life of the person you're shooting. Maybe that's why he seems so... Strange. Why he seems to lack empathy. But that's false. He's actually very empathetic, but only when it's related to something that interests him. Is it odd? Is it cruel? Yes. But that's just Nikko.
At his core, he's an artist. A man who cares for the spectacle. A man... Who will fight for his dream.

Dream/Goal: What does a man like Nikko want? It's strange... But he wants to write the first, and only biography on the King of Pirates. Gold Roger. To do so, he plans to follow Roger's path, act as a pirate, and truly understand what made the King... The King.

History: The eldest child of Shiki the Golden Lion. A child of the greatest rival of the King of Pirates, and possible heir to the empire his father had designed for him. And yet, born in the North Blue, Nikko never had the same kind of interests his father did. He never had the interest to simply sit in ships, and fly around the world. He never saw the glory of his heritage. Instead... As a child he was always fond of somebody other than his father. Gold Roger. His father's rival, was the one who caught his eyes. Some days, he would follow his father about on trips, just in the hopes of seeing Roger. But he only saw him once, from a distance. That was also the day his father his injured by a steering wheel, which he adopted as a family crest of a kind. Thus why part of a steering wheel acts as a makeshift hair-tie.
Shiki often insisted that his child, and heir should be special. More so than any pirate, and more than Roger. As such, he spent quite a fortune seeking out a Devil Fruit that he believed would make his son a powerful pirate. It took several years, but on Nikko's thirteenth birthday, he was gifted with a devil fruit. He didn't like it, but biting his lip, he swallowed his dis-interest in his father's ambition, and ate the fruit. The Taiyō Taiyō No Mi. A Devil Fruit sometimes known as the Sun Sun Fruit. It was a paramecia that embodied the eater with the power of the sun itself, but in a way that they possesses the heat and light, and not the flames.
Turning fifteen, the boy's dis-interest with his father's plans reached a peak. He left to go visit his mother in the South Blue, a trip he didn't bother returning from. He had spent years with his father in the hopes of seeing Roger, and yet nothing came from it. As he was never truly a pirate, and he worked hard to bury his father's connection to him, Nikko was never a target by the World Government. Instead he took on other hobbies, like writing. Hoping to write stories about great pirates.
Then... He was eighteen, and Roger died. His words sparking a cry to seek One Piece. And there... WAS THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION HE NEEDED! Nikko knew the story he wanted to tell. It was one he had failed to see as a child, but now as an adult? He wanted to write the Pirate King's Biography. But the king was dead. The only way to write such a story would be to go on the seas, and follow Roger's own path. Taking up a dingy, he vowed to recreate Roger's rise to power, without the influence his father would have offered him.
Though... He has received letters from his father's former First Mate, asking him to consider joining up with the Golden Lion Pirates, despite his father's imprisonment in Impel Down. He has naturally turned down such offers.

Crew: The Red Lion Pirates. Not that it's a real pirate organization.

Ship: None at the moment. He's mostly catching a lift from island to island.

Specialty/Profession: Professional Writer / Ship Captain (A role he must fill in order to become adjusted to writing about Gol D. Roger.)

Fighting Style: At the moment, his fighting style is primarily based around kicking. A style developed to protect his hands, because how can he write without them? His projection of fire, heat, and light is used to increase the impact of his kicks. As such, his style is un-refined, but is strong by virtue of the impact his devil fruit adds to each strike.

Weapons: A flintlock. Though that's not saying much.

Devil Fruit: Taiyō Taiyō No Mi - A paramecia fruit, also known as the Sun Sun Fruit. This fruit is referred to as one of the Invincible Fruits, despite this though it's also considered one of the weakest of that bunch. Simply put, it turns the possessor into a Sun Person. Their body becomes a living nuclear core, that generates near endless amounts of heat, fire, and light. Because his body is running on its own 'exploding core' his body never needs to rest. This also means... the possessor will be restless. Constantly needing to burn off excess energy. At least they'll never had to worry about a cold winter's day.
Through training, the user can focus and control his 'burning insides' for combat. By generating fire, heat, or bright lights to blind others around him. This control can come more naturally the longer one has practice with it, but those who aren't practiced have a nasty tendency to casually burn people while shaking hands. The heat generated can theoretically rise to 5,778 K, the heat of the sun. But because that might end up destroying the body, it is unwise to raise the temperature that high. Rather, it mostly just causes third degree burns on contact, but can drastically rise depending.
With training, it is possible to fire beams of concentrated heat, fire, or light. Or even combine all three at once. For now, it is only possible for Nikko to generate excessive heat through his kicks, or blinding people with sudden flases of light.

Items: A pen, and a great deal of paper.

Bounty: 0 Beli

Color: "This is a good color, right? It's f7976a."

[JackDLemmy]

Has anyone claimed the ope-ope, and if so may i?
Also my character wouldn't start out with it right away. She'd get it when the others get their logia fruits

[Reflection]

@JackDLemmy I think "The invincible devil fruit" will be given a no.

[JackDLemmy]

@Reflection
Possibly but i figured since it's no more OP than A logia, it was worth a try.

[Reflection]

@JackDLemmy Honestly it's more OP than a Logia. Logia's have a weakness of their element (Like Fire vs Water or Sand vs Water. Lots of water weaknesses.) Where as the Ope Ope no Mi allows you to rip the heart out of a Logia user, and can make the person who owns it literally immortal. It's an end-game level power for a reason.
But that's my opinion, Infichi might feel differently depending on the power level he's hoping for.

[alexfangtalon]

or you can have like 2-3 characters and have the world's smallest and most powerful pirate crew... eventually.

@Infichi

I like that idea, mainly because I was Debating between three different characters. What if I did one big character sheet encompassing the whole three man crew?

[alexfangtalon]

Sorry for the double but

and can make the person who owns it literally immortal.

@Reflection

I thought that the way that worked was using the ability on someone else making them immortal and the DF user dies after doing it?

[Reflection]

@alexfangtalon Ah yes, that is a point. But still, it's no slouch in the Devil Fruit power department. Since it basically gives the user complete spatial control of an area around them, which is basically an "I win" button in an RP.

[King Cosmos]

Ah yes, that is a point. But still, it's no slouch in the Devil Fruit power department. Since it basically gives the user complete spatial control of an area around them, which is basically an "I win" button in an RP.

@Reflection

I agree. It does have its limitations, like its relatively short range and the fact it tires out the user, but it just has too many complications to really use in an RP. Things like cutting someone into pieces or swapping their souls around could be fun, but it's the sort of thing you really need another players permission to do to a character and it wouldn't happen too often; you'd be limiting yourself most of the time in what you can do.

[alexfangtalon]

@Reflection True. I remember so many times that if Trafalgar had thought about it he could’ve ended that fight with Doffy at the bridge in a second by simply switching his placement with something near the water causing him to fall in it.

Also, @Infichi what are the rules in regards to Zoan types?

[JackDLemmy]

@Reflection
Not all logias have elemental weaknesses like smokers, and unlike the ope-ope no mi, logia fruits offer their users a direct defense without any limit. Where as the ope-ope doesn't grant the user any such think.
Plus there's the stamina issue, which has already been pointed out.
As for the soul swap i don't think that'll be an issue as my character won't really be knowledgeable in the medical field

[SubjectVision]

Just a heads up that I'm planning for my character to have the Tsuki-Tsuki no Mi (Moon Moon). I'll be working on the sheet during the day.

[Infichi]

Still a Major WIP at the moment. But I wanted to get this down somehow.

Nikko the Red Lion

Name: Nikko the Red Lion

Age: 19

Starting Location/Current Location: East Blue

Personality: How your character thinks and responds. Be as in depth as possible.

Dream/Goal: What does a man like Nikko want? It's strange... But he wants to write the first, and only biography on the King of Pirates. Gold Roger. To do so, he plans to follow Roger's path, act as a pirate, and truly understand what made the King... The King.

History: The one and only child of Shiki the Golden Lion. A child of the greatest rival of the King of Pirates, and possible heir to the empire his father had designed for him. And yet, born in the North Blue, Nikko never had the same kind of interests his father did. He never had the interest to simply sit in ships, and fly around the world. He never saw the glory of his heritage. Instead... As a child he was always fond of somebody other than his father. Gold Roger. His father's rival, was the one who caught his eyes. Some days, he would follow his father about on trips, just in the hopes of seeing Roger. But he only saw him once, from a distance. That was also the day his father his injured by a steering wheel, which he adopted as a family crest of a kind. Thus why part of a steering wheel acts as a makeshift hair-tie.
Shiki often insisted that his child, and heir should be special. More so than any pirate, and more than Roger. As such, he spent quite a fortune seeking out a Devil Fruit that he believed would make his son a powerful pirate. It took several years, but on Nikko's thirteenth birthday, he was gifted with a devil fruit. He didn't like it, but biting his lip, he swallowed his dis-interest in his father's ambition, and ate the fruit. The Taiyō Taiyō No Mi. A Devil Fruit sometimes known as the Sun Sun Fruit. It was a paramecia that embodied the eater with the power of the sun itself, but in a way that they possesses the heat and light, and not the flames.
Turning fifteen, the boy's dis-interest with his father's plans reached a peak. He left to go visit his mother in the South Blue, a trip he didn't bother returning from. He had spent years with his father in the hopes of seeing Roger, and yet nothing came from it. As he was never truly a pirate, and he worked hard to bury his father's connection to him, Nikko was never a target by the World Government. Instead he took on other hobbies, like writing. Hoping to write stories about great pirates.
Then... He was eighteen, and Roger died. His words sparking a cry to seek One Piece. And there... WAS THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION HE NEEDED! Nikko knew the story he wanted to tell. It was one he had failed to see as a child, but now as an adult? He wanted to write the Pirate King's Biography. But the king was dead. The only way to write such a story would be to go on the seas, and follow Roger's own path. Taking up a dingy, he vowed to recreate Roger's rise to power, without the influence his father would have offered him.
Though... He has received letters from his father's former First Mate, asking him to consider joining up with the Golden Lion Pirates, despite his father's imprisonment in Impel Down. He has naturally turned down such offers.

Crew: The Red Lion Pirates. They currently have no ship, no real crew, and no treasure. Except for a lot of paper. He could have a ship, but that'd require asking his dad's old mates. That's just lame...

Ship: A tiny sailboat.

Specialty/Profession: Professional Writer / Ship Captain (A role he must fill in order to become adjusted to writing about Gol D. Roger.)

Fighting Style: How does your character fight? Try and be as inventive and in depth as possible. Please list any named techniques and attacks here as well.

Weapons: Describe the weapon(s) that your character wields, if any.

Devil Fruit: Taiyō Taiyō No Mi - A paramecia fruit, also known as the Sun Sun Fruit. This fruit is referred to as one of the Invincible Fruits, despite this though it's also considered one of the weakest of that bunch. It turns the possessor into a living sun. Their body radiates heat, and they can generate excessive amounts of light. The power stored inside their body is comparable to a nuclear reactor, as they may as well never tire, or need food or water ever again. As their body is constantly generating the power of a sun, and thus negates the need for other kinds of rest.
Offensively, the user is able to generate excessive amounts of heat from their limbs. When touching another person, it can result in evaporating the water in the air that is struck, or by creating heat to push a ship along without wind.
Secondarily, this devil fruit allows the user to produce light from their body. This light can temporarily blind others, and be concentrated into beams. But due to Nikko practically squandering his devil fruit training, he is practically unable to properly focus his light or heat into anything other than the most simple forms.

Items: What items your character currently has, if any.

Bounty: 0 Beli

Color: "This is a good color, right? It's f7976a."

@Reflection

Looking good, though i'd probably tone the fruit down a little bit.

Has anyone claimed the ope-ope, and if so may i?
Also my character wouldn't start out with it right away. She'd get it when the others get their logia fruits

@JackDLemmy

not yet, but I think it's something I'd rather leave for a competition or for when I allow people to put their hat in to make Shichibukai and yonkou

<Snipped quote by Infichi>

I like that idea, mainly because I was Debating between three different characters. What if I did one big character sheet encompassing the whole three man crew?

@alexfangtalon

I'd allow that if you want to set sail solo

@Reflection True. I remember so many times that if Trafalgar had thought about it he could’ve ended that fight with Doffy at the bridge in a second by simply switching his placement with something near the water causing him to fall in it.

Also, @Infichi what are the rules in regards to Zoan types?

@alexfangtalon

No real rules, except for the same as logia and really powerful fruits, get them later on if you want like... the legendary zoans, but you can claim the fruit now. Other than that, treat it like a buff. Say, you're fighting an opponent who is out classing you, transform into your hybrid form! that should allow you to be able to match your opponent, depending on how much stronger they are, you know? common sense rules :D

Just a heads up that I'm planning for my character to have the Tsuki-Tsuki no Mi (Moon Moon). I'll be working on the sheet during the day.

@SubjectVision

Interesting, sun sun and moon moon huh? Do we have a team.... or Rivals...