[OOC] Romance Dawn - A One Piece Roleplay

[BrodZ11711]

Got the ship describing out in the open now :)

[I-Am-X]

Mine's just a stolen patrol boat from wana country that's wearing a stolen marine flag stolen from somewhat fresh marines from a nearby island. Kurama already said his goodbyes to it as he intends to start his journey and join a crew. xD

[OscarioTheGuy]

This is still open, right? If so, I'll start my character when I get home later this evening.

[I-Am-X]

Yep yep, we're always looking for more characters.

More characters there are, more we can dooo.
:D

[OscarioTheGuy]

Awesome! I love one piece! :D

[I-Am-X]

As so i.

thanatosDefiant, Don't forget to edit your trait into your CS (linked in the OP under approved characters spoiler)

[Jabber]

Still accepting new comers.

Dudes, I mentioned in the latest update that in the upper left part of your post, you have to mention what area you are currently in. This'll help me update faster instead of wasting time re-reading posts just because I forgot where you placed your character.

[BrodZ11711]

I think i did it. But like a couple words in? is that okay... "Many ships weigh anchor in White Bay Port"

[Jabber]

If you did, it would be in the upper left part.

You know, something like this.

[+]

Location: White Bay Port

Random Character's Name

Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah.

If someone did it, it would be Thanatos and Dawnstar.

[Jabber]

By the way guys, since I'll be out most of the day, I'll leave you with these questions. Just wanted your thoughts and opinion since I usually make use of them during the updates.

Questions
1. Would you prefer multiple crews for the RPers? Yes or No? If Yes, how many would you consider acceptable?
2. What's the next island you'd want to visit?
3. What would you like to see in this RP?
4. If deserving, should characters be killed of?

I'll come up with more in the future, but for now, I'll leave you with these.

[DAWNSTAR]

Well, I will answer one, two and four first. It might take quite a while for me to do number three. So let me begin with number four.

I expect a character or two to die. It might be better sometimes to kill off a character just because their potential had diminished to nothing. Sometimes there are characters in rps like this who just run their course but start to lag behind the others. In some ways, we can compare these characters to people with a reading disability. They start out normal like all the others but then they start to lag behind. While the others advance along a path at a steady rate, they start to slow down. Eventually these characters will become too far behind to be saved from the opponents who would be advancing in power

As for the crews. It is hard for crews to work when we either have a character with their own crew of npcs and then a character with a crew of characters. While the character crew grows in power quickly, the npc crew will lag behind. Then we are placed in the same sort of position as a character who can't advance fast enough to keep up with the rest. So, I would expect about two crews if not one larger crew. Unlike the Strawhats, we aren't main characters who can hold their own in a battle against sixty marines at once Maybe later on in the story we can, but currently we can't. So it is hard to decide how crews will work. We are either left to force everybody into a single crew or separate players into equal crews for the sake of balance. But, unlike the strawhats, we will more than likely have a couple npcs on the ships no matter what.

Now to move to number two, I would suggest moving on to Dawn Island. It is the hometown of Luffy after all and it would be a logical first step in journey to find the One Piece.

[BrodZ11711]

Questions
1. Would you prefer multiple crews for the RPers? Yes or No? If Yes, how many would you consider acceptable? I think not.
2. What's the next island you'd want to visit? Dawn Island
3. What would you like to see in this RP? I would like to see Arcs and stuff from the marines point of view
4. If deserving, should characters be killed of? I think a vote should be in place for this

[I-Am-X]

I'm with dawnstar on the killing players off bit. If characters lag behind and start going off the mark, not going anywhere or just simply vanish, disappear for weeks or whatever and just all of a sudden posts something relating to an old irrelevant time in the rp.
Or they do a real stupid action like attacking a big feelt of marines or attacking a base or a crew of pirates by themselves, something like that.

I think dawn island is good for a next island spot.

As for question 3, something involving the marines. Like how luffy and zoro are always getting chased down by smoker and tashigi, always having someone on their tail not making it easy for them. And maybe a mortal enemy like black beard or just an annoyingly persistent one like buggy the clown to go after them. xD

[BrodZ11711]

So if there active and up to date with power level.

[I-Am-X]

I forgot, I didn't answer question 1....

Out of player created crews....I honestly think they should be limited per amount of the players involved in the RP. So at this moment.....I think there should only be 2 Player created crews and the rest be NPC/GM Created crews. And if not, be by themselves. Because then things would get watered down and will be kind of stupid to have a lot of player lead crews with only themselves and npcs. If a crapton of people join later on, then maybe crew members can think of a reason to go their own ways and start their own crew (if they managed to get a few player characters to join a crew).

Oh and I've posted my novel of a post.

[Duthguy]

Jabber said
If you did, it would be in the upper left part. You know, something like this.If someone did it, it would be Thanatos and Dawnstar.

Sorry Jabber I misunderstood how you wanted the location shown.

Questions
1. Would you prefer multiple crews for the RPers? Yes or No? [b] Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Multiple crews could lead to more interesting storylines as we're competing with each other, while a single crew would be a lot easier to keep track of so I'm neutral on this
2. What's the next island you'd want to visit? Dawn Island is definitely a good pick.
3. What would you like to see in this RP? This is a tough one, but since this is a higher level Rp than I'm used too I just want my skill to improve
4. If deserving, should characters be killed of? Like BrodZ11711 said a vote would be a good idea with two exceptions. One, the player controlling the character is planning to kill them of. Two, it's clear they have lost interest in the RP and they just don't even bother to post anymore.

Also before I read this I suggested to BrodZ11711 that since our character were most likely going to be on the same crew that it might be a good idea to create npc cs's for notable crew members.So far I'm working on two of them but they're still in the early stages should I post them here anyway? Note though if we go with one crew they might be unnecessary,unless someone wants to use them as notable enemies.

[I-Am-X]

Oh and Jabber, I've mentioned it before, about the possibility of making another character, once the RP develops a bit more, but I thought more about it.

On top of simply making another character, I was hoping for that maybe being able to make the character something other than a pirate? Like a Marine, A Noble, or someone with Plot Relevance...errr someone heavily involved and important to a certain arc?

Like a character that either pops up/gets involved around certain characters like How Vivi got involved with the Straw Hats and ending up hanging around them? or show up as a villain or such Like Robin? Or someone that hunts after a player character like smoker and tashigi?

The idea would be that depending on how everything plays out, that the character would be made avaliable to potentially join a players crew or an NPC players crew (like the ones you introduced in your update). Kind of like a reward. Of course I dont plan on having them as an NPC but that I'd control them myself. They might join the crew right away, or after some time like after another arc. The crew he or she joins would be dependent on the actions of those involved.

Would something like that be possible in the future?

[Jabber]

@Duthguy
You can post them here or send them to me via PM. Either way is good man.

@I-Am-X
Definitely. If you have more detailed plans about a certain NPC, I'm all ears.

[BrodZ11711]

Can you only have one post per chapter?

[I-Am-X]

Theres really no limit to that. Well, if the interactions are between player characters. If its between you and another player controlled character, than have at it.
post away

But If it has anythingto do with the NPCS and plot driven development, then you'd have to wait for a Jabber update.
Of course because obviously you won't be allowed to just simply post 'blablabla gets away without the marines or whatever with them doing nothing to me'.
Not happpening.