jynmi88

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Bump before bed.

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@Rin

@jynmi88I always try to push for Strawhats-esque pirate action and I haven't changed my tune just yet, so... There you go. And yeah, I'm fine with playing half the crew myself but it's probably best to start off with one character each and work our way up (but hey, the series started with just Luffy and Zoro so that works out I guess). The only real problem I see with this setup is that half the crew might end up being girls since I'm better at drawing them than guys, but we'll see how things turn out. XD

Also yeah, doing this in a thread is probably a good idea. My other 1x1s at the moment are both PM-based and I feel like my post count is going to go all screwy if I don't post more on the actual forum. XD

@Rin

Classic Straw hat-esque it is. :)
That's true.... Well, it was Luffy and then Cody but he didn't last too long. As for half of our crew being females, I think it might be a little more than that. Lol I'm not good with playing males, but if its any consolation I've got a possible captain(or first mate) planned out that's male....... so there's that.:P
Threads it is :D

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Since we aren't a group, is there anything we really need to discuss before starting (aside from character sheets) because I kind of see this beginning with our characters alone on a boat, kind of drifting? That is, unless there's some way you'd like to start that's different?

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@Rin

Y'know... Why not. Might work out better this way I guess, since One Piece RPs never seem to work out for me for various reasons. 1x1s seem to be going a lot better for me than group RPs right now anyways. XD

@Rin

Yeah. Group rps seem a bit harder to work with what with inconsistencies between different players. So, one on one should work out a lot better so long as both players are consistent with their replies. AT least that's how it goes in theory.

Is there a focus in particular you'd like the rp to be? I mean, should we go the classic dreamers heading for the ONe piece route? What about agents for the revolutionary army? Bounty hunters? Marines?

Do you prefer pms or threads? Personally I find threads a bit easier to keep track with.

Are you okay with the idea of splitting control of a full crew and take turns with the arcs? We could start off slow with one character each until we're comfortable with more.

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Would anyone be interested in doing a one x one One Piece role play? I was thinking it would be fun to do one were we each control half the crew and take turns controlling various arcs.

Possible Ideas
New Beginning-Our characters will be the last surviving members of a really-REALLY terrible pirate crew that was wiped out in a battle with marines.
Mission Chaos-Our characters will be members of the revolutionary army whose soul purpose is to cause as much problems for the world government as possible.

One Piece: Into the Horizon

@Stern Algorithm
The young marine was named Geezer Retclaw, but everyone knew him as Gee on account of the rest of his name not being worth remembering. He was 16 and had only just recently joined up with the corpse on account of a group of pirates laying waste to his home village and then being rescued by the marines. So, as was the case with most new recruits he had hardly any idea of how to deal with a superior ranked member that wasn't yelling at him.

The stranger was a commander, and a very pleasant sounding one at that. Why, the man greeted him as if he was an actual human being as opposed to a grunt that needed directions shouted so loud into one of his ears that the sound came out louder through the one on the other side. The effect was dizzying and it took Gee a moment to understand what was going on and another three minutes to realize he had to reply. The total time it took before he managed to get something out of his mouth was five minutes, twenty two seconds.

"Oh?" Gee swallowed something that belonged in his chest back down his throat. "Color changing devil fruit." He nodded. "Oh okay then." Face pale he stood, wondering if there was something else he should do. Honest, he hoped to be dismissed and fast, but it wasn't happening quickly enough. "Uh. Just checking in." He said with a lisp. "No worries here, then?"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" HIs female counter part shouted before realizing she shouldn't have spoken to a higher ranked officer so. "Apologies, sir!" The woman was older than Gee but not by much. "He's knew and dumber than a second coat of paint." She stood close enough to the rook so her arm disappeared behind his back so she could pinch him if he started talking. Which he did, and she in fact pinch him, hard enough to break skin. "We're keeping watch over the area and I guess he thought it would be a good idea to check the ships individually, even though I've told him before how marines don't look favorably on independent thought." She paused for a moment, realizing the liberties she just took a stiffened her attention stance. "Apologies sir. I didn't mean to speak out of line like that."

@ProPro
Gee wanted to tell off his fellow rookie, but didn't because her nails were sharp and she hand them burred into his back. Then he noticed something interesting, what appeared to be some kind of drunk on the ship. The man seemed to be urinating. Either that or he was pouring out a container of fluid that he kept in his trousers for some reason. Part of the young man wanted to question what was going on. The other part wanted to leave as soon as possible and since that part required less effort he decided to follow it. Then the drunk spoke, calling attention to himself.

"Uh." Gee asked.

"Sir?" He question was aimed at the commander, but The young lady's attention was aimed towards the stranger on the boat, which unfortunately included the golden stream he was polluting the water with..

One Piece: Into the Horizon

After finishing his talk with the boy and elderly woman, the Marine with the eye patch looked around, and smiled. Things were going as well as could be expected, by the way he saw it, the preparations were at least a few hours ahead of schedule. To celebrate the man took in a long pull of his cigar. The cherry at the end burned brightly as it made its way down to the nub. "Enough of that." The man said to nobody in particular before flicking the still smoldering remains of his cigar aside. "Time to get back to work."

The man took a moment to examine his surroundings, hoping to zero in on a marine slacking or not going as fast as he liked. There weren't any nearby. This was a shame as the marine wasn't one who enjoyed down time. "Damn." He muttered, rubbing some of the stubble on his chin. "Everything's going a bit too well." His frown deepened. Nothing ever moved so easily unless it was build up for something big.

"No." The marine shook his head. "Don't be ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with nothing wrong." The words made sense but he couldn't bring himself to believe them for a second. "A stroll will do something good. No doubt I'll find someone slacking it. There's always someone slacking it." Faking a smile he turned and headed down a street that led to the docks. If there really wasn't anyone not giving the work in front of them a hundred percent, at least some time looking out into the ocean would calm his nerves. Maybe he'd even be around to personally greet the hire ups on arrival. He was doubtful, but stranger things had happened.

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"That bastard!" The elderly woman said, watching the marine with the eye patch walk away. "I say we kill him first."

"Now. Now. Magrat," the boy said, suddenly sounding much older than his tiny body would indicate. There was a gravel to his words that shouldn't exist in his voice for another sixty years. "Don't get your knickers in a knot. We'll get him, and even if we don't get him specifically, it'll be just as good."

The elderly woman shook her head. "He's just so smug! He looked at me as if I was an old crone!"

"There. There!" Nerdie said, putting his hand on the old woman's shoulder, before he started sliding it down her back.

"Not now." The woman hissed, slapping his hand away and forcing herself up as straight as her bent back would allow. "There's too many marines around and I don't like the look people give me in public."

The boy sighed. "Well I guess we've figured out all we need to anyways. It doesn't look like they're waiting for us at all. This really does seem like its just a big ego-stroke for the world government. Might as well head back."

The woman nodded. "Yeah. Come on." Chewing on her lip she started moving way.

"Wait. Maama!" The boy shouted, sounding suddenly ten years old again. "Don't leave me. We need to hold hands so we won't get lost, remember."

A glower was all the elderly woman could manage before she snatched the boy's hand and started pulling him along besides her. "Lousy. Rotten." There would've been more but the sounds were quickly replaced by a consistent grinding sound as upper teeth, and lower teeth, rubbed it out.

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"I say it isn't!" A marine with a rifle on his back and goggles over his eyes mouthed, pointed at the new ship on the dock. "Look at it! There's no way that's not a marine ship."

"Man." A second marine with hair down to her lower back, and a sword sheath at her side, bit her lip to repress a laugh. "That's not a marine ship. Look at its colors! "

"No. It has to be. I swear I've seen that very ship at one of the bases. Come on. I'll prove it." Without waiting for the man's partner to respond he started walking down the dock towards the newly arrived ship.

"Hey wait." The woman snapped. "You're going to get in trouble again." Frowning, she looked around to see if any pair of eyes was paying particular attention to the two of them. When she didn't see any, she grit her teeth and hurried after the man. "God damn it, Pill. We're supposed to stay right over there. "

One Piece: Into the Horizon

That's a good question.
I think we forgot about a name for the group too.
Suggestions?

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@GloopertheWooper

@jynmi88

Now, I'm going to sleep so maybe this doesn't even matter but, in my eyes, the starting post doesn't seem to have enough in terms of starting. I guess I came up with a few ideas while typing this out, so we'll see huh. Nicely written, I gotta say.

@GloopertheWooper

Hmmm. I was kind of worried that might be the case, but figured we could just start with either the character's heading to the island and noting how much activity, or the individuals wondering about either learning what's going on, reacting to what's going on, or just trying to get in and out with all the marine activity around the area. But if others have trouble I could always tweak things. No worries :)

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Of course other ideas for starting points are always welcome too.

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@ProPro@Stern Algorithm@Archmage MC@GloopertheWooper@Ryteb Pymeroce@LostDestiny

The IC is up.
I'll admit its a little bit different so if you guy's like I could try something a bit more traditional.

One Piece: Into the Horizon

Loguetown, a city on the Polestar Islands in East Blue, whom with the exception of a few steep hills, covered the entire island it rested on was always a busy place, thanks to the pirates who stopped at the city to fill up on supplies before heading out to the Grand Line, and the marines whose job it was to stop them, was busier than normal. All over the city marines, anxiously sweating, calling for things to get done, commanding the lower ranks to put various decorations here and there, and praying everything was set up before the higher up's ship's arrived in the evening.
Not everyone was happy with the ceremony. In the back alleys and cheaper pubs, pirates and civilians who'd been around long enough cursed the day, and winced at just how bitter cheap beer could taste with a bit of bad luck on the tongue. Not that they'd curse too loud with all the marines around. The damn world government had its ears and eyes all over the place. Some were it was still possible to take a shit without looking down into a seat and seeing an eyes staring back up at you.
"What's going on, mama?" A small boy asked, pointing at a group of marines, struggling to spread a giant banner from one end of the fabled execution platform.
"It's a festival, Nerdi." An elderly woman with eyes the color of robin eggs.
"A festival!" The boy's face brightened at the word. "For what mama! What're the marines celebrating."
The woman paused to look around. All the marines seemed busy with their duties, unaware of any civilians nearby. After a moment of making sure nobody was paying attention the woman continued. "There was a man, from a long time ago." She said as she squat down to talk with her child at eye level. "He was a strong man that caused the marines some trouble."
"Trouble?" Nerdi's eyes were wide with amazement at the thought of anyone able to do that. "What kind of trouble?"
Before the boy's mama could reply a large hand gently laid itself on her shoulder like a bird of prey perching on an old bent tree. "He was a pirate, and a strong one too." A large voice boomed above the woman's head. "He caused a lot of deaths and a great big heap of trouble for common folks like you and your nana." The voice belonged to a marine with a cigar in his mouth and a patch over his right eye. Grinning he patted the elderly woman on the back a little hard that was necessary, and turned his attention to the sea. "The world government got him though. With their marines and a bit of lucky we managed to capture the man some called the king of the pirates and put him to the gallows."
"Gallows?" Nerdi asked, head cocked to the side as if doing so would shuffle things around enough in his brain to get things moving.
"Gallows." The marine nodded and squat down to look the boy in the eye. "We caught'em, tied him up, and." The man made a cutting gesture across his throat. "No more pirate king, isn't that right, ma'am." The marine smiled at the elderly woman.
"Yes." The boy's nana nodded, doing her best for a neutral look.
"That was twenty years ago, today." The marine said, putting his hands in his pocket. "If that's not reason to celebrate I'm not sure what could be." Grinning he tussled the boy's hair. "It's going to be a good one too. We'll have food and drinks, an effigy, and even a few of the higher ups will stop by to say a word or two." He winked at the boy. "I'm sure you and you're nana we'll be here, right?"
With a frown the woman nodded. With amazement the boy did the same.