One Piece: Great Pirate Age RP: Sign-ups

[Aerozord]

First mates actual job is to make sure orders of the captain are followed. They are choosen on loyalty as a rule. Even Zoro follows all of Luffy's orders on those rare occasions he gives them

[Premmy]

well in that Case, this being our first major voyage WE SHALL SEEEEEEEE
edit: meaning that thing Phil Said
Edit Edit: It's certanily not gonna be Cyrano, 'Cause he's not wearing his bandana!

[Menarker]

Ok, Aerozord, I edited techniques into my bio if you can take a look just to make sure they are suitable. I only selected two techniques at the moment, since he's just starting out, has more brute ability (power/speed and all that) than techniques, and I don't think I can justify him learning how to make a energy projectile (or a projectile of any kind) out of his sword (unless I got something like a super strong extendable rope for which he could throw his sword or swing it like an oversized rope dart and have it come back.)

Edit: I never said I rejected the crew name or the bandanna. At any rate, Cyrano doesn't think of the crew as his "nakama" at the moment, although he'll definately treat them well as long as they honor his share of the loot and not attempt to screw him over. A good ally for sure... but as a first mate...? Well, it's possible, but you might wanna think a little harder...

But yeah, First Mate basically ensure that everyone obeys the captain and that no one causes mistrust or discension... which can be disasterous on a ship in the open sea. Everyone is forced to share the same cramped space, everyone has their duties to fulfill, and people attempting to shake that foundation could end up getting crew members or the entire ship destroyed/killed!

Dorian: "As long as you ride on my ship or call yourself my crewmates, except for the express purpose of disguises, you'll wear this bandanna."
Cyrano: "... Ok, ok. So be it."

[Premmy]

I am SO joking about the bandana thing, though truthfully there's always gonna be trust issues concernin mercenaries, all this considered, I'm gonna put more about Dorian's Captaining into his description once I hammer out his techniques.

[Aerozord]

if he doesn't view the crew as his nakama then that alone makes him poor first mate material.

Guys can always go with like, Crimson Bandana Pirates and have your flag be the usual skull and cross bones but with skull wearing a red bandana

Old question I forgot to answer. I will not expect you to keep inventory, just a rough idea of how your supplies and money are going so you have to think about it. Occasionally you'll need to restock, though how you do this, actual piracy, purchasing them, hunting, whatever, is up to you. But it will be a good excuse to either do non-plot specific stuff in a town or make unscheduled stops at various islands.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

if he doesn't view the crew as his nakama then that alone makes him poor first mate material.

Not a problem. Cyrano's only good trait really when it comes to potentially being first mate is that he'll watch over the crew (until it become suicidal to do so) and ensure things get done (so the crew will succeed and he gets a share of the rewards).

Either way, there are likely better choices to choose from for a first mate. ^^;

Cyrano is foremost a fighter... and a crappy shipwright if he had to improvise (his sword can be used like a saw to make planks and boards for the ship although he has no idea how to actually build or repair a ship, aside from nailing boards over holes.) The only other thing is that he is an anti-devil fruit user specialist in a way due to his weapon and being able to fight in the water.

[mauve]

We need a navigator, but, more importantly, we need a musician! Music is the heart of the pirate soul! Maybe a ship wright, too, I dunno. Mauve, get on it.

Crud. I gotta modify my Mostly Useless Guy to make him able to do something helpful. XD
Or I could give him the most counter-intuitive job on the roster, just for the lulz…. Nah, we want our crew to survive. I’ll leave Shipwright for someone else.

Aerozord, let me know if this idea is too weird. It’s something I thought up on the way home from work today, and it sounded better than my original plan.

Character Sheet
Name: Mikhail Spade
Age: 25
Appearance: Mikhail is 5’10” and relatively muscular. His hair is short and reddish-brown, and generally refuses to do anything other than spike out at odd angles. His usual attire includes a blue t-shirt, black jacket and pants, leather gloves, and boots. He wears his standard-issue red bandana tied around his neck. He thinks it looks cool. It probably doesn’t.
Position: Navigator
Weapons: Owns a sword, but prefers using his fists. His gloves are reinforced on the knuckles for punchin’ stuff.
Devil Fruit: Fortune-Fortune Fruit.
Ever have a day when you feel like everything you do goes horribly wrong? Or a day when everything inexplicably works out for the better? Mikhail has those days. All the freaking time. The Fortune-Fortune fruit affects and intensifies the user’s luck, for good or bad. When his luck is good, good things happen; anything from finding 50 beri on the ground to successfully performing a risky jump from one mast of the ship to another. When his luck is bad, he’s a magnet for accidents and misfortune. When his luck is REALLY bad… well, let’s just say he ends up in the doctor’s office more often than he’d like.

This isn’t just a problem Mikhail has to worry about-- Apparently a side-effect of the Fortune-Fortune fruit is that his luck is contagious. Usually people are only affected by Mik’s good or bad luck if he touches them—hence why he has the gloves. However, if his luck is especially strong, it can automatically affect everyone within a ten- to fifteen-foot radius of him. This can work for or against him—In a fight, his poor luck might rub off on his enemies. Alternately, his good luck might cause his crewmates to deal more damage or dodge more incoming attacks.

Mikhail has no control over when or how his fortune changes; he just has to deal with it.

Techniques: I’ll do this later.

Bio: Mikhail joined the Marines at age 17. He was immensely disappointed to find that the job actually involved work. (He figured they all just walked around on patrol for a few hours and then kicked back at the pub for the rest of the day, since that’s all they seemed to do on his home island.)

He soon came to hate his career, as well as his commanding officer. The sergeant treated Mik like he was just a lazy idiot, and it drove Mik crazy. It was a fairly accurate assessment, actually, but that didn’t mean he had to like it! So when the Sergeant sent Mik’s company to intercept a small-time smuggler and gave them strict orders to bring back every single item he had, Mik decided to be a smartass and keep some for himself instead.

Being a bit of a coward, Mikhail ended up only pocketing a small, unmarked box that he figured no one would really miss. Later inspection revealed that it contained nothing more than a piece of fruit. That was disappointing: Mik went to all the trouble of sneaking stolen property past his sergeant and his entire team, and it turned out to be a part of the smuggler’s lunch. Mik ate it anyway, out of spite.

Through a series of incidents over the next few days (and a near-death experience involving falling off a dock into the sea), Mik realized the contents of the box had been a Devil Fruit. At first he tried to keep the whole thing a secret, and for a while, it worked. He made a small fortune playing cards against other Marines, and though they suspected him of cheating, were unable to prove anything. But his luck inevitably changed for the worse, and in one fell swoop he was proclaimed a thief and a liar, and shortly after was dishonorably discharged from the Marines.

Out of a job and shunned by everyone on his home island, Mikhail took to the seas, using what knowledge he gleaned from his time as a Marine to make a living as a pirate. On the plus side, he’s slightly less of a jerk than he used to be. Or so he says.

[Aerozord]

Mauve, definitely not too strange for this story. though your devil fruit is abit tricky, you know you can have more control over it then you have. Like left hand bestows good-luck and your right grants bad. Even train it so its not automatic or indirect ways of granting it, duration, ect.

The power is fine for the setting, there are some that are outside the users control, but reading it I got the impression you were trying to balance it. Which isn't nessicary since you automatically get the usual devil fruit weaknesses. So if you want your character to have more control like I suggested before feel free to.

Ok it seems we got a good number of people for the RP. I'll wait till later today to actually start it incase there are any more changes you guys would like or late entries. Let me repeat sign-ups are still open. Even when the RP starts, like the series, I will have no issue adding people mid-voyage. So they will stay open until we reach ten people

[krogothwolf]

Character Sheet
Name: Rugnar Rudolph
Age: 26
Appearance: Rugnar is 6’0 and wirey. His hair is Brown and he wears Bandana over it covering most of it up. He has a Blue vest along with blue pants. Other then that there is nothing remarkable about him.
Position: Grunt/Theif
Weapons: Sabre and Dagger. Fights 2 handed Sabre in one hand and dagger in the other.
Devil Fruit: Paramecia - Glue-Glue Fruit. This allows the person to create and manipulate Glue from the palm of his hands, and is immune to sticky like substances/abilities himself.

He can has the following techniques

Cling Palms: Allows him to cling to things, such as walls and such to climb or weapons and objects

Sticky Bombs: Can create balls of glue that he would be able to throw at enemies, having them explode and covering them in glue.

Glue Bullets: Can form small wads of harden Glue and fire them at the enemies as if they were pistols.

Bio:
Rugnar was an average kid with an average life, but had an appetite for treasure. He was always trying to find treasure in the forests, or even steal treasure from others. He was always getting in trouble for this, but usually nothing serious happened as he was just a kid after all. But things changed as he got older, a new rich Fop had moved into town to start a business. Rugnar figured it’d be a great idea to see what he could get from the man’s house while he was out. During his rummaging he noticed a chest that when unlocked had a fruit in it, this seemed odd to him so he snuck away with the fruit while locking the chest.

Taking it out of town to ponder why a fruit would be in a chest he got hungry and said screw it all and scarfed the fruit down. Well, that certainly changed everything for him. He could now create glue from his palms and allow him to use it as he felt lile. This gave him a great opportunity of thieving and stealing. For the next 2 years he hid his powers well, while going about and moving quickly to pilfer and taking things in his ever lust for treasure. Well, just so happened that the rich man had been paying attention to the boy as he had his suspicions about who ate his fruit. He finally caught Rugnar in the act one day and rallied the town around him to catch the foolish boy. Rugnar realized his problems and quickly ran away from the town before a mob could form, and he kept running, going from town to town leaving as he got spotted stealing, but never caught as he used his abilities to slow down his pursues. Eventually he heard about position on a Pirate ship and figured that it’d be a great way to get even more treasure! Thus he went off to sign up to become a scurvy pirate hunting for treasure.

[Menarker]

I'm honestly suprised that no one wants a logia character. They are some of the most powerful characters in the manga and always a foe to be reckoned with.