Did you hear him right? The Marines did this? No that’s impossible. You’ve seen some corruption in the Navy, your old captain is a prime example… but making an entire village disappear for no good reason? The Marines were the ones who alerted them of the situation in the first place! Alfonso and Marianne look just as confused, but their faces turn grim just as quickly. It seems the wounds from Captain Blue’s betrayal still runs deep. You must get to the bottom of this, you’ve had enough of rotten marines.
The man is distraught, it won’t be easy to get any more information out of him.

Attempt to calm the man down, and roll a 1d100

Rolled 29

>>22553019
Tell him that we will get to the bottom of this and punish those who did this to them, but we need them to tell us what happened so we can help.

We're turning into the Internal Affairs division of the Marines.

Why does your logo look like a pair of tits? o_O

Rolled 76

>>22553019

Rolled 54

shit calm down son

Your reassurances do not do much to help calm the man's hysteria, but he at least looks willing to talk to you. You don't know how much you will be able to ask him before his paranoia shuts him up again.

>Ask the man a question
>Have Alfonso pose a question
>Have Marianne pose a question

>>22553146
Not Marianne, she's probably in an extremely bad mood and is ready to kill something. Note to self, give her head pats when she does well.

Let's ask him a question, we're charismatic. Ask him for details about the attacks, if he remembers any names, distinguishing features, when they came and where they came from, information is key.

>>22553146
Tell Alfonso to ask what happens. he's decent with people.

>>22553184
And then head pats all around

>>22553146
Alfonso. He's awesome at people skills. Ask him for any details about what happened.

You know how good Alfonso is with people, and quietly ask him if he could try to find out what happened.

Alfonso carefully walks up to the ragged man and sits down in front of him. "Friend, it's alright, we're here to make sure everything turns out alright. We don't know if those men were actually marines, but even if they are, we'll do what it takes to get your friends and family back." The man looks at Alfonso through stifled sobs and nods, wiping away the snot hanging from his nose. Alfonso smiles gently, "What happened here?"

The man tries to put a brave face on as he speaks again, "Th-they came this morning. We didn't even see the ship. W... we didn't see them at first... a few people went missing including children, so we called it in to the Navy. When the Navy arrived, we were so relieved but then they... they just started firing into houses and taking hostages... they... they were looking for..." he breaks into sobs again.

Roll1d100 to see if you can get him to continue

Rolled 59

>>22553326
We need more info.

Rolled 62

Wooo time for Justice

Rolled 12

>>22553326
I actually wouldn't be surprised if we told the Navy to fuck off if we found out some of nastier things they did on a regular basis. That'll be a funny day.

Rolled 19

>>22553326

For Justice!

Rolled 61

>>22553326
Tell him in the name of justice he must talk

>>22553341
Truly the greatest form of justice

The man's words are harder to make out through his sobs, "They.. they were looking for... for someone... some... Jeremiah guy..." He bursts into tears and shakes uncontrollably on the floor. The recent events were clearly too much for him. You don't think you could get anything more out of him.

You tell the man that there is a Navy ship at the end of the docks... a REAL Navy ship. He doesn't move, and you don't know if he will actually go.

Having gone through the house, you walk back outside. There is still the ransacked bar and empty well, everything else looks like it's on the verge of collapse.

>Consult with officers
>Investigate well
>Investigate bar

>>22553402
Consult with our buds. We need to figure out wtf is going on, and how far they'd be willing to go to stop this tragedy

>>22553402

Let's consult.

I forget, are either of our officers good at investigation?

>>22553419
Both are fair I think

>>22553402
Consult the officers. All of them.

>>22553402
>Consult with officers

First, make it clear that it doesn't matter if the culprits were marines or people pretending to marines, they shall be brought to Justice just the same. Then ask for their opinions on the situation, who they think this Jeremiah fellow is, and where to start looking for clues.

>>22553419

Alfonso is poor at investigation, and Marianne is fair. The good Captain is excellent at investigation.

Rolled 84

>>22553455
Time to do some work ourself. Rolling to investigate.

>>22553471
Where are you trying to investigate?

>Consult your officers

You ask your officers what they make of the situation so far.

Marianne begins, "Sir! It is difficult to know the entire truth so far! It's... disturbing to think that the Navy did this sir! But the possibility is not out until we confront these men! Sir! I should let you know that I will not hesitate in executing justice! Marines or not, what was done here is a crime! They will be called to their actions, sir!" She ends with a salute, and you thank her.

Alfonso scratches his chin as he ponders, "I agree with Marianne, with what we know it's too soon to figure out what really happened here. It doesn't help that our one witness is half mad. I'm also wondering about this Jeremiah fellow he was talking about. They said they were looking for him... they were desperate enough to tear apart an entire town just to find him... why is he so important? Marianne do you know of any pirates named Jeremiah?"

Marianne shakes her head as she salutes again, "Lt. Commander! I do not recall of any Jeremiah of any noteworthy bounty! There are a couple rookies, but it wouldn't make sense for them to be here at the Grand Line! Sir!"

It seems you and your officers are still at a loss of what has really happened here.

>investigate well
>investigate bar
>any more questions for officers

>>22553536
Investigate the bar
Maybe we can find more people

>>22553536
>investigate bar

Bar first, then well. Let's flex our investigation muscles.

>>22553536

Let's check out the bar, I guess.

>>22553491
Shit, that'd be smart. The bar, first.

>>22553536
Investigate the Bar. If they were wrecking up the place it should have some clues.

You and your officers enter the bar. The place is an absolute mess, tables overturned, glass shattered on the floor, and the unmistakable stench of alcohol clinging to the air.

There doesn't appear to be anyone in here.

roll 1d100 for investigation

Rolled 88

>>22553607
I hope we find more than Just Ice.
Get it Just Ice?

Rolled 53

>>22553607
Rollin'!

Rolled 54

>>22553607
Investigatan!

>>22553625
How can you find more than justice? There is nothing greater!

>>22553536
"It might not be Pirates those marines were looking for Marianne. If they were a corrupt officer, i'd want to make sure no one knew of my sour acts. We saw that before with our cabin boy, does anyone know of any noteworthy Marine men by that name?"

>>22553607
I was wondering how you handle the rolls, Admiral. Do you just take the first one, or do you average them, or what?

You and your officers scour the bar. Unlike the home, you find the bar to yield more curious clues.

The most obvious thing to you, is that all of the liquor behind the bar was either stolen, or drunk on the spot with the bottle left behind. Curious behavior from marines of the Navy... but if they are half the wretches you imagine them to be you wouldn't put it past them to degrade to this sort of behavior.

The next thing you find is a map behind the counter, hanging by the wall. The map used to be in a glass frame, but the most recent patrons shattered it for good measure. You pick up the map and confirm that it details the island. You notice the port you are currently in, and the only other settlement on the small island: the mining facility.

Marianne asks for your attention again, and you're eager to hear what she has to say, "Sir! There's something odd about the room." you ask her to continue, "Sir! The way the room is ruined, it doesn't suggest that there was a fight or the kind of wanton destruction seen in the other homes. Sir! There are no weapon marks, no bullet holes, no attempt at arson... it's as if... it's as if they just had a rowdy party and left."

So we've learned a few more things about our marine friends...

>keep looking
>investigate the well
>investigate the road leading out of town
>consult officers

>>22553743

I adapt to how many rolls I'm getting. Rolls are also influenced by the officers you have with you, and how good the dear Captain is at whatever he is trying to do.

>>22553784
Investigate the well

>>22553784
Let's keep looking. Why didn't they wreck this place?

Rolled 23

>>22553833

i agree. there could be people hiding at the bottom or just corpses. either way, the potential for clues is high.

rolling for well investigation.

>>22553784
Keep looking, this is weird.

Ah, to hang on desperately for tie breakers.

If someone votes for "keep looking" again roll a 1d100 to save me just asking you for a 1d100 after a short blurb.

Rolled 93

>>22553926
Keep looking, ill change my vote for now

Rolled 97

>>22553926
Keep looking.

>>22553951
>>22553953
Keeping these.

Rolled 14

>>22553953
>>22553951
hot damn, is that a critical success?

>>22553967
er forgot to take of my roll

>>22553014
can i play guise?

Fumbles
male
Sharpshooter
on the double!
M24 Sniper weapon system

>>22553977
Doesnt work that way

>>22553951
>>22553953

These threads have a habit of dominating rolls when they actually matter.


You continue to search the bar, in hope for any sort of clue as to what happened. You trip and somersault once before comically falling flat on your face. Alfonso bursts out laughing, gouts of tears coming from his eyes, and Marianne only puts her mouth up to her face with wide eyes.

You curse enough to make a pirate blush, and you look back to see what the hell tripped you. It was just a rug behind the bar, but your trip removed enough of the rug to reveal a trap door!

You call the others to you and fully reveal the entrance. The door is huge, and both you and Alfonso had to work together to pry it open. You expected some kind of basement, or more villagers hiding from the marauding marines, but there is only a long and dark tunnel that seems to continue for you're not sure how long. What is this tunnel? An escape route?

>consult officers
>investigate well
>investigate road leading out of town

>>22553985

how playd game?

>>22554035
Can we go down the dark tunnel?

Rolled 46

>>22554035
Investigate that shit!

>>22554035
We should probably investigate that tunnel. But first check the well, I wouldn't be surprised if they met up.

>>22554035
>Marianne only puts her mouth up to her face

Where is it normally?

>>22554080
Fine investigate the well next we can ask the villager if he knows about the tunnel

>>22554035
Investigate that road! I smell crime afoot.

>>22554080

Plus, we don't want to skip the well if the tunnel does lead out of town.

>>22554088
Smartass.
Still laughed.

>>22554088

Yea and then there are typos that will evade every type of proofreading you do.

You don't think you could go down the tunnel right now. If you just uncovered it, then the culprits must have missed it as well. Not to mention you have no lamp to lead you through!

You decide to investigate the well before the sun fully sets. You walk over to it and look down. Just darkness. There is a rope though, and you start pulling it up. Suddenly, it jerks around! What's with the resistance? You hurry Alfonso over to help you pull up whatever is trying so hard to stay down there. You continue for about half a minute, Alfonso and yourself looking like you're battling some monstrous fish that doesn't want to get caught.

With only a little straining you finally go for a titanic effort, and out pops a little crying girl! The girl flies into the air from your excessive use of strength, and lands neatly in Marianne's arms, crying all the way. She takes one good look at you, Alfonso, and then Marianne before sobbing all over again. Alfonso starts laughing hysterically again, and Marianne looks like she has no idea with what to do in this situation as she awkwardly holds the crying girl.

"I-I.. I WANT... W-WANT MY MOMMYYYYYY" The waterworks continue to jet from her eyes.

ROLL 1d100 FOR SKILLS WITH CHILDREN

Rolled 16

>>22554290

Oh shit, let's hope we're good with kids.

Rolled 67

>>22554290

Rolled 34

>>22554290
We are guided by justice. Justice loves children.

Rolled 64

>>22554290
It is time for GENTLE JUSTICE HUGS and KINDLY HEADPATS!

Rolled 74

>>22554334
Are you sure?

Rolled 88

>>22554364
seconding the headpats

>>22554290
Oh god, where's Rosewood, somehow she'll be excellent with children.

or a pedophile.

>>22554439

At the very least, she'll probably be able to teach the kid how to work the cannons. Let's put the brat to work!

You're glad you have experience with younger siblings as you attempt to calm the girl down.

The little girl hasn't stopped crying, but you ask her where her mom is.

"MOMMMY WAS TAKEN BY BAD GUUUUUYS!" the water pressure seems to increase after being reminded of her mommy again.

You ask the little girl if she knows what the bad men looked like.

"THEY LOOKED LIKE YOUUUUU. I DON'T WANT TO BE 'MOOTLATED'" her kindergarten pronunciation of 'mutilated' pulls on your heart strings.

You assure that girl that she won't be 'mutilated', and that you're good guys who want to save your mom.

The girl's floodgates close shut immediately when she hears a possibility to see her mom again, "Really? You'll bring mommy back?" she sniffles a bit as she says this.

You say you will, but you need her to a brave little marine and answer some questions to help save her mommy. She wipes her eyes and nose and looks up with a determined face before giving you a sloppy salute. You hear a quiet "kawaii~" escape from Marianne's lips and look up to see her eyes have turned into stars.

>Ask the little girl a question

>>22554624
>You hear a quiet "kawaii~" escape from Marianne's lips and look up to see her eyes have turned into stars.

why am I not shocked about this?

>>22554624
Ask her if she know what way they went

>>22554624
Give her a head pat, tell her she's being a strong marine.

Then ask if she remembers anything about the bad men who stole her mommy, anything that we could use to identify them. And just as importantly ask if she knows where the bad people took her, what direction they came from and went.

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>>22554665

>>22554678
This sounds good to me.

>>22554039

playing is the standard hivemind setup. We all play as 'Captain David Abrams'. we vote on what actions to take, roll for them when Fleet Admiral wants, then decide upon the next course of action based on the results of our previous one. sometimes we have goals or objectives, sometimes we work on mad/hair-brained schemes. the usual hivemind stuff.


>>22554624
having been down a well for a period of time, i would assume that the poor girl must be soaking wet and cold. we should give her our jacket (because we are hero like that) and personally carry her to our ship on our shoulders. once we have her on the ship, we can ask her if she know which way the bad guys went? then get Big Ocean to get her cleaned up and warmed up with a good meal, while we go and take care of business and dispense some much needed JUSTICE!!!

>>22554743
Do this, fucking now

>>22554668
>>22554743
Changing to this

You pat the little girl on the head, telling her she's doing a fine job, and ask if she knows where her mom was taken.

"I don't know! Mommy put me in here so the bad men wouldn't see me! But I don't know where they went."

You ask her if she knows what they looked like.

"They looked like you! Only scarier... One of them had cannons instead of arms!"

Odd. You don't know anyone in the Navy with cannons arms, maybe it was just her imagination. You ask her if she remembers anything else.

"Yea! Some of the bad men were talking beside the well! And they... they said..." she puts on a gruff deep voice as much as her tiny vocal cords can manage "We won't stop until we find him! We need... we need to get it back! Yarharharhar!"

That laugh... could it be? Or was it just a poor impression? Before you can ask anymore questions the girl has fallen asleep in Marianne's arms.

The culprits have been on the run for too long, and you don't know how much time you have before it goes from bad to worse. You need to go after these scumbags now! But you can't leave the little girl here...

>Have Marianne take the little girl back to the ship
>Have Alfonso take the little girl back to the ship

Whoever you choose will take a while catching back up with you.

>>22554859
Send Alfonso back with her

>>22554859
Send Alfonso back, we're likely to need to fight things soon and we want our swordy girl with us.

Also we can ask her if she knows anything about anyone with cannon arms.

Make sure to give the little girl our Jacket to keep her warm.

>>22554859
Alfonso the gentle giant, voting.

>>22554891
Seconded. He's not as good at investigation and is probably better with kids.

>>22554891

seconding this motion. though do tell him to make sure that Big Ocean looks after her.

>>22554859
Do we think we might know this cannon-armed punk?

Also, send Alfonso back. We need some more time with Marianne. Al's gotten plenty of time in the spotlight.

You pick up the little girl from Marianne's arms and gently wrap her in your coat. You then order Alfonso to take the girl to the ship, and have Big Ocean take care of her. You give him strict orders that Big Ocean is to do a quick checkup to make sure she's not sick and then give her as much warm food as she wants. Alfonso start to leave and you add that there is no rush, the girl's safety takes priority.

You go over to Marianne and ask her for suggestions.

"Sir! It would be wise to pursue the pirates immediately!"

Pirates? So your suspicions are confirmed. You ask Marianne to elaborate.

"Sir! It was the little girl's story. The obnoxious pirate laugh, that got me thinking about any pirates with cannons for arms and I know of one: Captain J. B. Bullough, of the Strongarm Pirates, sir!"

You breathe a sigh of relief. So they aren't marines.

"Sir! I think our best course of action is to go to the mining facility! It would be logical that that is where the pirates would look next for "Jeremiah". We could go through the main road, or we could take a chance with that tunnel in the bar, although I have no idea where it could actually lead. Sir!"

You agree with Marianne.

>take the main road
>risk the tunnel

>>22555105
Risk the tunnels, it'll let us take them by surprise and the closer quarters will make the best use of our punching and Marianne's swording.

>>22555105

Let's risk the tunnel.

>>22555127
If we go through the tunnel, which i'd like to do, I suggest we get a torch or some shit

>>22555105
Take the tunnel. My ADVENTURE sense is tingling.

>>22555105
We can safely assume that if a little girl was able to avoid the pirates then the tunnel is a possible sink of time and or dead end. I say we have a go on the main road, at least we'll have to room to defend ourselves in the open as well!

>>22555178
The tunnel may lead to allies or a secret entrance to fight these guys. No reason not to explore them

You give Marianne a devious grin and announce loudly that you two will be taking the tunnel!

"But we don't have a torch."

Ah. I guess you could look around for a lamp, or just take one of the burning pieces of debris from one of the houses.

>look for lamp roll1d100
>take burning debris

Rolled 17

>>22555206
Look for a lamp. If we can't find one we'll improvise.

Rolled 62

>>22555206

preferable we could use a lamp. but the burning debris will do if we can't quickly locate one.

rolling for lamp hunt.

Rolled 15

>>22555206
Try to find a lamp.

Rolled 97

>>22555206
Look for lamp

Rolled 50

>>22555206
rollan

Rolled 80

>>22555206
The fire will burn brightly for those with the burning glory of JUSTICE

>>22555230
hot diggity daffodil

You search as much as you can for a lamp to reliably guide your way through the tunnel, but you're unable to find anything that isn't broken or out of oil.

I guess you'll have to settle for a makeshift torch!

You descend into the tunnels with Marianne. You both carry torches, and can see about 10 feet in front and behind you reliably enough.

You continue down the tunnels for half an hour.

roll1d100

Rolled 36

>>22555308
Rollin'

Rolled 5

>>22555308
For get Glory

Rolled 32

>>22555308
rollan

>>22555322
>>22555327
>>22555334
Welp..

Rolled 15

>>22555308
Rollan for spelunking

Rolled 70

>>22555308
For great Justice!

Rolled 1

>>22555308
JUSTICE!

As you continue to walk through the unknown tunnel, your torch accidentally bumps into the ceiling and falls to the floor. It is broken to pieces and extinguished, you only have one torch left!

Your vision has been reduced slightly. Marianne carries the last remaining torch, you're sure it's safe in her hands.

You continue travelling through the tunnels with no stop in sight. You do notice that you have started walking on an incline for about five minutes.

roll1d100

Rolled 43

>>22555383
God
Damn
It

Rolled 97

>>22555399
Upward incline or downward incline?

Rolled 31

>>22555399
>>22555406
That was an accidental roll, but you can keep it if you want to, if not take this one

Rolled 7

>>22555347

looks like we have gone the wrong way. not helpful in the slightest. either that, or we have just walked right into the middle of them

>>22555383
DAMN IT!!! STOP SHOUTING JUSTICE OUT OF COMBAT!!! the dice gods will continue to taunt us!!!

>>22555399
rolling cause whats the worst that could happen now?

>>22555420
Let's just stop here.

Rolled 73

>>22555399
For low Justice!

Exiting coming up,

You continue upwards, wherever the tunnel may lead. The time passes by uneventfully, with only Marianne having a little scare at something she refuses to explain.

Finally you arrive at a metal door. Marianne looks about ready to draw her sword to cut it apart, but you reach your hand forward and just push it open.

You pass the door into a much larger tunnel, this one is well lit, with torches spread in a pattern on the wall. On the ground there are two sets of rail tracks. You guess that this is one of the mines.

To your left you notice the tunnel going further back up, presumably back above ground, you hear some voices in that direction.

To your right you hear nothing in particular, and the tunnel continues downwards into the mine.

>Go left
>Go right

>>22555546
Head left, stay quiet, gather whatever information we can, then decide whether we're cutting them apart or if we'll head deeper and try to avoid raising alarms until we find the boss.

>>22555546
LEFT, the RIGHTEOUS DIRECTION

>>22555546
Go left
also I bet you it was a spider

>>22555546
Gotta go left bruh

You head left. The voices don't become clearer, but they certainly become louder.

You see the entrance straight ahead, and stop dead in your tracks as you see a pair of marines... no, pirates... standing guard over the entrance to the mine.

The man and little girl were right! They're in marine uniforms! Are these really pirates? Marianne taps your shoulder and points at the uniforms. You look closer and you realize what she's pointing out. Blood. Blood stains the fabric of the uniforms, and the fabric is torn in places. So, these pirates raided a marine ship, killed the captain and her crew, and took the uniforms so that they could go play dress up.

It makes you sick to your stomach, and you light a cigar you had in your pocket and take a few puffs. Marianne looks horrified as you blatantly give away your position.

One of the pirates turns around, "Hey!" then the other one, "what are you doing back up here? Don't you know you're supposed to stay nice and quiet until we get... hey... YOU'RE MARI-"

Before he finishes you dash forward and grab both of the pirates by their skulls. You slam their heads together and relish the loud crack that's made.

"Dismissed.", and you take another puff of your cigar.

Marianne rushes over to cuff the pirates and gag them. You take note of them as she does this, there's no doubt about it. The bad hygiene, the stink of alcohol, the myriad of tattoos. These men are pirates dressed as marines.

>investigate outside the tunnel, roll1d100
>go back down into the tunnel

Rolled 26

>>22555829
Time to investigate

Rolled 100

>>22555829
WE SHALL BRING THEM TO JUSTICE

>>22555829
>>go back down into the tunnel

Let's take the guys we knock out, drag them with us, and hide the bodies further down a bit, and then march down the tunnel.

>>22555858
Jeus
Christ.
Justice...IT WORKED

>>22555858
holy shit. my first 100

Rolled 73

>>22555829
Investigate harder!

>>22555858
OH SHIT NIGGA

>>22555865
>>22555870
note to self: channel Javert more

>>22555881
Does this mean we should start singing if we want to roll well?

After concealing the bodies of the unconscious pirates as best you can, you and Marianne continue outside of the tunnel.

Coming out of the entrance you see a large square, with tents and various buildings organized around it. Working frantically around the mining camp is a swarm of disguised pirates, tearing the place apart to look for Jeremiah or whatever the hell it was that he stole. You notice that many of the men looking don't look like pirates. They must be the abducted villagers, but where are the women and children.

"You don't get food or rest until you find that rat Jeremiah or that damned chest!" You hear a deep booming voice from the center of the square. On a pedestal stands an enormously obese man with cannons for arms. Captain J. B. Bullough.

One of the men from the village collapses from exhaustion after trying to move a crate of ore. Bullough shrieks at the man and shoots him with one of his cannon arms, obliterating him and anything close by.

You're tired of hiding, you start to get up to walk up and punch Bullough in that fat pirate face of his. Before you leave your hiding spot, Bullough's continues screaming out orders, "SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T WORK?! Work faster you lazy no good landlubbers! You stop working and I detonate the explosives and blow apart your precious mine and everyone in it to THE MOON! YARHARHARHARHAR!" The bastard is holding the mine hostage! There are more people down there?

Roll a 1d100

>continue into the camp roll an additional 1d100
>go back into the mine

>>22556033
Show tunes worked for a bit in Ogre Quest, so why can we use Javerts songs

Rolled 9

>>22556040
Yohoho and a bottle of rum

Rolled 77

>>22556040
Get back in the mines. We need to find those bombs.

>>22556040
>go back into the mine

We need to disarm the explosives.

>>22556068
Hm, actually yeah. Are we sure the bombs are down there? if not drag one of the unconscious pirates and wake him up to get the information on where they are

Rolled 28

>>22556040
Back to the mines. Disarm bombs, get the hostages out through the tunnel.

Rolled 84

>>22556066
Pirate filth
>>22556040
FOR GREAT JUSTICE (disarm bombs?)

>>22556040
Back to the mines. Find the bombs.

Rolled 85

>>22556040
Dude holy shit mines.

We gotta save those people.

>>22555858

see, JUSTICE only works when it is truly needed. until then, it will not aid you.

You've decided to head back into the tunnels to find the damn explosives and get those people out of there!

"JUUUUSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCEEEE!"

A loud voice suddenly rings out from across the mining facility like a mighty hammer falling on an anvil. Alfonso came back! But you forgot to tell him you went through the tunnel! You and Marianne share a look of horror as Alfonso proceeds to butcher his way through the swarm of pirates. Up and down goes his mighty tetsubo. With each swing a pirate goes flying into the air, but two more appear in his place. Alfonso continues to tear through the pirates like a giant terrier in a rat warren. Two loud booms pierce the air, and Bullough's cannonballs slam into Alfonso, slowing his berserker pace.

You move to go help him, but Marianne holds you back as the mass of pirates begins to overwhelm Alfonso.

"YARHARHAR! You stupid marine! Thought you could save all of these people did you? NO ONE GETS THE BEST OF THE STRONGARM PIRATES!" a cheer comes up from the pirate crew.

Damn it Alfonso, you just couldn't hold yourself back could you.

>Alfonso has been captured! The pirates are more alert now

You move deeper into the tunnels, going past where you originally started. You see the wire that seems to connect the explosives to Bullough's switch, but you're not trained enough in such things to know if it's wise to disconnect it. The tunnel opens up ahead and you and Marianne hug the wall before you're spotted.

You hear sobs and whispers, and you're all but sure that the women and children are being held hostage in the next area. You can't see them but there has to be more pirates guarding them. Marianne has her hand on her katana, she gives you a determined nod.

How do you procede?

>rush them roll1d100
>attemp to sneak in roll1d100
>go back up the tunnel

Rolled 64

>>22556301
Fuck it.
Rush and kill the pirates

Rolled 88

>>22556301
Deliver Justice to these poor fools, rush them.

Rolled 17

>>22556301
We can't risk them alerting the other pirates. Sneaking time.

Rolled 81

>>22556301
>Sneak in

NO YELL STEALTH

Rolled 45

>>22556301
It's time for STEALTH

Rolled 67

>>22556301
RUSH THE COWARDLY PIRATE SCUM! AVENGE OUR FALLEN BROTHERS! FOR JUSTICE!

Rolled 74

>>22556301
Slaughter these pirate scum, for Justice and to sate our fangirl's blood lust.

>>22556340

Using a spoiler to hide your battle cry while sneaking around? Very clever.

>>22556404
I fucking love our fangirl

>>22556416
She's adorable. She deserves head pats after this slaughterfest.

>>22556424
Absolutely
In fact Head Pats all around

The time for stealth is over, you give Marianne a nudge and charge through the gate.

You slam your fist into the first person you see wearing a marine coat. The body goes flying across the room and collapses a set of crates. You continue this pattern a few more times before you start to look for anyone threatening the villagers.

You see a pirate raise his pistol at a little girl. Time slows down as you rush forward to take him out. His finger begins to cock the gun. You're not going to make it in time. The gun is cocked. The finger begins to pull... and his hand begins to fall of the sputtering stump of his arm. Marianne kicks the fake marine in the stomach for good measure, making him collapse while he screams in pain.

You breathe a sigh of relief as you and Marianne fight around the prisoners protectively. Your punches have no lack of targets, and you could practically just wave your arm out to hit a pirate.

Marianne's defense is impeccable, her stance changes fluidly as the attacker's try to get past her. The movements she makes with her sword makes it look as if she was wielding water, and not a metal blade.

After a few more minutes, the pirates are done. Your rush strategy seems to have worked, but you're not sure you could have forgiven yourself if you were a second too late.

>talk to the prisoners
>find the explosives 1d100
>lead the prisoners out of the tunnel

Rolled 39

we should tell the women and children to escape through the tunnel leading to the bar.
something fun to do would be to move Bullough's explosives to a location very near his derriere. that way, when he is loosing and he threatens to blow the mine, we can taunt him into doing it. The look on his face will be priceless once he finds out the hard way what we done to his precious explosives...

rolling to locate explosives for above mentioned plan...

Rolled 21

>>22556514
>>22556531
This...I like this

Rolled 99

>>22556514
Ugh... we should get these people out of here, but there might not be time. Searching.

>>22556514
Headpat Marianne, she did good and she saved a little girl.

Then talk to the prisoners, see if they know the explosive locations, and then we'll search for them.

Rolled 80

>>22556531
You, I like you. Rolling for his plan, Justice can be ironic. Poetic Justice yes?

>>22556514
Talk to the prisoners and tell them how to follow the tunnel to the bar. Warn them not to exit though, Alphonse let the pirates know we're here and they could be searching the town.

>>22556562
The best kind of justice

Rolled 78

>>22556531
do eet

You decide not to bother the poor citizens with any questions. You let them know that the men involved are actually pirates, and that the real navy is here to help.

You give them directions to the hidden passage to the bar and tell them that there is a Navy warship waiting at the docks that will assisst them.

Once all of the people have filed out, you and Marianne get to work finding the explosives. After a minute, you find a crude satchel filled with explosive material, and Marianne brings you two more. They're all connected to the same wire, and you're sure there aren't any more. Marianne plucks the cigar out of your mouth and tosses it away. Ah, yea that could have been bad.

You look over the explosives with no idea on how to disarm them.

...wait, maybe you don't have to disarm them, just relocate them, and you know the perfect spot.

You now have the explosives!

You head back up the tunnel with explosives in hand, careful not to accidentally disconnect any of the wires.

You're back at the entrance of the tunnel. Alfonso is now set up on a stick, stripped and bare for all to see at the entrance of the mine... those bastards. Bulloughs is at the center of it all, you just have to get the explosives near enough...

Roll1d100 and decide what to do

Rolled 75

>>22556738
Sneak, place the explosives so that the rubble coming down takes out as many of the pirates as possible.

Once they're in place we start a commotion, start punching, and don't mention that we know about the "hostages", he'll try to save himself by saying he has hostages, we bluff him into pressing it and then it goes boom!

Rolled 91

>>22556799
Do this. Seems like the best choice of action

Rolled 18

>>22556738

since all the pirates are wearing marine uniforms, we blend in with them, planting 2 of the explosives near clusters of his men and the last one near him.

rolling for 'hiding in plain sight'

Rolled 60

>>22556738
FIST OF JUSTICE, to all those involved with the disgracing of our comrade in arms!

>>22556799

We have to be careful. There's civilians out here too, we can't risk blowing them up. That would be uncool.

Rolled 9

>>22556738
Fastball special! into his cannon arms!
He cant use them least he kill himself and he knows it!

Rolled 84

>>22556799
I also agree with this plan of action.

>>22556854
But do make sure that there are no civilians in the way of the rubble

>>22556854

Wait, what do we do if he just threatens to kill Alphonse instead?

>>22556896
We improvise.

You tell Marianne to stay hidden for now while you hide the explosive. You order her that if you get captured that she should go back into the tunnel to save herself, there's been enough heroics for one day.

You start to move into the crowd of pirates. Your uniform actually works as the perfect disguise. If a certain pirate gets too suspicious then you just dissappear into the busy crowd. Still, just being around this many criminals is hard enough for you. It takes all of your willpower to not attack them... You don't know if you can keep it up anymore...

roll1d100 for holding back justice

Rolled 60

>>22556915
ROLLAN TO NOT KILL PEOPLE

Rolled 83

>>22556915
Justice knows when it is time to strike and when it is time to wait.

Rolled 90

>>22556915
C'mon, Abrams, you're better than that.

Rolled 44

>>22556915
We must temper our Justice like it were steel

Rolled 17

>>22556896

we tell him that Alphonse would rather die than be used as a bargaining chip to pirates and that we are all willing to sacrifice ourselves to save the innocent civilians. that should encourage him to switch to threatening the 'hostages'.

>>22556915
justice will be served, but it will be done so in a spectacular and memorable way.

Rolled 39

>>22556915
Sometimes controlled justice is the best justice

Rolled 14

>>22556915
My justice.. it's moving on it's own.

>>22556960
oh god it is

Rolled 17

>>22556915
NOT FOR JUSTICE

These rolls>>22556934
>>22556938
>>22556944
And then these rolls>>22556949
>>22556960
>>22556970
What are we even?

>>22556984
Justic incarnate

>>22556984
Duh, we're starting out great then fucking up at the end.

wait oh shit

>>22556984

Maybe we'll hold back, but mutter angrily about Justice under our breath.

You raise your fist to crush the nearest pirate skull... NO! You can do this! The people of this island are counting on you! There's more at stake here than just punishing criminals!

You continue through the pirate camp. All of them look so busy looking for whatever it is they're looking for.

"You! In the fancy suit!"

You freeze, it seems some kind of pirate overseer has singled you out. You turn towards the voice, putting on your best pirate sneer.

"Yea, you. Aren't you supposed to be in the mines guarding the prisoners? What's your name again?" The overseer is apparently not familiar enough with this massive crew to pick you apart. He's a thin wiry pirate, but you don't doubt his abilities since he's out here on the Grand Line.

What do you do? Roll1d100

Rolled 24

>>22557023
Me? No, after we found that Marine dog the Cap'n sent me to the town. Did'n find much out there

Rolled 8

>>22557023

Bluff like a motherfucker, give him a fake name, and say someone took over your shift.

Rolled 89

>>22557023
Headpat is in order, to crush his puny skull!

Rolled 91

>>22557023
Bluffin'.

"'m Bartleby. Boss sent me to get more bombs in case those damn Marines come back."

Rolled 29

>>22557023
"It's James. Got one of the others to take my place for a bit so I could stretch me legs, GWAHAHAHAHA."

>>22557056
>>22557048

Oh dear, is lying... unjust?

Rolled 53

>>22557023
Oi I want ta grab a drink then piss ant land lubber an't gonig no waer ya hahahah

Rolled 94

>>22557023
"I'm Jackson. One of the boys back in the mine's takin' my shift cause I got thirsty. Where's the rum?"

Rolled 39

>>22557023

"ahhhh, ummm i was uggghhh....
ach! i found some really fancy stuff in one of the buildings and i was going to stash it... but you can have it if ye let me off...."
then, when he come to look at the stuff, we give him a close up of our FISTS OF JUSTICE! but real quiet like...

" 'm James. I wen' take a piss an' wenna ta tokol me barneybae nah the prisners 'n' blow the man down".

You dish out your best pirate impression with your string of unintelligible and butchered words. He doesn't look convinced and starts walking forward.

>WHAT DO YOU SAY roll1d100

Rolled 95

>>22557114
Pretend like you're about to vomit.

>>22557118
Do this thing.

Rolled 43

>>22557118
go for it

Rolled 64

>>22557114
Pretend we're drunk. That'll explain the verbal diarrhea there.

>>22557118
No wait, actually vomit.

CONCENTRATED JUSTICE.
Taste Yesterday's justice evildoers! (dont actually say that)

Rolled 99

>>22557114
Pass the wind of Justice, surely those lacking purity will succumb to its prowess,

>>22557118
>>22557147

Justice is kind of gross.

>>22557147
>>22557118
oh god these rolls

>>22557147
>>22557118
Do both it will be hilarious!!!

Rolled 18

>>22557059
>>22557080
In the vein of these two, eject terrible things from every orifice. Just don't let him get any closer.

>>22557183
Meanwhile Marianne is just looking at us with a disgusted look

You decide there's only one thing left you can do to convince him you're a pirate. You start stumbling around as if you were piss drunk. You start singing a little shanty before you begin faking gagging.

The pirate overseer suddenly starts laughing, "Ah I see, had a little too much to drink on the job did ye? Don't worry lad I won't tell the Cap'n. Here take some of this it will help." He gives you a jug of what must be water.

The pirate overseer continues laughing as he goes off to torment some other poor devil.

You decide you're parched enough after that award winning performance to accept the pirate's drink... and proceed to spit it out! The bastard just gave you more sake! These pirates make you sick.

With that debacle over, the pedestal where Bullough is standing on is closer than ever. Just a bit more and you'll be able to hide the explosives there.

roll1d100

Rolled 70

>>22557183
whoops, I meant the vomiting and farting one

>>22557189
"Marianne, sometimes Justice means lettin' one loose once in a while. Sometimes it means letting everything loose all at once. This is one of those times."

Rolled 76

>>22557193
Dice, don't fail me now.

Rolled 8

>>22557193
Sneak up to the pedastal, hide in the crowd, get the explosives there!

Rolled 59

>>22557193
FOR
GREAT
JUSTICE

Rolled 15

>>22557193

>>22557193
Hey, we still have to pass Spicy justice in this crowd of pirates.

Spicy silent justice. Man Big Ocean is a great cook.

Rolled 11

>>22557193
No yell sneaking.

Rolled 8

>>22557193

Rolled 89

>>22557193
Rolling for grabbing the captain's attention, tossing the explosives into the cannon arms, and then using the hidden wrist guns to detonate them.

Rolled 16

>>22557206
>>22557208
>>22557226
>>22557233

Wow, apparently Abrams gets drunk fast.

>>22557239
I shiggy diggy

>>22557233
>>22557226
>>22557208
>>22557206
Welp, this is going to blow up in our faces.

>>22557239

This can be our fallback plan to recover from this horrific sneaking.

You made it! You're a bit exposed since no one is actually coming near the pedestal, but you sneak the explosives underneath the pedestal just quickly enough to dissappear back into the crowd.

Suddenly a cry echoes out in front of you. A couple metres forward is a man from the village, and a group of pirates holding him down. Another pirate overseer is holding a small chest in his hand. "We found it Captain, we found it!" the overseer chants again and again as he hops from one foot to the other.

"Excellent! That Jeremiah Crowe thought he could get away with stealing from me? YARHARHARHAR"

The pirates let out a cheer as their leader laughs. The group of men begin to bring the chest towards Bullough. Do you intercept them before they get the chest to Bulloughs or wait to see what happens?

roll1d100

Rolled 81

>>22557280
Intercept them. We want to provoke Burroughs into blowing the explosives, but if there's something valuable in that chest, we shouldn't let it get blown apart.

>>22557280

Let's wait and see. If they all gather around Bullough, we can get a bunch of them at once.

Rolled 27

>>22557280
Wait if they try anything we reveal who we are and threaten to blow the explosives killing the pirate scum

Rolled 28

>>22557280
Take this chance to try and free alfonso

Rolled 86

>>22557280
Wait and see. We can ambush when they start going through it.

Rolled 91

>>22557280
NO PUNCHU INFORMATION GATHERING TIME.

Why are they even here, pirate bounty is good, but uncovering plots and defected marines leads to promotion!

Rolled 76

>>22557308
Indeed. After all, if this Jeremiah was a dick and hid more explosives for this guy, we don't want those in our hands.

Rolled 37

>>22557298
Forgot my roll.

Rolled 27

>>22557295

seconding this action

rolling dice
predicting it will be low, as it my luck today...

You decide to wait and see what happens. All eyes are on Bullough as he is handed over the tiny chest.

"At last! After so long! To have this taken away from us as soon as we found it! It brings tears to my eyes just thinking that it could have been lost forever."

He opens up the tiny chest and lifts up a small round oject. Wait, those lines, that bulbous shape, the ridiculous color... that's... a Devil Fruit! So that's what the pirates tore this island apart for!

Will he eat it? Can you allow him to?

What do you do?!

Roll1d100

Rolled 12

>>22557356
STOP HIM NAOW!!!

Rolled 71

>>22557356
RUNNING FACE PUNCH! DO IT NOW! IT'S GO TIME MOTHERFUCKERS!

Rolled 51

>>22557356
No! Don't let him! It could make him a lot worse to deal with!

Rolled 73

>>22557356
Try to sneak over and help Alfonso. IF he does eat it, we have the advantage of having Seastone fists

Rolled 31

>>22557356
START THE MOTHERFUCKING COMMOTION!

We do not let him eat that. We do not let him keep it, that is Marine property now.

Rolled 56

>>22557356
Rush him in the name of JUSTICE

Rolled 83

>>22557356
It is the JUSTICE JUSTICE fruit, we must stop the taint of such a holy relic.

ROLLAN FOR SWEET JUSTICE

Rolled 23

>>22557356
Quick a distraction, Throw a pirate at him!

Rolled 45

>>22557356
Attack!

Rolled 99

>>22557356
OH SHIT SOMEBODY SHOOT THAT GUY

Run like a motherfucker and slap his shit!

Rolled 9

hmmmm, could we throw Marianne at him so she can A. cut his cannon arms in half, and B. Retrieve the Devil Fruit.

we must not let the pirate use it for his own evil gains, but we must also not use it until we can identify it. after all, there is too much at stake for such a risky gambit

>>22557384

>Love this.


You know there's one thing you can't allow: and that's to let that filthy pirate bite into that Devil Fruit. Bullough's enormous mouth begins to open, you have to move! Can you make it in time? You don't know if you can. You look around to throw something at him, but the only thing around are more damn pirat-- THAT'S IT.

You pick up the nearest pirate and start spinning around to toss him over in hopes of knocking Bullough off of that damn pedestal and stop him from eating that Devil Fruit!

roll1d100 for shotput

Rolled 32

>>22557411

We left her behind, I don't think she's in throwing range.

If we're lucky, she's sneaking to help Alphonso

Rolled 2

>>22557419
And now it's time for
HURL
THAT
CRETIN

Rolled 51

>>22557419
SHOTPUT!

Rolled 68

>>22557419
FOR RIGHTEOUS JUSTICE

>>22557419

NO YELL SHOTPUT

Rolled 42

>>22557419
THROW THAT FUCKER

Rolled 49

>>22557419
HAMMER THROW THAT PUNK!

Rolled 71

>>22557419
Yell Shotput, it'll get enough of his attention to distract him from eating the fruit.

Rolled 41

>>22557434
NO DICE POSTING

Rolled 13

>>22557419

JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED!
for added bonus power shout;
"FORE!!!!"

Rolled 13

>>22557419
GO, HOLY JUSTICE TECHNIQUE: CATAPULT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

Rolled 95

>>22557419
PUNT THAT FUCKER LIKE A FOOTBALL

Rolled 74

>>22557419
Rolling.

Rolled 66

>>22557419
rollan for pirate tossing, may Justice grace us with flawless aim in our time of need.