"Oh, you're Threepwood, arent'cha?" The fish man noticed your approach and greeted you with a smile. you noted his sharp teeth as he did so a trait that was inherent to all fish men, as far as you were aware anyway. "What's up? Seen you around town a fair bit recently, how's the hand?" There had been quite a bit of displeasure among the people in the town towards Jacob after your injury, but you had dispelled it by claiming that it had been a fight to first blood and it would heal completely anyway.

"It's fine now." You shrugged, showing off your now healed hand. "Everyone needs to get their fair share of wounds before they can be called a warrior anyway, right?" You realized that you probably weren't going to retain any sort of scar after properly leveling up, but that was hardly the point. It was more the lesson than the physical reminder that was important, after all, Jacob wasn't exactly strong compared to somebody like Hephay, and he had defeated you thanks to you becoming careless about your guaranteed victory. Seeing that the information that observe gave you wasn't going to always guarantee that you could defeat somebody in a fight was a quite important lesson for you to take on board.

"Aye, that's true. Everyone who claims to be a fighter should have the scars to prove it... nobody is born as the strongest after all." The fish man nodded before he pulled aside the top of his jacket to reveal a long scar running down his body. "I earned this one from my previous captain. Fish man by the name of Arlong... couple years back we had an argument about what we were doing with a village in East Blue, but Arlong of course disregarded my concerns and declared me a traitor. He cut me down and left me for dead after dumping me into the ocean. It's a foolish story, and I was a young fool when I first went with Arlong, I was... filled with hatred for humans back then, but seeing the atrocities he was committing upon people who were weaker than he was, I realized that he was little more than a hypocrite... fool I was not to heed Jinbe's advice back then." The fish man shook his head sadly.

"I... see." You examined the man's scar with curious interest, honestly, had he been a smaller man, that sort of wound probably would've cut him in half. "So, how did you survive, and how did you end up in that laboratory?" It was puzzling, if he was cut down like that, then he should've been dead... especially without any sort of medical treatment.

"I clung on to life, until I ended up being picked up by a passing fishing vessel... they recognized me and handed me into the local authorities... though instead of imprisoning me like you'd expect of a criminal, they had another fate in store for me. I was transported to that... facility underneath Loguetown, just as everyone else here was." The fish man clenched his fist angrily. "But... I saw that the same atrocities being committed to me... were also being done to man, mink, merfolk and even giant. It was then that my doubts about Arlong were truly confirmed. He was nothing more than a hateful bully who targeted his vitriol for the world towards the simplest target." You had seen Arlong's bounty poster, but you had no idea about just how bad he was, the guy sounds like a total jackass, and... well, he was the sort of pirate that you'd have no problem claiming the bounty for. Though considering that the marines had shown that they were seemingly all too happy to experiment on whoever they ended up capturing, it... might've been better to just take advantage of the 'Dead' part of 'Dead or Alive' for their sake more than anything else.

Just because somebody did bad things didn't necessarily mean that it gave the Government the right to torture them after all, and death would truly be a mercy over being made into a lab rat. But apparently, the World Government's idea of 'justice' was 'anything that benefits the World Government'. "Well... I'm glad that you no longer hate humans."

"I'd have to be an even bigger fool than Arlong, were I to continue hating humans after one was responsible for saving us all, you might not understand just how big what you did really was, but... even if you only released Hephay, he was about the only one who possibly could've gotten everyone out, and I doubt anybody else in East Blue even knew about the existence of that underground facility. Can't imagine the commanding officer would've accepted the station if he had known." The fish man sounded familiar with the man, so you decided to pick him for some information.

"Commanding officer... that's... Captain Smoker, right?" You remembered his name, but you didn't remember much else about him.

"Mhm, not sure if he was called Smoker before he got his Logia, but I kinda doubt it." Cutter nodded. "Learned about him from talking to a few people around town, shame that he hasn't done anything about Arlong, for all his bluster, there's nothing that my old captain would've been able to do against a Logia user. Man turns into smoke, by all accounts." Ah, so he was the Smoke Logia, that... made far too much sense than you felt like it should. But... if he was going to go by an alias after eating his fruit, couldn't he have been a little less blatant?

"Right... well, I actually wanted to ask you something else." You paused for a moment, but before you could ask the question, the pirate shook his head.

"Sorry, but... my pirating days are over. I ended up hurting too many people from that village, and... odds are that Arlong is still continuing his reign of terror there even now." The fish man frowned, and you could tell just how frustrated that he was about not being able to do more for this village. You would've protested that you weren't technically planning on becoming a pirate, but you somehow felt like it wouldn't take long for you to be branded as one by the World Government so long as you opposed them. You wondered if there was some way to convince the man to go with you regardless...

>Just give up on recruiting him.
>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.
>Something else.

>>5412949
>>Just give up on recruiting him.

>>5412949
>>Just give up on recruiting him.
enjoying retirement

>>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.

>>5412949
>Just give up on recruiting him.
Man doesn't want to go, that's just how it be. We'll make do.

>>5412949
>Just give up on recruiting him.
At least here he gets to chill.

>>5412949
>>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.
Even if this loses the vote, we should let him know if he ever wants to head back to fishman island or needs anything to let us know.

>>5412949
>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.
https://youtu.be/mxsoJM896fM
Enough said.

>>5412949
>>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.

Keep in mind, Arlong would also be a good test for power. And we could turn in his bounty

>>5412949
>>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.
I can't believe you guys are refusing free exp

>>5412982
I'm just not trying to twist the guy's arm is all.

>>5412982
Is arlong even around anymore? Before we got kncoked out, luffy had just finished defeating Morgan. For all we know, he's already been defeated by him.

>>5412983
It's not arm twisting it's giving the guy a chance to right his wrongs
and join our crew
>>5412985
All the better for us. A free crew member.

>>5412992
Sounds an awful lot like dickish manipulation to me.

>>5412949
>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here

>>5412993
Say that too Luffy

"I refuse your refusal"

>>5412993
Anon please. Dealing with Arlong is a good deed. Helping a guy to fix his past is also a good deed.
Just cause we are also getting something out of it doesn't make us a dick.
Would all pirate hunters also qualify as dicks by that logic? They catch pirates for a financial gain after all.

>>5412997
Luffy's kind of an asshole, innit?

>>5412998
No you're just framing it awfully and sounding like a used car salesman.

>>5412949
>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.

Did timbers ever say what kind of continueity we are in

>>5413005
You are the one who is framing helping our new friend stop Arlong's reign of terror over an island full of innocent people as a bad deed for some reason.
Shame on you.

>>5413010
Man if you were really so concerned about being moral and good you'd let the guy stay here like he wants and then go and take care of Arlong without him. You just want a fishman and good deeds be damned. I can see through your lies you wicked, wicked devil.

>>5413014
What can I say? This is a pirate quest. I am just acting the part.

>>5413017
yarr

Hmm, so ideas for where to place points?

I was thinking Luck and Charisma, with a bit into Agility.

Like: 10 Luck, 5 Agility, and 5 Charisma.

Just because we need too keep Agility from slagging behind and everything else could use some more work.

Btw Shiver, why does our character sheet say we have no cash?

>>5413031
it says we have 22116000 what are you on about

>>5413035
Fuck, was reading bounty

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>>5412949
>Offer to go with him to this village to stop Arlong, you weren't exactly on a time limit here.
Fuck Arlong.
Let's "throw him into the dungeon" it's not like he ever shows up again anyway.
>>5413021
Yohoho.
>>5413024
I think we should dump into one stat rather than Jack of All-Trading everything.
Agility might be good.

Do you guys think Arlong counts as a thief?

>>5413040
I mean, does 'taxing' people count, or stealing Nami's money count?

>>5413040
I mean if i went up to someone pointed a gun at them and said "give me money or die" i think i'd count as a thief, arlong just does that but in long term

>>5413040
>Agility
Sure. I was thinking of making Vitality our dump stat.
>Do you guys think Arlong counts as a thief?
Most definitely. Most pirates do.

Also, if you wanna get more technical, he and the others 'stole' a ship from the Marines after their old one was destroyed back when Tiger died.

>>5413045
Fun fact a thief is specifically someone who steals or takes without using violence or does so with no one knowing. A robber is the guy who walks up and points a gun at your head and demands your wallet.

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>>5413045
>point a gun
Anon what are you talking about, he's simply pointing at her and threatening to put her in the "Arlong Park Fun Dungeon" which is also coincidentally where all the non-canon characters are kept, like Daddy Masterson... and Goku.

>>5413024
Agility is probably the best offensive stat for both Pistols and Cutlass, with our Pistols having luck as their secondary stat and the Cutlass having Willpower (tied to Insult Swordfighting) and Strength (raw damage output), and we probably need Intelligence if we're going to do Medic/Alchemy shenanigans.
Stat priority should probably be:
Agility = Intelligence > Luck = Willpower > Strength > Other stats

>>5413059
True, but big brain and Charisma also good for skills and recruitment.

Hmm, I would imagine Cutter is roughly on pair with Arlong, so I say if we play this smart with our current 3, we could defeat them.

Though maybe we should make some special bombs too get rid of them, some tear gas goes a long way, and they are all cooped up in Arlong Park.

Like Fish in a barrel....

>>5413062
>I would imagine Cutter is roughly on pair with Arlong
Arlong oneshot him and he only survived by chance. Unless he's got some serious preworkout he's been smashing I doubt he's anywhere near Arlong's level.

The journey to Arlong Park will... I'll be generous and say it'll take about 10 days time for you guys. If you go, you'll have a bunch of time to train with everyone.
As opposed to about two days it would take if you went straight to Loguetown.

I'll be calling the vote in about 30 minutes.

I don't think we should go to Arlong Park, let him stay and enjoy life here. Let's make our own story instead of being the snowflake who defeats all the villains before the protagonist.

>>5413071
Hmm, how long would making a stop to Loguetown be if we only went there to cash in the bounty and buy some stuff? An extra half a day?

>>5413072
I would agree in any other situation but I want someone with actual sailing experience on our crew.

>>5413072
You will take Luffy's place and you will like it

Also, lets face it, we can use the exp, and we could rob the place blind afterwords.

Also, what are chances Hachi defects or refuses too fight if he finds out what Arlong did?

>>5413073
About that, yeah.

>>5413072
>>5413077
Who said anything about before?
Regardless, you've all pretty much made it clear that Copper doesn't have any real interest in the title of Pirate King, so taking Luffy's place isn't going to happen.

>>5413079
It's been awhile since I read OP but wasn't Hachi aware of what Arlong was doing?

So will we roll for things like sailing or weather?

Or events going on in the world?

>>5413082
Yeah, but not outright killing his crewmates for disagreeing with him

Personally, i think we need money to buy some sort of ship

If we try to go through reverse mountain with a sloop, we'll be screwed

>>5413083
When the time comes, I'll roll for events and weather which will be opposed by sailing rolls.

>>5413087
We have 2 billion berry. I am sure we could afford some used ship on our way back from arlong park.

>>5413089
Will one of the options for roll result be a spontaneous sea-shanty session?

>>5413091
We have 22 million, not 2 billion. We need a ship that won't break when we go through reverse mountain.

>>5413093
Ok I added another zero by accident. 22 mil is still a lot though.

>>5413091
Anon you have twenty two million berries.

>>5413092
Maybe if the atmosphere needs to freshen.

>>5413095
Not in the one piece world, even the most basic options in the shipyard capital of the grand line were a few hundred million

>>5413109
We are not there are we? I doubt prices in these waters are as steep.

>>5413109
Got that zimbabwean dollar value currency

>Just give it up
>>5412952
>>5412956
>>5412961
>>5412965

>Go to Arlong Park
>>5412958
>>5412967
>>5412968
>>5412978
>>5412982
>>5412994
>>5413006
>>5413040

Looks like a decision has been made.

>>5413115
>Zimbabwean dollar value
That just feels like how bounties are now being treated post Wano.
What with Nami having a higher bounty than Doffy and Hancock getting her bounty upgraded to like nearly 2 billion for pretty much just sitting on her island and doing nothing of any value.

>>5413119
Hey man inflation is a serious problem in the bounty world. There are just so many of them no one is cashing in. Can't be helped. If only bounty hunters were actually real.

>>5413119
Maybe because her Df, because she is beautiful, or all the kuja

Or they figured out her past...

Also, Nami is one of 10 members of an Emperor's Crew. Anything less than 300 would be an insult

>>5413122
You'd think they'd just give up and stop issuing bounties after you reach like over a hundred million because pirates just use them for measuring dicks and anybody who could possibly defeat said pirates in order to cash in on them is either a wanted man or a marine.

>>5413123
Poor Chopper.
Also just figuring out that Hancock is an ex-slave shouldn't be enough to give her such a tremendously high bounty.

>>5413126
>pirates just use them for measuring dicks
You'd think they'd use a ruler for that.

>>5413129
You'd think that, but they prefer to use their own government issued trading cards.

>>5413126
Celestial dragons want most beautiful woman back

And they have no care for how much it costs

So Shiver, what happens next?

>>5413170
I'm writing the update now.

"Hmmph... well... what if we went to this village? Together, we might have a chance at stopping Arlong, right?" Last you remembered, Arlong had the highest bounty of any pirate who sailed in East Blue, so if you could take him down and then deliver him to the marines at Loguetown, then you'd be able to fulfill the conditions of your bounty hunter quest before ever gaining a bounty for yourself! Of course, that wasn't to say that you didn't have any interest in putting a stop to the evil that this fish man was apparently perpetuating, to think that he would strike down one of his own comrades simply due to a disagreement... it's something that only an honorless cur would think about doing.

"You'd really do that? You... you know that Arlong is the most powerful pirate that's in East Blue, right?" The fishman reminded you that Arlong was apparently no joke, but... somehow you found that you didn't really care. As strong as Arlong might've been, you were pretty sure that a bullet right between his eyes would be enough to put an end to him, and failing that... you were pretty confident with your blade now. Though you could probably do with a little more training. In fact, the same went for pretty much your entire crew, you at least wanted to get everyone to a level in which they'd be able to confidently beat somebody like Tashigi before you challenged this Arlong.

"Eh, it's not too big a deal. I'm out to change the world either way, be that from government corruption or the evils of individual pirates lording their power over those weaker than them. I... I can't stand tyranny in any form." Be it mandated by government or simply through superior force, tyranny in any form was something that you had found yourself more and more devoted to the idea of stamping out. You weren't like most people, it was clear that your abilities would give you the power that you'd need to stand up against such tyranny, but the same obviously wasn't true for most people, where their only strength would come not in their fighting potential, but in their ability to refuse to cooperate... but such a refusal to cooperate could only ever work on a grand scale, such as through the unification of an entire country. But in the case of say, a village refusing to cooperate with a band of merciless pirates? All that their defiance would end in was their eradication.

"I see... well, if that's truly the case, if you truly mean to help me make amends for my past actions, then, I suppose I have no choice but to accompany you. But I warn you, Arlong... he's powerful. Far more powerful than I am, he might have attacked me by surprise back then, but it wouldn't have made a bit of difference had I been aware of his intentions from the start." Cutter revealed that Arlong was a great deal more powerful than he was, and obviously he wouldn't have been able to have done much in the way of training since he only really got loose of his imprisonment at the hands of the government, though you were already well aware of that fact. Besides... if things really got bad, you could simply eat the Thermite Thermite fruit and then roast the fish man... though you didn't really even know if you wanted to eat the fruit. At least not yet, treasure diving had been an incredibly lucrative business for you after all, and you had enjoyed diving alongside Urchii too. Besides, what good was being able to hold your breath for ten minutes underwater if you couldn't move underwater?

Eating that devil fruit was something that was probably best saved for an emergency, when you had no choice but to eat it... being a fruit on par with some of the strongest logia in existence, it was pretty obvious that the moment you ate it, you'd be able to defeat just about anybody in East Blue. In fact, as far as you could tell, there wasn't much that would even be able to damage you if you were to eat the fruit... perhaps if you were to get damp, you wouldn't be able to ignite the thermite, but... considering that water was a weakness of all devil fruits anyway, you couldn't really see that being too much of a problem outside of typical devil fruit weaknesses. Still, right now, considering that the world was almost entirely made up of ocean or nations that could only be reached through ocean routes, it was probably a good thing to continue being able to swim.

"Alright, we'll... I guess we'll just have to make sure that we train a lot before we take him on, I'm pretty confident that I can get everyone to at least the level where we'll be able to take on somebody like Arlong... strongest pirate in the East Blue or not!" Though you'd have to totally focus all your efforts towards training your physical stats as much as you possibly could, training with the rest of the crew to try to get everyone as strong as you were physically able before you confronted Arlong, Cutter was fairly strong as he was, but his stats clearly needed a great deal of improvement before he could even hope to take on this Arlong, especially if he was defeated in a single strike the last time he met his previous captain.

"You really think that you'll be able to help me get that strong...?" Cutter seemed bewildered by your confidence, and the truth was that you weren't actually sure, but... you did have something of an idea. If you could somehow hook other people up to the system, then you could theoretically have them spend any of the attributes that they have saved up! Though you didn't even know if something like that was possible, it was something that you were at least interested in, because if it were true... and you did have the ability to allow other people to directly increase their stats as you could, then your power would be far more powerful than it had any right to be. To be able to instantly increase the power of just about anyone with only a few minutes of point allocation, you'd be targeted by the World Government for having a power like that alone!

"Well... if not, I always have a secret weapon in my back pocket." You shrugged, even if you couldn't use your abilities like that, there was no doubt that the Thermite Fruit would let you turn Arlong into grilled fish in about twelve seconds, but you kind of felt like having a power like that was something like cheating. Especially in a place like East Blue where nobody could possibly have an answer to something like that. Curiously, the book you read back in Loguetown had mentioned a way to defeat Logias without having to figure out and take advantage of any sort of natural advantage, but it annoyingly hadn't elaborated on just how that was even possible. Actually, you did consider it strange that when you were reading through that book that the page number skipped by about 8 pages but you hadn't really thought too much of it at that time, though now it was obvious that somebody was trying to hide information for whatever reason, probably the World Government, you wouldn't be surprised if they employed a book burning division or something to get rid of information that they dislike.

"Alright, then... I'll be happy to call you my captain... but aren't you supposed to be setting off today?"

"That's right." You quickly confirmed what Cutter already knew to be true, and the fish man turned around as he started to move towards one of the wreck houses.

"Alright, then... give me a few minutes, and I'll grab my things." You waited as you had been asked to, before the fish man walked back outside of his house, with a truly enormous blade strapped to his back, Cutter was about 10 foot tall by himself, but... the weapon he had strapped to his back was even larger, a thick great sword that had to be angled so that it wouldn't smack against the floor. No... that thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron. The thing must've weighed a ton... no, multiple tons! Was a weapon like that even viable in combat? "Alright, let's get going."

"Ah... yeah, let's go." You stopped gawking at the colossal weapon the fish man seemed to have decided to wield, and you started to walk towards the area that Jacob and Urchii were waiting at, the two were boredly standing around with their arms crossed... well Jacob was standing, Urchii was more sitting on the floor with her arms crossed, but the point still stood. "Sorry for making you wait, but... Cutter is going to be coming with us too, and our first location will be... is... uh..." you quickly realized that you had forgotten to actually ask Cutter for the name of the place you were going to be heading to.

"It's going to be the Conomi Islands, where we're going to be trying to put a stop to the reign of terror of a man named Arlong. He's terrorized the region for years, and... I feel like it's my obligation to stop him." The fish man clearly wanted to make things right, and you couldn't really blame him.

"Right, that... but first I'm thinking we stop back at Loguetown and I buy us some supplies for the journey. It's a few days travel from Loguetown to there, right?" You were vaguely aware of the location of the islands, and the fish man nodded to confirm what you already knew. "Right, so we'll need the resources, we'll also need to train a lot if we're going to be able to hope to take on Arlong... I hear that he's one of the most powerful pirates in all of East Blue." Well, in truth, from what you knew of the world already, that quite literally meant that Arlong was little more than the biggest fish in the smallest pond, though that didn't mean that he could continue to be allowed to exist and terrorize the people of those islands. You also found that your hatred for the World Government was growing ever higher, being incapable or unwilling to even do so little as to stop a pirate who was a total small-fry compared to the pirates in the Grand Line, even though he was actively oppressing an entire group of islands.

"That works for me, but... we'll probably need to remain on the ship whenever you go to Loguetown, I don't exactly feel like getting arrested just for showing my face, and I don't doubt that the three of us have already been given bounties for our capture." Jacob crossed his arms and nodded to himself, he was right of course. "Not sure they'd have been able to get a good look at you though, Captain, so... so long as you don't go telling people that you were the one responsible for the destruction of the laboratory with Hephay's help you'll probably be able to avoid getting yourself a bounty." Well.. when you felt like declaring the world to be your enemy, you could always do that... you supposed. There were probably quests that revolved around getting a high bounty anyway, there seemed to be quests for most other things.

"Then... I guess that settles it! Loguetown and then Conomi! But... then where?" Urchii scratched her cheek, unsure of what exactly the plan was.

"The Grand Line... and a kingdom known as Alabasta... I'm supposed to be meeting a man there who's going to be my contact with the Revolutionary Army, apparently." You were of course intrigued by the identity of this 'Dodger' could it be an alias? It would be excessively idiotic if the Revolutionary Army were to just go by their actual given names, especially considering that in doing so they left themselves wide open to retaliation against their families... then again, the leader may well have been the most famous man in the world, Monkey D. Dragon, son of the man known as the legendary hero of the marines, Monkey D. Garp... though, wait a second, what was with that middle name? That 'D.', what did it mean? You'd have just dismissed it as a mere coincidence that a father and his son shared a middle name, but... one of the books you had read attributed the same middle initial to Gold Roger... or rather Gol D. Roger. So what did it mean? It couldn't have been a coincidence, right? That the three most famous people in recorded history would all share the same middle initial, what were the odds of that?

Whatever, you could think more about the enigmas that the world held a little later, for now... it was about time for you to get going, you wanted to actually leave some time today, and the sooner you got moving, the sooner you'd finish the trek through the jungle. But... before you got going, you looked at your crew, and you decided...

>To tell them all about your powers.
>To tell them a limited extent about your powers.
>Not to tell them about your powers.
>Something else.

>>5413305
Trying to explain to them that we have video-game powers or and all that stuff is just dumb and overcomplicated.

Generally speaking, the only thing we really need to explain is that we are able to learn about something just by looking at it. It's way easier for them to understand if they just think we have some natural talent for it.

>Tell them a limited extend about your powers
>>Tell them about how you can grow stronger quicker than most, and by doing certain tasks, your capable of reaching another 'level' so too say. Give example of Inventory too demonstrate powers.

>>5413310
That doesn't really explain the fact that you can keep an endless supply of stuff in your pockets... even when you aren't wearing clothing with pockets.

>>5413305
>>5413313
I'll support this

>>5413305
>To tell them a limited extent about your powers.
We can gauge peoples, animals and object by just looking at them, we can learn very quickly and recover while doing so, and we have very deep pockets. Also we can also breath for ten minutes and are a natural lighting rod

>>5413321
Thinking about it, I meant to vote for
>To tell them all about your powers.
But word it in a way that doesn't sound like video games since they would be confused.
If they ask how it works, we don't know. We are kind of learning as we go along.

>>5413305
>>Not to tell them about your powers.

>>5413326
To be fair, by telling them everything, Copper would obviously have to phrase it in a way that they understood anyway, he wouldn't suddenly dump something they couldn't possibly understand on them.

So Shiver, how many actions will we be able to perform per day for our sailing adventure?

There are no *video games* on the one piece world, how the hell are we going to explain the concept of levels? Just say that we're able to get strong quick and learn about stuff by looking at it.

Trying to say stuff like 'quests' and 'levels' and whatever the hell is just going to make it more confusing and dumb and needlessly meta

>>5413332
QM just said that Copper is going to explain in an understable way anon
>>5413328

>>5413331
I'll say you can get two in during the trip to loguetown, and then one per day to Conomi.

>>5413332
The concept of somebody who permanently gets stronger by doing certain tasks and has a storage space could be explained to them as something like a Devil Fruit power, but you could find yourself in a weird situation if people think you've got a devilfruit power and you start swimming around and what have you.

>>5413341
Sweet, so thats 12 give or take?

Do we choose what the others do, or they just do their own thing?

>>5413305
>To tell them all about your powers.
Could it be that if they don't know about it that they won't be able to reap the benefits of it as a party?

>>5413346
When it comes to the vote, you'll get to decide what they'll be focusing on for the days you're not training with them personally, but in general, everyone is going to be training their asses off.

Glad to know, hmm, what exactly do they do for training?

Like, does Diving count as training?

>>5413353
Depends on if you're planning on doing anything strenuous underwater, I suppose.
For example, it's a fairly decent way to raise both Vitality and Agility through swimming as fast as you can.
Though I will also say that learning the basics of fishman karate is much much easier if you're underwater.

Hmmm, so will we choose a name for our crew/group soon, or that wait till we slapped with a bounty?

>>5413341
>they assume copper has a devil fruit
>they try really hard and finally knock him into the water
>he swims back up and threatens them from the water
Instant pants pissing territory.

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>>5413359
Picrelated.

>>5413358
It's up to you, even if you don't end up becoming a group of pirates in the typical sense, it's only a matter of time until you get slapped with the label, and either you come up with a name for your merry band, or the government gets to do it.

Kay, so guessing we will roll best of 3 for actions then?

>>5413363
Hey, do tabletop rpgs exist in the setting?

>>5413370
Very likely.

>>5413372
This post alone has made me want to include a somewhat popular (among certain groups) tabletop RPG called Drydocks and Deckhands in the background lore.
The One Piece world is a huge place so somebody has probably invented the concept of TTRPGS though it probably won't have achieved world popularity.
There was probably a player guide in the Loguetown Library.

>>5413376
Tashigi plays. And she plays classic Human Sailor.

>>5413377
Lawful Stupid Human Marine - Officer Subclass.
In every single game she plays she ends up sperging out and getting the party killed after trying to fight an entire fleet of pirates by herself at level 3.

>>5413378
She'd also probably be the sort of person to immediately engage in inter-party conflict the moment she found out that somebody was playing anything other than a marine.
God bless those marines and their blind loyalty to blatantly evil overlords.

Hmm, so will we encounter other Pirates at Sea?

Cause I kinda want too, both for loot and turning them in.

(Actually, I wonder if Dragon has a few of his members sneak into the bounty hunting business, get some terrible pirates off the seas while also getting payed out of the money that usually funds the organisation he is trying to topple)

>>5413378
>Oh my background lets me have one +1 weapon and it's a katana. I even gave it a name and everything. Here's its 106 page backstory.
I can practically taste it.

>>5413382
I can't confirm what you might find out at sea.
Though if Dragon is having people in his army act as bounty hunters he's not doing a very good job at it.
Honestly, the stuff going on in the Conomi Islands is just a massive red flag as to the absolute worthlessness of the marines as a force for justice. They couldn't spare one Vice Admiral for a decade to put a stop to Arlong blatantly flexing on pretty much all of East Blue in not giving a fuck?

>>5413383
Tashigi would totally be one of those people who'd burst into a tangent about how superior Katanas are to other types of swords and then be forced to shut up when somebody pointed out that the only Katana (we know of so far) ranked among the twelve Supreme Grade Meito is cursed to shit.

>>5413395
Actually, if we join, we could act as his Bounty Hunters.

Get rid of certain bastards he wants out of the sea's, and get money out of the Marines Pockets.

Perfect way too fund a revolution

>>5413395
Tashigi, a mountain of cringe concealing a well-meaning heart. Also cleavage.

>>5413401
Honestly, if there's anybody in the ocean that Dragon considers bad enough for the world that they need to be taken care of be the revolutionaries, he's probably not going to be all too interested in the bounty reward for them.

>>5413403
The same is true for most of the marines honestly, good intentions but absolute horrible execution. It shouldn't really be that difficult for most people to see how fucked the situation actually is, but the existence of the Yonkou (of which two are truthfully proper bastards) is realistically good for the World Government as it kind of helps distract from the fact that the World Nobles do shit like delete entire countries for reading books or take part in blatant slavetrading

Oh right, and vote called. This will be today's last update.

>>5413395
I can't believe I have an excuse to drop the ol'copypasta

That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Cutlass" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine meito in Wano Country for 2,400,000,000,000 Berri (that's about $2) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.
Wano smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.
Katanas are thrice as sharp as pirate swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a cutlass can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a lawless pirate with a simple vertical slash.
Ever wonder why the Gol D Roger never bothered pillaging Wano? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in the Void Century, Alliance soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:
(One-Handed Exotic Weapon) 1d12 Damage 19-20 x4 Crit +2 to hit and damage Counts as Masterwork
(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon) 2d10 Damage 17-20 x4 Crit +5 to hit and damage Counts as Masterwork
Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.

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>>5413422
Fantastic.

>>5413418
Dragon may also see the value in having a "non criminal" asset who can go around and selectively remove threats to the government to subtly guide their attentions elsewhere. If there aren't many notable pirates in a region they'll have to put more resources in other places, publicly at least.

Very 3d chess.

I feel like a lot of the marines are just kinda dumb. Either that or they've fallen into the "greater good and evil" trap. Sad.

>>5413422
Based

>>5413426
The problem with being a non-criminal asset is that the asset will eventually have to do shit like tolerate the presence of a World Noble engaging in slavery or taking potshots at an orphange or some other fucked up shit in front of him, or not take action against any Marines trying to for example, arrest their friends.
That isn't even mentioning that it's hard not being a criminal asset when you make the Marines/World Government look bad by existing.
Do you really think that they'd permit the existence of an individual who could for example, take on one of the Shichibukai and win?
They'd probably give them the ultimatum of "Join the marines or become a Shichibukai, your indepedant days are over."

A lot of the grunt marines are dumb, but people like Smoker should really be able to see through the bullshit, but I guess he got too caught up on his seething rage for stretchy rubber boy to notice that he's serving the whims of murderers and slavers that refuse to even consider the notion of breathing the same air as him.

Anyway, looks like you'll be telling the party just about enough of your powers for them to understand your general capabilities.

>>5413435
Dragon would definitely ask that of some of his more trusted subordinates. He'd also probably at least float the idea of have a shiggydiggy in his pocket as well.

Smoker's excuse, too many carcinogens. He'd probably have four whole lung cancers if he hadn't eaten a logia at this point.

It should be reminded that the world government basically went full retard mode after marineford because akainu took over and the worst generation started upsetting the balance

Before that, the world government's crimes were pretty much hidden. The only people who even went to places like Sabaody were already hardened pirates.

>>5413435
I think at least some of the marines were sold to them as children and indoctrinated all their life to be loyal to the marines and believe in the marine idea of justice.
It's what the chick who ran the orphanage Big Mom is from did, and one of the Giant Admirals or Vice-Admirals was sold to them as a chiild.

>>5413442
Even with that in mind, people have always loathed the World Nobles for being general dickheads, hell, people hating World Nobles to such an incredible degree is pretty much the entire cause behind Doffy's backstory.
Then there's stuff like Law's backstory, or even the question of "hey, why is Ohara labelled as NOTHING HAPPENED HERE island on the new map you're selling?"
People seem to hate the World Nobles in setting but also nobody really seems to have much of a spine when it comes to standing up to them because getting your entire island Buster Called for shooting one of the little shits is something that most people wouldn't consider a fair trade.
Which is why you sabotage their ships to explode when they're in the middle of the ocean, what a tragic terrible accident.

>>5413435
Pretty sure Smoker has several times expressed disgust at WG actions like giving him credit for defeating Crocodile, which is why Fujitora refused to do so.

>>5413456
Being disgusted by their actions just means he's aware of the true awfulness of the system he willingly partakes in and helps uphold.

>>5413459
Ok, and wha are his other options too help people? Not like the Revs do much that he knows about, and if he became a Pirate or Bounty hunter he would be shot on site.

The WG go out of their way to portray themselves as the good guys, and will turn the public against you if you go against them in any way, shape or form.

They are simple an organised military under the pretense of peace who have a with us or against us moto.

>>5413464
It's just hypocritical of him to be so anti-pirate when the people he directly works for are pretty blatantly worse than the vast majority of the pirates he'd be taking down.
Also, you'd think people would ask questions about how suddenly islands go missing or "Wait, why did our military destroy our center of government to kill a grand total of 0 pirates?"

>>5413472
Tbf, that probably doesn't happen 'too often'

Hell, most Marines probably don't even know the truth about Ohara, no reason too not let sleeping dogs lay dead.

Honestly, he probably never left Logutown cause he didn't want to risk corruption affecting him home. Luffy was just too much like Roger for him too let go though.

>>5413474
They literally destroyed their entire center of government because there are barely any checks and balances in place to the point where an imbecile can press a single button and get pretty much any island bombarded into a ruin with no questions asked.
It's a stunningly incompetently run organization, though if that can't be recognized by the people in the organization from the fact that they do the equivelant the US Military of letting the leaders of hired PMCs stroll into Guantanamo Bay for no reason with the Shichibukai being allowed to just check out Impel Down, I think some of them might just be lost causes.
God damn World Government needs to learn how to properly OpSec.

>>5413479
Hey, that was sky high levels of Nepotism there!

>>5413479
You don't need to OpSec when your emperor can literally delete countries out of existence.

>>5413483
I mean, they could basically do that already with Buster Calls, but I guess there's always the difference between a Base Delta Zero and the old Death Star Superlaser when it comes to being impressive.

>>5413481
It's still funny.
How long do you think Dragon laughed for when he read the headline "World Government destroys Enies Lobby to destroy pirates. 0 Pirate casualties."?

>>5413486
I imagine they pinned the whole thing on Luffy

>>5413483
Who gives them money if they delete all the countries?

>>5413479
I wonder what levels of absolute bullshit would happen if someone made a buster call for Mary Geoise.

>>5413492
>sneak into Marineford
>find where they keep the Golden Den Den Mushis
>press the buttons on all of them
>???
>profit

>>5413488
I'm really not sure that makes them look any better than "an accident blew up all of Enies Lobby".
The headline "Pirates breaks into Enies Lobby, destroys all opposition and completely level entire island before escaping." is just as bad if not worse.

>>5413496
Well, they blamed the whole thing on CP9, so maybe they pretended their was a revolt or some shit?

>>5413498
I don't really think that Oda thought of the realistic consequences of Luffy sorta being directly responsible for the obliteration of one of the centers of world power at the time, really.

>>5413504
Dunno why it was even called that, it never really did anything.

Impel Down, prison which keeps every pirate, revolutionary and rogue marine.

Marineford, the stronghold of the Marines and where the Fleet Admiral usually rests and gathers for important meetings. Also used too make public executions

Ennies Lobby, houses CP9.... sometimes? Guess it funcitons as a half arsed courtroom

So Shiver, how is update going? 7K again lol?

>>5413545
Nah, just been trying to figure out how to properly phrase things for a while without it sounding too strange, and it's not been super easy, I'm also getting pretty tired so I might have to postpone the update to early tomorrow.

>>5413545
He's taking it easy for now
>>5413420

>>5413548
I must have misread and thought that there would be no more updates today.

"Alright... so here's the deal, everyone." You knew that this wasn't exactly going to be the easiest conversation, but... well you had to say something at some point, and the sooner you did, the better. "I'm... not exactly a normal person, I've got abilities that I don't think anybody else in the world has." You decided that you'd just open things normally, and see where it went from there.

"Wait... you mean, like a devil fruit? But how? You were diving with me just a few days ago! You... you didn't eat the fruit we found, did you?" Urchii sounded shocked that you'd decide to eat the fruit, but you shook your head.

"Nope, that..." you reached into your inventory, grabbing the fruit and pulling it out of thin air in front of your crew, who were all visibly shocked by the sudden display of power. "Is right here." You examined the fruit in your hand for a moment before shoving it back into your inventory. "It's the Thermite-Thermite fruit, a Special Paramecia... which is like a Logia in pretty much all the important ways." Really, you couldn't help but consider the distinction that was made to be a pretty pointless one. "Thermite itself is an incredibly hot burning substance, but I'm holding off on eating it." The rest of your crew clearly had no idea what Thermite was, so you moved on.

"No, my powers... well they're something I woke up with the ability to use. They're not Devil Fruit powers though, otherwise I wouldn't be able to swim." Really, you didn't know what the implications of the system were, or where or what they had stemmed from, but you weren't complaining. "Basically... I've got an odd assortment of powers, for example, my power seems to be able to grow faster than normal and... I can sort of... view the values of my own abilities and that of other people numerically, and also increase those values permanently... or at least I can for my own sake." Your crew continued to listen in silence as you explained things to them, until finally Jacob broke his silence.

"I knew it... I knew that there was far more to you than met the eye! You're like... a Greater Human!" The wolf man looked oddly excited at the prospect, and you really wanted to get a little bit of clarity from the man, he didn't really seem to be the sort to get excited over nothing after all.

"Huh...?" The hell was a Greater Human? You'd never heard something like that before.

"Oh... sorry, it's just... back on Zou, people had a habit of referring to humans as 'Lesser Minks'. It's something I never really picked up myself, but... the idea behind it was that humans were just hairless ape minks that didn't have the power to use Electro, which led to the term... most minks didn't seem to understand how offensive such a term actually is though." Jacob frowned before Cutter suddenly coughed loudly.

"Guess by that logic, being unable to breath underwater makes Minks, 'lesser mammalian fish-men' then, don't it?" Cutter cut into the conversation, and he did have a point, judging races by their capabilities in such a manner was ridiculous.

Jacob just shrugged. "What can I say, I only remember Zou from my youth, not like I agree with how they think of other people. Either way, if the captain has abilities unique to only him that neither humans or Minks have, that would mean that the whole Lesser Mink thing is totally bogus... wait, you are a human, right?" Jacob suddenly seemed to start to ponder about your origins, and you wondered where he was going with that.

"Uhh... as far as I know, I am." You didn't really know, but you certainly felt like a human, and nothing had given you any reason to believe you weren't a human.

"Don't be stupid! Of course Copper is a human! What sort of a question is that!" Urchii spoke up now, and Jacob quickly shut up. "Anyway, I don't think you were done, were you, Captain?"

"Ah, right. Among other things, I have an elevated level of growth, I can learn skills faster than most people... and I can observe things to gain a level of insight about them that I would usually not be able to possibly have. It's how I was able to pick out my sword from the garbage in the sword shop... and it was how I was able to instantly determine the name of the Devil Fruit that we found, Urchii." You smiled at the mermaid, and she smiled back. "But... I'm still trying to figure out just where my capabilities lie."

"Hmm..." Jacob started to laugh, and everyone turned to look at the wolf man as he struggled to get control of himself, eventually though he managed to recover, wiping a tear from his eye as he spoke. "Wait... if nobody else knows about your abilities... then why don't you pretend that they are from a devil fruit? Pretend to have weaknesses that you don't actually have so that marines do stupid stuff like try to use Seastone on you, or dump you into the ocean!" That... was actually a pretty good idea, by feigning a weakness that you didn't actually have, you could gain an easy advantage over anybody who might try to use water against you to their advantage... anyone like say, a fish-man!

"Either way, I'm happy you told us about this, Captain. That you trust us enough to let us know your secrets." Urchii seemed happy to have been told, but... before you could respond to her, something... had popped up your vision.

[Would you like to add Urchii, Jacob Wilhelm, Haruki and Cutter to your party?

>Yes.
>No.

>>5413575
>Yes
well, it worked somehow

>>5413575
>>Yes.
Alright guys, headsets on but for fuck's sake mute them if your mom comes in. I don't want to hear about cum towels ever again.

>>5413575
>Yes.
Ok, so we tell everyone we have the Gamer Gamer fruit?

>>5413575
>Yes.

>>5413586
More like the virgin virgin fruit

>>5413575
>Yes.

>>5413575
>>Yes.

I wonder what the biggest thing we can fit in our inventory is. Surely we couldn't fit an entire battleship in there. Surely.

>>5413628
Well, doesn’t all the stuff we collect come out of our pocket if we try to take it out of the inventory? So then we can hypothesise that anything that could enter and exit the pocket is viable. Really the only limit is the size of the pocket itself if I’m correct.

>>5413633
I don't think a lockbox that held two revolvers in it would fit in our pocket. And we just pulled the fruit out of thin air.

>>5413638
Well then hell man, I dunno. I’m stumped.

>>5413642
We should try to put the sloop in it.

>>5413575
>Yes.

>>5413575
>Yes

>>5413628
Following videogame rules, anything that counts as an item. An ship would probably count as an "Vehicle"

Alrighty then, yes it is!

>>5413848
This is about it, think as a size limit the items that Guybrush can pick up and fetch out of his pockets (though in your case you mostly use your pockets to prevent people from noticing you grabbing stuff out of thin air.)
He fits swords, weed whackers, massive flesh abominations heads, all sorts of crap.

Typically though, the limit to what can fit in your inventory is anything that isn't larger than you are.

You didn't even hesitate to press the 'yes' button that had appeared in your field of vision, and the results were... well the results were instant and immediate, as your entire crew broke out into confused shouting as their vision was almost certainly taken up by a text box.

"C-captain?! W-what is this?!" Urchii pointed at nothing in particular in front of her as she tried to back away from the text box, and the same was true for the rest of your crew, even Haruki seemed to be trying to shuffle backwards away from something. What a mess.

"Everyone, please calm down... I think that I just uncovered a new aspect to my powers. There's nothing to worry about." You informed your crew that nothing bad had happened, you hadn't expected that they'd be able to see something similar to you, but... well, looks like the system was full of surprises sometimes. "What's happened is that you're probably seeing a box in your vision, right?"

"Mhm, it's... asking me if I'd like to... join your party, whatever that means." Urchii seemed to have managed to recover from the sudden appearance in her vision first, and actually seemed to want to know more about what exactly was happening.

"Uh... try clicking yes. To be honest, I don't really know what will happen, but I can only imagine it'll be helpful." Party systems... something that you were at least a little bit familiar with still, and with any luck, something that you'd be able to use in order to help your allies gain attribute points to spend for themselves so that they don't fall behind you. Your enhanced growth being something that could be shared would be an incredible development.

"If you say so." Urchii did as you asked, and you noticed that the same was clearly true of the rest of your group too, as you saw their HP bars floating above their head, and... when you used observe on them you realized that you had more information than before, their perks and their skills had also been revealed to you! But... more importantly than anything else, their free attribute points as well! You looked through each and every one of their newly updated information, with even Haruki managing to figure out what she was supposed to do, and you soon figured out that unlike them, you had something of an advantage over them, it seemed like they only gained five free points for every 'level' that they had. (Character Sheets added!)

You spent a little bit of time explaining what they were seeing, and how their attributes were indications of themselves, and it looked like everyone eventually managed to figure out exactly what they were looking at as they were now able to look at their own statistics.

"Hey! Why is my intelligence so low?" Cutter sounded pissed as he was clearly able to see that his intelligence... well it did sort of leave quite a bit to be desired, really.

"Not really sure, I don't believe that it's a direct correlation to how smart you are, but more... how fast you can think, mental calculations, that sort of stuff." You decided it would probably be best to calm down the fish man regardless, and that was about accurate to how things worked. You were sort of wondering how Haruki even managed to press the 'yes' button, but you supposed that it didn't truly matter. Right now... you had four, or rather, three people and a pet who each needed to be instructed on how to apply their newly acquired attribute points...

>Choose how to instruct your crew on how to distribute their attribute points, and if you want, to, distribute your own points. (Your crew will not be healed upon spending all their attribute points unlike you.)
>Aside from Haruki, you can simply tell your crew to apply their attribute points how they wish.

Name: Urchii
Race: Merfolk (Red Snapper)
HP: 700/700
Level: 16
Rank: Criminal (Escaped Test Subject/Wreck Explorer)]
Bounty: 10 Million Berries]
Strength: 33
Vitality: 40
Agility: 80] *4 in water (300)
Intelligence: 54
Willpower: 31
Charisma: 50
Luck: 3
Free Points: 75

Name: Jacob Wilhelm
Race: Mink (Wolf)
Rank: Criminal (Escaped Test Subject/Hunter)
Bounty: 5 Million Berries]
HP: 772/772]
Level: 17
Strength: 66
Vitality: 42
Agility: 34
Intelligence: 26
Willpower: 36
Charisma: 13
Luck: 4
Attribute Points: 80

Name: Cutter
Race: Fishman (Cuttlefish)
Rank: Pirate
Bounty: 10 Million Berries
HP: 1450/1450
Level: 28
Strength: 57
Vitality: 50
Agility: 54 (x4 in water) [216]
Intelligence: 5
Willpower: 10
Charisma: 7
Luck: 8
Unspent Points: 135

Name: Haruki
Race: Sabertooth Tiger (Pet)
HP: 440/440
Level: 12
Strength: 40
Vitality: 40
Agility: 40
Intelligence: 1
Willpower: 5
Charisma: 5 (x9 when interacting with other cats) [45]
Luck: 5
Unspent Points: 55

>>5413887
>Giant Giant Devil Fruit when

>>5413924
I think we should let'em use their attributes however they want to, right? Seems fair.

For Haruki, i think we should go
>20 STRENGTH
>20 AGILITY
>15 VITALITY

The perks and skills of your crew are on their character sheets, which can be reached by the link in the OP post.

>>5413924
>You can simply tell your crew to apply their attribute points how they wish.

>Haruki- +10 to Strength, Vitality, Agility, Charisma, Luck; +5 Willpower
I won’t be upgrading Haruki’s Charisma again, I just wanted a decent Charisma score for when she’s dealing with other cats.

>Urchi
Luck: 20
Strength: 12
Agility: 20
Willpower 15
Vitality: 3

Get her shit luck out of the picture, get her speed up, and give her soe more strength and willpower.

>Jacob
Vitality: 30
Luck: 18
Charisma: 8
Agility: 16
Intelligence: 8

Chances are Electro is related too Endurance, so more of that means he can last longer using it. Or good for Sulong usage

>>5413924
>tell your crew to apply their attribute points how they wish.
>For Haruki
>16 Intelligence
>7 Willpower
>25 Charisma
>7 Luck
She needs the mental stats

>Cutter
Strength: 10
Vitality: 5
Agility: 57
Intelligence: 15
Willpower: 20
Charisma: 13
Luck: 15

Take advantage of the Speed in water stat, while also bringing everythign else up by a decent amount. Mostly focused on his weaker stats, but gave Agility the Lions share so he can outspeed Arlong in the water.

>Haruki
Strength: 5
Vitality: 5
Agility: 5
Intelligence: 20
Willpower: 10
Luck: 10

We gotta give this Cat some brains, while the rest isn't as important, no Charisma since 45 with cats is enough :V

Overall, get rid of this crews shit luck, bring up their weaker points, and let them improve their strengths a bit.

>>5413924
I support those two anons
>>5413927
>>5413938
in letting our crew distribute their own points. They are more familiar with their bodies and techniques than we are.
As for the cat just add my vote to whatever is winning.

>>5413938
>>5413924
+1, make the Cat more intelligent so she doesn't scare easily and can learn better ambush tactics.

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Reminder that is guy is a cat and the perk probably applies to him as well.

>Copper
Agility: 5
Intelligence: 10
Luck: 5

We gonna be training for next few days, so lets put points into Luck and Big brain, especially since we the Doctor/Blacksmith of the Crew.

Agility too help it not slag behind.

So... it looks like you want to let the crew distribute their own points, while you want
>>5413938
this for Haruki?

>>5413991
I'm still making mine since I suck at numbers, but I doubt I can change people's opinion.

>>5413991
Shiver, what you gonna do for the others if they get to choose?

Also, surprised a quest to beat Arlung hasn't popped up yet

>>5413997
That's because arlong is probably already dead

It's been two weeks since axehand morgan was defeated, remember?

>>5413991
If you are still taking votes I tnink I will switch to supporting this for the cat's stats
>>5413933

>>5414008
Shouldn't we be fixing that glaring flaw that is her intelligence.

You know, the stat that is set at 1

>>5414012
Next lvup?

Rolled 17, 84, 61, 61 = 223 (4d100)

>>5414008
I can take this, but I think this does tie us.
>>5414000
East Blue time is genuinely pretty tough to calculate.
As for Arlong, well lemme just see something.
3 against 1

>>5414014
Why? What is is Charisma if we are hardly going to encounter cats at sea.

Sure there is Lucci, but Ennies Lobby is firmly out of the park for months

>>5414019
I mean I am switching from +25 to CHA to +10

>>5414019
It's a tie between +10 to CHA and +25. Before that it was +25 victory.
If you don't want charisma for cat you should vote for +10. Or vote for anything at all.

>>5414022
And where is the extra stat going?

>>5414028
Anon I am supporting this post >>5413933
The spread is
>+10 to Strength, Vitality, Agility, Charisma, Luck;
>+5 Willpower

>>5413960
This plan for Copper

And +10 for Haruki charisma

I believe we are no longer tied

>>5413993
Ok, here it is

Urchii
Str 17
Agi 20
Int 16
Will 9
Luck 18

Jacob
Str 4
Vit 9
Agi 16
Int 24
Will 4
Cha 7
Luck 16

Cutter

Str 49
Agi 16
Int 25
Will 30
Cha 13
Luck 12

Haruki

Int 19
Will 5
Cha 16
Luck: 15

I like round numbers

>>5413924
Supporting this for most cat smarts. >>5413938

>>5414044
The most cat smarts is in this post though >>5414035

>>5414046
If he votes for that though then the cat stays at 1 INT.

>>5414044
Anon, we can get the Cat smart the next time she levels up, don’t put 25 skill points in Charisma for a non-talking animal just because Intelligence is 6 points higher in that option.

>>5414051
Why not have her stop being a retard now?

>>5414049
Maybe someone else will vote for it. I am just making sure he knows there are better INT options.

>>5414051
Actually had a legitimate brainfart here, but the Cat is better off focusing on Attributes that she’ll use instead of trying to take Copper’s place as the crew’s brains.

>>5414054
Thats not an excuse for being stupid, like she is dumber than Luffy.

And a smatrter Predator is a better Predator

>a fucking cat with 30 CHA
Why tho

>>5414052
Because Intelligence is more useful with an education, and doubling down on her physical attributes will serve her better when we fight the fishmen.

>>5413933
Plus 1 to this

>>5414054
Intelligence is also how quickly you can understand a situation. It pairs with agility for combat.
So smart cat could become more perceptive instead of just knowing how to write or something.

>>5414056
She also a pet animal. If she was Chopper, you may have a better point, but she is better off improving her advantages than trying to cover for her missing high school education.

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>>5414057
Well it might be useful in some situations

I would love to raise Haruki's INT but Jesus Christ I am not giving 25 CHA points to a cat

>>5414062
I’m not saying we should keep her at 1 Intelligence, but if we’re getting into a physical fight I’d rather she focus on her physical advantages rather than being a Jack-of-all-Trades.

>>5413924
Gonna support this one >>5414044
I want our cat to be smarter than Zoro.

>>5414062
This guy gets me

>>5414063
Intellignece is literally how you use things to your advantage, she sis still a fighter, and you need to fight smart.

Stealth is used by animals because they are smarter than what they are hunting, brainpower is constantly used in fights to gain an advantage, either by surroundings, tricking your opponent, or figuring out the best way to kill them.

Its not just 'Get an education and become a Doctor'

>>5413938
Had a brainfart meant to reply to this.

Please don't waste charisma points on a literal fucking cat

I promise we will give cat some int next lvlup so can we please don't give it 25 cha now?

>>5414069
Fair. Strategic voting sucks, so I'm not getting involved with this race.
I'll just stick to my "everyone with round numbers and 20 luck"

>>5413960
Anything against this for Copper?

>>5414056
I think we're tied now, so if you switch the cat can be smarter than 1 int right now.

>>5414073
And waste that perk?

>>5414074
I don't believe you, you'll be saying a dumb animal doesn't need to be smart at next level up too.

>>5414074
Promises to "do it later" on a quest are bait. Just because you promise to do it, doesn't mean the other anons will.

Are we tied again?

>>5414077
I am, I think we should invest in agi instead of int for now, it doesn't matter how quickly you can notice an attack if you can't react faster enough to actually dodge it.
When the difference gets smaller we can start investing in both again.

>>5414078
>And waste that perk?
Ah yes, because we're going to meet cats all the time, right?

>>5414083
We are going to spend the next 10 days training our asses off

Plus, we gonna head to Loguetown, so smarter decisions on how to avoid the Polpo there.

>>5413933
+1

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>>5414084
Yes.

Yohohoho are we tied again?

>>5414078
>I don't believe you, you'll be saying a dumb animal doesn't need to be smart at next level up too.
I never said this lmao

>>5413938
+1

>>5414071
She isn’t gonna be that effective with 16 intelligence, and we’re throwing away 15 points that could be better used elsewhere with 25 CHA. We’re going to fight Arlong, she needs better physical advantages than 40 points between CHA and INT.

>>5414089
Lol

>>5414090
No we actually aren't rn
>>5414092
We are now

>unironically supporting to waste points on charisma on an animal that can't even talk
Retards, the lot of you

Oh are we tied again?

>>5414097
Ye like 5th time in a row

>>5414097
What's the matter, run out of dynamic IPs?

>>5414095
I'm pretty sure Haruki is the retarded one.
Or maybe Cutter, the man got only 5 int.

Yo QM just roll a 1d2

>>5414100
I am just surprised is all. Could have sworn I untied it.
Are you the same guy who was crying about samefag when we voted not to slaughter the poor mermaid?

>>5414104
What are you blathering about?

>>5414105
You don't have to be so upset just cause I guessed correctly

>>5414107
Do you have a single piece of evidence to back up your claims?

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I don't want to twist anybody's hand here, but don't forget that there are a couple of ways for animals in One Piece to become more intelligent in the traditional sense.

Stop fighting.

So Qm hows your day?

>>5414110
What claims? I asked you a question and you started seething.

>>5414075
Just tiebreak already ffs

This is actually hilarious kek.

>>5414115
>Implying someone isn't going to come in and immediately tie again if I do

>>5414112
Intelligence is okay, the problem is charisma

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>5414121
But you know what? Fuck it.
I'll let the dice decide
1 = Dumb cat
2 = Cute cat

If it helps I'll vote for whatever is making the cat smarter. There's a lot of posts to sort through right now.

Can we get a lock on this before another "1 post by this ID" shows up?

>>5413933
You won the roll, congratulations

>>5414113
It's going alright, hadn't expected voting how to apply Haruki's points would end up being such a contentious topic though, lmao.

>>5414123
Intelligence and charisma, both could end up being more important than you're giving them credit for. For example, a check to intimidate would be majorly assisted by charisma. It's not as worthless as some people seem to believe.

>>5414126
Too late, it seems.

>>5414121
It’s clearly a samefag, at least your confirmed real.

>>5414128
I’m just happy that we can move on now.

>>5414130
But it was immediately tied again.

>>5414129
>Too late, it seems.
Is it?
>>5414125
Did you vote or no?

>>5414131
This is like some sort of sitcom.
How about we just compromise, like take 5 from the 10 luck of Haruki and put it in intelligence or something?

>>5414129
It’s more about immediate utility with me. We’re literally gonna start a fight with the biggest pirate boss in East Blue, and a 16 Int/25 Cha build for a wild tiger ain’t gonna cut it.

>>5414136
I agree to anything that doesn't involve giving the cat 25 CHA points

>>5414138
Then how about we give it 20 CHA and 5 more to INT?

>>5414131
>But it was immediately tied again.
For fucks sake!

>>5414125
Are you willing to reconsider just to end this stalemate?

>>5414136
I’d agree just to nip this shit in the bud.

>>5414139
25 total is still too much. Come on anon this is ridiculous. We are about to get into a fight potentially and you people want to dump into CHA for some reason?

>>5414140
>Are you willing to reconsider just to end this stalemate?
Are you?

>>5414140
>Are you willing to reconsider just to end this stalemate?
The cat just needs to be smarter. The sole reason being that if it does make it easier to teach her or grant her secondary communication skills outside of typical cat posturing.

I don't really care what the other attributes are.

>>5414144
Then I don't see how we can compromise if you see CHA as useless and want the kitty to remain retarded.

>>5414145
Maybe for intelligence, but I ain’t giving the cat 25 fucking Charisma. We need to boost our physical stats, not the shit that won’t affect Arlong ffs

Could any of the people who voted for +25 CHA explain to me the reasoning behind it?
>>5414150
I don't mind the INT increase. The CHA is the problem. How many times does that need to be explained?

>>5414151
Who says the cat needs to fight Arlong?

>>5414149
>The sole reason being that if it does make it easier to teach her or grant her secondary communication skills outside of typical cat posturing.
That’s horse shit, she doesn’t need intelligence for that shit, just a damn perk.

>>5414155
Cool. Now give her the perk. I'll wait.

>>5414154
What does it need to do then? Write a stand-up routine?

>>5414154
The fact that we’re fighting him and his crew specifically? This isn’t rocket science anon, boosting her physical advantages is better than covering for a deficiency in non-combat abilities.

>>5414157
We can literally spend time bonding with the cat over communication, Jesus.

>>5414129
Please give us a quest to teach the cat a communication perk so we can finish this shitshow.

Cutter, with 57 Strength and 50 Vitality was one shot by Arlong. Do you guys expect the kitty to eat his face with her stats in the 60s?

>>5414166
>Please give us a quest to teach the cat a communication perk so we can finish this shitshow.
Or we could just make her smarter instead of begging for a deus ex machina to cover the flaws with your plan?

>>5414158
>>5414160
Yes, and Arlong's crew isn't as strong as Arlong. Whom we will be fighting. Even then you don't need the cat to fight. It sounds like you don't have confidence in the rest of the crew.

>>5414166
Or you could just make her smarter so that she has an all encompassing boost to any smart based thing. Like problem solving skills.

>>5414167
The guy who wants to give 25 charisma to a sabertooth cat is talking about flawed plans

>>5414172
Hey, I'm not the one begging the QM to give her a perk that replaces the need to raise a stat instead of just raising that stat.

>>5414129
Honestly, since it seems like nobody is willing to budge and we aren't getting anywhere, what about defaulting to the cat getting to spend her own stats?

>>5414170
What the fuck is the function of a big fucking cat do you think?
For what purpose does it need 30 charisma? What is it going to use it for?
>>5414177
Yeah you are worse.

>>5414179
She's too dumb for that. If only she were smarter...

>>5414167
I expect to fair far better than 40 skillpoints wasted in non-combat abilities.

What fucking flaws? You’re the idiot that wants to waste 25 skillpoints into fucking Cha just to tech the cat how to communicate, when we’re going to be fighting Arlong ffs

>>5414170
Same shit as above, she doesn’t need to solve math problems if she’s fast enough to tear someone’s throat out.

>>5414170
It is not about trust but about function and utility

>>5414179
>stats applied randomly because cats can't into numbers
Would be pretty funny.

>>5414183
You sound upset. Maybe you should take a walk. It's just a quest, no reason to seethe so much about this.

>>5414179
It should’ve been the default option from the start.

Shiver, maybe you just decide which plan wins.

We're all fighting over what stats to give a Cat, think it's best if you just end it now before we get out the chainsaws

I am telling you QM just roll a 1d2 like the anon some posts before did

>>5414180
>>5414183
I'm just gonna say this right now, I don't care. All I want is more int. If any of you are concerned about the charisma being too high and can't see value in it or don't like the spread, draw up a new statline. If it's got int I'll vote for it. If not then I won't. S'all I want.

>>5414184
Understandable.

>>5414187
No rebuttal? Nice strawmaning mate, you’d give the Scarecrow a run for his money.

Should just go for 15 int, 5 luck and 8 on all the other stats.
Perfectly balanced.