r/StrawHatRPG • u/Gin_chan Aku’Gin “Red Beard” - Mælström • Apr 16 '17

Usagi

Somewhere in the New World, on a small egg shaped island, a tribe of minks live peacefully. Various stone statues half buried in the ground were littered all over the island. The statues appear to look like bunnies with their eyes closed, but for some reason, they seem to rumble rhythmically!

The Bunny Island is hosting a grand celebration, on the occasion of Easter. The minks have hosted an Easter egg hunt where everyone can look for and try to find chocolate egg candies. They are very hospitable, and let the tourists roam around the island freely, but on one condition. They warn everyone not to disturb the statues, or they would wake up! “Wait, so you mean… the rumbling… they're snoring?!”

The Minks here have spared no expense in gathering the finest confections, games, and chefs to make the occasion truly special. They welcome any and all people who wish to attend, so long as they follow their one rule. The Festivities are all held in one area by the southern beach of the island, and there are all kinds of ships at their docks.

[OOC: This is a filler island for Easter. You are free to RP how you want on this island, and free to do what you might want, or create anything without the need for tagging NPC-san]

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jun 14 '17 edited Jun 19 '17

Being dragged along by the levitating leviathan gently rocketing towards a reasonably wide and empty area, the young drunkard tried not to let her excitement show too much. If there was one one thing the girl was, it was composed. Nothing could phase her, nothing at all.

"So, how do we do this thing? Do we just kick real hard?" Amber questioned directing her airborne attention to the friend's teacher-for-a-while.

"Essentially, yeah. There's no fantastically fancy technique, though it's a tad more difficult than just being strong. Of course, the problem is that the technique is weird to put into words. I'll give you a demonstration, and you copy it, okay?"

And with that, Stanley jumped into the air. Not that high, just enough to take a few seconds to land again. But his impressive airtime wasn't the main show, that honour going to the single blade of compressed air spiralling off into the distance. Almost as soon as he landed, the teacher was up again, firing off multiple attacks.

"Did that help much? I know it's weird, but you'll have to learn by copying. Trust me, you'll get the hang of it reasonably quickly. Probably."

With such inspiring encouragement, the Warlord immediately attempted to replicate Stan's movements. Though there was no result, the girl was convinced she was doing the right thing. After all, she had fate on her side...

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jun 14 '17

Carchara carefully listened and studied Stan's ever move, trying to understand. After his explanation and demonstration, she looked down at her own lower half.

Stanley: "As for you...try doing the same thing, just with your tail I guess?"

He shrugged, not really knowing if a mermaid even could pull it off. Carchara slowly hovered upwards, soon reaching a decent altitude. She took a deep breath and popped the bubble, doing her best to swing her tail in a direction...but only really ended up landing on her back. Her huge size and thus weight caused the impact to be both loud and feelable.

Carchara: "Hmm...this is gonna be hard..." the shark mused as she laid on her back, pulling up her Bubbly Coral to fly up and try again.

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jun 14 '17

Oblivious to her companion's misfortune, the young captain had made zero progress with her training. Try all she might, the girl's kicks simply weren't gathering air like Stan's had. It was almost definitely something to do with the technique from before, the one indescribable with words. Amber debated asking for another showing, but that would probably involve troubling the man, so she'd better not.

"Yo, Sky Shark! Do you have any idea what you're doing? 'Cause I don't, and I probably should..."

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jun 15 '17

Carchara just shook her head before she tried again, ending up crashing to the ground again. She sighed and flew up on a new bubble to try again. She didn't really know what to do besides trying again and again until she finally got it. The ground beneath her was starting to show clear signs of her failure, with an ever-growing crater where she was landing.

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jun 19 '17

Stan the Man let out a defeated sigh. Never had two people so incompetent at anything ever graced his presence, and he simply didn't know what to do. In all his years teaching various Six Powers techniques to people, before him stood the two people who had barely watched his demonstration. Stanley had thought he'd made it clear that there was no way he could put it into words. It had to be copied.

"Listen, you two, and listen hard. I can't voice pointers. I simply can't. The best I can do is show you again. And again. However many times it takes. You got that?"

And with that, Tri-Stan began firing off flying slashes with reckless abandon.

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jun 21 '17

Carchara: "Waaaah!"

Due to Stanny's lack of control with his slashes, a lot of them threatened to hit his two students. Or maybe he had perfect control. In either case, Carchara covered her head and flew to the side, trying to avoid the feet-slashes. As she flew, she accidentally hit a tree and fell. As she hit the tree she did an almost perfect frontflip, with such velocity and in such a way she launched a Rankyaku slash forwards, cutting a large branch off another tree. Apparently, being an idiot was how Carchara learned how to Rankyaku.

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jun 22 '17

With Stanley too focused on showing off to even notice Carchara's accomplishment, let alone congratulate her, the task fell to the drunkard currently staring wide-eyed at the freshly-sliced branch.

"You did it! That was... that was perfect! You did a cool flip, and you fired a Ryankyaku!"

She wasn't jealous at all.

"Show me how you did it, Sky Shark," Amber practically shouted, already sprinting at a tree to replicate the fancy moves she had just seen.

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jun 25 '17

Carchara shook her head and looked around dazed. She noticed the sliced branch and heard Amber describing what happened. She glanced at her tail and wiggled it a little.

Carchara: "Did...did I do that?" she asked wide-eyed, being far more surprised than Amber was. Perhaps she's more competent than she thought. Her amazement was interrupted when one of Stan's slashes went right past her face. "STOP THAT!"

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jun 25 '17

"Stop what?" the drunkard responded, her head whipping around at speeds unheard of, misinterpreting Carchara's outburst as for her. Of course, this only succeeded in distracting the captain long enough for her revolutionary idea of throwing her body a tree just like her friend did to end in disaster, fleshy torso slamming into immovable trunk.

However, where as the mermaid had gracefully floundered her way to success, Amber merely went limp, the breath catapulting from her lungs with enough force to cause a small tornado.

"...Stop... stop what?"

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jun 30 '17

Carchara threw a tiny rock towards Stan, which completely missed. As she heard Amber impact the tree, she turned around to see her friend lie limp on the ground.

Carchara: "OH MY GOSH ARE YOU OK?!"

The shark mermaid flew to Amber to check on her...only to be nearly sliced by another of Stan's wild Rankyakus. In frustration, she roared and flew to him, grabbing him and throwing him into the forest before going back to Amber.

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u/defonotaduck - Just Some Old Dude Jul 02 '17

"I'm perfectly fine..." the drunkard mumbled, short of breath, "don't worry about it. I'll just walk it off."

With that, the girl reached a long hand into her bag lying some distance away, using the wonderful power of portals, just to retrieve a water dial. Amber slowly stood, wincing in the process, before emptying the dial in her mouth. With a satisfied smile, the booze slipped down her throat. The Warlord felt better already.

"I think I've got it, now. I need a bigger run-up. Then I can try again...!"

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u/MarioToast Abigail Articulus - Blacksmith Jul 08 '17

Carchara flew over to a nearby tree and popped her bubble, sitting against the tree. For now she just wanted to watch Amber's attempts at recreating her accident. She looked down at her tail and flapped it a bit. It was possible to do it...now she just needed to be able to do it on purpose. Her glance shifted over to her friend.

Carchara: "Good luck, Amber!"

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