justicereigns | [Voice] Lessons & Named Attacks / Action pre-kidnapping

Hello to New Feathers, and old.

This is Smoker, I teach jitte, self-defense, and kickboxing over by the barracks. By now I'm sure most of you have heard about the drafts that happen here, and it never hurts to be as prepared as you can be. Chun-Li also teaches lessons, particularly for beginners, but she can do private lessons too. If you want, she's also wiling to teach proper firearm use. No experience required, but if you have experience, we can work with that too.

For more experienced fighters, I've got a question for you. Do you make your own attacks, and if so, do you name them? And how do you decide on the names or themes in that case?

Thanks.

[ooc: If your character's interested in classes, Chun-Li might threadjump if that's okay!]

[Smoker's actually out early on the Thursday of the 22nd, getting in a few extra hours of exercise alone in the cold before anyone shows up -- hypothetically. He brought out an entire pot of coffee and he's got an extra empty cup next to his own, more out of a habit he doesn't care to kick than anything else. It's a few hours and well into morning before he's kidnapped, leaving behind only the coffee, jitte, and sunglasses. Lupin will be finding both sunglasses and jitte and holding onto the sunglasses. However, anyone's welcome to come join Smoker for coffee or exercise. After that, he'll be kidnapped for awhile. Good thing he mentioned Chun-Li also teaches, huh?]

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That sounds a bit more like the Adeptus Arbites where I'm from, interplanetary law enforcement. Though I've never heard of a Devil Fruit.

Adeptus Arbites? [Sorry for the parroting.]

How do they work?

Devil fruits are... cursed fruits. Anyone who eats one is cursed for life but gains a power in return. Mine is smoke, but every other is different.

[Corbec's pauses for a moment before continuing]

This devil fruit sounds alot like some of the nastier stuff where I'm from...a curse in exchange for power...that's evil stuff.

As for the Arbites, they're separate from planetary law enforcement, though they do have more than a few permanent garrisons on worlds. Their ships mostly deal with pirates and smugglers.

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The fruit itself isn't any more evil than a gun or a sword. It's a weapon, it can be used to protect or entertain, but it can be used for violence as well by those who would do so. And of course those who would, have greater reason to seek it out.

Hm, right. The Arbites does sound like what we do. Only ours is just on one world and with islands with garrisons instead.

Planets large enough to warrant an Arbites garrison where I'm from have populations in the billions. How large is the world you're from?

Big, but each island is definitely scaled down, not "billions." More like millions.

And the bases aren't decided on population of the island, many of the island with bigger populations don't have a marine base, it's just based on strategic locations.

Strategic how? More efficiency in moving troops from garrison to garrison? ...and...larger populations without a governing force outside of local? How well does that go over?

Pirates. On both accounts. [Pinches the bridge between his eyebrows, he realizes that doesn't sufficiently explain anything, but it takes him a little bit to get warmed up.]

There are 4 main oceans in my world, one strip of Land that encircles the globe called "The Red Line" and the Grand Line is a fifth ocean divided by Calm belts where there aren't any winds and seakings breed.

The pirates mostly want to reach the end of the Grand Line, to Raftel, because they think One Piece is there. And if not, they try for the New World in order to try to prove that they're the best.

There's only one entrance for pirates into the Grand Line, and that is up Reverse Mountain. No matter which ocean they come from, there's a route that sails up the mountain, over the Red Line and into the Grand Line. So each ocean has a marine base on the island closest to Reverse Mountain to try to catch pirates before they even reach there.

The Grand Line itself has hundreds of different islands and countries, and most of them prefer to keep enough of their own sovereignty to deal with pirates on their own. Which, as the former Drum Kingdom proved; is not always the best plan. When Blackbeard targeted it, the King couldn't mount a defense and the marines were too far away to help until he'd already moved on and by then it was too late. Alabasta was using a shichibukai to protect them against pirates, but Crocodile was just conning its people while mounting a rebellion.

In general, the marine bases were situated to best grab pirates, but as years go by, the pirates catch onto where the bases are and figure out ways around them.

Akainu, the new Fleet Admiral, rearranged some of the bases so that he could face the pirate emperors more directly, but we'll see how effective that is.