Task Name:Shipwrights,spookmasters, and Logias. OH MY
Tier:2
NPC or PC:PC
Location:Water 7
Crew, Team, or Personal: Personal
Description:Reina has just arrived in water 7 after being assigned there for experience. She's going to be taking part in the aqua laguna preparation,but for now she is simply getting acquainted with the island. The laguna isn't coming anytime soon,but none the less her job is to learn what to do while getting acquainted with the population.

Along the way she stops by the shipwright dock, where she meets a girl name Lana and bonds over talking about their dream ships. The trouble starts when they meet an awol marine who's looking for a chica.

Goal:kill the awol guy and recruit the grill
Enemy Details: 20 tier 0 enemies, 5 tier 1, 5 tier 2, 1 tier 3. The tier 0 are just bandits. The tier 1-3 are the boss' minions
Boss: Yes

boss:

Normally Reina would be panicking being lost in a brand new island with no one to guide her,but today she was too immersed in the sights to be upset in the slightest. Sure today was supposed to be her first day of training for the Aqua Laguna evacuation planning and training,but she just couldn't help exploring water 7 instead. It was an Amalgamation between being a giant water fountain and a robot city. For hours she spent just sitting on a rooftop admiring the surge from the afternoon flushing of the city's water.

The roaring of the surging water sometimes made her wince and the impact and force of the stream sometimes knocked her off balance. Bystanders didn't mind it much, most of em went about their day and simply made sure to not be outside when it erupted. But for her, it was a new spectacle. The citizens explained to her that it was millions of tons being filtered a day. Taking out the city's waste and filling their water elevators... To which Reina rushed off to try.

About an hour later she found herself before a big crowd of people from all walks of life. Some were rich aristocrats with top hats and monocles. They strode along with a sense of superiority and uppityness. Then there were the regular citizens who usually cleared a path for them begrudgingly, but for the most part they shrugged it off quickly and began to converse amongst themselves. Reina took note of their strong willed selves and hoped to one day to be able to shrug off such arrogance. As she was squeezing an iron railing, a girl approached her. " Hey hey now, don't make extra work for the maintenance crew hehe". Reina felt a hand on her should and with a dazed look turned to find a blonde haired girl dressed in oil stained work clothing. Reina looked down to find her fist was indeed putting imprints into the railing and pull away with a flushed face.

" Oh haha you don't have to be that way girl! I suppose you're a newbie who just got here"? she asked, extending a hand to reina. She looked at the hand and back at her and slowly became less withdrawn to firmly accept the hand shake. She scratched her head and chuckled rhythmically for a second, " sometimes rich bastards get on my nerves. Sorry about th---uh railing. The name's reina. how about yers"?

The blonde smile as she pulled her hand back. " I'm Lana,but most people call me the salty siren...cuz uhmm". she said, trailing off a bit while realizing she said something unnecessary. Reina just sort of tilted her head and leaned back on the railing and smiled back at her." Well miss salty pants. do you know where the ship yard is? I want to try and commission a super cool ship and see some cool stuff".

Lana's eyes widened at the thought of ships, her eyes seemed to sparkle ever so slightly at the mere mention. " Ships you say? come join me at the salty spitoon and we'll talk about it"! Reina stammered a bit trying to get another word in,but she couldn't. Lana grabbed her wrist and dragged her off when the cargo door on the sea elevator opened up.

Word count:568
Stamina:250/250
Haki:75/75

As Reina was dragged further into the city she felt self becoming less aware of her surroundings and more mystified by it all. That is until she found herself in front of a fairly withered tavern, whose paint was worn by the weather and sign was hanging on by one chain. Each step they took creaked,but the moment she entered the place it was jumping with people. A bunch of the fellows around the bar waved to Lana and she herself waved back nervously. Reina took note of the people here, they seemed to be buff and hardy men in the same get up as Lana. Covered in oil, wearing the same work jump suits and were scruffy as heck. Lana sat on the other end of the table they chose, waving off the guys in the bar. " haha dun worry about them, they're just some of my buddies from the different docks. This be the place you'd wanna be if you were looking for a shipwright to make your craft".

Reina with a clueless stare scratched her cheeked and nodded. " Good thing to know, I'll make note of it" she said, with one finger raised as if she had an epiphany. " So uh, my idea for a ship would be a giant sea monster witch glowing eyes and it would slither in the water". She said with her hands held out to represent size. Lana's eyes sparkled once more, her hands rubbing together with a bit of drool streaming down her chin. Reina eyed her with a cautious expression, slowly edging toward the end of her booth's seat.

Lana's eyes widened, hastily wiping her chin as she realized what a dummy she was being. " Hey hey please don't go. hahaha it sounds really cool. I wanna make one of those...". Reina settled back down and slammed the table with a mischievous grin, " Mind you it's only a dream as of now,but one day I want to it my flag ship in a giant fleet. Will you help me miss salty Lana---giirl- person? Lana nodded and without any hesitation got up on her booth, grabbing a few protractors, pencils and other supplies needed to draw up blueprints. " Where did all that stuff come from"? Reina asked as she started scooching over to see a whole bunch of scattered office supplies lying about. " Well the SS Going Awesome is a place for all us shipwrights to meet and gain customers. These are all put here by the owner to encourage us to come more often", she said with a wink.

439 words. 1007 words total
Stamina:250/250
Haki:75/75

Reina rested her chin on her hands and stared down at Lana, who in a whirlwind of dedication and passion began drawing up blueprints for this would be ship. One could tell from a glace just how masterfully drawn each line was, so much precision and direction without taking even a second moment to think. The girl was hunched over the table, sometimes sticking her tongue out as she came at across a difficult crossroads. Certain sections needed more accuracy and detailed, lots of notes written in jargon Reina could hardly comprehend. She knew some basics like metal plates and light dials. But then other names were completely and utterly foreign to her, such as z-axle.43-c and tempered hinge-32. Not wanting to bother her, Reina crossed her arms and kept peeking over the shipwright's shoulder to try and get a peek at what she was doing.

Elsewhere in the bar a couple of shifty characters cackled among themselves, one with unusually long arms(tier 2) and a couple of others lying about, drunk out of their minds(2 tier 1s, 1 tier 0). The fellow with the long arm grinned as he eyed the couple of girls bonding over ships. The long arm, seeming to be the orchestrator of the bunch whispered into a den den mushy with spaghetti stains on its chin. It grinned with a wide teethy smiled, signaling the men they were good to go. The bunch got up from their seats and sauntered over to Reina and Lana in a pyramid formation. Upon reaching their booth, they formed a small circle around them, casting a shadow in the girl's drawing light. Lana did not look up, instead re-positioning herself to find better light. Reina on the other hand excused herself and faced the group of men grinning at her. " Oi girly, why don't you and the cute blondie come with us? We'll show you--a", the man leaned in closer, " Good timmmme". Reina pushed him away without hesitation, shoving her hand into his face and knocking him over.

" haha carl, you gonna let this trick do you in?", one of them shouted. Reina did not move an inch and Lana didn't even notice the commotion. The bar's attention was now on them, leading a few other guys to come and try to break it up. But as soon as they tried, mister long arms grabbed one by the throat. " Can't you see we're doing bidnes--here".

423 words. 1430 total
Stamina:250/250
Haki:75/75

Without a second thought Reina's arm was jammed into the man's gullet, a crack could be heard throughout the bar as she turned about face to slam this man into his nearby subordinate with an overhead swing of her arm still planted in his stomached. The resulting crash splintered the wood and resounded in the bar like a clap of thunder. Mister long arms and his friend were downed instantly, the two of them piled onto each other. The other two subordinates tried to interfere and armed with knifes of their own,but they were headed off by the draw of her own blade. Their knifes sent flying randomly in the room, one crashing to the ground with one swoop and the other ended up being planted by its own force two or three inches away from Lana. The two of them held their hands and grimaced as they backed away from her. One looked around and was on the verge of being caught by the bystanders and the other ran for his life. " You better believe we'll be back girl"!
Reina would have given chase,but the immediate danger posed to the Lana who was so caught up in her work, would have been too great just to catch a two bit thug. So without any hesistation she shrugged it off and had some help calling in the authorities. It didn't take long for the them to arrive. In that meantime she had the stragglers tied up with rope at their wrists, lying on their stomachs until the other marines in the area could take them away.

Meanwhile Lana had just finished with her work and looked up to find the bar even more rowdy and a couple of guys being taken from by the marines. " Hey what happened here"? Lana's blank expression triggered something in reina, something she never realized up until now. She walked up to the shipwright and began pinching her cheeks and tugging here and there randomly, with a rather annoyed grin. " Look here lil missy..while you were drawing these guys were trying to cause trouble...". Lana pulled away and began laughing a little nervously as well, " haha sorry Reina but I finished your ship blueprints"!

Reina made a fist, an airtight grip about to be pummel her when Lana held up not only a diagram of the ship,but a sketch as well. It was in that moment that Reina grabbed the blue document with a tear in her eyes. " Tis beautiful"!

Words:424 total words: 1754
Stamina:250/250
Haki:75/75

Enemy update:19 tier 0 enemies, 4 tier 1, 4 tier 2, 1 tier 3. The tier 0 are just bandits.

Once the mess was finished up Reina found herself to be the bar's hero, with everyone offering her drinks and food. The little celebration went on for a few hours before everyone started to dip and head home for the next day. Lana herself did not drink,but she enjoyed the atmosphere and food while Reina using her experience with Cerulean Faith, drank several burly men under the table. " Well I'm going to head home now Reina, come meet me at dock 15 tomorrow?" Reina gave her a slightly tipsy nod and saw her off as a few of her long time friends and coworkers escorted her home. " Are you sure she's going to be okay?" she asked, sinking deeper into her seat while sipping some water.

The bar keep smiled and said, " Not to worry girl. Lana's an orphan,but she was taken in by the shipping crews around water 7. So she's in good hands on dock premises". Reina peered at him at the corner of her eye and took another swig of her water. " Well I better head off sir". But before she could go, the man coughed into his hands. " It's great you're worried about her miss,but what of yourself? There's been a lot of rumors about women being attacked at night...something along the lines of their blood being drained". She nodded to him and sauntered off into the night, but unlike before she was totally lost. She looked to and fro, not entirely sure where she was to be perfectly honest. The sound of running water echo'd throughout the streets as the island slowed down and even as some might say, died after sundown.

However creeping up to her were a group of thugs who weren't quite good at hiding their presence. They snickered rather loudly as she stumbled down the street, jumping from low lying house to low lying house, numbers beginning to actually swell a bit. Reina wanting to be on the safe side invoked her kenbushokou haki, a slight change in the wind was the only thing which would have let anyone paying attention know something had changed about her. With her hands she started to count, " okay 1,2,-4...6...8"?( 4 tier 2's, 4 tier 1's). From the shadows a gang of men started to pop out from the shadows, one of which was from the marines who first came to arrest the other men she beat up earlier. " So that's your game?"

The man pulled a mask which was too realistic for comfort, the 9th man in the group. " You marines are all so gullible".(tier 3) Accompanying him were two of the men she beat up earlier and the one who she let get away.

Words:471 total words: 2225
Stamina:250/250
Haki:60/75

Enemy update:20 tier 0 enemies, 4 tier 1, 5 tier 2, 1 tier 3. The tier 0 are just bandits.

The long armed man grinned a bit while holding his stomach with a fake frown, indicated by his exaggerated lip. " Oi girly...you people come here to the island and don't even realize that it's killed or be killed". His grin widened as he accepted a sword from his compatriot, " However for you I think severing one limb outta be fine. Boss wants you in tact,but that might not be possible after what you did at the tavern".

His little herd of men started to close in on Reina, some mocking her with wiggly fingers and large grins written on their faces. She shook her head as she placed her hands on the hilt of her sword. " The first time I let some punks live and this is the thanks I get"? She closed her eyes for a moment, letting all the information from the outside world fae away into the background. " Ahh so she's giving up? hahaha". Like a bunch of rabid hyenas, they began to creep up quicker. Long arms was about the warn them, his hand held out to say something when the sound of flesh being rended echo'd throughout the area.

Reina's eyes had thier focus, the haze from the alcohol seemingly vanishing in the blink of an eye. The shock set in as the clank of iron fell to the ground and the man's arm plopped to the stone street below seconds later, blood spraying like a fountain. The others stood there shocked for a moment, giving Reina all the time she needed to sweep her blade and rip them asunder. By the time they came to, she had already wiped half of them out.

Each time they tried to swing their blades at her, hers would fly into them like a heated knife through butter, slicing off their limb in one fell swoop. Without hesitation Reina charged Long arms and the masked fellow. Long arms tried to deal with him,but she lunged forward with sparks of electricity coursing through her blade. He lunged for her as well, trying to plunge his sword into her using his reach advantage, but was stopped in the process as she dodged just slightly to the right and slashed toward his stomach. The man managed to avoid having his guts spilled on the floor,but he received a jolt to his system and felt over for the second time in one night. Reina looked over to masked one, backing away toward a dark alley. He was laughing manically, eyes widened and fixed on her. " Hahahaha you can come get me little girl..but what of your friend"?

Words 446 Total:2671
Stamina:217/250
Passive 1 used, -5
Level 2 skill executioner's calling used- 28
Haki:60/75 Turn 1 CD

Enemy update:20 tier 0 enemies, 0 tier 1, 1 tier 2, 1 tier 3. The tier 0 are just bandits.

Reina smiled at him, brandishing ol reliable. " Oh you mean Lana? She should be fine, she's got all those guys looking after her". The man grinned at her, putting his blade away with the utmost confidence. " Our boss, he ain't no ordinary bastard. I reckon...he'd make short work of that woman and any of those two bit thugs". She grimaced at the thought, her confidence faltering ever so slightly. She pulled back bending over to long armed man and lifting him up at the waist. Her eyes trained on the grinning man who had a sense of abandon in his eyes, but still in someway victorious. Without much warning she ran off with him in tow.

The man gurgled, his limp body dangling and whipping back and forth as she ran. As he came to she smacked him in the head with the hilt of her sword, " Hey you know where dock 15 is"? The man winced and fell limp again, pretending to be knocked out. Reina stopped momentarily, placing the blade on his neck. The man still limp, desperately tried to fiegn consciousness as the blade slowly began to whittle away at his neck. The man showed amazing defiance, but blood started to seep down the nape of his neck and the blood flow wasn't letting up. " Okay okay please don't kill me"!

She dropped down him to the ground kicked his stomach as he held his hand over his wound.

A few minutes later they had arrived to dock 15, which was much to her dismay under assault. Reina gave the man another hard punch into his gut, same spot in the same fashion. His eyes bulged and spit flied out randomly as he gurgled in pain. The man was on the ground moments later, groaning on the ground with labored breathing. While he struggled to keep his hand on the wound steadily, she made her way to the main dock where a small crowd of men were waiting for her. At first they were slightly confident in handling one woman, but as she stepped into the light, blood was running down her blade and she herself was splattered with it herself. The Crimson contrasting well with the white uniform.

They backed away uniformly, somewhat taken aback by her appearance. A some of dread filled their eyes when all of a sudden their tunes changed. Reina immediately activated her Kenbushoku haki to sense someone behind her. She took a risk and dropped to the floor, just barely moving out too fast for the masked man to get a clear shot. " Damn woman"! he growled, trying to line his shot up. But no matter what he tried, she was one step ahead of him using her sense of dread to leap about and a combination of footwork to end up before him. He panicked ever so slightly, before she grabbed the hilt of her new toy and swung it upward; splattering his entrails all over the dock.

The gangle of men were right on top of her, their blade meet feet from skewering her when she slashed them all with a single swipe. Their blades all shattered as they nudged gestured lunging motions with broken blades. The bunch of goons all fell over themselves in that instant, tripping over themselves and the bloodied dock. Those who did not get taken down Reina leapt off the mound of men and executed them. One by one they tried to get her, some having quite the conviction despite the circumstances. But all the same she would sway to the right and slice one's stomach open. Then to the left without much worry, almost as if it was becoming routine. They lacked proper stances, proper form and even the ability to see her attack coming.

Words:639 Total:3310
Stamina:189/250
Level 2 skill executioner's calling used- 28
Haki:45/75

Enemy update:0 tier 0 enemies, 0 tier 1, 1 tier 2, 0 tier 3. The tier 0 are just bandits.

With no more people left in her way, Reina strolled up to the entrance of the shipyard employee entrance. She peered and didn't feel many presences nearby anymore, except for a few pockets of activity in a few different places from within. At the entrance she noticed blood on the ground, buckets of it splattered at the entrance. She recognized some of them from the bar. The signs of struggle were evident, with big gaping holes in the wall. Reina nodded to the scene with her eyes closed and began to make her way through the joint.

Her search after wading through random piles of dried corpses and pools of blood lead her to a big warehouse with wooden docks leading to the interior of the room. There were ships in all stages of development drifting back and forth in the ocean's current. The lights were flicking, most with blood dripping from them. Not too long after venturing within, did her senses lead her to find Lana jumping from ship to ship. Behind her a floating man made of blood was following in her wake. His form was almost non existent,but he flew over her as he toyed with his prey. Lana was running for dear life with her surprisingly long strides from ship to ship. Her pursuing was cackling much like his underlings, " Oiiii poppet I just wanna make you m---,". The man interupted mid sentence stopped giving chase to Lana and floated over toward Reina. She herself had boarded a ship's drawboard, covered head to toe in blood. His grin widened and his form taking its natural shape moments later.

Here he stood on the opposite side of her, in his human form. His jack was stained with tomato sauce and face was rather unkempt. " My my poppet, you've got a lovely odor..no fashion style. Is that my men covering you"? Once more cackling, Reina stood solemnly on the other side of the ship with a blank expression. Over to right was Lana, who was hiding from both of them. Trembling, she couldn't bring herself to make a move.Peering from behind the mast, she looked onto the situation as if both of them were monsters. " Well now poppet. Good timing. You can be my waifu if you wanted", he said with a wink. The man smiled with a sense of confidence, floating toward her as if there was nothing she could do. Reina tilted her head with a dazed look on her face, as if unfazed by his inhuman feats. " As tempting as it would be to be your play thing, I'll have to actually decline". With stepped back with in foot, holding blackened blade steady while brandishing it with her finger. " My only love is the thrill of battle".

Words:471 Total:3781
Stamina:189/250
Haki:35/75
Upkeep for haki

The man threw his arms out, completely forgetting about Lana. His form became red once more, his voice once again losing human semblance. " Okay poppet. THEN I WILL MAKE YOU MINE". With a burst of power, a tendril of blood came barreling in upon her, but it was met with her katana easily. Her black blade sliced his tendril cleanly and caused it to lose form almost instantly. He growled at her and threw another in disbelief. Only to have it cut again, with the same ease. He growled at her, his eyes somewhat becoming rather distressed. He charged forth with several spikes jutting from him. He was like a giant malleable wave of goo which eclipsed her easily and came crashing down upon her. With one motion she lunged back kicking off(crane) with maximum force to avoid the initial spikes,but his form came barreling in upon her without letting up.

He outstretched around her and formed a dome around her, but with one lunging swipe she slashed through him and escaped his dome. The man gurgled but still raging after her. Several spikes barreling in upon her, forcing her to activate her color of arms. His spikes smashed against her as she strafed and cut several tendrils. The two exchanged several blows, Reina unable to make a decisive blow because of the sheer amount of attacks. And the crimson beast having his energy sapped with each blow, unable to full take her down. Their blows resounded into the night, each a loud crash sending wood and blood flying around randomly.

She found herself perched in the crow's nest of a ship, he gurgling below, spewed forth intending to trap her and destroy the crow's nest. Without hesitation she vaulted(dragon flight) over the edge and nosedived, running the blade through his twisting and writhing body which was entangled around the mast of the ship. She landed on the railing and with one motion jumped from ship to ship. The mass of crimson continued its assault,but with less vigor than before. Roaring it crashed into the ship she was on and made it rock. Reina rolled as he started to come from up the deck. She only survived became of the danger signals coming from beneath due to her haki.  As she slid about from place to place, she swung her seastone blade, cutting down each tendril as it came forth.

Words:406 Total:3781
Stamina:145/250
Crane Strike -18
Dragon flight -28
Haki:10/75
Upkeep for kenboushi haki turned off at the end of this post, bush turned off this turn too

The monster came upon deck with her, his form losing it's malefic form. Reina kneeled on deck, winded and struggling to stay focused as she had been before. Her fatigue was starting to set in and the blade she wield now felt significantly heavier. He himself had labored breathing,but he wasn't as bad shape. Reina didn't know what to expect as she saw him his hand become blood, a scythe to be exact. He grinned at her, as if he had won. " I guess this is it paw---", the man staggered, looking behind him was a trembling lane with a nail gun. He grimaced at her and turned about face to lash out at her when Reina placed her hand over his mouth and plunged her blade into his gullet. His arms flailed a bit, trying to reach her in vain. But his strength dwindled slowly and his real blood gushing out of his wound. He slowly stopped moving, gradually his eyes rolled into the back of his head until he had no strength left. He fell to the ground in a mess of blood and entrails, leaving only Reina and Lana in the shipyard by themselves. She looked about, trying to find Lana. But she couldn't find her, nor could she sense her anymore. " Damnit...I'm too dependent on haki" she said, falling to her knees as the sound of the authorities rushed into the building. The duo being the sole survivors of the incident were taken in for questioning until an investigation could be conducted.
Later they found out he was a former marine who went awol shortly after making contact with the shishibukai on the island. The two of them exonerated, they ended up leaving the marine base together. Reina with several bandages on her torso and a sprained ankle. Lana with not much about her other than the trauma from the incident. " I'm sorry for your loss Miss Lana", reina said with her gaze averted.

Lana grabbed her hand, unable to look Reina in the eye either. " Why were you covered in blood"? Reina didn't answer at first, but soon she turned to the shipwright with a regretful expression. " It's because the world didn't give me a choice. I showed mercy and they tried to kill me". Lana grabbed her hand tighter, " that's bullshit! You had a choice. You're telling me being covered in their blood was the only option"?

Reina grabbed her back, " If it was to save someone from a fiend like that, I'll shoulder this burdens and change this forsaken world. But in the meantime I want to see more of it for what it is and I want a spooky ship to go with it", she said, trembling with tears coursing down her cheeks. Lana pat her head with a confused expression, " There there dumby. It'll be okay. I'll be here to stop you from doing any more retarded things".

WC: ENOUGH Total: TOO MUCH
Stamina: SAME AS LAST POST
HAKI: 10/75

FFS BOSS DOWN, LANA RECRUITED. THIS TASK BE OVER