- task:
- Task Name: Mother of Dragons
Tier: 5 [turf][event]
NPC or PC: PC
Location: Alabasta
Crew, Team, or Personal: Team
Description: The hunt is on for the noblemen known as the Celestial Dragons. Rokuju would rather stay away from trouble, but it finds her when the acting reagent of Alabasta confesses to Rokuju that he is in fact, of Celestial heritage. Realising that it is in her best interest to keep the man alive, she plans to meet the revolutionary party that she knows is coming. Ro has heard that Ren Actimel, the Unsheathed Mink, is on his way to Sandy Island and is bringing a force much larger than the usual visiting entourage. While not having anything against the revolutionaries directly, she cannot allow the mink to get his hands on the king. Convince him, one way or the other, to leave Alabasta and its king alone, for they now belong to her.
Enemy Details: Ren Actimel (+ an extra npc for every extra person joining the task due to encounter rules), 2 T4, 500 T0, all on 2 T4 boats (1 airship, 1 sub) of the NPCing staffs creation.
Boss: Yes
Ren here:
https://op-piratenation.rpg-board.net/t4447-ren-actimel-npc-event
Boss Name: Giri
Tier: 4
Description: Giri is a platypus minkman who pilots the submarine in Ren's force. Being mink based on a marine mammal, he swears that his grandfather was a fishman. He has done everything that he can to embrace his supposed fishman heritage, such as learning and using fishman karate and learning to pilot a submarine to get closer to his aquatic brethren. Regardless of what his men think of him, he will draw gills on his neck every morning, earning him the name of Gilly behind closed doors.
Devil Fruit: none
Haki: Buso & ken
Equipment: Seastone knuckles
Strength: 3
Durability: 3
Speed: 4
Perception: 6
Boss Name: Gruff
Tier: 4
Description: Goat minkman with a bahahad attitude (goat_blaring_noise.mp3). Fights using bursts of electro, conducting it through his swords. Shipwrights hate having him on their ship because he will often just start munching on whatever surface he is next to at the time. A rumour has spread around the revolutionary ranks that he once chew straight through the side of a seastone hull.
Devil Fruit: -
Haki: Buso and ken
Equipment: 2x titanium swords
Strength: 6
Durability: 3
Speed: 3
Perception: 3
Tap. Tap. Tap. The rhythmic sound of Rokuju’s shoes on the marble floors echoed through the palace corridor. Today was the day that she would receive the Revolutionary General known as Ren Actimel. It had been a couple of years since he had been back, the last time being the great invasion by Yonko Raphael Aleksejev. Unfortunately at the time, Ro had been too preoccupied with her own agenda to watch his movements too carefully. Thus, he had left Alabasta, following whatever business Rev Generals such as himself dabbled in. He had always been on Ro’s radar to some extent, but back then, she was such a small fish in comparison, so much further down the ladder compared to him that she had not bothered to really consider something like a conflict between her and the furry beast. After that battle, Ro begun to grow in more ways than one. Working her way up the military order, improving her craft, gaining powerful allies and even strengthening herself. Now here she was, managing a whole kingdom with its king under her thumb. Yes, she was a very different person to the ant that she had been. She had climbed the ladder to such an extent that she now felt she could look at Mr Actimel dead in the eyes, as an equal.
Ro pushed through the double doors to be barraged by the blabbering of three aids. They were spouting various information at her, such as goings on in the kingdom as well as happenings further abroad. Unfortunately, she had only received word this morning of Ren’s arrival here, so as someone who would over-prepare and plan everything to the last detail if she had the chance, she did feel rather pressured. Regardless, this was happening and she planned to receive him head on. The truth was, she was not sure how Ren would react. Oh, what she would give now to know more about his character, his aspirations and his current situation. To have some personal leverage would be delicious, but such a thing was currently unavailable. How much info he had on herself was another unknown. It was inevitable that he would be privy to Ro’s involvement with the Songbirds, but she doubted the mink would grasp just how much power she had within his very own turf, using it to house her own dealings. The plan was to receive the general and entertain him until he buggered off again and she could get back to business.
Diplomatic and subservient. That was the persona she would be looking to channel. She was confident in her own acting abilities, but it was whether King Uron would be able to play his part that concerned her. The new king was good at the duties he had been brought up to fulfill, but he wasn’t too convincing when playing a part. This is where she was heading now, to make sure that he was ready to do whatever was necessary. He had better be up to the job, this is the sort of situation that gave Ro reason to keep the man around. Had he not been of use to her, she would have likely killed him those years ago when he had double crossed her. She trusted that he had enough awareness to understand this though, the noble born may not be the sharpest tool in the box but he did value his own life quite substantially.
Ro opened the door to the King’s private chambers, not bothering to knock. Last time she had entered this way she had caught him chasing some poor young woman around the room. Luckily for her, this time he was fully clothed, but the state he was in put her straight on edge. His brow was deeply creased, with sunken eyes outlined with large bags. He was sweating right through his collared shirt and muttering to his footman next to his ensuite. He didn’t look good. Definitely would not be convincing anyone today. When the Vinsmoke woman had barged through the doorway, he had visibly flinched, backing up a step from her advance. What the hell was she going to do with his sorry arse now? “What’s going on?” is all said as she approached, moving within his personal space she could almost smell the desperation on him.
“W-well, uh there is a situation and uh-”
“Leave us.” Ro commanded the footman, and he quickly did as he was told, closing the door behind him and leaving the pair alone. No sooner had he gone, Uron began to blurt out a flurry of words.
“Ohgodyou’vegottahelpmepleaseohplease-” Ro grabbed him by his greasey shoulders and held him still.
“Pull yourself together!” She did not have time to council the King today, and she was already low on patience.
“He is coming for me.” Large brown eyes stared directly into her own, the fear passing through his gaze.
“Who?”
“Ren.”
“And why would he be after the King that manages his turf?” Maybe he was just confused.
“I knew I should have told you this as soon as all this stuff started…”
“Out with it you fool!”
“Well, you see, I am sort of like, a Celestial Dragon. Or at least, my mother was.” Ro’s mouth parted as her focus shifted to the middle distance. Instantly, all of the implications of this truth came rushing into her mind.
“I sent out word to a warlord who is in Alabasta, hopefully he can help…” the King continued to natter on in his nervous state.
A Celestial Dragon. Well at least it made sense now why he was so stressed. Ren Actimel was a Revolutionary General, someone that was quite dangerous to such a person. Not only that, there was quite the frenzy now that Oceanus was occupying Marie Jois. A hunt was on now for every Celestial Dragon’s head. Maybe someone with knowledge of Uron’s family tree had been captured and the information had been drawn out of them. Now according to him, the Revolutionary was coming for him. She was now beginning to grasp the situation, but where did she stand in all of this? She had to admit that sneaking around behind the mink’s back was getting tiresome, but did she really want to openly oppose the faction so brazenly? How much was Uron, and in extension Alabasta, worth to her? In the following moments, she let her thoughts drift back to the past few years. How she had come to care for the welfare of the kingdom’s people and the state of the island as a whole. She had left the Songbirds temporarily so that she may help Alabasta recover from its war wounds and regrow into its current flourishing state. Did she really want to abandon this place? Cut her losses and bail, just because adversity had once again risen against her?
Her name was Vinsmoke, so the answer was clear.
A couple of hours later, she was standing on the beach, a hundred metres from the water’s edge. Her observation haki already active, tapping into her mindmap, she had the whole area around her mapped in her head. Six dynamic capsules had been preloaded into the energy pistol that was currently in its box form, attached to her left wrist. The rest were stored in her right sleeve for easy access. Three central systems had been rigged to her inventions, the tight synthetic materials hugging her body underneath her clothes. Both her general and lux amplifier were fitted onto her abdomen and her halo gadget sat fitted to her head. For clothes she wore her usual blue and white attire, with her black and gold overcoat fluttering in the desert wind. She wasn’t a very intimidating presence, one young woman standing on the beach alone, ready to receive the general. If the Warlord that Uron had contacted named Black Caesar turned up, then she would accept his aid. This was her choice. She would make a stand here. Ren’s vessels finally came into her mindmap’s view.
- stuffs:
items (number in brackets is how many upgrade points it has):
3x Central system, 1 at (2), 1 at (3), 1 at (4)
Energy pistol (2)
Dynamic capsules (2)
Lux Amplifier (4)
Magnitude Amplifier (4)
Angel's halo (2)
Haki: 235/260