Fandom One Piece: Journey into the Undersea (AU, Closed, reboot)

[AtlannianSpy]

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The meteorite was a stark reminder to us that our world has always been larger and more hostile then we imagined it to be. It lit up the night sky with an unnatural, emerald light and when it landed in the East Blue the resulting explosion and seismic activity was observed from several nearby islands. When the vast steam cloud thrown up by the boiling ocean had subsided and tremors of the earth below had stilled what remained in it's place was a new island. It was tall and narrow, the new island, like some ancient monument and at its centre was a cavernous, gaping maw, a tunnel leading deep into the bowls of the Earth that we named the Helmouth. but it was what that tunnel lead to that stunned the world.

We call it the Undersea, a vast, underground ocean at least as large as one of the Four Blue Seas and it was underneath us this whole time, as if waiting patiently for us to find it. We are only barely beginning to scratch the surface of exploring and mapping this new ocean but already we have discovered the Undersea has its own islands, its own ecosystems, plants and creatures. In places where the ceiling is high enough the Undersea even has its own weather system.

To those whose heart longs for adventure and mystery the Undersea is an irresistible lure. After all even the deadly Grand Line has been conquered at least once by the unrivalled Gol D. Rogers and his legendary crew, but as far as anyone knows nobody has ever seen the end of the Undersea. What riches might these unplumbed depths reveal? What challenges? None can know for sure. In the immediate wake of the Undersea's discovery Ezelred the Mad, one of the four emperors known as the mightiest pirates in the world lead his vast fleet through the Helmouth into the deepest reaches of the Undersea, but none of them have ever been heard from or seen since then.

The disappearance of Ezelred the Mad's fleet has done little to staunch the flow of adventurers into the Undersea. Most of the demand for manpower comes from the Undersea Trading Company, a vast mercantile concern granted a monopoly charter over the Undersea by the World Government. The UTC has been busy exploring the closer by regions of the Undersea and establishing colonies to begin extracting resources from the new territory. These colonies need colonists and generous incentives have lured thousands already to descend below the Earth in search of a new life. Although the Helmouth has now become Helmouth Station, a fortified marine outpost intended to regulate traffic between the Undersea and the surface, there are still ways for pirates and other renegades to make their way to the new frontier. Bribes or Blackmail will get a pirate past the Marine guards stationed at Helmouth easily enough and many simply apply as colonists and then desert from their assigned colonies to join or form pirate crews once in the Undersea.

This brings us to our business with each other. See I heard you were looking for a way into the Undersea and I happen to know of a Captain looking for crew. She might be inexperienced aye, and a bit reckless yes. But if you're serious about going down there then you're probably a bit reckless too and she might just be your best shot....


Welcome to One Piece: Journey into the Undersea!

Hello, Hello! Welcome to my latest RP project. Journey Into the Undersea is an AU One piece RP with a heavy focus on original characters, stories and setting. This is actually a reboot of an RP I ran previously but there's a lot of fun plans I never had the chance to implement the first time round. The premise as outlined above is quite simple, a fifth sea has been discovered below the Earth's surface and so Marines, a ruthless trade company and of course pirates are scrambling to be the first to explore it. Our characters will be forming a new pirate crew with the same intention, heading deep into the Undersea to discover fame, fortune and perhaps an ancient mystery or two... Most canon characters will be absent, with important positions like the Warlords, Marine Admirals and Four Emperors being filled by brand new npcs for you to contend with. My intention is very much for this to be "our" One Piece, for it to be a world where we can forge our own path and our own stories. If all that sounds appealing then keep reading and then pop in and say hi! I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

I'll be setting up a discord for communication as well, so let me know if you would like access to that.


Rules and Expectations

• The RPN site rules are in effect: This is pretty obvious and everyone should be familiar with them

• The GM and any potential Co-Gm's are in charge: That would just be me at present, but it's possible I'll take on more staff in response to the needs of the RP.

• Remain respectful of your fellow RPers: Just be cool to each other, even if you have disagreements or find your personalities don't quite mesh do your best to remain civil. If you can't resolve any disputes to your mutual satisfaction I or another GM will step in.

• Let your voice be Heard: If you're not sure about something or just have a great idea for the RP let us know! We can't do anything about it if it stays in your head. We will eventually have a discord server open to all players for easy communication. You can also post anything like that in the OOC and free to PM me if you would rather speak privately, I'll do my best to stay on top of such correspondence.

• No Godmodding: Broadly speaking godmodding refers to controlling someone else's characters by writing their reactions or confirming attacks on them in your own post. This isn't very fun to deal with for the other person and not conducive to good roleplaying. Don't ever do it to another player without their permission and be careful about doing it to NPC's.

• Do your best in terms post length and quality: We are aiming for detailed with this RP, multiple paragraph responses with good spelling and grammar are ideal. We can be flexible about this to some extent, scenarios and situations just aren't conducive to long posts and sometimes people are tired or busy. The bare minimum is a paragraph or so that's been given a good once over for errors. Detailed responses give your RP partners more to work with and make you more fun to RP alongside so it's to everyone's benefit if we all do our best. If I feel like your responses lacking then I'll reach out and we can have a friendly chat about how to extend and improve your writing.

• Post Regularly or Stay in contact when you cant: I'm pretty flexible with this sort of thing, mostly cause I often struggle to stay consistent myself, but hwhat I'd like to aim for is to get a post a week from most people: If you don't post when a scene is waiting on you after a week you will be skipped over, after two you will be removed from the RP. Now I'm not going to ever boot anyone from the RP because you have exams, or work is crazy, or you just feel like shit and can't write for a while, so if you reach out and let me know you can't post for a while then you are golden, but you do have to reach out. Ghosts get the boot.

• Read all the provided material: The mechanics and worldbuilding information will be posted in separate threads and linked here via the index. If you're on mobile the links to these will be under a drop down menu above the thread itself that says "linked contents". There shouldn't be too much to wade through so if you can give everything a quick once over that would be great
  
  
  
• Oh and most importantly of all...
  
  Have Fun!

 

[AtlannianSpy]

Update!
The Journey into the Undersea official devil fruit gacha system is up and running! There are 100 all new, custom devil fruits up for grabs. If you're interested in playing a character with a devil fruit then the gacha is the only way to obtain one in this rp, everybody gets one roll and the luck of the draw determines your fate! IF you don't like the fruit you rolled your free to discard it and create a non devil fruit powered character but you only get one roll! step right up and try your luck!

 

[Craftsdwarf]

Oh, I think I'm interested in this. Seems like a pretty novel concept! One of the most unique ones I've seen for a One Piece RP, actually, and I'm generally always down for a One Piece RP!

 

[SomeRandomCanuck]

Sounds like a fun rp, I'd be down to join up as well

 

[606]

OH im a huge one piece fan and been dying to join one! this is such a cool idea!!

 

[AtlannianSpy]

UPDATE
The CS text has been changed slightly, the technique section is now a technique/equipment section and you can use your technique points to purchase special weapons or gadgets instead of or in addition to moves. You don't have to take advantage of this, plenty of fighters in One piece rely primarily on their fists and inherent powers, but you can if you want. Apologies for any confusion this has caused with regards to in progress CSes

 

[KAmber]

Hello! Very interested in this and its potential. Considering a non-Devil Fruit diver/mechanic character that handles the sub and serves mostly to pull others out of danger at opportune times.

 

[EbonChevalier]

I’ve got a few character idea’s with one being a mink and another being a stage magician character

 

[crypticcalypte]

hello! relatively interested, but i'm asking if a non-one piece fan would have any issues? i know... pretty much nothing about the series, but a friend linked me this and i am Intrigued by the plot i'm alright with spoilers and i can read wiki pages for anything necessary (like history, etc), but i just wanted to make sure before i dive headfirst into "i dont go here but" territory LMAO

 

[AtlannianSpy]

This is a very AU/OC heavy rp so you'll probably be fine yeah, you're certainly welcome to give it a whirl.

 

[crypticcalypte]

siiiiick, good to hear! ill try and keep up lmao

 

[AtlannianSpy]

Heads up everyone, we'll be looking at kicking things off at some point in the near future, so if you've got wip CSes try to get them finished! Due to the healthy amount of interest we've gotten and my own limitations as a gm I'll be closing applications to new arrivals for now, though again if you've got a work in progress CS than you're grandfathered in. We may open applications again in the future, so folks are still free to express interest in that possibility.