- Location
- USA
We probably should not pet Garp. Tashigi, Zoro, and Queenie would all object vigorously, in addition to however Garp may respond.
Worm Piece (Worm/One Piece)
- Thread starter RavensDagger
- Start date
- Location
- Elsewhere
This might be an interestingly disorienting thing for Taylor to experience.
Genuinely evil government.
"From the way the marines act, I imagine that the World Government is secretly corrupt and 'disavows any wrongdoing' when caught?"
"I wouldn't say that..."
"They aren't corrupt?"
"They aren't secretly corrupt. They don't announce their deeds, but that's because they don't think enough of us to talk to commoners. Every Celestial Dragon I've ever heard of inspires people to homicide within seconds."
"How are they still in charge?"
"All opposition is punished with execution. All effective opposition is punished with destroying the island they are on."
"I remember when I thought you were insane."
"That was less than a minute ago."
"Yeah, I already miss it."
Wait, like piracy?
I know it makes sense in this case, and Taylor can be ruthless, but you need to be true to the source material.
They are in the One Piece world, and piracy isn't a thing there!
Did she just call Jack Slash inferior to a snail?
Most people would blame the guy who stabbed him in the gut for rearranging his insides.
There's not enough speed in the world for Luffy to have dignity.
- Location
- Texas
...
Yes?
I mean... the snail was trying to do its job... and being better than Jack Slash is not a very high bar to clear.
AilingStar
Herald of the Cassowaries
- Location
- Not Australia
[X] Pet the whale
[X] Make sure everyone understands what the 'heat death of the universe' is so they realize how ambitious queenie is
[X] Make sure everyone understands what the 'heat death of the universe' is so they realize how ambitious queenie is
- Location
- USA
Technically, I think she only called the source of his powers inferior to a snail.
I think that's actually a worse insult, given that the only remarkable thing about him was his powers.
punster lv1
Killjoy - cheerful shitposter - ignorant pedant
[X] Find out what Garp shouted his first time.
[X] Don't mutiny. Luffy's not Coil.
Those are good goals even if they are losing
- Location
- USA
I mean, I doubt we have to vote to not mutiny. I'm pretty sure Taylor understands what kind of guy Luffy is, to the point where if that vote won, and it appeared in her internal thought process, I would find it hard to believe if Taylor didn't at least partially freak out about a possible human Master, or a stranger effect like Nice Guy's.
WinglessOne
Armed though
- Location
- Russian Federation
[X] Pet the whale
[X] Tame the whale using your Conqueror Haki
[X] Pet Queenie
[X] Convince Queenie to pet the whale
[X] Convince Queenie to tame the whale using the Conqueror Haki
And well..
[X] Make sure everyone understands what the 'heat death of the universe' is so they realize how ambitious queenie is
[X] Tame the whale using your Conqueror Haki
[X] Pet Queenie
[X] Convince Queenie to pet the whale
[X] Convince Queenie to tame the whale using the Conqueror Haki
And well..
[X] Make sure everyone understands what the 'heat death of the universe' is so they realize how ambitious queenie is
Summer Bones
Just here for Godzilla.
- Location
- Usa
What kind of drunk do you guys think Taylor is? I can't remember her drinking at all in Worm which makes sense considering how death awaited around every corner.
RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
- Location
- Someplace Cold, Canada
Worm is set in the Usa, where they can only start drinking at 21. It kind of makes sense that we never saw her taking a sip.
I really ought to update this, but I have commissions due this month that I haven't finished yet because reasons. Apologies for the delay!
Summer Bones
Just here for Godzilla.
- Location
- Usa
The one law the run away warlords decided to adhere to and it's one of the most broken in the Us. Then again they did live in the same town as the Merchants.
- Location
- Germany
I don't think I ever saw the Undersiders jaywalk. So that's that.
Summer Bones
Just here for Godzilla.
- Location
- Usa
Did they ever use their blinkers?
- Location
- Germany
I don't think giant dogs have them. The US' traffic laws are generally quite silent on the topic of monstrous dogs. Something to remedy...
Summer Bones
Just here for Godzilla.
- Location
- Usa
Maybe horse rules apply? Should they have been arm signaling the entire time?
- Location
- At my computer
[X] Pet the whale
Summer Bones
Just here for Godzilla.
- Location
- Usa
Well, I would say it depends on what Taylor's brain looks like now a days. It might be able to handle the load out? Maybe?
Or this might turn into Ward Piece.
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
She only done surgical painkillers and shady drug from Lab Rat.
Article: Stuff like saying drugs are bad. It's wrong. Drugs are fantastic.
Given that Taylor drove a car without permit (while being blind), you can safely assume that she, in fact, did not use blinkers.
- Location
- Budapest, Hungary
While it is funny taken outside of context, she did not took drugs, aside of special occasions.
Article: "I always hated the speeches when I was in school, the preaching in auditoriums, the one-note message. Stuff like saying drugs are bad. It's wrong. Drugs are fantastic."
"Um," Fox-mask said.
Mrs. Yamada was glaring at me, but she hadn't interrupted.
"People wouldn't do them if they weren't. They make you feel good, make your day brighter, give you energy-"
"Weaver," Mrs. Yamada cut in.
"-until they don't," I said. "People hear the message that drugs are bad, that they'll ruin your life if you do them once. And then you find out that isn't exactly true because your friends did it and turned out okay, or you wind up trying something and you're fine. So you try them, try them again. It isn't a mind-shattering moment of horrible when you try that first drug. Or so I hear. It's subtle, it creeps up on you, and you never really get a good, convincing reason to stop before it ruins your life beyond comprehension. I never went down that road, but I knew a fair number of people who did. People who worked for me, when I was a supervillain."
Article:
RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
- Location
- Someplace Cold, Canada
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RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
- Location
- Someplace Cold, Canada
I guess we're petting a whale? Okay then.
Chapter Seventy-Two
RavensDagger
Officially Infracted Speceist since 2019!
- Location
- Someplace Cold, Canada
Chapter Seventy-Two
Taylor stared, slack-jawed, at the creature before them.
She had seen some things. Had lived a life that most would call 'storied.' And yet sometimes she still got caught flat-footed.
The whale before them was... Taylor didn't know what to compare it to. A skyscraper, maybe? "That's a big whale!" Luffy said as he gripped the edge of the Bast's rails. That was one way of putting it.
[Specimen is Unimpressive. Queen Administrator is Larger.]
"Hello!" Luffy called out to the whale, his arm waving in the air.
"It's a whale, you idiot, it can't--" Nami began only to be cut off by a honk so loud it sent half the crew sprawling across the deck.
Taylor worked her jaw to pop her ears and eyed the huge whale. It would be difficult to kill it. Not only would it be able to swim out of her range, her bugs would take literal years to eat through its no doubt blubbery flesh.
Then the whale, which seemed to have been looking at them with curiosity, turned to the nearby rocky shore and huffed out a long plume of water. Taylor took in the surroundings with her bugs. She had lost quite a few on the descent down Reverse Mountain. Her surveillance bugs, those that she didn't pull into the crow's nest in time, were swept away in the turbulence, and more than a few crabs had gone overboard.
That was her excuse for failing to notice the lighthouse just off the shore to their left, or the flower-haired man looking at their ship with an appraising gaze.
Kaya lifted herself off the ground and took a look around. "Well, we've made it to the Grand Line," she said. "Now what?"
The entire crew held its breath for a moment, then Luffy, the charismatic dunderhead, jumped to his feet. "Now we sail to the end of the grand line and find the One Piece!"
"Tch," Garp said under his breath from the opposite end of the deck. "I've raised an idiot."
"Oi!" The person on the shore said.
The crew turned to him and waited for him to finish what he had to say. Then they waited some more.
"Did he--" Sanji started.
"Don't just park your boat there," the man said. "Move to shore or get out of the way, but do something! Laboon's gearing up for another go at the mountain."
There was a bit of confusion on deck as everyone kind of looked around for direction.
"No chain of command," Garp grumbled under his breath again.
Taylor sighed. It was going to happen eventually. When the crew was much smaller it was a non-issue, but now that they had more members they were going to need a proper way to set things up. She cleared her throat. "Nami! Lead us closer to the shore. We'll take some of the smaller boats over. We can collect water and the like while we're there and have something to eat. Sanji, that's your duty. Bartolomeo, Tashigi, get the small boat ready. Luffy, Zoro, keep an eye on that whale. Kaya, help Nami. Sogeking, do whatever Nami tells Kaya to tell you to do."
The crew snapped to attention, all of them rushing to do their part. Taylor looked over to Garp and met the old man's eyes for just a moment before she jumped to work as well. It wouldn't do for her to be slacking off.
They dropped the Bast's Pride's anchor a little ways from the coast and soon there was a scramble to get onto their little boat and to shore.
They made it into the little area next to the lighthouse with much elbowing and squabbling for space.
"You," the man from the lighthouse said as he looked at all of them. "... are noisy."
"Sorry," Taylor said. She was glad to see that her practice at holding her voice back was working, the man didn't so much as twitch. "We hope you don't mind if we stop here for lunch and to figure out where to go from here?" she asked.
"And to pet the whale!" Luffy said.
"What do you want with Laboon?" the man asked.
"Is that the whale's name?" Sanji asked.
"It is."
"I guess that means we can't eat him?" the cook asked.
It earned him a dire look from the lighthouse keeper. "Laboon! Come here. You have fans."
The whale made a low keening noise and slid through the water until he was right alongside the shore. It was even bigger up close. "Whoa," Taylor found herself saying as she took in the huge creature. Its eyes alone were bigger than the Bast.
It leaned up against the shore, rocks cracking apart at the contact.
"Give him a pat," the old man said.
Taylor obliged, reaching a hand out to touch the surprisingly soft skin of the gigantic creature.
Then Garp landed on the shore and the moment of wonder was broken as he and the old man looked at each other. There was recognition there.
"Crocus."
"... Garp."
"I'm on vacation," Garp said.
"... I'm retired." Crocus returned.
"Good."
The tension in the air broke up not that half the crew had even noticed.
Taylor was afraid that it was all going to come back soon because they needed to have a talk.
***
If you had picked the Merry earlier, this is where the ship would sink and Laboon would become you ship from here on out.
The crew needs a chain of command from here on out.
[] Captain:
[] Second:
[] Third:
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Taylor stared, slack-jawed, at the creature before them.
She had seen some things. Had lived a life that most would call 'storied.' And yet sometimes she still got caught flat-footed.
The whale before them was... Taylor didn't know what to compare it to. A skyscraper, maybe? "That's a big whale!" Luffy said as he gripped the edge of the Bast's rails. That was one way of putting it.
[Specimen is Unimpressive. Queen Administrator is Larger.]
"Hello!" Luffy called out to the whale, his arm waving in the air.
"It's a whale, you idiot, it can't--" Nami began only to be cut off by a honk so loud it sent half the crew sprawling across the deck.
Taylor worked her jaw to pop her ears and eyed the huge whale. It would be difficult to kill it. Not only would it be able to swim out of her range, her bugs would take literal years to eat through its no doubt blubbery flesh.
Then the whale, which seemed to have been looking at them with curiosity, turned to the nearby rocky shore and huffed out a long plume of water. Taylor took in the surroundings with her bugs. She had lost quite a few on the descent down Reverse Mountain. Her surveillance bugs, those that she didn't pull into the crow's nest in time, were swept away in the turbulence, and more than a few crabs had gone overboard.
That was her excuse for failing to notice the lighthouse just off the shore to their left, or the flower-haired man looking at their ship with an appraising gaze.
Kaya lifted herself off the ground and took a look around. "Well, we've made it to the Grand Line," she said. "Now what?"
The entire crew held its breath for a moment, then Luffy, the charismatic dunderhead, jumped to his feet. "Now we sail to the end of the grand line and find the One Piece!"
"Tch," Garp said under his breath from the opposite end of the deck. "I've raised an idiot."
"Oi!" The person on the shore said.
The crew turned to him and waited for him to finish what he had to say. Then they waited some more.
"Did he--" Sanji started.
"Don't just park your boat there," the man said. "Move to shore or get out of the way, but do something! Laboon's gearing up for another go at the mountain."
There was a bit of confusion on deck as everyone kind of looked around for direction.
"No chain of command," Garp grumbled under his breath again.
Taylor sighed. It was going to happen eventually. When the crew was much smaller it was a non-issue, but now that they had more members they were going to need a proper way to set things up. She cleared her throat. "Nami! Lead us closer to the shore. We'll take some of the smaller boats over. We can collect water and the like while we're there and have something to eat. Sanji, that's your duty. Bartolomeo, Tashigi, get the small boat ready. Luffy, Zoro, keep an eye on that whale. Kaya, help Nami. Sogeking, do whatever Nami tells Kaya to tell you to do."
The crew snapped to attention, all of them rushing to do their part. Taylor looked over to Garp and met the old man's eyes for just a moment before she jumped to work as well. It wouldn't do for her to be slacking off.
They dropped the Bast's Pride's anchor a little ways from the coast and soon there was a scramble to get onto their little boat and to shore.
They made it into the little area next to the lighthouse with much elbowing and squabbling for space.
"You," the man from the lighthouse said as he looked at all of them. "... are noisy."
"Sorry," Taylor said. She was glad to see that her practice at holding her voice back was working, the man didn't so much as twitch. "We hope you don't mind if we stop here for lunch and to figure out where to go from here?" she asked.
"And to pet the whale!" Luffy said.
"What do you want with Laboon?" the man asked.
"Is that the whale's name?" Sanji asked.
"It is."
"I guess that means we can't eat him?" the cook asked.
It earned him a dire look from the lighthouse keeper. "Laboon! Come here. You have fans."
The whale made a low keening noise and slid through the water until he was right alongside the shore. It was even bigger up close. "Whoa," Taylor found herself saying as she took in the huge creature. Its eyes alone were bigger than the Bast.
It leaned up against the shore, rocks cracking apart at the contact.
"Give him a pat," the old man said.
Taylor obliged, reaching a hand out to touch the surprisingly soft skin of the gigantic creature.
Then Garp landed on the shore and the moment of wonder was broken as he and the old man looked at each other. There was recognition there.
"Crocus."
"... Garp."
"I'm on vacation," Garp said.
"... I'm retired." Crocus returned.
"Good."
The tension in the air broke up not that half the crew had even noticed.
Taylor was afraid that it was all going to come back soon because they needed to have a talk.
***
If you had picked the Merry earlier, this is where the ship would sink and Laboon would become you ship from here on out.
The crew needs a chain of command from here on out.
[] Captain:
[] Second:
[] Third:
The other positions are more specialised. We're not initially Zoro as navigator. That's Nami's job, even if she's elected to Captain she'll still be the navigator and Sanji would still be the cook and so on.
[] Ask about Laboon's story
[] Ask about Crocus' story
[] Ask about the Grand Line
[] Write in...
