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 Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:20 pm
A peaceful town that was once controlled by Buggy's Pirate Crew. The town has a pub as well as a place for pet food. The villagers are kind but also cowards. Buggy no longer controls the island but he and his men continue to lurk their.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:41 pm
Rednal arrived in Orange Town from a relatively nearby village known as Syrup, idly wondering what was up with the strange naming sense. Well, some people were just strange that way, he supposed. Calmly, almost idly, he watched the pirates in the village, observing how they did things. Observing was the first step to learning, and it was best when they didn't know you were doing it. Over-curious people often met untimely ends, and he wanted to avoid that.
1/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:45 pm
Of some mild interest was the acrobat. Being acrobatic was not actually a bad thing. It let you perform moves that the ordinary person could not, and Rednal found that to be a highly appealing idea. With that in mind, he watched for perhaps an hour more before he began to practice on his own. He needed to get stonger. Much stonger. So much stronger, in fact, that nobody in the world would be able to look down on him and dismiss him as irrelevant.
2/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:46 pm
Which was part of his driving force, of course. To know. to know it all, and find out everything that was important. Some joined the Marines, thinking that those people would provide them with the truth of the world. Others became pirates, anarchists who just opposedthe World Government or went after their own goals. Rednal didn't side with either of them; he had no intentions of becoming a Marine dog, or of putting himself under the command of a Pirate.
3/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:47 pm
It was better to walk his own path, finding his own way in the world. Fight those who opposed him, and give a passing nod to those who didn't. Rednal didn't particularly want to take command of a Pirate crew, either. Being the boss of a big ship wasn't his style; he just needed to have a large enough ship to get him where he needed to go. Whether it be near, far, or around the whole world. Take the middle path... that was the proper way to go.
4/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:47 pm
With a bit of a chuckle, Rednal charged at the nearby wall and ran up it, imitating what the pirate had done. Once he felt gravity begin to tell him that he was trying to do something impossible, he kicked off of it and simply landed lightly back on the ground, completely unharmed. Well, that wasn't such a troublesome technique, now was it? He could see how it might be useful, though. Enemies didn't usually expect you to start running up walls.
5/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:48 pm
Then again, could you ever really predict what it was your enemies thought about you or expected you to do? That could get relatively tricky if you weren't careful... rarely would your enemies do what you expected them to. You had to be constantly on guard, constantly vigilant, ready at a moment's notice to change your plans entirely to account for some new variable. And it really, really helped to know as many different techniques as possible.
6/6 [A Hike in the Mountains Learned]
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:51 pm
Rednal glanced back down into the village again, then watched as the acrobat did something diffeent with what Rednal had just learned fom him. Well, now, that was quite an inteesting alteration to put on the ability, but Rednal could see how it might be useful. With a chuckle, he an up the wall again, and instead of jumping or flipping back down, he actually leaped higher into the air and came back down to the ground with a satisfied look on his face.
1/1 [Fireworks in the Cool Summer Breeze Learned]
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:59 pm
Still, Rednal could see the use for such a technique. There was validity to the desire to obtain the high ground in a fight, and few people were particularly talented at evading attacks that came in from right above them, especially if the attack had anything at all that resembled a blast radius. Those could be particularly difficult to avoid, and he knew what kind of trouble that would be if it came up as an issue. It was a problem of the Grand Line.
1/4
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:02 pm
A lot of things were, actually. But you didn't tend to wind up living very long on the Grand Line if you were unable to adapt to circumstances. Not like out here, where it was generally peaceful except for the occasional pillaging pirate. The Marines weren't always very useful in protecting the normal citizens from Pirates if money was involved somehow. The typical sort of beuracratic issue that made Rednal very disinclined to have anything to do with the World Government.
2/4
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:02 pm
After all, anybody who insisted on covering up history and trying to pretend the past never happened couldn't be up to any good. But that did not excuse the Pirates who saw that as an excuse to do anything they wanted. With an almost relaxed attitude, Rednal charged up the wall again and leaped high into the air, then formed a hand around an imaginary sword and visualized how it would come down. Yeah, that was on the useful side of things.
3/4
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:04 pm
Face-stabbing was always fun. It tended to be lethal, too, unless your opponent had consumed a Fruit, at which point all bets were off. The use of such things tended to blow logic and reason completely out the window, but Rednal had to admit that he saw the appeal of them. If you had real power, people would take you seriously, and that was something he wanted very badly indeed. He intended that nobody would ever look down on him and treat him like trash.
4/4 [Sting of the Sword Learned]
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:17 pm
There were other things Rednal had observed being done, of course, that might be able to be modified to suit his purposes. These pirates had survived this long, after all, so it was only proper that he learn what he could from anybody nearby. Without them knowing he was doing it, of course. Rednal wasn't much of a people-person, much preferring to do what he wanted without supervision from others, or even having to supervise them himself.
1/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:19 pm
It was difficult for a person who preferred to be alone to go up and ask a Pirate to teach him. Most pirates would just kill such a person and be done with it then and there, and Rednal couldn't blame them. It was always good to eliminate a possible future rival at the earliest opportunity, after all. Even in his case, he'd generally beat down anyone he needed to in order to accomplish his goals. That was just the way the world worked, and you had to live with it.
2/6
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 4:20 pm
Of more interesting topics to think about was the fact that the pirates had been in town this long and not been driven off. Hooray for the World Government, champion of the peace, in some sort of quest to protect innocent citizens. More like it just took what money it could from them and made empty promises... As a whole, Rednal was extremely cynical. He put little faith in anything that declared itself the one true ruler of the world, and kept the spot through aggression.
3/6
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