We Are “PHOENIX”

[EJ]

This right here is a place for all of us budding Phoenix members to come together and start making these puzzle pieces fit! For those of you unaware, Vincent and I are coming together to start a secretive organization of the evil variety, where his character-in-the-making, Dr. Baron Vincent, plans to abduct and enslave many people to use as test subjects for his studies of necromancy and rebirth (amongst other things) - thus the name "Phoenix."

My character-in-the-making, Balenciaga Sapphira, is along for the ride for personal gains - and will team up with Dr. Baron in a sort of "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" type of way. What this means is that: any evil character planning to join can still be a strong-willed individual and be apart of this secret society. Think of us as the Legion of Doom from the DC Universe. If you're not familiar with them, then think: a conglomerate of "supervillains" working together to help each other achieve one another's selfish plans while gaining various perks in return for doing so. However, we also have room for lackeys as well, if that's your character's thing.

That's basically all we have come up with so far. As we proceed with our discussions in this thread, I'll update this post with the solid plans and other info that we nail into place.

At the current moment, Long John is down for discussing his involvement with his character, Cain Vorarl! Johnny, if you don't mind giving us a little briefing on Cain and his ways - as well as the prospects I talked to you about in the c-box regarding his rise to becoming a Royal Daibukai. =O

[Long John]

Thank you EJ<3 Simply put, Cain is a half fishman(child) pseudo psychopath. He shows the traits of a psychopath and emulates them, but is not actually a true one, and it is more a self defense mechanism so he doesn't mentally break from the guilt and stress he feels. This however means he CAN become full fledged psychopath with the right company, and it looks like we're off to a good start here. He's doesn't really make friends well, but he can work with people, though he tends to tease his allies. He's also very whimsical.

Ummm...Other than that...well I have plans that I've let EJ on, but for now I'm gonna keep it a surprise till it becomes more immediate as right now it is future plans

[viruswithshoes]

Vox Machina is ready to obey anyone who wants to tell him what to do.

[Shaa`mal]

Making a scratch char, Swine. Half Mink (Boar).

Maybe a lackey/slave?

[EJ]

Omg... I don't know why I didn't tell you about this before, Shaam. =O

Swine would very much be welcomed! I was thinking about eventually creating an NPC "pet" for Saph, but he could fill that position if you'd like. >

[Vincent]

As Ejay stated prior, we have been discussing the creation of the Phoenix organization. I just wanted to go into the backstory just a little more.

The Phoenix organization will be split into two different groups. The Phoenix side will be for the people capable of working with the light side of the world. This might include the marines, merchants to gather information, and many other plot threads. As of right now, Ejay's character Saph would be the face of this.

The darker side of the organization potentially known as Necro is the ties to the Underworld of One Piece. My character Dr. Baron Vincent will be heading the Necro side due to his physical limitations.

So you might be asking yourself, well my character is closer to normal but I would really like to do the more evil activities as well. Well no worries there, both groups will be moving back and forth with possibly different code-names, costume changes.

Now, a little bit about my character. Dr. Baron Vincent known as Toxin is an older man (in his 40s-50s) who has spent his life learning the ways to use poison and toxins. As mentioned before, the doctor has some physical limitations keeping him out of everyday life. Because of the poisons, his entire body has turned pale almost to the color of a white sheet. However due to injecting his body with many different types of poisons and antitoxins, all his veins in his body are very black and visible on the surface of his skin. This includes all over his face as well. To make matters worse, the white part of his eyes also turned black.

His field of study is, as mentioned before, poisons, toxins, and other chemistry activities but he is also extremely knowledgeable in the medical sense as well as in cyber technology as he himself is a cyborg.

I hope this little tidbit helps people decide that the Phoenix organization is the correct home for their characters. Any other questions, please let me or Ejay know either here or in the C-box.

[EJ]

Alright, guys! I think it's time we discuss the outline for our first thread!

When it was just Vinnie and I, the ideas we came up with were all based around having our characters meet and Toxin recruiting Saph. viruswithshoes and Shaa`mal, now you two will be in the thread, so is there anything you guys would like to develop for Vox and Swine in this plot?

We wanted to start on Ice Nine in the North Blue, but if you guys have any other ideas of a place to start in that Blue then feel free to throw those ideas into the hat!

Swine would obvs be with Saph, so his involvement is easy to tag in there, but we need to come up with a good way to get Vox in the mix. Virus, how do you see your gladiator/doctor becoming a main part of the events in this thread? We can all snowball ideas after each other's input, so don't worry about coming up with a lot of stuff at once. We can tackle this like putting together a puzzle piece by piece.

[viruswithshoes]

I think the best way to introduce Vox would be through his love of gladiator fights. My thought is using the fights as a way to advertise himself as a slave and fighter. Like an infomercial where he is both the pitch man and the product.

Or the group could kill whomever is his owner at the time thereby transferring ownership.

[Shaa`mal]

Could have Swine being the meat-shield for Saph doing bad crap; maybe fighting Vox (losing, due to our difference in experience) and instead killing his master because fuck it, Swine doesn't fight fair. Thus the ownership of Vox would move to Saph as well, since Swine is property by proxy and can't possess anything inherently?

[EJ]

Reading into Ice Nine fully, perhaps we can go the route of him having a new master in the Vassal of Snow Town, Marius. He seems like the type of guy that can fit the role of a man who would fight against threats to the island, especially those of foreign threats since he's xenophobic.

A thought crossed my mind that Toxin can have his base of operations somewhere underground in the abandoned Slush Town and the story of this plot could also be an investigation into the disappearance of Ice Niners from Snow, Ice and Sleet Town. Vox could be Marius' personal muscle, which would ultimately lead him into battle against Toxin and Saph. He can end up in a fight with Swine as Toxin and Saph take on Marius and some of his other forces, leading to his death. Upon returning to the scene where Vox and Swine are fighting, they could come to see that Vox is fighting him but not really putting forth real commitment to harm him. They see his potential as a fighter and Saph calls off Swine so they could talk to Vox and tell him that his master was dead and then offer him the chance to work for them instead.

That's just a little something I envisioned to bring things together in the end. What do you guys think?

[viruswithshoes]

Sounds good to me.

[EJ]

Sweet! I think Vinnie already read this stuff, and both you and Shaam are down for that plot, so it's a go!

Last thing to do is come up with a name for this short novel. I'm still thinking, but I only have two requests for whoever wants to start the thread/pitch in.

1) Don't put any tags in the title ([Phoenix]/[Invite] etc.)

and 2) Don't make it sound like the usual One Piece anime episode title.

My only 2 humble requests. I like threads titles that sound like books. lol

[Vincent]

My apologizes for not answering sooner. Crazy day yesterday.

My original plan was to have Dr. Baron's lab under the deserted town where he would be doing his abductions of people anyway so I am down with the plan.

On the other topic, the only naming convection I had was something to do with poison. Something like "Name your poison, the path it follows. Also, I do like the ones that were mentioned in the c-box.

[viruswithshoes]

If you want a poison name how about "Strychnine Lives"

[EJ]

Due to the mystery-type theme of this thread, one poison-related title I thought of was "Superstition Poisons the Mind." I think it'd be a great lead into the next thread being called "And Such, the Kettle (Indeed) was Black" as "Phoenix" (Necro) continues their nefarious deeds on another island.

Like, "Why are these guys trippin'? This gentlemanly doctor isn't the person behind this stuff." *Marius finds out and he and others with him die for it* "Welp... looks like he actually was, and he has a squad. Great..."