Episode 2: The Yogi Pooh

"The Yogi Pooh" is the Second Episode of the One PieceDnD Streams by Rustage, in this episode we follow the crew as they set off from Gallows Island in the search of a devil fruit, along their way they commit murder, meet a pimp who likes explosives and help a sad giant make friends.

This episode was first streamed on Rustages Twitch, the VOD can be found here!

It was later uploaded to Rustages Second Youtube Channel once edited, which can be found here! As well as being posted as a Podcast, which can be found here!

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

TL:DR
This episode starts off where the last episode ended, talking with the shipwright they find out the map leads for a devil fruit, they are also given and shown their ship which has a head of a bear as its figurehead, they name this ship The Yogi Pooh and so they set off from Gallows Island towards the island on the map marked with a red X. Landing on a small unnamed island just below Miller Island they meet an old man who they find out if the father of a Marine Captain, killing him they leave this island and land on the island with the red X. After disembarking from their ship they are attacked by a Polar Bear, doing some damage it is eventually killed by a pimp looking man who uses explosives named Atom. Working with Atom they make their way towards mountains on the island in search of all the snow, after reaching the mountains they find out that they are not mountains and actually legs of a sad Giant. After finding out the Giant just wants companionship and that they just killed its pet, the Polar Bear that attacked them, they put some fish in some boots which the Giant likes, it points them towards the middle of the island where they find recently dug up dirt and rocks, Atom blows it up and asks them who wants to go down the now revealed hole first.

Summary
This episode begins where Episode 1 ended, with the crew taking the map from the shipwright and explaining how they’d heard tales of such a fruit as the shipwright explains to them the map may lead to one. After discussing this the shipwright places a hand on the ship nearby and tells them about how he finished it while they were gone, the ship is galleon shaped and has a bear head as its figurehead. The Crew comment on how great the ship looks, the shipwright asks the crew to never remove the bear as it means a lot to his family and culture, the crew agrees to do this.

The Crew then name the ship, The Yogi Pooh, this is of course a reference to Yogi-bear and Pooh-bear. Upon naming the ship this is when they officially acquire the ship, as they begin to load their meat and supplies onto the ship, the crew take their first proper look at this treasure map. This seems to be a map of the direct surrounding area, the crew can see their location on Gallows Island and they notice there seems to be red writing on the map, the first thing they notice is the large X on what seems to be a snow covered island which appears to be where the map leads but there are also two other writings on the map in red. The first being a warning about Sea Kings to the south of Miller Island, and to the north of Miller Island seems to be a more safe route, marked in red is Marine Toll Checkpoints, seemingly a place where the Marines are quite active.

The Crew discuss what route to take and decide on going just past Miller Island but not far enough that they’d meet any sea kings, passing between a small island next to Miller Island and Miller Island itself. They also discuss if any of them have ever encountered a Sea King before, Pearl says her father told her stories about them to keep her from leaving and Ragnar says he once ate one once due to someone in his village killing someone.

They then question if they’d like to stay and see a hanging before setting off, the shipwright telling them that there was news spreading that some young fella had been talking about spoons and that they’d be hanging him tonight. The shipwright explains the events that we saw take place in episode 1 with William betting his spoon, turns out he let word slip to his friend who ratted him out, but the shipwright says that doesn't matter because they get to see another execution, showing that even this shipwright is part of the culture.

The Crew questions why they hate spoons here before Ragnar asks William if it is the same person he showed the spoon to yesterday. The shipwright overhearing this questions what they just said, William quickly lies to the man about them getting into a fight and how Ragnar wasn't thinking straight, deceiving the shipwright. The shipwright, feeling bad for him, asks him if he's okay and tells the crew that they should leave this island, that they don't want to be having hallucinations here. Before sending them off the shipwright pulls out a barrel of orange juice which he gives them and the crew load onto The Yogi Pooh. The Crew continue to discuss what to do, bringing up the idea of docking somewhere else on the island and stopping the execution. Discussing it further they decide to head for the treasure instead, letting whatever happens to Lil Timmy happen. Verona begins to guide the ship towards Miller Island, also deciding to name his gun after Lil Timmy in memory.

After a short discussion with Pearl about her coming with them. The Crew set sail towards Miller Island, wind blowing through their hair as they celebrate the first day back on the sea, drinking spiked orange juice and eating meat. Pearl chimes in saying she's only been able to catch boots, having stacked up a pile on the side of the ship. As they approach Miller Island they can see the vague shoreline, noticing Marine Ships  in the distance docked at a harbor on the island. They anchor the ship to scout and think about what to do, they choose to head to the small island next to Miller Island and as they depart towards this island Verona notices the Marine ships moving in a westerly direction, not towards the crew but in a similar direction. At this moment they take notice that the Yogi Pooh has 2 cannons and that they have no cannon balls, poking about how they can fire orange juice, meat and boots. As they approach this small island they anchor on the shoreline, Verona scanning the island, noticing there doesn't seem to be anyone or anything around except for a small shack in the middle of the island.

Verona tells the crew and they jump ashore, noticing the island is very similar to the one they originally got shipwrecked on, except there's more forest, grass and plants. Noticing there's a lot of berries around, washed up fish, William tells Pearl it's a chance for her to catch a fish and Pearl jumps down onto the beach and fails to catch a fish, acting as if nothing happened and saying they saw nothing. Taking note of their perversions the crew finds out that they are good to get to the island with the red X on it with the extra berries from this island, William and Verona go to check out the small shack, sneaking across the beach to the shack it while Duros, Ragnar and Pearl lose sight of them, standing nearby the ship.

Arriving at the shack they place their ears to the shack and listen, hearing deep breathing coming from inside, curious about what is inside William and Verona knock on the door of the shack. They hear a raspy voice from inside the shack, asking for someone named Arthur, William and Verona respond back, acting as if they are salesmen. The door then opens, they can now see that the shack is only one room with a bed, table and chairs, a kitchen area and some fish hanging on the walls. An sickly old man wearing a fisherman's cap stands in the doorway, he looks up at William and welcomes his son Arthur home, mistaking William for his son he pulls him inside the shack and Arthur goes along with it, pretending to be his son and saying that Verona is a friend of his. As they talk the old man grabs a fish and pounds it into a bowl, giving it to William who pretends to eat it.

Talking to the old man William finds out that it's been a long time since the old man's son had visited him, William questions about the Marines on Miller Island, finding out that the old man's son is a Marine. The old man brings out some letters written by his son and begins reading them to William and Verona, finding out that his son changed his name to Marrow and that Arthur/Marrow found a Devil Fruit on a raid on a pirate ship. The old man asks William to write him a letter, which William quickly scribbles down and says that they will be leaving, which the old man begs for them to not leave, wanting his son to stay with him.

William motions to Verona to knock the old man out with the butt of Lil Timmy, as this happens Duros, Ragnar and Pearl realize that their crew mates have been gone for a long time and begin heading towards the Shack. Verona smacks the old man with the butt of his gun, knocking him out. William sends Verona outside, who calls the crew over to the shack. Realizing that there is an old man knocked out on the ground they question what happened, William explains the situation and about the information he learned before the crew question how they could leave this old man bleeding out on the floor, William feeling bad for the old man places his flintlock to his head and shoots him, mercy killing him.

As William shoots the man Duros at the doorway sees a small rowing boat on the shore and a man is walking towards the shack. The man appears to be a Marine wearing a mailman cap and a messenger bag. William gets everyone inside the shack, hiding until they hear a knock, behind the door this Marine Mailman informs the old man who we find out is named Cranstien that his son has written to him again. William pretending to be the old man thanks the Marine for the mail and welcomes him inside, William telling everyone to jump him once he enters.

The Marine gets grabbed by Ragnar as he sees the dead body of the old man, fumbling for a transponder snail he drops it to the ground. They tie up the Marine as she goes on about how Captain Marrow will find out about this eventually and that he will get revenge, getting silenced by a fish William shoves in his mouth. As they collect anything they can from the shack, things such as the letters, Verona sneaks and grabs the letter from the mailman. The Crew leave the man tied up in the shack as they head back towards the beach, they notice the small ship of the Mailman, after grabbing the sack of letters, Ragnar smashes the boat to pieces. Discussing briefly what happened the crew set sail for the winter island with the red X on it.

As they sail closer to the island they notice it is covered in snow but it doesn't feel cold, it seems like there's heavy snowfall on the island, but as the snow lands it seems to melt away quite quickly but is replaced just as quickly. They dock the ship and touch the snow, finding it to be cold only very temportaily, as they look around they notice an oddly shaped mountain, looking similar to a pair of knees if someone was crouching. The Crew hears a growling noise which causes Verona to spin around and notice a polar bear, which he informs the crew of before it starts running towards them growling, Duros and Ragnar running to the front with William and Verona running to the back and Pearl near the middle.

Duros starts the attack, he runs towards the bear raising his war-hammer mace and smashes it in the face, causing blood to fly out of its mouth. Ragnar runs up behind Duros and attempts to slash with his axe, the polar bear dodging to the side growling at him. Verona then raises Lil Timmy and shoots, hitting Ragnar in the shoulder. William fires with his flintlock firing off a shot, clipping it in the face causing a piece of its cheek to fly off. The Polar Bear can smell the scent of blood on Ragnar, raising up its claw and attempts to slash Ragnar, Duros however manages to jump in a block the attack with his shield. Taking the heat from the bear, it turns to Duros and bites into him, taking a huge chunk out of his arm. Pearl running up from behind jumps onto Duroses shoulder, leaning forwards and blows a stream of fire into the Polar Bears face, causing its fur and skin begin to burn.

As Pearl flips off of Duros, the crew hears an explosion behind the Polar Bear as it roars and falls to the ground dead. Standing behind the Polar Bears dead body is a man wearing a purple ranger hat and a purple jacket with yellow accents, a long slender face with a goatee covered in tattoos and scars, with blonde hair tied into a pony tail. Greeting the Crew, the man tells them his name is Atom and he just arrived on the island. William and Atom shake hands, introducing himself as a famous bounty hunter, William lies and acts as if he’d heard of him before. Questioning if they’re pirates, the crew say that they are, telling him that they’re new to the scene. Warning them that if they get a bounty they’ll have bounty hunters after them, before asking about why they are on this island.

William says that he’ll tell him if Atom tells them what he’s here for, agreeing to this Atom tells them hes a treasure hunter by trade and on business. Telling Atom that they’re here on business as well, he says he’s looking for treasure buried on the island. The Crew and Atom agree that Atom will take anything of monetary value while the crew takes anything else they find on the island. Verona now out of battle hears a very faint whimpering sound, asking Duros if he is hearing it as well, which he is. They call over William and informs William about the whimpering noise, telling him its coming towards the mountains in the west. Duros says that if they could stop its source, then they could get to whatever treasure is buried as Atom has had trouble with the snow falling faster than he can blow it up.

They ask Pearl to use her fire breath to melt the snow, but as William mentions to Atom to ignore her, Atom realizes he recognizes her, Pearl exclaiming that he doesn't before she starts breathing fire on the snow, it melts but is quickly replaced on top of it, unable to melt the snow fast enough. They notice the snow is heavier towards the mountains and inform Atom, heading towards the mountains, navigating through the snow. As they walk, Atom questions when the crew became pirates, informing him they all had jobs before hand and Atom says that doesn’t have any problem with them being pirates, just that hunting bounties is a nice way for him to use his explosives without it being illegal. As they reach the mountains, they realize they don't look like mountains at all, but instead look like legs.

And as they get closer, the snow fall gets heavier and heavier, and the whimpering noise turns into a loud crying sound. Duros questions if the snow is actually tears of a giant, William touches the ‘sound’ of the mountain finding it to not be stone but clothing and flesh. Duros says they should get his attention, they ask Ragnar to call out to the Giant, his scream echoes across the island and the crying stops for a second, a mans face peering through the clouds. He begins crying again, they see his tears fall from his eyes and freeze mid air, turning to snow as they drop towards the ground. The Crew discuss how they could calm the giant, Duros decides to talk with the giant, telling them that they are here to help the Giant. Duros asks how they can help and the Giant tells them that he lost his pet, asking what his pet looks like the crew finds out that it was the Polar Bear they just killed.

Regrouping they discuss how they could calm the giant down, the crew having never seen a Giant before and Atom says he has across his journeys. They decide to tell the giant they saw it on an island a couple of days ago, this causes the giant to just become more sad, and as the Giant goes on, he says that he was told to not leave the island by a Boney Man. Atom says that he knows who it is, William questions if it is Captain Marrow, which Atom confirms, telling the crew that  Marrow is the strongest Marine in this area and that he wouldn’t even dare go up against him, so he can see why the Giant would be scared. Atom tells the crew to stay clear of Marrow, informing the crew he can manipulate the bones in his own body.

Duros questions if there are any other Polar Bears on the island, finding out that the Giant brought his Pet with him. Duros finds out that the Giant needs companionship, Ragnar says that they should just give it some fish in some boots, so they do, having various fish in boots and William tells the giant they have found a new creature that will give it companionship for the rest of time. The Giant picks them up one by one, picking up and naming each of them, as he stops crying the snow begins to melt slowly, thanking the crew for finding him new friends. William questions if there are any notable places on the island, the Giant tells the crew that he was there to guard something, finding out that there was a notable area near the middle of the island.

The Giant also informs them that it was the bone man who told him to guard the island and that he won’t inform him with the transponder snail he was given because they helped him find new friends. The Crew and Atom walk over to the area pointed out by the island, Atom opens his coat which is lined with a bunch of explosives, he grabs one and places it into the ground, standing back and pressing a detonator. Dirt and stone goes flying everywhere and falls down into what looks like a Tunnel Shaft and turns to the crew and asks them who wants to go down the hole first.

Story Impact
Here are the main parts of this episode that have an overall impact on the ongoing story.


 * Shipwright Frigeworth comes from a culture where a Bear is a godlike figure.
 * They meet Atom for the first time.
 * Atom reveals Pearl is hiding some sort of secret.
 * High ranking Marine, who is probably Captain Marrow, forced unnamed Giant to stay on island.

The Crew

 * William
 * Verona
 * Duros
 * Ragnar
 * Pearl

Met

 * Cranstin
 * Mailman Marine Ahh Ahh
 * Atom
 * Unnamed Giant

Mentioned

 * Captain Marrow
 * Jefferson
 * Lt. Hubris

Met

 * Shipwright Frigeworth

Mentioned

 * Random Guy
 * Little Timmy

Quotes

 * "I don't want to 'hang' around any longer" - Duros.
 * "Any innocent man that would love to watch an execution I think is asking for it, while if we leave Little Timmy here he can't even grow up to become a man" Ragnar.
 * "Back in my village the kids just follow what the men do, so can we really blame him?" - Ragnar.
 * "Wait that doesn't seem like a medical device." Duros.