Episode 10: Are We The Bad Guys?

"Are We The Bad Guys?" is the Tenth Episode of the One Piece DnD Streams by Rustage, in this episode we follow the crew as they kill a Marine Commander, take a hostage, learn about the Timber Lord, Boss, and the Commodore, then commit many morally ambiguous actions!

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!

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

TL:DR
The Episode start of where Episode 9 ended, the Crew about to start a fight with Commander Bait. William gets the Zushi Zushi no Mi and the fights ends with Duros killing Bait, the death of some of his squad and William kidnapping one of them, Florence. Florence tens explains about "The Commodore" who is a greatly feared and powerful Marine that is also searching for Boss. The Crew then explores the other side of the island and fight some Treemen, killing one of them but saving the other two along with a child. After this the Verona kills hundreds of innocent people and scarred the child for life. After this the Crew learns more about the Timber Lord and engages in some cannibalism.

Summary
This episode starts off where Episode 9 ends, with William, who got the Zushi Zushi no Mi, Ragnar, and Duros facing off against Commander Bait in melee combat while Verona, Pearl, and Louis stay back in a building. Bait turns into his hybrid form, with a massive shark mouth but still has human legs. The fight begins as one of the Marines, ready to go, fires at William, but misses. Another Marine runs up next to his fried and also fires at William, but his bullet is deflected by Duros. Pearl finally goes into her true hybrid form and asks William what to do, and he wants her to grill with her fire Commander Bait, which she does. Bait takes it head on and gets his skin charred and reels in pain.

Verona moves up beside Ragnar and shoots Bait's neck. A Marine behind Bait runs up to and slashes Pearl and gives her a paper cut on her hand. Another Marine weaves in-between his comrades and shoots Pearl in the leg, doing more damage. William moves up to Bait and puts his hands out, trying to use his gravity powers to push Bait to the ground, but Bait resists its affects and stands tall. Bait moves up and slowly, opens his mouth to bite William, but misses and hits a tree stump instead. Ragnar moves up, enters bear mode, and slices into Bait with his axe, causing blood to spurt out, but when trying to hit again with a follow up, he hits a hard part of Bait's body and fails. Louis moves up and boasts of his fencing skill, before stabbing into Bait and reversing time back to his original position.

Duros then moves up in-between Bait and the Marine in front of Pearl. Duros then attacks the Marine in front of Pearl and severely wounding him. But when Duros tries to swing again, he loses his balance and slashes himself on his arm. Three of the Marines fire at Duros, but Duros is able to block all of their bullets. One of the Marines gives a motivational speech to inspire his comrades. Pearl tries to swipe at a Marine, but trips over herself. Verona shoots the Marine who gave the speech with an explosive bullet and explodes him. After this, Duros questions the morals of the Crew. Verona readies his rifle and prepares to shoot the Marine who was closest to the Marine who exploded, turns around and grabs Verona's bullet. The Marine who caught the bullet, Alpha Marine, reinvigorates their will to fight and the Marine who was cut by Duros and cuts him back. The other two Marine try and shoot Verona, but miss. William then lifts Ragnar up with his gravity powers and prepares to drop him onto Bait.

Bait just turns to Alpha Marine and smiles before looking back at William and missing his bite again. Once Bait misses, William sends Ragnar crashing down into Bait, slashing into him with his axe. Bait seems very wounded and Ragnar, after landing on Bait, cuts into Bait with his axe again. Louis runs in and rips out some of Bait's guts with his rapier. Duros then walks up to bait and stabs him through the bottom of his jaw, into his brain, killing him. The Marines start to rout, but Alpha Marine stops them and swears revenge on The Devil's Luck Pirates, before ordering them to pull back. Duros, not wanting to be interrupted, throws a hand axe at Alpha Marine and beheads him.

Out of the fleeing Marines William lifts the one closest to Bait's body up into the air. William starts to question the Marine but tells him not to freak out. William then lets him down next to Ragnar and Duros. When he gets put down, William explains that he's upset that they weren't going to arrest them. The Marine explains they were there on orders from their boss and that they were looking for something. Ragnar threatens to kill him if he doesn't give the full story. William asks if Bait was the boss, to which the Marine says their boss is a Commodore and that he'll kill him if he failed the mission. Ragnar replies that there is no mission anymore. Duros tries to scare the Marine into telling him the info, but starts massaging his head instead. The Marine remains steadfast, until Ragnar laughs at him and calls him a man.

The Marines realizes that they won't just kill him but torture him first and starts to spill the beans. He says the Commodore is very scary, much scarier than Bait, in fact Bait was terrified of him. The Commodore is very desperate to find a certain man, so much so that he'll ignore crimes and pirates in favor of finding him. William then approaches the Marine and lies, claiming he wants to help him. The Marine believes William, but is confused as to why they'll help him after exploding his uncle. William points out that it was all Verona, and the compliments him on his accuracy, while Duros massages the Marine's head to help him feel better. William asks for his name, which he says is Florence.

William tells Florence that once they find who he's looking for, they'll just let him go. Florence remarks that being a Marine is dangerous and hat he wouldn't mind quitting. William asks for a name and description, which Florence gives him which is Jason Locksworth. William agrees to help him and says he knew Jason. Florence asks William why the Commodore hates him, and William's guess is that he steals stuff so many he stole something valuable. The Marines came to the island because there were reports of Jason committing a robbery and a card left by him. William asks the Crew whether they should go after Boss or the Commodore, when Pearl reminds him about Ragnar's family.

Ragnar is content with just going through the Grand Line, power up, and reach his family eventually. Verona points out they still need a Log Pose, but Louis wonders what's wrong with his. Verona says that he won't stay on their ship forever, which Louis understands. Florence says they might on the ship, but it's already left the island. After noticing this, William tells Florence that they'll be palling around for a while. Florence promises to be useful if they can find Jason, pulling out a small machine he made. William agrees as the machine flips.

William then asks Florence if he has a map of the area, to see where Jason might go next. Louis exclaims that since there is another town his friends might be there. Louis points to where the town should be, behind the forest, which now doesn't exist only tree stumps. William asks Florence if he did this, but Florence says it was like this when they got here. William asks Louis how long ago he went to this island, and Louis says only a few days. William comments that it's impressive to cut down a whole forest in a few days.

After William jokes with Louis they head off to the town with Florence. While they walk Verona takes some of Bait's body with him so Gravy can make food out of him. When they see the town, they hear a scream. Looking closer, the Crew sees three people who look like they're made of wood, or treemen. Louis screams and grabs his head, as sad French music plays. The Treemen grab a small boy and shove him into a sack while he screams for help. As they see this Duros runs over to help. The Treemen notice the Crew, but just give them a silent stare.

But before Duros can make it Pearl runs in and turns into her hybrid form and tries to slash one of the Treeman, but can only scratch the bark. Louis moves up, but Duros also attacks the same Treeman Pearl did, striking him twice. William moves next to Louis and tries to shoot a Treeman in the head, but the bullet just gets stuck in the wood. Verona shoots the other Treeman twice, but doesn't draw blood. A Treeman brings up its arm and tries to smash Duros, but gets blocked by Duros shield. While the Treeman is tuck on the shield, Duros stabs it in the side, drawing blood. Ragnar then moves up and slashes the woodman in half, but while he's being cut Ragnar sees that the wood is only an outer shell with most of the Treeman being human. The wood starts to flake off and a normal person is rags in left behind.

Once the wood comes off, the child screams "FATHER! NO!" and William tells him it's just a dream. But the child doesn't believe him, as the image is too real. In the distance a ship is approaching. The Treeman tries to attack Duros instead, but it gets blocked. Then the last Treeman tires to smashes Duros in the face with its arm. Pearl asks William what to do, and Duros chimes in to try and scrape the wood off of them. Pearl tries, but can't get into the wood. Louis refuses to attack anymore as he now knows they're just normal people. Duros tries to scrape the tree, but accidentally hits Pearl's hand instead. Upon seeing this, Louis sighs and reverses time on Pearl's injury. Duros tries again, but just misses the Treeman entirely.

William whips out his cutlass, but still can't hit the Treeman. Verona, seeing the attempts to carve by his Crew Verona takes out his scimitars and rushes the Treeman, carving off part of the wood. Under it, Verona sees the face of an unconscious woman, but all of a sudden the wood sticks back to her face. Ragnar moves around and, using the back of his axe, knocks out the Treeman. The last Treeman tries to attack Duros again, but still misses. Pearl punches the Treeman very hard, proving her as the Crew's MAD G. Louis explains that these are just townspeople and not his former crew. Duros once again tires to hit the Treeman and succeeds, hitting it twice. William tries to smack the Treeman again, but misses. Verona hits the Treeman, but only with the scimitar in his off-hand, doing little damage. Ragnar swings twice, misses the first swipe but nails the second, knocking him out.

The child starts mourning his father, but is approached by Ragnar who apologizes for killing his father and asks him to explain what happened. He explains the wood came and started wrapping around people, but Ragnar tells him to stop and to be the strongest in the world to keep something like this from happening again. The child, calmer, asks them to save everyone else, which Ragnar relies he'll try his best. When they ask about their mother Duros carves off the wood of the woman and the child yells and runs over to her. William then uncarves the other Treeman, revealing a man's face. The child says he's the postman who came by often, although he didn't know why. William then says that the postman is probably the child's real father.

After this Ragnar wants Louis to tell them the whole story. Louis didn't tell them as he didn't want them to be involved and because he thought they wouldn't care. Louis then says that the Timber Lord is insane and that he ran away because he didn't want to end up as a Treeman. But, even worse than that the Timber Lord's army of slaves, was made so that he could deforest entire islands to get enough wood for his effigy. The purpose for this was to burn away all of the sinners and slaves. Louis says that he told the Timber Lord that his actions were wrong and for this he was labeled a sinner. The effigy is almost complete so if Hertha and Magnus are to be saved they must act quickly.

William asks where the island is and Louis brings out his Eternal Pose that points to his home island, the island where the effigy is being built. It was once lush, but is now a shadow of its former self. But Louis says that if he returns he'll be killed instantly, but William disagrees as he thinks the Crew is awesome enough to handle it. Verona offers to have Louis give them the Pose so he wouldn't have to return, but Louis refuses as it's his most prized possession. William tells Louis that he won't make two trips, so once they defeat the Timber Lord, he won't come back.

Louis agrees to come and to give them information about the Timber Lord. William checks on Florence and the Crew look at the ship in the distance again. William suggest Verona use a Banishing Bullet to send the ship into a different dimension, but Verona says it's too big. But then Verona proposes he shoot an Explosive Bullet at the ship. Verona shoots it and a huge hole erupts in the ship's side and it starts to sink. But before the Crew can celebrate the boy screams that everyone who was captured was on the ship and that they'll drown! William agrees, but wants the kid to admit it was a good shot, which he does but also says that Verona killed hundreds. Verona says that some of them will come back and walks away. William looks around to see if there's anything worth looting while Duros sarcastically says they don't need to thank them.

As a penance, William takes a bloodstained 100 bill and gives it to the kid. Duros tries to help as much as he can by bringing the child's mother into the house while William does the same with their postman, but steals a spoon. William suggests they leave, which Verona heartily agrees to. While this is happening, Duros is de-wooding the people who have washed up on shore. William goes up to the kid again, pats him on the back, calls him Timmy and says he's the mayor of the town and should be happy. Then William whispers to Ragnar that the kid is gonna be really messed up later. On the way to the ship, Louis asks William again if he wants information on the Timber Lord and William does.

Louis tells William that the Timber Lord has three commanders and that their best bet is to fight them one at a time. But before Louis can talk they get back to the ship and Verona hands the shark meat to Gravy which he happily agrees to cook. Duros wonders about the ethics of cannibalism, to which William says some cannibalism would be for all of them. When William says this Duros is in a corner, questioning his existence. At this point Gravy asks about Louis and Florence, and the Crew explain the situation.

When Louis starts to tell them about the commanders, William guesses that one of them is really muscular and the other is super hot. Louis is surprised but elaborates the the muscular one is Chuck and the hot one is Hemlock. When he hears Hemlock's name William says he called it and that they ran into her. When he says this Louis says they can't be talking about the same one and that Hemlock is a common name from where he's from. Duros asks what the name of his home country is and Louis replies that it's called L'Arbor. The last commander is named Spruce and that's all Louis knows. After that, the Crew sets sail to L'Arbor.

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


 * The Crew leave the Deforested Island and head off to L'Arbor
 * The Crew kidnap Florence and force him to stay on the Pooh



The Crew

 * William
 * Verona
 * Duros
 * Ragnar
 * Pearl
 * Gravy

Met



 * Florence
 * Tommy
 * Tommy's Mother
 * Tommy's Father
 * Jerry The Postman















Mentioned



 * The Commodore





Met

 * Louis Le`cloque


 * Commander Bait
 * 4 Unnamed Marines
 * Alpha Marine





Mentioned



 * Boss







Quotes

 * "Lets grill this fish!" - William to Pearl when she asks him what he needs her to do
 * "A shark on land? I love the Grand Line already" - Ragnar seeing Commander Bait
 * "Ooh! Guys we haven't killed a Commodore yet!" - William to the crew
 * "There's nothing scarier than a strong and desperate man" - Florence about the Commodore
 * "If it doesn't bleed, I don't know if we can do it boys, but lets keep going" - Verona when the woodmen doesn't bleed
 * "Hey Ragnar, now we both know what it's like to kill someone's dad" - William to Ragnar after killing Tommy's Father
 * "Let's try killing them without killing them" - William trying to describe knocking the woodmen unconscious
 * "You know how a human body is like 70% water? I think mine's gone right down to 60%" - Florence when William asks him if he's done pissing his pants
 * "After today I think some cannibalism would be good for all of us" - William trying to cope after everything that they did to the town

Trivia

 * In this episode, Rustage did an additional intro about the Jolly Roger Competition.