Branch 101

**Branch 101** is a Marine Base for the Ballywood Kingdom and the surrounding islands, this is the branch of the marines that the player characters of the OP DnD: Marines campaign are assigned to. Branch 101 is the seat of the 101st Marine Branch in the West Blue.

The items Branch 101 has collected along their travels can be found here.

## Weaknesses

### Lack of funding

The Branch is severely underfunded, due in part to both the general mafia rule of the West Blue and the systemic destruction of both personnel and funding by Kane Kibbleton. This means that certain necessities such as seastone handcuffs and sufficient personnel are lacking. Even before then, the branch was underfunded due to a reputation for mediocrity.

### Zealotry

The majority of the squad follow a doctrine of absolute justice. Every operation with the most recent recruits so far has resulted in a casualty. As well, they are willing to waterboard people with urine in the pursuit of a mission.

### Active Self-sabotage

One particular member has actively worked against the mission on several occasions.

### Unhygienic Behavior

Certain members of Branch 101 have a penchant for urinating themselves or vomiting. As well, they have performed waterboarding using urine.

## History

### Past

Five to six years ago, Captain Bailey was assigned to the base and Pluto was transferred out of the Grand Line to this branch. Quackington, after defecting from his pirate crew, at one point started to work at this branch. At one point, Pluto recruited Zeal. The branch has a reputation for mediocrity.

### First Mission: The Marine Killers

Around a decade after the dissolution of the Devil's Luck Pirates, a group of the branch's seaman recruits were sent off on a standard patrol mission led by  Lieutenant Pluto. During this patrol mission, pirates attacked their ship with the aid of Zeal, who had been a double agent. After killing several members of the ship's crew, the pirates escaped to a nearby island with Pluto as their captive. Kai, Bradley, Yokan, Taiga, and Damian were able to track down the pirates and successfully rescue their commanding officer. After this rescue, the crew engaged 3 pirates in combat, killing 1 and capturing the remaining two. Captain Bailey arrived on her wolf after the squad had successfully incapacitated the pirates. The marines then interrogated their prisoners, discovering that Zeal had no memory of what had transpired. The party then returned to base by ship.

This organization turned out to be the Marine Killers, a group dedicated solely to the murder and capture of marine personnel. Zeal's raid had been the first time recorded where they went after a lieutenant. In order to investigate the matter, Bailey was able to send four above average seamen recruits and another guy to Washinggram. The investigation into the disappearance of Petty Officer Fallow led this squad to uncover an ambush operation set up by Washinggram's chapter of the Marine Killers. After dealing with the belligerents, the squad moved any prisoners they had been able to take alive onto their boat. In addition, after Kai grew suspicious of a local old man, Damian tasered and then detained him for future questioning.

After going to the capitol, Washinggram D.C., the group met up with  Lieutenant Pluto and reported their actions. After this had happened, they went looking for their superior officer. After some investigation, they encountered their captain who was clearly brainwashed in a similar manner to Zeal. After a slight altercation with Kibbleton security over the custody of Taiga, the squad went to the palace of King Ham Burger. After checking on their superior officer, they barged into the throne room right as Fips was about to shake hands with the king. Upon this interruption, "Fips" revealed that he was actually Kane Kibbleton. Through his possession devil fruit, he manipulated Bailey to his whim to attack the party. During battle, Kane revealed through Bailey's larynx his plan: He would use his fruit on King Ham Burger to take control over the kingdom, wait until the Marine Killers that he had funded had taken care of the remaining marines and then screen new recruits for Ballywood's marine contingent. This was in order to take care of the The Seven Sisters, who he owed several belis. After knocking both belligerents unconscious, the squad was examining their bodies when Malady of the The Seven Sisters walked in. She threw down a signed contract in front of Damian and asked for the keys, but was met with resistance. She made veiled threats which prompted  Lieutenant Pluto to order Damian to give her the keys. Though Damian had already made imprints.

After this, they departed to the ocean in order to negate the effects of Kane's devil fruit by submerging both in sea water. After interrogating Kane, Bailey revealed that each of the personnel responsible would be promoted. After returning to base, the branch discussed a plan to dismantle the mafia. As Malady had now given probable cause, they had permission to investigate. Bailey revealed that they would now be going after an underground auction to repossess a suit of armor that had belonged to the Marines and had somehow ended up as a item in the auction.

### Auction with the Five Mafia Families

After arriving at the island, the squad changed out of their uniforms. In their investigation, the squad found Spade of the Suits checking on his printers on the second floor of a pistachio ice cream shop. After being defeated by the squad, the man informed them of where his associates were staying. Damian detained the vendor for conspiring with them. After sectioning off the crime scene and returning evidence and prisoners to their ship, the squad took the counterfeit money in order to use for the illegal auction. They then went to the hotel room which the Suits were staying at and ambushed them. After killing Diamond and Clubs, they took their clothing and tickets. They then tied Heart to the bed and room service was ordered by Damian so that she would be discovered the next day.

At the auction, Kai bid as much money as he could on the legendary fisherman's tools, having to be restrained by Damian. After the death of the mayor, the auction floor devolved into a battleground between the members of the Five Families that were there. Capone Bege excused himself from the brawl and the battle ended with all but the Branch 101 and The Seven Sisters factions dead or unconscious. During the brawl, Damian determined that the armor up for auction was a replica. After questioning Joy, Damian found no leads and allowed the two members of the mafia family to leave. While Damian did an investigation to find the armor, his compatriots went outside to look for Guy. They found Capone Bege who gave information on the man's whereabouts and set up a time to chat. He also admitted to poisoning the mayor. After reconvening, the crew followed the tracks of where the armor was moved and found to their dismay that a ship had already left. Damian discovered bits of blue and orange hair.

### Alliance with The Menu

After returning to the docks, they discovered Guy attempting to leave on a pirate ship belonging to the Hito Pirates. After a confrontation, the entirety of the pirate crew was subjugated.The crew then met back up with Capone and heard his proposition of teaming up with another mafia family to take down the The Seven Sisters. After a coin flip, they decided to team up with the Menu. Capone gave them directions to their main island, The Plate. After interrogating the menu members which they had incapacitated, the squad set off to The Plate. After being introduced to Rordon Gamsey, the mafia head asked them to participate in a test to see if they had what it took to be members of his organization. In preparation, the squad caught a two-colored fish.

This test pitted them against Olive Garden, Panda Express, and Little Caesar. The first phase consisted of them facing a consenting and delicious elephant. The one who dealt the killing blow would get to select the best pieces of the pachyderm. The squad was able to kill the animal and therefore achieve this privilege. After both preparing their dish to the best of their abilities and doing their best to sabotage their competition, the squad then presented their surf and turf stew to Rordon Gamsey. After accepting their dish, he accepted them into his mafia family. The squad then went to Acrylic island to begin their assault on the The Seven Sisters and retrieve the armor.

### Retrieving the Black Armor

Rordon Gamsey and his entourage went after Malady and Nurse, while the squad went to take care of Ninny and Demure. After incapacitating the two, the squad restrained them and brought them with them for negotiation purposes. Moved by her attraction to large and powerful women, Yokan picked up ninny without any trouble. They arrived to see Michelin man being killed by Malady. After Malady assaulted Kip and Belle, Rordon Gamsey attacked her for killing his friend. After this attack, Damian killed her using a bullet to her head. After neutralizing this woman, Damian ran to Nurse to incapacitate her, although he was unable to stop her from communicating with her allies.

Joy and Kip arrived, then attempted to negotiate. Kai was receptive and attempted to start a dialogue. The terms they arrived on were that they would leave Demure, take Ninny into custody, and leave the island. However, upon returning to the scene, Damian would not budge on the issue of the armor. The sisters revealed that they wanted to destroy the armor because of its previous use in battle. At this impasse, a battle ensued. Kai acted belligerent and attempted to aid the enemy. Soon, Joy and Kip were both pushed into the water. However, Kai interfered with Bradley's attempted cuffing of Joy, even hitting him with a net. At some point, Damian received a call met for Rordon confirming that The Plate was under attack by the Capone family.

When six of the sisters were in custody or dead, Damian and Kai had an argument, with Kai even voicing resentment for being a marine and a desire to join the enemy. This angered Kai's superior officer. Yokan also picked up the devil fruit that Joy had been saving for Ninny. Damian asked why the sisters wanted the armor.

Malice, who had arrived on the scene, responded that he had killed her parents using the armor in the Tarako Kingdom. After negotiating a truce, her sisters were released and Branch 101 was allowed to rest before going to where the armor was. During the rest, Yokan ate the devil fruit which she had acquired and became a cat woman. They secured passage for Rordan Gamsey to be sent back to The Plate. After going to Mayor Easel's art gallery, they found the armor. However, Malice ambushed them there and engaged them in combat. Damian, not wasting any time, went into the armor.

After Damian reprogrammed the armor which had been tampered with by Jeopard, and after Malice saw that there was no way she could defeat the armor pilot, Malice surrendered on the condition that they not prosecute the remaining sisters. After retrieving the armor, throwing Malice into the brig, and contacting Captain Bailey, the crew sailed off to meet commodore Gustave. The commodore behaved in a pompous and arrogant manner before having the armor handed to him. The conduct of the mushroom man motivated Kai to advance in rank. The squad departed and was once again contacted by Bailey. The Captain congratulated Damian on his promotion to ensign and briefed them on a mission to investigate reports of a ghost on an island on their way to the Ballywood kingdom.

Upon arriving, the squad was informed of the appearance of a ghost and dead bodies appearing around town. They also encountered Captain Spook. After investigating Margaret, an old lady that was an eyewitness for the local newspaper, the squad proceeded to the graveyard. They found the ghost of her late husband, Stanley, who was still tethered to the world by his fear that his wife had stopped coming because she no longer loved him. After seeing the ghost, Captain Spook immediately tried to attack, only to be asked to stop by the squad. He then pointed his gun at the marine officers, only to be swiftly incapacitated. He had managed to still blast Kai with a wave of energy from his attack, which meant he had assaulted an officer. It was then determined by the squad that Spook had been behind the disturbances in the town.

Kai ran back and brought Margaret to Stanley, leading to a reconciliation. After Stanley's soul had passed, the squad discovered that captain Spook had a smoke machine on his back. Damian then ordered that they take him in due to the man's litany of crimes.

### An Encounter with the Hito Hito Pirates

After returning back to base, the squad was informed that the remainder of the The Seven Sisters would be employed as auxiliaries in order to manage the islands that had fallen away from their territory. Commodore Jiro called Kai at the behest of Bailey to manage his behavior and inform him of reports that his grandfather might have been in the grand line. As this was going on, Bailey gave the crew the wanted posters of the three most notorious pirate crews currently terrorizing the West Blue. The squad unanimously agreed to go after the New Wave Mime Pirates first.

After resting and giving several dollars in counterfeit money to a pizza restaurant, the squad headed to secure their quarry. The squad evaded detection and caught the pirate crew off guard. In the ensuing battle, several of the pirates were killed, with only a few being rendered unconscious. After this had happened, Big Fella and Little Fella of the Hito Hito pirates arrived on shore from a ship that Kai had seen earlier and started to attack. After the belligerents were defeated, Yokan and Kai apprehended the two remaining members on their boat. As Kai had proved himself, Damian promoted him to petty officer.

After tense interrogations and an investigation, the squad learned that the pirates were on a campaign to kill marines that were devil fruit users or otherwise non-human. As well, they learned that the west branch commander was on Duck island. After informing Captain Bailey and Quackington and returning to the Ballywood kingdom, the squad was given the new mission to apprehend Bob the demolition man, the West branch commander of the Hito pirates. Quackington enthusiastically joined them. While still at the Ballywood kingdom, Kai and Bradley went to get med kits, running into Dr. Salt. Dr. Salt revealed information that suggested that he was now dating Joy. However, Kai did not realize this and said that he would join them. He then met up with the rest of his crew and immediately departed with them for Duck island.

### Fighting Pirates at Duck Island

After coming to the island, Quackington immediately started to fire his guns at the enemy. During the battle, Taiga was made unconscious and a Hito pirate went to attack. In order to prevent his demise, Bradley emerged from stealth and distracted the pirate before killing him. Yokan knocked a pirate into the water. This pirate, along with Bob, were the only living Hito pirates remaining after the battle. After they had finished, the squad worked to defuse any remaining bombs they could find on Bob's person. They also found three eternal poses pointing to the top three members of the Hito pirates. Bob was then interrogated. As one condition to him answering questions, he requested to see an explosion. Damian obliged by exploding the bombs they discovered on his person.

After they reported back to base, they met with Bailey. Taiga and Bradley also worked on a new handshake. In order to get permission to head to the Grand Line and confront members of the Hito pirates, Bailey contacted Commodore Jiro. At first, Jiro requested that they hand over their eternal poses. It was then suggested that they allow them to come into the Grand Line and seek out their targets. Jiro agreed due to having to devote resources in taking down his father. The squad then clarified that they would be going through the Reverse Mountain Route into Paradise. Bailey received some document that she would have to tell Pluto about. Before setting out, Kai asked Joy out on a date. He went to the beach and prepared a meal. Joy arrived and saw Kai coming out of the water. They had a date which ended in Joy kissing Kai on the cheek.

### Taking Down the Triumvirate

The crew went to Reverse Mountain, forgetting that they could have used the Red Port. While going up the mountain, they encountered a pirate ship and dealt with it. Upon reaching the bottom, Kai saw a whale and wanted to kill it for food. Damian decided against it due to the crew's lackluster cannon manning. They sailed on and Kai trained with Taiga. The latter asked about being a fisherman and Kai decided to push him into the water to learn how to swim. As Taiga fumbled in the water, he was grappled by a cephalopod. The squad managed to kill the beast and add it to their larder. Taiga then had an existential crisis and thought about why he even wanted women.

The squad arrived at The Custodian's island and were led to his club by Celsius. After being revealed as having non-humans, and Kai firing a harpoon at The Custodian, a battle ensued. Several Hito pirates were killed and The Custodian was gravely wounded. After assessing the situation, he surrendered. He attempted to bargain with his freedom in exchange for his daughter's freedom. After some investigation, it was discovered that Jeopard had been colluding with the man, selling him equipment such as a DJ table. Damian recorded his confession and revealed that he had no more bargaining chips, as Bradley had stolen his key card. Yokan freed several slaves before Bradley rushed off to save look for the others. Heather introduced herself and helped them rush to the holding cells. They discovered 20 slaves in total and freed them. Heather revealed to the crew that Selena had been sent to Alter for her rebellious behavior.

They called Jiro at his base of G-20 in order to have him send his second-in-command over to pick up the remaining slaves. They did not yet inform him of Jeopard, but they did inform him that his nemesis, Anchor Arms, was among the captives. Damian allowed Heather and Anchor Arms to join them in their travels. Bradley developed amnesia and asked The Custodian about where they were going and what was happening to his sister. The Custodian used this as an opportunity to show that Fishmen are inferior to humans.

The squad arrived on Alter's island and discovered his handiwork. Taiga was made to stay behind and watch the boat in order to keep an eye on The Custodian and DJ Riptide. After advancing into his chapel, they saw him attempting to maim Selena and immediately sprang forth to apprehend him. Alter had Dave intercede for him and block their path. Only Damian was able to make it to the man.

During the battle, Damian was able to convince Dave to eat a piece of heated metal, upsetting his stomach. Kai was also able to put a bottle of ethanol into the beast's gullet. Heather and Anchor Arms both were able to display their skills, with Heather inspiring Bradley, paralyzing Dave, and healing Yokan. Anchor Arms landed a hit, only to be brutally maimed by Dave.

Alter was able to slash apart Yokan's middle-arms, knocking her unconscious. However, Kai was able to burn Alter to death through his use of alcohol. Eventually, the alcohol inside of Dave reacted with the heated metal and caused an explosion.

The marines then got back on their ship and sailed off to Hugh Man's main base. During the voyage, Bradley caught up with his sister, who expressed disdain for humans and the marines and agreement with her father's ideals. Damian offered her a prosthetic, but she refused. Yokan then made up her mind to follow absolute justice and stamp out the seeds of evil before they could take root. The squad arrived at the hideout and saw that there was a large ship. After debating how to storm the island, they settled on having Bradley and Selena sabotage the rudder. After making the ship stationary, they docked their own vessel behind it. They embarked on the vessel, leaving Anchor Arms behind to guard the ship.

After navigating through the seemingly empty vessel, they found a lone, old man.

## Trivia

All player characters have contrasting and similar features to the player characters of the previous campaign.

* Kai is a man who highly values blood relatives and respects his elders. In addition, instead of having the potential to use every devil fruit, he despises them. Despite this, he has little respect for people's private property and is very cowardly.
* Damian is a cold, unfeeling man on the cutting edge of technology. In addition, he embraces his role as a leader and had some part in the downfall of the Tarako Kingdom. Despite this, he is still reliant on tools, and especially armor.
* Yokan is close-minded and has a naive view of the marines. In addition, she fights with only her body and a stick instead of technology, and is the tallest of the group instead of the shortest. Despite this, she is still a ranged fighter and kills people in cold blood.
* Bradley is very weak and short (for a fishman). In addition, he loves mimes and he prefers to sneak around and avoid the front line of battle. He is also against being the strongest. Despite this, he is very much athletic and has a wisdom penalty.