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Do you believe in the Devil’s Luck?

One Piece D&D is an Actual Play Web Video Series by Youtuber Rustage and featuring other Youtubers as players, played on the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons and based on the world of the One Piece franchise.

Set shortly after the execution of Gol D. Roger and the start of the Golden Age of Piracy, the series follows the adventures of the Devil's Luck Pirates, an upstart pirate crew who banded together to follow their own individual goals. The crew includes:

• William Emanon (Played by Tekking101: The crew's captain, a chaotic rogue with a mysterious past and a penchant for gambling
• Duros (Played by Lost Pause): An honorable man in heavy knightly armor and the tendency to invoke The Power of Friendship a lot.
• Ragnar (Played by Briggs): The crew's shipwright, a huge, eyepatch-wearing man who desires to become the strongest man in the world]])
• Verona (Played by 2Spooky): The crew's sniper, a stoic man who constantly covers his face with a mask and goggles. Has a variety of powerful trinkets and bullets at his disposal.

As the series goes on, more and more crew members join the Devil's Luck Pirates in their travels that may take them through the Grand Line and towards the fabled treasure of One Piece itself.

Ending after over 70 episodes, the series would be followed by the sequel series, One Piece D&D: Marines.

The whole series can be found here.

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The series provides examples of:

• Action Girl: A lot of the women in this campaign know how to kick ass. On the Devil’s Luck Pirates, Pearl knows martial arts and can turn into a fire breathing dragon and though Doxie is still young, she is an excellent thief who is an expert with knives. Other women who are powerful fighters include Hemlock, Cleo, Luna, The All Mother, Seraph and Aria.
• Adaptational Wimp: Users of Logia Devil Fruits are still very dangerous opponents to fight, especially without Haki - however, they're not the unstoppable juggernauts they are in the manga proper. This is mostly down to two factors: while Logias can No-Sell physical attacks like in the manga, due to the restriction of the game system they can only do that once each turn, with only being able to passively halve the damage instead of outright absorbing it, and Haki is introduced into the powersets of the players relatively early in the campaign.
• Adopting the Abused: The Devil’s Luck Pirates befriend and recruit a lot of people who have endured suffering at the hands of others. All of them are now doing better as part of the crew.
  • Pearl was a runaway princess who was abused by her father into becoming a weapon. It takes her a good while to trust the crew.
  • Cyril was an innocent Marine who got his arm torn off by his sadistic superior for something he had zero control over.
  • Doxie was a runaway thief with blue blood whose father is a vicious monster who uses the blood of his bastard children as a drug to sell.
• Advanced Ancient Acropolis: Inaris Island was once the location of a great city centuries ago. When the DLP got sent back in time and trapped in a time loop, it is shown that the society was greatly advanced with technology not unlike modern-day earth. They also seemed powerful enough that they did not worry at all about the Blue Blood Tribe that planned to invade. The society only collapsed because the First Devil Fruit blew up in an explosion that wiped out the whole island.
• Adventure-Friendly World: As with canon One Piece, the world is an Ocean of Adventure. So full of adventure that it makes for a great Dungeons & Dragons setting.
• Aerith and Bob: There is a wide variety of names in the campaign, from mundane (like William and Cyril) to a little out there (like Dominius and Arzen) to even common words or descriptions (such as Rain or Helper).
• After Action Patch Up: After a rough fight, the Devil’s Luck Pirates often try to find a way to get at least a short rest. Obviously, this is sometimes not too feasible if they are deep in enemy territory in which case they try to make do with med kits.
• All Deaths Final: Like in One Piece and unlike Dungeons and Dragons, if somebody dies, they are gone for good. Resurrection is not an option. The only exception is Seraph’s ability to send people into Limbo to face a person they are responsible for killing (with the winner being revived). Even then, this revival process requires someone to die.
• Androcles' Lion: Even though the DLP found Tako to be rightfully creepy, Duros and Ragnar find his octopus companion Yaki adorable and even feed him a fish. They later on allow Yaki to come with them onto their crew, to the little octopus’s joy.
• Animorphism: Zoan Devil Fruit users are able to transform into full animal or a hybrid form of human and animal. Some Zoans introduced in the campaign include Ragnar (Grizzly Bear), Commander Bait (Shark) and Aria (Jellyfish) along with Mythical Zoans such as Pearl (Western Dragon) and Seraph (Angel).
• Arc Villain: In good old One Piece fashion, each arc has a main antagonist, usually the leader of a dangerous organization:
  • The South Blue/Tarako Kingdom saga has the Big Bad Ensemble of Captain Marrow of the Marines and Eustass Valve of the Steam Pipe Pirates.
  • The L'Arbor arc has the maddened Warlord of the Sea, the Timber Lord.
  • The G-4 Saga has a Big Bad Duumvirate of Trevor D. Chapstan and Vice-Admiral Arzen.
  • The Eight Flames arc has V, the Eight Flame.
  • The Planet Duros Saga has Emperor Dominus, An alternate timeline version of Duros that was sent to the past on a different planet and became its self-proclaimed god-emperor.
  • The Aeons Saga has The All Mother, a woman with mysterious control over life and is worshipped by the Aeon Cult (who see her as a way to achieve eternal life).
  • The Return to The Oasis Arc has Big Top, the ruler of Oasis and the source of many of its problems. Though he is killed by Jester before the Devil’s Luck Pirates could actually fight him and instead fight Jester’s puppet copies of themselves.
  • The Blue Blood Saga has one of the most violent and vicious Emperors of The Sea Blue Blood. A mysterious yet powerful being who fancies himself as king.
  • In the final saga, The Devil’s Luck Pirates have to deal with the Void Police, an organization that exists beyond time and space whose Director seeks The First Devil Fruit.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: This is how Armament Haki is adapted in gameplay - on top of dealing extra damage, attacks coated in Armament Haki bypass all damage resistances, most importantly both the passive and active damage resistance of Logia-type Devil Fruit users.
• Artifact of Doom: The armor created by V makes the wearer stronger and grants immortality (at a price). The armor also has a mind of its own and will possess its wearer given the chance (such as Duros in an alternate timeline).
• Asshole Victim: The majority of the people the Devil’s Luck Pirates defeat definitely have had it coming to them, whether they be pirates, marines, assassins or anyone else.
• Ax-Crazy: More than a few of the foes in the campaign are unhinged and violent lunatics.
  • Tako is implied to have been/still be a serial killer before being a Flame who collects skin from those he kills.
  • Valve is a man of chaos who loves to wreak havoc and anyone he doesn’t murder he enslaves.
  • Big Bozo loves watching his clown robot minions torture victims during performances.
  • Arzen kills and maims his underlings for petty reasons and enjoys operating/mutilating any pirates he gets his hands on.
  • The Fruit Salad Pirates butcher all of their opponents in the Blood Bowl and will even kill one another at the drop of a hat.
  • Blue Blood seems to only give a damn about hurting those he deems beneath him (as in everyone) in any way he can.
  • Aria keeps her unnaturally chipper demeanor even when trying to kill or even when suffering grievous wounds.
• Badass Crew: Over the course of the campaign, The Devil’s Luck Pirates become a highly capable crew and recruit talented individuals into their ranks. Though unlike the Straw Hat Pirates, not every crew mate knows how to (or wants to) fight, preferring to support the crew in other ways such as cooking, tinkering or organizing finances.
• Badass in Distress: Sometimes even the toughest, most resourceful characters get captured or are put in serious danger that requires them to be rescued by somebody else.
  • Boss (a master thief who had countless successful heists) is captured by Trevor and mutilated by Arzen and grafted with animal body parts. He was in no condition to escape G-4 and needed to be carried by the Devil’s Luck Pirates the whole way out.
  • Trevor had to be rescued in Chronograd when his search for Arzen at the Aeons base resulted in him being overwhelmed by robots and almost sacrificed to The All Mother.
  • Pearl is one of the most powerful non-player characters on The Devil’s Luck Pirates, but even her full berserk dragon form was no match for Seraph, who easily beats her and sent her to be executed. Fortunately, the crews saves her on time.
• Badass Normal:
  • Chuck, one of the Commanders of the Timber Lord, is simply a big lumberjack with a big axe - he still provides a decent challenge to the entire Devil's Luck crew.
  • All of the Eight Flames except Valentine are relatively mundane humans by the standards of the setting, with no Devil Fruits of their own or even Haki to make up for that difference, but their personal skills and their animal familiars make up for that.
  • Commodore Trevor is considered incredibly powerful for his rank and is not higher up because of his utter dedication to hunting down Jason Locksworth rather than focusing on his Marine duties.
• Bad Boss: Most of the antagonists in a position of power could not care less about those under them and would hurt or even kill them for flimsy reasons. Sometimes this results in underlings defecting or even turning against them.
• Barbarian Tribe: Ragnar’s village of Atlas, which was ransacked before the campaign began. He even calls his people “Barbarians”. His class is also fittingly the Barbarian.
• Bastard Angst: All of Blue Blood’s offspring are mere products to him and they all know it. Those born with blue blood are juiced for their blood (which is a strength enhancing drug) until they die while those with red blood are sold to slavery or sent to the meat factories to be sold for consumption.
• Bears Are Bad News: Very early on in the series, Ragnar obtains the Bear-Bear Fruit Model: Grizzly, allowing him to shapeshift into a huge grizzly bear that augments his already impressive strength.
• Beast Man: A few members of the Mink Tribe appear in the campaign. The two most notable Minks are Chip the monkey Mink and The Elephant…who is an elephant Mink.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Rustage and several of the players have described the series as 'Seinen One Piece' - while the happenings tend silly and absurd like the series its based on, Anyone Can Die and the Devil's Luck Pirates have no qualms with brutally destroying their enemies, be they mooks or big baddies.
• Bizarro Elements: Along with traditional elements such as the Water Logia, other logias that appear include Boris the Gravy Logia and Valentine the Blood Logia. William also has acid, chalk, salt and algae Logias in his Roulette Wheel.
• Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": Due to the lack of proper 'magic' in the setting of One Piece other than Devil Fruits and Haki, some D&D concepts were readjusted to fit better with the setting - Cure Wounds potions were remade into Medikits, or Arcane Archer's (Verona's class) arcane arrows turning into 'Special Bullets' with the same effects.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: Just as in the original source material, the tenseness and levity of the campaign fluctuates (even within the same episode). At one moment, the crew can be cracking jokes and the next moment, we see or hear of an example of the Arc Villain’s cruelty.
• Cliffhanger: On account of the campaign being bi-weekly with each episode lasting roughly two hours, the episode often ends with the crew in the middle of a pickle. Whether it be just before (or in the middle of) a big fight, in an unfamiliar location or coming across a shocking sight.
• Cool Boat: The Devil’s Luck Pirates sail on the Yogi Pooh, a ship with the figurehead of a bear. They later get the Yogi Pooh 2 from Jasper after saving Tarako Kingdom (they just removed the bear figurehead and placed it on a bigger and better ship).
• Crapsaccharine World: Just like the manga, the world is vibrant and colorful but underneath it all is an oppressive and cruel place that will walk all over you if given the chance.
• Decade Dissonance: Since the seas are so vast and treacherous, the technology levels of islands fluctuates.
  • Ragnar is from a barbarian tribe that had little in the ways of advanced technology.
  • Krendor is a Wild West town while the nearby Tarako Kingdom is a medieval-esque monarchy.
  • The Steam Punk Pirates have advanced Steam Weaponry that no other pirates in the South Blue had access to. They even had a member who had a mechanical arm that emitted electricity.
  • Captain Verona, V and V Jr. are able to create highly advanced robots.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: The majority of the Devil’s Luck Pirates parents are no longer around.
  • William’s biological parents were murdered by Boss in a panic.
  • Duros never really knew who his parents were.
  • Verona’s father Viridian was murdered by Captain Marrow. His amoral mother Verona is assassinated by Hemlock.
  • Pearl’s mother died in childbirth and her father King Malachite is killed by her own claws.
  • Louis’s parents are long dead and it drove his brother Arrbor off the deep end.
  • Though we know nothing about his father, Cyril’s mother died of an unknown illness.
  • Lyssa’s parents were personally executed by Emperor Dominius (possibly to fuel his immortality).
  • Doxie’s parents Blue Blood and Seraph were killed by the Devil’s Luck Pirates. Both definitely had it coming.
• The Don: The Oasis has three Dons that run casinos and control territory. Roulette runs the Queen’s Gambit, The Elephant runs The Elephant Casino and The Prospector runs The Golden Nugget Casino.
• The Dreaded: More than a few of the campaign antagonists such as The Eight Flames, Arzen, Blueblood etc. are dreaded by those who have heard of them. Whether because of their power and/or their reputation for cruelty depends but their very names bring fear and wariness to those who know them.
• Elite Four: Several of the antagonist organizations have four leaders or four commanders who serve under one leader.
  • The Aeons were founded by the four members of The Brothers who serve The All Mother. Though The Brothers use The All Mother as a figurehead for their own ends with the Fourth Brother leaving the organization in disgust.
  • Emperor Dominius has his Inquisitors Cornelius, Luna, Maximus and Aster.
  • Ragnar Inc. has Ragnar IV as the CEO while he has his four board members Ledger, Wonga, Richie and Paige.
  • Blue Blood has his four commanders. Soldi the Steward, Kasparov the Chancellor, Seraph the Archbishop and The Black Knight the Lord Marshall.
• Enemy Mine: More than once the Devil’s Luck Pirates teamed up with an enemy to take down a tougher enemy. They do this with Hemlock and Trevor TWICE each against different foes/organizations. The Timber Lord and Eight Flames with Hemlock and The Aeons and Void Police with Trevor.
• Find the Cure!: A big motivator for going to the New World is to find a special doctor who knows how to turn Boss back to normal after Arzen grafted animal body parts on him. If they do not, he will eventually die from his body failing him.
• Flunky Boss: A good few of the big bosses have underlings that fight alongside them.
  • Being a venerable old man on life support, V leaves the fighting to his robots and technology.
  • The All Mother possesses the ability to control Sea Kings and later a wave of zombies.
  • Kasparov uses his Chess Chess Fruit to summon minions such as Pawns, Bishops and Rooks.
• Friendly Pirate: Though not as generally benevolent as the Straw Hat Pirates, the Devil’s Luck Pirates are usually amicable to those who don’t threaten or annoy them and they generally leave civilians alone.
• From Zero to Hero: The campaign starts with the Player Characters at level 1 in the South Blue and ends at level 18 as legends who can take on some of the strongest foes around.
• Gang of Hats: The Starter Villain faction, the Steam Pipe Pirates, are all based around Steampunk-esque aesthetics, such as electrical cybernetics, steam guns, and pipes - fittingly, Eustass Valve, the crew's captain, has a Steam-related Devil Fruit.
• Global Currency: Just as in canon, the world uses Berries as the main currency. Planet Duros uses Domins and The Great City has its own currency as well.
• A God Am I: Long living villains like Dominius and Blue Blood see themselves as gods among puny mortals. Neither survive their fights against the Devil’s Luck Pirates.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: To the Devil’s Luck Pirates’ occasional chagrin, they do not always get the credit they deserve for their escapades. Either because nobody believes them or somebody else takes the majority of the credit. For example, most sane people will not believe that the crew went to a totally different planet and defeated a tyrannical God-Emperor. This results in their bounties being comparatively low compared to other pirates with similar feats.
• Hollywood Healing: As in Dungeons & Dragons, it only takes a short or long rest for the crew to heal themselves after a fight.
• How Do I Shot Web?: When Ragnar, William and Verona ate Devil Fruit, they figured out the basics of their fruits but it takes a while (and some level ups) for them to figure out more clever ways to use them, to unleash more powerful forms and to get more uses of an ability per day.
  • This is doubly so for William since his Roulette Roulette Fruit grants him a random ability each time it’s spun, so he needs to figure out the selected power and how to ideally use it on the fly.
• Human Aliens: The Durosians look just humans, though this is because they are descended from “All-Blueians” who landed on the planet thousands of years ago.
  • A more straightforward example were the Blue Blood Tribe, humanoids who look like humans except their blood is blue and are similar enough in biology to reproduce with humans.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Cannibalism is committed by several characters in the story. In Pearl’s case, it’s an addiction she’s quite ashamed of. In Ragnar IV’s case it’s a belief that he absorbs the power of those he kills. Ragnar IV even owns a human meat packing company who sells human meat across the seas (and the meat of specific individuals who pay extra).
• Indy Ploy: Though not morons, The Devil’s Luck Pirates are not much of strategists and usually tend to wing it when it comes to combat and being in enemy territory. Though they are very good at both improvising on the fly and making use with what resources they have. This can make it very hard for their enemies to predict their next move.
  • Though occasionally they plan out the beginnings of a plan and the expected results, but improvise on the middle steps. Such as when they cleverly sneak into G-4 to save boss, but did not really have much of an exit plan in case things went south (which they did).
• Intergenerational Friendship: The Devil’s Luck Pirates age range varies from teenagers to around 50’s or so, all of them see each other as lifelong companions.
• Involuntary Group Split: At the beginning of the Blue Blood Saga, Soldi causes the group to split up. The Player Character, Lyssa, Heali and Doxie form Team A. Gravy, Louis, Jimmy, Little Ricky, Boss and Gunner form Team B. Pearl and Cyril form Team C.
• Irrational Hatred: Though nobody in the Devil’s Luck Pirates really liked Cleo (except Louis), Ragnar takes it to ridiculous extremes, even commenting that he finds her worse than V.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The characters mention frequently about meta and out-of-universe stuff such as hit points, dice results, movies they wouldn’t know about, referring to events as episodes and so on. William also once rolled a Devil Fruit that allowed him the break the fourth wall in order to go and print out flyers at Staples.
• Ki Manipulation: The campaign has all three forms of Haki as well.
  • Armament Haki can amplify or reduce damage. It also overcomes damage resistance such as from a Barbarian’s rage or Logias.
  • Observation Haki can be used to add a bonus to Wisdom-based rolls or increase your accuracy (to the point that Nat 1 rolls are not an automatic failure).
  • Conquerer’s Haki can dominate and overwhelm the wills of others. You must be born with this ability and those who have it are said to have the qualities of a king.
• Knight of Cerebus: As silly as the campaign can occasionally get, characters like Rain, Dominius and Blue Blood have little to no humor to them. Rain for her many tragedies and the latter two for just how terrible of people they are without being laughably evil in any way.
• Kryptonite Factor: All Devil Fruit users are weak to being immersed in liquid just as in canon. Which is tough since most of the world is ocean.
• Macguffin: Late in the series, the First Devil Fruit is introduced that can allow its eater to rewrite reality. It also may or may not be the One Piece. In any case, the final villain faction desires it for their own ends.
• Made of Iron: Most people in the campaign can take serious amounts of punishment and survive. Whether it be weapons, fire, gunfire or any other violent attack.
• Magic Pants: As is standard in One Piece when it comes to Devil Fruits but averted once when in Episode 3 when Pearl transforms back from a full dragon, she is naked.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: In good ol' D&D dungeon master fashion, Rustage voices every NPC in the series, including the non-player crew members.
• Master of None: William's Devil Fruit, the Roulette-Roulette Fruit, allows him to gain the power of any Devil Fruit, including ones from canon One Piece, giving him potentially unlimited utility - however, not only is this completely random (meaning he may get an insanely good fruit or an absurdly useless one), he can only use each fruit for a limited amount of time, thus not allowing him to gain the mastery over their power like the original wielder would with enough time, and the sheer amount of Fruits means it's very unlikely he'll be able to get the same result more than once.
• Meaningful Name: William's initial last name is 'Emanon' - No Name backwards. this is because he was raised by a thief and never had a real last name.
• Morality Kitchen Sink: Just like in One Piece, there is no true good guy side or bad guy side or faction. Pirates, The Marines and assassins all have heroic individuals, those who do what they do to survive, utter jerkasses and monstrous bastards.
• The Movie: The campaign has two “Movies” that are DM’d by player characters with Rustage making a character to play for the one-shot movie. The first movie is “Lost in The Crystal Lagoon” which takes place between episodes 40 and 41 and the second movie is “Muppet Madness” which takes place after episode 60. Muppet Madness also doubles as a Halloween Special.
• Murder, Inc.: The Eight Flames are an organization of hired assassins indoctrinated into almost cult-like loyalty, ranked from 1 to 8 - the larger the number, the more powerful the assassin. Each member (other than Number 1 and Number 8) are also given a companion animal to assist them in their assasination work. They are the primary antagonist/allies of the Eight Flames arc.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: Both William and his long-lost brother Trevor have the middle initial 'D.', making them both inheritors of the Will of D.
• Orcus on His Throne: More often than not the main arc villain remains in his home base and the Devil’s Luck Pirates need to fight their way to them. Such as the case for The Timber Lord, V, Dominius, The All Mother and Blue Blood.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: Hertha is half-giant and her children Ragnar IV and Magnus are quarter giant. All of them are bigger than Ragnar.
  • There is also an unnamed giant that appears in episode 2 that seems quite gentle. Though he’s killed by Marrow while the crew were in the Kuma Village.
• The Power of Friendship: Just as in most D&D games and in many manga, the crew relies on teamwork and faith in one another to solve their problems. They would not have made it very far if they did things themselves and most of the fights would be flat out impossible to beat if they fought one-on-one.
• Prequel: The campaign takes place a few years after Gold Roger’s execution and roughly twenty years before Monkey D. Luffy embarks on his adventure.
• Pyrrhic Victory: By ingesting blue blood, Ragnar greatly empowers himself to the point that he manages to kill Blue Blood. The side effect is that he develops a crippling addiction to the substance from that point onwards. It also does not change the fact that Louis died during the battle. Blue Blood himself claims that now that Ragnar injected his blood, this victory is now hollow.
• Reduced to Dust: During the fight with Valentine, Seventh of the Eight Flames, Duros stabs his heart with his blessed sword, causing the assassin to scream out in pain and turn into a pile of ashes. Rustage admits it doesn't make sense since he's a Blood Logia and not a literal vampire, but it was too cool to pass up.
• Rescue Arc: The campaign has a few sagas dedicated to saving somebody from the clutches of an antagonist.
  • During the South Blue Saga and L’Arbor Saga, Ragnar is looking for his wife Hertha and his son Magnus who have been enslaved.
  • In the G-4 Saga, the crew try to save William’s father figure Boss from the Marine Base G-4, a base infamous for its cruelty.
  • The Oasis Saga occurs because the Eight Flames kidnapped Gravy (a former member) to execute him.
• Running Gag: Several:
  • Verona accidentally shooting allies.
  • William killing old people - specifically old men.
  • Ragnar failing Perception rolls so spectacularly he barely percieves what's around him.
  • Louis Le’cloque turning inexplicably monochrome and 'sad French music' playing whenever he is sad or moping.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Slavery and selling slaves is considered unacceptable by every single member of the Devil's Luck crew - villains who partake in that have particularly gruesome fates.
• Time Police: One of the duties of the Void Police is to monitor disruptions in the timeline. Especially disruptions involving the First Devil Fruit (which has powers that are beyond time and space)
• Tournament Arc: In episodes 47 and 48, the Player Characters and Pearl participate in the Dane Goodman Blood Bowl in order to get access to The New World. There they meet and face off against various other pirates such as Stumblebeard, Bumblebeard and Pineapple Man.
• Violence is the Only Option: Though some of the antagonists can be talked out of fighting, most of the time the crew have no choice but to fight and possibly kill their opponents.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: In the initial South Blue arc, most 'boss'-type villains that the crew encountered didn't tend to last long enough to be a threat - this changes when "Not Steve"/Taco of the Eight Flames jumps on board of the ship and proves that there are far, far stronger characters than them. When he is properly fought inside Tarako Kingdom's prison, he is by far the most dangerous opponent fought up untill that point and almost outright kills William, which sets the tone well for the upcoming fight against Captain Marrow and Eustass Valve.
• The Wild West: The island of Krendor has this general aesthetic. Complete with saloons, guns and outlaws. Atom (who has a distinct Western accent) is also from here.
• World of Badass: The majority of the cast have some degree of fighting capacity and the ones that don’t are at the very least highly talented in one field or another. Pretty much all of the Devil’s Luck Pirates had a moment to shine and those who don’t fight still have useful skills to help the crew.
• Wretched Hive: The Oasis may look glamorous, but it is also riddled with crime and decadence. The area is dominated by three dons who all hate one another and fight for territory and even they answer to Big Top, who rules over the place and does as he pleases. It gets even worse for a while during The Return to The Oasis Saga, but the Devil’s Luck Pirates taking over the place as their territory helps it heal.