Story time, Can you tell us about a time where a player got so wrapped up in a role that they actually caused damage to their surroundings? I mean, those papers are going to have shoeprints forever...

Not quite in the heat of the moment, but one of my friends has a bunch of metal figurines that we use for all of our games like Monopoly tokens, just choose the guy that's the closest to you. Except for this one sword-wielder. Let's just say that sword has seen some wear and tear, until eventually one player got sick of it bending and just snapped it off.

A lot of pizza was sacrificed for the sake of roleplaying.

Not really related to being absorbed in a role, but...
A friend of mine once accidentally stepped on the character sheet of my mage when it fell to the floor and the shoeprint was quite visible forever after.
I jokingly gave that character the nickname "the Betrodden" :-)

A thought just occurred to me... if Rika is playing the Merry... and the only character to fully join the Straw Hats after the Merry is destroyed is Brooke, does that mean?

It could mean many things, but if I had to hazard a guess, the lack of combat opportunities leads to Rika taking on a second character (I'm thinking the Princess of Alabasta [no, I don't know how i remember the place's name but not hers])and thus continuing the cycle of her shifting characters as the plot demands. I'd continue to guess that Robin will be a new character entirely/DM's GMPC.
Also, what about Franky?

Honestly, Alabasta is much more memorable than (one minute passes) Vivi. Vivi Nefertari.

First time I'd heard of any theory on Rika playing Brooke. Seems like the bardic type. I'll double on Robin as DM's GMPC, though no doubt she will be forced to being a full player, probably after Skypeia arc. I still feel the tone of that one is all DM's doing. Franky will probably be an old modeling buddy of GM, a real WYSIWYG whiz. Probably built a model for Franky out of spare bitz while working on the Thousand Sunny.

Franky is very likely to be GM's cousin from a while back. The photo guy.

Seriously, sounds like someone who'd be into doing a character who's only wearing a speedo.

My theorie about Robin is that she will be a vilain character created by DM for the alabasta arc.
Then Luffy end up saving said character, because "she helped me against crocodile, no?" (remember that he did'nt off Kuro, he had no reason to spare him aside that he don't like to kill other's PC). And then more or less push DM to use her as her PC since she is obviousely happy with this character.
And it explain why Zoro was the one guy to remain warry of Robin when she joined, COry don't like GMPC and is warry of DM in general.
Also, a character who can grapple in a distance, on severals oponents at a time, whose threatened square are everywhere... what kind of Munchkin would come up with this?

I think Rika will be playing Chopper as her second character. first taking a zoan user, and being able to have 7 transformation instead of 3 would need someone who know the rule really really well, and Rika know the books words for words. Secondly, Rika tend to play nice and kind characters, chopper is one of the nicest guy around.

We also legit have someone named Robin. And Dan and Robin are temp characters in the story, so they are likely gonna have to switch eventually.

I'm still a steadfast believer she'll end up being chopper but who knows at this point

The moment my Patreon hits 10 bucks... you know what the moment it makes money period, I will start funneling money to you.

The "huh...what would Usopp say?" is a nice touch. It reminds us that Phil is still new to this, but is really trying his best.

they all did good in this page. and i like how phil is really trying to play well despite not being really experienced at RPing.
and Luke is crazy, sure we knew it for a while at this point, bu really he is crazy.

When someone stand on the furniture, you know he mean buisness.

You implies that you or people you knows does it and i find it particularly funny.