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| Rohirrim |
Oct 14 2013, 10:47 PM
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Mouth

Joined: 18-January 13
From: Greyhawk

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This is a new Steampunk Western RP that the Colonel and I are planning, and we're looking for contributors. It won't be freely drop in/drop out, but if you want, we can work something out at a point in the adventure. The year is 1859. The story starts in the town of Dodge, Kansas. The characters are in a saloon in the slaughterhouse district.
-Horses are for middle and lower class people. The military, law enforcement, and upper classes all use steam-powered horse automatons, or "burners". These are classified by their metal plating:
Iron: Draft horse Steel: Cavalry, heavy Brass: Cavalry, light Copper: Civilian, fast and weak Bronze: Civilian, slow and tough Tin: Pony
-Railroads have been established throughout all the major towns. They also run on steam, as do the zeppelins that service large cites.
-Where there is no steam, there is clockwork. Used since the beginning of the century, clockwork powers smaller machines and cut-rate automatons.
-In the early stages of development are some gigantic war machines; walkers, battle carriages, Darwinist mutants, the like. The American state governments are all buying them as tensions between the North and South grow hotter.
-Charles Darwin and Nikola Tesla are both regarded as great scientific individuals, responsible for mush of the world's rapid growth. (Ignore the timeline issues.)
-Firearms are still somewhat the same as in this period in history, with sniper rifles, hi-powered steam and clockwork guns, and rockets, as well as combat automatons, being some differences.
*Mustard's Stuff* -Due to Darwin's recent theories and progress in mutation, white Southerners have adopted the idea that Anglo-Saxon Americans are God's chosen race, who are superior to all others through natural selection on account of the fact that they've conquered most of the known world.
-Secondly, in order to make them more efficient at working, black slaves are genetically manipulated and mutated. Generally, there could be a huge social stigma against mutating people (if they're not genetically superior white Anglo-Saxon people, at least) but seeing as black people are seen as subhuman there's not a problem for them there.
-Anyway, this leads me into my next point; people are sometimes mutated using genetic manipulation for various reasons, and these mutants face the same level of prejudice and bigotry that black people would have faced at the time, even if they're white, on account of being 'genetically corrupt'. As a result, having 'indentured mutants' is a thing where they're kept as slaves in all but name; one of the things Lincoln can be pushing for, and one of the things that eventually sparks a civil war, is giving mutants the same legal standing as non-mutants. I'll admit that the idea is shamelessly cribbed from the Remade in China Mieville's Bas-Lag novels, but it could be interesting.
- Minor occult element in their as well; occultism was a big thing in the West around that time, with people convinced stuff like telepathy, telekinesis and communicating with the dead could work, and could work in a scientific manner as well. It could be interesting to have something like telepaths and telekines (perhaps limited ones) and mediums be included in the world. The pioneer of telepathic practice was and is Sigmund Freud.
-Since Darwin, Tesla, and Freud have contributed so much to this society, they have almost Demi-God status and some people actually worship them, with neither their encouragement nor approval.
Happy trails, pardners.
This post has been edited by Rohirrim: Oct 17 2013, 11:17 PM
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| Callidus Thorn |
Oct 30 2013, 10:53 PM
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Councilor

Joined: 29-September 13
From: Midgard, Cyrodiil, one or two others.

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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Oct 30 2013, 08:37 PM)  Is that a good or bad thing?
At this point I'm still on alarming, and trying to coax my eyebrows out of my hair. QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 30 2013, 09:18 PM)  C'mon in, Thorny Boy...and I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...  You do realize that that could be taken in context with Liz's above post regarding prices in an even more eyebrow raising way right? Anyway, moving on, or away just in case. The thread does sound interesting. Might see if I can think up something that might fit. This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Oct 30 2013, 10:53 PM
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| Callidus Thorn |
Oct 31 2013, 12:30 AM
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Councilor

Joined: 29-September 13
From: Midgard, Cyrodiil, one or two others.

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Yeah, I've always had a soft spot for bounty hunters. I'm thinking pale and wiry, mid 40's, weatherbeaten and scarred. Revolver slung low on his hip, large calibre clockwork rifle on his back, brown leather storm coat and boots. Cold, callous, and professional, with steel blue eyes that dart around the room, as if constantly searching for a face to match to a poster.
It needs fleshing out, but you get the idea.
Unless Rohirrim objects of course.
This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Oct 31 2013, 12:30 AM
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| Callidus Thorn |
Oct 31 2013, 01:11 AM
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Councilor

Joined: 29-September 13
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Well I suppose I'd better see what I can come up with then.
Edit: Well, here goes nothing:
Gregor Jones
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Bounty Hunter
Average height, broad shouldered, pale and wiry. Weatherbeaten face, with a scar on the left hand side running from the jawline to the temple, pulling his mouth into a slight sneer. His eyes are the pale, cold blue of steel, always in motion. His clothes are hard wearing, and show it. A brown leather storm coat and boots, faded denim trousers, and a once white shirt. At his left hip is a quick-draw holster containing a revolver, slung so low on his hip it's secured to his thigh with a second strap. Across his back, the stock rising well above his right shoulder, is a high calibre clockwork rifle, showing signs of both heavy use and meticulous care. Beneath his battered stetson hat, also brown, he keeps his dark brown hair cut short, less than half an inch of it, with the first hints of grey showing at the temples.
History: No friends, no family. He's always been a loner, and hasn't set foot in the town he was born in decades. He changed his name when he left, and speaks of his past to no-one, leaving his background a mystery known only to him. If asked he'll claim to have been a bounty hunter for the last 25 years, and has the scars to prove it.
Personality: Cold, detached, professional. The consummate loner, the closest thing he has to a friend or companion is his horse, whom he talks while riding. Even in this he's somewhat detached, calling it "horse" rather than giving it a name. The only things that he shows any affection to are his weapons, of which he has plenty, mostly concealed. All of them he has given names, and he cares for them with a passion bordering on obsession. Stubborn as a mule, and refuses to give in/die.
Skills: Expert marksman, quick-draw specialist, knife fighting, horse riding, maintains own weapons.
Possessions: Beyond those mentioned above, a knife concealed in his left sleeve via a simple spring mechanism, a second in his right boot, and a length of thick chain in his right pocket, sharpened to an edge on one side. Also carries a second revolver, of a smaller calibre, in an underarm holster. And ammunition for his guns of course. Has a horse.
So what do you guys think?
This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Oct 31 2013, 12:30 PM
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| Rohirrim |
Oct 31 2013, 07:31 PM
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Mouth

Joined: 18-January 13
From: Greyhawk

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QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 02:17 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:10 PM)  I've been toying with this: Build the Capricorn after a bit, and have it act as a sort of hub/mobile home/excuse to go to cool places. What think?
Sounds like a cool idea to me, though I warn you in advance that I will probably start insisting on calling it the Normandicorn, because I'm like that. What? 
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| Colonel Mustard |
Oct 31 2013, 07:32 PM
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Master

Joined: 3-July 08
From: The darkest pit of your soul. Hi there!

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QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:31 PM)  QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 02:17 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:10 PM)  I've been toying with this: Build the Capricorn after a bit, and have it act as a sort of hub/mobile home/excuse to go to cool places. What think?
Sounds like a cool idea to me, though I warn you in advance that I will probably start insisting on calling it the Normandicorn, because I'm like that. What?  Just go with 'because Mustard is like that' and leave it there. It's easier all round.
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| Elisabeth Hollow |
Oct 31 2013, 08:47 PM
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Ancient

Joined: 15-November 12
From: Texas

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QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 01:32 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:31 PM)  QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 02:17 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:10 PM)  I've been toying with this: Build the Capricorn after a bit, and have it act as a sort of hub/mobile home/excuse to go to cool places. What think?
Sounds like a cool idea to me, though I warn you in advance that I will probably start insisting on calling it the Normandicorn, because I'm like that. What?  Just go with 'because Mustard is like that' and leave it there. It's easier all round. Roger that, Shepherd.
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| Colonel Mustard |
Oct 31 2013, 08:50 PM
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Master

Joined: 3-July 08
From: The darkest pit of your soul. Hi there!

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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Oct 31 2013, 07:47 PM)  QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 01:32 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:31 PM)  QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Oct 31 2013, 02:17 PM)  QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Oct 31 2013, 06:10 PM)  I've been toying with this: Build the Capricorn after a bit, and have it act as a sort of hub/mobile home/excuse to go to cool places. What think?
Sounds like a cool idea to me, though I warn you in advance that I will probably start insisting on calling it the Normandicorn, because I'm like that. What?  Just go with 'because Mustard is like that' and leave it there. It's easier all round. Roger that, Shepherd. Psst, it's ShepardThough it now does make me want to write a ME fanfic with a protagonist with the surname of 'Shepherd' and just have a running gag of "No, 'H-E-R-D' Shepherd."
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| Colonel Mustard |
Nov 1 2013, 12:34 PM
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Master

Joined: 3-July 08
From: The darkest pit of your soul. Hi there!

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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Oct 31 2013, 08:06 PM)  No, remember they call Shephard "the shepherd" at the cutscene at the end of three?
I prefer to ignore that cutscene. Also, Callidus, I just saw your character post! Gregor looks cool, bring him in.
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