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Steam and Steel Discussion Thread, Westward, Ho! |
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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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| Colonel Mustard |
Nov 17 2013, 05:45 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 @ Nov 17 2013, 04:37 PM)  QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Nov 17 2013, 10:35 AM)  Can't argue with that. Though the crazed, shotgun wielding priest sounds like he could be fun. And as for why he's following them around, two words: Shepherd Book.
I love you. Seconded. And I've decided that he's replaced the Ten Commandments with his own personal One Commandment: Thou shalt kick ass.
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 17 2013, 05:49 PM
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Councilor

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

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QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Nov 17 2013, 04:45 PM)  QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Nov 17 2013, 04:37 PM)  QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Nov 17 2013, 10:35 AM)  Can't argue with that. Though the crazed, shotgun wielding priest sounds like he could be fun. And as for why he's following them around, two words: Shepherd Book.
I love you. Seconded. And I've decided that he's replaced the Ten Commandments with his own personal One Commandment: Thou shalt kick ass. Shiny  *Wanders off whistling Firefly theme* This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Nov 17 2013, 05:56 PM
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 19 2013, 09:21 AM
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Councilor

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

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QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Nov 19 2013, 12:56 AM)  Let's get super carried away in his absence.  I thought that was a joke, and then I caught up with the thread QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Nov 19 2013, 01:04 AM)  MY COMPUTER IS CHARGING!!!!
Congrats!
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| Colonel Mustard |
Nov 19 2013, 11:28 PM
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Master

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

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Alright, new CS is here. Give me a bit to introduce him into the playground thread.
Name: Zachary Trimble
Age: 57
Appearance: Dishevelled and skinny, with greying hair that seems to be consistent only in its erraticness. No beard, but grey stubble seems omnipresent. He wears a black cassock; please don't ask him about the things on it that look like bloodstains.
Occupation: Priest
Skills: Hurting people, breaking things, reading and quoting the Bible, shooting, being very loud.
Worldly possessions: His cassock, a Bible, his trusty double-barrelled shotgun 'Mercy' (typically loaded with phosphor shells), a veritable cartload of crazy, his unflappable mule, named Mark.
Biography: Growing up a quiet, unassuming and ultimately very pious young man, Zachary was the middle child of a dozen boisterous siblings who went on to study theology and become ordained as a man of the cloth. While on his way to his first parish, the stagecoach he was on was held up. The bandit in question, a mean killer by the name of Six-Round Jessie, expected the worst to happen on the robbery was for some idiot of a passenger to try and be a hero.
What he had not expected was for Zachary to beat him to death with a Bible.
Something about that incident made something snap in Zachary's head. While he was a diligent, patient, learned and wise priest with the people of the town he ministered, he was a force of nature against anyone who he perceived to threaten his flock. After one absolutely terrifying incident too many, the townspeople scraped together their courage and wrote a letter to Zarachy's superiors that essentially asked 'Can we have a less scary priest, please?' The good people of the town got a far less frightening priest, but Zachary was a loose end, and after some debate it was decided that he would best serve the Christians of the frontier as a travelling preacher.
Most priests view themselves as shepherds of their flocks with the duty of guiding their congregation into the light of the Lord. Zachary, too, views most priests as having that role, but he knows that the herd is beset by wolves, and someone has to stand guard. Lord have mercy upon the wolves out there, for Zachary shall not.
This post has been edited by Colonel Mustard: Nov 19 2013, 11:29 PM
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 19 2013, 11:33 PM
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Councilor

Joined: 29-September 13
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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Nov 19 2013, 10:32 PM)  If you kill off this character, I will slap you.
And I will shoot you. Ermm. Again.
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