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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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| Rohirrim |
Nov 20 2013, 01:26 AM
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Mouth

Joined: 18-January 13
From: Greyhawk

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QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Nov 19 2013, 05:51 PM)  I just noticed something:
Both Percival and Jonah seem to have forgotten about Betty.
Oops
I sort of broke off the conversation with her because Percival got though-nnoyed at Jonah. Also: Mustard, this man is a man I love. Keep him always. 
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 20 2013, 10:49 AM
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Councilor

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

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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Nov 20 2013, 12:55 AM)  There seems to be confusion. Both Percival and Jonah have left, but Mustard's character is talking to all three of them as if they're in one spot. Who's gonna fix it?
??? QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Nov 19 2013, 11:06 PM)  Assume she's following until I say otherwise.
Are you now saying that she isn't following?
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 24 2013, 09:50 PM
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Councilor

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

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QUOTE(Rohirrim @ Nov 24 2013, 05:52 PM)  My turn?
I'd post, but Percival's a little out of his depth at present, so he's just following Jonah's lead. So anything I posted wouldn't really add anything.
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| mirocu |
Nov 25 2013, 11:00 AM
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Ancient

Joined: 8-February 13
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QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Nov 17 2013, 03:16 PM)  I'll admit that I'm getting a little bit bored of playing Lucius, who isn't really as entertaining as I thought he would be, so if we do have bandits raid the place (I think that idea's the best) I might kill him off then and maybe introduce a new character; I'm thinking a slightly crazed, shotgun wielding priest
Hey! Can´t steal the Call of Juarez idea just like that!  Oh, wait. He was more than just slightly crazed 
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| Colonel Mustard |
Nov 25 2013, 11:05 AM
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Master

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

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QUOTE(mirocu @ Nov 25 2013, 10:00 AM)  QUOTE(Colonel Mustard @ Nov 17 2013, 03:16 PM)  I'll admit that I'm getting a little bit bored of playing Lucius, who isn't really as entertaining as I thought he would be, so if we do have bandits raid the place (I think that idea's the best) I might kill him off then and maybe introduce a new character; I'm thinking a slightly crazed, shotgun wielding priest
Hey! Can´t steal the Call of Juarez idea just like that!  Oh, wait. He was more than just slightly crazed  Half Life 2 did before Call of Juarez. Just sayin'
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| Callidus Thorn |
Nov 25 2013, 02:30 PM
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Councilor

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

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QUOTE(mirocu @ Nov 25 2013, 10:06 AM)  So, how´s this RP thing going for you guys? I´ve read a few posts but not that much.
At the moment I'm thinking of it as being in a car on a very long journey. We're taking it in turns to drive, but only one of us knows where we're going, so if he nods off we'be got to wait for him to wake up. Good fun though.
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