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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 3, 2016 14:42:19 GMT
STEAMWORKS
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
The year is 1924, the Great War has to led America paving the way industrially, harnessing the power of steam for guns, cars, and other technology. Seemingly everyone has a revolver at their side now. In the cold month of December and the city of Chicago is a denizen for crime, corruption, and much more. President Coolidge has been assassinated not even a month into his presidency, leaving Vice President Dawes to step up to the mantel. All the meanwhile prohibition has backfired, the liqueur has become cheaper and criminals will abuse the system for everything it’s worth to obtain and sell alcohol, whatever the cost. The police, the citizens, the criminals, all of them are caught in this catastrophe of corruption and greed, some people try to uphold the law, others work on benefiting themselves, and some want to wreak havoc. But what do you want to do?
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Steamworks is a steampunk RP where players can choose to be on the side of the gunslingers, civilians, and lawbreakers. Though each side has no defined morality, it will be easy to determine what kind of person fits where. In the year of 1924, crime is at an all time high and it’s up to the people to either fight back or let crime rampage through the city streets. In this world the Great War ended in 1923, being prolonged and obviously having a damaging effect on most of the countries involved. Technology has since boomed with the use of steam to help power the cities, and this (as well as the general culture of war) has had a big impact on the weaponry that has since been used, leading to heavy use of revolvers, rifles, and more.
Gunslingers: Usually police officers or private detectives, gunslingers are noble citizens who have dedicated their lives to upholding the law, or at the very least fighting those who oppose it. They usually have good intentions but can achieve what they want through different ways and for different reasons.
Civilians: Civilians come in all shades, from the influential journalist to the petty office worker, civilians can be good hearted or cruel, one of the more ambiguous strokes of folk in life, civilians can be good or bad depending on how you see it and are usually out to benefit themselves first and foremost. This doesn’t mean they still can’t hold a great deal of influence and aid to either gunslingers or lawbreakers, but they can still only help themselves even if they sling guns themselves or break the law every now and then.
Lawbreakers: The name says it all - set for the worst of the worst, lawbreakers are people who are willing to bend the laws of the country to get whatever they want, whether for themselves, for some type of archaic honour for their gang, or sometimes for somewhat nobler causes such as gaining financial security for their families and friends. Lawbreakers directly oppose Gunslingers and are criminals, crooks, mobsters, and more.
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Name: Gender: Age: Creed (Gunslinger, Civilian, Lawbreaker): Occupation: Personality: Appearance: Backstory: Other:
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Post by Jaminx on Nov 3, 2016 20:15:46 GMT
Name: Jacqueline Saxon aka Jax
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Creed: Gunslinger
Occupation: Private Detective
Personality: Jax is a high strung individual with a quick tongue and habit for landing herself in the middle of fights. She likes to act first and think things through later and prefers to work with others but only if she finds them remotely competent against her own special standards.
Appearance: Tall and skinny with high cheekbones and a sharp nose, and icy grey eyes she is often taken as a cold person on first glance. Her wavy brown hair is shoulder length and usually obscured by a red bowler hat, that matches her waistcoat, and matches nicely with her grey pinstripe suit and carefully polished shoes. She also carries a gun belt with an older model revolver that takes two hands to fire. In her two waist coat pockets she has an ornate fob watch and the other a set of vicious brass knuckles with the same design as the watch. Many take her as male until she speaks, her voice a deep but unmistakably female growl.
Backstory: Jacqueline watched as her Dad and three older brother's went off to the war and never came back, the Spanish flu took her mother and one of her two sisters leaving Jacqueline as a spare wheel spinster at her sister's house. It was too much pity for her so she started out for somewhere new with the pittance of items she could claim her own in the world She had done a bit of work helping out her father in younger days before the war helping bring in people who had skipped bail as a bounty hunter. He had taught her how to shoot and how to out think criminals skills. She took this to heart as she ditched the uncomfortable skirts of her sister's home and took on the Private Detective persona of Jax. These days she spends most of her time dragging in those bounties once again, this time with less back up and more of a need to cover her rent.
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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 3, 2016 21:37:42 GMT
Accepted, can't wait!
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Post by Mikeyphenplays on Nov 6, 2016 0:25:32 GMT
Name: Betsi Belagosa
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Creed: Lawbreaker
Occupation: Bank robber, Train robber, Bandit etc
Personality: Betsi has a high wire attitude and willing to find the fun in anything, mainly in making things blow up. She has a sinister and cunning mind all ways with a plan and a backup plan in case things go wrong
Appearance: Betsi is has a fairly tanned skin tone being of part English and Mexican descent, dark long hair with a single white streak going down the right side with the other half short like it had been burned off, she wears a small hat with a large feather of a Vulture and a few smaller feathers from other birds, she wears a short light brown over coat that has a monocle with a black glass lence in it attachet to the pocket and the sleeves rolled up, black fingerless gloves with knuckle holes as well, and a pair of overalls with the legs rolled up and a grey shirt underneath, and wearing a single shin high boot with quite a few buckles on it on her left leg and the other leg is a steampunk peg leg that start half way down her thigh, she also has a bag on her that holds various tools such as spanners and screws to touch up her leg and maybe use them to open safe and such, she does have a revolver on her but she modded it so it has four shots instead of six
Backstory: Betsi past is a dark one as she was born out of unfortunate circumstances, you see her mother was a Mexican refugee living on the edge of the border when a bunch of unnamed bandits ransacked the village and slaughter most of them just for the fun of it, with what was left of the serviors the lead had his way with the women of the village and impregnated them with his vial seed, once her mother knew she was pregnant with child of this bandit she ran to the nearest town to start a new life. A few years after Betsi was born her mother heard news of her old village where the bandits and returned and slaughter the villagers who where his children and the mother and fathers of them, without a moment’s notice she told Betsi who her father was and moved again to keep her safe, once she was of age she left her mother to defend for herself she assumed that the bandit would be too old to returned for them, she left for the great war and trained as a demolition expert to help out in the war efforts, time passed and towards the end of the war she began to receive messages from her mother they started off normal with her send her love and support but by the time she got to the third letter it was very short and ended with "he's found out where I am, I hope my next message you receive is in high hope", she didn’t hear back from her for a while until one day she received a strange letter that had blood on it and was folded up, she started to open the paper and another note dropped from its opening it up it read that her mother found her father and that he was in the sheriff’s office behind bars, Betsi let out a sigh of relief she opened up the other paper that was covering the letter, her eyes widened and she threw it to the floor it was a wanted poster of her father with the words "Found you" written in blood the next few missions she went on she was nervous and unfocused as she knew the man who was her father was out for blood, the first mission after this message went over well until the next mission her father and his men were waiting for her, they killed her partners and strapped her to a table her father didn’t want to kill her fast as it was no fun she wanted to give her a message to send to her half brothers and sisters he whispered "You will never be badder than me" into her ear and pulled a large knife off the wall and chopped off her leg, she screamed in pain and moments later a few army men ran in and shot the bandits dead, as they came and carried out the her father coughed up some blood and said "remember you'll never be as bad as me....", once she was in the infirmary she began to hate her father’s words as ran through her head she wanted to prove him wrong and once she got out she would be the badest of the bad Other: her leg has the ability to propel her high but only up to a height of a train cart and push people away
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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 7, 2016 8:46:16 GMT
Accepted!
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Post by Adam on Nov 13, 2016 19:35:39 GMT
Name: Richard "Dick" Cunningham Age: 32 Creed: Gunslinger Occupation: Speakeasy owner and gangster
Personality: Dick is a morally questionable individual. While not evil, Dick walks a twisted path of exploiting the poor out of what he perceives to be necessity. The traumatic event in his past is a terrible secret known only for sure by him and his regiment, as all of the jurors and judges that had once tried them are now deceased. This is still percieved as a rumour of unknown origin. in the community but not at all for certain.
Dick is a very reserved man, often keeping his emotions close to his chest, but is highly charismatic and comes across as warm and personable.
Appearance: Dick is 5 foot 9 with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He has a thin, dark goatee and tanned skin. Often dressing in grey and brown suits, Dick wears a signature pink tie and braces to finish his outfit.
Backstory: Dick Cunningham was 22 years old when he went off to fight in the war. After being driven underground for many days due to a German bombing, Dick's regiment were driven to the edge, suffering from great shellshock and on the brink of starvation. Because of these conditions they were forced to do the unthinkable and cannibalise the fattest of the group, physically overpowering him and killing him. Though the rest of the group survived they were quickly found by another superior unit and tried for the atrocity they had committed, all dishonourably discharged.
Returning home in 1920, Dick and his unit were unable to find honest work, their discharge a permanent stain on their employability. And with the country in disrepair they were forced to turn to less honest means. Quickly Dick and his partners began running a service to protect the people of Chicago from other dangers, using their skill as soldiers, and demanding money with increasing amounts of violence in order to get by. While no-one found this ideal, he quickly build up a great deal of respect among the locals of his streets as they found him and his men to be the only ones able to protect them from worse criminals and government persecution.
Dick Cunningham soon became established as a crimehead in Chicago, running and maintaing a speakeasy to profit off of the failing prohibition as well as to provide a hub for his crimes and a home for his comrades.
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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 13, 2016 22:06:01 GMT
Accepted!
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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 14, 2016 22:14:29 GMT
By the way just to mention, I'm going to start the RP on the 16th November
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Post by iCaramelBird on Nov 16, 2016 21:02:04 GMT
Name: John Norton
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Creed (Gunslinger, Civilian, Lawbreaker): Civilian
Occupation: Journalist
Personality: John is an extrovert, someone who is quite excitable and passionate about his job. He always wants to strive to do better at his job, being ambitious and work-driven. At the same time when it comes to people, he's someone who (due to his background) is someone who can be trusting, having lost people in the Great War, he hides his loneliness, trying his best to block out memories of what happened. As a result he loses himself in his work, being active and exploring Chicago to report on the stories from the growing crime empire.
Appearance: John is a tall man with a lean frame, with black messy hair that is quite short, he's usually wearing glasses that fit tightly around his somewhat thin face. He's usually seen with stubble, mostly out of neglect for taking care of himself and focusing on his work. For clothing, he can be seen wearing a white dress shirt, and formal pants with brown shoes. But at times a beige coat is usually wrapped around him, adorning his lean frame.
Backstory: John was once an idealist, wanting to save the money and move to Washington in order to become a press journalist at the White House, he studied politics and soon after went to college, saving all the money he could in order to study Journalism. However the moment he managed to get his degree was the moment that the Great War started, and unlike many predictions it didn't take America until 1917 or 1918 in order to join the forces of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, France, Serbia, Italy and Japan. With it, America seemed to bring Canada and Jamaica into the fray, soon after John decided to join and serve his country. A part of him felt guilty for wanting to join in order to seek some kind of political capital, but he truly believed the propaganda and tales of soldiers, as to how easy the war effort would be and how the war would end in 1918. Germany turning its rear head to showcase the technology it had harnessed in its own Industrial Revolution that coincided with Britain shortly after they had started their own, had left John doubting much about the war effort.
1918 passed two years after John joined and with it conscription was now a large part of the war effort in the Americas, John had lost friends beforehand but now friends and family that had been reluctant to support the war effort and criticised it - including John's own father, had now been forced into the fighting and died during the later years of the war. John, alone, and now congratulated for his effort in the war, knew that he was not the same man that entered. He was far less interested in going to Washington for now, instead focusing on journalism that could unearth corruption, and though a part of him still had the same passion for politics, he knew that he wasn't going to head into it anytime soon. John now finds himself writing for The Chicago Tribune, the most popular paper in Chicago. John hasn't exactly made a name for himself, though reporting on political events such as the death of Calvin Coolidge has certainly started to help.
With Prohibition now running amok, John has left behind his grieving mother in Wisconsin instead deciding that he wasn't going to come back home and focus on simply paving his career in journalism, which of course he realises may only be more difficult than he originally thought.
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