The Story

The world has moved on, the apocalypse or whatever happened already happened, this is the aftermath. In a world where Dragons used to coexist side by side with magic, gunpowder, and cowboy boots, human flesh have become a treasure. There are less humans than there were before, less everything after the massive storm that changed the world. Everything is scarce, from resources to morale, to human dignity.

Our story picks up in the town of Thrivenshell, the least damaged human settlement in the entire Krankton region. In this town an assortment of characters are leading their lives, either surviving together or living off each other. The town is pretty big, with a population of at least a thousand, it used to be triple that amount. The town has it all, from weapons, runes and commodities shops to bars, schools and a couple farms.

After exhausting most of the resources in town, the town Mayor, Baron Garef, has decided to send parties to go out and scavenge the deserted world for materials, resources and new survivors to integrate into their community. The outside world has a lot of interesting adversaries, from extreme weather conditions, to mutated creatures, aggressive monsters, savage bandits and rumors of the dead trudging the land of the living again. It is up to the parties that the baron chooses to maintain the well-being and unity of Thrivenshell.

Characters

Each member can have a maximum of two characters, which will have a variety of roles in this RP:

Scavenger - Those that are sent to search for resources
Baron's Messenger - Those that are sent to look for possible new people
Someone living in the town -
Baron's Elite - Those that guard the town and constantly go out to kill threats that may endanger the town
Independent - Not a resident of the town

Please express interest and don't shy to ask questions or drop suggestions.

Interesting idea! What's the current tech level? How does magic work, and is it easy to pick up? Are dragons still around? Do we know of any other settlements? Are there any other races (i.e. elves, dwarves, insert generic fantasy race here)?

Would just like some more lore on this, haha

@TheWinchester4

Think of this as more of a low-fantasy western post-apocalypse, there is no technology at all. There is no electricity, or even heavy steam-engine usage, this is a gritty low-fantasy western. Magic here is rare, and it is not very magical in the high fantasy sense, and it is frowned upon in most communities. I believe in this world an average person wouldn't have knowledge or access to much magic, someone has to have been through training in order to gain magic control and usage.

There are a couple dragons still kicking, but they are hard to find and they are quite dangerous. They can speak the human tongue and they are quite intelligent. Most of them took a hiding in the highest mountains, away from the harsh conditions of the world.

There are numerous settlements out there, but they are either less developed as communities (ie. bandit camps, survivors hiding out..etc) but nothing as big as Thrivenshell town. The world is completely devastated, like in the OP, everything is scarce including humans themselves.

As for races we will stick to just humans for now, other races like goblins and orcs exist, but they have never made contact with humans as much, they have their own hidden communities.

Color me quite interested in this one!

@Malikoy

Awesome, thanks for the info. Few more questions:

1) What are the weapons like? Do most people have guns, or melee weapons? If guns, are they normal old pistols and revolvers? Or can you have some crazy crap, like a buckshot revolver, or a rifle that shoots explosive ammo, things like that.

2) Are most weapons scavenged, or made? Does anyone still have the knowledge to create guns?

3) Are mounts common? If so, are they horses, or some other creature in this universe?

@TheWinchester4

1,2) I would say nothing too extreme, there is enough weapons laying around, but ammo got to be scavenged and it is very much treasured. And perhaps a weapon maker or two survived the apocalyptic event. And I am very open to creative takes on traditional weapons, but remember this is a gritty western, so nothing too cheesy or fabulous.

3) Yeah there are a lot of horses around, and maybe some mountable creatures, but horses remain to be the most reliable and known mount so far.

One of my favorite genres and I've been waiting for an RP like this to come along.

Count me in.

@MalikoyCool, thanks for answering all of my questions. I'm very interested in this!

Looks interesting, I'll keep my eyes on this

Hey, so any word on if you're going to go ahead with this idea?

@TheWinchester4@oakman@Sabotage@Pundii

Alright I think we have a good amount of folks to kick-start this RP! I will start working on the OOC shortly, until then try to think of your character and their backstory (in a rough sketchy manner)!

Any room for possibly one more? Looks very interesting.

@AtlasRedfox

Absolutely! More than welcome!

@TheWinchester4@oakman@Sabotage@Pundii@AtlasRedfox

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/91516-thrivenshell-and-the-baron-western-survival-fantasy/ooc

It is up folks!