[OOC] Lands Behind The Mists - A Fantasy Steam-punk Word Building Adventure

[User]

*A radio sparks into life*
A faint voice is heard from the small radio box Hello? Can anyone hear me? I don't doubt that many of you cant but I will tell you anyway there are sounds of trash and junk being moved around a table and the voice come back less louder a if its further away You all still there? I do hope so! So, I hope for some help from whoever picks up this call can wield a sword... or do anything else that doesn't include sitting down signing papers. Laughter is heard calming down to a 'whoo' That's my job you see. So any way I should get onto why I am asking for help or even wasting time on this radio, I need help. We all need help. As I am sure many of you know we live in dire times, the western wastes are showing their teeth and animals that, lets be honest, no guard has ever learnt to fight. The HOLDS have stopped outreaching to the small towns and settlements and as I am sure you all know they had to adapt, they had to survive. Many of the small settlements that I once knew and now gone, all that remains are craters and ruins of what once was. But I digress again, I want and need to know what is beyond the walls and mist we all call home, the darkness is coming and I want to help stop it, but I need help. Come and find me at Steam-port, look for the Icarus, its the huge Nebular Class Battleship. Painted with the colours of the fourteenth skylark regiment. SO anyway find me at the ship and we will talk.

So basic it is a fantasy steam-punk world, magic is possible but the more powerful it is the more it drains your life force and stamina and the evil is like that fallout stuff where it has mutated the animals. We will start at Steam-port and end when I feel that we have reached a good point. SO! Lets begin.

Rules:
1. NO Godmoding, I mean it! I dont want any OP Chars.
2. Listen to me or my co GM's, I hope for us to all have good ideas and I know who I choose will have such ideas.
3. If you have Ideas, tell me them! Be that for a new race or creature or a new area, I wanna know.
4. Post the name of the ship we will be flying and the port to get accepted
5. Have some basic grammar and spelling.
6. Have fun, thats a great rule.
7. More later

CS
Name:(Obvious)
Race:(Anything that isn't normal (Like human or elve) explain it to me, also be more specific like say "Nord" as is in skyrim as they are human yet a different race of human)
Age:(16 - 60+)
Skills:(Explanation and nothing that will tip everything to far your way)
Magic:(NOTHING OVERPOWERED)
Equipment:(Armour, Supplies, Weapons)
Short Bio:(So I know you can write enough. Please have it more than a few sentences)
Other:

Post your CS in the OOC for accepting

[User]

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[Demon Grave]

Name:Stephen Draven
Race: Dravi (Looks almost completely human except for horns on the top of their heads, a few patches of scales on the backs of their hands, feet and various parts of their bodies, and finally narrow slitted pupils.)
Age:25
Skills:Knife fighting, Parkour, pistol marksmanship, and airship boarding
Magic: Can stick to solid surfaces
Equipment: Dual Steam knives (uses steam to create distractions, steam clouds for escapes, or even used to make the knives faster), Grappling Pistol, Double Barreled Pistol (fires solid ball bearings, mostly used for medium ranged combat, can be modified easily if necessary), and Small Steam generator (generates the steam used for the knives, which are connected via small flexible tubes, steam can be expended via a valve if necessary for a short burst for aerial maneuvering)
Wears Red tinted goggles, a leather vest, equipment belt with a few assorted tools, knee high boots covering most of his leather pants, and tight black leather gloves.
Short Bio: Stephen has grown in the deserted, cramped, dirty alleyways of many of the different cities around the world. Having not known his family in traditional sense he had been raised inside of gangs. Knowing only thieving and robbing to survive he learned to be quick in both the act and the escape. It took being caught only once to know to do at all possible to make sure it doesn't happen again. As he grew older, and faster he would lead his own gang which he decided to take to the skies, and do more than petty thievery. He wanted to get his hands on an airship of his own, to rule the skies and earn his fortune by pillaging the clouds, to be a sky pirate. Not only for the money, but for the freedom, to lift himself higher than the rotting refuse of the city alleys and breath in the pure air not yet touched by the corruption of the destitute and the bile of society. So he now finds himself crouched in yet another dirty alleyway, listening to a radio, listening to the man speaking on the other end, and a broad grin spreads upon his face as he dreams of the future this can lead.

[User]

@Demon Grave How do the steam knives work, also expand on what the double barled pistoles do. As a final thing explain what the steam genorator would be used for? Aside from that good. But your missing two things in your app, fix these and you will be grand

[OfficerHeadbutt]

I have an interest in this. My problem is I'm not sure I know enough about steampunk. I mean, I get the basic ideas behind it, but I should probably do a little research on it.

[User]

@OfficerHeadbutt No need, my freind demon has just joined and said he diddnt know. All you need to know is the outlines of it as most of the stuff we will be doing is investigating new worlds and lands. Doing quests and adventuring, no need to know everything about it, I for one know a decent ammount but am no pro.

[User]

@Demon Grave Accepter, post your app into the char section please

[OfficerHeadbutt]

I want my character to be a sort of engineer/tinkerer style thing, perhaps with some magic imbued into his creations. The idea I have currently is that he has a pet in the form of a mechanical spider, which can deploy a small turret from its back. Would that be acceptable?

[User]

@OfficerHeadbutt Any creations are going to have to be engineered, maybe they have a mind of there own or a subconsious but I will have to say no magic aside from that, if you want them to have that power of say magic then it will drain your staminer to keep them active as magic is tied to the caster, if its powerful it sucks your staminer and life force faster but the longer you hold the weak magic the more life force it sucks, same with powerful. So yes you can have a spider with a turret but the ship wont be that big so couldnt fit very well if its big.

[OfficerHeadbutt]

My thought is the spider comes up to about knee height and is about 2 feet in diameter. I wanted it to have a mind of it's own and function as a pet aswell as a piece of equipment, and one of the other thoughts I've had is that a lot of the time it would stay on my character's back with it's front legs over his shoulders and it's 3 sets of back legs going under his arms and wrapping around his torso. Anyway, I'm working on a character sheet now.

[User]

Name: Lt Charles "Hatter" Richardson
Race: Pale Human (A normal human but has small wings on the back, seen as a smarter version of humans. Sheet white skin and red eyes. Like those white rats people have as pets)
Age: 38
Skills: A great sense of humor, a abilty to turn a crew to help him, Grand piolting skills, Diplomacy, A calm head, Fighting like a gent
Magic: He can slow time as to see it all, mainly only used when piloting a ship or in battle
Equipment: Sky iron plate mail (Like a kevlar vest, protects the front and back with plate and the sides with chain, its a vest though), Sky Iron leg plates, Copper monocle with adjustable sight (Only up to 2x zoom), Black Top hat, Red officers coat with a gold trim (Look a a redcoats coat and think more fancy) White riding trousers with Black knee high boots, Light brown sweeping hair, Deep brown eyes, Thin looking trim, White silk scarf around his neck with weathered storm goggles around his neck. Brown leather driving gloves, he carries on his back a large musket with the letters "SL LT C 'Hatter' Richardson Diamond Musket Company" it shows signs of lots wear and its wood has lost all signs of varnish (The musket is more of a repeaters, fires either normal rounds in a clip of 12 or explosive rounds in a clip of 5. Very rare gun), He has two basic looking muskets with the same lettering on the side (Fires ball bareings) and Straped on his leg is a sword painted in streaks of gold and blue.
Short Bio: LT Richardson has had a fine life, born to a high society family he lived in the last years of darkness. As a child he was obsessed with the world, seeing all the prototype ships flying past. He knew he had to join, luckerly for him he was a teenager during the turn of the century, a the time there was a huge call for adventurers to discover the lands beyond the horizon. He decided to see the world with a crew so joined the 23rd skylarks, a rag tag group of vagabonds and fruit cakes. It was amazing. But now the world is closing in on him and he needs to see what has happened beyond the mists and for that. He needs you! ((I know its bad but I want some mystery and I am tired when I wrote this.)
Other:

[OfficerHeadbutt]

Name: Edgar Hemlocke
Race: Caucasian Male Human
Age: 44
Skills: Master craftsman and engineer, and a well-spoken diplomat who prefers to solve problems with discussion instead of violence, though he realises that not all people can be bargained with, and he is by no means a pacifist.

Magic: His only magic is that which is imbued into his mechanical pet spider, Archie, to give it it’s own consciousness and control over itself. (More on Archie in equipment)

Equipment: Edgar wears grey dress pants and shiny black boots, with a white button up shirt, a black pinstripe tie and a grey waistcoat, with a bowler hat on his head. He keeps a pair of goggles normally around his neck like a necklace, and a metal plate held on the back of his utility belt can be attached to the goggles to form a welding mask. He stands at 6"2, with an average build for his height. His hair is brown, commonly slicked back, and his facial hair consists of thick mutton chops and a horseshoe moustache.

A utility belt on his waist contains many standard tools for an engineer, including measuring tape, a hammer, a wrench, as well as his cigar case and spare ammo for himself and Archie, and two canisters on either side of his hip, both running up his body and down his arms under his shirt via rubber tubes to leather gloves plated with metal so as to be protective, but still allow flexibility to his hands.

In the left hand, a small dial on the back of the palm allows the index finger of the glove to be used as a blowtorch for welding, although he also tends to use it for lighting his cigars. The right glove can be used to spray oil from the index finger for use as a lubricant, or to temporarily stun or blind any would be assailant, and is activated by pressing his other 3 fingers into his palm.

His main weapon is a lever action rifle, held in a holster on his back and modified to take a drum barrel holding up to 12 bullets, though his marksmanship skills are average at best.

His proudest invention and pièce de résistance is Archiverous, affectionately referred to as Archie. A mechanical spider that stands at around 1 and a half feet tall, and 2 feet in diameter. Imbued with magic to give him his own consciousness. Archie contains a small turret within his abdomen which can be deployed at will. He can only hold 40 bullets for his turret at any one time, although Edgar keeps a couple of spare ammo clips for Archie, which when thrown to him, has the appearance of him eating the ammo clip whole. When Edgar is on the move, Archie commonly latches on to Edgar’s back, his front legs over Edgar’s shoulders and his back 3 sets of legs wrapped around Edgars torso. Due to constraints of engineering, Archie’s turret is unusable while attached to Edgar’s back in this fashion.

Short Bio: Edgar grew up within an Aristocratic family. From a young age he was fascinated with mechanical engineering, and began tinkering with anything he could get his hands on. Although he still kept hold of his aristocratic lifestyle, with his diplomatic personality and a taste for the finer things such as Cigars and Whiskey, many of his high class peers find his love for engineering peculiar. After hearing a radio broadcast about help needed for a voyage on a Nebular Class Battleship, he decided to see if they would be interested in having him, as in all his life, he has never really had any adventures.
Other: N/A

[User]

@OfficerHeadbutt All seems to be fine, you have mentioned one of the two I asked for so I will take that as a good sign. Just so you know, if you are using magic to give archie free spirit that will drain your life force and stamina at a decent rate, what I would say is when he isnt being used have him dormant. With the blow torch stuff, is that a glove or his finger, because you would need lots of tubing. Fix these and you will be great!
EDIT: Also please expland on your race, not just human say for instant asian human

[Demon Grave]

so do we want to kick this off with just us 3 for now?

[User]

@Demon Grave I need to wait for @OfficerHeadbutt to make the edits. maybe we will start tomorrow but he needs to do those few edits just to clarify.

[Demon Grave]

@User Well he was on about 4 hours ago and didn't make any changes, maybe he didn't see your message?

[User]

@Demon Grave I pmed him aswell, he saw it for sure. Thats fine as he had TWO notifiactions so if he diddnt see it he was blind. I can wait if your fine with waiting

[Demon Grave]

@User yea it's no problem ^^

[User]

@Demon Grave he just needs to make the changes and we will start

[OfficerHeadbutt]

I made the changes. Surely you'd want more people than just 3 before starting? Maybe you should post this in the interest check forum, seeing as that's where people normally look for new RPS.