[OOC] Young Guns

[MelancholyMellie]

The year is 1860. America is at the brink of civil war as tensions in the East between the North and South begin to come to a boil. On the other side of the country life is a little different. Vast expanses of open land between small mining towns, cow towns and ranch estates dominate the landscape.

Railroads have connected the East to West giving rise to cities along the tail lines. With the cities come new people. "City Folk" naive to the law of the land. It wasn't called the "Wild West" for no reason. The strong ruled out here. Most hoped the local sheriff was the strongest, but that's not always how things worked out. Roving bands of train robbers, cattle thieves, and deserters plagued the land as well.
Government hadn't quite made its way out to these parts and if the bandits didn't catch a bullet they were likely to get away Scott free. It was plain to see why the allure of an easy score attracted many to the outlaw life.

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So this is where we come in. We will all have some sort of sordid past leading us to a life of crime. All small time criminals coming together to pull off a big bank job in Tombstone, Arizona.

So I'm looking for 4 other people to fill out the gang and then maybe a 5th to play a pursuing sheriff/deputy. I think that could be a fun twist. If no one wants that role I may take it myself. So anyways feel free to post CS's here. I'm not too nit picky I've marked the RP advanced but I don't need insane backgrounds or anything.

Here's a template

Name
Age
Appearance
Role (strategist, marksman, cat burglar, etc)
Weapon/gear
Background (criminal background and what lead you to crime)

[puddingpunter]

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[RhineQueen]

Name: Bailing Honoka "The Red Chink"
Age: 22
Appearance:5'4"
Short, pitch black hair with a long rat tail braid in the back.
Clear features, bad case of bitchy resting face.
Scar through her right eyebrow.
Thin, athletic build.

Role: Sharphooter/Assasin/Stealth
Weapon/gear: Sharps Model 1859 is her preferred rifle. She also carries a Colt 1855 Sidehammer, a curved dagger and lockpick kit. She has a white and brown patched horse named Mai.
Background: Her father was brought over to work the railroads. She lived in the squalor of the work camps most of her childhood taking care of her younger sister, Mai, their mother having died in childbirth. One night, the rail workers revolted against the harsh conditions. Her father was shot by the foreman and her sister was trampled to death in the chaos. She ran, escaping into the scrublands with only a rifle and the clothes on her back. She nearly died in the dunes, but was saved by a native tribe. She regained her strength and learned to shoot; hunting with her new adoptive family, learning to live off the land. She helped protect them against a prospector who was looking to set up shop on their land and was successful, though earned herself a name with law enforcement, the Red Chink. When she came of age she left the tribe in search of the man who killed her father, leaving a trail of wanted posters behind her.

[Blubaron45]

Seems interesting, here's my character.

My Character

Name: Bartley "Bart" Andrew Berne
Age: 37
DOB: March 14, 1823
Appearance:
Bart is a decent looking man with fair skin that has been tanned over the years of wandering in the south. The Irishmen has broad facial features and deep complexion which never smiles which often compliments his deep gaze under his deep blue eyes. His father is typically clean shaven but usually still has a small set of black hair which grows from his scruffy sideburns. Along with his fair complexion (and rather good looking hair), Bart is also comprised with broad facial features and stands around 5'10".

Picture

Role: Marksman
Affinities: Handy with a gun, great guitar player, survivalist, socially incisive.
Weapons:

• Beaumont–Adams (.442) Revolver
• Pepper-box pistol
• 12mm Lefaucheux M1858
• Small knife (hidden)
• Bayonet
• Hawken rifle

Gear:

• Three leather ammo belts for his pistols. Two which wrap around his thin body, and one around his waist.
• A small pouch for his musket balls.
• Another pouch for gunpowder.
• Backpack made of hide and leather which contain rations.
• Pack of water.
• Wooden canteen.
• Lasso and Rope.

Former occupations: Mexican-American War Veteran, Construction Worker Hired Gun, Freelance.
Background: Bartley Andrew Berne was born in Manhattan, New York City as the seventh born child (five of which survived to adulthood) of his two Irish Immigrant parents from Dublin. The Berne family lived in a small patch of land among fellow Irish Neighborhoods in a small world which he would never see the likes of five miles out of until he was 17. In that small world, a boy with such fascinations of seeing the world would drive the young man away from his home later in his life. One might say he had a decent childhood, being schooled through most of his childhood and often come back his warm home with his large family after a long day of scrapping together belongings he found with the many friends he had.

Bartley's father, Craig, was a devout Roman Catholic and organist who committed most of his time to both work and God as he was a very virtuous man that hoped his sons would also live a similar, more educated life after his traumatic years of war and despair having served his country during the war of 1812 as volunteer under the presidency of James Madison. However, This brief moment of consolation would soon come to a demise as his wife would soon fall ill and would later die of a fever which took her life, leaving only his already half-grown sons to keep the lonely man company as he would soon befall the same fate although to this day, the Bernes believe the cause of his father's tragic death was caused from his lack of will to survive after his wife's death. It was at that moment which Bart would abandon his former life and pursue a new one out west at the age of 17 when news rang of a "Gold Rush" in 1840.

However, his dreams of plucking fresh gold from the river would soon reach a low-point as he was vastly outnumbered by other men who sought the same aspirations in becoming rich, leaving the boy almost penniless. It was after those moment of bleak despair that the young Irish-American found a including construction working and later often found a number of connections with those who would most certainly hire him for laborious work come in handy in helping the young and eager man survive another. It was during the Mexican American War in 1846 that sought the opportunity to prove himself worthy of even his own merit.

To make a very long and tedious story short, war can change the heart of a moral man and bind him into a darker variation of himself, even in just two years of tragedy. Ironically enough, his emotional life eventually change for the worse as he found himself disdain for affection which brought short-term relationships with women (sometimes even preferring whores) and although he proved himself handy with a pistol, killing and robbing was certainly not an occupation he would ever see himself in. After falling in love with a Mexican Woman, he thought it was finally even after having several children with her (almost all of which would die still born while one was given away to an Aunt in Mexico) until her tragic death which would later send the unfortunate man into a deeper abyss of turmoil and distress. After twelve years, the hired-gun has made his debut throughout the country as a ruthless outlaws among the locals.

[MelancholyMellie]

Gonna give this another day to see if anyone else is interested. If not we will just roll with us 4