Bazmund

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@Deos Morran Go for it and PM me.

@13900IpForThis The Iron Dominion does have ultimately poor conditions for the working class. However, they're not as bad as allowing paedophilic human traffickers preying on urchins to continue operations. The Iron Dominion's leftist side are more about healthcare, and social mobility - and their radical side is, as always, about destroying the class system entirely. As it happens, things do not have to be dire-dire-dire for socialist causes to arise. The work of Jack Kinz is a fantasy analogue for Karl Marx, only it exists in a setting where the oppression of the working class was not quite as extreme, causing the Kinzian revolution to ultimately be unsuccessful. If it had been successful, there would be neither an Iron Dominion, nor an Oakheart Sovereignty. There would only be the Red League. Notably, living conditions in the Iron Dominion have improved significantly since the Kinzian revolution, in order to avoid it happening again. Either way, your original backstory is way out.

On the topic of religion, it does exist, but primarily in the Oakheart Sovereignty. The Iron Dominion is a bit like Britain in that whilst they're all technically something like 'Church of England' or whatever, they mostly don't actually practice. They subscribe to an industrial ideology instead, putting their stock in progress, and machines. The Red League really isn't very religious, but the former Oakheart serfs tend towards superstition.

@Vinsanity Your images are broken, and I'm afraid I cannot accept this app anyway. I should have been more clear, but nobody is allowed a dragon to begin with. Additionally, you have not read the OP properly. Jane Oakheart never came to rule the Oakheart Sovereignty, the Heavens' Eyes are not called the Heaven Sky, and as far as I recall, I have not allowed people to possess artefacts from the get go. Additionally, the World Court do not hire criminals, or known criminals in any of the Big Three - hence breaking his oath to the Oakheart Dominion would naturally preclude him from working with the World Court, as they're a UN type organisation. Please feel free to reapply.

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@Deos Morran Gunblades, not exactly - though there are likely swordsmanship schools that incorporate a revolver or pistol, to even the odds. Also, there will be plenty of room for traditional melee regardless of speed - which is why my character has a sword too. Dragonkin are just male, they don't NEED to be ginger or anything. Male and dyslexic and good with dragons is their calling cards.

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@13900IpForThis They're not just capitalist, they're imperialist, and very good at it. A huge part of the reason they've not been totally overthrown is because their hegemony is sourced not from domination but also from cooperation. They protect the working class from the most insidious of organised crime rings- though a certain degree of it is allowed to continue, to make people dependent on the state - so that nobody can call them ineffective. Additionally, the upper classes aren't all that debauched - they're obsessed with Genius and Invention more than simple luxury and pleasure, though they like that too - so the human trafficking trade doesn't have a large market to pander to.

Plus, I didn't really make that kind of World. I imagine there are places as dark as that, but we have yet to venture into them - and our characters are only at the beginning of their journeys, we have much stronger to get. I'll take a look at your app in a minute.

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@13org I'll take a look in the moment, mate.

@Deos Morran Please do. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see what people are making with the world I thought up. On the subject of augmenting your abilities, I have this to say - make a Dragonkin character. They're permanently in peak physical condition, and are essentially enhanced by magic occurring naturally in the pathogen they carry (hereditarily, oddly) to that end. We can encounter magical artefacts permitting you to further up the ante on this in the RP itself, but that relies on tangling with the Heavens' Eyes directly, which none of us are ready for yet.

Both of ya please do feel free to co-make your characters as bounty hunters.

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@CollectorOfMyst Absolutely are. A few people have had to drop out before they even had their sheets up, so please do apply. All are welcome.

@Deos Morran That's a complex issue. When I was originally thinking them up, I saw them as a sort of analogue for three things - Industry and Science, Culture and History, and Politics and Ideology, for the Dominion, Sovereignty, and Red League respectively. The Red League hasn't necessarily been around long enough for their people to have mixed cultures entirely yet, but their state as a hard-left visionarist people makes them more accepting than most of change, and more responsive than most to new things. It is hardly impossible that the Red League will very soon bring forth a new breed of MagiTech sort of stuff - and so your character could be one of the people who will eventually bring this about - but the Heavens' Eyes are really antsy about controlling magic. The only reason they've not rounded up and interned all magical creatures is because they lack the military clout to engage the Sovereignty directly - as they would have to do to accomplish that.

Your character may be a magician, but they'll be a target for Heavens' Eyes agents.

@13org You, my friend, are a genius.

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@13900IpForThis Right... that's way too mature, and doesn't quite fit the Iron Dominion, or the World Court. For one thing, the Iron Dominion does not tolerate challenges to their hegemony, and so Alfred would have been imprisoned long before he got that stage of wealth, and for a second thing, a big part of the reason that the Dominion's Working Classes are so ok with it is because their leaders don't permit criminals like that to exist in the first place. Human Trafficking, rape, the whole thing, is an automatic and instant death sentence in the Dominion, as well as the Red League.

Another thing is that your character kinda seems a bit too legendary, if you will. He's done too much with himself already - and for that matter, the World Court probably wouldn't employ him.

It IS however a good app overall. I can't quite accept it on account of the allusions to sexual assault, and general overmaturity, but I'd really like you to apply again, either with a modified app or a new one. Try to tone down your character's skills too if you don't mind.

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@13900IpForThis Something like a heavy crossbow can be used for a variety of purposes - for example, it's easier to rig up a crossbow bolt to explode than it is a bullet - but generally speaking they've been replaced by guns for the most part. However, notably there are no suppressors for firearms, so if you wanted a rogueish assassin type, crossbows would probably be best.

Monster hunters also use crossbows, but they're not usually employed by the World court.

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@13org Make it interesting. Go female.

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@13org Let's not forget that when designed properly, bolt-action affords a high rate of fire too. Lee Enfield's Mad Minute anyone? Apparently, some German officers in WWI and WWII thought they were under machinegun fire when British rifles opened on them.

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@Bazmund

B-but, my Springfield is so perfect as is!

@Deadnaut

As you wish - though I personally prefer the Lee Enfield pattern rifles. :)

@Bazmund

Yup. I don't particularly like automatic weapons.

Is bolt action ok? Or single shot rifles?

@13org

Bolt action is perfectly alright, mate. Single shot is a bit boring. Prepare for ammo for your special subsonic rifle to be quite rare though.