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Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

Actually, if we're from the same country, does that mean we're working together?

@Liotrent

Maybe, maybe not. Who knows~?

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

Nazca

Nazca Whitehall

16 | Female | 5’ 5” | 115 lbs
Empire of Britannia | Technologism | Puppetmaster

Dossier

Nazca Whitehall. Adopted scion of renowned archaeology professor and adventurer Sir Henry Whitehall. Not much is known of her early childhood in the New World, but she is known to be a former member of the nobility or royalty in the Tlaxcala Confederation, a landlocked polity surrounded by the Aztec Empire. A country perpetually at war with the Aztecs, despite the alliance of Spain in the Futile War, the Tlaxcala suffered greatly in the aftermath of the conflict. Its existence suffers on as a limited rump state, buoyed by Spanish and Occidental trade.

Taken in by Sir Henry during his adventures to the New World in the aftermath of a severe defeat of her people, Nazca was raised under his tutelage in London. Although she already had an understanding and proficiency of her native manipulation of the wind before her adoption, she excelled and flourished as a technological polymath after receiving a western education.

Her specialization is unique in that it blends two distinct fields of study. Her use of Formulization revolves around creating convincing clockwork doppelgangers of a broad range of animals, wildlife, and utility, but particularly specializing on birds and insects, to scout and attack. She can either assume direct control of her constructs by radio or wire, or with programmed or preset commands. Her middling ability to manipulate the wind synergizes with her constructs in this manner by assisting their flight for more radical maneuvers-- and gives her the ability to defend herself at personal range with air-based attacks.

Ostensibly, she assists her adoptive father in unlocking the mysteries of artifacts and ruins around the world at the University of Oxford and his committees with the Royal Society, which, in fact, is the innocuous academy of sciences that everybody knows it as. Some within it, though, including her father, seem to have some unusual designs towards things lurking beneath the surface of ruins in the Mexican valley and other heritage sites around the world.

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Organization: The Royal Society...?

The Epic of Beginnings - Fragments of a weathered scroll

Narkissa Langdon

@Rune_Alchemist

Thankfully, she was able to find the tools she wanted. The frame itself also came along easily enough, only hampered by her lack of nails—it took her a little more time, but she was able to fasten a sort of mortise and tenon-like system to fit the fashioned planks all together, drawing from her knowledge of historical woodworking –it was a method common enough in houses and older wooden vessels from before the age of sail, after all—to create something workable. All she needed to do now was to meet back up with Misaki and discuss how they’d like to proceed with the rest of the project. She wondered if the Japanese woman had an success with finding a suitable pulp for the paper.

She was in the process of sanding the nearly completed instrument that she realized she as being approached, this time by a stranger. Seeing that it was probably a villager, and not one Lazhira had seemed to have mentioned or introduced her to, Narkissa was immediately on guard, despite the frail and frankly ridiculous outfit that he seemed to be wearing.

Setting down the frame against the side of Lazhira’s house, she raised an eyebrow before addressing him. “Yes? Can I help you?” He seemed harmless, but nonetheless, she positioned herself in a way to bolt or defend herself if she really needed to.

Dead Gods Dream: A post-apocalyptic divine action-adventure RP

Aureia, of gold, commerce, wealth,

and the far less important, trivial aspects of travel and luck

“Less than you,” was Aureia’s simple retort to the Lord of the Underworld. Or was it lady now? Oh, well, Moridax answered that question for her. “To be fair, you are late to the party,” she decided to point out. It did raise a good question, though; if Moridax had reappeared –awoken—after Aureia and the fellow gods she had encountered in the chamber, did that mean that more gods could potentially reawaken? In the end, would the entire original pantheon reappear? It would be nice, so to speak, if the entire gang could get back together. Especially when there were friends like these Holy Imperial Bootlickers.

The last of which, by the way, was still trying to kill them, especially when Aureia grew bored of him and finally turned her attention away. “Thanks for that,” she echoed after the god of Watery Things, a bit miffed that she had made that small mistake.
She glanced back over to the awakened priestess, and the saddening sight of her dead knight. She let out a sigh. There were enough gods taking her attention for now, so she left them to it.

“Might as well go ahead and send him over to your realm,” she shrugged, returning her attention to the god of the underworld. “As things are now, can you even access the underworld?”

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

1600s Queen Victoria it is.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

First guy has better digs, but the smile's too goofy.

Apparently, it's the 1600s, so no Queen Victoria. qq

Just to make things clear now, we are NOT having an English Commonwealth. Having a Victorianesque Charles I is not appealing either, though.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

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Ah, it's already giving me the whole Princess Principal vibes of London. So yeah, I can see what you mean I'm pretty sure I want this kind of UK too cause it's very close to what I was envisioning.

I think in terms of the colony situation, I'm thinking perhaps they had initial gains, and then lost them after the Futile War. However, this does give incentive to spy on the bigger players such as the New World and Orient.

I'm thinking on the Orient situation, perhaps we could draw inspiration from the opium wars and perhaps trying to subvert control through that through more low-key means.

@Liotrent

Hmm, sure. Sounds good. Dunno on the Orient situation though, I guess that depends more on what others have in mind for the region.

@ERode Speaking of Egypt... Does history generally diverge at 1537? Or is the entire timeline altered from what we know, as in Rome never conquers Egypt, etc?

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

@Click This I just noticed that, how are we going about this?

@Liotrent

As far as my vision of how the UK looks here... it's just anime steampunk Victorian Britain. Less strict gender roles, women's clothes that are cuter and less stuffy that it was historically, for sure. Y'know, think Princess Principal, like ERode mentioned. The UK's probably flexing on the Continent as usual, but probably more low-key meddling than what we saw historically since the Orient and the New World are big players now too.

Also, the Royal navy, can't forget that. Big. Powerful. Superdreadnoughts. In the sea and in the air. See my signature.

I dunno about the empire and colony situation though, since there isn't the new world to grab land from, or even Australia.

Dead Gods Dream: A post-apocalyptic divine action-adventure RP

@Click This Hm, I think I should let you go first, before I go again. xD

@Raineh Daze

Gotcha, I'll post tomorrow, then.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

Since everybody's sharing their concepts, I suppose I will too. I'll probably be rolling with a character that combines technologism and dynamism-- a New World girl that, for one reason or another, was raised in good old Victorian England.