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Deadlands - A Supernatural Western

Sir John Blackburn - Chisholm Trail or Thereabouts

This Kaufman character will be prefect cover but can you trust him? we cannot afford to lose any possible advantage to the Austrians, especially now that they have allied with the Prussians.

John slowly awoke, he along with Kaufman and the... Crapaud where in moderate nice but cramped stage carriage heading towards the small town of Selina. Taking out his pocket watch John looked at the time..
early, still some time before we reach town.

Rubbing some sleep out of his eyes John open his briefcase, taking out a portable tea kit he had purchased back in England along with couple dozen tea leaves to survive the journey on. Placing the kit on the carriage door's side table in front of him, John began to brew himself and Franz a nice cup of English Grey tea..
Shame we don't have any milk but oh tea, small sacrifice

After a minute or tow the water had boiled, John proceed to pour the boiling water into the teapot where he had placed the tea leave. placing the Tea cosy on top of the teapot he patiently awaited for the tea to brew. Around this time the Frenchmen awoke, like an common brute he can began Cursing before rubbing his eyes and seemlying muttering "Kaufman, pass me the water..."

Looking at the Crapaud he appeared to be suffering under the humid heat, true it was rather underpeasant but it was nowhere near as bad was in Africa or worst Indian. It was so hot in that bloody country that after several deaths from heatstroke the Birtish army changed it's uniform from red to light grey or dirt kaki colour.

hmm perhaps I should have not worn black.... do not should weakness in front of the Frenchman.

Returning the skin back to Kaufman, he would sink back into his eat, before looking at the John, his eyes narrow and with an cold look in them. "So Rosbif, remind me again, why are we marry band of comrades on the way to this Selina? Could we not have performed what every business you had in mind in Doge City?"

I didn't even wear red..

"well Crapaud" John replied as he poured a cup of English Grey tea and offered it Franz " I trust these American's even less than I trust you."

John then poured himself a cup of tea, placing the Tea cosy back on the teapot he took a slip before continuing his conversation with the Crapaud "There have been all sorts of stories and rumours about this new "ghost rock" material and before I invest in anything I would like to confirm what it is and what it can do for myself"

"Likewise we also heading out here for Mister Franz's investigation for the Imperial Society of Science and Magic but I'll let Kaufman examine that to you... again." John added on as he took another slip of tea and turned to look out window..
shouldn't be far now.

Deadlands - A Supernatural Western

RP is up! here is link: roleplayerguild.com/topics/171780-dea…

Deadlands - A Supernatural Western

I'll start work on an introductory post shortly. We have a bit of a dilemma that I didn't foresee in that there isn't an immediately clear reason for everyone to be traveling together, so rather than start the story that way and leave you all to figure out why you're together I'll start it off with Lewis, Gappa, and Wam's characters (Blackburn, LeBlanc, and Kaufmann) traveling into Selina. We'll work out what the party is looking into and why they come together as we get started.

@BangoSkank

Perhaps a new source of ghost rock could have supposedly been discovered in/near Selina along with reports that "strange Bandits" have hassling people who attempt to mine it (or however you gather ghost rock).

Deadlands - A Supernatural Western

Name: Sir John Blackburn

stats :

Hider

Agility- 5
Smarts: 6
Spirit: 5
Strength: 4
Vigor: 5

Skills:

Hider

Fighting- 1
Gambling -2
Investigation - 3
Knowledge- 3
Lockpicking- 1
Persuasion - 3
Shooting -1

Appearance: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/230880…

Gear

weapons: John main weapon is an Four Barrelled Howdah Pistol that he acquired during the Abyssinia Expedition, Very short range and only holds four bullets but it can drop an elephant. John also carries his 1845 pattern infantry officer’s sword on his back and whilst not an weapon John also has his Gentleman's lion head Cane.

outfit: John's outfit is an three piece suit in a new steampunk-ist style that has been gathering popularity in the UK. On his feet John wears Army issue Hessian boots: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/290669…

Other notable items: Marked cards

Background:

Hider

Born into a working class family John's prospect's changed when his father was given an Battlefield promotion during Crimean War. Instead of joining the Grunts like his father and grandfather had done, John attended Military school and gained an lieutenant commission in the Indian Army were he fought in the Abyssinia Expedition.

Shortly after the expedition John was promoted to captain but despite John's skill he was shunned by the officers and men alike for being of working class origin. It got so bad that John was about to leave the Army when he was approached by a member of the Directorate of Military Intelligence and offered an role in the growing organisation. John accepted and for the next ten years worked for Military Intelligence, Helping the Birtish Empire from the Shadows.

The Directorate of Military Intelligence has know about the dead and various other monsters appearing on earth for several years now, with John himself being one of the first members of the directorate to witness it first hand at the battle of sedan.

Posing as "birtish advisor" to French John was actual there to eliminate a French colonel and acquire the documents he carried but with the Frogs losing so badly John was dragged into the fighting before he could escape.

With the help of an Franz, an member of the Austrian expeditionary force and a French solider named Constantin John was able to hold of the Prussian and was about flee when the unthinkable happened: the corpses of the fallen rose up. Soon they were surrounded as undead Prussians, French, and Austrians lashed out from all sides.

They where almost overwhelmed but managed escape though an Prussian Artillery Barrage and fled into the Night. Resting in a nearby forest it was discovered that Constantin had been hit in the chest with artillery shrapnel.

Despite Constantin's Plees and John's suggestion he die instead of "forever be embarrassed that bloody Prussians beat them." Franz couldn't bring himself to abandon a fellow soldier. He pulled the shrapnel out piece by piece and bandaged the wound, saving Constantin from death His screams.

"Tough French Bastard isn't he?"

Hiking back to Paris they arrived just in time for the coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Helping Franz (And Constantin) get their compensation and release from service the group went their own separate ways although before they did, they exchanged contact details... Franz and Constantin were talented soldiers and could been of use to the Directorate.. or to John himself.

Returning to England John continued to work for the Directorate but was now tasked to find out more about the dead and various other monsters appearing that people had long considers to be fairtale stories.

By 1879 this investigation had led john to American. The civil war has recently "ended" with a peacefire and despite some rumours and hostile Indian tribes people flocked to American west to get their hands on "Ghost Rock" a new resource than burns Five Times Hotter and 100 Times Longer than Coal.

By chance Franz, now a member of the Imperial Society and the Frenchman from sedan where also heading to American. claiming to now be an moderate successful Businessman John joined them, claiming to be interested in ghost rock for a factory he part owned.

The group took a ship together across the pond. arriving in American Franz acquired a coach and the small band of old European soldiers is on their way to Selina, Kansas.

Worst Nightmare - Being beaten by an Frenchmen

In From The Fog: A Fallout Far Harbor Roleplay

Captain James Williams- X1-25- Talking to Doctor Ayo

"The Mother of The Fog. Not through Atom...or through deception...but through The Mother. Who is The Mother?"

yes who is this Mother of the Fog..

The cultist spread his arms wide, and seemed to be cloaked in the rolling mist, "Look around you. She is everywhere. Accept her, and even the creatures of the island shall bow to you."

so they are literally worshipping them fog....... Morons

“How did the synths of the island become so intimate with you? How do synths living peacefully in Acadia or Far harbour just up in leave their homes and become fanatical cultists the next day? No, I think Corrine is right. Whatever Avery was, she was a member of a family here first.”
synths are immune to radiation so the cult could seem as would be gods but why would synths join them? Especially just to be low level loot gathering grunt.

before James could hear the cultists reply as heavily staticed "hello" echo into his head again. Turning of the power armour external speaker James fiddled with the suits comms systems in an attempt to boost the signal.

"Hel## this is doctor AY## from the inst### can you h#ar me sy### X1-25" the person called out before seeming shouting at someone else "Rowds boost the signal"

"but at that level someone may be able to detect it."

"Just Do it!" the man angry snapped back " X1-25 can you hear me?"

"yes although not to clearly" James replied

"I should this so, what the devil are you doing so far up north? the town of Bar Harbour if out sensors are correct...Have you forgotten your mission?"

"No... My memory hasn't fully come back yet but there are synths on this island, an entire settlement or alteast there was. The settlement is empty and synths have supposedly joined an the "children of the fog" cult. There is also two railroad agent here investigating what happen to this settlement...I have eliminated the human and will attempt to reclaim the synth."

"children of the fog?" are they like the Atom cult? do you have any info on this cult." the man replied before seeming getting into an argument with the "Rowds" person he was ordering about earlier but James was able to clearly hear what was said.

"The Cult is based out of an per-war nuclear sub base with alteast 200 members, they are heavily armed and armoured, they seem to be able control local creatures and may of had one of the snyth replace a local town residents... The cult is currently showing us an body suggesting she died years ago but I'm not convinced.

"Given that the cults base is in an nuclear sub base is it also possible that the cult has one or several nuclear bombs although I do not know if they have the ability to use them or not."

"synth inflator!" the man shouted "X1-25 I have to end this call soon and Bar harbour is too far north to send any immediate backup but your new orders are to investigate this cult, if they are behind the replacement of the synth destroy their equipment and kill or capture the persons behind it.."

"understood sir"

"Good, I will dispatch an raven to shortly, use it to relay any info back to us until we established an secure signal."

With the Call over James re-joined the conversation with the cult who had seemlying given up attempting to reclaim Avery body although not everyone appeared to agree with them suddenly just leaving with Rose.. the railroad agent shouting " Hold IT"

Rose angry shouted several questions at the cult before the cult leader could reply however the fog condenser near rose suddenly died.. even stranger instead of moving Rose stood still and was taken by the fog.. At this angle James was able to see her arms but he suspected she had been shut down, allowing the cult to simply move her without a struggle. although both implications of this troubled James.

the Fog Condenser once more gradually spurred to life, although it was obviously barely functioning now. The Fog condensed around it once more, and then rolled back and away from the town. However, something was wrong.

The mysterious cultist turned back to Corrine once again, unfazed, "Your town is living on borrowed time," He said, "Tell your people that they must make their choice soon. Far Harbour can not remain as it is. Someone must make them choose..."

Once the cult had walked back into the fog-covered ruins of old Bar Harbour and out of sight James turned back to the others... "Anyone else think that was staged? They took that railroad agent too quickly and easily.... did anyone see her arms go down when the fog approached her?" he asked..

"Oh and can someone help me get this off?" James asked as he parked up his power armour "should go and see the doctor about my arm before the foggers come back."

A Life in Salem - A Fallout RP

Steve Cooper-Drinking with Betty

Betty went down to the basement and returned a few minutes late with two bottles of beer, opening them she pour herself and Steve a drink and drunk, only for the both of them to immediately spilt it out in disgust.

"That stuff tastes terrible." Steve replied as he grabbed one of the bottles to look at the label, Cleary post-war it simply said Beer wth brotherhood symbol next to it "of course it was made by the bloody tin cans."

"Although I suppose it's not the worst drink I've had though."Steve added on as he took another sip. probably clean alteast
"why do you hate the brotherhood?" Betty asked

"I don't hate the brotherhood, No back in DC when they were led by goodie two-shoes Lyons and they where mostly just an small nuisance getting in the way of a few jobs but they spent most of their time fighting mutants or each other...Worst problem I had was paladin Jenkins "disliking" that my squad had cleared out a gang of raiders before his squad could...

couple of bullets shut him up though.

Steve then took another slip "but then enclave came."

"I'm pretty sure that kid from Vault 101 actually defeated the enclave but the brotherhood took credit for it... They got big, took over DC and like most dictators became massive dicks especially when Maxson became elder and decided to go back the old ways of hoarding tech.

wastelander be too stupid to properly use laser rifle... Morons

That was when barney walked into the diner "Wanted to let you all know that tonight we'll have a town meeting. I think much needs to be discussed, considering todays events...I think the Inn is a good place, two hours from now."

"Good." Steve said as he turned back to Betty and took another slip of the brotherhood beer "Anyway where was I... ah Yes Maxson, brotherhood claimed to have to Boston to stop instuite synths getting out of hand but honesty I think he just didn't like fact that someone else had the advanced tech than him.

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James Wilson and Susan Cooper- Outskirts of town..

"It appears we missed quite the party." James stated as he looked though his binoculars at the various corpses of super mutants and a few baby deathclaws by entrance of town know as Salem.

Looks like going country crossing to restock was good idea after all.

"Can't see any human bodies but they may have buried th- wait a sec." James continued as he spotted an living super mutant, wearing some sort of armour and attempting to repair one of town defence turrets with Gatling laser..

Sue asked what the problem was.

"There's an super mutant trying to fix an turret... People in town aren't coming to kill him so maybe he's an resident? he's also wearing some sort of armour... it's alot better made than other mutants we have seen."

Sue suggested he might be instuite agent (or more likely property) given the rumours about green supers mutants.

"Possibly but he could also despise the instuite, probably better if we find someone else to ask." James replied as he continued to look and spotted Mr Handy robot enter an large building by the entrance of town "Sandy coves" the building sign stated "A Mr handy robot, unlikely to lie or try to violent murder us."

Sue pointed out that James lost his eye to Mr handy

"That was an Mr gusty"

Heading town the hill and into the town of Salem James and sue entered the sandy cover building and approached the Mr Handy robot that was hovering behind the front desk of the sandy coves building... perhaps someone had re-opened the building as someone establishment.

"Howdy Mr Handy." James kindly said he approached the robot, "My name is James Wilson and this is Susan Cooper, would you Happen to know if anyone came into town from South Boston recently? perhaps wearing someone of lab coat or Vault gear."

A Life in Salem - A Fallout RP

Finally got around to finishing these :D

Name: James Wilson

Hider

Age: (35)

Race: Male Cyborg Caucasian, 6’2”, 180lbs. Short Brown hair, five O'clock shadow and blue eyes. Health and in excellent shape with the expectation of James's left arm & missing left eye.

James left arm has been replaced with an robotic arm that has been repaired with different parts several times over the years by James. The arm requires fusion cells to operate and can be disabled (although is repairable) but provides James with increased strength (on par with a power fist).

when in-use however James is valuable to a particular type of weapon. The arm's control module is hidden in James's left eye socket.

Sex: Male

Skills: Sign language, Marksmanship, tailoring, 44. Magnum SWC Bulletsmiting. amateur robot arm engineering and punching people in the face with a robotic arm.

Weapons & armour/clothing: James wears faded blue "ballistic weave" Suit with an light blue shirt, beige tie, a brown leather glove on his robotic arm, brown cleat boots and "state of Texas" leather belt & buckle. On his head James wears an Tan Stetson buffalo felt cowboy hat and an eyepatch on his left eye. Occasionally he will also wear some blue sunglasses

For weapons James uses a 2069 Bluehawk 44. Magnum, A doubly looted (Enclave and then Brotherhood) laser rifle, a modified flare gun and of course his robotic arm.

(Previous) Occupation(s): Vault dweller, Tailor, bounty hunter/private investigator and Merc.

Faction (Minutemen, Institute, BOS, Railroad, None. Etc): Vault 125

Backstory:

situated roughly 30 miles from Houston, Vault 125 experiment to see how the Vault dwellers would handle the unexpected failure of all Vault's core system with no spare parts or ability to make them, ideally focusing the Vault to open early and scavenge what was left of American to find/make an replacement. Not even the Overseer, who where usually aware of Vault experiments knew of this to ensure the shutdown came as an complete shock.

Unfortunely for Vault Tec this experiment failed before the bombs had even dropped with an clerical error leading to Vault being overstocked with replacement parts and raw materials. Vault 125 did not just survived the end of the world but thrived.

175 or so years James Wilson was born in Vault 125 or Vault town as it was now called and compared to most kids growing up in post war American had an Happy, carefree and fully educational childhood but then James turned 16 and took the GOAT Test.

A tailor...

The Goat test did not lie/be rubbish, overly next several years James began an expert tailor, with him even being able to master the somewhat rare skill of Basic ballistic weaving or "Bulletproof" of clothing but compared to his brother and sisters, it was bloody boring with James spending most days making and selling clothes whilst they explored the radioactive ruins of Houston or Fought against raiders and the odd "Bull" scouting patrol.

it got to the point that after James's parents died he decided to leave, taking his Great great grandfather 44. Magnum James set out on a grand adventure for himself.

Over the next 14 years James travelled up and down the east coast of united states although never becoming as famous as the Vault dweller or that kid from Vault 111 James with the help of Susan cooper earned an reputation as relivable Merc/Bounty Hunter Team.

However James wouldn't settle with being "decent" and decided to go after the bounty of the century, the one no other (Decent) Merc dared to try... the Jade empress herself.. Calypso...

Tracking and learning about calypso for some time James & Sue waited until she had left her fortress and stopped off at a new brothel she was opening... Well defended but easily to attack than her fortress.

Bribing an group of raider to attack the place James and Susan snuck in the back and split up with Susan going to find Shelby (not knowing she had since left) whilst James went to find calypso.

Finding calypso James was challenged and foolishly accepted to fight her in a sword duel. A decision he immediately regretted with Calypso dominating most of the fight but was unable to strike the killing blow.

It would seem like calypso would win but then James was able to get the upper hand after he enraged calypso over her supposedly infertility but before James could kill calypso one of her goons enter rooms and whilst James was dealing with them calypso chopped his arm off. Escaping though the window, James promised one day to get revenge on calypso.

After his battle with calypso James had a robotic arm built by pinkerton but after several years and heavy use it has began to fail. Although he could perform basic repairs James lacked the skill/parts to build a new one so James headed to the commonwealth and began looking instuite survivors, hoping their knowledge of synths could also be used to build him a new arm.

After a few weeks of commonwealth James and Susan where able to track one to the small seaside town of Salem....

Name: Sue "Blue" or "The Mute with the Fucking Shotgun" Cooper

Hider

Age: 29

Race: This but without the neck tattoo or Camo paint (although she put it on later) and a somewhat noticable cut scar on her neck. i.pinimg.com/736x/09/80/59/098059ff7b…

Sex: Female.

Skill: Sign language, sneaking, lockpicking, explosives and shooting people with shotguns

Personality: Susan is an mute unable to speak after vocal cords where damaged during an bar fight. communicates with though sign language, notes or pipboy holodisk recording..

Weapons: Winchester City-Killer combat shotgun, Looted brotherhood laser pistol, Grenade rifle and a broken switchblade.

Armour/clothing: Susan wears an cropped black leather jacket over an blue tank top, Black biker jacket and faded Blue cargo trouser with various pouches strapped onto each leg. On her hands Sue wears an pair of finger leather gloves and has an light blue banana wrapped around her neck, covering up the scar. Clipped onto Sue's belt is an Vault 125's Pipboy 2000

Occupation: right-hand woman

Faction (Minutemen, Institute, BOS, Railroad, None. Etc): Little lamplight

Backstory: James's mute Partner and younger sister of Steve Cooper very little is known about this woman other than she supposedly grew up in little lamplight where she earned the nickname "Blue" after the blue dress she had.

The few lamplighters left round from that time all claim she had an lovely singing voice but was regrettably lost in an River city bar fight when she was stabbed in the throat, tearing her vocal cords...

some time before or after losing her voice Sue teamed up with James Wilson, an bounty hunter/merc from Texans and earned quite the reputation as "The Mute with the fucking shotgun." Indeed may raiders where more afraid of sue than James, praying they wouldn't have to beg for mercy at the feet of this silent hunter...

Along with help James to get his arm fixed Sue hopes she will meet her brother, having left DC shortly after the brotherhood took over they have not seen each other in years and only communicated though letters. Steve currently does not know Sue has lost her voice.

A Life in Salem - A Fallout RP

@Lunarshe might be waiting for a bit, walls arent complete yet, and no one is watching them, as far as I remember, Could be wrong. The town meeting being called for will go over those subjects.

Also here is link to our discord chat, discord.gg/W3SYC7a

@2sky11

I believe part of the wall is built but the gate and entire left/north side hasn't been started yet. there are also the bodies of mutants, some of the dead baby deathclaw and wrecked turret in this area

A Life in Salem - A Fallout RP

Does anybody think they could give me a quick run down of current situation? It would save me a lot of reading.

@Lunar

A Deathclaw nest was discovered in the Salem Museum with deathclaws then attacking the town. We are Mostly recovering from this attack and are about to have a town meeting about it (and several other recent attacks)

In From The Fog: A Fallout Far Harbor Roleplay

Captain James William- Returning to Town

With somewhat of an plan of action sorted out everyone began working quickly as they could to scavenge what they could from the Vetbird. For his role James approached a set of power armour inside the vetibird.

now how I am going to get my arm in there...
Thankfully for James the people at west terk had seeming though of this problem aready as when the suit opened up, the arm section also opened up allowing James to simply place his crippled arm inside and have the suit close around it.

been long time since I've been in one of these... everything looks completely different

Exiting the vetibird James with his new found power armour strength helped the local scavenge the wreckage of the vetibird before picking up some of the corpses to carry back to town. For some reason this also included the Gecko, supposedly because Steve had said Avery would have wanted to be buried with it... very werid but with the power armour the extra weight was nothing to James.

Later on- Far Harbour town..

After an uneventful walk back to town the group began to unload the gear and supplies but before James could exit his power amour one of the Hull watchman gave a shout, and pointed to The Fog.

"Something's coming!" He yelled out.

James turned to Brotherhood "If this is an attack we need stall them up long enough for Brooks (ooc: or whoever is manging the Brotherhood loot) to hand out the weapons and supplies."

Steve then turned to Brooks "start handing out the rifles although make sure people still take there 47-70 rifles, we are still gonna need those against armoured targets."

James then climbed the stairs to the Hull and watched as a cultist wearing some type of painted white armour and carrying an Lantern approached. like the other cultist leaders this was also wearing some sort headgear but this time it was an helmet instead of an mask.
probably expects to get shot at.

The figure spoke with a voice that was filled with both conviction and authority. "Hold your fire" they asked "I'm not here to fight. I'm here to retrieve the bodies of our fallen brothers and sisters. The one you know as 'Avery', we know by another name. She is not the friend you once knew, I'm sorry to say. Captain Avery was dead long before today. The woman you killed...should be with her family, not with you. Do us this kindness...and we will return the favor in kind."


wait... there was an human Avery and Synth? and how do these fruitcakes know about it? If she was an instuite agent she wouldn't have talked and runaway wouldn't replace someone...

As James though about this corrine cloaked an "what " before clearing her throat. "Avery was one of ours, born 'n' raised on the Island, no matter what she...what she chose later," she called down. "She may have spent 'er last days...elsewhere, but her family, her real family, are the folks who stand with me here and behind this wall."

well technically she's an different pe-Machine now

She started to shake. Corrine's emotions were beginning to catch up to her, as well as her fatigue. "Her roots," she began, her voice breaking, "her roots are here, with us. I'm sorry for your loss, but our loss is deeper. Simple as that."

Corrine paused, to realize people were still staring at her. "Ah...oh, I guess I mean...no. Ya can't have Avery." She looked around to the stony faces of the other harbour folk, and suddenly felt irritated. "Well, ain't I right?!"

"I have an question, well two actually" James stated with Brotherhood armour voice box echoing it down to the helmeted cultist "How did you know Avery was an synth? and do you know why it had replaced Avery?