So, my initial idea was to go guns blazing onto this site I've never RPed on before and dump a bunch of lore here to gain interest. But then I thought: What if I put all of that effort into this and it doesn't get anyone's interest? So, I'm going to play it safe and pitch out what I have in mind and let those who are interested help decide the course of this role play. 

A victorian-esque backdrop dabbling in the arcane horror cults of a secret society. Well, less dabble, more detective. The founders of our group are a bankrupt film company whose future exploits now consist of a hodgepodge circus act by day, and paranormal investigations by night...You see, we're not quite the bells of the ball here. We've been inappropriately coined as dregs of society. Lower caste. Disgusting. Yet here we are, with what little funds we have left in our purse, taking on this secondary profession just to stay afloat awhile longer. 

We're like the ghostbusters in a steampunk setting - only we haven't seen anything remotely ghastly, save the drunk iron welder that somehow locked himself in a baron estate's attic. Well I lied. One of us has seen and dealt with ghosts, and that person is the very inventor of the contraptions and devices we'll be using to catch those mangy spirits. Dr. Isaac "The Living Skeleton" Sprague. He's the co-founder of the failed Bob & Sprague Film Co. He spends most of his days tinkering away inside his tent. The freak show is our day job, and we reluctantly/happily oblige our patrons by putting our biological oddities in a tacky spotlight. We'll all have our nicknames after vintage freak show performers like "The Four Legged Woman" and "Elastic Man", or our own nick name with biological oddity to match, if you'd like. 


That's all I'll give out for now but I'll answer any questions.