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Dragons and Battleships

A Steampunk RP


Life for Humanity was great. They ruled the world, and nothing but themselves could threaten their existence. They understood fully well the horrors of war, the destruction and death that came with it. Still they fought, determined to conquer one another in the name of their religions, resources, or nothing more than world conquest. But when the Atom Bombs fell they shook the globe, and there are some things that Humanity would have preferred not be disturbed.

During the war that would become known as "The Atomic Awakening", Humanity discovered a whole new world asleep beneath the surface they knew. Sleeping Giants that had been in hibernation for thousands of years, had become covered over time in the natural spread of dirt and stone. Buried like the ruins of a lost city, there was no trace left of them by time Humans walked above them. But when the bombs dropped, and shook the whole of the world, these creatures, this hidden world, awakened.

It started small. New types of creatures started appearing all over the world. Many of these creatures were the same beasts from Myth and Legend, such as supposedly Mystical Unicorns. But there were also much worse things that started to appear, including the Dragons. They were large beasts, two wings, four legs, and each was about half the size of a large warship. As they spread, Humanity did what Humanity did best... they overreacted, and dropped more bombs hoping that their new inventions of war could save them from extinction. They instead sealed the doom of the world as they knew it.

That which one pair of Atomic Bombs was not able to awaken from its slumber, was instead awoken from the many, many detonations all over the planet as Humanity tried to fight back with fire. It wasn't long before creatures so massive that they had entire mountains on their backs, awoke in a rampage. They came from the Mountains, from the Oceans, from the very earth beneath the cities Humans once felt so safe in. It soon became clear...

This planet belonged to the beasts now.

It was through sheer genius that one man created the technology required to lift vast amounts of weight high into the air. Entire cities were released from gravity, as they rose into the sky. Massive flying ships stayed behind, roaming the Earth for as long as they could, releasing gases into the air that would change the world forever. Humanity's final act on the surface of their own planet, was to blacken the sky, so that nothing on the ground would ever be able to see the sun.



This of course had another purpose, one that was the only reason they could ascend into the sky and be safe. It created an ocean of clouds, above which the now flying cities could hover, drinking in the sun and being hidden from the beasts below. The monsters could have the surface, but this sky, belonged to Humanity.

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Humanity now lives in the sky. Their cities float freely above an endless sea of clouds, and while everybody within these cities walks from place to place, travel between cities is done with flying transport ships. To keep these cities afloat, expeditions to the surface must be made to mine out as much coal as possible. This is obviously a very dangerous task, but even the ships that fly from city to city above the clouds are not safe. All manner of winged beast can sometimes simply drift too high, and all it takes is spotting a ship for them to aggressively chase it down, and there is nothing the crew can do about it.

This is where you come in. For the first time ever, Humanity is putting GUNS on their flying ships. But these ships are very special and difficult to engineer things. They can't simply slap some guns on a transport ship and call it good. They have to engineer a ship specifically designed to carry the weapons that have been created for it, and these weapons are often designed with specific types of Beasts in mind. As such, each Warship is its own dedicated thing, not meant for transporting resources or people, but rather waging war against beasts.

So here's all you need to know.







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So is this a spin-off of Battleships and Dragons?

I like my titles like I like my other word beginning with t.

In alphabetical order.
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How long has it been exactly since the Atomic Awakening? The OP doesn't really specify.

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So is this a spin-off of Battleships and Dragons?

I like my titles like I like my other word beginning with t.

In alphabetical order.


If you want your title in alphabetical order, you'll need to defeat the dragons and reclaim your right place as the Battleships, in front of the Dragons.
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If you want your title in alphabetical order, you'll need to defeat the dragons and reclaim your right place as the Battleships, in front of the Dragons.


Honestly, I'll keep an eye on this but I'm going to be working at a summer camp over the summer, while also studying so I don't think I'll be able to commit to more than a post a week, maybe in three months.

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How long has it been exactly since the Atomic Awakening? The OP doesn't really specify.

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I will also point out that Humanity left the surface not very long after the monsters arrived. At most they stayed on the surface for a month, as you can imagine that with the kinds of things that were popping up, this wasn't some year long struggle for survival. If they stayed very long at all they'd be wiped out.

And within that month, that includes the time for them to get as many cities floating as they could, attempt to nuke the crap out of the monsters, thus awakening much worse things, and get the flying cloud machines going that made the permanent cloud oceans.
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I will also point out that Humanity left the surface not very long after the monsters arrived. At most they stayed on the surface for a month, as you can imagine that with the kinds of things that were popping up, this wasn't some year long struggle for survival. If they stayed very long at all they'd be wiped out.

And within that month, that includes the time for them to get as many cities floating as they could, attempt to nuke the crap out of the monsters, thus awakening much worse things, and get the flying cloud machines going that made the permanent cloud oceans.


Dunno why but all this reminds me of this, but steampunk.
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Dunno why but all this reminds me of this, but steampunk.


I'd say general things like that are the inspiration for it. There was even an old movie I once watched which was like, this kid gets picked up from his home and joins a ship on board a flying ship, and their mission is to hunt a giant whale. Pretty sure it was animated, but yeah just in general things like that.

Then the monsters are kinda similar to I guess like, Godzilla King of Monsters to some degree, even though I've not really gotten into that. Just seems similar in some ideas, but with more variety as giant monsters are by far not the only threat.
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I'd say general things like that are the inspiration for it. There was even an old movie I once watched which was like, this kid gets picked up from his home and joins a ship on board a flying ship, and their mission is to hunt a giant whale. Pretty sure it was animated, but yeah just in general things like that.

Then the monsters are kinda similar to I guess like, Godzilla King of Monsters to some degree, even though I've not really gotten into that. Just seems similar in some ideas, but with more variety as giant monsters are by far not the only threat.


Honestly, I've never watched a Godzilla movie but King of Monsters I want to see.
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Is there going to be a discord chat for this RP?

EDIT: Would the ship's doctor be considered an engineer?
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Is there going to be a discord chat for this RP?

EDIT: Would the ship's doctor be considered an engineer?


I don't have plans to make a Discord for it at the moment, but we'll see once it gets going.

I suppose it would but at the start there won't likely be a doctor. For the first ship they're going to be on, you're looking at a ship basically like this:



With some guns bolted to the deck and the crew quarters is a bunch of hammocks strung up. More positions will open up in the future, when there are more dedicated positions, but at the moment ships aren't meant to go out for long, and if a doctor is needed, they're expected to basically patch them up and get them back to the city.

I'd say if your character has experience as a doctor, and wants to be one, let that be their aspiration, or at least one of them.
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I've got a character idea going. Helmsman with aspirations to be pilot. Older. It's a bit late right now to start on anything, but I've got an idea ready to start being put down to paper.
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I've got a character idea going. Helmsman with aspirations to be pilot. Older. It's a bit late right now to start on anything, but I've got an idea ready to start being put down to paper.


Alright, I'll consider you the Helmsman then.
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I am interested!
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I'm interested, but I'll still have to think of a character
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I'm always interested in Steam punk stuff, if this is still open, then I'll look into joining tommorrow ^.^ if not, then oh well, I was too late again XD
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I'm always interested in Steam punk stuff, if this is still open, then I'll look into joining tommorrow ^.^ if not, then oh well, I was too late again XD


It's still open.

In fact to everyone else, I need to know who is 'interested' and who is actually going to take part.

@Shoryu Profile looks good, go ahead and post it.

@Katthaj Let me know when you've finished up your profile.

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In fact to everyone else, I need to know who is 'interested' and who is actually going to take part.


I started working on a CS and have been browsing pictures for further inspiration, but if push comes to shove -- yip yip, Appa! Fly the game without me.
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