BingTheWing

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

@Jbcool Nope, just people getting excited hahaha. The CS will probably be your generic history/ability/equipment shebang, but at the moment you are free to send me what you would put in your character's 'Biography' field.

@Arkitekt Woah, slow down there pardner! Are you just sending me your character biographies?

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

First draft of the timeline. Nitpicking of historical inaccuracies/improbabilities is highly encouraged.

Timeline of the Grey Rot

November 1755 - The Transylvanian village of Întuneric, known for the supernatural happenings that occur there and the perceived ‘eccentricity’ of its natives, suddenly goes ‘quiet’. Visitors to the village are never heard from again, letters sent there go unresponded to, and a faint smell of rotting flesh permeates the surrounding countryside.

December 1755 - A coalition of nearby villages, assisted by a small company of Austrian imperial soldiers, is formed to investigate the sudden silence of Întuneric. A party of 50 spends one night in the village and returns a party of 40, panicked, with bite marks all over their bodies and accounts of the villagers attacking them like rabid animals. All of the 40 survivors expire within 8 hours. Minutes after their supposed expirations, said 40 survivors begin to display the characteristics of their attackers. By New Years’ Eve, hordes of the dead are already crossing the borders of Wallachia.

January 1756 - The Holy Roman Empire sends troops into Transylvania as the infection, now dubbed the ‘Grey Rot’ after the complexions of its victims, progresses southward into Bulgaria and Greece. The panic it creates causes a sudden influx of refugees into Ottoman Turkey, resulting in a surprise outbreak in Constantinople that quickly overruns the entire city.

February 1756 - Imperial forces are unable to contain the infection as the Grey Rot has already contaminated the Danube. Outbreaks occur throughout all of the Balkans as the region is thrown into anarchy.

March 1756 - By this time, the infection has a significant presence in southern Poland and the Ukraine. The Rot is held back only by the sheer military might of the Holy Roman Empire, and the effective closing of all rivers to Western Europe. The petty squabbles of Western Europe that would have led to the Seven Years’ War are set aside in the hasty Treaty of Nice to deal with the threat.

April 1756 - Ottoman refugees in the Caucasus discover that the infected freeze when exposed to sub-zero temperatures. Subsequently, a risky attempt is made by the Russian Empire to lure the horde into the northeast cold to perish. Meanwhile, the Grey Rot breaks through the Alps, rendering the German states dead in the water.

May 1756 - Martial law is enacted in France, Spain, and Great Britain as refugees from eastern Europe spill over into those areas, fleeing a dying Holy Roman Empire. As Polish boats cross the Baltic to escape to the Scandinavian cold, British battleships patrol the English Channel, boarding refugee ships at random and sinking those with suspected infected on board. The craze to get to America, long simmering since February, reaches a climax as hundreds of members of the French, Spanish, and British nobility begin to escape across the Atlantic.

June 1756 - Britain, France, Spain, Russia and the Scandinavian states form the Council of Lyons, an ad hoc committee whose ultimate goal is to cease the Grey Rot. The first ordinance of the council is to deploy a coalition force in Prussia and along the Rhine to consolidate a ‘last border’ against the infected horde.

August 1756 - Correspondence with Russia becomes more and more intermittent as the government in Moscow is forced to temporarily relocate to allow for the Imperial Army to lure the dead further into the east. Meanwhile, the North American colonies grow more and more discontent with the massive amount of refugees (and therefore risk of the disease) they are forced to receive by their colonial overlords, with minor riots and civil unrest sparking in French Louisiana.

September 1756 - A ghoul is dispatched aboard a refugee ship docking in New York harbor, adding to the paranoia in the North American colonies. The province of Georgia, in a near-suicidal defiance of British colonial mandate, refuses to accept any more refugees from the Caribbean, and it is clear war will be inevitable if the refusal is upheld.

October 1756 - A huge outbreak occurs in Nassau, the Bahamas, that forces the colonial counterparts of the Council of Lyons to quarantine the entire island. Ships that departed before the official enactment of the quarantine make their way to St. Alexander, North Carolina.

November 1756 - Present day. The Southern Colonies are on the brink of rebellion, nobody knows whether the Russians have routed the eastern horde yet, and you are on the last ship from Kingston into Saint Alexander.

In Too Deep - A futuristic Lovecraftian experience

@Graviloquence I think I may have to back out.

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

@Force and Fury Wanna hop over to the Advanced IntCheck?

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

Are you guys okay with a small group?

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

Currently working on a timeline of the outbreak so as to make character creation easier.

If you have any questions as to what could have happened to your character during the outbreak, you may ask them now.

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

Currently working on a timeline of the outbreak so as to make character creation easier.

If you have any questions as to what could have happened to your character during the outbreak, you may ask them now.

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

@Arkitekt If they’re whores they would probably be forced out of business due to the rot spreading through bodily fluids, haha. Original countries of origin would be cool with me. I’m not so sure about the undercover hunters thing... this is a story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and I’d prefer to keep the characters rather lowkey. The most combat experience any one character would have would either be military service or an upbringing in the slums. If your character was from the upper class of society though, if they pushed for it they could have had a few fencing lessons here and there.

Female characters in this setting (who aren’t prostitutes) would probably have been initially attached to a family that has attempted to flee from Europe, whether as a wife, a daughter, or a servant. Said family may or may not be dead upon arrival at St. Alexander, though if they aren’t dead bear in mind your character will have to balance caring for them with interacting with the other characters in the RP. Even if you are single and have no surviving family, you would probably go with friends. A female character that has made the journey independently on purpose, however, will require a more solid CS.

You could also play a native of Saint Alexander as well, though you would have to provide an explanation as to why you haven’t evacuated to the mainland yet.

But in the end, your characters being strong independent women would most certainly work in this setting, seeing as ‘proper’ ladies of the time that were overdependent on their families would have probably not survived the pandemic.

Your writing sample is also excellent, by the way - glad to have you aboard!

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

@Arkitekt Not bad, but your characters would have to have originated from somewhere other than the Americas (they're already in America, why would they need to go east, where the plague is?). Also, be aware that female characters may also be mistreated and looked down upon, just like in real life.

The Lamplit Men - A Colonial American RP

The Lamplit Men

“The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.”
- Proverbs 13:9

It is the year 1756 - The kingdoms of Europe are on the brink of war, powdered wigs and tricorn hats are the stock wardrobe of every Western gentleman, and in a small hamlet in Romania, the dead begin to walk the earth.

Within months, the pandemic has crossed the Bosporus and wrought havoc in the Ottoman Empire, enveloped the entirety of the Balkan Peninsula, and is now ravaging the east Prussian countryside, inching ever closer to the Rhine. It is becoming clear in Western Europe that the continent will not be safe for much longer. With refugees (and infected with them) flooding in from the East, the great colonial empires of Western Europe turn to the safe haven they have been constructing for centuries - the New World. All over the continent, papers are hurriedly pulled out of drawers, prepared, and signed, all meaning one thing to their bearers - safe passage to the Americas.

And the Americas are not happy.

The colonists are more resentful now, for it is not just the colonial authorities sapping away at their resources - refugees from Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Italy are now the recipients of the bounty of the New World. Tensions between colonists and colonial authorities are at an all-time high, with many territories suing for independence and the right to dictate their own migratory policies. One of those territories is Saint Alexander, an island colony governed by the British Empire seventy-five miles off the coast of North Carolina. As the easternmost territory of the region, Saint Alexander has been unceremoniously christened as a ‘halfway house’ and the first responder to the refugee crisis in those parts. The island is now burdened with the danger that comes with a large intake of refugees, and it is becoming increasingly clear that even a minor outbreak would merit an island-wide quarantine. The residents of Saint Alexander are angry at two parties - those in the east who force the dangers of the infection onto them, and those in the mainland in the west who refuse to share the burden of accepting the damned of Europe.

You are a refugee arriving at Saint Alexander on the H.M.S. Lioness in the autumn of 1756, nine months after the infection started. You could be from anywhere from Turkey to Spain: all that matters is that you get to the mainland as soon as possible, which at the moment is not at all likely due to the Province of North Carolina having implemented near-impossible requirements for entry of persons and materials. If you don’t find a way to North Carolina soon, you could very well be trapped on Saint Alexander as part of a quarantine. You have also heard, from mutterings and rumors on the voyage, that the Indian savages have developed a cure - and that some of them have traveled to Saint Alexander to help.

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Good day, fellow Guilders. I am BingTheWing, and this lovechild of mine is pretty much zombies with flintlocks. We are refugees from Europe and beyond, having fled to the American colonies from the disease called the ‘Grey Rot’ (named so after the complexions of its victims) that seemingly resurrects the dead and turns them into mindless cannibalistic corpses that spread their infection through the contact of bodily fluids, most especially biting. Your task could probably be the ensuring of your own long-term survival, most easily obtained if passage to the mainland is acquired, or you could stay and help find a cure to the disease. I’m looking for an initial group of about 5 to 6 - we could accept more members if the roleplay is going slowly.

I'm also not sure whether to put this in Casual or Advanced - I'll just make two IntChecks, I guess.

Anyone up?

Link to Advanced IntCheck