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@The New Yorker It's all good. Seems we are having a slow start anyway.
@All For those playing as part of the cell in Richmond, I am purposely not setting that scene because I want to give you the chance to design it in a way that befits your character. Anyone playing as part of the Railsplitters from the get go should feel free to do with the hide-out under Lee's statue what they see fit, within reason. This is your chance to be creative and fuck with the GM by making it difficult for any antagonist to discover and/or penetrate the cell.
Good girl ;-)
redPANDA said
I'm planning to have Alexandra stumble onto the farm.
Good girl ;-)
@redPANDA&crya If you don't use this opportunity to converge your storylines, I'll GM-head-desk. Oh and very nice posts both. It's a good start, and sometimes it's nice to shatter expectations at the very beginning. A*white* slave escaping in the first scene does that nicely.
Bumping for more interest. Not often I see a diesel punk RP and this one has a really well thought out and detailed backstory. Let's make it happen.
@All In case anyone missed, game is on and IC is officially open.
@The New Yorker Sounds good, we still have room. As said earlier we are short on combat focused characters.
@The New Yorker Sounds good, we still have room. As said earlier we are short on combat focused characters.
I'm very interested. I freaking love Dieselpunk. Don't be disheartened by lack of replies, this is a slow board and noncannon RPs are always a hard launch.
OK game on. Starting posts can be almost anywhere that makes sense for your character, but let's try to get as many people in the Richmond chapter or heading in that direction as possible. People who are not finished with characters yet, don't worry, I'm fine with PCs entering at any point. It's actually better if not all characters enter at once.
Feb 13, 1874 Auburn, New York
Harriet came awake in a start, around her a tight dark room filled with wide eyes. They awaited her words, words which had come too late to save Philidelphia, to save her dearest Fredrick. In the Oracle's mind shards of the vision passed like cannon shrapnel through her skull bringing pain with it, tugging at her nerves like a pupeteer at an unruly marionette. Lee, the savior of the South, she could see his statue, emblazoned in bronze. It reflected fires, a city burning... no not a city, but crosses... burning crosses... the Klan.... The screams oh Lord the screams. And watching it all from squinty eyes, Satan, taking the guise he so often did in her visions, a horned serpent with the twisted rack of a stag and the sinuous contours of a rattlesnake. The demon watched the carnage as it coiled about great bronze Lee's legs, tongue flicking in pleasure as if tasting the burnt flesh on the winds. She steeled herself against the pain, grown'in up a slave had taught her that much.
When her wincing eyes open they were placid, calm, no hint of the horror she had beheld to disturb her flock. She reached along her bed and found Nelson's hand where she knew it'd be, but she kept her eyes on the room, on her soldiers, her friends, her family. On faces hollowed and scarred by ten years of war and want. Phrasing her words as delicately as she could she told them the truth, "Richmond will be next... And if we don't save them, we will all fall and the future... will belong to the Serpent."
Harriet came awake in a start, around her a tight dark room filled with wide eyes. They awaited her words, words which had come too late to save Philidelphia, to save her dearest Fredrick. In the Oracle's mind shards of the vision passed like cannon shrapnel through her skull bringing pain with it, tugging at her nerves like a pupeteer at an unruly marionette. Lee, the savior of the South, she could see his statue, emblazoned in bronze. It reflected fires, a city burning... no not a city, but crosses... burning crosses... the Klan.... The screams oh Lord the screams. And watching it all from squinty eyes, Satan, taking the guise he so often did in her visions, a horned serpent with the twisted rack of a stag and the sinuous contours of a rattlesnake. The demon watched the carnage as it coiled about great bronze Lee's legs, tongue flicking in pleasure as if tasting the burnt flesh on the winds. She steeled herself against the pain, grown'in up a slave had taught her that much.
When her wincing eyes open they were placid, calm, no hint of the horror she had beheld to disturb her flock. She reached along her bed and found Nelson's hand where she knew it'd be, but she kept her eyes on the room, on her soldiers, her friends, her family. On faces hollowed and scarred by ten years of war and want. Phrasing her words as delicately as she could she told them the truth, "Richmond will be next... And if we don't save them, we will all fall and the future... will belong to the Serpent."
In order to avoid loosing steam, I'll be declaring game-on soon. If you don't get your character finished by then, that is fine. I'm open to people joining at any time and in fact it's rare in any story for every important character to be plopped down in the first few pages.
@psychopathkids This looks pretty good. I need to make sure you realize that the Marshals are no longer an official arm of the Confederate States government in the timeline. They exist but have essentially become a vigilante group in the post war world. They are classified as rebels by the CSA ironically.
My big concern is your character entering with this huge overarching purpose of assassinating the President which could be the plotline of an entire game in and of itself. The Railsplitters are not, by nature, assassins. They are focused on freeing slaves. Don't get me wrong, they'll kill if they have to, but they do not set out with this purpose generally. You have to remember that they are the descendants of the 1860-50s abolitionist movement which was dominated by religious idealsim, specifically the Quakers. Most, I think, would also argue that killing the President would in no way serve the cause. It would not topple the government and instead would incite a crackdown which would fall most heavily on slaves and make freeing them even more difficult.
All that being said, your character can of course have this goal. He just needs to be smart enough to keep it to himself. The Railsplitters are not going to welcome a gloryhound with a deathwish, especially after what happened in Philly.
My big concern is your character entering with this huge overarching purpose of assassinating the President which could be the plotline of an entire game in and of itself. The Railsplitters are not, by nature, assassins. They are focused on freeing slaves. Don't get me wrong, they'll kill if they have to, but they do not set out with this purpose generally. You have to remember that they are the descendants of the 1860-50s abolitionist movement which was dominated by religious idealsim, specifically the Quakers. Most, I think, would also argue that killing the President would in no way serve the cause. It would not topple the government and instead would incite a crackdown which would fall most heavily on slaves and make freeing them even more difficult.
All that being said, your character can of course have this goal. He just needs to be smart enough to keep it to himself. The Railsplitters are not going to welcome a gloryhound with a deathwish, especially after what happened in Philly.
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