Dante Mountain: A Steampunk Fantasy RP

Okay, the premise is simple. This RP is an alternate Earth where magic, fantasy races, and some Steampunk and Diesel Punk technologies exist. This will be sort of a Slice of Life RP that will later become an adventure RP.

The setting is Earth circa 1913, specifically the coalfields of Southwestern Virginia around the Clinchfield Railroad. It's the time of the coal booms and railroad booms in the Appalachian Mountains and people have come from all over to find work in the numerous coal mines or the Clinchfield Railroad. The companies run the various mining towns and camps across the region, and the town of Dante stands out in particular.

Dante is the home of both mines and a major rail yard for the Clinchfield Railroad, and in addition to the local hill folk, descended from Scots-Irish settlers, many immigrants from Europe and people from the major cities in the North have come to the mountains, hired by the companies to either work the rails or work in the mines. A small but growing community is thriving in Dante, and it seems like this rural mountain town is attracting people from all walks of life.

But strange things are happening in the town, and what will befall the residents of Dante?

Now, onto the character classes, each class has a limit of players available....

• Worker: This the most basic class. The Worker is a Jack of All Stats, and master of none. They are predominantly coal miners who simply work for a living and want to live their lives in peace as best they can, but can be dragged into adventure and misadventure.
  • Limit: 4
• Mine Boss: The charismatic and intimidating leaders of the work crews in the mines, the Mine Boss is a class all about leading people and generally providing the role of leader and strategist in a party.
  • Limit: 1
• Fighter: These men and women fight for a living, whether as soldiers, vigilantes, members of a posse, or simply common thugs. They are vital for security.
  • Limit: 4
• Hunter: Masters of wilderness survival, hunting and trapping game, gathering plants, and ranging the vast woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  • Limit: 3
• Magic-User: These arcane mages can cast spells and come from many walks of life, whether they be educated wizards, skilled sorcerers, or crafty witches.
  • Limit: 3
• Cleric: The priests, preachers, clergymen, and shamans of various faiths that through their piety, faith, and devotion, can channel divine magic to help their flock.
  • Limit: 2
• Engineer: The mechanical technicians of the area, often employed by the coal and rail companies to work on machinery. They can create various devices that can be useful to the party.
  • Limit: 2
• Medic: Using a mix of medical science and healing magic, these medical personnel have been hired by the coal companies to aid the sick and injured of the town.
  • Limit: 2
• Sheriff: The lawful guardians of the towns, providing a sense of law and order. Essentially an early 20th Century version of the Paladin.
  • Limit: 1
• Rogue: Thieves and thugs, these men and women of the under class do whatever it takes to survive in the coalfields, often using the skills of thievery, espionage, as well as breaking and entering to get their goals achieved.
  • Limit: 3
• Brawler: Bare-fisted bruisers that specialize in hand-to-hand combat. Some use refined martial arts, others use down and dirty street fighting to achieve their goals.
  • Limit: 2
• Assassin: Often from similar walks of life as the rogue, these spies and hitmen are not only masters of stealth, but also poison and limited illusion magic. The Clinchfield Railroad and the Pittston Coal Company has hired assassins to silence opposition to the underhanded business policies of the companies in these mountain coal towns
  • Limit: 1
• Entertainer: Exactly As It Says On The Tin, these musicians, actors, and poets often provide entertainment to the people in the town of Dante, but can use their music and other abilities to charm people and harness lesser magic.
  • Limit: 3

Okay, now that the classes are explained, it is time to post the sign-up sheet.

• Name:
• Gender:
• Age:
• Race: (Any fantasy race is acceptable, though humans are the majority of the population)
• Class:
• Appearance: (Can be a written description or a picture)
• Personality:
• Powers/Abilities:
• Equipment:
• Other:

Here's the problem. You come up with great ideas, of which this is one but then you never follow through on them. If I sign up I'd like to know that I'll be posting more than once or twice. Sorry for being blunt. I understand that RL gets in the way and a slice of life does allow for minimal GM involvement but there still has to be some.

edited 10th Nov '13 5:33:59 AM by tricksterson

I understand your concern, but this is something I am heavily investing in and following up on, mainly because it's rooted in the history of my homeplace.

Dante, Virginia is a real place, a coal town I grew up near, and I always wanted to do something with my history and Appalachian heritage, so this is what I came up with. No half-assing on this one. I am fully investing into this RP as much as my spare time will allow.

edited 10th Nov '13 6:05:00 AM by PaulieRomanov

Fair enough. I will create a character. but if you skip out, I will hunt you down and hit you with a pie. I call dibs on one of the brawler spots

edited 10th Nov '13 11:43:34 AM by tricksterson

Sounds reasonable to me

Here is my character

• Name: Elizabeth Colbird
• Gender: Female
• Age: 19
• Race: Half-Elf
• Class: Worker
• Appearance: http://www.zerochan.net/1397635
• Personality: Kind, caring, and sometimes tomboyish. Elizabeth Colbird is a hard worker, cooking and serving food for the miners and rail workers in Dante is her passion. In addition to being a good cook, she is a Big Eater and a surprisingly decent shot with a rifle, having had to defend her yard from coyotes and other varmints.
• Powers/Abilities: Elizabeth has the following skills...
  • Crack Shot: Despite no formal training with firearms, Elizabeth is a good shot with steady aim. Her father taught her how to shoot when she was young and she has had experience keeping animals out of her yard and occasionally having to help hunters bag fresh game for the kitchen she works in.
• Equipment: Kitchen Knife, Pots and pans, Cooking Utensils, Canteen of Water, Bottle of Wine, Small-caliber Rifle (not usually on her person, but is at her house)
• Other: She loves sweets

edited 10th Nov '13 8:01:25 PM by PaulieRomanov

• Name: Tuck Rockfist
• Age: 92
• Race: Dwarf
• Appearance: Short, stocky, muscular, bearded however for a dwarf at least his beard is kept short and trim, perhaps to draw attention to the huge walrus mustache he has. Beard, moustache and hair are all red. Generally he wears a pair of canvas trousers held up by suspenders and shirts whose sleeves he keeps rolled up as well as a bowler hat. He can usually be found with a cigar in his mouth as well.
• Class: Brawler
• Personality: Cheerfully aggressive and flamboyant. He likes to style himself as a "freelance keeper of the peace" although what he really is is a bully for hire. However he draws the line at hurting women or children barring those who show they're as tough as he is.
• Powers/Abilities: He is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter, having trained in the Dwarven martial art warkae (based on pankration.
• Equipment: Brass knuckles and a large knife, although he saves them for emergencies as it's point of pride for him to use his bare hands whenever possible. He also keeps a supply of cigars in his shirt pocket and a flask of whiskey in his pants.

edited 12th Nov '13 7:50:59 PM by tricksterson

Accepted

One or two more people and we can start the RP!

Anybody else still interested? I still am.

I am. Would a Badass Abnormal Vigilante be allowed?

edited 19th Nov '13 7:08:11 PM by TroyandHawk

This looks promising. Count me in!

I'll put down a character soon.

Name: Manfred "Manny" Belacqua

Gender: Male

Age: 36

Race: Human

Class: Worker

Appearance: Short and fit, but has a distinct Roman nose and a pair of glasses that he always wears, even though the lenses are almost always black with soot. Wears a hard hat with a light ontop along with the standard miner's uniform◊ and a quickly greying face mask (he needs to replace it every day). Manny has brown eyes and ruffled chestnut hair which is (of course!) turning black with all the soot.

Personality: For somebody who works in an incredibly dangerous place in almost complete darkness fifty hours a week, Manny is remarkably chipper. He is thankful for his job in the mines, but is looking for the Mine Boss job to better support his growing family; he already has a little girl named Abbie, and his wife Maria is expecting their second child.

That being said, Manny isn't really much of a public speaker. Or a leader. At all. He's strong enough and clever enough to be a decent leader, but the very thought of speaking in front of a crowd makes him woozy. He isn't remarkably brave, but will stand by his friends in a fight. Unless a spider's involved. He hates them.

Powers/Abilities: Manny is very accustomed to seeing in the dark, as well as moving around in tight areas. He can fight with a blunt object well, but doesn't have any specific training in combat. He can be quite sociable, but again, don't expect him to speak in front of crowds.

Equipment: Pickaxe, headlamp, an extra flashlight, a tiny bit of food he keeps from his lunch for later. He's not really packin'.

Yes

Ooh, revival! I had given up hope.

Well, don't get too excited yet. I'm still waiting for approval.

Your character is approved

Yay!

Bumping for interest

I'm still interested, but unless this gets off the ground soon I'm going to have to leave. These next two weeks are going to be Hell on Earth.