'Mortal Engines' rp ~{steampunk/futuristic}

[dragontamer363]

Welcome to the 'Mortal Engines' Roleplay!

This is based on the book Mortal Engines in so much as it is set in the same world. If you've not read the book there's no ned to be intimidated. Check out the 'concept' part of the wikipedia article (see link) - it's short ^_~. The rest will be explained or just evolve over the rp 3nodding

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines


The Story
Since the Nuclear war, cities resorted to moving like great vehicles, picking off and consuming each other in order to maintain their resources and grow. Few people remember what it was like before the war, which is over a thousand years ago now. Most dwell in cities and believe in ‘municipal Darwinism’ - survival of the fittest.
London has been growing in power, and after much toil has developed a powerful weapon that has allowed it to ‘kill’ and consume other cities with unprecedented vigour and efficiency. Threatened by this, for the first time in many years smaller cities have begun to form alliances with each other, and the anti-traction Leauge has created a united front against such a weapon, and has now began to form plans to formally try to destroy London. There are mutterings of impending war....
Which side will you choose?
The Roleplay
Our rp will center around Europe (aka ‘the great hunting grounds’) and the huge and dominant traction city of London.

Groups
City Dwellers
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These people live in (and if they’re high up enough in society) drive the traction cities and towns. London is the largest city in our story, and is divided into four major guilds and many minor ones.:
1- The Engineers -The Engineers are responsible for maintaining the machines necessary for the survival of London. They are some of the most highly regarded members of society because their sill is what allows London to survive. Lower engineers that work in the gut of the city, however, are often captured slaves form other cities, or lower members of society.
2- The Historians - responsible for salvaging any historical or interetsing items of ‘old tech’ etc left over from the nuclear war many centuries ago. They are often looked down upon as being a bit useless and having odd values. When the city is in dire times (eg it hasn’t ‘eaten’ and needs more fuel) often priceless historical items will be seized by the government and burnt to power the city.
3- The Navigators - Responsible for steering and plotting the course for the city. Their intelligence and skill are vital for the city’s survival, as they seek out the best hunting grounds. Thus Navigators are very highly respected.
4- The Merchants - Responsible for maintaining the economy
The head of the city has usually come to office because he is the head ‘lord’ or either the engineers or the navigators.
The cities are often shaped like a wedding cake, with higher members of society living at the top tiers, and the lower members at the bottom.
Each city is an individual state, looking to destroy and consume those smaller than it for energy and resources.

The Anti-Traction League
See Wikipedia
The anti-traction league seeks to stop cities from moving and consuming each other, and wish to return to how the world was before the nuclear war. Much of the Asian world is a united stronghold of the league, with the main city having a huge shield wall to keep the cities out. Those who belong to the league often travel around in airships, and have been known to commit terrorist activity on the traction cities.

Static cities
A few cities have managed to remain static, although rarely are these more than shanty towns in hard-to-reach areas. The Anti-Traction league strongholds are the notable exceptions.
Static cities consist of settlements in mountains or floating cities on what remains of the sea.

Scavengers
Very few people can survive on the muddy and deserted wastelands alone. Those who do attempt to scavenge out a lifestyle and are usually linked with the anti-traction league. Others are slavers, picking of any survivors form a city’s destruction.

Stalkers
see wikipedia  

[dragontamer363]

Characters

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Username:
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Name:
Gender:
Age:
Type: [city dweller, anti traction leauge, stalker, scavenger, other etc]
Guild: [if applicable: engineer,navigator,historian,merchant etc]
Social status:
Occupation:
Appearance:
Personality:
Bio:
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Username: dragontamer363

Name: Kayla Sheriden
Gender: female
Age: 19
Type: Scavenger [ie does not belong to any city - mobile or static]
Guild: None, although she frequentloy finds shelter with the anti-traction league
Social status: One of the lowest of the low. She makes her living trawling the wastelands. City dwellers especially view her with contempt.
Occupation: Savenger - she traverses the wastelands and searches for things she can sell in the ejected rubbish heaps of the cities, or the carcasses of ‘eaten’ cities. She then sells these things at one of the many floating cities of the anti-traction league.
Appearance: [see tektek] Somewhat short but generally cheerful, she has choppy short hair she dyes pink, and a face that -while not particularly pretty- holds a certain charm, especially when she smiles. She takes a certain pride in her appearance, and while she’s a little tatty around the edges, her self-made clothes carry many little details. Like clock-cogs, chains and other pretty knick-knacks. Her trousers are baggy but practical, and she has a large oil-and-dirt-stained coat to keep out the cold. She’s very tanned from a life outdoors.
Personality: Kayla is extremely independant person, and has an eagle eye for spotting things that will sell. Her morals can be a bit iffy, especially when it comes to theft, and she’s determined to make money. She embraces the ‘survival of the fittest mentality whole heartedly, but is always willing to help someone in need. Just because you fell the wrong side of this ideology doesn’t mean that you have to starve, she believes, but she’ll never put her own survival at risk even if it is for another person. She’s not squeamish at all, and has an unhealthy interest in poking corpses. She dislikes cities and prefers airships, and often find companionship and safety inside the anti-traction league. She hates slavery, and dislikes ‘hoighty toighty’ types and people who look down on her. Generally, though, she’s quick to laugh and even quicker to insult people she dislikes. She’s not particularly ladylike and always fights dirty.
She carries around her favourite weapon - a large harpoon- and it has served her well. Usually it’s used to aid her climbing in ruined cities, but she had often ‘hitched a ride’ on passing cities by harpooning onto their underbellies and climbing aboard. She is careful to keep out of sight in these occasions.
She has a small airship of her own, but often she’ll abandon it for a couple of weeks at a time in order to travel on foot in search of scraps to scavenge.
Bio: Kayla was born to the industrial traction city of Sheffield. When she was 7 it was ‘eaten’ by a larger city most of her family were rounded up and imprisoned or killed. She managed to drop down one of the waste chutes of her broken city onto the wastelands below and escape capture. There she wandered about until she was spotted and picked up by a benevolent member of the anti-traction league. She was cared for and placed in an orphanage. There she would wander the great static cities, but frequently found she was drawn back to the wastelands. When she was 11 -and still unadopted- she decided that she’d take on a quick apprenticeship with a airship crew. She managed t slip away back onto the wastelands, armed with some knowledge of how an airship worked, and began to pick out her own life as an independant girl - seeing it all as an adventure. Whenever she was in need she would try return to the anti traction league.
When she was 14, she managed to cobble together enough materials to make a basic airship, and with the help of some fellow scavengers she had met, she built the ‘Magpie’. The ship has been with her ever since and she defends it fiercely.
Other: her airship is a small thing similar to a hot air balloon, named the ‘magpie’.


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Username: Yllirion

Name: Nicko
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Type: Anti traction
Guild: None
Social status: Scrapper
Occupation: recycling area.
Appearance: He is a very long guy and has long short hair and he is always wearing a Gatsby cap. His cloths are very nice to travel with but not quite well used for formal meetings.
Personality: Nicko could never say for an adventure. His dream is to travel around and to aid a crew of an airship. He is a lazy and likes to chill. He often forgets names and can get into trouble without doing anything. He likes to help and fix stuff and he tries to collect things from the past.
Bio: Nicko comes from a regular family that have been working in town and that they had always warned Nicko to not walk around like he does or someday he would get caught by the people and become a slave. He moved out and likes to explore in old ruins and find trash that could have been from the past. He is searching and also dreaming of finding the greatest airship captain and joins its crew
Other: Likes to have a motorcycle
He wants to find a guitar
He likes to fix things.
He likes comics


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Username: 0Moon_Maiden0



Name: Jared Bard
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Type: The Anti-Traction League
Guild: N/A
Social status: Somewhere between the standards of Middle to Low Class..
Occupation: Basically his job is to collect data for the Anti-Traction League.

Appearance: [see tektek] Other detail(s).....Height-6'2"

Personality: Jared tries to act like a gentleman, but often fails because he likes to tease, play pranks, and flirt/flatter women (or men if he's feeling especially naughty)-however he would never cheat on his wife, Dawn.

Bio: Jared's of Scottish decent, easily discovered by his aceent, but he doesn't speak of his past-too many sad memories he claims. He doesn't really believe it the whole "survival of the fittest" notion either, and secretly sneaks into the 'Gut' to try and help people. This is also where he came across Dawn Williams. He fell it love with her on the spot. However what he deemed as a rescue...she saw as a kidnapping. He learned shortly after this 'rescue' what a skilled hand-to-hand fighter she was. Eventually the two later married

Other: His weapons are a revolver & rapier. He also has a falcon he calls Fluffy. Holds enough engineering skills to keep his ship the, Great Scots, in the air and also enjoys crafting items.

The Great Scots is a blimp or hot air balloon type airship-a bit on the smallish size. ((Best to think of the one from "The Mummy Returns" if you've seen it-a boat attached to a big balloon.)) The ship doesn't have much in weapons except a couple of harpoons and bombs. However-what it lacks in offense it makes up for in speed.

Username: 0Moon_Maiden0



Name: Dawn Williams Bard
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Type: The Anti-Traction League
Guild: N/A
Social status: Low Class
Occupation: Wife and "Task Master"-a nickname given by Jared because he assigns her numerous tasks and odd jobs. While aboard the airship she also acts as a look out (thus why she has a spyglass).

Appearance: [see tektek] Other detail(s)......Height-5'6" Wears a sun and moon hairpin given to her by Jared as a wedding gift.

Personality: Although Dawn is mute, and thus unable to speak, she can be quite expression with her actions-especially when it comes to keeping Jared, her husband, well-behaved. With others she can have the patience of a saint.

Bio: Dawn remembers little from her past. She can't speak of it either because she is mute. She was brought into slavery at a young age-she doesn't even recall where it was. Her life at that time was dull and exhausting. However one day her path crossed with Jared Bard who looked at her with a smile and stole her away. Of course after they had both escaped aboard Jared's flying ship, Great Scots, safely she proceeded to beat him in her confusion. Later on the two married although to others they sometimes don't fit the 'happy couple' image with Jared's flirting and Dawn's violence towards her husband....

Other: Although Jared seems to understand her just fine she keeps a notebook handy so she can write out what she wants to say to others. She is also very skilled at hand-to-hand combat. She also became a skilled in engineer with training from the league, and carries a bag fill with needed tools for maintance.

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Username: Zizzykitty
[tektek pic here please]

Name: Charlotte
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Type: City Dweller
Guild: Historian
Social status: Relatively low
Occupation: Historian
Appearance: [see tektek] Charlotte comes in as average/short at about 5’3”. She is extremely pale from life in the city. Her mechanical wings allow her to glide and flitter short distances. She carries a large book with her to record her findings in and when she gets bored she’ll use it as a diary/journal sometimes. She has a strap for it so she can swing it over her shoulder if she doesn’t want to carry it.
Personality: Charlotte is relatively quiet, but not because she’s shy but because she’s not got many people to talk to. But if you get her started on history she’ll talk your ear off. She finds history and its artifacts amazing. She is very easily amused and will find interest in most anything. She is book smart but can be a tad dull in the real world since she’s never had to deal with it much.
Bio: Charlotte grew up in the city with her father who was also a historian, where she got her love of history. Her mother is there too but she is much closer to her father. She was always helping him find things in the lower tiers of the city where most of the ‘junk’ accumulates. She still lives with her father but has started to wonder the purpose of their large moving cities and has pondered what life outside London.
Other: Not much use in a fight. She’s good at repairing things from years of tinkering with old artifacts trying to get them to work again.




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Username: Andy_1134

Name: Lan Razame
Gender: male
Age: 20
Type: Anti-Traction League
Guild: gadgeteer
Social status: mid level
Occupation: merchant
Appearance: [see tektek] he is about 6'0ft he carries abuch of objects that he finds
Personality: Lan speakes his mind. not afraid to tell any one what he thinks.
Bio: Lan grew up In the old Republic of Mexico He travled via a small air craft. to london where he has opened a small tradeing post that also takes traverlers to distant lands.
Other: Lan is an excalent fighter able to hold up any kinda stress.  

[0Moon_Maiden0]

Sounds interesting......

Username: 0Moon_Maiden0



Name: Jared Bard
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Type: The Anti-Traction League
Guild: N/A
Social status: Somewhere between the standards of Middle to Low Class..
Occupation: Basically his job is to collect data for the Anti-Traction League.

Appearance: [see tektek] Other detail(s).....Height-6'2"

Personality: Jared tries to act like a gentleman, but often fails because he likes to tease, play pranks, and flirt/flatter women (or men if he's feeling especially naughty)-however he would never cheat on his wife, Dawn.

Bio: Jared's of Scottish decent, easily discovered by his aceent, but he doesn't speak of his past-too many sad memories he claims. He doesn't really believe it the whole "survival of the fittest" notion either, and secretly sneaks into the 'Gut' to try and help people. This is also where he came across Dawn Williams. He fell it love with her on the spot. However what he deemed as a rescue...she saw as a kidnapping. He learned shortly after this 'rescue' what a skilled hand-to-hand fighter she was. Eventually the two later married

Other: His weapons are a revolver & rapier. He also has a falcon he calls Fluffy. Holds enough engineering skills to keep his ship the, Great Scots, in the air and also enjoys crafting items.

The Great Scots is a blimp or hot air balloon type airship-a bit on the smallish size. ((Best to think of the one from "The Mummy Returns" if you've seen it-a boat attached to a big balloon.)) The ship doesn't have much in weapons except a couple of harpoons and bombs. However-what it lacks in offense it makes up for in speed.

Username: 0Moon_Maiden0



Name: Dawn Williams Bard
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Type: The Anti-Traction League
Guild: N/A
Social status: Low Class
Occupation: Wife and "Task Master"-a nickname given by Jared because he assigns her numerous tasks and odd jobs. While aboard the airship she also acts as a look out (thus why she has a spyglass).

Appearance: [see tektek] Other detail(s)......Height-5'6" Wears a sun and moon hairpin given to her by Jared as a wedding gift.

Personality: Although Dawn is mute, and thus unable to speak, she can be quite expression with her actions-especially when it comes to keeping Jared, her husband, well-behaved. With others she can have the patience of a saint.

Bio: Dawn remembers little from her past. She can't speak of it either because she is mute. She was brought into slavery at a young age-she doesn't even recall where it was. Her life at that time was dull and exhausting. However one day her path crossed with Jared Bard who looked at her with a smile and stole her away. Of course after they had both escaped aboard Jared's flying ship, Great Scots, safely she proceeded to beat him in her confusion. Later on the two married although to others they sometimes don't fit the 'happy couple' image with Jared's flirting and Dawn's violence towards her husband....

Other: Although Jared seems to understand her just fine she keeps a notebook handy so she can write out what she wants to say to others. She is also very skilled at hand-to-hand combat. She also became a skilled in engineer with training from the league, and carries a bag fill with needed tools for maintance.  

[dragontamer363]

No problemo smile
i'll start posting when i figure out what to say -haha  

[Yllirion]

I will also start with this one I will get my profile here and my character heart
ssssssssssss *wrap around DT *


Username: Yllirion

Name: Nicko
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Type: Anti traction
Guild: None
Social status: Scrapper
Occupation: recycling area.
Appearance: He is a very long guy and has long short hair and he is always wearing a Gatsby cap. His cloths are very nice to travel with but not quite well used for formal meetings.
Personality: Nicko could never say for an adventure. His dream is to travel around and to aid a crew of an airship. He is a lazy and likes to chill. He often forgets names and can get into trouble without doing anything. He likes to help and fix stuff and he tries to collect things from the past.
Bio: Nicko comes from a regular family that have been working in town and that they had always warned Nicko to not walk around like he does or someday he would get caught by the people and become a slave. He moved out and likes to explore in old ruins and find trash that could have been from the past. He is searching and also dreaming of finding the greatest airship captain and joins its crew
Other: Likes to have a motorcycle
He wants to find a guitar
He likes to fix things.
He likes comics  

[dragontamer363]

cool biggrin

*sticks a melon on your horns* tee hee!  

[Zizzykitty]

This looks like fun. I'll have to get a character together.

And here she is now. Looks like I'm the first city dweller. xd

Username: Zizzykitty
[tektek pic here please]

Name: Charlotte
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Type: City Dweller
Guild: Historian
Social status: Relatively low
Occupation: Historian
Appearance: [see tektek] Charlotte comes in as average/short at about 5’3”. She is extremely pale from life in the city. Her mechanical wings allow her to glide and flitter short distances. She carries a large book with her to record her findings in and when she gets bored she’ll use it as a diary/journal sometimes. She has a strap for it so she can swing it over her shoulder if she doesn’t want to carry it.
Personality: Charlotte is relatively quiet, but not because she’s shy but because she’s not got many people to talk to. But if you get her started on history she’ll talk your ear off. She finds history and its artifacts amazing. She is very easily amused and will find interest in most anything. She is book smart but can be a tad dull in the real world since she’s never had to deal with it much.
Bio: Charlotte grew up in the city with her father who was also a historian, where she got her love of history. Her mother is there too but she is much closer to her father. She was always helping him find things in the lower tiers of the city where most of the ‘junk’ accumulates. She still lives with her father but has started to wonder the purpose of their large moving cities and has pondered what life outside London.
Other: Not much use in a fight. She’s good at repairing things from years of tinkering with old artifacts trying to get them to work again.  

[dragontamer363]

great. I'll check out your character sheets and then make the 1st post :3  

[Yllirion]

dragontamer363

cool biggrin

*sticks a melon on your horns* tee hee!

*looks at the melon that is stuck in his horns*
ssssstop that.
Thanksss a lot DT
*chases her*
My character is a bit neat but I just want a siple character this time and just like me a bit xp  

[0Moon_Maiden0]

Yllirion

dragontamer363

cool biggrin

*sticks a melon on your horns* tee hee!

*looks at the melon that is stuck in his horns*
ssssstop that.
Thanksss a lot DT
*chases her*
My character is a bit neat but I just want a siple character this time and just like me a bit xp

I'm being bold and starting out with two characters-haha.  

[dragontamer363]

awesome. i've posted them up on the 1st post and i'll start in a minute

[of course feel free to post whenever -even before me if you like]



also for newbs - any london characters/pro traction characters are cool too ^_~  

[dragontamer363]

“Well crapcicle.”
Kayla sighed as he searched through the deflated balloon of the ’magpie’ airship. She had counted her lucky stars just earlier when she and her hunk of junk had managed to scrape their way to the floating city of Airhaven. Here, she now sat - her goggles hanging around her neck and what felt like miles of torn fabric of the balloon around her.
“Ruddy thing. Looks like we’re not going anywhere.” She said, to no-one in particular (as was often her custom). She stood up and dusted herself down and headed back to the rusty and dented metal ‘basket’ of the balloon. The thing was brimming with bags of junk and finds she had spent the last three months collecting from the scarred land below them, and she knew that if anywhere could provide a great market for random goods- airhaven could. She leant in and heaved the large bag out and over her shoulder.
“Look after that will yer?” she called to the two gaurds who had stood watching her on the docking port. Before they had much chance to protest she headed into the heart of the city.  

[0Moon_Maiden0]

In the busy market area of Airhaven a young gentleman flirts shamelessly with a pair of twin sisters who were out selling and buying supplies. A figure approaches from behind and grabs him by the ear.

"Ouch!" the man, by the name of Jared, whined. He glanced at a green haired woman. "Back so soon Dawn-y dearest," he smiled.

Dawn's piercing green eyes stared at him. The sisters giggled and ran off.

"Aw....come now honey....I was get'n them to bring the price of-ouch!!" Jared whined again as Dawn squeezed harder on his ear. "Now, now....you know your the only woman for me," he pleaded.

Dawn released him and folded her arms. "Come now...surely by now you know its just playful flirting....nothing more," Jared said. ".....there's no need to be jealous." Dawn's eyes flashed and punched him in his stomach.

"Alright.....alright.....," he gasped as Dawn smirked.  

[dragontamer363]

(lol)

Kayla hoiseted her sack into the market and headed for a spot she knew well. While she wasn't much of a regular here - only dropping of to fix her baloon or sell her larger wares a few times a year - she was nevertheless territorial about her spot for selling, and renound for striking up lasting acquaintences with teh most useful people there. As usual, she headed over to the man repsonsible for renting the market stalls.
"'ey up Devin, got any going spare?" She asked with a flash of a smile to the middle aged man in charge. He eyed her and then smirked.
"Why if it isn't Kayla Sheriden out from the trash heap! What are you doing back so soon, I thought you came up in November?"
"Ship broke." She said with a shrug. "You got any spaces in my corner?"
"All out there. " he said and withdrew a tatty clipboard of crumpled papers. "But I have a few spots you might like. Near the pub."
Kayla wrinkle dher nose at the thought of being shifte dout fo her 'turf' but perked up at the idea of it being near the pub. Pubs held all type sof customers, and even some poking at a few tipsy customers coudl provide some lucrative results.
"Pub suits me fine." she grinned. "Lead the way."

He led her down the bustling market street to one of the shabbier pubs and she began to unpack. within half an hour her stall was set up and she had paid him for his trouble.  

[0Moon_Maiden0]

Dawn seemed to shift easily through the crowded. She paused to allow her husband to catch up. Jared approached-slightly hunched a hover still recovering from the blow. He glanced up at her and smiled, "Haha....no need to worry...I'll be fine. Go on ahead and shop a bit. We'll meet up later around here or at the ship."

Dawn raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms again. "I promise to be on my best behavior," Jared said.

She grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him closer. Jared squeezed his eyes shut preparing for another blow.....instead she kissed him on the cheek and shoved him back. She smiled and wondered off.

Jared smiled in confusion and longing. "I love that woman," he thought.
He wondered through the crowd until he came across the pub. He smiled again-both a good place to grab a drink and sometimes information. However a flash of pink caught his eye. He looked over at a younger lass with pink hair who had set up a tiny shop. He wondered over and decided to look at her wears instead.