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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:41 am
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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 picture: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T_wU1kjB1wg/R3-5tbSpiqI/AAAAAAAAAAc/OfujkLPHxq4/s1600/london1+copy.jpg 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
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:48 am
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Quote: Username: [tektek pic here please] 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: Other:
Username: dragontamer363
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d15/0803/ba6f24.png) 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
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d15/1041/8f7682.png) 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
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d16/0956/dbc465.png)
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
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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]
![User Image](https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y220/Zizzykitty/steampunkchar.png) 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
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d16/1905/2f7462.png) 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.
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:01 am
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Sounds interesting......
Username: 0Moon_Maiden0
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d16/0956/dbc465.png)
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
![User Image](https://public2.tektek.org/img/av/0812/d16/1031/9b2468.png)
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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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:07 am
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:29 am
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:32 am
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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.
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