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Valentine Wakefield
Captain

PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:32 am


Sky-Ship Endeavor
Steampunk Pirate Roleplay


Story



Dreams, desires and aspirations.

Every one has them, few ever realize them. Allow me to introduce you to a rag-tag crew who have set their just a little too high.

The ship is called Endeavor and lead by an experience pirate, amateur Captain by the name of Valentine Wakefield. The crew is a royal load of misfits from all walks of life, but they show promise and have heart. But will that be enough to reach their goals?

What are they aiming for, you may ask?

Well, legend tells of an ancient sky-ship vastly superior to anything in even the modern world. Not only that, but there is supposedly the treasure of a thousand cities laying idly in the stomach of a booby-trapped and possibly haunted cave.

It won't be easy, however. The only existing map has been torn into five pieces and shared among very powerful and highly influential men and woman abroad.

The most ruthless and feared pirate, Captain James Burke. A pirate so reach he sinks ships and bombards villages to smithereens without even bothering to pillage before or after.

A Lady Esmeralda, a woman of impeccable beauty and the sharpest of tongues. She weaves stories and manipulates those around her to meet her ends. She resides on a highly defended island-state with a demoralizing military presence and a very strict "No Pirates" rule.

The corrupt Bishop Reynolds, a holy man who does the devils deeds. Easy bought if the price is right and to those of his faith believe his every word to be right and true.

Admiral William Winsten, renowned and respected sailor who "always gets the job done". However, the means he employs to do such would very much sully his reputation, so he does not often leave any ends loose. He sails a powerful ship, nearly of the same quality of Captain Burke's and is always in the company of three smaller navy ships.

The final map holder is, rather, was a man by the name of Alberto Vinisinni. At one point he was a navy man of comparable reputation to that of Admiral Winsten, however, he has since taken a dive down a slippery sloop. His love for alcohol outmatched his love for the sea and he eventually settled down in a small out-of-the-way island town and became a permanent resident of the local Inn. That is where he eventually encounter a Captain Wakefield who had conveniently overheard the intoxicated man blab on and on about a "treasure map". The Captain later followed the man to his room and "convinced" him to hand over the map. The Captain later returned to his ship with the first piece of the map clenched tightly in his raw knuckles and so began their journey to enter the history books.

How'd they do? Well, that is yet to be seen. . .



Setting

This roleplay takes place in a world unlike our own. For one, it is steampunk, which means every mechanical item is steam-powered and thus ten times as cool.

The world is a very strange and for some very unaccessable place. There are, of course, oceans and continents, but there are also floating land masses, one of which large enough to claim continent status. Islands dot the skies and oceans and are usually under the command of one of three different and powerful military forces. Aventians in red, the Hench in Blue and the Maniards in black.

The weapons of this world are like that of the 1800's. Beautiful, intricately designed muzzle-loaded firearms good for one shot before a reload in necessary. Crossbows, while not as powerful are fast and still quiet popular. Many people of this world also use swords, namely the pirates and navies.

The creatures of this world are also quite strange. Some creatures that appear to be marine animals are in fact capable of flight. They range in size from tiny guppy-like creatures to massive sky-whales who travel as family units. The oil produced from their blubbed in invaluable to the very industrialized world.

The world is called Yora and in all honesty is still in development. If you would like to add or question something, feel free to ask and I will update it.



Rules

I made them, you follow them.

.:: 1 ::. No Godmoding. You are not All Mighty. Miss, get hurt and keep things interesting.
.:: 2 ::. Violence, Romance and Profanity are all acceptable in moderation.
.:: 3 ::. If you make a profile, post.
.:: 4 ::. If you post, be literate. I'm not going to make a posting minimum, but that doesn't mean I want a bunch of one liners. Keep your post interesting and give the others something to reply to.
.:: 5 ::. Profiles are to be PM'd to me titled "Endeavor".
.:: 6 ::. Be sure to include everyone, but don't break character to do so.
.:: 7 ::. As for killing each other, go for it. If you don't want to die, run.
.:: 8 ::. Keep posting and keep it interesting.



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:33 am


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Name: Valentine Wakefield
Nickname: Val or Captain
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Role: Captain
Appearance
-Height: 6' 3
-Weight: 247 lbs
-General Description: Standing at a towering six foot three with a two hundred and forty seven pound build, Val can easily come across as intimidating. However, his long, loose dark brown hair and chestnut green eyes tell an entirely different story. One of love lost and dark hours gone by. Under his long, black, silver buttoned, high collared jacket, Val wears a loose light gray puffy shirt and loose black trousers. He also wears knee high black leather boots, a black glove on his sword hand, and a thick black belt with a large silver belt buckle. Atop his head, his a black pirate hat.

When entirely exposed, as rare as that may be, the scars from years of fighting for what he believes are instantly noticeable.
Equipment
-Attire: Val wears a long black jacket, gray puffy shirt, black trousers, knee high boots, a black glove, a thick black belt and a pirate hat.
-Weapons: Val sports a serrated cutlass (38 inch blade, 48 inches overall), fourteen inch bowie knife and a twelve inch long ornate flint-lock pistol.
-Items: Val carries a bag full of lead balls, a sack of gold coins and a red rosary to remind him of the life he'd left behind.
Brief Bio: Born on a rock of a tropical island to a whore and a long-gone nobody gun-hand, life for Val and his younger brother was anything but easy. They lived in a poor house hold, where only enough food necessary for survival was available while their mother bought dresses and jewelry to help business down at the local tavern, whoring to those lonely men who'd washed up for the night.

The two, however, knew nothing of their mothers profession. They believed she was a beautiful and pure woman who served tables to feed her hungry family and that the dresses and jewelry were merely gifts from appreciative patrons.

As the two grew in their hungry house hold, they began to steal to settle their rumbling stomachs. They had gotten away with much, but it seemed they were caught more often then not. Beatings from the vendors was no strange occurrence, until one day their mother decided to put an end to it. She told the boys stories of their father.

And they were just that, stories. She told them he was a handsome and honorable man, a Naval Officer. She told them he would one day return and that he would be ashamed of their actions. In reality, their father was a drunk and a nobody and probably wouldn't have cared if they'd found a way to fly to the moon.

However, their behavior improved. The boys took a more honorable route and instead worked for their extra morsels.

One day, however, their lives changed.

While the local patrols were out in pursuit of a rouge vessel, another struck in their absence. They killed and pillaged and did what it was pirates did best. They left Val an only child to a now used and broken mother. The boy tried his best to help the community rebuild and help his mother recover, but she had turned to other means of mending her wounds. She spent every coin she earn on alcohol and drowned her troubles, while leaving her only remaining child starving and after a good too many drinks, beaten and bruised.

For the next couple of years, Val began to see the evil in everyone around him. How cold, cruel and greedy people really were. It wasn't long before he believed pirates, even those who had ravaged his home town, were no different than regular folk. They just didn't hid it.

Years passed and Valentine Wakefield turned into a much different man then he had expected. He had believed he would grow up and go to the Naval Academy and follow in his fathers foot steps. Instead, he turned to violence to get his way, until one day he shipped off on a undermanned ship. What he would never know was that he truly was following in his real fathers footsteps.

Years passed and Val quickly rose through the ranks. It wasn't long before he realized just how gifted he was with a long sword and even less when he realized killing a man was no harder than breathing or blinking. Eventually, the young man grew up to be quite a brutal pirate with nothing but a memory of the innocent little boy he'd once been cast into the darkest depths of his mind.

Overthrowing the undermanned ships was child's play, as most of the crew had little respect for the Captain. However, returning the ship to a safe dock which an even more undermanned crew proved to be a much more difficult task.

After having docked at a pirate friendly island, Captain Wakefield entered the local tavern and learned of a treasure the likes of which no man had ever dreamed. After convincing the map-holder to forfeit his piece of the map, Val took on so much need help and was off in search of the other four pieces.


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