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 Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:10 pm
 Welcome to Skaia, the Brass Empire of the new age! This roleplay will be based in the city of Skaia, a thriving city of steam powered machinery, human and troll alike live in the Brass Empire working to make an honest living. Whether is be as a rich politician living the high life in the Golden District or as a poor worker living in the Slums fighting to make a living in the Pipes.
 DistrictsThe Gold District: These are the high class civilians, living in the cleaner section of the city, it's constantly polished and is of the upmost priority District wise. The Golden District named due to when the sun hits this section of the city the polished brass building shimmer and shine like gold. Primarily only the extremely privileged, violetbloods, and fuchsiabloods live in the Golden District.
The Merchant District: Where the Guilds are located, a busy marketplace full of different shops, from magical remedies to auto mechanic shop to a music shop. In The Merchant District you must beware of thieves! Though people from every class go here you can never be too sure, the large crowds dance with people, performers, and shop owners. The Dock District: Where the airships are docked. Most trade comes through here, so it is close to the Merchant District. The Dock District has more than just the regal airship captains the there is also the notorious sky pirates that dock here as well, it's not the safest place to be. Residential District: Most citizens live here. Small mansions are owned by the higher castes, while homes with only 2-4 rooms are owned by the poorest. Residentail District is fairly clean cut and calm, one of the safest districts, a very welcoming area where everyone is to be considered on "the same level" rather than being split by cast like the Golden District and The Slums. Most humans live in this area.
The Slums Where the poorest of the poor live. Also a hangout for mercenarys since the Slums are one of the least patrolled areas. The Slums is one of the most dangerous districts, along with being the poorest of the poor, thugs, ruffians, thieves, and mercenaries control this district. MapsEspiri's Shop Jobs Soldier / Guard: Law enforcement and protectors of those who can't defend themselves. The later can sometimes be bribed with money to look the other way, but a Soldier is resolute in their duty and will not be swayed. Mercenary: Hired men and women who will do anything for the right price Worker: Comes in a variety of flavors. The most common workers are the Pipeworkers, a caste charged with maintaining the hundreds of miles of pipes in the city. Other workers include; Maintenance, Cleaning, Public (food industry, etc), and Agricultural. Politician: Those lucky enough to have risen to the top of the top. Like Guards, they can sometimes be swayed by money to make changes to push a certain caste into a position of more power, but for the most part they bicker amongst themselves. Nobelmen: The right and important, sometimes members of this caste have more say in what goes than the Politicians. Because they already have wealth, they won't be bribed by money. However, a decent amount of noblemen are already corrupt, but the most they can do are bribe others to do their dirty work. Guild Leaders: The top and most important member of a guild/caste (Soldiers, guards, workers, engineers, builders, etc), these people are the true deciding factor of what happens in the city. When its time to start a new project, they come together to iron out all the details so everything goes smoothly. They barter not with money, but with services. Each Guild Leader is on equal ground, no Leader is above another. Captains: Captains are on par with noblemen usually. They are held in great respect and more often than not have a decent amount of money. They hold great love for their ships, and are honest people. They do not allow felons to become their crew members, and they will not be bribed. There are a few corrupt Captains out there, and there are a few who follow a Politician's whim. Style of ClothingAs you may have noticed in this city looks define the person, your clothing and how you carry yourself is everything.Higher class folks would dress in dramatic colorful clothing that would catch your eye and make you stare in awe at it's sheer beauty and extravagance. These outfits provide difficulty doing any actual labor, which is exactly a problem for the higher class people. While lower class clothing would be more bland and okay to get dirty, you'd care more about what it can do for you rather than it looks. Being comfortable and movability are a huge factor when it comes to lower class clothing. Example 1Example 2Example 3Lower Class ClothingHigh Class Clothing ClassesWhere they do not play a game that could change the universe, each human and troll has a class and an aspect. Some might know what theirs is while others will not. Rogue:Steals _____ for others Thief:Steals _____ for themselves Heir:To become, or to be protected by _____ Page:Exploits, or provides _____ Maid:One who repairs, or provides themselves with _____ Knight:One who protects, or equips self with _____ Seer:One who leads and guides with knowledge pertaining to _____ Mage:One who receives knowledge from _____ Sylph:One who heals through _____ Witch:One who manipulates _____ Bard:One who allows destruction of _____ Prince:One who destroys _____ Aspect Breath: Freedom, Motion Light: Luck, Knowledge Time: Time, Death Space: Physics, Creation Heart: Souls, Motivation Void: Nothingness, Hidden Hope: Belief, Fortune Life: Healing, Survival Mind: Thoughts, Logic Rage: Anger, Sanity Doom: Death, Sacrifice Blood: Unity, Emotion
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Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:43 pm
Rules and Regulations Guild rulesALWAYS follow guild rules, no matter what! GodmoddingSteampunk weapons are amazing but they are not perfect, lasers run out of juice, jetpacks run out of steam, machines glitch out, please do not make your weapons perfect, this also goes for when you are fighting as well. No one is a perfect fighter who can dodge every hit and not get hurt in the process. ([AD]: I will give you a warning if you Godmod, and I will kick you from the guild if you continuously do it.) ActivityStay active! I will not have this roleplay die out in a matter of days! Basic RulesYou all know the basic rules of the guild and of Gaia. Keep it PG-PG13 Things of that nature, if rules are broken I will speak to you in private and the mods will be made aware No canon characters Roleplaying, how it's doneNot homestuck style, it'll be in 3rd person writing, doesn't have to be literate just no one liners!
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Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 6:45 am
Character Profiles This isn't for you to rewrite your whole profile for a character, it's just a simple profile! Send the small profiles VIA PM to me and I'll put them up here for us to view at any point. Profile Layout[b]Character being used:[/b] [Name]
[b]Steampunkified Weapon:[/b] [Weapon of choice, pictures not required but appreciated!]
[b]Job:[/b] [If you are a lowblood do not make yourself nobility]
[b]Steampunkified Outfit:[/b] [URL here~] Accepted ProfilesCharacter being used: Espiri Anubis Steampunkified Weapon: Chainsaw Job: Mechanic, owns a shop in the Merchant District called Mr. E's Mechanics Steampunkified Outfit: Doop!~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Kathix Molcae Steampunkified Weapon: Daggers, Polearm Job: Nobelwoman, but works as a library clerk and attends the Leatherworker and Metalworker Guilds Steampunkified Outfit: (current avatar. can't screenshot (at work) will draw later) ~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Hennry Whetle Steampunkified Weapon: Bombs, Rifle (prefers bow, but this is steampunk) Job: Guard, stationed in Golden DistrictSteampunkified Outfit: (will draw later) ~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Tenten Emeter Steampunkified Weapon: BlunderbussJob: Captain, specializes in shipping goods to and from places beyond the empire.Steampunkified Outfit: [X] ~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Abbi the Junker Steampunkified Weapon: Small, easily concealed daggers and knives Job: Junk Trader. Hangs out in the Dock District in her small hover craft, buying, selling and trading spare parts and other things she’s salvaged. Not above running “errands” for pirates for money. Steampunkified Outfit: Will draw later with her junk ship. ~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Dondri Voncut Steampunkified Weapon: Pocket watch gun and experimental portal gun Job: Just a worker at a Mr. E's Mechanics. Steampunkified Outfit: Hello Sir...~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Hyades Devitt Steampunkified Weapon: Crank machine gunJob: Leader of the Gunsmiths' GuildSteampunkified Outfit: This man, but with a troll appearance ~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Persif Divina Steampunkified Weapon: Cutlass Job: A dirigible flight attendant, but he moonlights as a cabaret singer.Steampunkified Outfit: Lazily and hastily colored~~~~~~~~~~ Character being used: Jerico Rybdis Steampunkified Weapon: Brass Knuckles Job: As a gypsy, he takes on many odd jobs to make ends meet. Usually he can be found dancing in the streets for coins.
Occasionally he smuggles in rare artifacts that he "came into possession of" to sell to wealthy buyers.Steampunkified Outfit: Lazily and hastily colored
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 6:31 am
We are open and ready to roleplay!
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:55 am
The best way to survive in the Slums was to not be noticed. The person he was following wore clothes that made her stand out like a peacock amongst pigeons. She wore minimal dark, preferring to cloth herself in violets and cyans and whites. Her clothes were neat and clean, her buttons and metal polished, and her daggers gleaming. She held herself tall and proud, walking in the way most Nobels did, and if he hadn't have been watching her like he usually did, he would suspect her of law-breaking.
Granted, he also stood out like a sore thumb, covered in golds and oranges on top of blacks, but no one in their right mind would attack an on-duty Guard of the Golden District. He stood out like a flare in the dark, and over the years had come to walk and talk like the Nobels did. At first glance someone might take him for a richer merchant, but once they spied the sigil of LIght on his breast, they usually took off running.
He was thankful his target did not turn around. Oh, he would bet anything she knew he was following her, but she let him play his little game.
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:18 pm
 Espiri had just gotten back from work, his clothes and skin smudged with oil, he walked quietly back to his small shack of home in the Slums carrying a box of parts. He had been avoiding eye contact with everyone until he saw the bright colors. Most ran away, that's also because most of them were criminals, he stopped and stood in silence watching the two. While other's were plotting to steal he was more fascinated in that fact the two brightly colored strangers were in THE SLUMS. It was obvious they didn't belong there! He set the box down and smiled a bit as his blackened hands reached up to tie his hair back as he stared at the noble and the guard... He sputtered and giggled though, he really couldn't take them seriously. They clashed with the bronzes and browns that covered the slums, how they hadn't been mugged was still a shocker, guard or not.
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Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:01 pm
The female paid the 'newcomer' no mind, contently exploring the Slums with an air of fascination. Where she was used to clean golds and silvers, this place shone with a dull bronze. Walkways wove in and out and around buildings, making a complicated maze confusing to all but those who lived here. While she was certain she would get a little lost, she knew that her worrywart and overprotective friend would remember the way back.
With the sky turning purple overhead, she was about to turn and address the Guard, when she noticed a worker obviously on his way home. She stopped, waved, and smiled. She had no problem with the lower castes, she had even chosen to join the 'poorest' guilds, which featured the old-fashioned arts of leather-working and metalworking.
The guard frowned, halting some ways behind and watched carefully. With dawn being so close, he really figured they should get back to the Golden District (his current charge was more nocturnal, like it seemed a lot of higher 'bloods' were) and get some sleep. It wasn't in his place to interrupt her though, so he waited patiently.
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Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:10 pm
Espiri started to follow them, really, needed something to do, and tinkering wasn't as fun as it had used to be, plus he had to keep an eye on them. What if they got hurt? No one else would help them here! The small troll bounced after them with wide curious eyes, humming a bit, unlike the guard he wasn't keeping his presence a secret. He caught up with guard and walked by his side looking up at him, and then at the woman, he snickered a bit assuming the guard was simply stalking a lover maybe she had done something bad.. Like cheated on him!! Oh now his imagination was running wild with ideas why he could be following her.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 2:53 pm
From the shop, an alarm rang Loudly from the outside and in. Some teens run out from the shop with money and Valuable parts. A tall, creative, and honest, troll runs out from the shop, trying to catch the thieves.
"Come back here, you crooks!! We need them for more important things. Please.... He stopped, giving and puffing for some air. We... need it for our families... my family." The teens were gone. Dondri was breathing heavily from all of the running.
He then turns back to the shop to turn off the alarms, but then saw his boss and two people with him over by the slums, were he and his family lives at. He hurries over to him and the strangers. Dondri then faces Espiri, with his face sweating.
"Es, I'm sorry. Some thieves stole some money from the cash register and some of our valuable parts along with it. We need to hire some of those guards for the shop possibly? Or possibly make a better security system for this old shop?" He says to him. He opens his pocket watch to check the time.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:03 pm
Hennry completely ignored the troll who had come along his side for a few minutes, before looking over and raising an eyebrow. He followed the line of the female's eyes before realizing she was looking between him and the violet blood and sighed. She wasn't the first to make such assumptions, so he kept his mouth shut.
His head jerked at the newcomer though, and with a look and a nod to his companion, he headed off in the direction the thieves would have gone. He was a guard after all, even if this wasn't his district.
Kathix watched the guard go, and turned her attention to the two other trolls whom she hadn't notice appear. It was the drowsiness, she reasoned with herself, as it was almost dawn and she was usually asleep by that time. She noticed her two new companions were maroon-bloods, which weren't all that uncommon in the slums.
She frowned, and walked up to the male who had appeared, her heels clicking on the pavement.
"If he cannot catch the thieves, perhaps I could be some help."
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:36 pm
As the guard left, he turned to the girl. After hearing what she said, he then told her. "How? What can you do for us?" He pauses. "What's the price?" he said. "Is there something you need from us when you do this 'helpful' thing?" He questioned her. Everything in Dondri's life always had a price, physically or mentally; He knew things always have their price tag.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:54 pm
The tiny troll was distracted until he heard what his worker had rage, his cheeks turned a deep shade of maroon as his anger grew, roared "THEY WHAT!?" off went Espiri is a rage, he was quick on those legs easily sprinting past Hennry. He clenche his fists yelling the entire time he ran locked on the fleeing teens who started to yell in horror as well. "I'M GOING TO SAW YOU IN HAAAAAAAALF!!!!!!!!" he screeched tackling one of the thieves.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 9:38 pm
She cocked her head to the side. "There is no price. I don't require any help from you... no one should have to lose something like that. If it is needed for a family, then those people are more important than favors and money. Kathix was confused a little, but understood his questioning. Most things had a price, and she was aware how she looked; a high-caste in the Slums was shady.
Hennry wasn't at all surprised when he was out-paced. While he lacked speed, he possessed accuracy and a nimbleness to move fluidly around most things. Without missing a beat, he pulled his rifle out and shot at one of the remaining thieves, his shot hitting the mark and causing the thief to fall to the ground. He reloaded and aimed for the other, but they darted into cover before his bullet could find its target.
Walking up to his downed target, he crouched over the sniveling teen silently. Soon enough the teen would realize just who was pinning him down.
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:26 pm
"Well... gee... thanks so much, uh....." He pauses for a second. What's your name? I'm Dondri Voncut. I work at that little mechanic shop right over there." He pointed at a bronze and silver mechanic shop that was shined to perfection, and even the lights from the old sign like to flicker at 'crazy' times.
"I am also an inventor, well in my spare time or on break. Like this little gadget here." He pulls out his pocket watch. "It looks like a normal pocket watch, correct? Well... if I do this.." He turns both hands to noon and the face of the clock opened. Inside looked like it has a trigger on the inside. "Now, what I did was mixed some of the pieces of a normal mini pistol to this watch and just watch."
He pulls out a rotten Apple from a random trash can and puts it on its metallic lid. He loaded one bullet into the pocket gun. He aims it at the Apple and BANG! (haha, couldn't think of a gun noise except this) he had a clear, straight shot though the rotten apple. He then closes the pocket watch and puts it back in his nice coat pocket.
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:59 am
Espiri stood up huffing and puffing after thoroughly beating the perpetrator to a fine pulp, a majority of his stolen money retrieved and a bit of his parts taken back off, he jut a finger at the teen growling a bit, "Next time, you won't be given mercy.." he gave the troll on the ground one last sharp kick to the side before Espi turned on his heel and stormed back to his shop absolutely FUMING. He came back and simply pat Dondri's shoulder.. Slowly calming down as he strode to the ruined shop. He sighed and put the money in a lock box, tying his hair up he started to clean up around the shop.
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