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I won't do a classic Vampire then, that is fine. Like I said, I do have other ideas as well. That said (and maybe someone already brought this up but I was too tired last night to notice), maybe the being a weird Human thing would work. Sort of like the weirdo from another culture like @WritesNaughtyStories combined with the Dr. Frankenstein angle. Maybe they look a little vampiric, and they have a bad reputation of being a Vampire (for people who don't know them, sort of like @WickedCadrach's idea of weird being called, for example, "The Werewolf of ____"), and part of their looks and such were due to nature and/or experiments they have

Okay, so far I have... INCLUDE Ashborn: Prudence to have existed in our past and to have left her legacy of defending love in all its forms. With that comes the oppressive social and religious pressure that drove Prudence to condemn her lover. gunfighters in dusty streets Airships aesthetically, I would prefer zeppelins! and hot air balloons government agents in luxury train cars with odd, clockwork and steam-powered gadgets magic being a thing in the setting in the right, mystical, unobtainable doses (The big bad dabbling in something they don't understand and we won't either) automatons, or at leas

Nearly went over 2k words with this one. I also had to rush to finish it, but what else is new? I'm probably going to be in Trails purgatory for about a week minimum since Sky 1st Chapter is out, but if a thing like Kinktoberfest comes along again, I will likely do what I did last year and try coming up with some kind of consistent storyline. Will I engage more in the smutty ideas? I don't know. As we know, my self confidence writing smut is borderline nonexistent still. We'll have to wait and see. If there is no Kinktoberfest, I can probably just recycle ideas from the old thread. On a dark and foggy night, a lone figure i

I was busy and distracted but I'll expand on some things I posted about in the main thread. I'll see about getting the ball rolling I suppose. On Automatons: I think they're a must for this sort of setting, and interesting to have as a sign of the coming advancement. Since we're now in a separate world from the other group I suppose it can be debated if they're new or older though if they're more recent given the 1880's setting we could always say (if we're fine with any historical reference) that after the release of Steam Man of the Prairies (1868) that people did come to realize they were quite partial to the idea of mechanical

Sorry for slow response- stuff to add but working, will poke this when home <3

I couldn't agree more.

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Does this mean the New Church has bounties out for Ashborn and her blasphemous cultists? Now that I'm actually on deck, I can slack off on the lines and think. Picking up where I left off in my earlier post this morning, ball, promiscuity, lawlessness and blue coal. Balls. It sounds like we all agree, there need to be occasional galas, where what passes for wealth in town, shows up in their frontier finery and parades about in desperate attempts to seduce each other, impress the common folk and angle for alliances and influence. How big of a deal is it when the musicians come into town for these balls? Do they happen on the sol

I think there's room for everyone to have a presence in town. I'm imagining the various factions being sort of like the warring powermongers in Deadwood (the HBO series) - they are all in town, all trying to establish themselves in positions of power due to (resource) being abundant in the area and this being the main railroad stop closest to the mine, ruins, spring, or whatever source of (resource) we decide is nearby to create a gold rush feel. They need the people to follow them, to see them as the power in the area. I can imagine the schism church trying to exert its power, to spread its influence back east. I can also imagine other

So I'm thinking about Prudence and her Ashborn, and given the setting... Prudence would very likely still be active. Perhaps her protection is a sort of frontier legend. Some people who say they've been protected by her have spread her legend, and some directly affected have now started a new faith, one of love and protection. This new faith draws all sorts of followers and is rapidly growing. Perhaps one of their first, or their very first, chapel is in the town where the players are based... Just a thought, given her wild west themed origin.

I think I'm going to come at this in three steps. First, @Chiyako's biologist, then @IsabellaRose's religions and then a combination of @MagnificentBastard, @StarlitSiren and @WickedCadrach's balls, promiscuity and promiscuous balls. So, @Chiyako, it seems the REALLY important thing is being in hiding, on the run and doing these shady experiments. That's more Doctor Frankenstein than vampire. The look is easy to achieve. Anemic and pale, or straight albino, and the experiments and history (removed from the big, fancy hospital back in Saint Linus for unapproved surgeries that revealed your experiments? Maybe to cure your hereditary anemia

Agreeing with this. The feeling of exposure and self-reliance when there's one lawman for your town and sometimes not even that (I'm thinking of Bass Reeves, the US Marshal who was the only lawman covering a frontier territory roughly the size of South Dakota and the real-world inspiration behind The Lone Ranger).

Will see about getting a response with some thoughts in tonight, whether starting the conversation, or building on the replies of others (a chance I will be able to during the day, but can’t guess how likely it will be). Office closing a little early today, that might help.

Okay, so... not a lot of discussion going on here. I'm going to post my lists of what I imagine for this setting and you guys can work from there. Things I Imagine Being in an 1880s/Wild West/Steampunk/Weird West Flavored Game Dusty boomtowns, saloons, and lawless frontier towns. Railroads, train robberies. Airships. Cursed mines. Traveling carnivals and bizarre expositions. Mad scientists in brass-and-copper laboratories. Automatons and clockwork men questioning their humanity. Creepy experiments. Tesla coils, pneumatic weapons, and steam-powered contraptions. Strange inventi

My preference would be to lean away from vampires. A vampire implies someone who turned them into a vampire, which implies other vampires, which implies hunters, which implies more than I personally wanted to include. But, a note to consider: the players don't all have to be friends. They have Relationships with each other, but they don't have to be good relationships, they just have to involve strong feelings. Consider that the original game setup for the Smallville game this system was originally designed for included pre-generated characters for both Clark Kent AND Lex Luthor. Dramatic entanglements between rivals can be even mo

Prudence broke from a very harsh religion that imposed their righteousness through capital punishment of blasphemy. I think they may not be the religion that offers sanctuary, but the one many need sanctuary from. Perhaps there are at least two main religions, one old and established, seeking to bring the light of their god to the masses, including the savages. They mean well, but don't understand how oppressive they are to other beliefs, and offer sanctuary. The religion that Prudence belonged to is a very harsh, extra double plus Puritanical version of this older religion, a group that seeks to cleanse the evils of the world with fire

The way the system is built is why I want to hash out what the worlds look like first, then settle the players in the worlds that sound most interesting to them. If Group 1 decides no animal hybrids or a very specific implementation of them that doesn't appeal to the some players, and group 2 decides to include JRPG style animal hybrids who are there for reasons, then I want a player to have the opportunity to move to the group that contains the themes and elements they want. Which is my nice way to say: "get cracking, Group 2!"

I want to preface what bellow that nothing is a deal breaker for me, and what I put in sections are just personal preferences or suggestions. I WANT - Saloon, balls, horses, trains, these in my opinion are vital for that western feel. - Automaton horses, zepellins, promiscuity these are things that other people have suggested and I second them, in particular I think zeppelins would be an easy way to bring characters from Europe, Asia and the like into our location, and for us to travel without much friction. And promiscuity and debauchery are my bread and butter. - Alternative history, I think this is a good idea. - S

Not to be on the nose, but I'm also very on board with the tone of promiscuity as a theme throughout, in whatever way we work it with your system. The idea that that might or might not be promoted by different sects/factions of faith is equally fun

Just want to second @StarlitSiren's ideas of Balls and Horses. A gala ball filled with frontier opulence and barely obscured debauchery sounds delicious. And while I think planes go a bit too far, I think @Chiyako's idea a few cars as novelties of the wealthy or eccentric inventors fits well.

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@WritesNaughtyStories I like the slightly larger town setting. Settlers follow the 'gold' rush and the promise of new lands to colonise, and in this case it's sort of a success and the town does a lot better than most of the small settlements on the fringe. Now, this doesn't disqualify a world where a bad end means the town is destroyed/lost/we're branded outlaws, etc, and then we end up on the run, but as a baseline I like the town idea. The stability is a nice safety net to potentially begin our story depending on how it goes and if things work out in whatever which way. In that event, Millie absolutely has a workshop. Only as fan

@WritesNaughtyStories Truth be told if I was going with my Vampire idea I wouldn't be leaning into them actually being wealthy and such. More on the run, partially because of what they are and partially because of what they do (being a mad scientist and such, running not so kind experiments regardless of consent). Maybe dressed in wealthy garb showing signs (to those perceptive enough) of having been more hastily upkept and perhaps starting to show wear and tear. That said I do understand that them being a Vampire does mean an issue of them feeding on players (or experimenting upon them, or rather making an attempt to do so). If they are inte