The City of Brassport

[Tokala]

Brassport, the capitol city of a grand nation. Where steam technology has risen to heights unknown to any previous peoples. Where the grandest clockwork inventions are made, and where the Royal School of Alchemy puts out the best and brightest students to join the League of Alchemists that help keep the city running.

Brassport, a city out of its time. When Brassport is all of a sudden plucked from its home plane and dropped in the NTWF, what will happen to its inhabitants? Will the assimilate to this strange new world? Who will profit? Who will try to get back home? Who even knows what happened in the first place?

This is the HQ thread for the Steampunk guild. I have plans to have the city dropped in the NTWF at the very beginning of GW3 unless people have major objections.

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Jina - Guild Leader - Owen Camdon
Rider - Jina's Mod Monkey - Adeline Spencer
Draco - Jina's Workhorse - Gil Maxwell
Tokala - Rushsaw Blackstone
Cyborg - ?
Sarn - Sarinon
Kengplant - Doug?
Goosh - ?
Michelle - Asta Moret
Kina - ?
Drew - Andrew Skye
Scarven - ?
Leoness - ?
Reve - Delilah
Mr. Meepit's Puppet - ?
Friday - ?
Celestial - Joseph Lawrence and Catherine Adler
Icon - Eli Clenman

So if anyone else is interested or wants to sign up, just let me know! Also, all the people who I don't have personas for, let me know what I should put there if you can.

Useful Links:

Brassport Library

[Kina, Grovyle Fangirl]

YAY! The Steampunk Guild! 8D

I'll try to develop my persona as soon as I can.

[Tokala]

Yay! Another persona to add to the list soon!

[friday]

I'd like to join! The persona is still in the works, but I'm kind of unsure how the Guild Wars work, exactly...can someone link me to GW2 for studying?

[Celestial]

I'd like to join with my two NaNo characters as my personas, Joseph Lawrence and Catherine Adler. ^^

[Tokala]

You can thank Hunty for these links, she dug them up for me.


ntwriters.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=memories&action=display&thread=37842

GW2 is here. It's on the very first page and near the top of Memory Lane, but since it only has six pages as of now, it looks deceptively short and innocent. But make sure you don't have too much running when you click the link, that thing has mega-long pages.

The summary is here: ntwriters.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=guilds&action=display&thread=34609


I didn't participate in it either, so just jump right in with me and we'll have some fun figuring it out.

[Tokala]

Dec 5, 2009 16:06:47 GMT -5 Celestial said:

I'd like to join with my two NaNo characters as my personas, Joseph Lawrence and Catherine Adler. ^^

Sounds fun! I'll add you to the list.

[friday]

Where do I post my persona, once it's finished?

Also, I'm used to role playing from my character's point of view. Do you think that'll be an issue? And I can always switch to a third person view, if so.

Sorry for all the newbie questions, heh. ^^;

[Tokala]

Just below this thread is the General Guild Persona thread, you can post it there. You can also post it right here if you want.

Don't worry about newbie questions, if I can't answer them, I'll find someone who can.

As far as 1st or 3rd person, having one person post in 1st would be kinda weird to read, but if you find yourself unable to write it in 3rd, I don't think anyone will give you too hard a time about it, it'd just be really weird.

[Deleted]

Hey Tok, I'm actually known as Sarn. Just thought I'd wear the name for a while. ^^

[Tokala]

*looks*

Whoops, did I do that?

[friday]

I aplologize, but I've thought it through, and I don't think I can do the Guild War this time around. :/ Sorry about that.

[Tokala]

No worries Friday, hope you'll still stick around the Guilds, I'm planning some fun lighter fare for while Guild Wars is taking up all of everyone's free time.

[Deleted]

I'm in, I'm in! XD

I'll probably refine this later, but for now, here's a character profile.

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Name: Asta Moret

Age: 23

Nickname: Quicksilver, Stardrop (both for her relations to alchemy and chemistry)

Appearance: Young in appearance; she looks more like a mid-teenager than her age. Very short, cropped red-brown hair with dark blue eyes. She has a lean and almost lanky structure. She is usually seen wearing a long, flaring overcoat over a laced long-sleeve shirt and a skirt that goes slightly past the knee, along with heavy leather, tie-up boots. She also has a pair of fingerless gloves with four symbols--silver and gold on the top (left and right respectively), and mercury and cadmium on the palms.

History: -Still deciding-

Personality: Generally a confident, knowledgable person who jokes and makes sly comments pretty often. She likes to focus on work and solve problems, mechanical or chemical related, though she can easily turn a simple explanation into a rant or monologue. However, due to her frequent exposure to chemicals, she can be irritable due to headaches and other pains, unable to sleep, or have mood swings. She has been getting better with this, but it still pains her often. She can also be pretty distracted, out of it, or airheaded at times.

Weapons: Though Asta is slight and lean in frame, she does have a weapon or two to use. Her primary one is a thin and light shortsword/rapier of sorts, highly stylized with an alloy blade and wire-wrap handle. The sides of the crossguard are vastly different lengths, and one side is long enough with enough of a curve to be able to 'catch' other weapons to a degree. She is not a swordfighter, but she isn't bad at using it and she's fast.
The other thing she has with her are small capsules, which she pulls apart with her fingers and throws. In addition to mercury, there are some packets which have separate chambers that break and combine to create chemical reactions causing heat, light, acid, poison/poisonous gas, or other effects. The mercury is for use as either money (alchemized into gold) or other uses (alchemized into other materials).

Abilities/Skills: Asta can transform mercury into other elements, though the further the element is from mercury (whether across the row or in a column), the harder it is to create. (Deviating from room temperature is impossible unless other forces are in play, and compounds are off-limits unless they immediately react with air or whatever substance they're in). Some elements are impossible or very difficult to do. This is an innate ability, combined with chemical knowledge. It's also very dangerous at times to the user, since some of these elements are poisonous or highly-reactive.
To be specific, she can transform any element into any other, but she finds mercury easiest to work with. Her magic is a very, very specialized form of lightning magic, which is a specialized form of air magic, so theoretically she should be able to work with either, but she apparently doesn't have the capability.

Other: Asta likes flying machines very much.

Actually, I wouldn't mind critiques or things to be improved on for this character, seeing as she's a new one of mine. ^^ It'd be much appreciated if you have things to comment on. I'll post this in the Guild Personas thread when it's finalized.

[Draco]

I've been around for a while, but I always have internet problems right when Guild Wars are going to start So I missed the past two. I plan on joining in with my Ninja persona, but if I can hurry up and write my SP persona I'll have Gil enter ^^ Still thinking of a few details I want for Gil before I write it.

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Name: Gil Maxwell

Age: 22

Appearance: About 5’7’’ Thin and has light colored skin. Hair color is a shade of blue (for unknown reasons, just felt like it!).

Outfit: White button up shirt (usually with collar and first couple buttons undone). X shape body holsters that carry small throwing knives. Black Frock Coat worn over shirt and holsters (usually buttoned). Under both sleeves are long katars that extend and retract from a metal guard on his wrists (when extended the blade is about a foot long from his wrist to the tip). Wears a pair a goggles on his forehead like a headband. Nice black pants and black boots.

History: Has lived in Brassport all of his life. He lived with his family until age 16 when his family moved to a smaller town, leaving Gil to live alone. He sold the family home and moved into a small workshop studio on the top two floors of a building. There he tinkers around with his small aircraft, Fantôme. Does small jobs for people, even having his own assistants from time to time...

Personality: Really easy going most of the time. Usually in a good mood and a positive attitude, but can sometimes be really dark in his humor or speech. Tends to joke a lot. Likes flying in Fantôme and exploring new areas. Will put on his goggles when he gets serious or when he pilots something. He can become obsessed with playing with mechanics sometimes. Has a thing for plastic animal figures.

Weapons: Throwing knives under his coat and twin katars under each sleeve. Fantôme.

Abilities: Can pilot almost any vehicle after examining the controls or watching someone else pilot it for a few moments. Knife throwing and knife skills. Agile and Fast.

Vehicle: Fantôme (Fantome). A small aircraft, colored black. It has a small propeller in the back with wings on both sides. Under the wing and propeller is the seating area, which holds two people max, the pilot and passenger. Otherwise there is a small storage area under the passenger seat. Under the seating area are two steam propelled (using tech created by Alchemists) engines used for quick bursts of speed. On both sides of the pilot’s seat are two small machine guns.

Black and White Picture of Gil
Colored Picture of Gil