Ozymandias
i'm going on a journey
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here's part of the op for my kabaneri of the iron fortress rp that may or may not be coming during july. it kinda just depends on if it interests anyone, but yeah :p
Full Steam Ahead
A Kabaneri RPThe year is 1895. Thirty years ago, the American Civil War ended and with it came the promise of peace. Reconstruction of the South aided along by the military, the continuing advancement of industrial technologies, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It was a time for harmony, a time for a split country to heal its wounds and unify as a nation once again... or at least it should have been.
1869, the first reports of a strange virus on the west coast reach the ears of newly appointed president, Ulysses S. Grant. These ridiculous accounts told of crazed individuals attacking and feasting on the flesh of other humans, only for those same humans to rise from the dead and repeat the process. It wasn't until the rapidly spreading epidemic reached the very doors of the White House that the reality of the situation hit President Grant.
After the military barely staved off the undead invasion of the nation's capital, Grant ordered the nationwide fortification of strategic facilities in response to the ever-increasing undead outbreaks across the nation. As a result, the remaining major cities of the country began fortifying themselves into facilities that became known as Stations. Enclosed by steel walls, and almost always perched atop moats, these stations were able to hold on their own as a result of sharing their agricultural products via transportation, namely through the monstrous steam-belching locomotives. The stations eventually became the only safe havens in America with a railroad system as the only means of transportation relatively safe from the onslaughts of the undead.
However, miscommunication between stations and trains, sloppy negligence by the station crews, and poor fortifications have all resulted in the number of fallen stations to have ballooned within the past couple of years. Paired with the fact that the undead's numbers seem to only grow, the situation for humanity seems rather bleak.
San Francisco stands as the only stronghold on the West Coast remaining. With its population growing much too large for it to sustain, the station's governor has decided a number of the city's inhabitants must be moved elsewhere, and where else but the nation's largest station, Atlanta.
The locomotive known as The Iron Fortress has agreed to transport those who have volunteered to take the harrowing trip across the country. You are a member of the train's crew, either as a smith, keeping it running smoothly or a hired gun protecting both the locomotive and its passengers from the undead. Either way, you're in for quite the cross country trip.
The Enemy:
The Undead are zombie-like humanoids that for the last thirty years have been roaming around the nation. There hasn't been any confirmation that the virus has reached outside of the continent, but none of the ships leaving the country have returned, so it's safe to assume that it has.
At present the undeads' origins are entirely unknown, it is simply known that their appearance during the late 1860's is what caused people to construct the stations and improve upon railways linking them. It seems much of the general populace considers them a curse, or at least something supernatural. However, those belonging in the scientific community have hypothesized its spread to be akin to some sort of virus. That being said, the nation's brightest minds have banded together to try and uncover the mystery behind the lurkers, with Philadelphia Station serving as the prime location for undead related study and research.
These creatures are extremely aggressive but seem to conserve some form of human wit, able to recognize threats, targets, and form basic strategies towards their goals. The undead's exact strength is hard to measure; with their bites, they are easily capable of tearing human flesh by the chunk, single-handedly swinging and hoisting up male adults, holding on to speeding trains without a problem, damaging and sometimes tearing away steel doors, and even damaging extremely thick steel plating with nothing but running headfirst into it - however, they have been seen to be pushed aside and physically resisted and pushed aside by normal humans, and the force from bullets seems to be able to knock them back. A fair assessment could be that they lack the fine motor skills to gauge their own force and restraint at different time.
For the most part, all that's required to put an undead to rest is to cause severe trauma to its brain or heart. A shot from a firearm to either of these two areas is usually enough to take one out of commission, but it seems that after transformation they become a bit more durable, so it takes much more blunt force to take out an undead.
There are abnormals among the undead that having evolved over time, possessing special qualities. They will be listed here as the train and its crew encounter them across their journey.
The Train:
The Iron Fortress is a steam locomotive gifted to the Earth by God himself. In actuality, it's one of the newest models of the train built by the engineers of Pittsburgh Station. It is made almost entirely of heavy metal components and has numerous ports and slits found along its body to allow gunmen on the inside to repel any undead that have latched themselves outside. The train is capable of running at very high speeds as opposed to ordinary steam locomotives since its engines have high output due to efficient vapor compression.
The train is made up of a number of carts, with its boiler and cab situated at its head. It also has a razor-like plow on its front to mow down undead that stand on the rail tracks. Behind the cab is the train's first tender, containing coal to be shoveled into the boiler, with the next tender following directly after, containing water acting as a coolant. The next three carts serve as the locomotive's armory and storage, containing weapons, ammunition, foods, and supplies. The only passageway between the boiler cart and the cabs behind the tenders is a small railed path alongside the outside of the carts. Even though it is rather high above the ground, its considered slightly dangerous as the path forces to one leave the safety of the train's walls.
Behind the storage carts are the living spaces for both hired guns and train smiths, taking up only two carts in total. The next seven carts are the living spaces for the locomotive's regular passengers and the final one acts as a point for the train's hired guns to scout out the situation. Each of the buggies behind the tenders are directly connected to one another so that no one has to risk leaving the trains. All carts have doors leading to a railing outside and a hatch to the train's roof, but they for the most part remain closed.
Boiler/Cab----Tender----Water Tank----Armory/Storage----Armory/Storage----Crew Space----Crew Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Caboose
1869, the first reports of a strange virus on the west coast reach the ears of newly appointed president, Ulysses S. Grant. These ridiculous accounts told of crazed individuals attacking and feasting on the flesh of other humans, only for those same humans to rise from the dead and repeat the process. It wasn't until the rapidly spreading epidemic reached the very doors of the White House that the reality of the situation hit President Grant.
After the military barely staved off the undead invasion of the nation's capital, Grant ordered the nationwide fortification of strategic facilities in response to the ever-increasing undead outbreaks across the nation. As a result, the remaining major cities of the country began fortifying themselves into facilities that became known as Stations. Enclosed by steel walls, and almost always perched atop moats, these stations were able to hold on their own as a result of sharing their agricultural products via transportation, namely through the monstrous steam-belching locomotives. The stations eventually became the only safe havens in America with a railroad system as the only means of transportation relatively safe from the onslaughts of the undead.
However, miscommunication between stations and trains, sloppy negligence by the station crews, and poor fortifications have all resulted in the number of fallen stations to have ballooned within the past couple of years. Paired with the fact that the undead's numbers seem to only grow, the situation for humanity seems rather bleak.
San Francisco stands as the only stronghold on the West Coast remaining. With its population growing much too large for it to sustain, the station's governor has decided a number of the city's inhabitants must be moved elsewhere, and where else but the nation's largest station, Atlanta.
The locomotive known as The Iron Fortress has agreed to transport those who have volunteered to take the harrowing trip across the country. You are a member of the train's crew, either as a smith, keeping it running smoothly or a hired gun protecting both the locomotive and its passengers from the undead. Either way, you're in for quite the cross country trip.
The Enemy:
The Undead are zombie-like humanoids that for the last thirty years have been roaming around the nation. There hasn't been any confirmation that the virus has reached outside of the continent, but none of the ships leaving the country have returned, so it's safe to assume that it has.
At present the undeads' origins are entirely unknown, it is simply known that their appearance during the late 1860's is what caused people to construct the stations and improve upon railways linking them. It seems much of the general populace considers them a curse, or at least something supernatural. However, those belonging in the scientific community have hypothesized its spread to be akin to some sort of virus. That being said, the nation's brightest minds have banded together to try and uncover the mystery behind the lurkers, with Philadelphia Station serving as the prime location for undead related study and research.
These creatures are extremely aggressive but seem to conserve some form of human wit, able to recognize threats, targets, and form basic strategies towards their goals. The undead's exact strength is hard to measure; with their bites, they are easily capable of tearing human flesh by the chunk, single-handedly swinging and hoisting up male adults, holding on to speeding trains without a problem, damaging and sometimes tearing away steel doors, and even damaging extremely thick steel plating with nothing but running headfirst into it - however, they have been seen to be pushed aside and physically resisted and pushed aside by normal humans, and the force from bullets seems to be able to knock them back. A fair assessment could be that they lack the fine motor skills to gauge their own force and restraint at different time.
For the most part, all that's required to put an undead to rest is to cause severe trauma to its brain or heart. A shot from a firearm to either of these two areas is usually enough to take one out of commission, but it seems that after transformation they become a bit more durable, so it takes much more blunt force to take out an undead.
There are abnormals among the undead that having evolved over time, possessing special qualities. They will be listed here as the train and its crew encounter them across their journey.
The Iron Fortress is a steam locomotive gifted to the Earth by God himself. In actuality, it's one of the newest models of the train built by the engineers of Pittsburgh Station. It is made almost entirely of heavy metal components and has numerous ports and slits found along its body to allow gunmen on the inside to repel any undead that have latched themselves outside. The train is capable of running at very high speeds as opposed to ordinary steam locomotives since its engines have high output due to efficient vapor compression.
The train is made up of a number of carts, with its boiler and cab situated at its head. It also has a razor-like plow on its front to mow down undead that stand on the rail tracks. Behind the cab is the train's first tender, containing coal to be shoveled into the boiler, with the next tender following directly after, containing water acting as a coolant. The next three carts serve as the locomotive's armory and storage, containing weapons, ammunition, foods, and supplies. The only passageway between the boiler cart and the cabs behind the tenders is a small railed path alongside the outside of the carts. Even though it is rather high above the ground, its considered slightly dangerous as the path forces to one leave the safety of the train's walls.
Behind the storage carts are the living spaces for both hired guns and train smiths, taking up only two carts in total. The next seven carts are the living spaces for the locomotive's regular passengers and the final one acts as a point for the train's hired guns to scout out the situation. Each of the buggies behind the tenders are directly connected to one another so that no one has to risk leaving the trains. All carts have doors leading to a railing outside and a hatch to the train's roof, but they for the most part remain closed.
Boiler/Cab----Tender----Water Tank----Armory/Storage----Armory/Storage----Crew Space----Crew Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Living Space----Caboose
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