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- Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Modern, Fandoms
Welcome to the City of Melgarde! The capital of the glorious Empire of Galwor, founded two centuries ago and having served the role of the capital for the last 70 years.
The City of Melgarde has seen many changes and expansion over the 200 years since its creation. Starting out as a small, land based city, it quickly attracted many due to the proclamation that this will be the "City of the Future". And in fact, it has seen one of the biggest scientific changes in the world, serving as the first city to possess a residential area that was not based in the land, but rather managed to be secured safely in the air. Until then, the largest objects that have remained in the air were some of the militant-based airships.
This advancement caused Melgarde to start growing in population, and size, at an incredible rate, and with the building of new neighbourhoods now also possible in the skies, the potential for expansion seemed endless. While many of the other countries desired to learn the secret, it had barely gone even out of the reach of Melgarde, keeping the city's status as the beacon of scientific advancement permanently above all the others.
The allure of the city, however, would not see any kind of limit. Not only would scientists, businessmen and politicians move to Melgarde, but also criminals, thieves and low lives of all kinds. People from any kind of background sought to find their place in Melgarde, the city that promised it all, while keeping the biggest secret to itself.
And now, as the city is months away from its 200 year anniversary celebrations, it feels as though things could not be any better for the residents. The police are always on alert, the industry is booming, airships always come and go, and most importantly, the population of Melgarde keeps on rising.
But those that live in the shadows of the city, the ones who steal and break the laws, have started hearing rumours. Something that may be missed at the top. Someone who potentially managed to do the unthinkable and steal, before hiding away, something incredibly valuable to the founding family of the city, the Melgardes. And now, the police are committing quick raids on any place that might hide away any sort of criminal, in attempts to reclaim that which was stolen.
Will you find your way to this stolen treasure and claim it as your own? Will you simply look to survive? Or will you attempt to escape before your fate is sealed at the hands of the Melgarde Police? The time is at hand for you to seek what fate truly waits for you.
Welcome to the interest thread of Wanted: Melgarde!
As you may have surmised from the details given, this is meant to be a Steampunk roleplay, which will revolve around a group of criminals, from different backgrounds, that end up working together. To what goal is to be determined, since multiple rumours may roam in the alleys and hideouts.
Seeing as I have already set the main setting and plot, allow me to explain how I was hoping to run things.
~ One GM, which will be me. I will be open to hearing ideas about anything, from NPC's to your character plots, and work with you guys to incorporate those into the story. But as it is a world I made, I'll have the final say if it will work in the setting or not.
(With that said, I am normally pretty open for ideas)
~ I will want to keep the roleplay to a relatively small number of people, of about 4-5 members, not including myself. This is both to try and keep things rolling with a good pace and what I personally feel would be manageable for myself.
~ I will expect a post once or twice a week. If you do not believe you could keep up with that pace, then I will apologize and say ahead of time that I do not wish to go with a slower pace than that.
~ I will allow members to create one character to begin with. This is just to get things going. If I see things are going well and that we don't have any hindrances from any of the members, then I will be opening for changing this.
~ I'll want to make use of the dice mechanic. This won't be used for every single post, and some things I will let just occur naturally, but at times I will request for a dice roll. Think of it as a mini DND feature in the roleplay, that could determine how certain actions do.
~ Finally, and this is a big note, I won't be going with "First Come, First Serve". I'll let people apply until I accept 4-5, then close the entry. Won't matter when you applied, only if I feel the character you made and the level you write in feels good for me.
With all that said and done, I can't wait to see if people are interested! If I see at least 3 people interested, I'll start working on an OOC. And hopefully open it quickly.
