Alternate Earth #23(?): Living In The Wild, Wild West

[Marcus Impudite]

Just as the title says, what would your character be like if the campaign were set in an Old West-like world with steampunk technology, weird science, etc?

[Blue]

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Anthem, being a martial artist, would perhaps be a bit more kung-fu like. But anyone who can repeatedly ignore bullets would probably scare the bad guys. And she'd be reaching for her throwing stars during a showdown!

 

Uncle Slam might be wearing a Union Soldier's outfit of sorts. But his principals would still be pretty much the same.

[Chuckg]

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Dr. Pain -- instead of being an ex-pro wrestler, he's a wandering ex- prize-fighter and ex-riverboat roughneck who had to give up prize-fighting after running into a strange mystical Indian herb during his travels and gaining superhuman strength and toughness. Now, he just wanders around, trying to earn a living without being 'outed' as a freak. But he's soft-hearted, so he keeps ending up helping people...

 

Wouldn't carry a gun. Then again, he can bounce cannon fire, so he doesn't need to. And few men shoot the unarmed man, or willingly fistfight a seven-foot mountain of muscle!

 

And, of course, he's not called 'Dr. Pain'. Instead, he's just Leon Stepczinski.

 

Baron von Darien -- two words. Rail baron.

 

Wouldn't openly carry a gun (gunbelts and cowboy hats don't go with the suit), but would be a very fast and accurate hand with his concealed revolver.

 

Starguard -- much the same, only far more demure of dress. (Although she's already the most demure on the team *anyway*, given that the only uncovered skin on her entire body is below the wrists and above the neck... it's just, they won't have spandex back then. *g*)

 

Wouldn't *dream* of carrying a gun. Then again, the "miracle girl" wouldn't *need* to...

[BcAugust]

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Go absoulutly nuts? The weird tech would make her head hurt, though she'd be fasinated by the War between the states and the West. Though, given whom she was probably found by when she crash landed, she might actually help the last of the tribes fight back to reclaim their lands... Which could lead to a very alternate history indeed. I would imagine "The Morning Star" would be a feared name throughout the west, as she helps the tribe that found her and their allies kick the Americans out, while also trying to uplift them, and free the slaves.

[OddHat]

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Style – Would drive a medicine wagon and make his living gambling and selling alchemical remedies that actually worked. Would carry enchanted six-guns that shot blessed Silver bullets, and carry a hip flask filled with Holy Water. His magic would still be Western-Hermetic, but he’d study Native American styles as well. He’d still be hunted by every occult menace west of the Pecos.

 

Flesh Gordon – Roy Rogers meets Dudley Do-Right, but just enough Owen Wilson to be funny.

[Twilight]

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Twilight would be essentially the same, though he'd likely not have as big a CVK and would probably use six shooters instead of a bow and arrow and he'd likely have a bit of that steampunk stuff himself though now cyber type stuff. I'm picturing him as an odd mix of the Lone Ranger and Jonah Hex, only with no scars.

[farik]

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Kenneth Clarke would be the poor son of share croppers. His experiments in wierd science combining native plant life would reveal the Husky Potion. Husky would claim to be a mythical indian spirit (despite the fact no natives would recognize him). He'd use steampunk gadgets but they would be disguised as "primitive" items. He'd fight injustice and try to bring peace to the natives, the ranchers, and the farmers.

[Badger]

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Superbadger wouldnt change that much actually. He doesnt wear a superhero costume. And to some extent his usual mode of dress aside from his T-shirt could probably pass for your local farmer possibly. Outside shirt flannel, blue jeans,etc. Wouldnt go to boots, would prefer moccasins instead. With his energy blasts he doesnt need a gun, and in any case his SPD is high enough he can dodge bullets. He would probably help the Native Americans fight against the Army on the frontier. Being his father was an alien from another planet (not sure how that would work) he would probably have to deal with some prejudice. He would belong out on the Plains rather than in a town, too.

[S7Michelle]

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Cannis headed West to escape the scandal surrounding her family (a father arrested for stealing from his employer, a mother overdosing on landum). As Lisa, she quickly developed a reputation as having a magic touch with animals, traveling from city to city with an assortment of exotic pets to help train otherwise unmanageable beasts. People generally didn’t notice that some of their more appealing and valuable possessions were gone until long after she’d left and she was rarely, if ever, blamed for any of the seemingly impossible thefts. Ultimately, she picked the wrong person to steal from and was caught. Fortunately, Adam, a robber baron, was so amused at her daring and pleased by her abilities that he offered her a job. Now she, along with a group of others, works for him, dealing with any threats to his power and helping protect/recruit any other people with special abilities.

 

Primary differences: No formal training in the biological sciences, though she still has a knack for animal breeding. More wilderness type skills. Her powers are a good bit more effective since animals are extremely common. She’s never been overly fond of guns and still wouldn’t be. Probably would make use of a whip and knives.

 

 

 

Mina (Sailor Io) is the daughter of a well-to-do merchant in one of the largest old west cities. She and her betrothed, Zane, are both extremely skilled with steampunk technology, though most people just assume that they enjoy tinkering and making toys. She, along with a mixed assortment of friends, attend a private boarding school by day and protect the citizens of Denver from supernatural menaces at night.

 

 

Primary differences: Really, she wouldn’t be all that different. The skirt of her costume would have to be quite a bit longer. She’d probably be planning to marry Zane after graduating from high school rather than planning to go to college. She wouldn’t carry a gun, though she might have one or two exotic steam punk weapons for cases of emergency. (Her powers are far more effective than any six shooter.)

[Guest WhammeWhamme]

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What's the rest of the world like?

 

(Flippant: Eastern European. Estatua: South American)

 

Sludge. I'm gong to take the optimistic view and say that HERE, he's a good guy. 'Different societal pressures. So, we have a teen gentle giant brick with limited shapeshift (he's malleable).

 

But he won't have pet fish.

 

(assuming rest of world contemporary)

Flippant:

Hrm. A dancer, I guess (gymnastics, as a profession, is relatively new, right?), and still in the Old Country. When his powers kicked in, he fell messily during a performance. However, his panic about being unable to support himself has the same effect as Flippant's shock over his dreams dying, and he snapped into healing as well. He wandered the multiverse a little (y'know, I gotta give him Contact: Myself...) and eventually returned. Now, he is a magnificent spectacle, performing seemingly (actually) supernatural feats during the performances (of course, since he LOOKS like he's walking on something solid anyway... hard to distinguish), and garnering great fame.

 

Estatua:

I guess he'd be a steampunk 'cyborg', since skin grafts don't translate well.

Hrm. Maybe he was burnt badly, and given an ancient cure that requires the ritual flaying (in this case, of a 'devil child' with mutant powers...)... and was horrified (perhaps the cure was arranged by an evil sorceror seeking to bind him... but the child instead is able to avenge itself through him....)

 

Anyway. Estatua doesn't work outside a modern context, although Flayed-Guy is a damn creepy concept.

[SKJAM!]

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The Mask of Justice: Is much the same, really, except that New York City is if anything more rough-and-tumble (see Gangs of New York.) Probably didn't go to college, but worked his way up from printer's devil to become a reporter. Doesn't get out West very often, since there's plenty to do in his home city.

 

Rock Bottom: A former runaway slave (Civil War fixed the slave part) who got caught in a chemical explosion in a Baltimore warehouse. He's mostly concerned with helping and protecting other former slaves.

 

Calculus: "Doc" Rockwood is a professional gambler, and a deadly shot with his Derringer. "It isn't the size of the holes that counts, it's where you put them."

 

Kira Midori: Is hit with a double dose of racism and sexism when she arrives from the future. Ain't nobody in this time period hiring Japanese women as police officers. Her psychic gifts might get her a job with the Pinkertons though, as long as she doesn't act all uppity.

 

Talion: "I hear Desolation Smith was seen up Tucson way."

 

"Pshaw! Tain't no such person!"

 

"That's not so, Tex. I seen him with my own eyes once, when he wiped out the Barlow gang. Just stood right there and told them to surrender or die where they was. They hauled out their shootin' irons, and when the smoke cleared, Desolation was full of holes--but so was they. I don't mind sayin', I like to lost my lunch."

 

"So it's true he was cursed by Christ to walk the world forever, cause of laughing at Him on the cross?"

 

"What I heard was that he angered some Cheyenne shaman, who called up the old spirits of his people to punish Desolation, but the shaman's daughter took a liking to the man and wove a protection for him that didn't quite work. I asked Desolation about it, but he just laughed, bitter like, and walked away."

 

"Reckon I'll go up Tucson way, and see for myself."

 

"You do that, Tex. But don't make a friend of Desolation Smith, or you will surely die."

[dbsousa]

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Golden Eagle would be "Doc" Morache, Railroad Tycoon, and inventor of the Rail Communicator, a telephone that uses the rail lines so that trains can talk to one another. He is currently working on a "Railless Train" that can be carried on a rail car, and travel to places where the railroad ain't. It uses tracks, and he has mounted Mr. Gatling's Machinery Gun on it to chase down train robbers.

 

Protector would be Frank "Protector" Wright, the Sheriff of Liberty, Nevada, A mining town where neither the Negro, nor the Injun, nor the Chinaman need fear the lynch mob. Frank is as deadly with his fists as he is with a pistol, having learned the ancient art of "Chinese Boxing" while working on the railroad in California.

 

Toreador has exactly the same origin (Mixed blood Spanish/Indian, left to die in the sun, goes on a spirit quest, awakes to find himself clad in the traditional Spanish Toreador costume, with magic Sword and Cape) but becomes a hero of California, saving the peasants from the machinations of the Robber Barons...

 

Bouncer is a cowboy with an unfortunate reputation for being bulletproof. It seems that every other town he rides into, someone wants to test that theory. Years ago, when rustlers kidnapped the girl he was sweet on, he put on a mask, walked into their lair, and single handedly beat the tar out of 'em. Unfortunately, his girl was gutshot by a ricochet, and Bouncer has been trying to find a bottle big enough to crawl into ever since.

[FenrisUlf]

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Can't coment about my heroes as yet, but if you were doing a worldwide steampunk setting, Doctor Destroyer AKA Lord Shiva would make a great substitute for Fu Manchu as the 'Eastern Peril'. Just make him a Hindu nobleman who learned Western science along with Eastern mysticism, returns to found his own kingdom in the Himalayas (tearing it away from the unclean British dogs, and kicking their army from here to Hong Kong with his electric-driven automatons), and then uses science, poison, and pure unbridled evil to overthrow the decadent West!

 

Any ideas on how one could use other CKC characters in a steampunk setting?

[nexus]

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Valkeyrie would be much like Millie from Trigun, big, good natured and strong. She'd carry some non lethal Steam heavy gun/capture device that took someone of her strength to fire easily. "Handcannon" in the most literal sense of the world. She'd probably be a school marm type and dress even more modestly than she does not (Long skirts, high collars, etc) and be a back up character more so than a full Flegeded member of the Vindicators....

 

Shidoku...hmm, black hat wearing, cigar smoking gambler/brawler of a Calamity Jane type wanderer. She'd likely not have such an aversion to guns but still prefer to settle things with her fists. She'd have to deal with sexism and racisim but would likely still have the same 'tude" so teaching folks a lesson would suit her just fine.

 

Tao, now she could be harder considering her background. Perhaps an occult/alchemical experiment raised from the bodies of a posse of good men that fell trying to take down a terrrible evil, a man in red that had killed many. He killed them too but their fallen spirits were raised again in a new form. Now, Tao is a drifter, a gun fighter and vigilante endlessly tracking the man in red for their final showdown. Kind of a Gunslinger-esque character. Could be pretty neat.

[st barbara]

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"St Barbara"would probably embrace the philosophy of Cordelia Claffyn Woodhull, especially the "free love, access to contraception and votes for women" parts! She would be roving the west helping women to realise their full potential, and kicking male chauvenist butt into the bargain !

[Whitewings]

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"St Barbara"would probably embrace the philosophy of Cordelia Claffyn Woodhull' date=' especially the "free love, access to contraception and votes for women" parts! She would be roving the west helping women to realise their full potential, and kicking male chauvenist butt into the bargain ![/quote']Champion Wind would likely be one of Woodhull's younger followers, though her parents would probably be rather libertine themselves. Her powers, though, would likely manifest differently; with no "magical girl" traditions to draw on, she'd more likely go the "magician's daughter" road. If you're familiar with Rupert, think of Tiger Lily and you'll have the right general idea.

[nexus]

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Cordelia Claffyn Woodhull

 

 

Who is this? I did a Google and got nothing.

[PoorWandering 1]

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The New Rocketman: The only changes would be to trade the jetpack for a fast horse and to learn how to sing. Rocket's golden age attitudes would be just as out of place in the real west as they are in the modern CU. If you've see Rustlers Rhapsody you have the idea.

[Whitewings]

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Who is this? I did a Google and got nothing.

Look under Victoria Woodhull

[st barbara]

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To "Whitewings" Did I get the name wrong ? I WAS going from memory (not always 100% accurate) but I thought I had the name right. For anyone who can get hold of it the story "We Are Not Amused "in Älternate Presidents" edited by Mike Resnick features M/S Woodhull as President Of The United States !

[Hermit]

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Apex- Marshall.

 

Recluse- Former fellow working with either US govt or a Railroad company that honestly thought he was giving the indians a good deal. Feels terribly guilty whenhe discovers he was used to manipulate and lie to them. Ends up meeting Grandmother Spider and she sets him out to protect the people. His name here would probably end up being the less creative "White Spider"

 

Wild Card-

Riverboat Gambler and masked vigilante. Instead of cards as weapons would use guns, but would still leave a calling card after he brought someone in...

dead or alive.

 

YEE HA!

[Drhoz]

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given non-human species seem to be out of the question - Vitus would be a long-haired, badly scarred, scowling loner. Obsessed with the idea of cross-continental rail, dreaming of war-trains, laying out civilisation (or his version thereof) from one end of the desert to the other. In between dealing with the tribulations of the west, with extremely dirty fighting and steampunk tasers and the like, he'ld work towards the first land-tank - a scorpionoid monstrosity, using Maxim-guns and live steam to lay down the Law of Morgan "Mad Dog" St Vitus

 

Zero would be a casino cooler, probably. Hired to break winning streaks by his gift for reading the other player's faces. Constantly nervous, mopping his high forehead, and wearing a thickly padded, hopefully bullet-proof, vest at all times. His costume would be neat, black, and utterly nondescript Sunday Best.

[DataPacRat]

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Mike the Demoness: The War Between Heaven And Hell has changed surprisingly little between the 19th and 21st centuries, so she'd be virtually unchanged - a freethinker who didn't believe in gods or demons who got suckered by a succubus into swapping bodies with her. Probably ends up with a Manhunter sort of schtick - pick a new mortal shape, enter the town, search town for useful supernatural people or objects, incidentally have her Protective of Innocents called on to save a schoolmarm or the like, go full demoness for the showdown, then ride on out into the sunset... just as the local era's version of the Holy Water Gun brigade shows up there on her trail.

 

Rubber Mousie is a bit tough (for a change). Possibly, she's even the same original person, from the present, scooped up by an alien wormhole... only when they sent her back to Earth, they flipped a sign, and put her on the wrong one, in the wrong time. After an initial adjustment period, this could segue into a Sliders style alternate-world campaign...

[Sweeper]

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*Looks around* Dang, I feel like I'm missing out on the pure goofiness of making up supers and revising them to fit different worlds. Time to break out the ol' book and finally build Riff.

[Amber Nytstar]

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Luna Moth: Diana Papillon is a traveling high-stakes gambler and the daughter of a Pinkerton investigating a string of late night bank robberies. His only lead to the culprit is that 'she' was once seen riding out of town on a strange mechanical horse. It's only a mere coincidence that Diana was at each of the banks two days before they were robbed.