The Last Kind Words out West | OPEN & OOC & Signups|

[Chill beats LLC]

The Last Kind Words out West .were spoken by Billy Clanton on October 26th, 1881 at three o'clock in the afternoon, in the dust of the Old Kindersley corral.

"Well hell and damn. I hope every last one of you fucks get your dicks sliced off."

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IC ᵶ THEME

Welcome to Long Grass, TX/Denver, CO/Mobeetie, TX/Tombstone, AZ. The year is somewhere between 1879 and 1881, no one cares quite enough to keep track. Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Doc Holiday and Wyat Earp rule the once-great empire of the wild west. That lawless land, now losing itself to settlement and to the times, is dominated in its end-times by those immortal men whose lives will never be what we know them.

Only now, in this year of eighteen-hundred and something-or-another can we truly live out their lives, their experiences. Only now can we set the stage for the end of the lawless years, living out the sunset on the prairie skyline. Cowboys, Outlaws, Saloon-Slingers, and Whores, open your ears. The Last Kind Words out West are about to be spoken.

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There will be adult themes like violence, cursing, and death in this rp. This will be an rp grounded in historical events and following fictional poeple. This will be an action based rp, meaning every post you'll go about your roleplaying business, and somewhere within make an action. I'll roll a D100 and add bonuses and penalties as needed. This will be using a skill based system like in Call of Cthulhu. Here's an example:

ACTION: Use Skill: Lasso to tie up the bank robber.

With that information I'd then roll 1D100 against your Lasso Skill of 40. I roll a 35, under 40, so you succeed. Any questions, drop 'em with your app/tag.

You'll be starting in one of four places. Long Grass, TX/Denver, CO/Mobeetie, TX/Tombstone, AZ. These places will help to determine the people you meet and the things that happen to you, but you won't have to stay there forever.

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[spoiler=Application NUMBER][b]Name:[/b]
[b]Sex:[/b]
[b]Occupation:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Skills:[/b] (choose five from [url=https://imgur.com/Z2Aaja0]here[/url] and allocate 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 to each one the higher the score the better, think Call of Cthulhu)
[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Backstory:[/b] (a few good paragraphs should do it)
[b]RP examples:[/b][/spoiler]


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NPCs

Lord Benny Ernle, English Investor, Mobetie
"Wild" Bill Hickok, Frontiersman, Wilderness (Texas)
Buffalo Bill, Showman, Denver
Butch Cassidy, Outlaw, Wilderness (Utah)
Charlie Goodnight, Rancher, Mobetie
Caddo Jake, Frontiersman, Mobetie
Doc Holiday, Gambler, Long Grass
Geronimo, Apache Warrior, Wilderness (People's country)
Jesse James, Outlaw, Wilderness (Arizona)
Rojo Lopéz, Vaquero, Tombstone
Wyat Earp, Gambler, Long Grass
Sir William H. Russell, English Reporter, Long Grass
William Sherman, General, Wilderness (People's country)
William H. Bonney, Outlaw, Denver

PLAYERS
Jimmy Barrow, Drifter -United Human Planets
Aaron Jackson, Outlaw -Helowi
Ryuko Ueno/"Rico Bueno", Law-woman -Barapam
Jedediah Goodwill, Barber/Surgeon -Vulkata II

Here's a list of places available for player use, universal to each town and location.

LOCATIONS
Wells Fargo, mail/shipping, usually stocks a shotgun available for borrowing.
Saloons, go by different names, typically good for a cheap room and information.
Whorehouses, go by different names, good for a room and for fun.
Train stations, good for cheap transport.
Walter Wendyll's West Warehouse, a chain store selling guns, ammunitions, and anything else an adventurer might need.

[Vrijstaat Limburg]

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[Chill beats LLC]

IC will be up as soon as all the spots are filled.

[Chill beats LLC]

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[Eisen]

Tagging. I do like westerns.

[Bienvenida]

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[Chill beats LLC]

Announcement: There will be ten to fifteen spots available on a first come, first serve basis. I will only be accepting reservations from those with a few rp references.

[Barapam]

How loose can we be with the non-exact year? Can I play a veteran from the Napoleonic wars? Let's say for simplicity my guy was born in 1800, was 15 when he was at Waterloo, and now he's 70-80 and in such good health he appears to be more around 60-70?

Or can I be even more inexact about how young he was at Waterloo and how old he's now, so that his age is somewhere between 60-85 but it's never specified?

[Chill beats LLC]

How loose can we be with the non-exact year? Can I play a veteran from the Napoleonic wars? Let's say for simplicity my guy was born in 1800, was 15 when he was at Waterloo, and now he's 70-80 and in such good health he appears to be more around 60-70?

Or can I be even more inexact about how young he was at Waterloo and how old he's now, so that his age is somewhere between 60-85 but it's never specified?

I'd go with the second one. Glad to have you on board!

[Helowi]

Tag

[United Human Planets]

Just because I tend to be the type of person who likes to have a theme song for my characters, here's Jimmy's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVp7dqMQuQQ

Name: Jimmy Barrow
Sex: Male
Occupation: Drifter, aspiring bounty hunter/mercenary/outlaw, whichever comes first.
Appearance:

Age: 17
Skills: PISTOLS-60
SHOTGUNS-50
RIDING-70
CHARISMA-80
TRACKING-40

Weaknesses: Jimmy is a little clueless at times, and has a tendency to act with little self control.
Personality: Jimmy if friendly and cordial, and has been called at best mischievous and at worst a two timing backstabbing little sneak. That said, many have called him charming as well, and he is usually able to weasel his way into getting what he wants by just wearing down people with his incessant talking and friendliness.

However, no one was ever joking when they called Jimmy a two timing backstabbing little sneak. In many ways he is morally ambiguous, and dreams of being remembered, weather that is through honorable means or more morally ambiguous ones.
Backstory: Jimmy Barrow was born on august second, in a small town in Louisiana called Killjoy. From a young age his mother noted that he was at once both extravagant in his personality and sneaky in his tactics, and worried that he would not grow up to be a hard working member of the community like she dreamed. In many ways it seemed that she was the only member of the family who saw Jimmy's true ways, as his two sisters and father adored him and proudly showed Jimmy off to their friends.

He never went to school, but learned to read and write nonetheless when his mother employed an aunt to make sure of it. He took to it quickly, and though he always claimed that he loved to read, that kernel of knowledge was dubious at best as he spent much more of his time wandering with his friends fishing, fighting, and sneaking into the McAlistair farm to steal oranges and ride their pigs. As he got older, he developed a taste for gambling as well, and after a successful poker game once when he was 14, he bought a pistol from an old drunk named Redoux, which he carried around proudly.

With the purchase of the pistol, Jimmy started to feel like his calling was to go west, and try to make his name by the way of the gun. When he was 16, while gambling at the local saloon, Jimmy ended up in an altercation with two men from Chicago, who were unpopular in town due to the fact that many believed they were a couple of no good carpetbaggers who were only there to try and con the locals out of their hard earned money. The argument progressed until one of the men pulled a knife, and Jimmy responded with his pistol, shooting the first man in the stomach. When his friend went for his own gun, Jimmy shot him in the jaw, before holstering his pistol and leaving the two men to writhe on the floor as they died.

That night, after heading home and explaining what had happened, his mother made sure he was out of the house, and made sure to tell him that he was not allowed to ever come back. The last words he ever heard his mother say was a tearful "Lord have mercy on my wicked son" as he slammed the house door behind him and headed back into town. He robbed the first person he came upon, stealing their horse, hat, and 2 dollars of cash, before leaving them by the side of the road and riding west. He rode for two days and two nights, and finally stopped in a little town in Texas, where he stayed for a few days. After a wanted poster for him appeared in town, stating that he was being pursued for two counts of murder and the theft of the horse, Jimmy quickly saddled up and left town.

He bounced around from town to town as he made his way deeper and deeper into the west. Two years later he had found his way north, into the Rockies, and was making money where he could. He had made few friends in the area, cheating and stealing his way through anyone gullible enough to trust him. After wearing out his welcome guarding stage couches, having gotten into one to many fights over card games, Jimmy decided to head to Denver, where he hoped to begin his life as a bounty hunter, or mercenary, or outlaw, whichever came first. As long as he was a gunslinger in the dime novels, Jimmy would be pleased.
RP examples: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=436938&p=33557269&sid=7d83fffdf65e0e01ee3b89acfe28cc0e#p33557269

[Aghrabia]

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[Chill beats LLC]

Just because I tend to be the type of person who likes to have a theme song for my characters, here's Jimmy's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVp7dqMQuQQ

Name: Jimmy Barrow
Sex: Male
Occupation: Drifter, aspiring bounty hunter/mercenary/outlaw, whichever comes first.
Appearance:

(Image)

Age: 17
Skills: PISTOLS-60
SHOTGUNS-50
RIDING-70
CHARISMA-80
TRACKING-40

Weaknesses: Jimmy is a little clueless at times, and has a tendency to act with little self control.
Personality: Jimmy if friendly and cordial, and has been called at best mischievous and at worst a two timing backstabbing little sneak. That said, many have called him charming as well, and he is usually able to weasel his way into getting what he wants by just wearing down people with his incessant talking and friendliness.

However, no one was ever joking when they called Jimmy a two timing backstabbing little sneak. In many ways he is morally ambiguous, and dreams of being remembered, weather that is through honorable means or more morally ambiguous ones.
Backstory: Jimmy Barrow was born on august second, in a small town in Louisiana called Killjoy. From a young age his mother noted that he was at once both extravagant in his personality and sneaky in his tactics, and worried that he would not grow up to be a hard working member of the community like she dreamed. In many ways it seemed that she was the only member of the family who saw Jimmy's true ways, as his two sisters and father adored him and proudly showed Jimmy off to their friends.

He never went to school, but learned to read and write nonetheless when his mother employed an aunt to make sure of it. He took to it quickly, and though he always claimed that he loved to read, that kernel of knowledge was dubious at best as he spent much more of his time wandering with his friends fishing, fighting, and sneaking into the McAlistair farm to steal oranges and ride their pigs. As he got older, he developed a taste for gambling as well, and after a successful poker game once when he was 14, he bought a pistol from an old drunk named Redoux, which he carried around proudly.

With the purchase of the pistol, Jimmy started to feel like his calling was to go west, and try to make his name by the way of the gun. When he was 16, while gambling at the local saloon, Jimmy ended up in an altercation with two men from Chicago, who were unpopular in town due to the fact that many believed they were a couple of no good carpetbaggers who were only there to try and con the locals out of their hard earned money. The argument progressed until one of the men pulled a knife, and Jimmy responded with his pistol, shooting the first man in the stomach. When his friend went for his own gun, Jimmy shot him in the jaw, before holstering his pistol and leaving the two men to writhe on the floor as they died.

That night, after heading home and explaining what had happened, his mother made sure he was out of the house, and made sure to tell him that he was not allowed to ever come back. The last words he ever heard his mother say was a tearful "Lord have mercy on my wicked son" as he slammed the house door behind him and headed back into town. He robbed the first person he came upon, stealing their horse, hat, and 2 dollars of cash, before leaving them by the side of the road and riding west. He rode for two days and two nights, and finally stopped in a little town in Texas, where he stayed for a few days. After a wanted poster for him appeared in town, stating that he was being pursued for two counts of murder and the theft of the horse, Jimmy quickly saddled up and left town.

He bounced around from town to town as he made his way deeper and deeper into the west. Two years later he had found his way north, into the Rockies, and was making money where he could. He had made few friends in the area, cheating and stealing his way through anyone gullible enough to trust him. After wearing out his welcome guarding stage couches, having gotten into one to many fights over card games, Jimmy decided to head to Denver, where he hoped to begin his life as a bounty hunter, or mercenary, or outlaw, whichever came first. As long as he was a gunslinger in the dime novels, Jimmy would be pleased.
RP examples: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=436938&p=33557269&sid=7d83fffdf65e0e01ee3b89acfe28cc0e#p33557269

ACCEPTED!

Glad to have you!

[United Human Planets]

Just because I tend to be the type of person who likes to have a theme song for my characters, here's Jimmy's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVp7dqMQuQQ

Name: Jimmy Barrow
Sex: Male
Occupation: Drifter, aspiring bounty hunter/mercenary/outlaw, whichever comes first.
Appearance:

(Image)

Age: 17
Skills: PISTOLS-60
SHOTGUNS-50
RIDING-70
CHARISMA-80
TRACKING-40

Weaknesses: Jimmy is a little clueless at times, and has a tendency to act with little self control.
Personality: Jimmy if friendly and cordial, and has been called at best mischievous and at worst a two timing backstabbing little sneak. That said, many have called him charming as well, and he is usually able to weasel his way into getting what he wants by just wearing down people with his incessant talking and friendliness.

However, no one was ever joking when they called Jimmy a two timing backstabbing little sneak. In many ways he is morally ambiguous, and dreams of being remembered, weather that is through honorable means or more morally ambiguous ones.
Backstory: Jimmy Barrow was born on august second, in a small town in Louisiana called Killjoy. From a young age his mother noted that he was at once both extravagant in his personality and sneaky in his tactics, and worried that he would not grow up to be a hard working member of the community like she dreamed. In many ways it seemed that she was the only member of the family who saw Jimmy's true ways, as his two sisters and father adored him and proudly showed Jimmy off to their friends.

He never went to school, but learned to read and write nonetheless when his mother employed an aunt to make sure of it. He took to it quickly, and though he always claimed that he loved to read, that kernel of knowledge was dubious at best as he spent much more of his time wandering with his friends fishing, fighting, and sneaking into the McAlistair farm to steal oranges and ride their pigs. As he got older, he developed a taste for gambling as well, and after a successful poker game once when he was 14, he bought a pistol from an old drunk named Redoux, which he carried around proudly.

With the purchase of the pistol, Jimmy started to feel like his calling was to go west, and try to make his name by the way of the gun. When he was 16, while gambling at the local saloon, Jimmy ended up in an altercation with two men from Chicago, who were unpopular in town due to the fact that many believed they were a couple of no good carpetbaggers who were only there to try and con the locals out of their hard earned money. The argument progressed until one of the men pulled a knife, and Jimmy responded with his pistol, shooting the first man in the stomach. When his friend went for his own gun, Jimmy shot him in the jaw, before holstering his pistol and leaving the two men to writhe on the floor as they died.

That night, after heading home and explaining what had happened, his mother made sure he was out of the house, and made sure to tell him that he was not allowed to ever come back. The last words he ever heard his mother say was a tearful "Lord have mercy on my wicked son" as he slammed the house door behind him and headed back into town. He robbed the first person he came upon, stealing their horse, hat, and 2 dollars of cash, before leaving them by the side of the road and riding west. He rode for two days and two nights, and finally stopped in a little town in Texas, where he stayed for a few days. After a wanted poster for him appeared in town, stating that he was being pursued for two counts of murder and the theft of the horse, Jimmy quickly saddled up and left town.

He bounced around from town to town as he made his way deeper and deeper into the west. Two years later he had found his way north, into the Rockies, and was making money where he could. He had made few friends in the area, cheating and stealing his way through anyone gullible enough to trust him. After wearing out his welcome guarding stage couches, having gotten into one to many fights over card games, Jimmy decided to head to Denver, where he hoped to begin his life as a bounty hunter, or mercenary, or outlaw, whichever came first. As long as he was a gunslinger in the dime novels, Jimmy would be pleased.
RP examples: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=436938&p=33557269&sid=7d83fffdf65e0e01ee3b89acfe28cc0e#p33557269

ACCEPTED!

Glad to have you!

Glad to be here.

As far as Im concerned, there's not nearly enough wild west RP's around, so any chance I can get im gonna join one.

[Vulkata II]

I've been inactive lately but this caught my eye. Tag.

[Chill beats LLC]

added a list of NPCs

[Helowi]

How’s this?
[spoiler=Application #x]Name: Aaron Jackson
Sex: Male
Occupation: Outlaw
Appearance:

Age: 37
Skills: (choose five from here and allocate 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 to each one the higher the score the better, think Call of Cthulhu) Grit (60) Quick Draw (70) Pick Pocket (80) Sneak (50) and Bargain (40)
Weaknesses: Doesn’t have good book smarts, can read some English, but not all, often can be an asshole.
Personality: Very good street smarts. Often a bit narcissist. He can be a huge douche sometimes. He claims that he doesn’t have friends, but allies. He
Backstory: Born on a small farm near Tombstone. He never went to school and he often stayed on the farm helping with his large family of 11 siblings. He often helped with animals on the farm and when he was young his dad often taught him how to shoot guns and he often was rebound for his shooting skill at a young age, winning some local competitions.
He stayed on the farm until the age of twenty three when he left the family farm at the middle of night due to the death of his father and a desire to see the area of Tombstone. He left with a horse, some clothes, a pistol, and rations to last a couple of days. He spent the next couple of years working at a bar in tombstone and living in a room at a local inn. He started his criminal career at the age of 34 by helping local outlaws with a bank robbery and eventually helped other outlaws with more and more by helping outlaws with more and more crimes, eventually becoming one of Tombstones most famous criminals. He has been recently hunted down by law enforcement due to more and more witnesses that have seen him and an angry sherrqaa
RP examples: here’s one: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=432863[/spoiler]

[Chill beats LLC]

How’s this?

Name: Aaron Jackson
Sex: Male
Occupation: Outlaw
Appearance:
(Image)
Age: 37
Skills: (choose five from here and allocate 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 to each one the higher the score the better, think Call of Cthulhu) Grit (60) Quick Draw (70) Pick Pocket (80) Sneak (50) and Bargain (40)
Weaknesses: Doesn’t have good book smarts, can read some English, but not all, often can be an asshole.
Personality: Very good street smarts. Often a bit narcissist. He can be a huge douche sometimes. He claims that he doesn’t have friends, but allies. He
Backstory: Born on a small farm near Tombstone. He never went to school and he often stayed on the farm helping with his large family of 11 siblings. He often helped with animals on the farm and when he was young his dad often taught him how to shoot guns and he often was rebound for his shooting skill at a young age, winning some local competitions.
He stayed on the farm until the age of twenty three when he left the family farm at the middle of night with a horse, some clothes, a pistol, and rations to last a couple of days. He spent the next couple of years working at a bar in tombstone and living in a room at a local inn. He started his criminal career at the age of 34 by helping local outlaws with a bank robbery and eventually helped other outlaws with more and more by helping outlaws with more and more crimes, eventually becoming one of Tombstones most famous criminals. He has been recently hunted down by law enforcement. So the question is, how long will he last?
RP examples: here’s one: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=432863

Could you expand on why he left the farm, or how the law caught up with him? Other than that, I like it.

[The Imperial Warglorian Empire]

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[Ruskland-Preuben]

Tag

Hey j i m b o
Looks like you’re trying to EXPANDE your post countn!
Well hold it right there P A R T N E R T

Oh, yeah. Tagged.

[Aghrabia]

Name: Benjamin McKinley
Sex: Male
Occupation: Pastor of St. John's Baptist Church in Tombstone, Arizona
Appearance:

Age: ~45
Skills: Grit -- 60
Scripture -- 80
Shotgun -- 70
Insight -- 50
Persuade -- 40
Weaknesses:
Personality: Often gruff and hot-headed, the pastor has little time for fools, or criminals (unless he judges them to be righteous in some way), which is a problem in a town full of both. His religion has granted him a strong moral component, that he had not had previously had in himself, which has sculpted him into a rather headstrong and confident individual who is completely sure about his place in this world and the mission set to him by God. Despite at times being a violent person, despite his position as pastor, he is kindly to those of (Protestant) faith, especially to those in his congregation.
Backstory: The fourth child of the nine born to Thomas and Mary McKinley, a farmer and his wife, in rural Mississippi, Benjamin was a thoroughly conventional child, in a thoroughly conventional area of farmland in the early 1830s. The young McKinley spent most of his free time helping his family farm the plot of land tended by the family since his great-grandparents had first come to Mississippi many years before. Ben, as his parents had called him, was perfectly happy continuing in the way of his ancestors, but his father had other ideas. Thomas wished for his children to have at least some form of education, at least one to have something better than what they had already had; Benjamin's elder siblings hadn't taken to this programme of education, so he was the next in line for schooling. A significant amount of time during the early years of his childhood was spent learning his letters and numbers, and the history of the United States and his family, though he would have rather have spent the time outside, playing. He resented this education initially, but later in life he became thankful to his parents for giving it to him; at the time, though he preferred to spend his time outside, going on adventures with his friends and siblings. All in all, though, his childhood went by with few noteworthy incidents.

...

His parent's old homestead was now his, but it always reminded him too much of them to be at ease staying there. The thought of his brother, too, was playing on his mind, and he was still wondering what had happened to him. It was too much for him. This led to him giving the farm to his younger brother Joseph, before packing up his few belongings and setting off on the road. He knew the journey ahead was going to be long and arduous, but he wandered the length and breadth of the newly re-United States searching for his vanished sibling- alas, nothing.
RP examples:
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=424364
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=411032
(Hopefully these are good enough.)

Major WIP

[Eisen]

Application
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Name: Thomas Gallows
Sex: Male
Occupation: Outlaw
Appearance: Thomas is a very tall man, standing at just under a full seven feet in height, weighing in at 430 lbs, with a very broad and quite muscular body. He often wears a black vest over a grey shirt, with black trousers tucked into black, midcalf length boots. He also has a black, calf length coat and a black gambler hat.

Age:51
Skills:
[list=]
[*]Demolitions: 80
[*]Grit: 70
[*]Throw: 60
[*]Quick Draw: 50
[*]Pistols: 40
[/list]
Weaknesses: Thomas, being as large as he is, is easy to identify, even in a crowd. He's also fairly slow with the exception of his punches, but certainly not the smartest tool in the shed.
Personality: Thomas is constantly grumpy, with a nihilistic outlook on life, and a strong belief in the idea that only the strong survive, and that the good die young.
Backstory: Thomas Miller Gallows was born on a small farm out in south-eastern Nevada, to father James Gallows, an abusive patriarch and cattle owner, and Suzanne Karlson, who died shortly after Thomas' birth. The only thing that brought Thomas joy in his early life was his dog, a German Shepherd called Peter. However, one day, in a drunken fit, James had choked Peter to death, causing Thomas to murder his father that night by slitting his throat while he was asleep. After that, Thomas had run away from his homestead, and eventually made his way to Massachusetts, making a living doing odd jobs for various people, while sleeping where he could. Eventually, tensions between the Northern states and the Southern states erupted into a violent war, upon which Thomas joined the union, becoming adept at guerilla warfare against Confederate troops, specializing in unarmed combat, and gaining a knack for explosives. After the war ended, Thomas made his way to Arizona before deciding that his talents were best used for criminal activities such as robbery and mercenary work.
RP examples:
RPs I'm in.

• Holy High: For Once, Then Something
• Are We Heroes: Forged in Fire
• End of Day

[Helowi]

How’s this?

Name: Aaron Jackson
Sex: Male
Occupation: Outlaw
Appearance:
(Image)
Age: 37
Skills: (choose five from here and allocate 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 to each one the higher the score the better, think Call of Cthulhu) Grit (60) Quick Draw (70) Pick Pocket (80) Sneak (50) and Bargain (40)
Weaknesses: Doesn’t have good book smarts, can read some English, but not all, often can be an asshole.
Personality: Very good street smarts. Often a bit narcissist. He can be a huge douche sometimes. He claims that he doesn’t have friends, but allies. He
Backstory: Born on a small farm near Tombstone. He never went to school and he often stayed on the farm helping with his large family of 11 siblings. He often helped with animals on the farm and when he was young his dad often taught him how to shoot guns and he often was rebound for his shooting skill at a young age, winning some local competitions.
He stayed on the farm until the age of twenty three when he left the family farm at the middle of night with a horse, some clothes, a pistol, and rations to last a couple of days. He spent the next couple of years working at a bar in tombstone and living in a room at a local inn. He started his criminal career at the age of 34 by helping local outlaws with a bank robbery and eventually helped other outlaws with more and more by helping outlaws with more and more crimes, eventually becoming one of Tombstones most famous criminals. He has been recently hunted down by law enforcement. So the question is, how long will he last?
RP examples: here’s one: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=432863

Could you expand on why he left the farm, or how the law caught up with him? Other than that, I like it.

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[Barapam]

Decided for an Asian cowgirl instead. It was too complicated to make a Napoleonic veteran. Would he be Swedish, Prussian, British, or even French? Not to mention I'd need to come up with a much longer bio...

Name: Ryuko Ueno (Ueno Ryuko), a.k.a. "Rico Bueno"
Sex: Female
Occupation: Deputy Marshal
Appearance:

Age: 25
Skills: Ride (80), Pistol (70), Lasso (60), Rifle (50), Law (40)
Weaknesses: Her gender, race, and young age is often enough for people to not take her seriously. She can be quite short-tempered and trigger-happy.
Personality: Determinated, stubborn, quiet and resilient. She's not one to turn the other cheek, forgive, or forget. This has caused her troubles sometimes.
Backstory: Ryuko's father brought his wife and three children over the Pacific when Ryuko was just a little girl, in order for them to start a new life. He wasn't just out to make a quick buck and then go back to Japan, he wanted to build a better future in the new country for his loved ones. Her father was working at a logging camp in California, and Ryuko's mother went there too, as a cook. Ryuko grew up and adapted quicker than the rest of her family. After all, she was the youngest, and with only faint memories of Japan, the life in America was the only one she knew.

Unfortunately, her father owed money to the wrong people, and when they didn't get paid, they put their cabin on fire. Her siblings was burned alive inside and her father was shot, but not before witnessing how the men took his wife, Ryuko's mother, and then killed her too. Ryuko had been out playing on her own, and saw the whole thing as she hid in the bushes. Although barely a teenager, she swore to extract revenge. The men had not been loggers, but cowboys travelling through. In order to track them down, Ryuko left the logging camp and became a cowgirl herself. It took years, but eventually she found a few of the murderers, and saw that justice was done. The cattle trails brought her to Arizona, and more or less because no one else wanted the job, she became a deputy marshal in Tombstone. Is she the right woman for the job? It remains to be seen.
Theme song: "Ingabana" by Meiko Kaji
RP examples: The Infinites: And Beyond!

[Vulkata II]

Decided for an Asian cowgirl instead. It was too complicated to make a Napoleonic veteran. Would he be Swedish, Prussian, British, or even French? Not to mention I'd need to come up with a much longer bio...

Name: Ryuko Ueno (Ueno Ryuko), a.k.a. "Rico Bueno"
Sex: Female
Occupation: Deputy Marshal
Appearance:
(Image)
Age: 25
Skills: Ride (80), Pistol (70), Lasso (60), Rifle (50), Law (40)
Weaknesses:
Personality:
Backstory: (a few good paragraphs should do it)
Theme song: "Ingabana" by Meiko Kaji
RP examples: The Infinites: And Beyond!

WIP

I don't know much about the wild west much as I don't research much about it but wouldn't it be more realistic if she was Chinese since the Chinese help build the railroad and eventually settle down in California?