1936 - Pulp Heroes

[James Heard]

I just got my artsy gf convinced that it would be cool if she helped me with visualization of this game. So she's gonna make an Indy-style poster of this. I deliberately gave her very vague descriptions of your characters and permision to use artistic freedom so they prolly won't look much like you imagined them, but let's face it, casting is never perfect . The actors rarely look the way the writers would want.

I dunno...I pretty much left Chester deliberately vague in some respects just so everyone would fill in the details with "classic movie good looks" as they picture them.

 

[Blackrat]

Oh don't worry. I asked her to keep it simple and pretty much generic (comicbook style) so there will still be much left for imagination. But if you really don't like the idea tell me and I'll ask her to make Powell as a kind of "shadowy" figure.

 

[kirinke]

Oh don't worry. I asked her to keep it simple and pretty much generic (comicbook style) so there will still be much left for imagination. But if you really don't like the idea tell me and I'll ask her to make Powell as a kind of "shadowy" figure.

Ooo. So you have someone drawing our characters? Nice!

 

[James Heard]

Oh don't worry. I asked her to keep it simple and pretty much generic (comicbook style) so there will still be much left for imagination. But if you really don't like the idea tell me and I'll ask her to make Powell as a kind of "shadowy" figure.

Nooo, I meant I didn't care. Far be it from "shadowy," Powell's rather larger than life.

 

[Blackrat]

Ooo. So you have someone drawing our characters? Nice!

Yeah. My girlfriend promised to make a movie-poster in a style of Indiana Jones mixed with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. As far as I know she has Elizabeth already done and the sketch I saw yesterday was awesome, so the finished character will probably be awesome x 10.

 

[Mirth]

I saw that you lost a player and wondered if you had a slot open.

I was an extremely active PbP player here a couple of years ago and I'm itching to get back into it again. If you can take on one more, this concept appeals to me.

MI5 agent ala 007 of 30's

I could be the straight-laced hard-@$$ lawman to Powell's comedic boozer (love the Thin Man movies!), or the "shadowy figure" with several motives and plots going at once, or the cocky womanizer with more than enough manpower (pun intended) to back it up, or all of the above.

Or I could go with none of the above and be the sweet-natured, balding college professor with the tweed jacket and the pipe who is actually a codebreaker, fencing coach and crackshot marksman (from when he fought in the Great War at the ripe young age of 15).

I'm off to work in a couple of hours and won't be back until tonight, but I'll check the thread then. I hope to join you all soon, but if not, I'll be reading the game nonetheless.

 

[Blackrat]

Hmm. The group is guite big already but I think seven is possible to handle. So if you can devote time to this you're welcome. And an MI-5 (actually MI-6 would be better) agent would be cool to have in the group.

"shadowy figure" with several motives and plots going at once

And that sounds like a good agent.

and crackshot marksman (from when he fought in the Great War at the ripe young age of 15).

You know, there is actually still a mystery-shot from WWI that is to be known who took it. Maybe your character was the one who dropped Red Baron? (Yeah, I know there are "official" theories, but nothing has been able to be proven)

 

[Mirth]

Checked on this one more time before leaving for work and I'm in! I'll work on a concept today and hopefully post something later tonight or in the morning.

Would a brash American OSS agent help anything? Just throwing out ideas. I really like the Red Baron connection, though. Mmmm... I'll stew on it.

Thanks Blackrat!

 

[Blackrat]

OSS could work but it hasn't been established yet. But if you want an american agent you could be Secret Service like Sawyer in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (The movie, he's not in the comic). And it could very well have been american who pulled the trigger too . At least in a Pulp-Earth.

 

[James Heard]

It might be coolest to say "I'm the Department of Agriculture's top man" and make it somewhat of a mysterious joke.