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AboutName: Tombstone
Code: Theta Abandoned Desert Manco
Brief Summary: The American Old West
Motto: N/A, although it could well be "Every Man for Himself"
Anthem: N/A
Currency: Gold, weighed by balances, as well as dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. Also, much bartering.
History: Tombstone was founded ten years ago by Obadiah Oakley as a small frontier town, with the long cattle runs supplying it with enough meat to go by. There were a few gambling establishments at the time, as well as a general store. After gold was found in the nearby Black Hills, the city boomed, men flocking to the city. Houses were put up almost overnight, and the saloons and whore houses multiplied dramatically. A rich general store owner with quite the monopoly on the city’s goods and services came in the form of Virgil Holliday, and the Oakleys and the Hollidays have been feuding every since.
Government: Tombstone is lawless, as it’s still in in ‘Injun Territory,’ and therefore not part of the Golden Country. The Oakley family mainly holds the city, organizing any trials they see fit to hold, having weekly city council meetings with all important family heads, and setting a ‘deadline’ in the city, a point past which no guns may be carried. The Holliday family, however, controls the commerce, and has recently started running their own laws. Significantly, the Golden Country is making a motion to take over all Indian Territories. Should that happen, Tombstone will gain an official law system.
Geography: Prone to contrasting wide shots with major close-ups, the cowboy world, as depicted by Sergio Leone, is just plain GRITTY. Tombstone is not yet touched by the railroads, instead relying on coaches and bandwagons to get supplies to town. Tombstone has lush hills with dark black rocks and low grass nearby, and that’s where most farmers and cattle owners make their homes. There are also several ranches out into the deserts that surround the city. These deserts are dry and arid, receiving very little rain. Streets are very dusty, and houses are generally made of few. Water is found through wells digging deep into the earth, and there’s a river located about ten kilometres into the Black Hills. Boot Hill is the inner section of the local cemetery, where those who ‘died with their boots on’ are buried.
Culture: Tombstone is a frontier town, well engaged in the gold-rush. It is lawless, it is wild, and it is dirty. Slaves, recently liberated, work in the lowest of jobs, if they can find work. Many people carry manual revolvers on them, regardless of the deadline. A fair number of people, especially men, are capable of reading, and there is a newspaper, run by Doc Earp, called the Epitaph. There is a small but important China-town, though the Chinese do not dare stray from their part of town. Cowboys back the Oakley family, who offer equality to these often-minority groups. The gamblers, meanwhile, back the Hollidays. Drifters and assassins are also known to pass through the city. There is a small theatre that doubles as a school during the days, and a church also sits at the east end of town. Women are either homemakers (taking care of children, the house, and the farm), saloon girls (dancing and entertaining men, and paying a rent to the saloon owner) or prostitutes. Prostitutes in bawdy houses are far safer than prostitutes on the streets, who are often raped by men in this male-dominated community, but prostitutes in the houses are often maltreated as well. Women gunfighters, if they can prove their mettle, are treated like ‘one of the boys.’
Demographics:
Indians: Native to the region, they generally dislike the settlers for stopping the bison herds and interfering with migration. They are often treated poorly by the settlers, and the settlers live in perpetual fear of an Indian attack, although this is unlikely. Some mixed-blood Indians, rejected by their tribes, work as cowboys, and though no Indian is allowed into a gambling establishment, a well respected one might be permitted into the bars.
Ex-slaves: Immediately identifiable by the branded numbers on the back of their hands, the former slaves likewise usually can only find jobs are cowboys. Some have been taken in as servants to the families they formerly served, but for the most part, they are offered no vocal place in government. Ex-slaves are generally allowed into gambling establishments, but few will play with them, and they are treated just as Indians are in bars. They are also only served in certain whore houses, where all the prostitutes are former slaves themselves, though these bawdy houses are generally owned by the settlers. A notable cowboy half-breed is Chuck the Indian, well respected and an excellent shot.
Chinese: The Chinese generally keep to themselves in Chinatown, and run their own convenience stores, medicine shops, whorehouses, and bars. While ex-slaves and Indians are more welcome there, it is nearly impossible to earn the respect of the people in Chinatown unless one speaks Chinese. An important contributor to the Chinatown community would be Zhao Ka-Hei, owner, with his family, of the convenience store and medicine shop. Li Mung-Qi is the owner of the most prominent and classy Chinese brothel.
Settlers: The dominant power, they own pretty much everything. They generally own farms, ranches, or gambling houses. The Oakleys and Hollidays are both settlers, with the Oakleys owning more property, often leased to other settlers and sometimes even ex-slaves, Chinese people, and Indians. Many settlers came here for the goldrush, and are single men who go out panning every day. Specific settlers of interest are the Oakley family (Obadiah and Esther, with children Morgan, Arthur, William, James and Samantha), the Hollidays (Virgil and Anne Holliday, with children Jonathan, George, Lenny, Jack “Curly”, and Jane). Jane and William are known to be having a secret affair. Doc Earp is the local newspaperman, as well as the main medicine man, and the local priest is Gareth Henry.
Drifters: People ‘just passing through’ are generally working in some form of commerce. Some of these are travelling entertainers or salesmen, often selling miracle cures. Others are gamblers and gunfighters moving from city to avoid arrest, and some are merely journalists. Notable drifter and notorious killer Bill Clanton has made his way into town as of late.
Pictures:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/OUATITW-1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/Ss/0060196/11.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0048.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=3
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0093.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=4
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0068.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=6
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0054.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=12
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/GoodBadUgly_Mexicanstandoff.gif
Code: Theta Abandoned Desert Manco
Brief Summary: The American Old West
Motto: N/A, although it could well be "Every Man for Himself"
Anthem: N/A
Currency: Gold, weighed by balances, as well as dollars, quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies. Also, much bartering.
History: Tombstone was founded ten years ago by Obadiah Oakley as a small frontier town, with the long cattle runs supplying it with enough meat to go by. There were a few gambling establishments at the time, as well as a general store. After gold was found in the nearby Black Hills, the city boomed, men flocking to the city. Houses were put up almost overnight, and the saloons and whore houses multiplied dramatically. A rich general store owner with quite the monopoly on the city’s goods and services came in the form of Virgil Holliday, and the Oakleys and the Hollidays have been feuding every since.
Government: Tombstone is lawless, as it’s still in in ‘Injun Territory,’ and therefore not part of the Golden Country. The Oakley family mainly holds the city, organizing any trials they see fit to hold, having weekly city council meetings with all important family heads, and setting a ‘deadline’ in the city, a point past which no guns may be carried. The Holliday family, however, controls the commerce, and has recently started running their own laws. Significantly, the Golden Country is making a motion to take over all Indian Territories. Should that happen, Tombstone will gain an official law system.
Geography: Prone to contrasting wide shots with major close-ups, the cowboy world, as depicted by Sergio Leone, is just plain GRITTY. Tombstone is not yet touched by the railroads, instead relying on coaches and bandwagons to get supplies to town. Tombstone has lush hills with dark black rocks and low grass nearby, and that’s where most farmers and cattle owners make their homes. There are also several ranches out into the deserts that surround the city. These deserts are dry and arid, receiving very little rain. Streets are very dusty, and houses are generally made of few. Water is found through wells digging deep into the earth, and there’s a river located about ten kilometres into the Black Hills. Boot Hill is the inner section of the local cemetery, where those who ‘died with their boots on’ are buried.
Culture: Tombstone is a frontier town, well engaged in the gold-rush. It is lawless, it is wild, and it is dirty. Slaves, recently liberated, work in the lowest of jobs, if they can find work. Many people carry manual revolvers on them, regardless of the deadline. A fair number of people, especially men, are capable of reading, and there is a newspaper, run by Doc Earp, called the Epitaph. There is a small but important China-town, though the Chinese do not dare stray from their part of town. Cowboys back the Oakley family, who offer equality to these often-minority groups. The gamblers, meanwhile, back the Hollidays. Drifters and assassins are also known to pass through the city. There is a small theatre that doubles as a school during the days, and a church also sits at the east end of town. Women are either homemakers (taking care of children, the house, and the farm), saloon girls (dancing and entertaining men, and paying a rent to the saloon owner) or prostitutes. Prostitutes in bawdy houses are far safer than prostitutes on the streets, who are often raped by men in this male-dominated community, but prostitutes in the houses are often maltreated as well. Women gunfighters, if they can prove their mettle, are treated like ‘one of the boys.’
Demographics:
Indians: Native to the region, they generally dislike the settlers for stopping the bison herds and interfering with migration. They are often treated poorly by the settlers, and the settlers live in perpetual fear of an Indian attack, although this is unlikely. Some mixed-blood Indians, rejected by their tribes, work as cowboys, and though no Indian is allowed into a gambling establishment, a well respected one might be permitted into the bars.
Ex-slaves: Immediately identifiable by the branded numbers on the back of their hands, the former slaves likewise usually can only find jobs are cowboys. Some have been taken in as servants to the families they formerly served, but for the most part, they are offered no vocal place in government. Ex-slaves are generally allowed into gambling establishments, but few will play with them, and they are treated just as Indians are in bars. They are also only served in certain whore houses, where all the prostitutes are former slaves themselves, though these bawdy houses are generally owned by the settlers. A notable cowboy half-breed is Chuck the Indian, well respected and an excellent shot.
Chinese: The Chinese generally keep to themselves in Chinatown, and run their own convenience stores, medicine shops, whorehouses, and bars. While ex-slaves and Indians are more welcome there, it is nearly impossible to earn the respect of the people in Chinatown unless one speaks Chinese. An important contributor to the Chinatown community would be Zhao Ka-Hei, owner, with his family, of the convenience store and medicine shop. Li Mung-Qi is the owner of the most prominent and classy Chinese brothel.
Settlers: The dominant power, they own pretty much everything. They generally own farms, ranches, or gambling houses. The Oakleys and Hollidays are both settlers, with the Oakleys owning more property, often leased to other settlers and sometimes even ex-slaves, Chinese people, and Indians. Many settlers came here for the goldrush, and are single men who go out panning every day. Specific settlers of interest are the Oakley family (Obadiah and Esther, with children Morgan, Arthur, William, James and Samantha), the Hollidays (Virgil and Anne Holliday, with children Jonathan, George, Lenny, Jack “Curly”, and Jane). Jane and William are known to be having a secret affair. Doc Earp is the local newspaperman, as well as the main medicine man, and the local priest is Gareth Henry.
Drifters: People ‘just passing through’ are generally working in some form of commerce. Some of these are travelling entertainers or salesmen, often selling miracle cures. Others are gamblers and gunfighters moving from city to avoid arrest, and some are merely journalists. Notable drifter and notorious killer Bill Clanton has made his way into town as of late.
Pictures:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/OUATITW-1.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/Ss/0060196/11.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0048.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=3
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0093.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=4
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0068.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=6
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0060196/IMG0054.JPG.html?path=gallery&path_key=0060196&seq=12
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/GoodBadUgly_Mexicanstandoff.gif
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