Maid of Marvels
Lurking with Intent
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2001
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Discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River on 17 August 1896, by George and Kate Carmack and their Tagish First Nation friends Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim, marked the beginning of what is often considered the world's greatest gold rush. The Klondike Gold Rush only lasted until 1899, but its legacy changed the Yukon forever.
Join us in the fictional town of Carmack, located at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers. With an influx of over 40,000 people a month, the "town" was more a city -- with an opera house, theaters and at its heart the building where most of our story will take place: a gambling house/saloon/hotel called the Aurora Borealis.
Prospectors, Mounties (they moved into the Yukon Territory in 1894), gamblers, percentage girls, entrepreneurs (the mark-up was a 600% profit!). You name it and you can probably play it.
Still looking for women, and although it's easy to just create an easy peasy character such as a "percentage girl", I'd really like to see some ingenuity here. I know this is the SRP and that folks are here for different reasons, but we DO have some wonderful writers in this forum and I'd like to extend an invitation to those of you who would like to display some of your abilities, including creativity and imagination to come and play.
Join us in the fictional town of Carmack, located at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers. With an influx of over 40,000 people a month, the "town" was more a city -- with an opera house, theaters and at its heart the building where most of our story will take place: a gambling house/saloon/hotel called the Aurora Borealis.
Prospectors, Mounties (they moved into the Yukon Territory in 1894), gamblers, percentage girls, entrepreneurs (the mark-up was a 600% profit!). You name it and you can probably play it.
Still looking for women, and although it's easy to just create an easy peasy character such as a "percentage girl", I'd really like to see some ingenuity here. I know this is the SRP and that folks are here for different reasons, but we DO have some wonderful writers in this forum and I'd like to extend an invitation to those of you who would like to display some of your abilities, including creativity and imagination to come and play.