OOC: No Surrender / A New Begining

[macmillian]

This is a continuation of "Surrender" and a Casting Call for anyone who would like to join us. It takes place in Georgia, 1865/1866, right after the "Civil War".

We are carring forward the same characters from the first thread and hope to add more writers. You will not have to go back and read all previous posts unless you want to. We will post our bios and a short synopsis of what we have done so far. so far we have the following:

Julia Cromwell ......................rvplymates
Alexander "Alex" Franks .........Macmillian
Cassi Brown ............. ..........landiek
O,Shien..............................gagonthis
Jenny Mathers ....................icu1978
andygorn (*)
*He wants to join but has not posted a bio yet

All OOC will be done here and not on the IC thread (unless it is to clarify).

If you have any questions please PM me. I will answer all.

Thank you all. Hope to hear from some writer soon.

Macmillian ......

 

[macmillian]

OOC: No Surrender / A new Begining

Alexander "'Alex" Franks

29 yrs old,
6'4" tall,
Long light brown hair (now down to his shoulders),
Blue eyes.

Ex. Sgt. Major, CSA, Georgia Militia. Came through the war without being wounded or captured. Has two horses, his and his Captains'. The Captain had died on the way home from the fever and so I buried him and took his horse and equipment.

I was Traveling and heading west when I came upon her and several men who were beating and trying to rape her.I had seen enough during the war and so I drove them off. I took her along with me because she said that she could cook and sew. She would also be a pleaant distraction on the journey. It did not bother me that she was black. Her name was Cassi.

We have gotten to know each other over the passing weeks and so after five years of war and death and misery, Cassi was a most welcomed releif. In the bigining it was her tenderness and companionship that first attracted me to her. It was her caring and kindness to all that we met also played it's part.

Our relationship had developed from there to where we are today. From companionship, to friend and then to lovers. From lust to love. Such relationships are not tolerated in the deep south and so it was decided to head west to new lands and new lives.

Come and join our company and travel west to A NEW BEGINING.

Alexander Franks / Macmillian

 

[rvplymates]

Julia Cromwell

Julia Cromwell

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OOC: Long brown hair, hazel green eyes
Age: 21
Height 5' 7"
Weight 120

Julia's parents had been transplanted from England. She was about five when they arrived in the south. She loved her plantation home and as she knew no other she fit in very well. The neighborhood children loved her accent, which changed in time to a southern drawl. When the war had started she was 18 and full of hope that the South would overcome. Then a year ago her home was burned to the ground by the Yankees and her family had perished in the fire.

Her heart was full of great hate for the North and for a full year she wandered the South learning how to protect herself and surviving. She carried two daggers strapped to her arms and a pistol hidden under the manly vest she always wore over a long sleeved blouse. She had taken to wearing men's trousers which if it wasn't war time she certainly would have been at least looked at funny or at worst been verbally abused.

In the year that she traveled around the south, she had become cold and hard as nails. If bothered she would fix the person with a stony gaze and wait to be attacked. That she was alive still spoke volumes of how well she could wield her daggers and shoot her pistol. Julia would never give up or never give in.

IC: It had been a long hard day already for Julia as she travelled the South. Walking long distances was now a way of life. She kept alert for any trouble. It was was hot today that her clothing clung to her curvy body and persperation drenched her. As she past a plantation she saw a woman looking at her land. Another victim of this war she thought. She continued her walk and came to a natural lake. She looked around cautiously as she crouched, cupped her hands and dipped them into the cold water. She brought handfuls of the water to her mouth and drank deeply. Splashing her face she felt the water drip onto her neck and down her chest to her breasts. She wanted a bath badly. She looked around again and saw a clump of trees to the right of her and the plantation to the left. Both were far enough away so that she could slip into the waters and not noticed she thought.

She hurriedly took off her vest and laid it on the ground close to the water. She opened the buttons to her blouse and slipped it off. She untied the shiefs that held both daggars and slid them under her blouse and vest close in hand in case of trouble. She undid the holster that held her pistol which she wore either under her blouse or under her vest. Today it had laid close to her skin. She tucked it under her clothing with the daggars and then she pulled off her boots and pants and stepped into the cold water of the lake.

It was a shock at first but she knew she needed cooling and of course cleaning. As she dunked under the water she steeled herself against the coldness. She swam a bit to warm herself and then went back to the shallows. Her hazel green eyes scanned the area to make sure no one was coming. She would crouch in the shallows for just a little longer she thought before heading out again. She drank the water and used her fingers to get the dirt out of her long light brown hair

 

[gagonthis]

I think I'm going to drop out of this one guys, nice writing with you though.

 

[icu1978]

well it looks as if we are loosing people already. that stinks. maybe it would be better if we just started this whole thread over in another place. pick it up with julia having joined the other three and a half.. and hopefully get some others to join in. i dont know. what do you all think?

any ways here is jenny's bio

Name: Jenny Mathers
Age: 19
Status: very recently widowed
Hieght:5 foot 3 inches
weight" 99 pounds
Hair: curly redish blond reaches to her bottom always kept in a braid.
Eyes:soft brown

History: Jenny grew up in the south always moving wiht her family from farm to farm her parents always worked hard. she lost both of them during the brutal fighting of the war. leaving jenny alone. but at 18 she married James mathers. a year later when jenny delivered a boy child James decided it was time to take his small family to his parents for the time being. feeling it would be safer for them there. so he packed what little he could in a wagon leaving room for jenny in the bed of the wagon behind him. so that her and the babe could rest while they traveled. they traveled at night and camped during the day so that jenny would not become over heated.

up date: jenny was found by alex and cassi under her tiped wagon the baby and jenny where both fine and since have been traveling with alex and cassi. she has grown to respect and care for both of them and feels a deep friendship with them both.

 

[icu1978]

lol anyone reading this thing besides me?

miss~c~

 

[CollegeRomantic]

hiya!

Can I join???

 

[landiek]

The more the merrier I always say

Cassi

An ex- slave.. if she thinks about it
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Cotton picker, breeding stock, cook, seamstress. tanner, nanny are some of her past jobs on the plantation.

Cassi stands about five seven, stringy black hair with dark eyes. her back has whip marks from past beatings and example reminders .

Overall Cassi is good-natured for a nigress in the post war era.

She has seen the good and bad of men in general but still gave her heart to "Master" Alex. who rescued her from a sound thrashing

 

[CollegeRomantic]

Ok, please PM with suggestions if this isn't quite right....

Ava Beaumont
Age: 26
Height: five foot nine inches
Weight: 155
Figure: Curves, classical womanly figure, not 'fat'
Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark Green
General Story Line: Educated at Oberlin College, (first college to admit women in..... 1841?) Ava, not your typical southern belle (but a beauty nontheless), has returned to the South after the war to bury her fallen father and brother and to survey the damage to their small household. As shipping merchants, they were not slave holders. She is very feisty and wary of overbearing men who think that a 'little lady' cannot take care of herself. She is moderately wealthy, kept comfortable by her late father's business which barely survived the war. Because there is little for Ava in antebellum Georgia, she is looking to move on and is in the process of liquidating the few assets left to her after the War. Her eye has turned to the West as a place to escape and start over.


Is this edit better???

 

[andygorn]

Sorry for not getting this sorted sooner!

OOC / Bio:

Clayton (Jones)
Aged 22 yrs, black, former slave working on various mansions in the area.
6'2" tall, slender build and toned from a life of hard work and manual labour on the farms and in the large family houses of the South.

A half-caste, Clayton was born from an adulterous affair between a plantation owner and one of his housemaids.
Clayton was cast out into the world when his father killed his mother for becoming pregnant in the first place. Initially, he was fostered by other slaves on the estate, but eventually struck out on his own at 16, only to be quickly captured by another landowner, who taught him nothing but cruelty and servitude.

Clayton has only recently been set free from an owner who treated him very badly (when the owner died), but his life has always been spent in servitude and he does not know any life other than this, so he is still quite subservient and may be overly-apologetic towards people, as he has still not overcome the rigours of his former harsh treatment.
He still bears the scars of many beatings, but is ashamed and very self-conscious of the them.
He's not very worldly-wise (probably still a virgin), tends to treat people as friends first and is dedicated to the defence of people he regards as friends(he's not particularly skilled at defending himself, but has a bit of experience at chasing people off the owner's land).

He is good with his hands and has learnt about woodworking, but his main love is looking after animals and tending to their welfare on farms.

IC:
Clayton's owner and other members of the family were killed in the War:
A few slaves (including Clayton) took the chance to escape from the estate a couple of weeks ago; pursuit was inevitable, but ultimately short-lived.

Whilst he has been living off the land, travelling through various towns and stealing where he had to, Clayton has befriended a small female mongrel dog who he has named "Amy" (as he was told that this was his mother's name).
The two of them are now travelling around the countryside looking for work and adventure...

*I guess that they'd most probably meet people on the road, or they can be spotted stealing bread from someone's house, or some other such petty larceny*

 

[icu1978]

this is an ooc thread . the is will be done i assume in the surrender thread.

 

[caela]

This looks interesting...still looking for more players?

 

[CollegeRomantic]

can I just start on the IC thread??

 

[icu1978]

you bet caela .
i think that is what they had in mind collegeromantic.

i think we are just going to stay with the same surender thread. just keep in mind that gagonthis has decided not to coninue with our thread and has moved on.

 

[landiek]

Anyone is welcome.. and the idea is to give the rest of the group an idea of where each character is coming from

Welcome aboard

 

[caela]

Let me know if this is o.k.

Name: Isabelle Bailey
Age: 25
Looks: 5'9, 170lbs, grey-eyes, midnight black curls, full coral lips, generous hips and breasts above full hips and a perfectly curved ass
Background: As the daughter of a college professor she's well educated and grew up comfortable though not rich. She had intended to follow in her father's footsteps and become a teacher herself until the war swept through the south leaving people more worried about their next meal then their children's educations. Now she's decided to head west into unspoiled territory where there's plenty of call for teachers as new territory opens up and towns spring up.

 

[CollegeRomantic]

Oh man... I am so confused...

 

[icu1978]

why confused?

 

[CollegeRomantic]

oh, it got cleared up. I just thought my IC post was wrong or something. No worries now.

 

[landiek]

not a worry hun.. it's all good and I can work with almost anything

 

[SuthernCumfort]

Would you all mind if I joined along? I like the idea and read along as I could with Surrender.

I havent quite decided a set character yet but will get to it if you again dont mind me writing along.

 

[landiek]

Certainly.. jon us

 

[CollegeRomantic]

*knock knock* Hulloooooo??

 

[caela]

Hope the introduction post to the thread works. If not please let me know and I'll tweak it out.

 

[DJ_Wordplay]

If you guys have room for a newcomer, I'd like to give this one a shot.