Thread: The Tower - Fantasy Western/Gunkata - Evil Disruptors needed

Re The Tower - Fantasy WesternGunkata Group RP Character Name Tali Whitaker a.k.a ??Crackshot?? Gender Female Age 31 Appearance Left Eye Brown. Right Eye Blue Heterochromia Hair color Brown Height 5??9? Skin Color Caucasian Distinguishing features Two bullet scars on her left shoulder. Living on the edge tends to give someone?perspective. With Tali Whitaker, living on the edge had several meanings. She was born and raised in the ruins of Heavenspire, on the fringes of Escorral, where the trains almost never came. Little wonder, with half the town sitting in ruins at the bottom of a massive sinkhole. When the trains do arrive, it's only to fill up their water tanks, and carry a few more people away to the other settlements. Being the oldest child in a family of five, her parents struggled to raise them all properly, especially with her father being away for many months at a time. He was a merchant, and traveled the expanses of the Wasteland, buying and selling various goods. When she was old enough, Tali began to accompany her father on his travels. He started teaching her how to hunt, only to be surprised at her natural ability to handle a rifle. From that day, she seemed destined to follow in her father??s footsteps, traveling the Wastelands. When Tali was 17, her father embarked on his longest journey yet, one that would take him across the Wastelands and to the edge of the Wall that separated the Shimmering from their world. As always, she wished to accompany him on his trip, but one of her sisters had fallen ill, and her mother expressed her desire that she remain home and help take care of her siblings. Her father made the same suggestion, saying that he could be away for a long time, and that he wanted her to be safe. She reluctantly agreed, bid her father farewell, and walked back into the house. That was the last time she ever saw him. Months passed, then a year, and still, there was no word from her father. Tali had to take a job at the railyard to help support her mother and siblings. On one occasion, when they were running low on food, she offered her body to a wealthy traveler. Thus Tali lost her virginity, but managed to keep her family fed for several more days. She pushed the memory away and never brought that night up again. It wasn??t until she picked up the rifle again that she found her calling, hitting targets with a precision that only experts should possess. She finally made the decision to travel to the Wall herself, see if she could find what had happened to her father? Now, almost 15 years later, Tali ??Crackshot?? Whitaker is one of the older Slingers traveling the Wasteland, traveling from settlement to settlement, continuing to hone her skills. Every now and then, she??ll offer her skills in escorting someone across the Wasteland. She??s had her run-ins with the Predators that were sent out to kill Slingers like her. Even had one sneak up on her when she had her guard down. Those scars are a reminder of what she has become, and what she must do to ensure her survival? Personality With the disappearance of her father, Tali had to grow up much faster than she had intended, and her experiences made her rather distanced. Maybe that is why she prefers to strike from afar, too afraid to getting to know those who she will have to kill. To those she trusts, she is incredibly loyal to, although as of now, this only includes her family, and one other person in the expanse of the Wastelands. FactionRanking Slinger, Wasteland Guide Location The Wastelands ?? Heavenspire. ??It??s about as far from Heaven as you could get.? Unknown Traveler In its prime, the town of Heavenspire was a mining settlement, possibly the largest in Escorral, built around the base of a long dead volcano. The soft rock had worn away centuries before, leaving only a towering plug of solid rock, stretching into the sky. When it was discovered that the town resided upon a massive lode of ore ?? an incredibly valuable resource in the time before the Tower was built - Heavenspire??s population exploded as the miners and their families moved to work the mines. The town rapidly expanded out into the surrounding countryside, as the ground churned beneath their feet. Massive caverns hollowed out to extract the precious ore that helped run their world. But, things were not meant to last. With the construction of the Tower, and the Wall that soon followed, lawlessness and anarchy reigned in the Wastelands. The mines were abandoned, the railyard left to rust and decay. Nobody knew who started the first fire, but soon, Heavenspire was ablaze, plumes of smothering smoke and ash rising into the sky. But it wasn??t until the fires spread to the mines that the town was doomed. As the supports burned, the mine finally began to collapse, the massive excavations swallowing up entire swaths of the town until the burning, gaping maw the earth had become devoured the very town it had helped birth. Thousands were killed in the disaster, but no relief was ever sent. Heavenspire, like the rest of the Wasteland, had been left to rot. Today, Heavenspire is a dying settlement that stubbornly clings to life at the edge of a smoldering pit. The fires still burn in the miles and miles of tunnels below, and even now, the edges of the pit will collapse, taking a little more of the town with it. Nobody ever gets off the trains here nobody in their right mind would ever want to live in a town living on borrowed time. Equipment Tali's preferred weapon is a slightly modified Colt Revolving Rifle Model 1855 , allowing her to fire six shots with before having to reload, however, when she is too close to use a rifle effectively, she uses a Colt 1851 Navy Revolver . AbilitiesSkillsStyle Tali specializes in long-distance kills with rifles of various kinds, flintlock, lever-action, revolving. If she wants you dead, you won??t hear it coming. That doesn??t mean she isn??t talented with a revolver or a blade, but her accuracy with targets at range is almost unmatched. Her years training with her father in the Wastelands have taught her priceless knowledge in Wasteland survival and camouflage. She also has learned how to ricochet bullets, allowing her to strike targets behind cover.