Assassination Proclamation

[Penny]

The year is 1888. It has been several years since the Civil War's end, and while there is still a lot of tension roaming among the new United States, a general sort of peace has laid out. During these past few decades, technology has soared- there are man-made machines bigger than buildings, or small enough to fit on the tip of your finger- all made out of clockworks, running off of steam or the newly-discovered diesel engines. Things seem to be looking up and prosperity runs amock.

But some circles aren't happy with the peace that has settled in. Planning to ignite a second war, their plans have recently reached both the current president, Grover Cleveland. In order to try and secure a second term, he calls out for people fit for the job.

...Well, he may not get what he expects, but he gets a team together, at least, to go across the nation and 'politically remove' the leader of the alliance in his mansion. And so they must set forth on their journey... no matter how terrible, how horrible, and how... wacky it will be.

NAME: (include a nick/code name)
AGE:
APPEARANCE:
WHY THEY JOINED:

[JB]

NAME: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
AGE: 30
APPEARANCE:
WHY THEY JOINED: Teddy was always one for adventure. A year out of Harvard, he ran for a seat in the New York State Assembly, as a dark horse candidate of the Republican party. However, his party's reputation had been soiled, ever since the days of the War of Secession; with leaders like John Fremont and Abraham Lincoln viewed as war-mongering radicals pushing the bloody, embittered conflict, the Democrats won out with the election of General George B. McClellan in 1864, and with the advisory of both British and French diplomatic influences, the war ended with a treaty of peace, and the Confederate States of America were formally recognized worldwide. So, with the immediate loss of his short-lived political career, Teddy took to the wild, becoming a rancher, trapper, and bounty hunter in the Dakotas. His reputation as 'The Rough-Riding Bull Moose of the West' struck fear and admiration into the hearts of gunslinging bandits everywhere; myth and legend surrounded the four-eyed greenhorn from New York, until most of the facts were obscured into history.

Teddy returned east on the request of a telegram from none other than President Cleveland himself. While still discouraged from politics - especially of the Democratic variety - TD always considered himself something of a patriot, and accepted the all but impossible mission to stop another war before it started.

[Penny]

NAME: Annie Oakley
AGE: 28
APPEARANCE:

WHY THEY JOINED: Annie... mostly wants to shoot more things.

WIP

[mekasoundwave]

NAME: Wallace Yates
AGE: 28
APPEARANCE: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Steampunk-falksen.jpg
WHY THEY JOINED: Wallace Yates isn't really anyone special. Sure, his dad was a respected and very competent mechanic during the war, but Wallace is just an engineer...who works for Nikola Tesla. Tesla was actually the one the President asked for...but Tesla, for whatever reason (science) sent Wallace out instead, but not before giving the young engineer a robotic arm to field test for him. Wallace didn't have much of a choice in the matter, so he agreed.