• Dasus@lemmy.world
      59·
      6 months ago

      Eh, pirate sails around the world, picks up disgraced samurai who needs to leave Japan. Afterwards they’ll sail to England at some point or another, and the thief is looking for passage to America (as a thief he needs to get abroad for a while). They sail over the Atlantic, where they meet the cowboy who’s driven cattle from the West to sell at a better price on the East coast.

      A call to adventure on top, aaand campaign is a go.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
        35·
        6 months ago

        You wouldn’t need anything that extravagant, you could reasonably find all these people in California in the late 1800’s. The earliest Japanese immigrants to California happened in the 1860’s. After the gold rush people from all over the world flocked to Cali.

      • gramathy@lemmy.ml
        14·
        6 months ago

        Would make more sense if the thief was bound for Australia as a convict with the privateer,then some shit happened and they ended up in Japan, then sailed for the west coast of the US.

      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        Gunslinger comes across the samurai who has escaped to America and is hiding as a railroad worker. Some kind of fuckery happens and they escape and go to San Francisco. They meet the English dandy and they get into some more fuckery and the privateer gets them back out to sea.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
        7·
        6 months ago

        It’s actually pretty plausible, the first wave of Japanese people to immigrate to California and Hawaii was in the 1860s. By the 1900 census there were nearly 25k Japanese people living on the West Coast.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          And I guess since the Meiji Restoration was bad news for the samurai class, it makes sense that they would want to emigrate.

          (I looked it up because often it isn’t the upper classes that are motivated to leave a society, but in this case it checks out.)

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    The samurai duels on the roof of the train while the gunslinger is forced to take their place in a complex tea ceremony being used as a distraction for the thief to steal an artifact. At the end, they escape by disconnecting the rest of the cars from the locomotive, which has been pirated.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        16·
        6 months ago

        Texas would be the perfect setting. The privateer settled by n Louisiana to enjoy retirement at her plantation. An English minor lord wants to partner with her for an expansion into the new fields west of the river (now Texas) and they hire a ronin that just arrived at the port of New Orleans. It once in Texas, they encounter the gunslinger.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I wish I’d paid attention to that show when I was a kid. Weird west + Bruce Campbell sounds pretty cool. I just never gave it a shot because I was distracted by the stupid name (who names a person “county‽”).

      But yes, I agree: weird west sounds like the perfect setting for this.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    If any writers are reading this, and don’t act on it… what are you even doing!?

  • CalamityEmu@ttrpg.network
    5·
    6 months ago

    I made an adventure for this based on the Tiny D6 Pirates system. They were in 1820s or so San Francisco so we’ve got robber barons, Emperor Norton, and all sorts of weird stuff thrown in. You can also have fun with cholera epidemics and floods and gold rushes.