I'm starting to look at getting into the Steempunk RPG

#SteemMonsters, #Chibera, and now #Steempunk. It seems like I'm doing the rounds of all of the Steem-powered games at the moment! I'm learning about the whole Steem ecosystem as quickly as I can, and one part that particularly inspires me is the whole concept of being able to earn crypto by just playing games. That comes more naturally to me than even writing blog posts does. I was never really much of a blogger, as such. Sure, I've had my fair share of Wordpress sites in the past, on a variety of subjects, (mainly cyberpsychology, cybersecurity, and online-presence related blogs), and being able to earn crypto here from blogging is wonderful, don't get me wrong. But my mindset is such that 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 = 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, whereas, 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 = 𝒇𝒖𝒏. That is why I am so looking forward to seeing the gameplay elements of SteemMonsters and Chibera!

Yesterday @ravenruis introduced me to the wonders of the Steempunk.net website and their Discord server. This also looks like something that I could really get excited about on the Steem blockchain. I have installed their plugin for Firefox, but I haven't registered an account yet. I have been reading up on the game first, as I normally do, and asking questions on the Discord.

I have had a bit to do with the steampunk subgenre in the past. The small inset picture in my post thumbnail here is actually me, at the height of my steampunk days. There we go, so for all those who were curious; that is what I looked like a few years ago, albeit in steampunk costume. I think that photo is from around 2011 or so. I was at the inaugural steampunk meetup at M.O.T.A.T. in Western Springs, Auckland in 2011, and I attended several other steampunk events, such as the meetup at Pukemiro Junction, where the Auckland steampunks first met up with the Hamilton crowd. I own a few collectible items from Dr. Grordbort's collection of commercially-produced steampunk paraphenalia, and I have crafted/upcycled a few items myself over the years from scrap. I still have a rather large wooden tripod out in my back yard, now collecting vines, but which was once the base of a steampunk-inspired laser canon. 😉

I haven't delved too deeply yet into the world of Steempunk.net, but I see there are two character classes at present: the Adventurers and the Aristocrats. I would really like to try out a Technomage character, but that character class hasn't been released yet, and it still may not, as there is no official word on this yet. So for now I think I prefer the Adventurers.

🙚 𝑨𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒓, 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒎. 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆, 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆...

𝑰𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒐𝒇. 𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍-𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒑 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 - 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 - 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔. 𝑨𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒍𝒅, 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑬𝑴𝑷𝑼𝑵𝑲-𝑵𝑬𝑻'𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒔, 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒎. 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔! 🙘

— Steempunk.net (PCSG).

That sounds like a bit of me! I haven't decided on a name for my character yet, nor a backstory. All I have so far is a bit of a sketch here. I generated this image using the DollDivine.com flash-based steampunk male character generator called "Lord Stevan Aristocrat". Note: that is the name of the character generator tool itself, and not the name of my new character, haha. My character here is wearing some fairly typical middle-class clothing, and the broach on his chest suggests that he aspires to better his current socio-economic status. But basically he's a guttersnipe, decorating his outfit with all manner of accoutrement and mismatched hand-me-downs.

My own former steampunk persona was a bit of a rarity. Rather than the common professions of mad scientist, pirate, airship captain, tinker, socialite, etc, my persona was an "𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕", that is, a minor government official who investigates temporal anomalies. At the time I was heavily influenced by the television series Primeval, haha. I don't know enough about the setting of Steempunk.net to get a handle on the types of professions that would be worthwhile pursuing in this game, but I'll continue reading voraciously, before I start creating my character in the game.

I am a proud member of the AUS & NZ Discord server. My thanks to @cryptonik for making me this cool #TeamNZ banner. Kia Kaha!

This post is part of my first attempt to gain the WEEKLY AUTHOR award on the SteemItBoard.com website.

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• The image used for the post thumbnail is a remix by 𝓣𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓵𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮. It includes the locomotive-2821169 image created by darkmoon1968, which has been released under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license. It also includes an original photo of 𝓣𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓵𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮 as mentioned in the text, and an original generated image of a male steampunk character, also as mentioned in the text above.
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