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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (15 children)

However, it's geographically improbable

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I like the suggestion, but had to do a bit of research for it.

    As with sailing, traveling routes are not as simple as with flying.

    So I began to wonder how common it would've been to sail from Japan to the US during that time. Which is why I did my route as I did. The Atlantic was more common to use, at least during a certain part of history.

    Here's the common route too Australia

    But, I ended reading that whole reply more or less. https://www.quora.com/During-the-age-of-sail-how-would-crossing-the-Pacific-Ocean-have-compared-to-crossing-the-Atlantic-Ocean

    And I guess yours is plausible and might make for a better story, actually. But pretty much just barely timing wise, as the scenario takes place in the 1860's right? The Treaty of Kanagawa was signed on March 31, 1854, ending Japan's 220-year-old policy of national seclusion (sakoku).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's basically One Piece

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And the fax machine was invented in 1843. So do with that what you want.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Pretty much Jack Shaftoe's storyline in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, I know about that author and the Shaftoes from Cryptonomicon. You're saying there's more?!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But privateering ended 1830 and Meiji started 1868?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So Lupin the third with extra people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where’s Buckaroo Banzai?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Holy shit I think all of them could reasonably be POC too. History is wild.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Dibs on the gunslinger character!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Deadlands party in a Great Maze adventure.

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