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This is an adventure rp set in Africa during the 1880's. Sign-up if you're interested. It'll be like King Solomon's Mines and The Man Who would be King.

The British Empire was in it's glory. With colonies on every continent, millions lived and died under their rule. Most of the world had been explored and mapped. Only the inner lands of Africa remained unknown. However, in South Africa, one year prior, the Zulu Kingdom was defeated and subjucated by the British. Also, tensions are mounting with the Boer Republics. The Zulu War was brief but a fierce campaign. Colour Sergeant Eli Harlan fought in this brutal war. Disillusioned by the affects and consequences of war, he deserted the BRitish army to seek adventure and wealth. He comes across a map leading into the interior which holds the key to a great tresure once belonging to an ancient African kingdom. It is a periless journey, all the while being persued by another group sponsored by a foreign country who also seek the map to gain control of the area. Adventure and betrayal await any who take part in this journey.

Name: Eli Harlan
Age: 32
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 182lbs
Hair: Dark
Eyes: Blueish Gray
History: Harlan was born in White Chapel, London. As a young boy he always dreamed of leaving his impoverished life in search of something better. His father was an alcoholic factory worker and mother a seamstress. He would often run off and explore, he had an insatiable desire to explore and thirsty for knowledge. When he was 18, he enlisted in the Army and over the next ten years worked hard and earned a reputation for being a good leader and a fighter. After being posted in several hot spots across the empire he was finally stationed in South Africa. He instantly fell in love with the region, the people. But war clouds loomed and he had to fight once again. When the Zulu War ended he finally had enough of the savagery of mankind and deserted the army to live in search of adventure and riches.

Name: Thomas Armstrong
Age: 23
Height: 5´10"
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair: Black
Eyes: Hazel

History: He was born in Birmingham. Son to a very religious presbiterian family, the loss of his mother at the age of 7, to tuberculosis, marked a life in which his father, a worker in one of the numerous factories of the city wanted their 3 children to scape from the life of poverty that ended with the life of his wife and two of his daughters. Despite the desires of his father, their two alive sons, Thomas and his older brother John, began working at the age of 14 and 15 in another factory to give their little sister, Sarah, another life, away from the poor suburbs of Birmingham. At age 21, he began drinking, and protagonized a fight in a tabern. The providence wanted his dad to go and take him home, and the look of dissapointment of his father was so shocking for Thomas that he stopped drinking ever since. Now the news of gold deposits in South Africa made Thomas take a crowded ship heading to Capetown, anxious for starting a new life in Africa, away from the poverty of Birmingham. If things marched as he expected he would like his whole family to move with him in Africa. May be that was what God wanted for them.

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Name: Thomas Harrison
Age: 26
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 179 lbs
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
History: Thomas grew up on a small farm in Maryland. At a young age he lost his father when he died during the Battle of Wilderness. So after his father's death it was only Thomas and his mother. They went threw many struggles because Thomas' father was gone. When Thomas was eighteen he joined the US Army and was put into the 5th Cavalry Regiment. Thomas fought during the Ute War and was among the men who where besieged by 300 to 400 Ute, but the group was rescued a month later after taking heavy loss. Seeing the Army was not of him, Thomas made his way to Africa for adventure.

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