Actually there are several pretty good settings in the 1860s-80s, California, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Egypt (Suez Canal constructed 1859-1869). The more I looked into it the richer it got.
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.
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.
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.
San Fransisco 1880 would be a plausible setting. The only one that would kinda be out there would be the Samurai and even that’s not too far of a stretch.
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.
However, it’s geographically improbable
“So you’re saying there’s a chance”
Actually there are several pretty good settings in the 1860s-80s, California, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Egypt (Suez Canal constructed 1859-1869). The more I looked into it the richer it got.
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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.
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.
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.
San Fransisco 1880 would be a plausible setting. The only one that would kinda be out there would be the Samurai and even that’s not too far of a stretch.
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.
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.)
This was my thinking for the Samurai, we are basically looking at embassy staff and exiles that managed to retain their weapons.
The first Japanese embassy to America even landed in San Francisco in 1860
Not with a sailor in the mix, it’s not!
Yeah, the pirate could easily be the lynchpin that brought them together.