Tinker's Tale

My good friend, okay we're not really good friends but he's really awesome, Mike Perna, is the author of an awesome webstory called Tinker An Episodic Steampunk Adventure.

It's the story of a man named Samuel Thatch who has created a robot with a personality named HodgePodge, Pudge for short. It takes place in New York's five points. He eventually goes on to be a great hero with his own airship (See the description taken from the website below*) but for now he's a small time tinkerer who is in love with a woman he's not allowed to be near, fighting off gangs with his steam powered inventions and assisting the crew of a famous airship

*You’ve heard the name.  He is known about the streets of the Boroughs.  It whips its way through the narrows and shakes the rafters of Tammany Hall. Every pub and dive boast’s their own sign telling patrons where he sat when he came in for a drink, accompanied by stories about how a long time back, when old what’s-his-name ran the place, he sat down at the table in the corner and ordered his trademark birch beer. Captain Samuel James Thatch did not always have this sort of reputation.
No. Long before his airship set out to cross the ocean, there was a young man that owned a little shop in Manhattan called S.J. the tinker.
The Civil War had passed, and, other than some memories and the occasional singed rafter, the people were getting used to life like it used to be. That is, until the powers that be uptown had decided they would no longer endure the riff-raff in their backyard.  Their mission was to take down the Five Points by the turn of the century, and that meant their world would be stirred up again. S.J. made a living repairing equipment, but his heart was in creating contraptions and his head flew through the clouds on the great airships.
This is his story. Come along to see what lengths a man will go to in order to sail the skies.

So head on over to
Tinker's Tale
And check it out!

Captain Ward


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THIS STORY WAS AMAZING AND I MISS IT AND I'M GOING TO GO HUNT MIKE PERNA DOWN TO GET THE REST!