applications

[groundrules]

APPLICATIONS

Eastbound is primarily an invite-only game — each existing player can currently invite up to one person per month, or get in touch about further invites. Existing players can hold two characters in game. A third character can be applied, if players can prove they have met activity requirements for two consecutive months with their existing two characters and have stayed engaged with the game. If you don't have an invite, somehow stumbled upon this neck of the woods, and you’d like to stay, drop the mod journal a line — we'll try to figure it out.

As of Oct. 1, cast/game caps are off. Please note, as of Dec. 1, Eastbound only has 3-4 months of gameplay left.

WHAT CHARACTERS CAN BE APPLIED?

YES: canon and original characters, if they have a solid and consistent personality and background. Characters brought in after they've died are a-okay. For characters taken from a time point just as they're in the process of dying, please read below on meeting medical requirements.

NO (at this time): real people, original characters set in a canon environment, characters from canons or canon instalments that have been released for less than one month, characters with imported development from other games (CRAU), alternate universe, or gender-swapped versions of canon characters.

Children or characters with very specific medical/magical/environment needs: appable, but please make a note of how your character will ICly meet their requirements and stay alive. Likewise, if you are applying for a character taken just as they're dying, provide a suggestion for how they can be kept alive on arrival (this might be easier in some app cycles than others). You can bend the world a little to make miracles happen (ex: a substitute for the medication your character needs to survive can be found for a high price at certain apothecaries, etc.)

Characters that were dropped or swept by activity checks: yes, but they’ll come back without their previous memories, if they are applied in by a different player.

APPLICATION FORM & INSTRUCTIONS

EXISTING / RETURNING PLAYERS

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> link out or write no more than two-three paragraphs...! <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> bullet points a-okay, or written out. You can also link out to it, if you agree to what's on your wikia. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> a written sample or one or more threads to show your character's personality. <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> you know the ropes, jot down if your character has any world-breaking powers or accommodations you need for them!

NEW PLAYERS

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>REFERRED BY</small>:</b> Who invited you, please? c: <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> written or linked history both fine. Bullet points also a-okay. If no information is available in English, please write this out in short. <b><small>ABILITIES | POWERS</small>:</b> Include any relevant power restrictions, so you don’t break our playground. <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> make sure this ties back to the character’s time point and background. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> one or more samples to showcase the nuances of your character’s personality. Submit at least one prose sample of five comments or more. You can link memes, PSL or other game threads, provided they took place within the last 12 months. You can also write a single prose sample in the game or character canon setting, if you think you can cover good introspective ground that way, or a top level with enough variety to show how the character engages in various scenarios. <b><small>INVENTORY</small>:</b> No world-breaking items. For living or magical beings, or anything colossal (think... Gundams...) please let's talk beforehand! <b><small>SUITABILITY</small>:</b> Eastbound is a plot-heavy game that typically features sleuthing, action and the undead. How is your character likely to deal with all that (and the game bear)? <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> Are there any particular accommodations your character will need? How do you propose to handle that?

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[lanclan]

A mod-assigned one would be fun! His biggest regret is not seeing through Jin Guangyao's façade and for being so gullible that it's almost laughable.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

Like Bucky, Sam needs a hug.

We may need to figure out how to power Redwing long term!

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is so tide of this.

INTRO

You can assume Sam arrived with our latest event. Since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

Wen Ning counts as death-touched in Eastbound, alongside other necromancer, dead, or undead characters. This means he’ll experience certain advantages or drawbacks during some events, which will be signalled when applicable!

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is life’s a drip.

INTRO

Since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

Because of her camera obscura art school hobby, Ruka counts among the death-touched in Eastbound, which counts necromancer, dead, or undead characters. She’ll experience certain advantages and/or drawbacks during some events, which will be noted when applicable!

As a heads up, Ruka’s TDM top level was also factored in, when considering her application.

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is sea you later.

INTRO

Since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of her biggest regrets.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

You’ve guessed it: Khonshu’s revival tricks of Marc mean that Marc’s now one of the happily death-touched of Eastbound, which also number necromancer, dead, or undead characters. He’ll be thrilled to experience advantages and/or drawbacks during some events, which will be noted when applicable.

As we have two plot-linked moons in Arc VI, drop a line if you’d like Marc to experience oddities linked to the second moon, given his lunar connection.

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is dam it to well.

INTRO

Since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.

[groundrules]

Heya! Thanks so much for your application. Two things, if you're okay to respond within the next 48h:

— do you happen to have any samples that show Shen Qingqiu's current canon point?Afraid the ones you've offered are either AU, don't reflect his canon point, or are a bit short. The other option would be to write one or more samples, in either the canon or Akhuras setting, making sure to please include relevant introspection and not be exclusively action-heavy.

— regarding homophobia/transphobia/misogyny: it's understood that these opinions and views will be held by certain characters, and that they don't reflect player opinions. However, being attitudes that a lot of people face on a daily basis, it'd be great to minimize this as much as possible in a fictional hobby setting. Appreciate that you're already sensitive of that, but, if the application is accepted — if you're also okay to please provide an ooc venue (a post, or whatever you are comfortable with) where people can choose to opt out of tagging with this character if exposure to these views or topics would be triggering to them.

Re: ACCEPTED

[moonsounds]

1. I'll keep Ruka's job as an entertainer/musician that I made up for her, but if you've got anything to add for it, go for it.

2. Shove her in a house of your choosing, have fun.

2. One of her biggest regrets is that she can't remember her father's face. She can't remember a time of seeing him without the mask on and her illness has caused her to forget so much about him specifically. He caused her Moonlight Syndrome to begin with, but she just wants to remember more about him and at this point in time, she can't.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

He can retain his complete freckles inventory.

Cal’s connection to the Force means he isn’t quite death-touched in Eastbound, but there will be certain events where life-sensitive characters have a different awareness of developments (for good or ill). This will be signalled in write-ups!

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is bottled up inside.

INTRO

Since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.

Re: hua cheng ( tgcf )

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or wait til the CR meme of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

We may occasionally need to dial down some of his abilities for plot purposes, but this can be talked out on a case-by-case basis. Assume he’s good for most things for now. Re: his teleportation dice — let's say he can only teleport to places the party or he personally have already visited in Akhuras (here's a list). Let's say they can be used once a day.

Hua Cheng counts as death-touched in Eastbound, alongside other necromancers, dead or undead/revived characters. This means he will benefit from certain advantages/drawbacks during various events, which will be signalled appropriately in the write-ups.

Your character receives a shiny new village pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translated messages of any written content your character sees in local tongue. Your character’s assigned username is water you docking aboat.

INTRO

Since you’d rather take a lighter route with his intro, just assume he came in with the latest event. If you change your mind, since quite a few newcomers are interested in a plot-heavy approach, there’ll be a special scenario exclusive to you folks in the upcoming event. Stay tuned.

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of his biggest regrets.

[groundrules]

Heya — this is looking great so far, and it's so awesome to see you back! Do you happen to have any other samples for her that you'd be okay linking (or writing, if easier) over the next 48h? Just to get a deeper sense of her. Thanks!

[vestments]

second moon oddities, yes please and ty!

1. no job,
2. housing, yes!
3. haunting!! becoming the FIST OF KHONSHU. it has "done absolutely nothing [good] for his life and cost him everything", and he hates everything about it and what he's done as moon knight. (and yet.)

[ghastleye]

1. lbr he'll just follow xie lian around and do whatever he's doing/wants him to do..
2. i'm down! it probably won't take him long to invite himself into wherever his hubs is staying tho.
3. not to sound like a broken record, but most of his regrets have to do with xie lian. i'd say probably the biggest one is not being strong enough at the time to protect him from being tortured by white no-face and losing hope/falling into a vengeful state against yong'an.

[fiercechains]

1. We can go with mod assigned on the job.
2. Housing wise? Wherever his sister is.
3. His biggest regret is all the deaths he caused even if he had no control over himself at the time.

[groundrules]

I'm afraid I can't guarantee he can stay where his sister does — but he can have mod-assigned housing or live with NPCs, your pick!

Will be back with you regarding the other things!

[fiercechains]

Mod-assigned housing works!

[starfleetashell]

Sure! This sample is out of the one-year range (about 18 months old) but I do really like it and it's got a lot of what makes Beckett tick. If it's not okay to use something that old as a supplement then I'll be happy to write another!

[groundrules]

I think if you don't mind putting together something fresher, that'd be really A+!

[starfleetashell]

Gotcha:

Beckett didn't cry on the shuttle heading to Starbase 80, as the Cerritos warped away. She'd never thought that her mom - no, Captain Freeman - could be so vindictive. She didn't even listen when Mariner tried to explain what was going on. All she'd done was sing the praises of the Cerritos and her captain, and for that she was all but court-martialed. Nobody was giving her the benefit of the doubt. Even Jennifer thought the worst of her! At least Rutherford, Boimler, and Tendi didn't think that, but...it didn't really matter, did it? The Cerritos had been more than her posting, it had been home. And now she'd been exiled, posted to the worst assignment in Starfleet.

She curled her hand into a fist, digging her fingers into her palm. It wasn't fair! Starfleet was built on justice and fairness and she'd jump on a photon torpedo for people she loved, and it seemed like instead even her own mother would just rather push her in front of one to save face. Well, no more. She'd said a long time ago that if she ever got kicked off the Cerritos she'd quit Starfleet, and now it was time to put her latinum where her mouth was.

The thought of being adrift as a civilian terrified her, she'd admit that much to herself, but she had contacts throughout the Federation. Her name wasn't mud everywhere yet.

That archaeologist chick from the Galardonian fair - Petra? - she'd said something about getting in touch if Beckett ever wanted to leave Starfleet. Good thing I didn't delete her contact information.

As the shuttle approached Starbase 80, she knew what she had to do. First, she was going to resign her commission. Second, she was going to call Petra Aberdeen back about becoming an ass-kicking space archaeologist. If Starfleet had turned its back on her, she was perfectly willing to turn her back on Starfleet.

So why, then, was the place she most wanted to be hanging out in the ship's bar with her only friends?

[xiaoxiuya]

Hi! Thanks for getting back to me <3

I'm pretty sure I can bang out a new writing sample related to his canon point, but before I start I'd like to be clear on what kind of minimum and maximum word count you're looking for, and how much divergence from his canon point is okay while still displaying my roleplaying skills. Would showing how I think he would react if a single thing that happened just prior to his canon departure played out differently, for example? I'm reluctant to simply regurgitate canon with extra IC commentary, as I don't think that would be any fun for me to write or for you to read.

I have no problem with making an opt out post if I'm accepted, however. It's always been my intention to be up-front about Shen Yuan's issues and let other players make their own choices about how comfortable they are with interacting with him.

[groundrules]

So, it's less about a concrete word count, more about getting the chance to see how he emotionally reacts to meaningful situations (whether outwardly, internally or both). Generally, the more variety and nuance you can supply, the better.

I'd say not to use a prompt that what-ifs what would have happened if something prior to his canon departure happened differently, as that would still put you in the position of effectively producing a sample for a character that isn't the one you're applying for. But you can explore canon moments, small moments in between canon scenes (ex: Pikachu stubbed his paw-toe-thing that AM, Ash dealt with the emergency, how does he process that in the afternoon?), something of your design, or you're welcome to use one of the props from our latest event.

Re: APPROVED

[datapoint]

Hi! Could you explain what you mean by the samples being scarce? I want to make sure I will make sufficient activity in the future. :)

As for your questions, rubs hands together:

1. she will ignore it so i don't want you to make the effort for nothing lmao
2. yes please
3. yes! aloy feels tremendous guilt over being unable to stop the death of her friend, varl. she initially tried to keep him from following her on a dangerous mission, for fear that he would be hurt, but he insisted and was ultimately murdered in front of her after all.

[groundrules]

AC is definitely different — for applications, I need enough material to get a solid sense of voice, which the additional TDM samples consulted helped with! The note is mostly relevant for the sake of transparency on what led to the verdict.

Be back with you shortly on the hauntings/housing!

APPROVED

[groundrules]

That did the trick!

ADMIN

When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want — or hold out til the CR meme & plotting post of 5 June.

All game updates are posted on lostcompass, but you can also follow eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

If you’re not already served on that front, we have some custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post. Both are entirely optional — feel free to customise at will!

Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month!

NOTES

Mariner is, in fact, flawless.

Your character receives a shiny new pocket watch pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translations of messages written out in native tongues. Your character’s username is aquapella.

INTRO

Since quite a few folks in the application batch wanted or were open to a plottier intro, we’ll have a part in the upcoming travel Arc log that’s exclusive to new entrants, covering their arrival. Stay tuned!

If you can, please shout here over the next 48h if you’d like your character to get a mod-assigned:

1. …job while in Yancai? (Alternatively, you can invent your own!)
2. …housing?
3. haunting? If so, please describe in no more than two sentences one of her biggest regrets.

[recklessenough]

Is there a write up somewhere that talks more about death-touched, or is this simply something I need to keep in mind when it comes up on arcs? Awww, friends! Okay, friends he'll try to make more dead, but friends!

1. Mod's choice!
2. Mod's choice!
3. His biggest regret is not being there to save his family; classic survivor's guilt. His first couple encounters with a haunting he's liable to want to destroy the ghost. I'm okay if this either just isn't possible (welcome to a new way of doing things, Locky) or if you'd like me to come up with ways to force some chill on the boy?

[groundrules]

There's no write-up per se — mostly, when a new event pops up that does have a specific outcome or effect on the death-touched, it's noted what that is and how it impacts them. This is typically opt-in, too. Mostly it comes up when one of the death lieges is around, because they like to try to take control of the death-touched, if they can (and if you OOCly permit it) — or when there's dark water, because they can sense it easier. Things like that, which are documented in detail at the appropriate time. For now, just worth remembering he's got the label!

Be back with you shortly on the housing/haunting/job!