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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

NEW PLAYERS

PLAYER NAME: 
CONTACT:
REFERRED BY: Who invited you, please? c:

CHARACTER: 
CANON:
CANON POINT:

BACKGROUND: written or linked history both fine. Bullet points also a-okay. If no information is available in English, please write this out in short.

ABILITIES | POWERS: Include any relevant power restrictions, so you don’t break our playground.

PERSONALITY: make sure this ties back to the character’s time point and background.

SAMPLE: 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. 
 
INVENTORY: No world-breaking items. For living or magical beings, or anything colossal (think... Gundams...) please let's talk beforehand!

SUITABILITY: 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)?

NOTES: Are there any particular accommodations your character will need? How do you propose to handle that?

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

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Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

While Eastbound is fantasy-horror geared, if you OOCly have a common trigger that is likely to make you very uncomfortable in gameplay (ex: spiders), please flag it here. Best effort will be made to content warn and avoid pictures of it in event write-ups.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

As discussed on the mod contact page, happy for Benedict to keep his Eldritch ~~pokemon~~ companion!

Given Benedict’s death experience, he counts as death-touched in Akhuras — a status that will give him certain dis/advantages with the local undead. This will be flagged in event write-ups, where relevant!

Sounds great about the void portal ability accommodations and getting PC approval for picking up emotions and memories off objects, thanks! It should be fine to keep the emotions and memories radar ability active in game generally, though there might be moments when we might have to dim them or have them conveniently not pick up anything, if it’d give out the mystery du jour in a snap.

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.

…you can either come up with your character’s network username, or comment here if you prefer to receive a mod-assigned punny one.

INTRO

Your character joins the party during its sojourn at the House of Manouk. He may travel with them onwards, when they escape back into the real time of Akhuras… to a place of sweet, sweet respite.

There will be certain opt-in quests available in this period — including one exclusive to newcomers. Participate in whatever you like 😊

The Merchant has his ways to barter information about his new protegees, and at time shares this knowledge with his representative to the party, the witch Karsa. Upon return to Akhuras, the Merchant sends Benedict the following letter:

Master Benedict,

I should hope you are as well as men favoured by the particulars of your circumstances may claim themselves to be. It is my privilege to steward you in this great adventure we shall agree to call your journey.

Allow me to introduce myself: I am a merchant. It is of late my trade, my profession and my passion. I treat it with utmost seriousness and professionalism. And though I am certain you have heard of many sleights of hand practised deviously by paltry sellers at a roadside market, I wish to reassure you that I have a loathing of short changing, tricks or stowaways.

I hope we shall give each other no trouble.

All the best,

A merchant

There is no need to respond to the letter.

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

…knowing Marty’s nosy nature, we will probably need to arm this boy magically at some point. We could also have the Merchant pay him a bodyguard in some instances, though I’m sure the rest of the party will intercede to keep him out of trouble. Maybe.

…you can either come up with your character’s network username, or comment here if you prefer to receive a mod-assigned punny one.

INTRO

Your character joins the party during its sojourn at the House of Manouk. He may travel with them onwards, when they escape back into the real time of Akhuras… to a place of sweet, sweet respite.

There will be certain opt-in quests available in this period — including one exclusive to newcomers. Participate in whatever you like 😊

The Merchant has his ways to barter information about his new protegees, and at time shares this knowledge with his representative to the party, the witch Karsa. Upon return to Akhuras, Karsa turns out not to need any additional data to approach Marty very… intently:

”Are you a child? Or a man? We don’t need more children. We have too many. They cry and get sad. All the time, every day. We kill things, they are sad. Fire happens, they are sad. Dead things rise, they are sad. Sad, sad, sad. Why are you not smiling? See? Because you are getting sad. Go back. What do you mean where? To womb. Shoo.”

...she won't stay long on his case for his sin of existing in her presence, and she does in fact look after the young much more earnestly than she does the rest of the party. But she might now and then make a point of hissing at him or squinting, almost... daring him. To be sad.

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

That is an intense arsenal, but plausible to keep, given his day job.

…given said penchant to pokeball a battalion of weapons, you’re welcome to have him pilfer, trade for, sweet talk or accrue a wealth of blades and other arms from wherever he goes.

…you can either come up with your character’s network username, or comment here if you prefer to receive a mod-assigned punny one.

INTRO

Your character joins the party during its sojourn at the House of Manouk. He may travel with them onwards, when they escape back into the real time of Akhuras… to a place of sweet, sweet respite.

There will be certain opt-in quests available in this period — including one exclusive to newcomers. Participate in whatever you like 😊

The Merchant has his ways to barter information about his new protegees, and at time shares this knowledge with his representative to the party, the witch Karsa. Upon return to Akhuras, Karsa is tasked to deliver Connor a small box of fresh black tea leaves, with a small note reading:

I trust we may depend on brokering no unpleasantness between us, on professional grounds or otherwise — a merchant

There is no need to respond to the note. The tea is perfectly harmless, enjoyable, and your pick of the blend!

Thank you so much!

I agree, let's go with the masked option for any Moiraine who might join in the future versus the confusion of that!

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

Just a heads up that this sample was also factored into the verdict, as what you linked would have been a little bit thin, otherwise.

We may have to conveniently dim the Eagle Vision when it’d reveal something that’d instantly kill the mystery of the day — but that’ll be flagged. Keep it around otherwise!

…you can either come up with your character’s network username, or comment here if you prefer to receive a mod-assigned punny one.

Master Jacob,

If a man of my profession wishes to earn his fee and charge a substantial such provision, he must be lent to a certain degree of discretion and patience of judgement. As such, I don’t make it my concern to hazard opinions on another personal appetites or man’s trade.

I trust I shall have no reason for contrary hesitations, with regard to you. I wish to believe that we may all remain civil and above public reproach. Ill tempers, bloodshed or impulses benefit no one.

With great esteem,

A merchant

There is no need to respond to the letter.

Thank you mods!

And please, feel free to assign a pun network handle for him!

How about:

scentless violence

or

of corpse not

Benedict's pocket monster gets called ~~that~~ out again... I love it ahaha!

I would love a punny username for Benedict please! He has no idea how anything beyond a radio works anyway. It will be great.

Thank you! I cannot wait for Marty to one day have some magic weapons of his own...

And I'd love a mod assigned username!

Oh hells they're both good. But RNG says "of corpse not" is the one !

PLAYER NAME: Sam
CONTACT:

verities
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: ruxi ofc - also given mod extension for app

CHARACTER: Lucyna Kushinada
CANON: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
CANON POINT: end of s01e08 - shortly after getting her brain fried trying to take out an enemy netrunner

BACKGROUND:

| LUCY WIKIA
| CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS WIKI
| CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS EPISODE WIKI

ABILITIES | POWERS:

At her core, Lucy is an average human of average strength, agility, etc. She does physical exercise, as well, to keep up her body stamina and strength, but does not appear to have any augmentations to her natural physical strength and speed.

CYBERWARE > Like most citizens of Night City, Lucy has a number of cyberware augmentations to her body to enhance or gift her skills she wouldn't have naturally. Please note, so far she does not appear to have a heavy number of physical enhancements, but these sorts of augmentations can be more subtle. Until creators confirm otherwise, I am only listing augmentations she blatantly seems to have. If creators say otherwise, I will reach out to mod before implementing. Her current cyberware enhancements include:

CYBEROPTICS :: Lucy has cybernetic eyes that allow her to read displays from her neuroimplants as if in front of her, scope her eyesight in to view things from long distances, comes with anti-dazzle protection to protect her vision from harsh sunlight and flares without the use of sunglasses, establishes a targeting display when using her weaponry, has low-lite function to give her clearer vision in the dark, and has image enhancement capabilities to keep her vision clear and defined.

CYBERDECK :: Lucy's neural system is integrated with an unknown but highly advanced cyberdeck system. This system allows Lucy to read out information about technology around her, hack systems/other people, jack into systems from a distance, and more. Her advanced deck allows her to do these things with quicker speed and efficiency than most other hackers like her. Cyberdecks also allow users to connect with their phones to take calls/text messages using their own neural connections.

MONOWIRE :: In both of Lucy's arms is installed a monowire. A monowire is a long range, string of energy that can be wielded almost like a whip. It is thin and strong enough to slice limbs off with ease. It relies on battery charge to sustain the wire, and needs to be 'holstered' back in her arms to recharge.

INTERFACE PLUGINS :: These are ports located on the body that allow the user to 'jack in' directly to a network system and interface in the cyberspace for more direct hacking and netrunning. Lucy has a small interface port that allows her to jack into lighter technology pieces (computers, atms, etc.), but Lucy also has a larger port in the back of the base of her skull that she keeps covered with a cosmetic piece. This allows her to lie in tubs of ice and use stronger connections to enter cyberspace more fully and interact on a more direct level.

COSMETIC CYBERWARE :: Lucy also has some cosmetic cyberware pieces to enhance her body as she personally sees fit.

NETRUNNER > A lot of edgerunners and mercs have cyberdecks that allow for basic to low-level hacking skills. Lucy is what is known as a netrunner, in that she's trained specially to hack, create viruses, and more when it comes to software technology. Her cyberware is corporate/military-level advanced, and her skills rival any other known netrunner.

SKILLED COMBATANT > Having been raised by a corpo to be a netrunner, Lucy's physical skills were also not neglected due to corpos being strongly tied with militaries as well. Additionally, stronger physical prowess gave netrunners more stamina to withstand longer times in cyberspace and face down the daemon viruses within. As such, Lucy is skilled with hand to hand combat, melee weapons, and small arm weapons like pistols.

PERSONALITY:

Lucy is a dreamer in a city that crushes dreams.

Raised in a corporate (corpo) environment, Lucy was taken from her family before she could even remember them. This was due to Lucy having the physical markers of a strong netrunner, and then showing an aptitude for the technique once taken in by Arasaka. Lucy was raised along with twelve others to believe they were special. That she was special, and thus her unique talents would lead her to well-placed career within Arasaka, sent out into the world to share her gifts with the corporation that gave her her best chance at a good life. It wasn't until her training was complete in her early teens that reality crushed her. Lucy and the others were not freed, but instead hooked into cyberspace for hours/days on end and made to datamin the cyber frontier post cyberspace cataclysm. This life was physically grueling and mentally scarring, and Lucy watched one by one as her brethren died before her eyes.

The flaw in Arasaka's logic, however, was instilling in Lucy that she was special. The best. Which meant that those who held her captive were weaker. Lucy and her remaining brethren used this logic to embolden themselves to stage an escape using their hacking abilities to release their technological bindings and fry the brains of their captors. However, it is strongly implied that Lucy was the only one to have made it out alive in the end with guns shooting at her from behind.

With this upbringing, Lucy set out to make her own path. Lucy used her training at Arasaka to strengthen herself, mask herself in cities, and become an edgerunner (another word for cyberpunk outlaw/mercenary). Her logic was that cities were so big and loud, hiding right under the eyes of the corpos in all that noise would cover her trail. An effective strategy that helped her live into her early twenties.

During this time of survival, Lucy learned to become a mysterious woman that revealed little to others. However, she did see the need for survival in numbers and joined a edgerunner group as a member of their team. This helped her both earn money to survive and round out her weaknesses with members that excelled where she lacked. Kiwi, the woman that brought her into the group, told Lucy not to trust anyone, though Lucy would say she didn't need that lesson after what Arasaka did to her.

Truthfully, however, even Arasaka hadn't been able to kill the good spirit that still resided within Lucy.

Lucy's outward behaviors displayed that of a woman who was indifferent to the world around her at worst or amused by it's trivalities at best. She can come off pragmatic in her logic, but reckless in her treatment of others. Almost as if everything is a game in her mind, keeping others guessing at her next moves.

In reality, Lucy is a dreamer still at heart. She carries with her the ideal of moving to the moon, far away from where corpos can reach her so she can be free to live her life as she pleases. This sort of thinking is rare in Night City, as few believe they can obtain a better life of any kind so don't dare to dream of it.

However, it's not only Lucy's dreamer-like mentality that Arasaka failed to snuff out. Despite having plentiful reasons to distrust others after the abuse at the hands of corpos and Kiwi's warning to only look out for herself, Lucy cares deeply for those around her. Especially those in her crew. She hates seeing what society ruled by corpos does to others, though often she feels at a loss on what she can do to help. But with those closest to her, she does try to help however she can. She wants to protect them the way she didn't protect her brethren, and to also protect the innocence that she had destroyed herself. Lucy finds herself to be cynical and too far gone for the world, despite being someone who still cares about others more than most. This particularly shows when Kiwi, the one who warned her, ends up being the one to outright betray Lucy. Showing that Lucy let her guard down and trusted someone close to her when she shouldn't have.

Lucy likes to act like she's jaded, but in reality she's still the dreamer Arasaka raised her to be. All she wants is a better future for herself, but also those that are victims of the harsh realities of life.

SAMPLE:

LOG + NETWORK TDM

INVENTORY:

+ Clothes on her back
+ Cyberware implants
+ Unity pistol

NOTES: I don't know if Lucy's implants would continue working as-is or if they'd need to be like magic compatible? They run deep in her neural and physical systems, however, so they do need to maintain functionality, but it's heavily implied that cyberware operate using the physical body to maintain their power levels as people with cyberware never have to recharge anywhere and too much cyberware can lead to cyberpsychosis from messing with the bodys system and brain too much. - just going with them being magic compatible like before would work!

IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Plot heavy if possible!

demons are a ghoul's best friend

is wonderful but a little long. Perhaps:

daily exorcise

?

This was a personal challenge, to reference both time travel and the series, but I give you:

a wheely good time

A deathly good choice!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

Same provisions about her implants as last time!

Have a think if you'd like her to come back with her game memories or with them erased!

Since she had a network username previously, you are welcome to have her keep it!

INTRO

Lucy can either join the party during its sojourn at the House of Manouk, or appear when they escape via beacon time travel into Akhuras… to a place of sweet, sweet respite. The only difference is whether you'd like her to have witnessed any part of the events of the House of Manouk.

There will be certain opt-in quests available in this period — including one exclusive to newcomers. Participate in whatever you like 😊

PERFECT. Considering Marty doesn't know what the hell a username is, thinking he's been assigned this is hysterical.

Thank you, mods!!

YOU KNOW WHAT, i kinda wanna see what punny username the mods would come up with so hit me.

Given his background?

effort in vein

knife to meet you

abwhorent

ABWHORENT. wow. that's beautiful.

i'm absolutely using that but i do wanna know, is it a game mechanic where it's chosen for him or does he get to choose it himself? either way is super funny. and also do i get to change it down the line or is it a hard stuck thing?

These devices are often second-hand and respelled, so they can come with legacy names that your character receives. You can have him buy or steal a new device at some point and rename it then! Some characters have multiple devices (and usernames) as a result of that.

he's gonna be like wow they got me down super well and then immediately try to amass more devices ( unsucessfully, the username is the greatest warning sign )

thanks!!!

Excellent plan, buddy!

Thank you!!

also now she's back to torture wangji again 👀

oh please assign him a punny name i need it.

better light than never

or

glow is me

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