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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?

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We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can find information about our latest event and the upcoming May calendar here. Our recent ship rescue event spells out how incomers reached Sa-Hareth.

It’s (financially) good to be Wen Qing: her surgical and healing skills will earn her fast friends in nearly every establishment, should she disclose them. The courtesans at the House of Dew would pay handsomely for everything from salves for bruises and face marks, to contraceptives or abortive cures. In the ports, captains will pay well for treatment for their crew, bereft of a medic for weeks at sea.

Careful with those needles! Being silver, Wen Qing might need to guard them from the sticky hands of brothel attendants.

For plotting purposes: how often was Wen Qing subjected to the ship mirror, and what abilities or memories did she (temporarily) surrender each time?

Newcomers may still briefly access the House of Dew’s freebie magical network until their inevitable move-out. Wen Qing will inherit the username sweet sparrow under honeyed fingers for that use. This username can be changed, if she procures or steals a quartz translation device.

For plotting purposes: how often was Wen Qing subjected to the ship mirror, and what abilities or memories did she (temporarily) surrender each time?

Let's say roughly five times during her time at sea. Most of the memories surrendered would have been her time in Nightless City, with her uncle and cousins, some of her cultivation abilities, and the occasional happier memory of times in the Burial Mounds.

and she will guard those needles with her life. woe unto anyone who tries to mess with them.

Edited 2021-05-09 16:10 (UTC)

Roger that, thank you!

PLAYER NAME: Britt
CONTACT: daestwen at gmail dot com
INVITE STATUS: you know me, i'm ya boi

CHARACTER: Emmet "Fox" Martin
CANON: OC / Impetus Universe
CANON POINT: Summer 2014

BACKGROUND: wFox is from an urban fantasy setting set in the recent past in Toronto, Ontario. Magic exists alongside tech in this universe, openly and historically. Magic theory is generally kept tightly guarded in family lines, clans, sects or gangs, and sharing magic between groups is extremely frowned upon in the mildest cases. In the most severe, assassinations have taken place.

The city of Toronto's magic culture is segregated by neighbourhood, each district being the 'territory' of one particular group. These match to real-world neighbourhoods such as Chinatown, the Annex, Little Italy, the Distillery District, etc. Fox belongs to the gang that runs the neighbourhood of Queen West, a group of mages that came together not out of blood line but necessity, most of them without any living family. The oldest mages are textile mages that are willing to take on apprentices, and were since folded into the gang. Compared to other magical sects within the city, Queen West is one of the most open and multicultural, though with a definite counter-culture / street culture vibe. For this reason they aren't considered to have powerful magic on their own.

Their most powerful mage, and the one who has made the biggest name for the sect, is the elusive and ephemeral Fox.

Born Emmet Martin in a mixed-race family, he lost his paramedic father to a workplace accident soon after he was born, and his mother died when he was 8. His "aunt" - a gentle tiny woman who was actually his mom's best friend - adopted him. She was a mage aligned with Cabbage Town and taught him a bunch of herb and plant based magic.

Because of all this, even though he was an exceptionally bright kid, he never managed to do well in school, mostly due to absenteeism. He lived most of his teenage years out of the library system where he self taught himself any public access magic he could find.

He started running with the Queen West gang when he was 15 as he finally found a place he seemed to fit in, and was taught textile magic then, as well as getting his fist magical tattoo. This was when he started going by fox, mostly for doing magic graffiti, but slowly he began to use the pseudonym for all his endeavours.

At 16 his aunt was put into the long term care home, but he was old enough that he was allowed to make his own way. Fox began a deliberate search for ways to study other sects magic at this time to incorporate into his own, whether through bribery or seduction or theft. With a generally charming demeanour, it wasn't hard to convince people to teach him low-level day to day magic, but the greater his ambitions rose the more difficult it was to access the spells he was interested in. He just refused to stop.

By 18 he was already considered the best mage in the clan, and by 20 all the other clans had heard of him too, under the name Fox. No one outside Queen West really knew who he was, except that he was somehow learning magic from families that had long kept their abilities secret and bound to the family.

By 22 “Fox” was a household name in Magic circles, but usually said with disdain. He is actively considered a thief and many sects have put out rewards for information on him, or illegal bounties. Queen West treats him as their golden canon - his ability is great enough to be able to use him as an effective deterrent to people encroaching on their territory. He shows up to competitions mostly to wipe the floor with someone and take off. In reality there are many individuals who like him and teach him magic but are unwilling to publicly acknowledge their connection. He encourages this - it keeps them safer anyway.

In 2011 he met Bai Mingyu - “Gabriel Bai”. Wounded from an escape that went awry, Mingyu patched Fox up and they forged a fast friendship, though Fox kept to his fleeting nature and was gone by the next morning. For the next several months, the two of them played a back and forth game of public appearances: Mingyu through the pervasive channels of the media and celebrity, and Fox through escalating stunts and magic graffiti throughout the city. They met again during the Toronto International Film Festival, where Fox magic bombed the premiere gala just to impress Mingyu who he knew would be there.

The next several months saw them getting closer and closer, even as Mingyu was supposedly dating a woman named Rushi, which led Fox to pretend to date his best friend Jade in order to convince them to go on double dates. Finally, in 2012, The two idiots managed to get together and Fox slowly grew into the idea of having a stable home and a stable family, though it took him a long time to actually be able to admit as much.

By the Summer of 2014, Fox had introduced Mingyu to his Aunt, given him his real name, and even felt like he was settling in for the long haul. Unfortunately, a person appeared in front of him while he was working one day, covered in traces of his own magic - it turned out that a future version of him had managed to write someone out of the timeline completely while he was trying to change it. Mortified and confused, Fox has been working desperately to try to put this person back into the timeline, while attempting to figure out exactly how and why a future version of himself was trying to rewrite the past. In doing so, he starts studying Mingyu's mother's magic in order to try to predict the future, but it has a flaw - or, really, time itself has a flaw. As there are multiple possible branches of time, and knowing the possible futures can create even more possible branches of time, it is more a method of guesswork than foresight. What he has learned is that in their future, something terrible either happens to Mingyu, or to him, and a future version of him from a timeline where something terrible happened to Mingyu is trying to ensure that it doesn't come to pass.

Knowing that Future Fox is fucking up the timeline and potentially making things worse, Fox is doing his best to learn time magic in order to clean up after "himself" and make sure that the entire time space continuum doesn't get completely wrecked by his own future hubris.

ABILITIES | POWERS:

Magic in the Impetus universe is complex and wide ranging in both its basis and use. Most commonly it mimics what is possible with very advanced technology - facilitating anything from lighting a fire, to generating water or creating a wide-range blast. The deadly and city-levelling magic that was created in WWII has since been destroyed, so harmful spells typically have destructive capabilities along the lines of a gun, or a grenade, and developing deadly magic is illegal. Most spells require components to complete, and the better the components, the more effective the spell. Components are "better" when they are something that took a lot of time, or a lot of labour, to complete. So a leaf from a tree has some magic power but is fairly weak, whereas a diamond (millions of years of compression) or specially made paper (weeks of human labour) are much more effective. Blood can also be used as a component, but it weakens the user, it highly illegal, and Fox is strictly against its use.

While Fox is competent in a wide range of magical branches, his specialty is enchanting objects, places, or tattoos. He is very adept in stealth magic - the ability to pass unseen or unnoticed, though "true invisibility" doesn't quite exist. Light can be bent around the form, but he still exists in that space, so he tends to use magic that instead makes people ignore him even when they see him. His other specialties include light magic (illusions, etc), protection magic (either causing damage to be deflected onto something else, or strong enough components to absorb a certain amount, or combining this with stealth magic to get people and spells to avoid a certain place), support 'buff' magic (he makes a wicked caffeine-like bay leaf), transfiguration and elemental magic.

As a pacifist, he does study destructive magic, but only to help him build better protection spells against its use. He is strictly against killing people with magic, and would much rather avoid a fight than use damage-based magic. (This, I'm hoping, will be a fairly good nerf for him in game, or offer options for him to be misused by NPCs later if interesting).

Recently he's been teaching himself foresight magic, which sees snippets of possible futures. The further the future, the harder to see and the less likely it is to come to pass (as seeing it obviously alters it). It is worth noting that time works like quantum theory in the Impetus Universe, so timelines can diverge and converge and it's all kind of all over the place so it's hardly an exact science. That said, he's also been trying to teach himself time magic, which includes effecting time in a small area around him (creating enclosed time loops), and has been trying (but not succeeding, so far) in being able to cross from one timeline to another. This is very dangerous magic, as it can potentially alter time to the point where entire people, places, cultures and species disappear. He is fairly certain that Future Fox somehow managed to create a workable spell (hence the displaced person his doorstep), but he has not been able yet to do so himself.

PERSONALITY: CURIOSITY AND DRIVE: Fox's primary motivation always boils down to his insatiable curiosity. There is nothing more interesting in the world to him than discovering new methods of magic, or new ways to combine old ones. He is easily bored, requiring constant stimulation, and because of his obsession with magic, that stimulation better be magic related or it won't hold his interest for very long. He's very passionate about his interests, happy to launch into a TED talk about them at a moments notice. He is constantly moving, unable to sit still unless he's deep in his work and has his mind fully occupied. Because of his intense obsession, he isn't able to hold down a regular job most of the time, because it would limit his ability to research new things to his heart's content. Instead, he tends to make money through selling enchanted objects, but even these are few and far between. He is, in reputation, the Banksy of the magic world.

HIGH INT, LOW WIS: Fox is incredibly smart, living up to his moniker by being "too clever by half". He is able to decode and unravel some of the most complicated arcane texts, bringing a savant's understanding even to documents that people have been trying to learn for centuries. However, his incredible capability in this avenue comes at a cost. He's basically useless at everything else. When it comes to reading people, it's guesswork at best, and basic things like feeding himself tend to get forgotten completely. He can build a magic array capable of renovating the inside of a building, and yet keeps burning the bottom out of his kettle out whenever he tries to boil water. He has difficulty seeing ulterior motives, or indeed much underneath the surface of what someone is saying, unless he knows them very very well. He has no real sense of tact, and will simply say what's on his mind rather than consider whether or not something he is saying is rude. That being said, he's generally of a cheerful demeanor, and tends not to think ill of people, so at least he's usually well-meaning.

IDEALISM AND NAIVETY: Fox is incredibly idealistic, with a strong moral sense - even if his morals don't necessarily line up with the rest of the world's. He believes that magic should be open access, that everyone should be able to learn and grow regardless of bloodline or belief, and that is part of why he goes out of his way to learn as much magic from as many avenues as possible, so he can then teach it to others. Or he would, if he would stop doing the searching first. He believes that all humans are inherently good, and this colours his entire view of the world, even and especially when he is proven directly wrong. It isn't that he hasn't seen the ugly side of humanity, or been the target of racism, aggression and derision. But he believes that the ugliness of humanity comes from ignorance, and that if only he could help enlighten everyone, those problems would also fade into obscurity. He thinks, essentially, that given the time and resources he could save the world from itself. But this is mostly just a coping mechanism for himself to stave off what would otherwise deeply depress and upset him, by deciding it doesn't matter as eventually he'll be able to fix it.

FRIENDLY AND LONELY: Fox loves people and loves making 'friends', but he keeps very few close ones. This isn't done on purpose, but rather his intense personality and obsession have a tendency to have people keep him at arm's length. Essentially, he's hilarious for a party or an evening out, but after seven days being around him he can get very wearying. This is something he is extremely attuned to, and he's always careful not to 'outstay his welcome'. He spends most of his life couch surfing, and he rotates through his gang and his friends about every 3-4 days, though sometimes he'll find a hook up at a club just to have a new place to sleep for the night. He has absolutely no body shame and treats sex as both an activity and a currency to get what he wants and needs, whether that be magic or a meal.

SAMPLE: TDM, Open RP Post

INVENTORY:
1. 1 set of enchanted clothing, including jacket, t-shirt, undershirt, pants, socks, and shoes. Clothing are all enchanted to be changed in small ways every day, as well as be self-cleaning and to smell like lemon balm and the air just after it snows.
2. 1 enchanted jade bracelet which makes the wearer extremely hard to notice/pay attention to. Acts a sort of stealth system where people just don't notice you.
3. 1 ancient Nokia flip phone, enchanted to not require batteries, and to work with any service system without him paying for it. Only allows voice and text.
4. 1 enchanted set of black jet earrings. If he taps them, they work like a noise cancelling headphones and silence the rest of the world around him.
5. 1 black hoodie with white patterns on the cuffs of the sleeves that is enchanted to cast the face in impenetrable shadow when the hood is pulled up. Two little lights the colours of the wearer's eyes can be seen.

NOTES: Uhhh... I don't think so. If you need me to nerf stuff, just let me know, but things like transfiguration and other high-reward spells require time and money, and he's also too stupid to do things like make gold. He would get bored after approximately one piece and wander off.

For the mirror, let's say a handful of times, leaving him bereft of his cultivator powers in harrowing feverish reminder of losing his core, a few treasured childhood memories here and there, and once, blissfully, he forgot how he lost Wei Wuxian.

Thank you for all that!

... #concern.

Let's say she visited...5 times?? is that a good number or is that too much/too little ksdjg

1. Forgot romantic moments w/Sissy
2. Lost the sound manipulation
3. Lost the "weather tied to emotions" stuff
4. Forgot Ben helping her out of her torture from the CIA
5. Forgot Allison rumor-ing away her ability

Any number is okay, she could even have somehow been skipped for visits — let me know if you want to revise the number. Otherwise, will take those offerings, thanks!

nah this is fine! i'll stick with it!

Aaaaaaaaall aboard… the absentee caravan! Thanks for applying and welcome to the game.

A few loose ends, for your pleasure:

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

Join

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NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can find information about our latest event and the upcoming May calendar here. Our recent ship rescue event spells out how incomers reached Sa-Hareth.

As with Alina, Fox will find that Unhalad's undead will recoil from his light magic, for all it doesn’t physically damage them. Their eyes are more used to the dark, underground depths of the mines.

Time might isn’t outright out of the question, but you might please need to get mod approval for big-league time travel.

Unless he’s also wearing the hoodie at the time of his Great Escape from the Imperious, it might unfortunately end up crisps!

For plotting purposes: how often was Fox subjected to the ship mirror, and what abilities or memories did she (temporarily) surrender each time?

Newcomers may still briefly access the House of Dew’s freebie magical network until their inevitable move-out. Fox will inherit the username silhouette among silk spreads for that use. This username can be changed, if he procures or steals a quartz translation device.

He's wearing his hoodie! I just had it listed separately as it was enchanted differently specifically.

He was subjected to the mirror twice, and he was unable to do magic for several days the first time, forgetting everything including his name. The second time he couldn't recover his magic for two days, and his memories returned more quickly.

Thanks!

PLAYER NAME: seiko
CONTACT:

bladeworks
INVITE STATUS: I was recruited by Lone Sheep!

CHARACTER: Gilbert Nightray
CANON: Pandora Hearts
CANON POINT: Retrace 64

BACKGROUND: Gilbert Nightray @ Pandora Hearts Wiki

ABILITIES | POWERS:

skills:

Marksmanship:

Basic(?) Hand-to-Hand:

Abnormal Pain/Injury Tolerance:

CHAIN: Rᴀᴠᴇɴ:

Illusions:

Teleportation:

Sealing Powers:

Pathway to the Abyss:

Offensive:

PERSONALITY:

"I'VE GAINED A LOT DURING THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS... ...AND I HAVE NO INTENTIONS TO GIVE THEM UP."

As a fourteen-year-old we are introduced to Gilbert as a rather shy but kind individual. A bit of a cry-baby terrified by cats, he is completely and utterly devoted to his master, Oz Vessalius. Torn between the idea of being best friends with Oz (which he feels he doesn't deserve) and his servant, Gilbert is often lamenting or fretting over decisions and situations that clash the two in his mind.

Gilbert's life as a child revolves around Oz and his personality and actions reflect this, breaking barriers in his character every so often for the young master. Even in his mold as a simple and kind child, the two of them treasure each other's presence and need little else in their lives until they're torn apart by Oz's banishment to the Abyss.

Ten years later, in the current setting, Gilbert has gone through quite a bit that has cracked and remodeled his personality from his time as a child. In order to reach the possibility of getting Oz back into his life, he's willing to get his hands dirty within the shadows of the Nightray Household and their duties within the Four Dukedoms. He acts cold and distant, even towards Oz when the boy initially wakes up after being returned from the Abyss. However, we see that most of it is a facade, especially with Oz. Once the truth of his identity is revealed to Oz and he admits to wanting to still serve the Vessalius heir despite now being part of the Nightray Household, his cold and distant attitude becomes extremely protective (maybe even overprotective). He can be harsh with the other but it's out of care and concern, worried about Oz's (unchanged) outlook on things (particularly of himself) and how oblivious he seems to be on what fate ultimately has in store for him.

At times, Gilbert can still be seen as his fourteen-year-old self, crying easily when drunk and calling Oz "Young Master" (for the most part, despite being his servant, he simply calls Oz "Oz" when addressing him, although refers to him as "my master" from time to time when discussing him with others, such as Alice). For Oz, it's an extra comfort to know that deep down Gilbert is still the same person he knew before being dropped into the Abyss. Despite ten years of trials and hardships, Gilbert has still managed to retain a part of himself that even he himself thought that he had lost as being familiar to Oz. Yet, Gilbert is still caring and kind, often acting as an older brother of sorts to both Oz and even Alice, the latter with whom he has an odd relationship with. Oz thinks that Gilbert has a soft spot for her, but it's currently unknown if it's true. It's known that he has a strong desire to kill her at one point in order to save Oz from the fate of being an illegal contractor.

Gilbert holds a great amount of respect for his younger brother, Vincent Nightray, particularly because of his brother being extremely talented. Vincent's ability to surpass Gilbert's skills with a revolver that had taken him years in a matter of months is of particular highlight. It's also clear he cares for his younger brother, although to what level is unknown, particularly with recent chapters having them on opposing sides. However, when the two were much much younger (before Gilbert ever met Oz), it's shown that while Gilbert knew his life would be easier without Vincent if he had just left him alone to fend for himself, Gilbert was never able to do so.

Now older, he also harbors an intense hatred for Zai Vessalius, Oz's father. It extends past the point of hatred, really, and also crosses into blatant disrespect for the Vessalius Household leader. He goes as far to shoot at the other when he makes an appearance before Oz, warning Zai to stay away from the boy. If not for Xerxes Break's intervention, the confrontation would have erupted into a battle between their chains (Zai's being Gryphon and Gilbert's being Raven). Zai well aware of Gilbert's desire to rid Oz of the person who has caused him the most pain. For Gilbert, it's also to rid himself of the man who is responsible for him losing Oz in the first place.

Oz often teases Gilbert still, and Gilbert is easily riled up as a result. He also has a history of engaging in bickering (and sometimes physical) arguments with Alice, the two often disagreeing and fighting over their opinions while insulting each other. Oz never takes sides when it happens, often appearing oblivious, which just fuels the fire between the two of them (and more often than not it's for Oz's attention they fight).

Gilbert, even as an adult, never gets over his fear of cats. This is revealed when Oz and Gilbert enter the realm of Chesire to go after Alice and Break, who have already been "captured" (or more like Break used Alice as bait to lure out Chesire for his own intentions).

"Gil, what now? ...Huh?!"
"Cat... I didn't know it was a cat..."
"...Don't tell me that your cat phobia hasn't been cured? ...HEY, WAKE UP." - Oᴢ ᴀɴᴅ Gɪʟʙᴇʀᴛ, Rᴇᴛʀᴀᴄᴇ 16, Pᴀɢᴇ 10

As part of the Nightray family, Gilbert actually does hold some affection towards his youngest brother, Elliot Nightray, who is a pureblood Nightray, unlike he and Vincent. Vincent mentions in later chapters after a certain event happens that he thanks Elliot for being there otherwise Gilbert would never have ever been able to smile in the Nightray Household.

Random facts include he is an amazing cook and, according to Xerxes Break, that he took up smoking because he idolizes Oscar Vessalius. Rufus Barma mentions that although he attempted to quit smoking eight times, he failed. The hat he always wears with his default outfit was given to him by Ada Vessalius and is very precious to him. It's important enough that when Oz loses it in the city, Gilbert drags both Oz and Alice to search for it. When it's found to be in the hands of some street thugs, Oz decides on them all having an arm-wrestling match for who has rightful possession of the hat.

SAMPLE:

...Oz...

wasn't

someone's

INVENTORY:

Two revolvers (fully loaded) [I'm honestly not sure if he's carrying two at the canon point he's being taken from, though, so if he can only bring one, that's okay, too.], a half-full cigarette case, and his Chain (Raven). Am totally ready to work with mod to properly keep Raven from pulling anything overpowered and etc.

NOTES:

Edited (Sorry fitting into one comment more time consuming than I thought x_x) 2021-05-12 01:59 (UTC)

Aaaaaaaaall aboard… the absentee caravan! Thanks for applying and welcome to the game.

A few loose ends, for your pleasure:

ADMIN

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

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere.

All game-relevant updates will be posted on

lostcompass, but if you’re a fan of plurk memos, consider following

eastbound.

NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can find information about our latest event and the upcoming May calendar here. Our recent ship rescue event spells out how incomers reached Sa-Hareth, while our latest farmhouse move-out event is here. Beware and/or pet wolves.

Regrettably, the last of Gilbert’s cigarettes in that case are getting smoked down by the captain with zero regrets. He is welcome to recover the case.

Holding on to Raven is all right — perhaps temper some of his strength, but there is no real way to divide the character and the power in this case, by the looks of it.

Newcomers may still briefly access the House of Dew’s freebie magical network until their move-out. Gilbert will inherit the username tender core of the waiting spring blossom for that use. This username can be changed, if he procures or steals a quartz translation device.

Hello, hello! If you can comment on the Taken list and join the comms when you have one sec, many, many thanks!

whOOPS did that....sorry!

- reapp of Eryfel
- bringing her in as new

Edited 2021-05-21 00:51 (UTC)

Hello, hello! It's great to have Ery back! Please find below some admin instructions and also her custom intro!

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!

All game-relevant updates will be posted on

lostcompass, but if you’re fond of plurk, consider following

eastbound.

NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can find information about our latest event and the May calendar here. Our recent quests are still taking sign-ups!

As Ery is only partially human and taken from a timepoint where she’s perishing to darkness, she won’t register as living to the Sa-Hareth undead when Ery deploys some of her dark abilities. Some of Unhalad’s resurrected factions will, now and then (please use sparingly!) even mistake Ery as one of their own. Notably, Anurr’s undead forces will mostly acknowledge Ery as different — not unlike furniture. They won’t actively hunt Ery to sate their hunger, although they may still pursue Ery because their superiors have identified her as a target.

You may have to nerf Ery’s powers situationally, but dialling them down on a case-by-case basis is fine — Ery can still retain her abilities.

Newcomers receive a quartz piece that serves as a translation device and a communicator one. The sorceress Karsa has currently linked the quartz items she offers to a fishermen’s network — Ery will accordingly inherit the username not bad, cod do better. A new and less shamefully named quartz piece can be bought or stolen!

INTRO

Ery will wake in the salt mines outside of Sa-Hareth, somewhat drowsy and confused — almost as if she may have suffered a concussion. She will have full and immediate access to her powers. Making her way out of the labyrinthine undergrounds, she may notice the mines are distinctly deserted — emptied of both the living and the undead. Following the light, she will stumble on a large enclosure that appears to have been recently lived, showing evidence of fresh (but now quieted) fire, blankets piled together, and the cloth packaging of depleted provisions. On the wall, various scratch marks show the efforts of likely captives in the mines, trying to dig their way out. Some appear to have used blunts tools and nails to scratched on rock and ground, writing out, hunger, gods forgive me, and eat eat eat. Perhaps some of Ery's new friends might like to hear of her mine findings!

Finally, the halls open to the outside world in a shamble of stone, betraying a recent explosion.

As she walks down the mountain to civilisation, Ery will be spotted and taken in by Haltham and his (un)friendly goat, who call her out as one of the “Stolen.” He explains the basics: that she is outside of the western citadel of Sa-Hareth, part of an increasing group rescued from the undead forces of reining Unhalad. Most likely, Haltham suspects, she came through the mines in the footsteps of a series of miners that Unhalad rescued to convert into his undead forces.

Ery’s new allies were previously summoned into this world by Unhalad, who plans to use their strength and abilities as a resource in the war against his once deposed, but resurging rival, the undead warlord Anurr. In both their own interest and that of the land, the newcomers must leave this world through long-lost portals eastbound in the continent — a voyage currently stalled by poor icy weather, but helmed by Haltham’s collaborator, the elusive Merchant. The portals hope to return everyone to their homes, but the trip requires discretion and finances. For now, Haltham drops Ery off to join her new allies at the farmhouse, where she can perhaps lend a hand with the latest assignments.

RESCUED TO CONVERT lord these poor miners have been rescued twice in the worst ways

anyway YAY thank you <3

PLAYER NAME: Chel
CONTACT: PM
INVITE STATUS: the ol' modly green light

CHARACTER: Lily Evans
CANON: The Wizarding World
CANON POINT: Immediately after stepping off the Hogwarts Express for the last time at the end of seventh year, 1978.

BACKGROUND:
Born to unmagical parents in an even less magical place, Lily Evans began trailing after her older sister Petunia just as soon as she figured out how to walk. In a working-class town like Cokeworth, there wasn’t much to do beyond whatever it was Petunia was doing and so the Evans sisters kept to themselves, becoming a fixture at myriad woodland tea parties and the reading room of their local library, where Lily swiftly gained a love for just about any book she got her hands on.

Some of her earliest memories were of sending blades of grass propelling across the lawn, watching as they lifted off from between her fingers with just a thought’s worth of effort. When she was four and fell down the stairs and every lightbulb in the house stopped working - it was something of a bizarre coincidence for Harold and June Evans who had no idea that it was very common for young witches and wizards to unwittingly use magic in times of great duress.

It was the boy from Spinner’s End that spelled doom for the contentment between the girls from Cokeworth. Well, him and the way Petunia reacted when Lily finally gathered enough courage to share with her some of the inexplicably strange things she could do. Where Petunia was grounded, Lily was idealistic, though she tried her best to tamp down her more fanciful notions for the sake of sparing herself Petunia’s dismissal.

She had believed that the flowers would be the thing to impress her older sister and prove to her that not everything unusual was wrong. To her dismay, (but not to her surprise) the moment Lily showed Petunia the way she could make the delicate wildflowers that grew around their home lift off her palm and hover spinning in the air, her older sister recoiled in anger and called her a freak.

Severus Snape, the odd boy in the shabby clothes from the poorer part of town didn’t think Lily was a freak at all, in fact, he thought quite the contrary. In her friendship with Severus Lily found someone she didn’t need to pretend around. Whether he agreed with them or not, she could share every odd thought and the strange new things she found herself able to do without fear of dismissal, or worse - rejection. It was the boy from Spinner’s End who first told Lily about Hogwarts - about who she was, and what she was capable of becoming once her acceptance letter came.

The moment that it did, nothing was ever the same with Petunia - something that still hurts if she lets herself dwell - and things changed with her parents as well. Harold and June Evans had never thought themselves the sort of people who’d have something as uncanny as a witch in the family, and they couldn’t have been happier. The praise and excitement her parents lavished on her only made the resentment and disdain her sister had for her worse, and by the time it came for Lily to begin her first year of school she couldn’t wait to leave.

For Lily, attending Hogwarts was akin to being handed the moons of Barsoom and the Pyramid of Cheops on a silver platter. Every story she had adored that Petunia turned her nose up and deemed ridiculous was suddenly validated as the world revealed itself to be more full of wonder than she had imagined it actually could be.

The moment she received her schedule of classes on that first day of school, nothing could stop Lily Evans. The life of a witch, of a member of magical society, meant paths she didn’t believe existed, were open to her, and the world couldn’t go back to being the same size it was.

School was not without its pitfalls, and though she did brilliantly in her classes - showing the kind of enthusiasm and cleverness that makes for the sort of pupil that kept their professors on their toes - there was a division among the student body she hadn’t been aware of before her arrival. For those coming from magical families, the rift between Pure Blooded wizards, whose lineage showed exclusively magical folk, and everyone else had existed, peripherally for some, and far more vividly for others. For Lily it was a new concept that Severus was quick to enlighten her on, having surrounded himself with people who had a lot to say on the matter.

That festering rift in magical society made itself apparent in subtle ways at first; Horace Slughorn, one of Lily’s favorite professors making passing remarks about how her talent for Potions could make a person forget she wasn’t pure-blooded, the gaggle of miscreants Severus chose to associate with making sniggering remarks under their breath whenever she, or another student lacking their desired pedigree passed by became more and more common as the years went by.

The whole thing seemed foolish - she was as capable as anyone else among her fellow students, and while a good portion of her peers felt the same way as she did, that unsettlingly adamant swath of those who felt differently grew more brazen and more sinister in their actions as time passed. It wasn’t uncommon for fights or pranks to leave students injured or ashamed as two sides of a silly debate, inflamed with all the bluster being young can galvanize a person with entered what felt like a perpetual tug-of-war to Lily.

Those who elected to be overt, either in their prejudices or the revulsion being exposed to said prejudices can evoke in a person, weren’t above humiliating other students, and while the fondness Lily’s professors had for her helped keep her spared from such cruelties, Severus could not say the same for himself. Even though she didn’t agree with a goodly portion of Severus’s new fascinations, Lily stuck by her friend, much to the chagrin and ridicule of some of the students in her house. One student in her year, James Potter, seemed particularly disdainful of the friendship Lily and Severus had and invested more time than Lily wished he would in disparaging Severus and trying to catch her eye. Not one for the appeal of arrogance, and disgusted by the way James and members of his inner circle pranked first and asked questions later, she was swift to add rebuffing him to the laundry list of tasks she filled her days with.

There was something to be said for having a family that was removed from wizarding society. During the school year Lily stayed engrossed in the classes she was taking, devouring books in the library, and finding quiet private spaces to practice the magic she was learning in class (along with more advanced magic, some devised by Severus himself, like The Muffliato Charm). When she was back in Cokeworth, however, Lily could be just another girl home for the summer holiday.

Away from Hogwarts, there was still contention though at home it came from Petunia and the small cluster of mean girls she cultivated while her younger sister was away at school. For the sake of avoiding the inevitable spat, Lily was usually locked in her room with stacks of fantasy novels and the occasional trashy romance, accompanied by the stack of records she couldn’t wait to return home from school to play (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars a particular favorite, but then what girl her age wasn’t daydreaming about being Lady Stardust?). There were enough diversions that Lily could forget about the mounting tension back at school, and affecting the wizarding world at large.

Until she couldn’t, until her oldest friend turned on her, blurting out hurtful, hateful things that people who care about one another have no business saying to each other. He had been humiliated by James and his clique spectacularly, and while Lily empathized deeply with how much pain the years of bullying brought Severus, she could no longer pretend that the terrible things he himself was spouting were a meaningless way for him to vent, and just a product of the people he surrounded himself with. He had left her with no choice but to believe that he meant everything he said, and the pain of losing her best friend hovered over her like a stormcloud for the next two years.

Lily found herself easily caught up in the side that chose dissent against blood purism. As her time as a student wound down to a close, she spent less time with herself, and more time involved with those in the student body who believed that regardless of magical lineage, everyone deserved to be treated the same.

Once, she believed that after Hogwarts the world would be hers to explore and learn from - wanting nothing more than apprenticeships in exotic locales with the authors of the books she spent every term borrowing from the school’s tremendous library, but the world around her was too close to the brink of war to hide behind a book anymore.

In her last year of school, she became Head Girl which bore all the prestige someone who had worked as tirelessly as Lily had craved and the unfortunate caveat of having to deal with that year’s Head Boy - James Potter. It took months of amiable cajoling to get her to regard him with anything but brusqueness, something James had gotten used to receiving from Lily. Enough evenings spent making rounds together gave him the chance to turn that dry disregard into conversation, and eventually, a few dates as her final year at school came to an end, with the promise to write, and maybe see one another over the summer.

This was a period of great change for Lily Evans and wizarding society on the whole. Voldemort - the figurehead of the purist movement was on the brink of declaring war on the rest of magical society, while whispers of a mounting resistance movement resounded with Lily. She only wished setting down all those other dreams in favor of doing the right thing didn’t have to be quite so painful.

ABILITIES | POWERS: Lily has been a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the last seven years and ended her academic career as Head Girl and among the top students. She has a particularly strong grasp on:

Potions: Described as subtle science, Potion making is the study of combining ingredients in a cauldron to create elixirs that must be consumed for their effects to be felt. Potions can be made for a multitude of reasons such as healing or doing someone harm, changing one's appearance, and inducing sleep among others.

Charms: The magical discipline focused on making objects adapt properties they would not normally have. Summoning an object from across a room, unlocking or locking a door, and causing a person to be unable to make noise are among the Charms students learn at Hogwarts. Due to Charms being a discipline that serves as something of an umbrella for spells that do not fit into other areas, and for the sake of brevity, a more comprehensive explanation of Charms including a list can be found here.

Transfiguration: The area of magic concerned with taking something and changing it into something else, Transfiguration is among the more complicated, and difficult areas of magic to learn. Using Transfiguration, a witch can change things, both inanimate and live into other things, some examples of this include changing rats into water goblets, disguising a person as a bone, or a chair, or changing the features of a person or animal's body (ie, elongating the ears into rabbit ears, or changing the color of someone's hair).

Beyond these subjects, Lily has also studied Divination, Herbology, and Arithmancy, and while knowledgeable on these subjects, does not possess the natural flair for them as strongly as she does for the ones detailed above.

Apart from magic Lily's abilities are limited but as a teenage girl in the late 1970s, she is absolutely terrific at rollerskating.

PERSONALITY:

Described as 'uncommonly kind' by those who know her best, Lily is the first person to offer a helping hand or an accepting ear even if it isn't the wisest thing to do. Her deep sense of compassion stems from the belief that there's good in everyone, and while this does make her a good friend, it can also make her extend more patience than some might deserve. She wants the people she cares for to be as wonderful as she believes them to be, and will stick with someone longer than might be wise to help them be better. While the loyalty she feels towards those close to her is enduring it is by no means coddling; she may not walk away from a person because they did something she believes is wrong, or harmful, she will tell them exactly what she thinks of their actions and why she believes them to be out of line. She would never do something as unconstructive as telling someone off, but she is not above giving anyone a good, analytical, dressing down.

A lot of her willingness to hold onto relationships longer than they might serve her comes from a stubbornness that years of academic success has fed into. During her time as a student, she has rarely heard that she's wrong, or going off-course, and while she isn't uncompromising, she is generally dubious of the input of others at first. She has never had a reason not to trust herself, and so she does implicitly - while having faith in yourself is a good thing, it leads Lily to believe that she can help, even when she can't.

Her enthusiasm for life is evident in her demeanor and coupled with her quick wit she can easily hold her own in conversation with and befriend both her fellow students and her professors. She loves to make others laugh, and has been described as cheeky, though she's never too rude when she takes the piss out of someone. That happiness and sense of excitement for both her life at present and her future, feed into Lily's sense of drive. She is tremendously goal-oriented, spending a good portion of her time at school neck-deep in homework to keep her marks high, thus broadening the possibilities she would be met with post-Hogwarts. Ever since she found out that she was a witch, she has wanted to get everything out of the magical world that she possibly could, and that aspiration has been her focus. She will always want to be better and smarter than she was the day before, and she hopes the same for the people she cares for.

When confronted with failure or rejection, Lily can become very obstinate and brusque, working to internalize her deep dismay over having failed. She's not above being sulky or using that cleverness her teachers love to make snide remarks, that while not hurtful aren't helpful either. Lily can move past slights with ease but will become unforgiving when pushed too far; it pains her to cut people out of her life, and will only be driven to do so after her extensive patience has been run absolutely dry. She simply doesn't like to give up, on others, or herself.

One of the most important things to keep in mind with Lily is that she's young. At eighteen years old she's grown-up between her parent's house in a working-class town in the Midlands, and a boarding school that, while magical, does not take the place of experience out in the real world. Also, a bit of a nerd really.

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INVENTORY:
Her wand: 10¾" long, made out of willow wood, with a unicorn hair core
The clothes she's wearing
Her school bag containing:
fifteen pencils, and a sharpener
three notebooks (one filled cover to cover with notes from various classes and meetings with professors, one partially filled with personal musings, in addition to even more notes from various classes, and another that is unused except for the first page because it fell to the bottom of her bag and she forgot about it)
a sensible cardigan
a smaller bag with a hairbrush, a tube of lip gloss, tissues, and an emergency ballpoint pen (blue ink)
a change purse containing ten sickles, twenty-five knuts, and about £25.85 in a frustrating combination of notes and coins befitting an octagenarian
a very well-loved copy of Wuthering Heights
and an absolutely destroyed bag of Monster Munch, the contents of which are now pickled onion flavored powder

NOTES: n/a

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