All game-relevant updates will be posted on lostcompass, but you can also consider following eastbound. There is an informal optional game discord server — you’ll get a private message with an invite, once you comment to the Taken List.
Like it says on the application page tin — you can have a maximum of three characters in the game, and you can invite one new person in per month.
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, and feel free to customise at will!
Your character is exempted from activity requirements this month.
Our latest plot point is here — feel free to jump right in.
NOTES
INTRO: Xie Yun awakens in the fortune fetters — a collection of fortress ruins inhabited by largely blind priestesses and the swarm of their companion snakes. He comes to just as several of the serpents threaten to blanket and overwhelm him, before being driven away by the leading priestess Hyang-Tai. While at first they cannot speak or understand his tongue, the priestesses later produce a communication and translation pendant for Xie Yun to wear — only elusively murmuring that their brother snakes take care of them and delivered the trinket.
Xie Yun is hosted for a day and a night, during which period he may notice the snakes behave erratically — sometimes seeming thralled or transfixed in their mindless obedience of Hyang-Tai, and at other times terrified of an unknown threat. Come nightfall, the priestesses slip Xie Yun a sedative in his dinner meal or water, and he can loosely see and feel a great, large slithering figure while sleeping in the encampment.
Come morning, the priestesses direct him to the nearby village of Ke-Waihu, where mayor Weisi’s hooligan son Taksui receives him. Taksui recognises him as an otherworlder and tells him he has reached the world of Akhuras, where undead forces have been battling for dominion with the living and each other. The undead factions summon otherworldly reinforcements, seeking to enslave or weaponise them in the conflict. Taksui is the (third-rate) liaison of the mysterious Merchant, who finds and transports such newcomers east, to beacons hoped to return the visitors back to their home worlds.
Xie Yun will be officially introduced as a new member of the Ke-Waihu village and asked to or tricked into drinking an elixir that will let him take over and atone for the sins of a village ancestor. Zealous villagers believe this will gradually right the wrongs that have infested the community. You can find Xie Yun’s ancestral curse here — have fun figuring out how to atone for it! Check out how ancestral curses manifest and decide which of his two sins you’d like to play with.
Xie Yun has also been assigned a ’family unit’ and housing. The villagers of Ke-Waihu believe the housemates are truly part of a family or clan — so try to fake it til you make it.
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NOTES
Xie Yun is hosted for a day and a night, during which period he may notice the snakes behave erratically — sometimes seeming thralled or transfixed in their mindless obedience of Hyang-Tai, and at other times terrified of an unknown threat. Come nightfall, the priestesses slip Xie Yun a sedative in his dinner meal or water, and he can loosely see and feel a great, large slithering figure while sleeping in the encampment.
Come morning, the priestesses direct him to the nearby village of Ke-Waihu, where mayor Weisi’s hooligan son Taksui receives him. Taksui recognises him as an otherworlder and tells him he has reached the world of Akhuras, where undead forces have been battling for dominion with the living and each other. The undead factions summon otherworldly reinforcements, seeking to enslave or weaponise them in the conflict. Taksui is the (third-rate) liaison of the mysterious Merchant, who finds and transports such newcomers east, to beacons hoped to return the visitors back to their home worlds.
Xie Yun will be officially introduced as a new member of the Ke-Waihu village and asked to or tricked into drinking an elixir that will let him take over and atone for the sins of a village ancestor. Zealous villagers believe this will gradually right the wrongs that have infested the community. You can find Xie Yun’s ancestral curse here — have fun figuring out how to atone for it! Check out how ancestral curses manifest and decide which of his two sins you’d like to play with.
Xie Yun has also been assigned a ’family unit’ and housing. The villagers of Ke-Waihu believe the housemates are truly part of a family or clan — so try to fake it til you make it.