applications

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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

<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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Ben Hargreeves | The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

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PLAYER NAME: Jean
CONTACT: metaljean or discord midknightcat

CHARACTER: Ben Hargreeves (Umbrella Flavor) | Number Six
CANON: The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
CANON POINT: Season 2, episode 9, right at the time of his spiritual death

BACKGROUND: Trusty wiki

PERSONALITY:
While he was afraid to go into the light after he died in 2006 - not ready to leave his family, fear of the unknown - he was still brave enough to posses Viktor - then Vanya - and help him come back to himself and not cause another doomsday event.
Rational and supportive, put together, but still sarcastic.
He wants credit for saving Diego, so prefers to get his due.
Tentacles coming out of his stomach are painful - he still uses them to save his siblings, so he won't hesitate to help despite that.
Determined
Has to play Klaus' "conscience" for a time.
Cheers him on to get Klaus sober
A bit serious, but still willing to play paddy-cake and juvenile pranks.
He does get very exuberant and gleeful when he possesses Klaus and gets to feel and experience a body again after seventeen years of being a spirit just at Klaus' side.
Very caring of his siblings.
Is empathetic and rises to the occasion when needed.
While Sparrow!Ben is not Umbrella!Ben, Sparrow!Ben still deserves a mention. His personality traits of aggression, impatience, arrogance and abrasiveness might have ended up being Ben's as well if he had been raised in the same situation, with different siblings, and with a different number in the family that comes with different expectations and responsibilities.


SAMPLE:
link to TDM
also here

NOTES:
His powers technically open to a different dimension but there will be no way to use that to get out. Too much tentacles, hole too small. Other than a solid body, I don't think so. If having a solid body again means he's in a debt, I'm good with that!

Nothing on him but the clothes his spirit wore.

APPLICATION RECEIVED

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This took academic research to understand whether Ben was dead-dead in 1963, why are you like this, Wiki.

You'll need to wait a few more days til the app cycle formally closes for your official admin & acceptance note, but he's in.

ACCEPTED

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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 29 October, but you can start playing in game immediately! The aim was to give characters a few days to settle in before hell breaks loose.

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.

NOTES

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.

Sounds good about not being able to enter his different dimension from Akhuras! He can retain a flesh body without incurring Great Debt.

INTRO

Your character joins the party during its sojourn in the opulent citadel of Ephes, home to a mysteriously skilled army, the Hand. Undead lady Messalina has approached Ephes’ ruling Senate to request the Hand, in a bid to allegedly ‘liberate’ fellow undead from under the enslavement of the vicious dead Brotherhood. The Senate is still deliberating on her request. A fresh OOC wrap of recent clues uncovered in Ephes (which you can assume known ICly, if you so choose!) will be posted on 29 October.

Your character arrives during our latest test drive event.

While in Ephes, the Merchant will sponsor your character with passport papers and enough silver and documentation to assume a civilian role — pick whatever strikes your fancy (to the tune of Ephes’ Ancient-Rome-inspired aesthetic).

Ben's innocent face and... hands-on... efficiency would make him a wonderful asset of the docks. He's welcome to snoop there for information from merchants and incoming sailors!

Certain magical and reality-bending turbulences take place and can affect those who emerged from the test drive event earthquakes. If you'd like a short-term roll affecting your character for up to a week after arrival in game, pick: trick (angst/light horror), treat (fluff/humour) or skip!

Re: ACCEPTED

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Dock worker it is! He'll report back anything he learns to his siblings, first.

And trick.

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Perhaps he picks it up at the arena, or at the marketplace, or a conventionally spooky child gifts it to him one fine morning — either way, Ben finds himself in the possession of a crude, hastily stitched together puppet that bears a remarkable resemblance to... Klaus.

It inevitably also speaks at night to Ben, creepily offering commentary on Ben's actions of the day — including those it most certainly never witnessed — in Klaus' voice. At times, it shows up when he's asleep or in a bathtub to scream demonically in his face.

Only Ben may hear the puppet, which reappears randomly when he tries to get rid of it.

In Klaus style, it is revealed there is a cult of Ephesians around the puppet, if Ben ever takes it out in public and it is witnessed by the peasants plebeians.

You can choose when the doll mysteriously disappears.