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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Comments

[groundrules]

Thanks, will reread!

[lonelydream]

"Lao Wen" is also Wen Kexing! I should have probably stuck to one, I'm so sorry! 🫣

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

All good, don't worry!

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.

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.

What we can do for Zhou Zishu is to either freeze his sickness in stasis or give him the chance to regain / create his own cure, or to sustain himself with the help of the healing of some of the healer characters in the party. This would give him something to work towards, but it would increase the pressure on him because of his advancing sickness. It's up to you — shout with your preference!

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 the events of 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).

Since Zhou Zishu has deep experience in subterfuge, he might be of the rare breed that has good luck infiltrating and reaping information from the Hand — though careful, as the party is now warning of the dangers of engaging Ephes' elite army any further...

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

[lonelydream]

WHOO! How exciting!!

I'm going to go with treat, just to help me get my feet under me in game! And as for his dying-ness, I think I'd like him to work on trying to find a solution with the help of healers!

I'd also like to retcon his TDM threads, since I hadn't decided on a set canon point yet at the time, and I realized late that I also misunderstood some things. Is there anything specific I should do beyond letting the people I threaded with know?

[groundrules]

Heya — we don't typically retcon TDM threads, since most threads we do have plot impact and are used for clue submissions.

eta: okay, just took a look through all the thread submissions, and it doesn't seem as if anyone used a thread with Zhou Zishu to get their clues, so at least that's more facilitating. If your thread partners agree to retcon, it should be fine — if they express concern over any investigating they did while threading with you, we may need to come up with a different way for them to get that same clue or investigating experience.

Tell them to get in touch with me, if that happens, and I'll see what I can do, so they don't have to lose their clue.

[lonelydream]

Great, thank you so much! I really, really appreciate it.

[groundrules]

That's fine on this side — you may need to figure out a way to accommodate if people don't want to retcon their threads, though, but I'll leave that with you.

For Zhou Zishu's treat, let's give him the beautiful turn of luck that, whenever he enters a tavern or establishment that offers drink, someone is just buying a free round for the entire place, or perhaps for him specifically (he just has the kind of face that invites charity!)

[lonelydream]

LOVELY! The best sort of treat!

The main retcon I needed to do was with Wen Kexing, and I've already discussed it with his player, so we're all set there. I'll also message Jacob's player to see how they want to roll with things :Db Thank you again!