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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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Heya! By chance, do you have any samples within the last year, or would you be open to writing from scratch a quick prose sample in either the canon or the eastbound setting? Anything delivered in the next 48 hours would be great, thank you!

Apologies! I looked at the last tags instead of the first ones.

Carol has been looking up her entire life.

Every time someone told her she couldn’t do something, she strives to prove them wrong. Each time she hears no, it’s another hurdle she’s going to have to cross in order to get to where she really wants to go. Every time the sky stretches out ahead of her, she can’t help but reach for it. Climb higher, reach further, do the things she’s told she can’t.

And each time she succeeds, she makes them eat their words about how wrong they were about her. She’s a girl who runs on spite and determination, after all.

The first time she sits in a cockpit, feeling the g-forces lift her up and away, she thinks this must be what freedom feels like. This must be how she can finally feel like she’s made it to the top of the mountain, and no one can pull her back down again.

But that turns out not to be true freedom, not really. It’s hard to be free when the means of that freedom belong to the U.S. Government.

She goes from the Air Force to the Kree, forgetting who she is and getting trapped in another system that only wishes to control her. She finally breaks free and shoots into the stars on her own, with no restrictions, and realizes that this is the freedom she always wanted. The rush of air around her, the clear blue sky rising to meet her: this is the mountain’s summit.

She wakes up after relighting Hala's sun, however, and for the first time in a long time sees a sky she doesn't recognize. It's not a new experience - she saw many unfamiliar skies as she explored the universe for a quarter of a century. But it's been a long time since one was truly new.

Did she burn too hot, trying to do something she isn't sure she could do in the first place? Did she tear a hole into another universe, like Dar-been did? She could have told Monica that this all was a mistake.

There's a soft, tentative meow at her shoulder, and she glances down with a frown to see Goose sitting there next to her. Her feline companion was not there when she closed her eyes, so something weird is definitely going on. She pushes up to her feet, holding out an arm so that Goose can climb up on her shoulder.

"C'mon, Goose. Let's go see if we can find some people."

Hopefully the people are friendly ones. If not, well. Carol is pretty sure she can handle it.

This is great, thank you so much!

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 6 December.

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

Since The Marvels came out on 10 November, please use spoiler tags when referencing big events from it until 9 December. You should be fine to tag into the log that goes up on Saturday without any trouble or spoiler tags needed!

Afraid that’s a good guess on the inability to fly into space. Generally, she’s welcome to retain her other powers, just dialed down enough so events are still challenging enough for you to enjoy!

Goose coming along is still okay! Daily undead intake promotes good digestion and gut health. Nine out of 10 veterinarians encourage the regular consumption of undead, and the outlier is an amateur, a hack, a scoundrel.

Your character receives a shiny new pocket watch pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communication device for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translations of messages written out in native tongues.

I landed on plane jane for her punny network username, but do pick another if you prefer it!

INTRO

Your character arrives during the party’s botched attempt to leave the lavish city of Ephes, wrenched from home just as the citadel’s beacon collapses. The party’s witch Karsa supplies a translation and communication device and explains that your character has arrived in Akhuras — a world sundered by ongoing war between the lords of the undead Brotherhood and their contenders.

Your character joins several other otherworlders, whom Karsa’s collaborator, the Merchant, seeks to return to their own worlds through transport beacons, before the undead can weaponise them in battle. For months, this travelling party has been traversing Akhuras, un/intentionally defying the Brotherhood at every step — and chasing the trail of the mysterious Matthias, a scientist of the formidable collapsed citadel of Ellethia, who may have created the undead and the elusive ‘dark water’ that powers them. Matthias has been leaving behind severed parts of his own body to seed or strengthen ‘dark water’ in several territories and summon the undead locally.

The hour of the party’s inevitable confrontation with Matthias draws near.

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