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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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Like it says on the application page tin — you can have a maximum of two characters in the game, and you can invite one new person in per month!

NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can jump right into our latest event, or have a browse of the June calendar.

Just as a heads-up — while you had enough thread material within the last year to give me an idea of your playing style for Yennefer, some of your threads are very close to “expiry” and might need substituting, if you ever re-app her!

Newcomers receive a quartz piece that serves as a translation and communicator device. The sorceress Karsa has currently linked the quartz items she offers to a fishermen’s network — Yennefer will receive the username salmon had to say it. A new and less shamefully named quartz piece can be bought or stolen!

You are welcome to keep Yennefer’s portal magic, actually — our Umbrella Academy resident Five has a similar teleporting ability, and the general consensus is just to liaise if he (or Yennefer) ever want to blitz out of the already known landscape. But there’s no reason to fully deny Yennefer access to her signature magic, on my side!

INTRO: Yennefer will come awake strapped to an ancient tree at dawns, having prevailed on the last trial of Anurr without incident. She will see a series of primitive, half human, half... undead woodland inhabitants circling her, clearly stunned by her feat. They will be quick to release her, to the background screams and menacing urging of the sorceress Karsa. Yennefer will be quickly awarded a quartz stone translation and communication piece, allowing her to understand most local dialects. The forest people, sadly, seem to speak in a language of their own.

Karsa will attempt to learn how her sister witch joined them, and if the forest people abducted her — though further interaction between the sorceress and these woodland inhabitant will reveal that they encountered Yennefer alone and dazed, close to a nearby lake, and they sought to rid her of what they believed to be warlord Unhalad’s influence by subjecting her to Anurr’s purification rituals. Yennefer may find the rim of her dress frosted with old wet, suggesting she may have been partially, if not completely submerged in water at one point the night before, and never dried off completely. Over the next two-three days, she may experience an eerie emptiness dawning upon her, and she may catch the same feeling from Lily Evans (the player has been informed!)

Karsa will explain that Yennefer is the latest in a string of other-world arrivals, who are currently participating in the rites of deposed undead ruler Anurr. Karsa will explain the basics: Yennefer is outside of the western citadel of Sa-Hareth, part of an increasing group rescued from the undead faction of undead contender Unhalad, who seized the city from Anurr years before. Anurr has recently returned to reclaim his crown.

Unhalad likely summoned Yennefer and her handful of comrades to use their abilities in the ensuing conflict. It suits both the newcomers and the land for them to depart this world through long-lost portals eastbound in the continent — a trip organised by Karsa’s master, the Merchant, which has been repeatedly delayed by cold storms. It is hoped that the portals will take the otherworlders to their own homes. For now, they must participate in Anurr’s trials and gain more information that could help with their departure. After, Yennefer may join her unlikely fellows at their farmhouse headquarters. Good luck!

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