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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When you have a second, have a last read through the game rules and comment to the TAKEN LIST.

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on lostcompass, if you want!

All game-relevant updates will be posted on lostcompass, but if you’re fond of plurk, consider following eastbound.

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!

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 in August.

We have just kicked off Arc II: Taravast — have a read of the main setup! Jin Guangyao will be joining the team of Macaluso, and he will be assigned the identity of a young shepherd, prophesising the coming of the apocalypse, here to inform and persuade the court that the end is nigh. He will easily gain the attention of politicians and religious figures.

NOTES

INTRO: Since Jin Guangyao didn’t participate in the test drive, let’s go with him waking up right outside of Taravast, and being picked up by the lady Odile’s convoy. He will come awake abruptly and labouring for breath, with heavy dust and dark tar stains on his garments — in a sign that he may have at some point emerged or engaged with the hidden temples of the Stairs of Sighs canyon that the remaining party is just traversing.

Lady Odile’s group will provide him basic amenities: food, a change of wear, a very basic communicator for translation purposes. Throughout his stay with them, Jin Guangyao can learn a little bit about the court gossip of Taravast — in particular, the Lady Odile’s own hesitations that Macaluso is the right choice for her prospective partner, even if she were to win his favour. There is simply no real information on him: all the word that reaches foreign citadels paints him as a wonderfully accomplished, well-spoken and innovative man, open to fresh approaches and to revolutionising Taravast. But any questions digging deeper into his background are unanswered, and it’s unclear why Bonaccorso did not name him, his closest first-born nephew by blood, as his successor and is instead persisting in this competition between Macaluso and Vannozza. What will become, also, of the Lady Odile, if she does marry Macaluso and he does not win the election?

All the same, Odile’s advisers press on her to proceed, and Jin Guangyao can win some good will with them, if he intercedes to soothe Odile’s fears, on their behalf. Once outside of Taravast, Odile’s entourage meets with Mazyar’s caravan.

The sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the caravan, quickly recognises Jin Guangyao as an outsider and claims him as a caravan member they lost along the way. She will provide Jin Guangyao a proper, thralled to serve as a translation and communication device. She can also update Jin Guangyao on the story so far.