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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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Thank you for expanding! It helps me out a lot — thanks for taking the time.

Separate from everything, one small suggestion, and this is definitely one to take with a grain of salt, as it might just be my personal taste and not a common view — sometimes, I got a tiny bit lost reading this, because you omitted a few more commas than I’m used to throughout your write-up. But it might be a me thing!

Regardless, for your acceptance notes:

ADMIN

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! Chu Wanning will be joining the team of Macaluso, and he will be assigned the identity of the spare heir of a warlord's family. A sorrowful, melancholy and deeply sweet gentleman who weeps or is overcome with emotion at the drop of a hat. He has come to Taravast to have his fill of the arts.. He will easily gain the attention of artists and the local gentry.

I’ll trust you with his various weapons, including the (slightly more) mysterious Huaisha. None of them really seem game-breaking to me.

As a game, we will collective do our best not to bring up Chu Wanning's holy wood each and every morning.

NOTES

INTRO: Since Chu Wanning didn’t participate in the test drive, let’s have him come awake in the necromantic district of Taravast, surrounded by necromancers poking and prodding at his body — many excitedly expecting he may have passed away, and that they can repurpose his body for their experiments. Alas, their loss: Chu Wanning will be fit and in fine health. The inevitable loudness of the necromancers will draw the eye of local enforcers, who round everyone up, and are about to escort them to the local jail for a night of cooling off —

When the lady Vannozza’s retinue passes by, during one of her visits to the necromantic districts. Grudgingly with her is the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently in Taravast.

She will recognise Chu Wanning as an outsider and peel herself away from Vannozza’s side long enough to collect him, sparing a thralled artefact to serve as a translation and communication device. Once Karsa is convinced he does not belong to the region (or, candidly, the world), she will take him in and reunite him with the party at the ducal palazzo, surrendering him into the diligent hands of Lady Rigarda. She will provide him fresh clothes, a local mask and his new team assignment and identity. Karsa can also update Chu Wanning on the story so far.

It could just be that for the most part the app had been recyled from two previous games so it's gone through at least three rounds of proof-reading that were spread out over time and I'd added more and more commas each time. Vs. the one proof reading I did for the addendum.

Also noted on the weapons and ajfjasflkja thank you for not mentioning his holy wood (I got a good laugh out of that.)

Also, quick question, when he comes awake is he wearing the clothes he was in canon or something else?

He will be coming as he is (so, his canon clothes will be on him). But he will be provided local garments as well, if he chooses to wear them. As the group are foreigners to Taravast even as part of their new identities, there's a degree of tolerance for their more uncommon fashions.

Awesome. Thanks! <3

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