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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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I vote to go ham and over-the-top. No one else respects Diego's sanity, I don't see why we should.

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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.

Diego’s abilities are ~~barely there, Caped Crusader~~ fine!

Let’s give this man a dozen knives. He needs them.

We have just kicked off Arc II: Taravast — have a read of the main setup! Diego will be joining the team of Vannozza, and he will be assigned the identity of a speaker of animal tongues, descended from wolves and carrying the spirit of such a creature.. He will easily gain the attention of sorcerers.

NOTES

INTRO: having just started Arc II, we’re a little light on immediate plot-heavy opportunities, but Diego of all people shouldn’t be left bereft of his exercise, despite that. He will come awake in one of the many mountain-side underground temples of the now-open and previously haunted Stairs of Sighs canyon passageway. No more tar pits, cursed songs and harpies — just the debris of the collided horsecar in the distance, the signs of previous encampment and.

Wolves.

So many wolves.

One might wonder when an entire population of feral canine ancestors relocated in the span of day and efficiently migrated its ecosystem to a priorly abandoned passage — but, really, one (being Diego) is better off running. Hard. Fast. All day and all night. It’s up to you if Diego lives in true horror of the wolves, goes man vs nature on them, or pulls a Jungle Book and gets adopted into the pack. Either way, after three days of survivalist horror (or furry bffdom), Diego (and his wolves) can reach the convoy of Lady Odile, in hopes of reuniting himself with her and the caravan that comprises his family —

...only to be turned away. Because wolves.

Then, he is briefly saluted by the Taravast gate guards and considered for entry into the magical citadel —

...only to be turned away. Because wolves.

Then, he is spied by a mission of martyrs leaving Taravast’s academies and hoping to spread the good word of suffering in the name of enlightenment, and they stop, and they wish to befriend these feral creatures who inspire them in their simplicity —

...only to be turned away. Because Diego.

Finally, Macaluso’s guard, come to welcome all of their lord’s suitors and their retinue, take stock of Diego. Consider him. Squint at his strange garments, his canyon stink, his canine companions. And they say, Ah, yes. Adonis among us.

‘lo, Diego is welcome into Taravast, and briefly brought to the palazzo to await his change to present himself to Macaluso. With his wolves. To everyone’s gladness, he is first recognised as an outsider by the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with them. She claims him as a party member they lost along the way. With his wolves. She will provide Diego a proper, thralled artefact to serve as a translation and communication device. The wolves get nothing. She can also update Diego on the story so far.

He’s stuck figuring out what to do with the (five) wolves, though.

Edited 2021-08-11 21:40 (UTC)

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