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

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All game-relevant updates will be posted on

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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 this month.

There is an informal discord server for the game, if you’re into that kind of thing — you’ll get a private message with an invite, once you comment to the Taken List!

We have kicked off Arc II: Taravast, and our latest event is here.

It’s a-okay to keep Aang’s spiritual medium abilities. If we ever need to dial down something, we’ll figure it out along the way.

NOTES

INTRO: Aang joins the party in the thick of things, awakening in the outskirts of Taravast alongside a group of merchants who are desperately trying to flee the citadel during its recent spate of atrocities. They found Aang collapsed in the piazza and took him under their wing, providing him with a patchy but serviceable translation and communication pendant. As it happens, every time they attempt to exit the citadel, something goes wrong: the Beastmaster unleashes a fresh wave of creatures, the waters of the canals flood because of the Anurr-led temperature volatility, the undead storm, random fire stokes — they conclude, squinty-eyed, that the reason for their recent adversities must surely be... Aang, whom they refer to as Ahn-Salack: a portent who attract bad luck everywhere. He must be treated well, they argue, or he will take his vengeance and shower even more wretched fortune upon them. Note: Aang is innocent of any bad luck-bearing. ~~Or is he.~~

The merchants “turn him over” at Doxe Bonaccorso’s refugee camp in the witches’ sanctuary at the first opportunity. There, Aang encountersthe sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the caravan. She recognises Aang as a newcomer to the world, spares him an updated communication and translation device and explains both his whereabouts and the story so far.

Unlike his predecessors, comes with his own reputation, as the merchants spread word that he is the worst of bad luck heralds. Karsa initially struggles to assign him a team, but Macaluso Spina feels Taravast has been so greatly battered by poor fortune that to hold the Ahn-Salack within his clutches is better than to let him fall in Vannozza’s hands.

Once order and proper accommodations are restored, Aang will reside in his patron’s wing of the Palazzo of the Doxe while in Taravast. He will receive especially lavish quarters and a handsome stipend.

He will find himself easily influencing every social class of Taravast, all of whom are petrified of him and seek to bribe him with gifts, if only he stops exuding bad luck their way.

Karsa can also explain the piazza — a style of communicating to the city at large, with an eye to influence public opinion.

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