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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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That's really generous of you! I was willing to bring Dany in without Drogon and could work around his absence, but you're right, her dragons are a large part of her motivation and psychology. That you're willing to allow him in, even scaled down, I'm extremely grateful. I'd absolutely love to do that. Him being small is fine by me. She might even enjoy that a little. She can't fly on him, but she can mother him again.

Shoulder or knee, I'll let you guys decide. Either way, I'm just happy to have him with Dany.

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

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

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westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on

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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 plot developments are here.

I’ll volley the choice back at you and let you decide how big you want Drogon to come in (no bigger than reaching Daenerys’ knees, please).

NOTES

INTRO: Daenerys will be joining the team right after the recent devastation of Taravast. She awakens alone, with her dragon, in a remote desert canyon — the Stairs of Sighs passageway. She is ‘rescued’ by a band of minor nobles and merchant refugees, who took off with all of their belongings and abandoned Taravast to destruction amid the ongoing conflict. Attempting to fight the undead, with the odds so ill balanced against them, is futile, they argue. They would benefit no one — least of all themselves — by persisting in suicide. So, they’ve fled.

Unlike their water-born kind, pure dragons with the capacity for flight have not been seen in Taravast for decades. Drogon awes them, and they interpret his appearance here and now as a sign that Taravast will prevail despite its recent hardships. Band leader Rosso Capello and several of the ~~cravens~~ travellers repent of their brief episode of cowardice, determined to reconquer the citadel with the help of this mysterious nymph who speaks in tongues and her dragon.

...as it happens, by the time they crawl back to Taravast, the citadel has already been purged of the undead, and the merchants apply themselves to building Daenerys (and especially her dragon) a reputation as a nymph embodying purity, virtue, conquest and stalwart bravery. The last-minute branding doesn’t exactly harm their ask price, when they sell both Daenerys and Drogon to the household of Vannozza Spina — who accepts the transaction less for Daenerys’ prospects in determining the tides of war, and more because dragons have historically sometimes helped cure eerie sicknesses. The lady, it will become apparent later in the month, is afflicted. ( Daenerys might get a plot roll closer to the moment when either Vannozza's sickness is revealed, or when the lady Spina begins to desperately try her luck at whatever cures are available. )

Once slated for Vannozza’s wing of the Palace of the Doxe, Daenerys is intercepted by the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the group. She recognises Daenerys as a newcomer to the world and provides her a communication and translation device, so that Daenerys can finally master the local tongue. Karsa discloses Daenerys’ whereabouts and recounts the story so far.

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

This is definitely amazing. I'll have Drogon reach her knees, which makes him a bit more awe-inspiring. Thanks again!

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