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groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
groundrules) wrote2021-01-08 03:30 pm
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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.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
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Number Five | The Umbrella Academy (2/2)
First sample:
Five asked for so little. He really did. Enough silence to work out his next move, and then the backup plan for when some unforeseen event screwed that up, then another in case that one went to shit as it always seemed to do. Where would he be without last resorts? It's a wonder he doesn't start with them. 58 years of waiting, imagining how this would go, and now he found himself begging for solitude just so he could put the pieces back together.
So that was it, really. Silence and coffee. Coffee would help to tamp down any homicidal rage he was currently feeling the longer he had to listen to the noise outside while he was busy working on a particularly complex equation. But no, they're family. And yet everyone and everything is determined to work against him. Including, it seemed, a complete lack of caffeine in this entire mansion. Maybe the fact that his father hated it made the craving stronger. Somewhere inside him was still that rebellious youth after all. As much as he'd like to come back after he'd satisfied his urge, he wasn't done taking inventory.
Heaving an irritated sigh, he blinked into his father's old office. He'd already been through here, but with so little to go on, he thought it was worth a second look. Not that he even knew what he was looking for, but there was something satisfying about pacing around somewhere they were always forbidden to go. Five paced the length of it until he came to a well-worn book sitting among some other dusty volumes scattered around a table. He recognized it instantly. Homer's Odyssey. On a whim, he pulled it out and traced his hand over the cover. Why his father still kept it handy all these years later is the mystery he might never solve. He already knew it by heart, but he flipped through the pages anyway, for nostalgia's sake.
To be honest, Five didn't resent their education as much as some of siblings. Reading the Ancient Greek brought back the rare fond memories of their rigorous upbringing. He had a fleeting thought to share this with the others, maybe ask if they still know it as well as he did. But the thought was just that, fleeting. He'd been too long removed to think he still knew them as well as he used to. And besides that, they really didn't have the time to go down memory lane.
Just before he shrugged off the notion and continued on to more productive matters at hand, a passage caught his eye. “τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης. [ Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before.” ]
He scoffed and looked down at the empty office chair. Even now he could imagine the expression on the old man's face. Perfectly mocking, unimpressed that he was still wasting his time. "You've got some nerve asking me to be patient."
The noise he'd heard before got closer, and he rolled his eyes as the door opened. So little, and yet, it was always too much.
"Five, is that-", but he was already gone in a glimmer of blue light. The book left pointedly in the waste bin.
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Second sample:
[ Five taps his foot on the ground, counting the seconds as tried again to come to terms with one simple fact: he had time. Wherever he is trapped now, and he is most definitely trapped, there's no looming doomsday hanging over his head. Which gives him the luxury of finding out exactly what went wrong. Who was left to betray him one final time. And when he found them he'd have to consider how much restraint he was willing to give before he cut them in half. Considering who he already knows has a stubborn penchant for skirting the grave, he half expects this to be another elaborate plan to hire him to murder... whoever. Herb, probably. Which he's really not in the mood for; he liked the guy.
When a shadow passes over him, he jerks his head up, not quite hiding the malice in his smile. ]
A cup of coffee, thanks. [ The other person just blinked, as if he'd been speaking a language he didn't understand. Or maybe he wondered if Five wasn't aware that he wasn't currently sitting at a diner waiting to be served, given that he even knows what a diner is in whatever time he's in. His mouth twitches and his eyes narrow by degrees as he studies the other and tries to decide just how much of a hand he had to play in his kidnapping. While he doesn't recognize the face, he's fully aware that it could have been any one of them.
Switching tactics, he swallows his pride and puts on the best 'lost little boy' act he can muster while his blood is still boiling. ] I'm afraid I can't find my family. Will you help me?
INVENTORY:
- Academy School Uniform (/whispers that's all he needs)
- One (1) defunct Temps Commission Briefcase™ (only thing inside is a broken portable time travel machine that can do nothing, but he was holding it at his canon point so this is just to rub it in Five's face... because I'm a super nice person)
NOTES: No accommodations will be necessary. (I mean, beyond the obvious 'looks like he's 13' thing that might make him less welcome at some establishments. I'm sure he'll find ways to work around it.)
APPLICATION RECEIVED
ACCEPTED
Aaaaaaaaall aboard… the absentee caravan! Thanks for applying and welcome to the game.
A few loose ends, for your pleasure:
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