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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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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 you can also consider following

eastbound. There is an informal optional game discord server — you’ll get a private message with an invite, once you comment to the Taken List.

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.

We have kicked off Arc II: Taravast, and our latest plot developments are here.

Since Jon has effectively died once (but been revived), you may need to treat him as more sensitive to the summons and compulsions of Eastbound’s undead lieges. Some of the middling local undead might sometimes also mistake him for one of their own. This will be outlined in relevant events.

NOTES

INTRO: Jon’s story begins two weeks prior, when he wakes farther out east, in a desert encampment. He is greeted by the very Merchant, who provides him with a communication and translation device and takes him through the story so far. He explains Jon is a newcomer to a world where contingents of undead battle the living and each other for absolute rule, and that otherworldly strangers have been weaponised in the conflict. For both their sake and that of his world, the Merchant seeks to take all newcomers east, to long-buried portals that might deliver them to their respective homes.

Sadly, Jon’s must first travel west, to help save others like him from the political games of magical citadel Taravast. The Merchant entrusts him with two keys: the first key must be handed over to party members Wrath and Wen Qing, with the following note: Seek the walls of Bonaccorso’s library. The second key, the Merchant says, is currently for safe-keeping.

Jon is supplied with some coin and arrangements for fresh swap horses at various points over his ten-day travel. He must ride furiously and discreetly. His travels will see him often encounter the retreating retinue of the Huntress and the Beastmaster, who recently stormed Taravast. They are followed by the wealth of the Beastmaster’s xenomorphic and blood-thirsting animalist creatures, all of which yet live. The Huntress is meanwhile escorted by undead and nightmares. They are heading east, unlikely to seek out diversions. Still, their beasts hunger, and the canyon-like passageways to Taravast are often narrow and deceptively still. I leave it at your discretion how troubled Jon is in his journey. By the tail-end of it, he attracts the attention of this beautiful boy, who gives chase with a couple of his friends all the way back to Taravast. Jon can either defeat them alone or, once closer to Taravast, he can ask the help of the party within (you can arrange something in Jon’s OOC intro post or have him do a network post, if you think you want to explore that).

If the large creature wounds anyone to the point of spilling blood, they will become marked as quarry of the Hunt — please let me know if you decide to take that route.

Within Taravast, Jon receives no team assignment. He is introduced by the sorceress Karsa — the Merchant’s subordinate, who assists the group locally — as an envoy of the Merchant. He is given a surprisingly wide berth by Taravast's and breezy access (mostly) everywhere. He is allowed to sleep in don Bonaccorso Spina’s own wing of the Palace of the Doxe.

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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