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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.
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And, just to add: no rush on this end, any response within the next three days would be great. Let me know if you need more time than that.
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They make him angry, how these people so vaunted and looked up to treat those deemed lesser. He fawns over them, laughing and reciting poetry as his fan absently wafts from his waist. Part of the entertainment.
His A-Xu needs the funds, and he knows it. Everything thrives on money and who can manipulate others the best. They don't matter though. And he doesn't care what he has to do here. So he wears as many masks and personas as he can manage.
In the end, none of this matters as long as he gets the coin he needs to save his soulmate. He'll even get his hands dirty (and replace anything of his or Zishu's that gets soiled). It's a never ending cycle where coin is required, and he has so little to start with. But he too has to join in, beyond simply seemingly enjoying life and spending carelessly. There are groups of less reputable sorcerers that he watches closer - they charge less but may well be less effective. And so he joins the reputable healers, earning things that way with one mask - while another mask rubs elbows with another sort of people entirely.
A silver coin is tossed at him for a service rendered and he beams, all cheerful smiles as he makes it vanish with a little bow. Each face that pays is remembered so he can use them again later. Another piece of information.
Another potential pawn. He doesn't have his ghosts here. But he has his A-Xu, and that is enough. But even his A-Xu doesn't know everything. There is still one thing he keeps tight to his chest even as he gave it away.
ACCEPTED
Thank you, that did the trick!
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NOTES
He will retain this background and alignment.
While necromancers have typically been a tolerated fixture of Taravast, they are now receiving a cold shoulder and rougher treatment from local guards, who take care to all but exile them in their district at the end of the day. Here, damage from the latest conflict with the undead runs deep, and necromancers are not allowed to raise their own dead humans to help with repairs. They create golems and utilise spirits to the best of their abilities, but progress is slow and resentment prospers.
Wen Kexing is taken in by one of the necromancers, who mistakes him for another refugee of the recent disasters and spares him a poor communication and translation device. He can witness all of the growing suspicion, the discontent, the increasingly biting and violent rebellion. While necromancers acknowledge that the dead led the latest attacks, they do not understand why the Doxe and his nephew and niece seem to involve them in these hostilities. They have been given little assistance, and they feel they are treated poorly. Some speak of fleeing Taravast to pastures new and chasing their luck there. Others fear that the undead lieges who brought ruin to Taravast weeks ago might enslave them — and that, at best, the rulers of the other citadels would fear them simply for their often ill-received arts.
Some say, perhaps, if Taravast’s most illustrious minds won’t change their minds, then their minds should be changed for them.
Wen Kexing is spotted in the necromantic district by the visiting the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the group. She appears to be speaking to the necromancers and providing them coin on behalf of her master — although Wen Kexing might not immediately hear to what end. Nevertheless, he can notice that she is well received and liked by the group.
Karsa instantly recognises Wen Kexing and has to come to terms with his inability to remember his previous stay. She supplies him an upgraded translation and communication device and takes him with her to the Palace of the Doxe, where he will be homed in Vannozza Spina’s wing.
Karsa explains the Merchant’s mission and recounts the story so far. She also introduces him to the piazza — a style of communicating to the city at large, with an eye to influence public opinion.