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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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Do you by chance happen to have a few non-shipping-oriented thread samples for him, please? I'd be especially interested in anything that showcases the tougher or more survivalist aspects of his personality, cultivated during the Window of Heaven period. Alternatively, if it's easier, I'd be happy to take a written-out sample in either the canon or game setting. Whatever works better on your side — if you can get back to me within the next three days, that would be wonderful. If you think you might need more time, let me know.
How about one during the Window of Heaven period? I can also do one more current if you like.
Sighing, he rose from his seat and walked to a window, peering out at the mixture of ice and snow that greeted him. How many friends had he lost? Each death was like a blow to his very soul and he carried those restless spirits with him. He didn't believe a single one of them had discovered peace.
"Ready my horse." he knew that there was someone behind him, "I won't be leaving him to see to it alone."
To do so would be too perilous and Zishu never risked the lives of others when he could accomplish a task himself. He nodded at the assent and the quick footsteps to see his orders done. Turning away from the window, he walked down the long hallway to the front door, letting himself out into the cold. Though by the look of him, it was difficult to tell he felt any of the icy chill. In the distance, he saw his disciple mounting another horse and Zishu noticed the disciples swift, nervous glances to either side...and then behind.
Where he would surely see Zishu. Without saying a word, without changing his expression, Zishu mounted his horse too and pulled up his hood. Today was going to be long and he feared it would end with another loss.
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Alternatively, he could work to gain favour (or leverage, or a blackmail instrument) over the healers and necromancers of Taravast to coax them into taking on his case without requiring compensation. You'll have to pitch a relevant mechanism.
Either way, it's something he'd have to work towards and not be handwaved on acceptance. Which method do you think sounds good on your side, for now?
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ACCEPTED
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NOTES
To Zhou Zishu’s luck — or is it that of his assailants, really? — he is rescued by a brigade of civilians who have taken it upon themselves to protect Taravast, fearing Doxe Bonaccorso — unseen among the commonfolk since his recent illness — has forgotten them. They spare Zhou Zishu a cheap and flimsy version of a communicator and translator device and share their worries that they have been forgotten by their rulers. They beg for help in pleading their cause at court. Whatever his nature, Zhou Zishu appears decently polished, a handsome man, well-spoken: if anyone can convince Bonaccorso to dedicate more funds and guards to the recovering districts, they believe it is he.
They send Zhou Zishu to attend one of Bonaccorso’s daily audiences at the Palace of the Doxe...
…where he is happily intercepted by the sorceress Karsa, an employee of the party’s Merchant benefactor who is currently journeying with the group. She supplies Zhou Zishu with an upgraded translation and communication device, seeming at first caught aback — then resigned — that the man does not remember his previous stay.
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.