applications

[groundrules]

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

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> link out or write no more than two-three paragraphs...! <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> bullet points a-okay, or written out. You can also link out to it, if you agree to what's on your wikia. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> a written sample or one or more threads to show your character's personality. <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> you know the ropes, jot down if your character has any world-breaking powers or accommodations you need for them!

NEW PLAYERS

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>REFERRED BY</small>:</b> Who invited you, please? c: <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> written or linked history both fine. Bullet points also a-okay. If no information is available in English, please write this out in short. <b><small>ABILITIES | POWERS</small>:</b> Include any relevant power restrictions, so you don’t break our playground. <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> make sure this ties back to the character’s time point and background. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> 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. <b><small>INVENTORY</small>:</b> No world-breaking items. For living or magical beings, or anything colossal (think... Gundams...) please let's talk beforehand! <b><small>SUITABILITY</small>:</b> 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)? <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> Are there any particular accommodations your character will need? How do you propose to handle that?

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Comments

[groundrules]

Heya — so, the app is accepted, but we'll have to figure out a way to tackle Zhou Zishu's condition. Our options are for him to appeal to Taravast healers ( a 50,000 coins' worth of an intervention, not without health risks, for which he'll have to procure the funding ) or for him to let the sickness deteriorate and address it in a later Arc somehow.

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?

[eternallywandering]

I am alright with letting his condition deteriorate until he has funds and/or finds a way to gain favor/leverage/blackmail. I am interested in the ideas of other characters already in the game. :)

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

All right, that's absolutely fine!

ADMIN

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

Join eastbound, lostcompass, westwhere. A new CR meme has just gone up today, if that suits your interests. Alternatively, you could put up an intro post on lostcompass.

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.

NOTES

This character has been in the game before. While other characters might remember him, he will not recall any of the events of his previous sojourn. He was previously assigned a role serving don Macaluso Spina, and an identity as a coarse, rough-around-the-edges nouveau riche who’s come to flaunt his money at Taravast and buy a little bit of polish. He will retain this background and alignment.

INTRO: Zhou Zishu wakes in one of the savaged residential districts of Taravast, which was recently scorched by an incursion of the Huntress and Beastmaster. Both have now fled the citadel, leaving only ruin in their wake. With most guards diverted to help reconstruction efforts, the war-torn districts have fallen prey to brazen looters — some of whom decide to do Zhou Zishu the discourtesy of trying to lighten him of his possessions.

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.