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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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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 Vannozza Spina, and an identity as a ruthless and fearsome kingmaker, who has a wealth of children. So many children. Has to keep ruining kingdoms and cashing in that coin, to support his many children.

He will retain this background and alignment.

INTRO: Wen Kexing’s wakes in the necromantic district, days after Vannozza Spina’s edict calling for a curfew and harsh restrictions against necromancers, in response to the recent hostilities of the now-retreated Huntress and Beastmaster.

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.

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