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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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Aaaaaaaaall aboard... the absentee caravan! Thanks for applying and welcome to the game.

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NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. Our first event write-up and open log are up and running, and feel free to jump in on the OOC intro meme!

I am happy to have the Gundam brought in, but you will have to pitch me some ways to keep that thing powered. I think the easiest solution would be to have it be unexpectedly compatible with magical sources as fuel, with some tinkering, but what are you thinking?

Regardless, the disappointingly colour-coded Gundam will not be brought in with the standard inventory item deliveries. It will instead be part of a separate mid-April delivery. Stay tuned! Also, can Schwarz reassemble it, if it's shipped in pieces? Asking for a friend.

It sounds as if German ninjutsu’s a bit convoluted and all over the place — I will trust you to nerf a bit, as due, when you play out!

If I understand correctly (please correct me, I struggled a bit with this in the wiki!), it sounds as if Schwarz is a cocktail of android, genetic material and human. Does he have any particular needs that you’re aware of, to operate? Do we need to install this guy a magical battery?

He may bring along one extra disguise outfit. Go wild. And hoard the ones available at the House of Dew.

Speaking of that fine location, Schwarz will find himself on the receiving end of a frosty welcome, as his masks have courtesan questions whether he isn’t hiding undead features, or whether he isn’t affiliated with the military. He will find most denizens go quieter and infinitely more obedient around him.

The username Schwarz will inherit if he ventures on the freebie magical network at the House of Dew is dawning of the shy milk maiden. All of his magical network posts/comments at the House of Dew will show up under this fine nom de plume. This is a temporary username and can be changed, if he procures his own quartz translation device.

• Gundam power source! Per the Gundam wiki, the fusion reactor within the Gundam seems to be self-sustaining thanks to some kind of reaction with the Minovsky particles. I'm not opposed to some magical fuel, especially since the Core Lander for example will probably need a separate source of energy if it goes longer distances without the Gundam, but just noting that the main unit itself appears to be self-sufficient.

I FORGOT TO ADDRESS GUNDAM DELIVERY but yes, that is fine with me! Given that he's based on Kyouji, who used to be a literal Gundam engineer, he'll be fine. :))

• Of course re: the ninjutsu nerfing, honestly a lot of his abilities are plot devices given his role, so I'll definitely be adopting an adaptive approach to what he can do within the bounds of what's happening. :))

• I'm not aware of any mechanical needs such as charging, since that never comes up in the context of canon, though he does appear to need electric shocks to jumpstart his self-heal function. So I don't mind saying that he needs outside energy to power anything beyond his vital functions; that's more or less how the Devil Gundam itself works anyways. I'm also entirely unsure he actually needs to eat but I'll say that it's possible for him to process energy from organic sources since the Devil Gundam works off a bio-unit (the pilot); but it isn't strictly necessary.

• He's totally here to be the master of disguise. Just to clarify: he can have one disguise unit + a number of masks, yes? And I'm amused that his masks are so ill-received, but hey, not that different a life from before. :)

• He isn't here to milk anything but the moment. The drama. The strife! He's got this(??????).

Edited (FORGOT A BIT) 2021-04-05 03:57 (UTC)

Oh, that's awesome, the Gundam feeds itself — that's great, no need to tinker with it. Leave the Gundam be! Likewise, the man, the mission himself. Up to you if/how you feed him.

Yes, he can have one extra disguise outfit and a few masks (call it three, four.)

Thanks!

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