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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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Hendrik | Dragonquest XI S | Returning character
CONTACT: PM this journal, Plurk:
INVITE STATUS: Mentioned to me by Solar (player of Eleven/The Luminary from DragonQuest XI here)
CHARACTER: Hendrik
CANON: Dragon Quest XI Definitive edition
CANON POINT: Act 3
BACKGROUND: Written out here. This is another reference, as is this.
ABILITIES | POWERS: - He's a tank, 6'6 and built like one. He's a warrior and a knight first and foremost, able to wield axes and shields. He does have the ability to use swords as well.
Spells -
Midheal - Restores hp
Buff - Significantly raises the defense of a single party member -
Kabuff - Slightly raises defense of all party members -
Magic Barrier - Raises the magic resistance of the whole party.
More heal - Mid level healing spell
PERSONALITY: Hendrik was born a son of a knight in the kingdom of Zwaardsrust. But an attack leaves him the lone survivor of the attack, losing his family, friends, home and everything. So he brought out of there to be raised as a knight of Heliodor which instills his loyalty because of being rescued. This childhood attachment is seen as he has a painting of the windmill there.
As a knight of Heliodor, he is given orders to capture the Luminary who at that time is referred to as the Darkspawn. So no matter what happens or what obstacles get in his way, since he was told to capture the Luminary that is what he'll do no matter what it takes to succeed. Hendrik dauntlessly and steadfastly follows orders and will carry them out no matter what since he is a sworn knight to the King of Heliodor. In his duty, Hendrik is both serious and unfailing and it's been said that he doesn't know when to give up, being called both pig headed and stone headed due to this.
As a boy Hendrik won most of his fights with Jasper through 'brute strength'. But even in victory there was mercy because Hendrik always offered a hand to help the other boy up off of the ground. So when the two separated, with Jasper learning military strategy and Hendrik had gone off to Puerto Valor to train to be a knight, when he'd come back, the two sparred again with the same results of the blonde falling and Hendrik offering a hand up.
Hendrik himself said that he always followed in Jasper's wake and that Jasper was the one who spurred him on and was the light that guided him. If it wasn't for his friend, Hendrik wouldn't have become who he did. And of the two in a race, he would definitely be the 'tortoise' and Jasper would be the 'hare'. And even after they find themselves on opposing sides, he still has kind words for his friend, marveling at his old friend's brilliant tactics at one point and says that the day Dundrasil fell, Jasper was brave and valorous. Then he takes on all of the blame and responsibility once he's had plenty of time to reflect and the self recriminations begin. He stands wondering why he didn't see what the King of Heliodor had become, and why he didn't see the darkness consuming Jasper's soul.
Though Hendrik has suffered the loss of his home and family when he was a boy, he rose up through the ranks and earned his knighthood through dedication and hard work. Sylvando later remarked that it took the man quite a bit of work but eventually he became what he had worked so hard for. Don Rodrigo who trained Hendrik called the man 'a lump of meat' when he'd first met the knight as a young boy. And this man has been known to be the type of person to 'train' in his down time when he's supposed to be resting up at camp.
Hendrik simply takes others at their word if he respects them so in this he can be blind and ignorant. There is no doubt, question or even hesitation, because Hendrik will accept it as law. If he is told something, then that is the way that it is and he expects others to keep their word as he does. The night Dundrasil fell and unbeknownst to him, King Carnelian had been possessed by Mordegon. The king accused the Darkspawn's father of being mad and just suddenly attacking him, and the knight took it as the absolute truth. For reasons like this, he is referred to as a 'simple boy'.
And once Hendrik gives his word, he won't go back on it so he's loyal to a fault. He has sworn his fealty to the King of Heliodor and to the people therein. He even faces off against Princess Jade of Heliodor, not realizing it's her at first but even when he does, he doesn't let her get away (though she does) just because she's the Princess. He coldly informs her that he's a sworn knight and that she's been away from home too long if she thinks he'll let her go due to that fact. He will also show respect such as bowing to Princess Jade when he realizes it's her, bowing or kneeling before the king as well as Don Rodrigo who trained him as a boy.
Gemma tells the Luminary the story that instead of facing death after being rounded up by Hendrik's childhood friend and fellow knight Jasper, (though she didn't know the man's name) their lives were spared. The only thing she recalled about him was that 'his eyes were cold.' However, Hendrik had intervened, sparing the lives of the villagers of Cobblestone and locking them up in the dungeons below the castle in Heliodor instead of outright killing them as would've been their fate otherwise. Death would have been their 'punishment' for raising the 'Darkspawn'.
King Carnelian calls Hendrik his 'ever faithful knight' because he's so dependable. Hendrik does what he is asked, even if he may initially disagree. In the end he will still be there to do what is required to follow and do his King's will regardless of anything else. And as a boy both he and his childhood friend Jasper swore fealty to Heliodor and to protect the kingdom together. The boys also received matching gold fealty token pendants from the king which are replicas of the Shield of Heliodor and they were the only two to receive them. So it's a shock and surprise when Hendrik escaped Krystalinda in Sniflheim and finds that she knows of the twin pendant to the one he always wears.
So in battle, will take hits meant for others and will stand and fight beside them, even using himself as a shield if that's what it takes to accomplish fulfilling his oath. He also can have resting 'frowny face' due to having such a serious outlook. In battle, he becomes passionate, and his sword deals swift justice to those who oppose him. So whenever he needs to do something (such as follow Jasper's black spirit) he asks only the Luminary and seeks only his approval or forgiveness for indulgence of things or actions.
And when the party faces Jasper as a black spirit later, Hendrik says that he helped create that very darkness and he had to destroy it alone. And after there's a reconciliation of sorts, he says he should've spoken and listened to Jasper and maybe he could've saved his old friend. So in the end there is friendship and peace between them as their boyhood pact is honoured.
SAMPLE: here, others can be provided if necessary.
INVENTORY: 2 phials of magic water, a few Antidotal herbs, Sleeping Hibiscus, Medicinal herb, Strong medicine, book
Wearing:
King's axe (carved with runes)
Oath pendant/token of fealty
Full set of black armour & cloak
Shield of Heliodor -
NOTES: Hendrik harbours an intense dislike for insects and he rarely speaks in contractions.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? Light if that's ok, thank you!
APPLICATION RECEIVED
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Would you like the OOC housework instructions now, or a complete approval stamp on Monday?
And would you like him to be coming back with any memories, or are you doing a reset? We can also work it in so that he maybe never left at all and was stranded on assignment elsewhere and is only now rejoining the party — up to you, let me know what suits.
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I can do everything Monday, it'll make it easier on you too I think, less work?
I thought about having him come back with some vague memories with a reset? But if that doesn't work that's fine too.
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Would you be okay to comment here so I can set up Hendrik's curses for the 14 Feb arrival post, along with everyone else's? Thank you!
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And I replied to the post, so he's all set!
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ACCEPTED
Welcome back!
ADMIN
NOTES
Welcome back to master Hendrik, who washes literally ashore near the village of Ke-Waihu. He receives no real welcome once he enters the village, and may need to find for himself in the streets, until he’s inevitably collected by the informally ruling Hok-Shinn
gangclan. They appear at first intent to teach this hooligan a lesson about loitering — but the leader of this particular contingent recognises something in Hendrik’s mien. Moments later, after consulting a few papers, he rushes to release Hendrik and supply him a communication and translation device, muttering that the old man is due to be making his delivery of many like his lot soon.Hendrik gets to spend two lovely days knowing Ke-Waihu before the other party members arrive. He can notice that the villagers appear increasingly agitated as they start to prepare for elaborate and excessive nuptial festivities, with several dozens of weddings seemingly planned. The number of villagers appears to gradually increase.
Once the Salamera II discharges, the biologist Enam, who a collaborator of the Merchant who escorted the group during their journey to Ellethia, takes Hendrik in, confirms that was once with the party, then takes him through the Story So Far. From hereon, Hendrik enjoys the same dubious arrival privileges as his peers.