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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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Xie Yun | Legend of Fei
CONTACT: halesangel#4457 @ discord
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: Thea, Ruxi, and plurk timeline
CHARACTER: Xie Yun
CANON: Legend of Fei
CANON POINT: Post series
BACKGROUND: Xie Yun, born Xiao Chuan, was the emperor of a previous dynasty. Due to being poisoned at a young age, out on a battle field, he could no longer use his internal energy. In order to stay alive and not be killed off he was taken in by the immortal Taoist monks of Penglai island (Yes, THAT mythical island that is said not to even exist). Where one of the monks temporarily cut off his meridians in order to slow the poison within his body to a crawl. As long as he didn't use his internal energy then the poison would not be activated again.
Unfortunately, the young Emperor decided that he did not have it in him to be a monk and the Taoists were not going to keep him chained to Penglai island. Leaving the island he took some coin and headed off to wander around the Jianghu, living life as he saw fit. Even to the point where he used up all of his coin and ended up making friends with beggars, living his life as one as well. It was where he learned that playing songs or even giving stories could earn him some coin (in which he takes on the persona, Qiansuiyou).
Cue Xie Yun getting called by a general he knows to send a message to Zhou Fei's father, where he meets her. And about a half a year or so later, him and her go running around the Jianghu fighting the injustice of the world, even if he typically leaves her to the fighting and hides behind her a lot of the time. As well as slowly come together in the martial arts world fighting Disha and finding out more about the Ocean Sky Bracelet. Something that is said may or may not change the world.
Of course, in the end she finds out that he's been poisoned, talks to the Taoist monks, and finds a way to get a cure for the poison that keeps him from dying and to where he can use his internal energy again. They go through a ton of different trials and tribulations before in the end living their life happily together. Him deciding that the royal life isn't for him (it never truly was) and her deciding that she does not want to be the leader of 48 Stronghold.
ABILITIES | POWERS:
→ Qinggong | The boy has excellent footwork. He knows how to run away (or walk away) and leave no trace of where he's been before.
→ Poison Immunity | Thanks to being poisoned at a young age, most if not all poisons do nothing to him. (But he can pretend like the best of them that it does, if he needs to.)
→ Internal Energy | Something that he can now use that he's cured of poison. There are a few different moves that he can use here. One of them known as 'Cloud Impelling Palm' When used sends out a gust of wind knocking anyone that it hits on their ass.
→ Xiao | He plays an excellent xiao, for fun.
→ Whittles | Give him a piece of wood and he'll use his metal hairstick to whittle away and design anything that your heart desires.
→ Cooks | He knows how to cook a proper meal and is damn good at it.
→ Draws | Sketches and draws for fun, but the likeness is always there.
PERSONALITY: Unlike a certain Gusu Lan sect member, Xie Yun is a talker. It's one of the things that he does, quite a bit, especially to get out of any situation that he's in. If someone starts going on and on about the different factions or how someone is bound to get hurt, he starts talking. Saying any words that he can to appease the person that they're dealing with. Or, he'll start rambling off one of the stories that he's written and sold as Qiansuiyou.
He is rather smart and it shows with the different knowledge that he has of the Jianghu. The former emperor knows all of the major players in the field and has knowledge of different medicines and antidotes for certain things. He isn't all-knowing, but he knows enough to get by. What he doesn't know then Mr. Bai does or General Wen does, but he tries not to rely on them since he hides his royal identity for a reason.
This boy is also, as it were, the 'wife' out of him and Zhou Fei. As he tells her, he doesn't have an ambition nor does he want to be a scholar or general. All he wants is to be a maid and to comb his wife's hair. So, due to this lack of ambition on his end of things, he makes sure to be encouraging. To give Zhou Fei the words and actions that she needs in order to keep her going. To make sure that she knows she's good enough for the martial arts world. He is very supportive of her endeavors.
He is a wanderer. Nothing can hold him down in the world, much less the royal court, due to him wanting to travel the world. It's a passion of his and if he can do it with Zhou Fei, the woman he loves and wants to be his wife, then all the better. Even better is if they go around doing as she sees fit, as it were, and fight the injustice of the world. Allowing her to stay true to herself.
Even though he knows, at the time due to the poison, that he isn't going to live long he does not allow any self-pity. To the point that he tells his kick ass girl that he wants her to marry a short-lived husband so he can find her again in twenty years. So, needless to say he does believe in reincarnation. (Live with a few immortal taoist monks and who wouldn't)
He has heart. Even though he's often found hiding behind Zhou Fei, it isn't because he's a coward. It's due to the life experiences that he's had growing up. He's also someone that is strong and free. Or as he once said "I believe that becoming a strong and free person isn't determined by literary merit nor by martial arts. It's determined by the heart." Heart is something that he definitely has and shows whenever he does anything, especially when it involves his kick ass girl.
It is also said that he is sentimental by nature, wise but not cruel enough to be a ruler. Which is true as he doesn't want to rule, he just wants to wander the world and be free, especially if it involves the royal court.
SAMPLE: Sample | Sample
INVENTORY:
→ Clothes on his back.
→ Xiao
→ paper and ink
→ Coins
NOTES: He has all that he needs due to being perfectly healthy now.
IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT A PLOT-LIGHT OR PLOT-HEAVY CUSTOM INTRO? I am good either way. Surprise me.
APPLICATION RECEIVED
no subject
Please choose, from of a list comprising pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony/drunkenness, wrath and sloth/indifference:
— two sins that will form the basis of his ancestral curse
— the sin you think he is guiltiest of
Thanks!
no subject
Personal sin/guiltiest of: gluttony
ACCEPTED
Thank you for your application!
ADMIN
NOTES
Xie Yun is hosted for a day and a night, during which period he may notice the snakes behave erratically — sometimes seeming thralled or transfixed in their mindless obedience of Hyang-Tai, and at other times terrified of an unknown threat. Come nightfall, the priestesses slip Xie Yun a sedative in his dinner meal or water, and he can loosely see and feel a great, large slithering figure while sleeping in the encampment.
Come morning, the priestesses direct him to the nearby village of Ke-Waihu, where mayor Weisi’s hooligan son Taksui receives him. Taksui recognises him as an otherworlder and tells him he has reached the world of Akhuras, where undead forces have been battling for dominion with the living and each other. The undead factions summon otherworldly reinforcements, seeking to enslave or weaponise them in the conflict. Taksui is the (third-rate) liaison of the mysterious Merchant, who finds and transports such newcomers east, to beacons hoped to return the visitors back to their home worlds.
Xie Yun will be officially introduced as a new member of the Ke-Waihu village and asked to or tricked into drinking an elixir that will let him take over and atone for the sins of a village ancestor. Zealous villagers believe this will gradually right the wrongs that have infested the community. You can find Xie Yun’s ancestral curse here — have fun figuring out how to atone for it! Check out how ancestral curses manifest and decide which of his two sins you’d like to play with.
Xie Yun has also been assigned a ’family unit’ and housing. The villagers of Ke-Waihu believe the housemates are truly part of a family or clan — so try to fake it til you make it.