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

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eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere. Feel free to make an OOC intro post on

lostcompass, if you want!

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 three 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.

Our latest plot point is here — feel free to jump right in.

NOTES

INTRO: poor Cato awakens on a commercial boat bound for haunted village Ke-Waihu. He has been rescued, the merchants on boat tell him after supplying him a communication and translation device, while floating lost at sea. The merchants have never seen anything quite like him and are hoping to achieve a good price for Cato as an exotic trinket — they’re disappointed when Ke-Waihu locals seem terrified by his strange appearance, and instead try to offload him in the underground market.

There, Cato is purchased by Sairen, leader of the less savoury branch of the ~~ruling~~ guarding Hok-Shinn clan and brother of Ke-Waihu mayor Weisi. For the three days during which he enjoys their hospitality, the Hok-Shinn seem satisfied using Cato as a decoration, or as a trinket worth asking to either answer vulgar riddles or perform songs or dances. But Cato’s care background will serve him to realise that there is a rather sick man on premise, who takes pains not to show his illness — Sairen, whose underlings whisper has been afflicted for his failure to deliver what belonged to the lord Beastmaster during the latter’s previous visit. The Beastmaster is due to return once more, and Sairen’s more mutinous minions mutter that perhaps he will decide to kill off Sairen completely this time.

Inevitably, Cato catches the eye of Weisi’s son and Sairen’s nephew Taksui, during one of the latter’s countless visits. Taksui recognises Cato as an otherworlder and informs him he has reached the world of Akhuras, where undead forces battle each other and the living for control. The undead factions summon otherworldly reinforcements, to enslave or weaponise them in the conflict. Taksui is the (third-rate) liaison of the elusive Merchant, who finds and transports such newcomers east, to beacons hoped to return the visitors back to their home worlds.

After Taksui throws his father’s name around until villagers learn to overlook Cato’s strange appearance, he is officially introduced as a new member of the Ke-Waihu village and asked to drink or tricked into drinking an elixir that will let him take over and atone for the sins of a village ancestor. Cultist villagers believe this will gradually right the wrongs that have infected the community. You can find Cato’s ancestral curse here — enjoy 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.

Cato has also received a ’family unit’ and housing assignment. The villagers of Ke-Waihu believe the housemates are genuinely part of a family or clan — so try to cozy up.

Does he receive a trinket or crystal to access the network or is he going to have to source one during the plot?

Yep, yep —

He has been rescued, the merchants on boat tell him after supplying him a communication and translation device

Ah my bad I was looking for it in the post outlander part

Thanks!!

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