applications

[groundrules]

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

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> link out or write no more than two-three paragraphs...! <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> bullet points a-okay, or written out. You can also link out to it, if you agree to what's on your wikia. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> a written sample or one or more threads to show your character's personality. <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> you know the ropes, jot down if your character has any world-breaking powers or accommodations you need for them!

NEW PLAYERS

<b><Small>PLAYER NAME</small>:</b> <b><small>CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>REFERRED BY</small>:</b> Who invited you, please? c: <b><small>CHARACTER</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>CANON POINT</small>:</b> <b><small>BACKGROUND</small>:</b> written or linked history both fine. Bullet points also a-okay. If no information is available in English, please write this out in short. <b><small>ABILITIES | POWERS</small>:</b> Include any relevant power restrictions, so you don’t break our playground. <b><small>PERSONALITY</small>:</b> make sure this ties back to the character’s time point and background. <b><small>SAMPLE</small>:</b> 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. <b><small>INVENTORY</small>:</b> No world-breaking items. For living or magical beings, or anything colossal (think... Gundams...) please let's talk beforehand! <b><small>SUITABILITY</small>:</b> 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)? <b><small>NOTES</small>:</b> Are there any particular accommodations your character will need? How do you propose to handle that?

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Comments

[arsmechanica]

Ancestral: let's go with sloth and gluttony
Personal: PRIDE, most def.

I will definitely keep him working with the local materials and not like. Vibranium. o7

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

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

Join 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.

Check out the summary of Arc III events to date, and jump right into our most recent log event — your character’s arrival takes place after the village Hunts begin. If you want, you can also write up prompts regarding the below intro scenario, closed to the other two participants!

NOTES

INTRO: Jens awakens in the midst of a slowly dripping cave, where he finds he is drenched in dark, semi-unctuous water that pours down annoyingly from cracks above. The liquids heals superficial wounds on any part of Jens’s skin it directly touches, having no effect if it is imbibed. He is surrounded by humanoid creatures covered in a tar-like substance, possessed of antler-like horns, crude weapons and a language like chirping. Two other familiar and unfamiliar faces ( Hijikata and Okita Souji) are likewise ‘incapacitated’ beside him. Jens is lethargic, finding difficulty in rousing himself or moving — explaining why the creatures around him appear to think he is asleep, or perhaps dead. Depending on how long Jens spends awake, unmoving and observing, he can notice that:

■ The creatures are struggling with movement or carrying out basic tasks, with many seeming to have suffered immense injuries that are stitched up by tar.

■ The creatures frequently collapse in fits of anxiety or agony, failing to calm each other down.

■ The creatures harness the dark water, using it to treat and patch up their wounds.

(Please share some of this with the class!)

You three can choose whether Jens, Souji and Hijikata furtively exit the cave while the beasts sleep or head off hunting, or whether they’re still semi-surrounded when they head off and have to fight for their safety. Prepare for a skirmish, if so, but if it’s any consolation — characters retain their weapons, and some rusty swords litter the floors, as remnants of… previous guests. As a treat, they can also find translation and communication devices, alongside clothing rags and some fire kindle among the remains on the cave floor. Fire (torches or magical) notably deters the creatures from approaching, while sound draws them and reinforcements closer. It emerges that the trio is within the labyrinthine depths of a volcano, and must make their way out quickly — as another minor earthquake wrecks the site, and insufferable warmth starts to overwhelm. (Note: the volcano does not erupt.)

If the trio make it out, they find themselves at the feet of the volcano, facing forest ground, at night. It just so happens that they are arriving with at start of the Hunting season and must spend the night escaping the Beastmaster’s xenomorphic creatures and other, more human pursuers. Pair up or split ways!

Once in Ke-Waihu, come morning, Jens is finally discovered and taken in by Taksui, who recognises him as an otherworlder. Taksui informs him he has reached the world of Akhuras, where undead contingents fight each other and the living for control. The undead factions summon otherworldly reinforcements, to enslave or weaponise them in the conflict. Taksui serves as liaison to the elusive Merchant, who finds and transports such newcomers east, where beacons might return the visitors back to their home worlds.

Jens is 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. Devout villagers believe this will gradually right the wrongs that have infected the community. You can find his 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.

Jens 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.