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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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On a serious note: re Viktor's incapacitation. I can offer the following options, and you can have a think and follow up regarding what you think works best for him.
1. play it by ear: hitch a cart ride, get a royal steed, a helping hand with transport on an as-needed basis. I'm happy to equip him with a donkey or an especially considerate NPC who can be his caretaker in Ke-Waihu. Yes, he can boss the NPC and probably abuse them for "off-the-books" research purposes.
2. Instant cure: we have some healers in Ke-Waihu, including some... very dodgy witches, and they could help a fellow out, for a not-so-modest fee. The con here, in my books, is that you are playing what seems to be a very raw character, and you'd be crippling his motivation.
3. Cure dosages that delay or partly or transiently heal his sickness: again, see above healer and witches. We have some great PCs too! He'd be dependent on continually taking doses to Stay Alive TM and therefore he'd retain the hunger to persevere and work hard and... do all this really shady stuff he seems to like doing.
4. Working out a longer quest that would require him to gather research or cure elements and fixing his own cure.
Pros: he's personally involved, it's research, his jam, loving it.
Cons: he'd need to keep on top of it, it could sometimes put him at odds with some of his team mates who have... more pressing survival priorities... and you'd still need to probably give him a temporary cure dose of some kind, now and then, while he's working. So you're looking at a combo of 1 and 3, too, basically.
Anyway, you have a think and come back whenever on this. The application is otherwise accepted. Now, please pick 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 inherited from a villager of Ke-Waihu
— the sin you think he is guiltiest of
Please try to choose different sins.
...and for God's sake, he can have a second handkerchief.
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1. This is so funny. I'll probably play it by ear just for flexibility's sake (he's adaptable) but for Kei-Waihu the offer of an especially considerate NPC sounds good (if only bc it will make him really mad). Fair warning if you give him an animal he WILL name it something unkind that is only funny to him
Jayce2 - 4. Agree that a combo of 3/4 is the best option here with regards to, like, a character arc, or something, so that's what I will do, and I can be in communication with you about what he's doing in the meantime (help from PCs, etc.) including but not limited to various nefarious science activities (sorry to everyone else). The ultimate goal is to find a permanent solution so I will work towards that and have him use stop-gap methods in the meantime.
Ancestral Curse: Wrath, Greed
Guiltiest of: Pride
Thanks again for such a thoughtful response, and for being so flexible! Really looking forward to doing Bad Science here.