applications

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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

<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

[intermingled]

No, there shouldn't be anything specific on a boat. Cocoa is the main thing that's a common substance and it's just as an intoxicant and alcohol has no effect on him at all, but anything else that would canonically affect him are things like made up fancy space rocks (or anything that comes up for plot/fun, of course).

Thanks for checking! :>

ACCEPTED

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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.

NOTES

Spock is welcome to bring his communicator, but it wouldn't really function or capture any comms wavelengths while here, unless you create a comm network for it. Sorry, buddy! No ships passing nearby.

INTRO: Spock joins the group during our latest event. He remains a nominal member of the Queen Zanyra — he may travel freely by rowboat and spend time on the Pariah, but he will always be guaranteed a sleeping hammock and a meal on the Queen Zanyra. Here, the pirates extend Spock their hospitality by gifting him this dashing hat to cover up his “unfortunate rabbit ears.” Perhaps, with the help of this new sartorial choice inflicted on him, Spock too may find himself a wife. The pirates may occasionally also shake their heads and politely offer Spock their share of carrot rations.

One member of the crew is inevitably less amused by his appearance: when Spock first encounters Quicksilver Sam aboard the Pariah, the good captain appears terrified of him, dissolving in a fit of panic and wild muttering. His priests and Queen Zanyra leader Caladan Kreil gently peel him away with reassurances that all is well, urging the captain back into his cabin.

As he retreats, Quicksilver points back at Spock, screaming that, the likes of him should be at sea, in the sea, dead beneath, only the sea’ll have him, dead, what’s his ilk doing here, come and gone aboard a ship, saint it, saint it now, don’t you see him, give him to the sea, flames have you, what are you paid for.

Caladan Kreil later reassures Spock that Quicksilver Sam has consumed too many of his sedative opiates. Spock may simply wish to stay out of his way for the rest of the day, Caladan Kreil says. True to form, Quicksilver Sam does not have a similar reaction, if he sees Spock again, although he appears... somewhat ill at ease in Spock's presence.


( Please consider sharing some of this information with the Scooby gang, if and when you’ve discovered more, or it makes sense for you ICly! )

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This other hat is also available for Spock.