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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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Heya — she's a good time, happy to have her.

One thing: we don't have a Caitlyn in game or apped at present, so we may have to decide Vi's citadel affiliation on irrespective of her. Since you have Vanessa in Minaras, putting Vi in with the dragons could help give you better access to plot from both directions. However, Minaras is closer to what Vi had going on back home. What's your preference?

Let's go with Eidris for this gal, so I can touch every corner of Serthica with my grubby hands.

Edited 2022-10-13 01:35 (UTC)

We've now had a Caitlyn in this round — since you've chosen different citadel alignments, would you like a common intro?

As a heads up: I'm asking the Caitlyn player the same thing. Both of you would need to agree to a common intro for it to happen.

By common intro, you mean like they're linked? That's totally cool with me, if it can work with the different alignments!

Yeah, the intro'd be in the Mouse House, where everyone is recovering from the Unwinding — I figured common intro, since different alignments means fewer chances for Vi and Caitlyn to hang out at first.

Got it! Sounds good to me.

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, or wait for the intro & CR meme due up on 16 October!

All game updates are posted on

lostcompass, but you can also follow

eastbound. You’ll get a private message with an invite to the informal game discord server, once you comment to the Taken List.

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.

We are now in Arc IV: Sethica, and our latest game-wide event was The Unwinding. Your character can reach out to NPCs for investigations at any time. You can also handwave they’ve been brought up to date with the Arc Story So Far by party member NPC Karsa, if you so choose.

NOTES

Your character receives one of the shiny new Arc IV pocket watch translators and communicators, allowing written, video and audio interaction. It contains an inevitable clock portion, whose beat seems to get louder as time ticks towards 6:00 and 18:00. A sharp, tinny alarm rings at these times.

Vi is formally assigned to Eidris, where she is a dragon veterinarian: to everyone’s relief, dragons are immensely resilient, you’re mostly called in to examine and treat their sniffles with the same two-three pre-prescribed sniffles. Enjoy adorable dragons nipping your ankles.

Vi’s pre-assigned network username is magic wand.

INTRO

Vi joins the party at the end of the the U n w i n d i n g event. She wakes with everyone else in the Mouse House orphanage run by Ma’am Mariol, while the group negotiates its safe return overground.

Since Vi and Caitlyn are likely to remain birds of a feather, staying together, they can both experience the vast hospitality of the Mouse House. In exchange, Ma’am Mariol only asks the duo to run the occasional errand — picking up groceries, walking the children to the doctor’s or schooling, etcetera.

While on one such (milk, it’s always milk!) commission, Caitlyn and Vi might catch a glimpse of a few drunk men roughhousing in a small, dark alley. Their conflict progresses from name-calling to light punches to a proper brawl, until one drops a small wooden box (think: 20x20cm ) marked for the delicate use of the incense diffusers strewn across the Mouse House.

If Caitlyn and Vi retrieve the box when the men have gone and open it, they will find half of the contents comprise leaves, roots and flowers of foxglove, wisteria, passion flower and valerian — a not impotent blend of sedatives and plants that can lead to memory loss. Some of these herbs have already been ground in a small sack, prepared for use in the diffusers.

The box bears the insignia of one of the Minaras governmental medical facilities found overground.

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