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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[vdovy]

[ OOC NOTE: I went with the IC writing sample, I hope this works! ]

As Natasha's blade carves into her, Yelena hears Melina's voice in her head, telling her that pain can only make her stronger. She has lived by that advice: it enabled her to survive the Red Room, and it will help her survive this too.

(Later, when she is stitching up her own wound, she will remember that Natasha was the last person to patch her up. It will all flood back then: the initial shock of seeing her sister, her unbridled joy and relief, and then her rage from being betrayed. No knife can cut as deep as having her sister's memory used against her.

But she must save that for the recovery; right now, she needs to live past this encounter.)

Yelena screams— a raw, primal sound that speaks to something far deeper than physical pain— as she pulls the knife out. She can't see past her anger, but that's fine. Anger is useful. Anger is exactly what will power her through this.

She climbs furiously to her feat to face Natasha's doppelganger, brandishing the knife covered in her own blood as she blinks past the tears in her eyes. "Get out of my sister's face or I will cut it off!"

[groundrules]

...and on that peaceful, serene and anger management controlled-note: happy to have her. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this additional bit!

In Arc IV, characters are mod-assigned to either Eidris or Minaras. They'll still be able to access the other citadel half, provided they infiltrate discreetly. The choice is mostly to give them an assigned 'home base' for the Arc's duration. Which would you rather for her, Eidris or Minaras?

[vdovy]

Let's go with Minaras. Thank you!

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, 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.

Yelena is formally assigned to Minaras, where she is a canteen cook: charitably feed the needy, the rushed and the science-minded finest of Minaras, with an ear out for gossip during service. No hot sauce.

Yelena’s pre-assigned network username is wooden sword.

INTRO

Yelena 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.

This only applies once characters are able to return overground (around the time of next week’s Halloween event): once Yelena begins her... dubiously heartfelt canteen service, she may overhear a great academic debate at a table patroned by medical scientists and historians.

The argument put forward by one of them — and verbally eviscerated as an asinine conspiracy theory by the rest — is that the ‘coal sickness’ that assailed Serthica roughly five years ago was never truly cured. Objections are loud and imminent: if it wasn’t cured, how is it that the plague is gone? The sickness’ advocate persists: if a cure was found, why was it not published in any journal of science? Why do so many medical centres exist now in Minaras, why do they study a vanquished sickness?