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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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PLAYER NAME: emma
CONTACT: baleinette @ plurk, dostoevskyish @ disco
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GAME?: emily (

iluvroadrunner6), in time i will follow her anywhere

CHARACTER: lucy carlyle
CANON: lockwood & co
CANON POINT: 1.08, after the battle

BACKGROUND: WIKI | i choose to abide by the books over the show only in that i want lucy to have six sisters and only her mother is mentioned in the show. this changes her personality or the narrative trajectory of her arc in no way, it just gives her sad background a little more depth that is important to me.

ABILITIES | POWERS: because lucy is a child still, she can see and hear ghosts and her talent is actually quite good.

listening: lucy is an incredible listener and one of two people to ever talk to a type three ghost (her best frenemy the skull,) her power is strong enough that ghosts are attracted to her because they know she will hear them

touch: she also has a strong sense of touch and can read objects well and learn about the history of the object or the ghosts related to it

sight: look, a ghost has to be literally on top of her to see them and it's really tragic, her sight is still better than an adult's sight — which is none.

PERSONALITY:

brave: lucy has been in training to be an agent since she was eight years old, she was an agent and had her rapier by the time she was eleven, she is constantly staring down ghosts and living to tell the tale and she keeps doing it. day in, day out, she risks her life to do her job and keeps a calm head (most of the time) in the face of it all.

empathetic: despite her judgmental nature (lucy tends to make snap judgments and then stubbornly refuse to back down from them and she finds it difficult to make friends, especially with other girls,) lucy has an endless well of empathy. maybe it's a byproduct of her listening or her neglected childhood, but she feels so much. it can be dangerous, like when she grows attached to the ghost of annabel ward, but often it is seen in how she knows when her friends need comfort they won't ask for — reminding george that they need him, that he is part of portland row and they would all be useless without him, giving lockwood every second chance he asks for

self-worth of a satsuma gone off: like many a teenager, lucy has a lot of issues with body image, helped along in part by her mother telling her often as a kid that she isn't pretty. good thing she's got a talent, because she didn't pretty. not only that but lucy was relatively neglected by her mother and often left to her own devices or the care of her older sisters. at first chance, her mother farmed her out to apprentice at an agency, taking all of lucy's pay in the process. a lot of lucy's worth is tied up in her skill at her profession so failure is gutting. unfortunately, when lucy was 14, she and half a dozen other agents were attacked on the job, lucy had tried to warn them and get them out but no one listened and she ended up being the only survivor, to say she has survivor's guilt is an understatement, she was crushed by the event and ran away to london in an attempt to escape the memories

reckless: ya girl runs on instinct alone and those instincts have no time for safety lectures. she steals a source and wears it, she communes with a ghost in a bath where she could fully down, she repeatedly cusses out a type three source because she doesn't like his attitude. while lockwood may be the more suicidal of the duo, lucy is a dab hand at willful self-endangerment, falls asleep with a source in her hand, smh, the audacity of youth

SAMPLE: TDM top level; also a thread with lockwood where he smiles at her and her higher brain function shuts down and a thread with nanaue which is just adorable ngl

INVENTORY: clothes — blue and black leather jacket, blue fuzzy sweater, blue shorts, black tights, black boots, there is a pattern here; a diamond necklace that belongs to lockwood she simply has not returned; sprig of lavender and a lighter in her pocket, a belt for her rapier but no rapier, a torch. at her canon point she has the skull in a backpack, but that seems insane so that can stay home with georgie.

SUITABILITY: i would like to meet the bear. in all honesty, the kids in lockwood & co are literally made for this. their job is to hunt ghosts in the uk and adults can't so they bear the brunt of saving the entire stupid island all on their own. this might be a refreshing turn around where other people help and adults aren't uselesS? wild.

NOTES: lucy has a bandaged hand and wrist!

IF ACCEPTED, WOULD YOU WANT PLOT INVOLVEMENT OFF THE GROUND OR A SETTLING-IN PERIOD? probs settling in period because school starts soon and that's a whole THING

Edited 2023-08-10 22:15 (UTC)

Thank you for your application!

ADMIN

Join

eastbound,

lostcompass,

westwhere and comment to the TAKEN LIST within 72 hours of your acceptance note. A game-wide OOC intro / CR meme and plotting post goes up on 14 August.

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.

While Eastbound is fantasy-horror geared, if you OOCly have a common trigger that is likely to make you very uncomfortable in gameplay (ex: spiders), please flag it here. Best effort will be made to content warn and avoid pictures of it in event write-ups.

Take a look at our optional custom codes to help you set up a character inbox or permissions post.

While some participation is expected, your character is exempted from full activity requirements this month.

NOTES

All roads lead to the bear.

Because of her unique abilities and interaction with ghosts, Lucy counts as death-touched in Akhuras — a status that will give her some dis/advantages with the undead in certain events. These instances will be flagged in write-ups.

Your character receives a shiny new pocket watch pendant with a mirror inside, which serves as a translator and communicator for written, video and audio interaction. It can read out translations of messages written out in native tongues.

…you can either come up with your character’s network username, or comment here if you prefer to receive a mod-assigned punny one.

INTRO

Your character joins the party during its sojourn at the House of Manouk. He may travel with them onwards, when they escape back into the real time of Akhuras… to a place of sweet, sweet respite.

There will be certain opt-in quests available in this period — including one exclusive to newcomers. Participate in whatever you like 😊

The Merchant has his ways to barter information about his new protegees, and at time shares this knowledge with his representative to the party, the witch Karsa. Upon return to Akhuras, the Merchant sends Lucy the following letter, alongside an otherwise blank paper bearing the wax seal of a raven:

Young lady —

I understand you are bereft of certain accoutrement. Turn this paper to the nearest blacksmith or iron vendor.

I trust you will use this safely, wisely, and with care.

With esteem,

A merchant

If the paper is surrendered to a blacksmith, weapons vendor or merchant who sells weapons, Lucy may receive either a blade weapon (wide-blade sword, rapier, dagger), shield or a household trinket — the choice is entirely yours. Sadly, the item would not be magically imbued or spirit repelling.

There is no need to respond to the letter.

applications

lucy carlyle — lockwood & co

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