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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Comments

[lancifolium]

Let's say plot-light, for the sake of me getting my sea-legs.

ACCEPTED

[groundrules]

Thank you for your application!

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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 if you’re fond of plurk, consider following eastbound.

NOTES

We are currently in Arc I, Sa-Hareth. You can jump right into our latest event, or have a browse of the June calendar.

Since Harry Potter spells are so all-encompassing, you may need to dial Lily’s abilities down from time to time, just so she doesn’t blitz through various quests — happy to leave it at your discretion how you tackle that.

Newcomers receive a quartz piece that serves as a translation and communicator device. The sorceress Karsa has currently linked the quartz items she offers to a fishermen’s network — Lily will get the username any fin is possible. A new and less shamefully named quartz piece can be bought or stolen!

Some of the items in Lily’s inventory might suffer extensive water damage because of the below… apologies!

INTRO: Lily will come awake emerging at dawns from a chilled lake in the middle of a wintered forest. She will at first struggle to remember how she arrived there, but she will be aware she spent the night in the lake — over the ensuing days, she might faintly recall the urgent hands of the woods’ people pushing her into the waters, amid feverish mutterings of "Unhalad."

On one of her wrists, Lily will find a man’s handprints, from where the corpse in the lake attempted to keep her close. She will know that he hurts. For three-four days after her arrival, she will also find herself inexplicably drawn to the company of Winnifred Prismall (the player has been informed!).

Coming out of the lake, Lily will be collected by the sorceress Karsa, who was en route to witness the rites of Anurr. She will take Lily through the basics: she is outside of the western citadel of Sa-Hareth, part of a growing faction that was rescued from the undead forces of reining undead warlord Unhalad.

Unhalad summoned the group to use their abilities in the war against his once dethroned but resurging undead rival, Anurr. It is in everyone’s interest for the newcomers to depart this world through long-lost portals that reside eastbound, deep in the continent. Karsa’s master, the elusive Merchant, is organising a trip to that purpose, although the voyage has been repeatedly delayed by cold storms. It is hoped that the portals will take otherworlders to their own homes. For now, they must participate in Anurr’s trials and gain more information that could help with their departure.

[lancifolium]

Just out of curiosity, how long is that handprint going to be there for?

[groundrules]

That depends entirely on how fair Lily's skin is and how vulnerable to bruising — this is not a magical print, purely physical. So, up to you. I'd say... three, four days?