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ooc intro & the likes!
Hi everyone! Welcome to Eastbound, where nothing goes as planned, and the caravan-chasing bear is taking its sweet time making a cameo.
Without further ado, the game issssssss...
Applications nevertheless remain open until 23:59 GMT, 2 April (Friday) for any further newcomers. They can join in on the fun at any point in time!
Please doublecheck your character is on the TAKEN LIST, when you have a second! You are welcome to consider canon any samples you wrote in the Sa-Hareth setting as part of your application. Note: transfer ongoing application sample threads to the Eastbound communities if you want any future tags to them to count towards activity check requirements.
Take a look over our first event: you can now ask any mod questions linked to it, or ask any questions to your black little hearts' content.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: Software tester in Eastern Europe who reads a lot, sometimes watches things, games a tiny bit, and occasionally has words to write. Have two cats ... they will occasionally make appearance in plurk or conversations.
CHARACTER: Su Xunxian
CANON: Oh! My Emperor
ELEVATOR PITCH ON YOUR CHARACTER: Gemini constellation lord whose power is animal languages, the one who came from a merchant family as opposed to aristocracy and is extremely loyal to and extremely in love with the Emperor's uncle, Beitang Moran. Owns a brothel and miiight be the top courtesan/oiran in it it. Wears either sheer robes or robes that are open at the chest...
He's a pretty boy.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persisted middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Su Xunxian will definitely do his best at the service... and then let others reveal the mistake and ingratiate himself at least a little by not making her feel horrible about it.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
'Darling'
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR?
Su Xunxian will start out in the mines, summarily decide this is a dream so might as well die to wake up, then hear either mention of Moran or Moran's voice over the crystals and end up exploring JUST ON THE OFF CHANCE that he is there. He'll not be in a great shape by the time he gets to the city because a. underdressed, and b. he is really a rich spoiled boy who's not used to survivalist options.
Once in the House of Dew, well. That's more his game.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? Hmmm other than some canon things that need clarified with Moran, he'll take things as they go.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: Euro-based art and cake loving capybara stalker who lives, works, and hopefully lives again.
CHARACTER: Lan Wangji
CANON: The Untamed
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: The questionably straight man in a Chinese fantasy Count of Monte Cristo retelling, where the main character doesn't have enough of a brain to plot reve —
No, okay: poker-faced old timey exorcist married to Duty, Honour, Pride, babysitting a himbo and everything that isn't a brothel.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
...blink thoughtfully, purposefully, repeatedly, then exit the awkwardness of this interaction in silence, because an attendant's life is not for master Lan. Never reward wretched manners.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Pets are sadly not allowed in Lan Wangji's native Cloud Recesses — a moment, for your single tear. — and he's not the best at doling out light-hearted names. 'Fluffy' is sadly not in the cards. Perhaps, 'That Which Sits beneath Lan Wangji's Boot'?
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Subterfuge isn't Wangji's forte, and he's not the most accustomed to... earning his keep through traditional means. This will have to change very quickly. But he's an excellent sword hand and decent at recon, so he'll scout the citadel as a first step, try to glean his any information on the Unhalad-Anurr dynamic and... might unfortunately not stay his hand if any patrolling undead get too close. How can this go wrong?
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? N/A in a critical sense, but procuring additional fine silks and superior tofu can never go amiss. Please crowdfund his lifestyle. In exchange, he can... kill for you. In your name. Generally. He kills well. Amputates even better.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: Call center supervisor who can't wait to quit her job mid-June. I love minecraft, writing, and cats. I have a tendency to edit my comments a few times.
CHARACTER: Eleven
CANON: Dragon Quest XI S
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Anxious Chosen One/Child of Light
with great hairtrying and (currently) failing to live up to the weight of his title. He's a good bean.ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
• Stuttering apologies to the woman that he doesn't work there, then a harried attempt to try and find someone that's able to help her.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
• After feeling great amounts of pity for it, ...Zandy. (he has a dog named Sandy at home. this one is undead/zombified. he's not terribly original.)
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? El is going to be initially convinced that this world is The Void he literally just let his spirit be sent to at his pull-point- a dimension full of lost souls. But in general, he will be a quiet, yet helpful bean.
He's a decently talented smith, but the forges are guarded so while he'd be happy to make weapons for characters to defend themselves with, he'd need the materials and a sneaky plan to get the work done.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? Not pressingly so. Just some initial confusion and stress as everyone's going to deal with. He'll be a bit slow on the uptake on getting to work and likely run into translation trouble after the first necklace wears out.
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Make Wangji some wire, all the better to kill things indiscriminately with, once you're in that forge, good bean.
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CONTACT: PM or daestwen#6257 on discord
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: i draw for a living or at least try to... uh... Idk, they/he/she whatever is fine.
CHARACTER: Lee Chang
CANON: Kingdom
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Crown Prince of Joseon (Korea around 1600), Lee Chang has just been through a zombie apocalypse of his own and is very fucking tired, thank you.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Lee Chang looks at the impatient woman and frowns while he waits for the translation to creep through. Once it does, his brow furrows further, and he stands there with a slightly disdainful look on his face, replying in Korean: "Then I suggest that you find them, if what you need is servitude."
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
He does not name it. He looks for his sword instead. If someone manages to convince him not to behead the poor thing immediately, he will still not name it, and instead attempt to lose it.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? He will probably be doing his thing and collecting people in the jail who listen to him (pc or npc) to coordinate for escape and survival, especially once the jail break happens, he's going to make sure as many people get out as safely as possible. He will be in his mourning robes covered in blood, with a gaping wound at his shoulder, so... Up to you if you trust this guy.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?
He desperately needs to know if the undead here are contagious and if they are the same kind as he knew back home.
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Moran can recognize another royal when he sees one. Which absolutely does not mean instant trust because royals spend their whole life trying to off one another even between family members as Chang knows but at least gives a common starting point of sorts, plus there's a chance they can actually understand each other in the same language, even though Moran does not know what China is. let's do this jail break, your highness.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: 30-something working second-shift in a warehouse in Kentucky who likes to cry about all these dumb fictional boys, but who also streams on twitch from time to time....and continues to cry about dumb fictional boys.
CHARACTER: Xiao Xingchen
CANON: Mo Dao Zu Shi
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
Xie Lian beta testedA washed-up rockstar cultivator who got wrapped up in some bad shit and then gave his eyes to hisboyfriendgood friend and now he's a blind single dad with two kids and still does fun zombie-hunting but also sleeps in a coffin at night. Don't worry about it, this is fine and normal.Also I don't think anyone here needs an opt-out but just in case: Opt-Out and Content Warnings
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Xingchen, clearly being not a worker at this establishment, what with being blind and more of a liability than anything, will be confused at the woman's insistence, but kindly offer to help her regardless. That could mean doing the service himself or finding someone else to do it, but boy does she sound mad about something. Let's not make things more upsetting than they have to be!
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Assuming he doesn't kill this undead creature first and foremost, Xingchen could be found referring to it as Little Trouble.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR?
In the brothel, he'll take up some of the workers on "chaperoning" sessions with historically troublesome patrons just to make sure they behave. Just imagine him sitting in a corner doing some basket weaving and listening to euphemistic poetry writing and not understanding it because his creativity does not extend far at all. Aside from that, if other workers see he has hard candy (just two pieces, he can't share those with everyone!) he'll take the little bit of money he earns as a chaperone to buy candy and thus make himself very popular. And still poor. This isn't a fiscally-sound adventure, but he's just too nice, this guy.
However, having emerged victorious(?) from the salt mines to begin with, he'll venture his way back there, magical zombie-seeking missile sword in hand, and gather some of the salt up for some money. Feel free to accompany a clearly FOOLISH BLIND MAN going on adventures by his lonesome.
Also I've been informed Mingyu's going to adopt him so this can only end well.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?
TEACH HIM TO SPEND MONEY MORE WISELY.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: What is the self anyway. Taiwanese-American baking enthusiast who thinks I'm funny. Love to be gay and do crimes.
CHARACTER: Bai Mingyu // Gabriel Bai
CANON: OC
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Vapid socialite who just wanted to coast through life by being very beautiful and very tragic turns into Batman if Batman were really petty and evil because some very bad people kidnapped his boyfriend.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Mingyu takes command of the situation, all smiles and flattery. He asks about her day, compliments her hair, teases her with what school she goes to, surely she must still be in university? He can see she's terribly frustrated, he's here to listen. Once he's figured out what she wants, he'll do a quick assessment on how easy this task is to fulfill, make a cost-benefit analysis to him, and either make her happy or ruin her whole day, depending.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Xiao Gui. (小鬼)
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? He's starting a band with the other resident princes. No? Fine. Failing that, he's here to sass everyone who looks at him sideways, extort English speakers for his Chinese translation services, and browbeat spoiled brats into shape. I made a meme. He can also forcibly rip your past trauma out of you if he's trying to decide if you can be trusted, or gets bored for some reason.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? Not really. Fox has been missing for a while, is probably dead. He's going to work towards fixing that as a general goal, but the only urgency lies in the ongoing deterioration of his general willingness to continue existing. Which isn't immediate, so that's fine. He's just going to get on his hustle and wait for his morosexuality to inevitably bite him in the ass.
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CONTACT: PM is the easiest if you don't already have me on Plurk
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: I'm French and I work in a training center that trains funeral home workers, which is something I never imagined myself doing even 2 years ago. I used to be an Business English teacher before ye olde covid times. I am also a cat slave, and sometimes I stream on twitch with games and yell about Japanese swords.
CHARACTER: Beitang Moran
CANON: Oh! My Emperor
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Basically, he's the Imperial regent of sorts for his country because the Emperor, his brother, was killed and he had to raise his nephew, who is only a few years younger than him, to take over. So now he's trying to goad said nephew to do that, with the added complication that he and nephew are in love with the same girl. Oh, and sometimes, he can see the future which can be useful..... or not.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react? Invite her to go get the manager with a smile. By all means, madam.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it? /Hands over the whole matter to Xunxian, he does not have time for this, thank you very much. So I guess it'll end up named Darling, too, lol.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Plotting comment here
ETA : Moran's power when it's back is having random visions of the future that are technically always correct, he just has no idea of when they might happen and very little context for them. If you want to
traumatizehelp your character, feel free to hit me up to have Moran have visions of their canon future if you like. Please note, though, that Moran is usually a bit reluctant to mention future visions because of the aforementioned lack of context. But his forehead glows when they happen so he can't very well hide it.ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? 'need' is a strong word, but Moran is perpetually curious and in need of intellectual stimulation. The language barrier will be frustrating for him, but he'd be eager to try and figure out the geography, history and political situation, so getting to a relatively good command of the local language would be sort of a priority for him.
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Come do poking and prodding about the Unhalad-Anurr situation with Wangji, once you get your hair sorted.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: I'm an intake counselor at a law firm and and the time I spend not chasing down attorneys is spent on playing barbies on the internet or playing video games.
CHARACTER: Winnifred "Winnie" Prismall
CANON: Original
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: A noblewoman from Victorian England who doesn't have a soul, can steal souls from others, and is plotting to overthrow the government in a rebellion plot. Because she has no soul, she doesn't actually feel emotions very much or very well and all of it's faked. But she believes in fairness and justice and will do what she can to see the scales of justice balanced.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Winnie laughs in utter delight and does her best to deal with it, chattering amicably to unguard the woman and find her the help she needs. If Winne's attempts are unsuccessful, Winnie will lean full-tilt into Very Malicious Compliance.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Sir Winston Beauregard the 3rd.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? She's going to be in the jail, extorted by Mingyu to be translator (which Winnie is going to find delightful), largely walk around the undead w/them barely noticing her like it's NBD, trying to sell her corset for moneys....
WInnie can speak English and French, and passably Greek and Latin.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?
Where to get her hair done, the latest fashions, and all the ins and outs of the larger government bodies, thanks.
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CONTACT: contact post or Discord (ask me for username)
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: They/them or just use my name, as you like. Just another nerd in the midwest US, my day job is Japanese-English translation and I wish I knew more Chinese for hanging out with all these fictional boys :p I haven't been a DWRP regular for a long time but some of you probably remember me from Hakuouki fandom where I played Sannan. I'm also pretty into Dragon Age and Critical Role, and I play quite a bit of D&D :) Also a big tea enthusiast.
CHARACTER: Archeval aka Darth Imperius. He's a Customizable Bioware RPG Main Character lol, canon refers to him generically as the Sith Inquisitor.
CANON: Star Wars: The Old Republic (Bioware MMORPG)
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Very short, very cranky rags-to-riches Space Indiana Jones who occasionally eats ghosts. His day job is doing his best impression of an evil asshole and he almost certainly doesn't like you but would probably die for you anyway. While complaining about it the entire time.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
First he'll stop for 0.5 seconds of irritation that he can't just turn on 100% Maximum Haughtiness and be like "madam do you realize you're speaking to a Sith Lord, I could murder you right now and no one here would say a word except to ask what should be done with the body" like he could back home lol. After getting over that frustration he'll just coldly and not-particularly-kindly inform her that he doesn't work here, and if she doesn't promptly shut her mouth and stop interrupting the business of everyone around her then he will give her something to really have a problem about. Possibly with a hand on his lightsaber or whatever sharp object is on his person at the time, if he's feeling particularly cranky.
This would all be extra hilarious if he happens to be wearing his ancestor Kallig's famous helmet at the time.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Nuisance. It would start as "just get out of here, you absolute nuisance!" and as the creature proved itself increasingly harmless (if unnerving) would turn into more of a complain-y sort of name as he would probably semi-adopt it over time. He has a bit of a weakness for awful uglycute pets, though he prefers ones that he can feel in the Force and that aren't uhh, rotting.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? He will be starting in the mines, plotting comment over here. He's overall bad-tempered but can grit his teeth and play nice for a while in the name of survival, which is exactly what he'll be doing during his stay at the House of Dew -- though having large parts of the brothel steer clear of him due to his semi-armored dress will suit him just fine. Oddly enough he's quite good at sewing/mending and cleaning, so since his other major skills are dark sorcery and killing people in very inventive ways, he'll probably be leaning on the first two quite a bit to support himself in the city...as well as simply taking what he needs, in small amounts, whenever a safe opportunity presents itself. His main concern will be simply surviving and gathering resources to get the hell out of here, and he'll be willing to help others do the same if they seem like useful allies or just very in need.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? He will be trying to pick up the local language(s) as fast as possible because the translation tech here sucks and none of these fuckers speak Basic or Huttese, what kind of far Outer Rim backwater is this man????
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: ummmm. i talk way too much about my dog and cat and i love books and video games and of course tv shows and i'm currently in the process of immigrating so i do talk about that a lot too
CHARACTER: Ery
CANON: Original Character
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Ery is a piece of an infinite being turned finite when placed in the body of a human. They gained their own sentience and individuality and they hate it. Their infinite self destroyed the world, however, and now Ery feels a little guilty about it too. It hates feelings. It's become a 'mother' to potentially the last witch of her kind, named Baby by Ery. And Baby may save the world some day.....
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
What in the world is a manager, and why should Ery care? They'd listen to it for all of five seconds before turning around and walking off without another words. Woops.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Oh don't ask them to name things. They're the worst. They'll probably just name it Cat..... that works right?
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? none yet just getting situated! Will post more to the event post when I get a little more situated mentally myself. probably tomorrow morning when i'm more awake.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?how is this their life..........
Note: Ery uses they/them pronouns personally but they are open to she/her as well. So they won't be offended if you call them that.
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Cat.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: 32 yo Portuguese cis-woman living in Ireland. I'm an animal manager/zookeeper at a Reptile Zoo and a freelancer furry artist who likes to complain about everything and show off my animals IDK WHAT ELSE TO SAY
CHARACTER: Mina Ashido
CANON: My Hero Academia
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Mina is... ah, a human. I promise. She has the power to create acid from her skin and that's why she looks like candy floss. She is 16 years old and a VERY excitable and energetic person, also extremely flashy which is great when you gotta LAY LOW. But in any case, she is VERY friendly and she wants to become a Hero, so she will be helping whoever wants and need help.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Mina is a child, why are you harassing a child, lady. No, actually!! Mina will be incredibly jolly and happy to help, to the point it's probably awkward to try screaming when the other person is clearly trying to do their best. However, if this lady is being too Karen even for Mina, chances are Mina will probably just ignore her because she AIN'T GONNA LET YOU BRING HER DOWN and is patient enough to let the lady tire herself out first - and once she does, THEN Mina will help.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Pinky Junior and she'd totally paint it pink or dress it with pink clothes because U GOTTA MATCH
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Apparently Mina's skin gotta be kept a secret ohhh she's gonna be pissed ANYWAY I will tag the ooc post in a sec (:
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? she needs to go to a place where people don't try to kidnap her because she has pink skin )= not cool, guys.
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CONTACT: pm or hit me up on discord (i'm on plurk but don't tend to do more than chat there)
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: i'm a millennial with cats who presently also lives with three dogs and two more indoor/outdoor cats! currently in recovery from a surgery i'll be repeating a version of in a few months, so tags are slow atm because it's hard typing LMF IM WORKING ON THIS, HI
CHARACTER: Wei Wuxian
CANON: The Untamed
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: You too could befriend a necromancer learning the embodied dead gig for the first time ever! He's charming, he fakes it until he makes it, and ready to make it into the necromarket because all y'all need funding and have you seen his bae? The one in all the silks? Look they both like lovely materials but uh. One is used to slumming it out of necessity. With whines. Lots of whining and creative problem solving skills. Also being hot and a hot mess at once!
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
A moment of dead eyed stare before he smiles nice and wide and meaningless and, "I see, I see," before passing along the train to the manager of the brothel, more than happy to act the ignorant fool as to not have to deal with this longer than he has to. Quite probably if there's a way to lift something off her in the process... he'll uh. Try.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Why would anyone think this man has naming sense? Probably Baihe.
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Haven't hit up the plotting post as I'm going in order, but I will toss him into escaping via the Salt Mines, where his biggest moments of learning will involve a. finding a ratty mostly white blanket and b. encountering zero supplies in the salt mines beyond half a barrel of oil and a lantern with a broken glass panel that keeps threatening to make the flame go out. Once at the brothel he's also going to be leaning into some boyish charm, by which I mean picking up extra odd jobs specifically of the kind where he's getting out of the brothel because he's got some light fingers and overall grifting to get up to, and somehow convince Lan Wangji to wear borrowed robes while getting his cleaned.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?
HOW TO GET IN WITH THE NECROMARKET LMF cripes he's got to get into a whole new sort necromancy from the kind he knows but with startling clarity it's blatantly apparent it is a Thing Here.
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This God damned husk.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: 30-year-old nonbinary (they/them) writer, twitter addict, Twitch streamer, and current customer service agent. I have a cat named Pixel, who is a bigboy.
CHARACTER: Rachel "Honey Badger" Silva
CANON: Original Character
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Hot mess teenage superhero whose core competencies are punching real good and stealing your girlfriend. Has daddy issues, but you would too if your dad dosed you with super-soldier serum since you were a kid and was using you as scientific proof-of-concept for the military-industrial complex.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
Rachel would look her dead in the eye, say "No," and go back to whatever she was doing. The angrier this notKaren gets, the funnier she'll find it.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
"Squishy".
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Rachel is going to be coming to in the salt mines, because she is a salt mine, and she is very much on board with doing minor, petty crimes like pickpocketing because you need to do what you need to do to survive! But especially if you do them to people who suck.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? CIGARETTES.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: Unemployed noodle from Germany who grumps a lot and draws sometimes, hi!
CHARACTER: Catra
CANON: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER:
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
First: laugh in the woman's face. Second: mock her thoroughly. Third: threaten violence. If said violence gets enacted depends on how easily the woman backs down!
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
What, you mean "idiot", "pest" or "go away, you little cockroach" aren't names? How about Kyle?
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? NOPE I'm so far idea-less =D;;
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? Nothing beyond "where am I", "where are my underlings" and "how do I get back to Etheria so I can Prove Myself to everyone I totally don't care about". Maybe who the next person she can manipulate/threaten into doing her bidding is.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: The exact opposite of Five, I promise. Photographer and artist-type who likes birds. I take cream and sugar in my coffee.
CHARACTER: Number Five Hargreeves
CANON: The Umbrella Academy
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: He's fun! Guy with the power to manipulate space and time, who got trapped in a post-apocalyptic world for 45 years the first time he tried to time travel (he's 58 btw). Then he got picked up by the Commission (basically the time police) and worked as an assassin before he figured out how to go back to stop the apocalypse and broke his contract. But he screwed it up and reverted back to his 13 year old body. That old story.
Semi-crazy and sassy little SOB who teleports everywhere. Zero problems with murder or telling you how much better he is than you. You definitely want him on your team.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
You in danger, girl. If blinking away isn't an option: Five would stare and wonder if she's actually talking to him, or if she's got horrible eyesight. Pretty sure he's older than her, so that's always hilarious. Then smile that super friendly smile of his and make some remark that will probably make sure she remembers him. Hopefully the manager gets there quick enough.
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
Five does love naming things, but nah, those things wig him the eff out. He'd probably address it affectionately with generic names like "disgusting wheezebag" or "slimy sack of worm food", they're just gross. Maybe "Klaus." (Fun fact: in the comics he had a puppy named Mr. Pennycrumb. Give the poor guy a puppy, his lost childhood...)
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Initial escape plotting! I'll hop on that log in a jiffy but feel free to plot out anything with me I'll be so grateful.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? Oh my god where is his family?? Low-key constant freak out about not knowing where they landed after the portal they were supposed to go through, so plan on him being very motivated to learn and travel around the market and they're probably dead again aren't they... Laser focused here. What is eating and sleeping? Fully ready to rob a bank for coin if it gets him somewhere quicker. Probably a lot of thievery in his future until he figures something else out.
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF: A swamp witch approaching their mid-thirties that still tries to communicate in memes. It was hard not to just use a gif for this part. Call me she, he, or they; it's good. I play too many vidya games and talk to my bunny and cat more than I do other people. I've been away from the RP sphere for a few years, so excuse the rusty creaking sounds as I get back into it.
CHARACTER: Merrill
CANON: Dragon Age 2
ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER: Merrill is an easily lost and sometimes clueless elf with a very whimsical way of thinking (to which she will promptly voice). She's also a deadly blood mage when her powers are working, and it's what it says on the tin. She can re-animate the dead, but not to the level that this place has. That'll get her curious and might end up putting people in danger because she does get that tunnel vision. She's already used to being an outcast and will tend to hermit away once she does find somewhere, so someone might need to keep her from isolating herself too much. She'll also need help hiding her ears and tattoos whenever she goes out.
ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:
i. Here your character is, minding their own or someone else's business in a tavern of the Sa-Hareth merchants' arena, when in comes a particularly persistent middle-aged woman with an eerily trademark haircut, insisting your character should give her prompt, first-class and no-nonsense service now, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react?
"Oh, really, I don't work here! But yes you should get first-class service! Isn't this a first-class place? What does that mean exactly? No need to shout, I'm right here after all! R─right, of course you want something! I suppose I can go get it for you. Where would I go, then? What was it you wanted? That sounds delicious! Can I have a bite when I bring it...? No no, that's rude isn't it, I can just ask for some myself as well! What kind of dessert should we get? They already wasted my honey cakes, or I would share those. Wait─ Where are you going? Oh no, how am I going to eat two servings of this by myself...?"
ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?
As much as Merrill would love a pet to probably neglect, a human pet (even undead) is a little too close to slavery for her liking, so at first she'll just go right back out and try to find wherever the undead human belongs! If that doesn't work or it isn't responsive and acts rather brainless like a standard zombie, she might conveniently toss her morals aside to experiment on them for the sake of blood magic! In secret... Sorry, "Dog the Second"...
ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? Event plotting is still in baby stages, so nothing solid is plotted out! Come at her! She'll start off in the prison and might try to willingly interact with a spirit/ghost even during the chaos of an escape. She'll be a bit groggy and without her magic or staff, so she won't be incredibly useful in helping others, but she can keep herself alive.
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH? A cloak, a cloak! Those elf ears, tho. Maybe some make-up or a glamor spell for her tattoos. Don't want the daisy to be snatched right back up. For figuring things out, she'll be very eager to learn about how the undead function here, what sort of magic spells are used, and how she can get her hands on them. Also, are there any fancy looking mirrors around? Interesting methods of interdimensional travel? Asking for a 'friend'.
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