ooc intro & the likes!

[groundrules]

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...

OPEN (FOR BUSINESS?)

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.

Oh, and here's our first OPEN EVENT LOG! But feel free to start up your own, or debut the IC network community @ eastbound.

If you want to mingle, you can also reply here with...

OOC INTRO | CR MEME
<small><b>PLAYER:</b></small> <b><small>CONTACT:</small></b> <b><small>TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF</small></b>: <b><small>CHARACTER:</b></small> <b><small>CANON:</b></small> <b><small>ELEVATOR PITCH FOR YOUR CHARACTER:</small></b> <b><small>ICE BREAKER ROUNDS:</small></b> i. <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 <b>now</b>, or she'll speak to their manager. How does your character react</i>? ii. <i>A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it</i>? <b><small>ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR?</b></small> generally, or feel free to link to your event plotting comment, if you have one! <b><small>ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?</b></small>

Comments

[beitangmoran]

swell.

And sorry, your highness, your bearing doesn't lie.

[beitangmoran]

then let the adults talk first.

wait.... is this pre time-skip Wangji or post-time skip, because if post that means he's actually the oldest. Hm.

[downswing]

Post, he's old and somehow still unwise.

He's even better at killing.

[beitangmoran]

HIS HAIR IS FINE WANGJI stop harping about his hair.

Also he'd probably take Xunxian because he can at least understand the language, so sorry this won't be an Aquarius only expedition.

[beitangmoran]

good excellent.

Let the younger adults talk first, then.

[downswing]

Oh, so that's how it is.

[jeoha]

Literally nothing Lan Wangji except your 'mourning robes' are made out of silk, dude

[downswing]

What.............. else are clothes made of?

[soulsrob]

PLAYER: Kalyn
CONTACT: ovals
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.

[descendency]

why are we enemies where does the enemies part come in. oh is it because of the trauma

[descendency]

I'll be real I'm a fake fan I can't tell the difference between the Batmans.

IVE BEEN BULLYING THE GANG WITH HIS FACE ALL DAY LOOK AT HIM. Let him make his cash money at the brothel. Being beautiful is his #1 life skill.

threatens u with rose again for good measure

[descendency]

ruxi we both know xiao xingchen is also a sugar baby.

[downswing]

...........................you can't show that bridal picture and then add "threat," it doesn't work like that.

[downswing]

You're not living the Covid lockdown, Winnie, stop fretting about where you're gonna get yours ends trimmed.

[downswing]

This world is doomed.

[descendency]

your character is already wed

[downswing]

INCORRECT, he is married, but he is not wed(ded).

[downswing]

And he has single custody of his precious child.

[darkeststars]

PLAYER: Loren
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????

[beitangmoran]

listen we both know they're going to squint at each other for a while for no reason just because.

[bearshermark]

That would be a unique request! Not something he's tried making before, but he'd be happy to experiment if he had the time/materials with which to do so~

[downswing]

Wangji's people have a thing for garrote wire — it's meant to be used against clan dissidents, in theory, but he, errrr, seems to enjoy just.

You know.

Going to town with it.

[bearshermark]

lmao as El naively believes that the wire would be used for more utility purposes than murder woops

[downswing]

.........please tell me the Dark Lord is going to end up sewing everyone's clothes.

[darkeststars]

The Dark Lord is absolutely going to end up sewing everyone's clothes. All local useless princes, social media influencers, cultivators and Victorian aristocrats need to stop pretending they know how to use a needle and leave it to the professional.