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

[yourdistraction]

so soft but also so sharp!

[yourdistraction]

That's beautiful ahaha. A big ol important vision of Merrill watering a flower. :') Or someone stomping on the flower later on b'awwww.... Save the flower, save the world.

I chose her my first playthrough, too! Then I hurt my heart and did another playthrough where Hawke hated her and yeah this is that version. According to her, any Hawke wooing her would have to be on red lyrium.

[weifinder]

It's winter there has to be some kind of knit cap existing around here, are we going to bring beanies into style in ye olde ancient fantasy zombie apocalypse, perhaps

Hahaha yeah, it all slots into the realms of Demonic Cultivation so he's interested on various levels but also those of prrrrobably don't turn this toward the living if we can help it thanks, and all these more aware Anurr forces are Big Thinking Face from him (though the energy of the U-forces is of more interest for what they feel like deep down)

[weifinder]

Oh it can still get you ostracised when you're supposed to be sending all that energy forcefully on but we don't need to talk moral and ethical politics it's fiiiine, you're functional until you're not, and then you are again.

(Cute, small, and vicious. Just like Jin Guangyao, only nowhere near as charismatic!)

Lmf okay picks up the donkey named Car and tells them to be ready to run

[beitangmoran]

there's just one little trick to his vision. They must be from the future, and they are always accurate. Everything he sees does come to pass, it's not a 'try to avoid this event' kind if future vision. if he sees it, it will happen.

[yourdistraction]

That's Merrill for you. The new local 'influencer'. Time to turn the network into a tiktok... Have you also heard of the subtle chainmail sideboob, followers? New faux-chainmail patterns available now, just click the link on her Instagram story!

Ahhh demons. Merrill will talk for days about demons, and pleasantly! Yes we will do some mashing. She will continue to be testing her magic constantly for the next few days until it works, so her going a little TOO HARD on that on the third day of frustration could always lead to something crazy! IF you know the canon, I'm sure you can imagine possibilities. Edit: lol meant to say if, that is an important distinction.

[plentystrong]

very pointy from ears to toe claws

[yourdistraction]

Then clearly the solution is to wait for it to happen, then immediately run and replace it before Merrill finds it dead! Flawless.

But seriously, a power like that will be wicked useful for plot material, and I am eager to use it! once I can brain actual ideas that aren't flowers haha.

[yourdistraction]

Pointy-eared solidarity. Hat hunting is going to be a bench.

[weifinder]

Why are you exposing anything but topboob what the heck kind of styles do you all favour!!!

Haaaaaahahah yeah I'm DA2 familiar (and all DA series familiar, lore and also contradictory lore is All We Gots, Cheryl) and yeah I'm.

Okay so Merrill? How about we not. Not attract... attention... with what your frustration meltdown might achieve, do you want to go touch a few resentful spirits? Just say hello to them we can do that

[weifinder]

i love catra this is my contribution

one stray cat who is not physically a cat nodding to another one who has cat ears and a tail what the heck even is this, you're sure you're not some kind of cat who cultivated to human form???

[weifinder]

i love how many of our characters are just like ah, yes, petty theft

we understand this

[weifinder]

sometime the fact both of them can pass by the undead without notice must be used for shenanigans

[thehoneybadger]

just 'cause she's a superhero doesn't mean she's lawful good

[yourdistraction]

OK SHE'LL BE GOOD. That sounds like a party, haha.

[weifinder]

define lawful and then look at most the people's justice compasses here and we all nod collectively

[weifinder]

Time for a trip around the citadel to say hello to the people who died horribly unpeaceful, as you do

[yourdistraction]

Yeah but maybe they have cool lore.

[weifinder]

Probably they're all just poor slaughtered souls but sure that's like lore

[somebadnews]

Well that sounds fine and promising.

Lmao yes.... very discrete. Whatever you gotta do to carry it. He's fast, but he's not really made for hauling all this by himself you know.

[yourdistraction]

They'll be disney princesses with ghosts and demons surrounding them instead of forest creatures. How cute!

[weifinder]

So you know how Klaus is rail thin

... Wei Wuxian is not an improvement

This is where he'll be like, may I introduce you to Lan Wangji, he is Strong. And possibly called Car for this heist.

[soulsrob]

both just standing around looking at the undead wander around them like "Sooo.... nice weather, huh?"

[weifinder]

Watch them really end up with an undead following them home all, puppy eyed

eye falls out

[weifinder]

"bit chilly, but not the worst" during the blizzarding times now, just. this is Fine.