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

[bearshermark]

PLAYER: Solar
CONTACT: Youkofox13
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 hair trying 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.

[beitangmoran]

Moran does have a soft spot for hypercompetent kids who can be a bit slow on the uptake lol. He has one of those at home.

[bearshermark]

He's friendly and well-meaning, if a bit shy. But definitely interested in making allies/acquaintences :>

[downswing]

Zombie Sandy = Zandy = I awwwwwww'd.

Make Wangji some wire, all the better to kill things indiscriminately with, once you're in that forge, good bean.

[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

[thehoneybadger]

Rachel would probably get along great with Eleven, and most likely treat him like a little brother, 'cause look at all these weird adults dressed like it's the renfaire lol. At least he's a weird kid dressed like it's the renfaire!

[bearshermark]

daw yes that sounds adorable. Embrace the weirdness. El is a friendly bean, so I def can't see why not.

[thehoneybadger]

Excellent!

Also call center supervisor...my condolences. I'm currently a tier 2 rep and every day is exhausting but it pays the bills

[somebadnews]

I'm waiting patiently for an excuse for Five to ask Eleven if he has ten siblings. lol number names...

[bearshermark]

Number names. But that sounds like it'll be a fun conversation!