lostcompass | 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...

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

PLAYER:
CONTACT:
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FINE SELF:

CHARACTER:
CANON:
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?

ii. A weirdly hapless humanoid undead that thinks itself a dog keeps following your character (home). What does your character name it?

ANY EVENT PLANS SO FAR? generally, or feel free to link to your event plotting comment, if you have one!
ANYTHING YOUR CHARACTER URGENTLY NEEDS FIGURED OUT IN SA-HARETH?

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PLAYER: Rose
CONTACT:

LadyotRings
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 tested~~ A washed-up rockstar cultivator who got wrapped up in some bad shit and then gave his eyes to his ~~boyfriend~~ good 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.

Bro, can you take on sugaring the baby, cause this isn't happening for Wangji, and Wei Wuxian has Standards of mooching that need to be respected. BE A GOOD UNCLE.