Dissimulo Trail
Who: Anyone going to Dissimulo
Where: Road to Dissimulo!
When: Friday the 10th through Wednesday the 15th
Rating: Assuming around PG-13 will up if that doesn't pan out fff
Summary: It's a long trip to Dissimulo! Let's all have fun~
the log:
I think the easiest way to do this is for everyone to just make threads as they need them with whatever the thread is in the subject, for example: "First night out" "Raiding cars for supplies" "Cougar attack" "Chilling on the trail". Since we have two groups just make sure to put which group the thread is for. Groups are as follows:
Group 1 [left early morning] || Heiji, Conan, Meryl, Luke, Layton, Amu, Adam, Mami, Gracia, Ange, Robin, Weiss, China, (Ema?)
Group 2 [left late afternoon] || Seifer, Kresnik, Shiki, Japan, America, Megumi, Anya
: And Romano was undecided so Shugo feel free to throw him wherever. Same goes for anyone else who wants their character to go to Dissimulo, but didn't get in on the plotting post about it, don't be afraid to pick a wagon group and just throw your character on it o/
Travel route description for Dissimulo:
SO YOU'RE HEADING SOUTHEAST. If you travel down Brebo avenue with your fancy oxen and wagons (which can be found hitched up at the High School with a note that reads TO DISSIMULO), you'll be able to travel a few miles without much incident. You may start to notice some abandoned cars on the side of the road. Most are empty, save a few miscellaneous items that basically everyone leaves lying around in their car (read: fast food receipts). The amount of abandoned cars will become more and more frequent until, about twelve miles out of Discedo, the road will become absolutely jam packed with abandoned cars. Again, most are empty, but every once in a while you may find a forgotten box of food, gun, or any items that wouldn't be useful to travel with (such as coffee makers, although the possibilities are really endless). You may even find a body or two.
But, as much fun as it is, you don't have time to search every car. You'll head offroad into the mountains. It will be rough for a while, but eventually you'll find some unmarked dirt roads, likely made by other escapees or farming equipment back in the day. On the plus side, you won't be dealing with any funky weather. It's going to be hot but at least you don't have acid rain falling all over you.
The bad news is the path has a ton of cougars. It's just fucking riddled with them. And believe me, it's not fun hunting monsters, so they're looking for some easier prey. On top of that there will be the usual assortment of venomous snakes, dirty puddles of water teeming with disease-carrying mosquitoes, and the most dreaded of them all: sunburn. There will be some shade in the mountains, but once you're over, it's mostly former farmland turned plains. On the plus side, the plants growing over here seem green and healthy, but there will be more on that once you actually reach the town.
Dealing with the wildlife and the taking the longer off road route (in addition to any time spent scavenging or complications like a broken wagon or dysentery) will add about a day to travel. If someone breaks their arm though just keep going. They'll deal.
AND ONE MORE THING...
This will apply to all routes, regardless of where your character goes. This is something you've probably experience in your real life. You're alone, it's dark, and you jump at something you thought was there. Luckily it turns out to be a harmless every day object, or just nothing at all. Night rolls around and you're out of the city. With that in mind, imagine you're in your character's place.
Maybe you're on a boat, maybe you've just set up camp in the woods or in the mountains. You're exhausted and all you want to do is talk to your friends. You think you see one of them standing in the dark in the corner of your vision, out of the light. But they're just standing there, so your eyes flick to get a better look at them.
Oh. There's nothing there. Must be your imagination. Look away, and the same figure will be in the corner of your eyes. Again, directly look at it, and it disappears. More of the same figures may appear in your peripheral vision as the night goes on. You can't really make out any features, other than they all appear to be humanoid. By this point you're probably really looking forward to it being light outside.
Try not to jump if you see the same thing in the shadow, in the shape of the trees, or in the reflection of light on the water.
Whatever these things are, they seem to be following you. Watching you. And you can only see them in your peripheral vision, and only for a few moments. If you look away there's no guarantee that they won't move. They're probably moving around anyway. You can try to get close to them, but look directly at them and they'll disappear. Or maybe they'll duck into your "blind spot" and get away that way.
Creepy, right? The good news is these shady folks are not going to make any moves on you. They're just going to stand there.
Watching.
8)
Where: Road to Dissimulo!
When: Friday the 10th through Wednesday the 15th
Rating: Assuming around PG-13 will up if that doesn't pan out fff
Summary: It's a long trip to Dissimulo! Let's all have fun~
the log:
I think the easiest way to do this is for everyone to just make threads as they need them with whatever the thread is in the subject, for example: "First night out" "Raiding cars for supplies" "Cougar attack" "Chilling on the trail". Since we have two groups just make sure to put which group the thread is for. Groups are as follows:
Group 1 [left early morning] || Heiji, Conan, Meryl, Luke, Layton, Amu, Adam, Mami, Gracia, Ange, Robin, Weiss, China, (Ema?)
Group 2 [left late afternoon] || Seifer, Kresnik, Shiki, Japan, America, Megumi, Anya
: And Romano was undecided so Shugo feel free to throw him wherever. Same goes for anyone else who wants their character to go to Dissimulo, but didn't get in on the plotting post about it, don't be afraid to pick a wagon group and just throw your character on it o/
Travel route description for Dissimulo:
SO YOU'RE HEADING SOUTHEAST. If you travel down Brebo avenue with your fancy oxen and wagons (which can be found hitched up at the High School with a note that reads TO DISSIMULO), you'll be able to travel a few miles without much incident. You may start to notice some abandoned cars on the side of the road. Most are empty, save a few miscellaneous items that basically everyone leaves lying around in their car (read: fast food receipts). The amount of abandoned cars will become more and more frequent until, about twelve miles out of Discedo, the road will become absolutely jam packed with abandoned cars. Again, most are empty, but every once in a while you may find a forgotten box of food, gun, or any items that wouldn't be useful to travel with (such as coffee makers, although the possibilities are really endless). You may even find a body or two.
But, as much fun as it is, you don't have time to search every car. You'll head offroad into the mountains. It will be rough for a while, but eventually you'll find some unmarked dirt roads, likely made by other escapees or farming equipment back in the day. On the plus side, you won't be dealing with any funky weather. It's going to be hot but at least you don't have acid rain falling all over you.
The bad news is the path has a ton of cougars. It's just fucking riddled with them. And believe me, it's not fun hunting monsters, so they're looking for some easier prey. On top of that there will be the usual assortment of venomous snakes, dirty puddles of water teeming with disease-carrying mosquitoes, and the most dreaded of them all: sunburn. There will be some shade in the mountains, but once you're over, it's mostly former farmland turned plains. On the plus side, the plants growing over here seem green and healthy, but there will be more on that once you actually reach the town.
Dealing with the wildlife and the taking the longer off road route (in addition to any time spent scavenging or complications like a broken wagon or dysentery) will add about a day to travel. If someone breaks their arm though just keep going. They'll deal.
AND ONE MORE THING...
This will apply to all routes, regardless of where your character goes. This is something you've probably experience in your real life. You're alone, it's dark, and you jump at something you thought was there. Luckily it turns out to be a harmless every day object, or just nothing at all. Night rolls around and you're out of the city. With that in mind, imagine you're in your character's place.
Maybe you're on a boat, maybe you've just set up camp in the woods or in the mountains. You're exhausted and all you want to do is talk to your friends. You think you see one of them standing in the dark in the corner of your vision, out of the light. But they're just standing there, so your eyes flick to get a better look at them.
Oh. There's nothing there. Must be your imagination. Look away, and the same figure will be in the corner of your eyes. Again, directly look at it, and it disappears. More of the same figures may appear in your peripheral vision as the night goes on. You can't really make out any features, other than they all appear to be humanoid. By this point you're probably really looking forward to it being light outside.
Try not to jump if you see the same thing in the shadow, in the shape of the trees, or in the reflection of light on the water.
Whatever these things are, they seem to be following you. Watching you. And you can only see them in your peripheral vision, and only for a few moments. If you look away there's no guarantee that they won't move. They're probably moving around anyway. You can try to get close to them, but look directly at them and they'll disappear. Or maybe they'll duck into your "blind spot" and get away that way.
Creepy, right? The good news is these shady folks are not going to make any moves on you. They're just going to stand there.
Watching.
8)