TRAVEL LOG #1

[synfluxmods]

TRAVEL LOG #1

CONTENT WARNINGS: potential mentions of drugs, suspected mind-control, alcohol, and gambling, gore.

▶ 001. A RUDE AWAKENING.

On the morning of the 15th, the Outsiders will hear an alarm sound in the early hours. No matter what you’re doing, the alarm will not stop sounding, and it’s because they’re playing directly into your oculars. If one is sleeping, they may even be roused by the spark of colors on their oculars dictating an emergency. After a few minutes of this, the following message will appear:

PLEASE REPORT TO THE DATAPORTAL AT THE TOKYO BRANCH AND BE PREPARED FOR DEPARTURE.

"Captain Yamakawa speaking. You’ve done a great job in testing the data portals. Now that we are able to travel, we were sent a call for help in another city due to lack of personnel and resources abroad. You will be looking for evidence of a new kaiju around the rendezvous point. It may be a difficult journey, so prepare yourself. SYNTHIA will still be online to help you make it to the city. Report to the POD CHAMBER where we have installed an international dataportal and prepare for transportation."

Following the success of the dataportal testing, the engineering department was able to fine tune its abilities and widen the reach of the portals. The portals can connect even abroad now!

Despite their best efforts, however, they cannot guarantee that the same symptoms won’t appear, and ask all Outsiders who are utilizing them to practice caution. Additionally, through all their testing, they found that people who hold hands or make contact with others as they pass through will be hit with less issues.

▶ 002. WELCOME TO LAS VEGAS.

When one passes through the data portal, they will see the refuge city of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Similar to Neo Tokyo, it is also rich in life and known as the city that never sleeps. Incidentally, it is also famously noted as a place of endless vice. The city is built up around a strip of land of roughly 4.2 miles. A vast majority of the city was built up over the wreckage of the old, and some fixtures were simply made new with whatever was left preexisting. The Mojave Desert has expanded towards surrounding cities, though it will take a vehicle to get there in a timely manner.

The city has no shortage of hotels and with each hotel, a casino. While Outsiders here are on a mission, there’s no stating they couldn’t participate in the fun of Vegas while LILITH crew begin their investigation. While some hotels will be clearly abandoned or less traversed, there is no end to all card tables and slot machines, all asking for your KRYPTOS.

The hotel the Outsiders are slotted to stay over the course of the next few days is one where they built directly over the hotels of the old. While it offers a decent place to sleep, it’s not without a refurbished pirate themed bed, or the columns of what appears to have been from Caesars Palace. Is that a giant clown face staring at you in the room? Don’t worry about it. The hotel offers that this is the best place to depart into the desert from. For this mission, Outsiders may bunk up with whoever they would like, and each hotel provides two queen sized beds.

Excited to venture out into the city? Even under the threat of kaiju, the city doesn’t sleep. Outsiders may venture through the Las Vegas Strip and treat themselves to a fun night of drinking, gambling, shopping, partying and circle-style performances. The Grand Canal Shoppes, a Venetian-inspired high end mall, boasts a man-made canal with gondola rides for a fee, along with many retail outlets and restaurants. There are also numerous spas and carnival-style rides to enjoy. Las Vegas was once known as the ‘Marriage Capital of the World’, and in a world besieged by kaiju, the people don’t seem to think they have anything to lose. Outsiders may spot a few bride and grooms-to-be partying in the street.

(LILITH does not have a stance on whether or not Outsiders are permitted to get hitched as long as it does not affect their performance. )

▶ 003. TROUBLE BREWING.

It’s normal for fights to break out with so much alcohol being passed around, but something … isn’t quite right with some of the locals here. Outsiders who keep an eye open might notice people acting erratically, and not just from being intoxicated. There are people ready to pick a fight from just being looked at, people falling into despondent sadness and lethargy, people wandering mindlessly and people becoming distressed from seeing things that aren’t there. Ask the locals and they will tell you these cases seem to be popping up more often the past week.

The most concerning of all are the stories of people disappearing completely. One little girl will tell you she cried as she saw her mother mindlessly walk into the desert, as if called by a voice no one else can hear. There are many other accounts of this happening. In fact, all the people acting erratically seem to disappear within a few days …

Outsiders may interact with civilians who are acting erratic and aggressive, but asking questions they may receive answers that do not make sense, are perverse and inappropriate or may trigger aggression. Any Outsider to gets into a fight and is severely injured may report to a local hospital here and will find they are pretty packed with other civilians acting strange, hurting each other and themselves. Certainly, this was the main cause for concern that got LILITH's attention anyway.

▶ 004. FOUR FOR THE ROAD.

Within a day or two, the Outsiders will once again be called to action by a blaring notice in their implant.

YOUR VEHICLES ARE PREPARED. ASSEMBLE OUTSIDE THE CITY IMMEDIATELY.

When they gather at the location provided to them, they will find a fleet of armored campervans waiting for them. Each campervan comes equipped with beds, a kitchenette, and bathroom facilities, and will fit about 4 people. Within the campervans, they will find desert-appropriate attire designed to protect them from the scorching sun. These campervans also come with some basic artillery such as a mounted machine gun. There are also supplies in the form of water bottles and MRE ration packs.

Those who have driven large vehicles in the past are encouraged to take the driver’s seat. If the group does not have any driving experience, they will be given a crash course on driving recorded by the man himself, Seok Dang. (He probably shouldn’t be doing this with the stunts he’s pulled, but the Commander does not have any time to be teaching anyone driving, and Seok Dang volunteered so eagerly…)

"Listen. If you’ve ever handled a ▄▄ before, the joystick is exactly like that. You gotta tug it, but not too hard. Gently, yeah, like that, that’s the path to ecstasy … "

If it eases anyone’s worries, the campervans are armored and highly shock resistant, so they should withstand a crash or two.

(Those who finish his course and successfully drive 100km while supervised will receive an international driving license.)

▶ 005. THE HUNT IS ON.

With everyone settled into their campervan, the large scale road trip begins. LILITH has a general idea of where the biggest energy signal is located for the rift and they will feed the coordinates to the Outsiders. The journey will take about a few days into (and around as LILITH is searching for both people & the source of the rift energy) the Mojave Desert, and Outsiders will be permitted occasional rest stops to give drivers a break and to investigate the terrain. The terrain itself is a harsh desert, with cacti and small local fauna abundant. (Those not wanting to eat ration packs can take this time to hunt the local fauna such as birds, lizards and desert foxes.) While there is nothing else around, observant Outsiders may notice signs of human life - footprints in the sand, a shoe or torn piece of clothing being left behind, and even the odd human carcass being torn apart by vultures.

The logical conclusion would be that those missing humans have been here, and the only thing left to do is find them … but Outsiders and civilians aren't all that lurk here, and time will tell what lies beneath the desert surface ...

▶ 005. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our very first travel log! Each campervan will accommodate anywhere between 3-5 people, with 4 being the ideal and 5 being a squeeze. Players are encouraged to connect with each other to fill up a van but the mods will not be enforcing it. If you need help finding roommates, there is a FIND A ROOMMATE header below that you can make use of.

If you'd like to test your gambling luck, we also have an IC SLOTS HEADER for you to comment to for you to see how well your character does at the slot machines. This is entirely for fun, and of course you are always welcome to have your characters winning or losing at the slot machines as much as you want in your prompts so long as they aren't winning jackpots.

Following this log, all characters who have purchased style upgrades will receive an update to their chip enabling them access to desert attire and popular styles within Las Vegas.

All tags on this log are worth 2 points.

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Comments

FIND A ROOMMATE

[synfluxmods]

Comment here if you are an individual or a group looking for a roommate. Other interested parties will comment to you!

It helps to describe what skills your characters can offer the group e.g. driving, cooking, hunting...

Metal Sonic | Brimstone

[mechspeed]

Aside from He's a Fightin' Machine I'm here to offer a driver spot, he's fully capable and he's actually good at it.

He's only a bit over 3ft tall though so I'm interested in having him shapeshift into one of his roommates who is tall enough to reach the pedals with their long(er) legs the whole trip if you're interested in having yours be like "this is kinda weird" the whole way. If I have OOC permission he will not even ask he'll just look around and choose you and be like I'm Problem Solving.

[gundemn]

By all means shapeshift into Elan! It's not like he's used to seeing doubles of himself or something...

tao saotome ✦ gokurakugai

[eirs]

she can drive larger vehicles and is an alright roomate over all. not loud, can keep to herself perfectly fine and relatively tidy but definitely smokes so that's def a huge negative if that's not your thing.

otherwise, will get shit done even if she sleeps in now and then.

please put her in a situation. and i'd love doing a 3+ thread with all the roomies involved whoever that may be. thats all. thank you. this works for both the hotel in vegas and the vans bc those can be different groups.

Shizuka Takeda | OC | Revelation

[keihatsu]

Shizuka is used to camping and her former military background also made her used to co-ed settings. She's good with all sorts of jobs from cooking, driving, and hunting. Her telekinesis is useful for a myriad other things too. She's a sound sleeper and won't be a bother. However, she'd be more comfortable with other women so CR will be easier that way. Still, she won't complain if she gets to room with those that don't fit that criteria.

tifa lockhart | ffvii | everlight

[promisely]

i have this punchy and kicky gal here!

since she's new to synflux i'd love to chat around to see who she could get campy with. perks of having tifa in your campervan:
— has driven an off-roading vehicle before, she's got this
— is a passionate lil chef and hospitable to boot if she has the ingredients to put something together!
— well versed in the art of monster ass kicking
— bonus points she can mix you a mean cocktail

feel free to pm or add me on plurk to chat!! rosefret

Makima | Chainsaw Man | Brimstone

[kubricks]

Makima's more used to being driven around than being the driver, but she's willing to give it a shot? Perks of her being a roommate/car buddy are more along the lines of she's not much of a complainer, can keep quiet or to herself as needed, and wiling to help out with most things? She's very much good with hanging around anybody for this, the feeling doesn't need to be mutual in her opinion.

fern / frieren / redemption

[elfsufficient]

Fern has van plans...vlans if you will, but still open to rooming in Vegas (help she will continue to be confused and overwhelmed by all of the lights and chaos)!

As a roomie she might be a bit quiet and slow to open up but have a bunch of questions about what is going on!! But she will try to wake your character up at reasonable times, and help them get out of bed... but she'll also take care of roomies who drink too much and make sure they stay hydrated.

Feel free to dm or add me at bunanna!

Yor Briar | Everlight & Lucy | Elfen Lied

[yormama]

As far as Las Vegas is concerned, Lucy's down to room with whoever. Yor would probably have a heart attack rooming with anyone who identifies as male (save for one exception you know who you are) so in her case, she'd personally request a woman.

Both my girls will be getting a crash course in driving, though I think Yor will probably be a bit more of a wildcard with it.

As far as camper roomies, Yor has hunted wild boar before so she can procure wild animals for food! Wherever one might find them. Just uh...don't let her cook it.

NOTE: Yor will also be post surgery and a little out of it still! Namely, she'll be aching and looking intensely grouchy (see season 2, episode 1) due to the surgery aches. She's not mad at you that's just her face.


Lucy will be pretty chill in the camper and will probably sleep in the driver's seat the whole time to keep lookout.

stark 🪓 frieren 🪓 everlight

[zittern]

offering one redheaded deer in the headlights to be a hotel roomie! help him he's scared and it's probably a day that ends in -y because he ticked off fern and she won't room with him—

but she forgives him by the time it's road trip time, so he and elfsufficient will be a group package for 1-2 or even 3 van goers! stark is good at hunting and cooking. just remind him to take his jacket off. it's hot, and ghibli deserts are still deserts.

akechi goro | p5r | brimstone

[laevateinns]

offering one teenaged ex-detective, ex-assassin for anything!

can he drive? nope! and he will probably have horrible road rage and threaten to turn the car around if anyone annoys him too much if he tries!

can he cook? absolutely not! let him near a stove at your own peril!

can he hunt? he’s never even been outside of tokyo before, but he does have experience fighting and things so… S H R U G, but mostly: no!

will he be a good roommate? nah! he cares about his appearance less than he used to but he’s still going to hog the bathroom to wash his hair and stuff. sorry!

so basically he’ll be pretty not useful, but possibly very funny.

saber | revelation

[shiroize]

saber is!! a not that great of a roommate!!

that is to say, that they're somewhat mercurial, so they can be either very excited or easily annoyed. they've also only had one one roommate experience, and they had quite literally the patience of a saint. your character WILL be cooking, and this is unfortunately not negotiable. that said, they're very hard working, however, and are willing to some hard work like hunting or carrying some heavier things!

also they have never driven anything, but with their B class riding skill, maybe someone should try to teach them. they'll be a quick learner!

aventurine | honkai star rail

[stonehearts]

aventurine may be spoken for when it comes to hotel roomies but he IS free to grab for any campervan shenanigans! he's brand new so i'd love to get him some new cr, and he can offer:

-- probably knows how to drive!
-- will not shut up
-- insanely good luck
-- good in combat and WILL shield his teammates which is surprisingly on-brand for the location

marcille / delicious in dungeon / redemption

[picky]

Marcille, Hunter (newphew), and Ryoji (memors) are looking for 1-2 van roomies but especially a driver, or at least someone who's taking Seok Dang's crash course! Hunter is sixteen (16) and should not be subjected to Seok Dang's everything. You will gain one clean and slightly naggy elf, a teenager who doesn't know what a banana is, the love of your life?, and a very cute bird. Help.

Yzak Jule & Dearka Elthman | Gundam SEED | Revelation x 2

[coordination]

Two dorks for the price of one! You get Yzak and Dearka as your camper travel buddies/roommates.

Both of them can drive so if anybody who cannot needs a ride, they're your boys. (if you can drive and are just lazy you can apply too, but Yzak will Yell At You if he finds out you are being LAZY and not PULLING YOUR WEIGHT!!) They're soldiers and used to like, wack sleep schedules, taking turns, etc. Can also man those machine guns.

If they gotta hunt and make food they can do that too (Yzak enjoys cooking enough that he won't complain about doing that)

Also down with doing a thread for things! Doesn't necessarily even need to be a single three-way thread as much as a kind of free for all where we jump each other where and whenever and branch off.

We'll peep back in here in ... maybe a day? Sometime tomorrow afternoon? And if we've got no bites we'll instead shove the boys at another comment here looking to partner up. c:

ishmael / brimstone

[wheft]

hello!! looking for a hotel roomie for ish here, since she's already more than accounted for in vans. i'd prefer her to be with girls, especially ones who she doesn't have much cr with yet, but basically she's a decent, well-behaved roommate to have tbh. she's also been here since the start of the game so if there's any newcomers who'd like an actual rundown of how this place works, she is here to tell you all you need to know!!

Kaworu | Brimstone

[peripheries]

Looking for roommates and van buddies. I'm sorry he literally has no skills at all aside from probably manning the gun. Put the teenage angel on the gun!!

It would be very fun to pair him with other most incompetent people or very competent people. The comedy writes itself.

elan ceres I brimstone

[gundemn]

Elan wants to get that license so I'd be interested in having somebody supervise him while he learns to drive! Or we can be two inexperienced drivers messing around, that's fine too

No plans otherwise, open to roommates and vanmates! Elan doesn't have much in the way of cooking skills but will be trying to up his camper game so join him in fail cooking or hunting shenanigans

yesod | lobotomy corporation | revelation

[penaltypoints]

Seeking a hotel roommate for Yesod, although he doesn't need to sleep. He'll keep the place very tidy, though.

Archer | Revelation

[anti_altruisms]

Looking for roommates and van buddies!!

Archer can cook and drive. He doesn’t talk much, but he gets things done very efficiently. He has extremely good eye sight so he’ll be watching for anything suspect in the desert and…will likely keep odd hours since he hasn’t been sleeping much since he arrived (woops). He’s also a very experienced combatant with a good bit of experience roughing it, so to speak.

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia | Everlight

[heroforall]

Looking for roommates and/or camper buddies! Izuku has no previous driving experience, but he will be taking the crash course drivers' ed so that he can at least help give driving breaks to other more experienced drivers. He's also a fighting type so he has abilities that can transfer to helping with hunting. He's got zero cooking ability but he is pretty neat and will clean up after himself.

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV | hotel roomie?

[the_fourteenth]

Anyone want a quiet and clean and socially awkward roommate?

geto & gojo | brimstone

[gorb]

Geto and ( against his will ) Gojo are sharing a van! We have room for other people though Gojo will absolutely not let his students come with ( sorry! ). Anyone who can deal with the sheer level of antagonistic attitude that will be radiating from both of them will be good. Both of them are good at fighting and hunting but everything else is maybe a stretch. Gojo can drive, Geto cannot. Also he hates people.

It'll be awkward af!! How fun!!

YUJI & CHOSO - HOTEL ROOMIES

[eyescar]

If anyone would like to be roomies in the hotel (van is covered) with Yuji and his sleep paralysis demon brother, Choso (gimu), hmu!

Bakugō Katsuki 💥 Boku no Hero Academia 💥 Everlight

[blastedass]

While Bakugo's going to share a room with Denji by default, closer CR can invite him to sleepover for a night if they want. It's a road trip! Might as well get the experience. Lemme know if you want to thread this out or even just drop a note if you want to acknowledge it happened.