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TEST DRIVE MEME #0

A TIME VORTEX has opened in downtown LA! Some magic folks have been contacted to close it, but they haven't gotten here fast enough for the vortex not to spill out a HECK TON OF DINOSAURS – all kinds of dinosaurs of all kinds of sizes. There are theoretically gentle herbivores among the fierce predators, but they are all pretty pissed off about their sudden, startling relocation, and a lot of them have spikes.

(The vortex is both temporally and spatially unstable, which is why the dinosaurs emerging onto the streets of LA are constrained neither by specific prehistorical era nor geographical location.)

What you do is up to you. Here are some suggestions, though:

Fight some dinosaurs. You might be trying to herd them back to the vortex, or just trying to stop them by any means possible.

Flee or hide. If you're lucky the dinosaurs won't work out how to open doors and you can spend your entire thread hiding behind the bar in a Starbucks with some other hapless civilians without having to confront any of them.

Try to capture the dinosaurs on camera. If you can get some really good photos you might be able to sell them to the local paper in order to supplement your elderly aunt's meagre income. Or just use them to get a bunch of notes on Tumblr, either way.

Take advantage of the chaos to do crime. The forces of law enforcement are preoccupied with all these prehistoric reptiles.

Or pretty much anything else you think your character might be doing. Any location in LA is game, although there's no real need to meticulously look them up – you can just assume a generic street, rooftop, store, etc. (You don't have to look up the dinosaurs, either.)

If you have a character who you'd like to assume is part of a team, but that team hasn't been named or brainstormed OOC yet or anything, feel free to indicate in your opening post that you're assuming your character is operating alongside others and encourage others to tag in as if they are part of the same team! Or just handwave it and assume they got caught without their usual teammates or separated from them. Whatever way works best for you.

Events from this test drive are not automatically assumed game canon, but individual threads can be if you and the people who you thread with end up mutually wanting to keep them.

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Upon hearing the noises of collision followed by pterosaur screeching, he freezes, groaning internally. Dammit, he'd love to just walk away from this..... but she DID just help him out..... He turns back around and, gritting his teeth in concentration, uses his telekinesis to try and at least hold the pterosaur stationary so that she can get herself untangled from the fluttery bastard.

She immediately tenses up and tries to wrench free, but the world's moving too quick and her demons are too loud- when the pterosaur seems to pause midair for a moment, Amane regrets not having much physical ability, but still manages to shoot fire from her hands into the pterosaur's face.

When it screeches and she begins to fall, she wants to call for Garuda- but a DS suddenly falls out her sleeve, and her eyes widen. "No...!" She reaches for the device futilely, it's out of her reach, it's gonna shatter and break and-

Neku winces, chastising himself internally for being a fucking idiot and just making things worse, dammit this is why he tries not to involve himself in this shit- and then he realizes that he's picking up on her distress, letting it overwhelm him...

Launching forward he focuses on freezing the descent of the girl and the device both, or at the very least slowing the fall. He shakily lowers her to the ground, head ringing slightly from the effort.

[Dirk steers his rocket board towards the chaos. When he sees the dinosaurs below, he can't help but grin.]

Awesome.

[He looks around to find some dangerous flying creature. He wants a sweet aerial battle, and surely the airborne ones are no less dangerous to the public, so he is also helping people. Score.

Katana in hand, he selects a pterodactyl-looking thing and heads towards it.]

...It slows down?

Amane grabs it with her two hands, and Garuda finally flies in beneath her and carries her off. She stares in slight confusion at the COMP, and presses a few controls to make sure it's still working, before looking down and realizing the boy is still there.

He did seem to have psychic abilities... so did he...?

She lands on the floor, summoning Vidofnir- another giant golden bird- and making them stand guard this time. "...You saved me. Thank you very much. ...May I ask, what's your name?"

He kind of jumps at the sight of the birds; he can't put his finger on it but they remind him of something unsettling.....

Focusing on the matter at hand, Neku's first instinct, as usual, is to be as prickly as possible and blow off the conversation, but considering they both just mutually saved each other's asses......

Tugging nervously at a lock of hair, he mutters: "Neku. Neku Sakuraba."

"Neku Sakuraba..." Amane smiles slightly, trying- and perhaps, failing slightly- to look grateful. "I'll remember that name. I am the Maiden, member of the Trailblazers."

The dinosaurs seem to be flying from their general area, with the pterosaur having received a Maragidyne to the face. "...Do you still wish to leave?"

[Katniss starts walking forward, carefully listening whilst thinking of an answer to Cynthia's question. She frowns a little more deeply.]

I saw an entire pack from the air. These ones must have been stragglers.

[She definitely has her bow at the ready, in any case.]

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[She also seems to be wondering what he's intending on doing exactly, but after a moment of hesitation she gently shakes her head.]

Just keep an eye out. If you see anything I don't, let me know.

Her ears pull back at the sheer pitch of his scream and she gives a small growl in his direction. The dinosaur in front hisses at the pair of them and goes in for another attempt at Nessa's throat. It misses, narrowly, and clamps down on her shoulder instead because she doesn't move completely out of the way. If she moved Karkat would be attacked, and right now she can take more blows than him. She yowls at the bite and swings one of mighty paws around to smack it clean in the side, trying to dislodge it, her mouth trying to reach it to yank it off. Thankfully she manages to stab one of her long canines into it's neck and tosses her head, sending it, and a strip of flesh from her shoulder, flying.

She's panting by now, giving herself a second to manage to compose herself enough before she quickly finishes the job with a well aimed swipe of her razor sharp claws. Then she drops to her haunches next to Karkat, making sure that there aren't any immediate threats before giving a small grumble and moving to inspect and lick her wound.

[Starbuck manages a fumbling sort of orbit around Jake's dino nemesis.]

Ohhkay. So there's no way you're gonna fit on here with me.

[She gets close enough to the t-rex to catch its attention, and, suddenly, has a terrible plan-like object in mind.]

Right! I'm going to lure it over to one of those buildings over there, and you jump on the roof. Sound good?

[ He is given over by mild surprise -- he may be something of a public figure, but he isn't accustomed to being recognized by teenage girls. Baelheit gives her an appraising, almost scrutinizing look, far from distracted from the matter of her arm. He is intensely curious. ]

Ah -- you know of my work, I presume.

[ He takes the proffered hand and shakes it after a moment of hesitation. ]

Might I ask who designed your arm?

Milly gives him an incredulous look for a moment, as if she can't quite believe him. "I thought all aliens had powers!" she says, sounding genuinely surprised, but then she shifts gears entirely. She lets out a little scoff, drawing herself up, and digs her heels in to the broken bit of sidewalk she'd pulled herself out of, pointing an accusatory finger at the T-Rex already wheeling around to finish the job.

"You think you're going to get away with attacking the weak and defenseless, huh?! Well, you've got another thing coming! Heads up!!"

She launches herself into the air with an acrobatic little somersault, speeding forward to punch that T-Rex RIGHT in its face.

Huh? Oh, sure thing!

[ Milly alights neatly on top of a minivan, taking a few neat hops onto the sidewalk and ducking into an alley, far enough out of harm's way to set Jon down. She passes a hand over her forehead, letting out a jubilant little sigh. ]

Whew! That was a close one, though, wasn't it? Are you sure you're all right?

[ oh god Milly really would have preferred the skateboard to have jets. The insectoid wings are a little weird, okay. ]

Please! I'm a professional, here. I only went to your rescue because you were looking so helpless down there! Some people just don't know how to say thank you. But hey, you do what you were born to, gratitude or no!

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Maybe I wasn't hurt, but I seriously could have been! Or what if it was someone else? If you're going to be a hero, you have to watch what you're doing!

[ Aaand while she's yelling, a rather large, formidable looking dinosaur is coming up behind her. ]

Baelheit is entirely unconvinced. He gives Starscream an utterly unfazed look, and raises a hand to a panel on the wall beside him. The screen on the panel lights up as he taps it a few times, and he gazes back at Starscream.

"I don't have an assistant, and I keep my own schedule. I don't have any appointments with any government agencies on my agenda for today, nor I do believe in the slightest that a federal agent would maintain a consultation appointment given the current crisis." He articulates himself with an impeccable calm, his fingertips poised over the security panel. "You have one minute to identify yourself -- truthfully this time -- before I initiate the intruder security protocol. ...And I believe the name you were looking for was DARPA."

I follow cybernetic advancements closely, yes.

[play it cool play it cool] Actually, I designed it. And wrote the software. And assembled the components.

[she extends her arm with just a faint whir, the movement looking almost completely natural. The silicone skin is high quality and the limb looks reasonably realistic, other than the metallic section of the forearm and the faintly glowing blue light embedded in the palm. Kit can't help but smile faintly at Baelheit. She's proud of her work.]

Shuffling his feet a bit, he looks around uncomfortably. "I'm not really... This kind of thing isn't really my scene." For some reason he's having a hard time being rude to this girl. She's just too calm, or something...

"I see. The dinosaurs in this area are retreating- you may want to take your chance." The smile fades away, but doesn't really drop- she looks over her shoulder serenely, making sure those demons are still there.

"You do possess powers, though... I'm sure this won't be the last time I'm seeing you."

[He doesn't quite notice it a first either, and growling angrily he spits out a retort]

Screw you, who ever said that I was trying to be a hero?! I was just trying to get out of the damn area when... you... uh--

[Neku doesn't have the slightest idea what the hell that is, but he DOES know that it's toothy, aggressive looking, and probably too big to lift]

Wh-- watch it!!

[Making a split second decision, he launches forward and tackles her to the ground, landing between the dinosaurs feet as it strikes forward, jaws snapping on thin air]

He tilts his head, frowning slightly, deep in thought. "Yeah, maybe...... um. Well... Good luck out there I guess."

All right.

[the offer was to punch dinosaurs, not to stand around doing nothing, which is a lot harder. he's pretty sure she'd be better off finding higher ground, maybe shooting them from rooftops. that's what he'd do if he had a bow. at least he can stand in front of the cars--maybe he can lure the dinosaurs into position? he saunters over a little ways ahead, growing himself a fresh set of claws as he does so.]

[jon rights himself with as much dignity as he can manage and dusts himself off, casually fluffing up his hair.]

I'm fine.

[he smiles wryly--most of the nuances are lost through the mask.]

You seem like you're having fun.

Helpless?

[okay, she doesn't usually like pulling this card. but she's going to have to. it's a matter of pride. she points at her horns and bares her teeth in a scowl, but she can't quite pull off the Mean Look she's going for.]

You do know I'm Alternian, right? I may have lived here for eight sweeps and counting, but I haven't lost that much of my skill.

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