TEST DRIVE MEME #0

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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.

Comments

[bombsheltered]

[ Milly's worked up into a fever pitch by now -- she's had enough of these stupid overgrown lizards taking shots at her dignity, and she's not about to let them get away with it now. The dinosaur, however, no longer seems to be paying any attention to her, and she just won't stand for that. ]

HEY, UGLY!! I never said I was finished with you yet!

[ With a furious yell, Milly seizes the dino by the tail and hoists it into the air, giving it a few liberal spins by the tail before she lets go with a grunt, flinging it into a row of parked cars. Uh, whoops? Whatever, Milly isn't all that concerned with that right now. With the dino sitch temporarily taken care of, she lands and storms over to Neku, hands on her hips. ]

Ugh, what is your deal? You could have gotten yourself killed, or someone hurt! Don't you know anything about teamwork?

[reluctantproxy]

[ Neku drops to the ground, slumping slightly in bewilderment as he watches Milly throw a fucking gigantic Dinosaur through the air. He has to admit, that's pretty impressive-- annnnnd then she's in his face yelling at him again, holy SHIT this girl is getting on his nerves. Baring his teeth angrily he looks up at her and snaps at her venemously]

Get myself-- What about YOU? A few moments ago you were this close to being some lizard's LUNCH before I pushed you out of the way! And, WOW, what the fuck put you in that position? Oh right, doing EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.

[Part of him knows that he should probably shut up considering he just watched this girl fling a dinosaur the size of an eighteen wheeler through the air, but he's way too pissed off to demonstrate any kind of restraint.]

Teamwork is bullshit. It just means that I have to deal with pushy assholes like you. And why the hell would I want that.