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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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[Sun Wukong is having some wild fun riding the dinosaurs and flying amongst the chaos. He doesn't really like reptiles as a rule, but he likes pandemonium and destruction so it's pretty great. They're not demons, though, and seemingly not intelligent enough to converse with, which also means they are not really that fun to play tricks on since they just lumber around most of the time. Then he remembers that he's supposed to be PROTECTING THE CITY FROM HARM, and finds some raptors invading the monkey exhibit at the zoo. He goes and fights the raptors with his staff, pulling out a handful of hair to make copies of himself to fight the multitude.]

Ammy is tracking down stray dinosaurs, and, since the zoo is one of the few places that smell like a lot of animals live there, she figures that some of them must have been lured by that.

Discovering Son Gokuu as well as a flock of hungry raptors isn't quite what she expected, admittedly. Gossip flies swiftly between Heavens, but the last Amaterasu heard, he was trapped under Buddha's hand made stone.

...and of course he's fighting the raptors before trying to herd them. Amaterasu isn't angry, Son Gokuu. Just disappointed. She barks, loud enough to be heard over the fighting.

The barking startles Sun Wukong, and he looks down to see a pure white wolf battling the large lizard [demons]. Wait--looking closer, he sees that the wolf is not battling them so much as fake fighting them, leading them somewhere like a tame sheepdog. He snorts. Figures that he's encountering one of them here.

The wolf has the aura of a god, but not one he recognizes. Of course, he realizes, there are other heavens with other people, and apparently one with self-important dogs.

"I don't know which heaven you're from," he shouts, "but if you've heard of this Monkey you'll know he doesn't take orders from those who cannot hold swords." And those who can, for that matter. It irked him, being commanded by a single bark. As if the dog knows better than he.

Amaterasu sniffed. As if she would bother trying to command him! What was she, some kind of general? Very ostentatiously, she turned away, ignoring him, and began trying to chivvy the raptors into a loose pack. You do what you want, Son Gokuu. She's got this covered.

If there's one thing Wukong hates more than being commanded, it's being snubbed by gods who think they're better than him, more "responsible" than him, and deserving of more praise and admiration. You want to do nonlethal herding, dog? You better bet your tail Sun Wukong knows how to herd giant lizards!

Let's turn this into a little competition, he thinks as he somersaults upwards towards some pterosaurs flying chaotically in the skyline. If a wolf can herd raptors on the ground, then this monkey will herd pterosaurs better in the air.

Of course, he underestimated their size.

Ammy wags her tail; all is apparently forgiven. She lopes after the raptors, yipping at them every so often in order to recapture their attention. As they leave the zoo area, she keeps an eye out for the further-ranging Son Gokuu.

[ Milly chases this stupid flying lizard all the way out to the city zoo -- how can this thing fly faster than her, anyway? -- before she manages to take it out, but it turns out the zoo's turned into a real...well, zoo. She's pretty sure this isn't the raptor exhibit she's used to.

She swoops in, cape all aflutter, and starts punching dinosaurs, and then she sees all of the Sun Wukong clones and pulls herself up short. ]

Whoa! Who gave all these monkeys clothes?! Hey, what the hell is going on here?

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