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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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[Lewa had been flying over the streets, either swooping down to lift a civilian out of harms way or to lend a fellow hero some help with his axe or machete blades. For the most part he had been circling the perimeter, but hearing the extra commotion down one of the streets he decided to investigate.

Seeing a fellow hero being changed by a veritable herd of dinosaurs, Lewa quickly summoned a strong gust of air, lifting her onto a nearby fire escape and out of harms way, he flew over, landed on the opposite side of the structure with a grin on his face.]

You seem to be quite popular with the scalebeasts, herosister.

Edited 2014-01-30 00:41 (UTC)

[She lets out a sharp cry of surprise as she is swept off her feet, but doesn't let the unexpected rescue disorient her for long: without missing a beat she swivels around to face the now-directionless horde as soon as she touches down and, with a sweeping gesture, conjures a huge ring of fire around the entire group, preventing them from moving any further.

Only after that does she turn back to her 'savior' with a grin. It's the only part of her expression visible from under the Shadowy Superhero Hood.]

I guess you could say that.

[Lewa watched as she cast the fire spell, and burst out laughing]

Haha, a fine dinotrap, sister. But how long will your fire ring last?

[Okaaay... That gets a cocked eyebrow, but she chuckles along all the same.]

Long enough for me to get back down there and finish what I started.

Well, then, don't let me stop you. I'll give you a quicklift back to ground.

[He reached over, grabbing her arm as his mask started glowing, triggering its levitation powers. Quite a bit less jarring than air blasts, though not quite as quick. He picked her up off the fire escape and lowered them both to the ground, well out of the way of the flames.]

There you are, herosister. Just hollercall if you need any help.

[He took a few steps back but didn't make any other move to leave, waiting to see what her plan was.]

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