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

[celestialmutt]

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.

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

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.

[celestialmutt]

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.