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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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[Starbuck sees what Jake is doing and likes his style. She's been hearing everyone call these other dinosaurs "raptors," and, well, she sure as hell knew how to fly some sort of raptor, if not the animal sort.]

[She gets up on the balcony of the fourth story of some apartment building, and tries to pick out the biggest flying thing. She climbs on top of the railing, and gets ready to jump onto her chosen target. Hopefully it can hold her weight.]

[This isn't the worst idea Starbuck's ever had. But boy is it up there.]

[ Today is the best day of Jake's life.

He hops from the stegosaurus to a t-rex, which is none too pleased to have a rider. It starts thrashing about. ]

Whoa, nelly.

[ He might need some help here. ]

[Starbuck -- miraculously, thank the Lords, glory halleluiah -- lands on the back of a raptor. Equally miraculously, it does not plummet to the ground. She hollers in excitement as the wind rushes past her. Nothin like a little stunt flying to clear your mind. ]

Okay, [she mutters to herself.] Now how do I make you go?

[Starbuck figures out pretty quickly that she can nudge the raptor along with her knees, and grab its neck to steer. It seems willing to oblige her, if only out of shock that some strange creature jumped onto its back out of nowhere.]

[And just in time, too. She sees Jake struggle with the huge dinosaur, and manhandles the raptor his way.]

Hey kid! Need a hand?

[ !!! Someone else riding a dinosaur! Sweet. Today is the coolest day ever.

He wraps his arms around the t-rex's neck, managing to keep his grip light enough so as not to strangle it. ]

Er... I do seem to be experiencing technical difficulties. This little guy doesn't quite want to listen, I don't think.

[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?

Oh, er. Well, I can fly, it's just-- whoa, there! [ He clings more tightly as it thrashes around.

He really wants to ride it :( ]

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