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

[civilizedcombat]

[She salutes her teammate and flies toward the house. On her honor as a hero, there's no way she'll allow any civilian to come to harm!

The raptor is still roaming the backyard when Cynthia gets to the house. It hasn't noticed her yet. Shouting at it might draw the attention of other raptors in the area, and that could be a bit too dangerous, so she descends and picks up a rock. She rises to her previous altitude, above where she thinks a raptor can reach, and she throws the rock right at the raptor's head.

With a sharp crack, the rock makes contact. The raptor whips around and rushes toward where Cynthia is. It doesn't seem to have quite recovered from the hit, because it stumbles somewhat as it runs. It tries to jump up to bite at Cynthia, but she's just barely out of its reach.]

Perfect! Sorry, dino-friend, but we can't let you hurt anyone. [Cynthia starts to move backwards in the air so that the raptor will follow her into Katniss' sights. When she brings the dinosaur into the open, she signals Katniss with a big smile and a thumbs-up.]

[mockingjaded]

[Katniss doesn't really seem to acknowledge the thumbs up. Her expression stays neutral as she effortlessly lets another arrow fly, just as the raptor is bounding into the air.]

[It catches the beast through the neck and sends it flipping over someone's car, leaving a path of warm raptor blood. Someone is going to hate dealing with that, later.]

[civilizedcombat]

Eugh. [Cynthia grimaces at the blood. This raptor-control has to be done, but it's still pretty gross.]

[She flies within speaking distance of Katniss. It's eerily quiet around them. Hopefully everyone's inside, where they'll be...safer.] Hey, do you know how many of these guys there are?

[mockingjaded]

[Katniss starts walking forward, carefully listening whilst thinking of an answer to Cynthia's question. She frowns a little more deeply.]

I saw an entire pack from the air. These ones must have been stragglers.

[She definitely has her bow at the ready, in any case.]