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

[thebraveandtheboulder]

THE BOULDER smirks. "How do you expect to assist THE BOULDER against these triassic titans with your puny metal stick?"

[manelesscatking]

"Quite right," says the woman with something between a smirk and a frown.

She puts up her sword and proceeds to contort her eyebrows in a manner that would maybe be visually meaningful to THE BOULDER if THE BOULDER had magical powers.

"I'll heal you, in the almost certain case that these lizards cannot be punched into submission."

[thebraveandtheboulder]

"Fear not, oh ye of little faith, for THE BOULDER punches with the might of a LANDSLIDE! Hey, scaly!" THE BOULDER yells at at a nearby triceratops. "Chew on THIS!" THE BOULDER slams down their foot, denting the pavement and propelling a massive chunk of asphalt about five feet into the air - which THE BOULDER launches towards the triceratops with a well-timed punch.
Unfortunately, the triceratops chooses this moment to turn its head, and the chunk of asphault deflects off of its headplate. It snorts in anger, lowering its head to prepare to charge.
"Well," says THE BOULDER. "That failed to proceed as anticipated."