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

[liberaition]

[the next time GLaDOS refreshes twitter, the whole page will just be white, with "WHAT ARE YOU" in small neat black type, in the upper right hand corner. In fact, every page of twitter is like that, except the page to send a new private tweet. Only to Kit, of course. If GLaDOS tries to send something to any other user it just refuses to send.

Kit is taking advantage of the distraction to really track down GLaDOS, but it's hard. Harder than anything she's done in a while, actually. Whoever this is has better security than most corporations, certainly better than most governments. Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Kit reaches into the net. Somewhere out there, lurking just beyond her reach, she can feel something. Something big.]

[tetrodotox1n]

[hdu]

That's incredibly rude.
So is what you're doing now. Stop that, you're getting my network all grubby now too.

[aaaand up go the big walls.]

[liberaition]

[The defenses catch Kit off guard, like a nasty shock of static electricity. She looks for a way through, but everything looks pretty impenetrable. Twitter, however, doesn't really have much in the way of protection at all.

WHAT ARE YOU is replaced with a much more polite, normally capitalized "Answer my question and I'll stop."]

[tetrodotox1n]

Honestly, if you haven't figured it out by now, I don't think I want you to know.

[liberaition]

[the reply comes as a tweet this time, Kit is backing off.]

If you're like me, why don't I know you already? There aren't that many of us.