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

[espigeonage]

He smiles broadly, a little manic as he comes up from all fours, scuttling ducked away from the dinosaur. There is less blood than might be expected; the solid-state hologram surface of his "human" back is not impenetrable but it does absorb some damage. "Always! Ladies first."

[goldpaw]

That's unusual too, the relative lack of bleeding, but she figures he must just have powers. The power of invulnerability and the power to smell like a bird would make a pretty weird combo, though... Well, she of all people knows it ain't polite to ask people about their superpowers.

She grins at him and shakes her head – she's not offended by that, but he did just get whacked one with the sharp end of a dinosaur, so rather than going first she grabs him by the arm and pulls him along with her as she launches into a run.

[espigeonage]

Running away, yes, good. Shorter-legged Yuuya is half towed along, trying to keep up; his arm likely feels a little peculiar to the touch, but nothing worth getting distracted by.

Stegosaurus pivots well to get its dangerous end pointed in whichever direction, but it's less inclined to pursuit. Still, there are others. Like the pair of Pachycephalosaurus tearing across the asphalt. Under five feet tall but considerably longer than that, they lope side by side, eyes rolling, jostling each other as they run.

Yuuya tugs. "Let me go and I can fly off and distract them. You'll be all right from here, right?"