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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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Milly is way too busy hauling cars and hocking them at dinosaurs to pay any mind to the troll boy scrambling for cover. Okay, normally she doesn't go for mass civilian property damage, but this T-Rex is proving to be a little much of a challenge for her. Not that she'd ever admit it. Of course Starbreaker can take down a stupid dinosaur! She just needs the right projectile, that's all.

She picks up the Toyota Camry Karkat is currently hunched behind and hurls it fender-first at the T-Rex. It hits the dinosaur full in the face, and it looks stunned -- with a triumphant little yell Milly flies forward to deal what most certainly will be the finishing blow, but the T-Rex shakes itself out of its momentary stupor and instead catches Milly with its giant tail, flinging her backwards. She crashes into the pavement not far from Karkat, kicking up an awful lot of rubble and dust, and shakes her head, letting out a frustrated little growl.

"Uuughh! You think you're getting away with that, do you?!" She scrambles to her feet, brushing little bits of concrete off her costume. She looks around quickly for another advantage -- cars are clearly not working -- and spots Karkat. "Hey, you! Mind lending a girl a hand here?"

Karkat, whose reaction to having the car he was hiding behind removed was to yelp in surprise and cower even harder, now stares at her in disbelief.

"Lend a hand with what?" he yells, spreading his arms. "Does this look like superpowers to you??"

Edited 2014-01-18 18:02 (UTC)

Milly gives him an incredulous look for a moment, as if she can't quite believe him. "I thought all aliens had powers!" she says, sounding genuinely surprised, but then she shifts gears entirely. She lets out a little scoff, drawing herself up, and digs her heels in to the broken bit of sidewalk she'd pulled herself out of, pointing an accusatory finger at the T-Rex already wheeling around to finish the job.

"You think you're going to get away with attacking the weak and defenseless, huh?! Well, you've got another thing coming! Heads up!!"

She launches herself into the air with an acrobatic little somersault, speeding forward to punch that T-Rex RIGHT in its face.

He growls in irritation – that's not the first time a human has assumed that being from space means he has superpowers, and it's certainly not the first time he's wished he did.

He's about to retort but she's already turned away to the T-Rex and –

Wait. What did she just say?

Karkat clenches his fists and yells after her, "Hey! Who the fuck are you calling weak and defenseless–!"

Edited 2014-01-25 19:20 (UTC)

If Milly catches his tone of irritation, she ignores it altogether, letting out a victorious cry as she drives her fist right into the T-Rex's snout. It lets out a furious roar, staggering back a few paces and crushing a couple of cars in the process, but it's not down just yet. It snaps its massive jaws at Milly, missing her by mere feet as she zooms out of the way, but her spirit hasn't exactly been dampened.

"That's right, you big ugly lizard! I'm not going to let you attack helpless citizens who can't even fight back! Take THIS!"

Milly snatches up a half crushed convertible from the ground, flying back up to hit the dinosaur in the face with it. Repeatedly. "THAT'S for terrifying these poor people! And THAT is for messing up my city! And THIS is for knocking me into the pavement!!"

She delivers one last good smack with the once-luxurious sports car and the T-Rex lets out an agonized howl, its little arms flailing as it turns to stomp away from the maddened teen cyborg intent on beating it up with a motor vehicle. Milly contemplates going after it, but she has to check on the civilians first. A hero's duty!

She lands with a little flourish back down next to Karkat, clearly expecting some sort of show of gratitude. She dusts her hands off and puts them on her hips, beaming. "Whew! Well, I think that one learn its lesson. What a fight! Honestly, I don't know I do it. Hey, you're not hurt, are you?"

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