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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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My pleasure!

[He gives a grin as she looks over at him - but her reaction catches him off guard, too. Aw, man - has he messed things up again already? Of course not. But just in case...]

Hey, something up? Don't tell me I've got a T-Rex behind me or something...

[ Oh no he's even cuter when he smiles. Is she blushing? She is totally blushing. Milly covers her mouth with her hand and coughs loudly. Play it cool, Milly. PLAY IT COOL. ]

Wh -- oh, no! No, not anything like -- HEY! What did I tell you?!

[ The dinosaur she'd just punched into submission has come flying back up for some kind of revenge, but she punches it right back in its stupid face, and it falls down for good. Now where was she? Oh, yes. Trying not to make an ass out of herself in front of cute boys. She swoops down a little closer, hands clasped behind her back as she hovers in front of him. ]

Um -- thanks for the assist, back there. I'm Starbreaker, by the way.

[Oh, he is not letting this chance slip by, even if it is in the middle of a prehistoric battlefield. Smiling slyly, he heads straight for cheesy line central -]

A beautiful name for a beautiful lady. I'm Hermes.

[ WOW JUNPEI WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO BE SO CUTE

Unfortunately (for Milly), cheesy lines work like magic on her. Her face goes totally pink, and she flounders for a moment. What does she even say to a perfect line like that?! ]

Oh -- um -- [ she laughs, clearly a little flustered. ] Thank you, Hermes. You know, it's not that often I have people saving me, so...I appreciate it. That was some pretty good teamwork.

[...everything is coming up Junpei. Oh, yeah.

Though, honestly, he's not used to this! So he's laughing a little awkwardly as he goes on-]

Couldn't leave you hangin' there, could I?

I guess not. I mean, only a real jerk would've let me take that shot.

[ She's still a little twitterpated, but she's regained some of her composure, smiling energetically as she extends a hand. ]

Since we work so well together, why don't we tackle some more of these things together? I think you and I could kick major giant lizard butt if we worked as a team.

[He's grinning as he takes her hand gratefully.]

Sounds like a plan to me. Let's kick some tail.

[ She grins and gives his hand a firm shake -- she has one hell of a grip, too. ]

All right! So those explosions you're throwing around -- what's the range on those things? Think you can provide some good cover fire for me?

[Oof! He makes a bit of a startled face at that.]

I'm on the case! Lemme see - I can hit that lamp-post over there, easy. Further than that... [He waves a hand-] I've gotta work on my aim.

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