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]

I follow cybernetic advancements closely, yes.

[play it cool play it cool] Actually, I designed it. And wrote the software. And assembled the components.

[she extends her arm with just a faint whir, the movement looking almost completely natural. The silicone skin is high quality and the limb looks reasonably realistic, other than the metallic section of the forearm and the faintly glowing blue light embedded in the palm. Kit can't help but smile faintly at Baelheit. She's proud of her work.]

[baelhat]

[ Even with his generally taciturn demeanor, the astonishment shows plain on Baelheit's face. He gives her another look over, apparently reassessing his initial impression, and leans in a little closer to study her arm. It doesn't blend in nearly as seamlessly as Milly's limbs, but then, he supposes Kit isn't going so out of her way to conceal the fact that she has cybernetic implants. ]

That's quite impressive for someone of your age. I hope I'm not being too presumptuous by asking if any of this was based on my research. Ah, may I?

[ He gestures, questioning whether or not it's alright to touch her arm and examine it more closely. She certainly has his rapt attention now -- Baelheit isn't paying much mind to the chaos rampaging outside anymore. ]

[liberaition]

[Kit nods, waving her meat hand at her arm.] You can look inside, if you like.

Your research was very helpful for the initial design process, but I use a different neural interface. I had time to lay the groundwork and really preserve the nerves from my hand, not like with traumatic injuries, so I get feedback when I touch things. And I think you'll find some of the mechanics are different, as well.

[She shrugs, shoulder making a slight click as it settles back into place.] It's a work in progress, anyway.