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capitalxxx2014-01-14 03:10 am
capitalm) wrote in capitalxxx2014-01-14 03:10 am
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.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.)
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.
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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[okay, she doesn't usually like pulling this card. but she's going to have to. it's a matter of pride. she points at her horns and bares her teeth in a scowl, but she can't quite pull off the Mean Look she's going for.]
You do know I'm Alternian, right? I may have lived here for eight sweeps and counting, but I haven't lost that much of my skill.
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[ But Milly's grinning now -- okay, okay, smirking, whatever. She shoots into the air, glancing at Amanda. ]
So if you're so tough, show me what you've got!
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[so sue her, she's been practicing badass lines to say in just such an occasion. her TONY HAWK'S PRO BOSCIS flits upwards at an alarming rate and before she can even get her next attack ready, she's heading towards the nearest dinosaur's head—lucky for her it looks like an herbivore, but it's distressed and dangerous all the same.]
[she gently bops it on the nose with her POKEBALLPEEN HAMMER.]
JESUS CHRIST COLZ THESE PUNS
What the hell was that?!
I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO PUN
[she pops the POKEBALLPEEN HAMMER back into its oogonibomb form and pulls another one out of her... well, out of thin air, basically. she chucks it at the dinosaur's face with all her strength. while it's flying, she casts an accusatory glare in Milly's direction.]
Are you going to do anything?
OH BOY
I was just waiting to see what you'd do.
[ And then she's off, zooming forward to sucker punch that dinosaur right in the throat. ]