did someone say dinosaurs

[articletwelve]

...Or something like it, anyway. Thanks Google.

Hello all! Larissa here with a plot to shake things up a little bit - and what better way than dinosaurs in space?

THE PREMISE
So, about a week ago now, Wash (articletwelve and York (neverknocks) took a job for Hypatia to fix up a malfunctioning teleporter in Garden Zone 08. Unfortunately for them, it didn't go so well -- the teleporter was right in the middle of Sacrosanct's dinosaur territory. While they managed to fix up the teleporter enough to get through it themselves, they were in too much of a rush to double-check the work, and... well.

Now it's really malfunctioning.

THE EVENT
From Sunday, August 12 to Friday, August 17, dinosaurs will be randomly popping out of the teleporters. What these dinosaurs are is up to player discretion, but expect a good number of (Jurassic Park-style) velociraptors, T-rexes, compys, you name it. (Here's a top ten list if you need some ideas!) Extra-large dinosaurs like Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus probably won't be able to fit through the teleporters, but T-rexes and dinosaurs around that size will have plenty of room.

There will be as many dinosaurs as necessary -- basically, use your imagination. The way the teleporter is broken is that when dinosaurs go through, their patterns are stuck, and even if the starting teleporter is destroyed a couple of days into the event, they'll still be caught in there until they run out on Saturday. There will still be dinosaurs left in Garden Zone 08 afterwards, since the ones that pop out are basically just respawned copies.

Anyone can NPC the dinosaurs as necessary, so long as there's no godmoding. Get permission before another character gets mauled or killed.

PLOTTING
Of course, someone needs to go take care of things. I do need volunteers to take out the teleporter that's causing all of this - just comment in the thread below if you're interested. Wash and York will have a vested interest in fixing it, obviously (and Madi and I are totally okay with them taking the blame for the whole mess), but I'd much rather have other characters involved in the actual strike. (Something short of a nuke should do fine.)

ETA: I think we're good on volunteers, but if anyone's got any other ideas just let me know and I'd be happy to figure something out.

Feel free to use this post for plotting!

OPT-OUT
If you'd rather not run into any dinosaurs, teleporters in Residential Zone 12 and Garden Zone 06 will not spawn dinosaurs. Chalk it up to a programming error.

QUESTIONS?
Any questions (or if I forgot anything), just toss 'em in the thread below.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[articletwelve]

Slam 'em here.

VOLUNTEERS

[articletwelve]

Interested in going to blow up the teleporter? Let me know here.

[wilywilyways]

so hawke is going to ride a rhino

[ancillary]

All I want in return for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and when is my business.

[articletwelve]

Oh and if anyone wants to plan something with Wash, let me know - I'm hoping to have him run around using his giant arsenal of weapons on every dinosaur in sight, but ideally he'll get himself killed or mauled terribly so that he can't actually go on the teleporter-nuking mission. Past that I'm up for anything, especially once it comes out that it's partially his fault.

[neverknocks]

If anyone wants to thread with York for this event LET ME KNOW!! Technically the dinosaurs getting out is mostly her fault (since she was the one doing the actual teleporter repairs) so if this fact is reason for your character to seek her out, let's do it B) Or chance meetings! Whatever! I'm always up for more York CR. I am most easily reachable on plurk at runawayballista.

[unchimerical]

I'm pretty sure Zelgadis is effectively dino-proof, so if anyone wants to go dino-smashing with rockboy, give me a shout and we'll make it happen.

also i really want him to get a pet anklyosaurus baby out of this

[shipper]

This is basically Nepeta's dream come true.

Who wants to go pack hunting for Allosaurus.

[stillshinigami]

Duo has a fucking mobile suit, but other then that regular old running and melee combat+guns.

FUCK JEAH

[cashflow]

who wants a motorbike riding diversion to lead a couple of dinos on a wild goose chase?

it'll be like tag-you're-it -- partly cloudy, with an 80% chance of fatality.

[demon_brat]

... both Damian and Sean can herd dinosaurs where necessary? Damian because he's developing quite the experience, between Harley's raptor and Kim's T-Rex, and Sean because he can scream them in various directions...

[brbvirmire]

whoops I forgot this was happening

Ashley will be out and about shootan' some dinosaurs. Like krogan, but they can't throw you with their mind!