Echo Incursion 01 - Jurassic Gateway (August 10th, 2016)

[raisednpcs]

It's a particularly hot day in the Gateway City zoo. What else could you expect? It's not like it's not to be expected, it is the middle of August, after all. But there's plenty of things to see here at the zoo, and the visitors' center is air conditioned well enough.

Just a normal summer day in a typical summer vacation spot. Right?

Well, that's when things change. Those in the visitor's center would find the building changing around them. There's suddenly a dinosaur skeleton in the middle of the place, with the banner "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" hanging from the ceiling.

That's not all. The animal enclosures are now different. What used to be a pen for the african elephants now has very large, very long necked reptiles in it. A gigantic, meat-eating dinosaur just tromped its way out of the lion habitat it's too much too large for, and unfortunately for the people around it, its vision is based on movement. The monkey house? Well, those are velociraptors breaking out of it. The aviary? Now filled with particular aggressive flying pterosaurs.

These are just some of the creatures making their sudden emergence, and it's not long until they spill out of the zoo and into the city proper. Dinosaurs are now walking the streets of Gateway City.

Yes, indeed. Just a normal summer day.

[OOC: The new event is live! Please see this post for npc information and just what characters will have to deal with.]

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[peacefulwinter]

Winter knows, intellectually, what these creatures are. She's read enough textbooks for that. And yet... she can't really accept it. Dinosaurs. In modern-day America. Roaming the streets. "Seriously!?" is about as much as she can get out, as she initially stares at them.

She doesn't want to shift into form right away; seeing the Precure running around might cause a little more panic than having the extra power would be worth. So for now, she'll take advantage of the boost in speed and strength she has without it to jet around the city and begin rescuing everyone she can find that needs the help. She's not the best of fighters like this, but she's no slouch. Getting hit will be the end of her, but she'll take that risk. There's no time to lose, right?

At some point, a little later on, she realizes they can't keep going on as they are - someone's going to get hurt, and it's probably going to be Lily or herself. That's about the time she lands in the square, and growls as she sees they're still not out of the woods. Without even looking to make sure the girl's behind her, she starts, "Lily... I think we need more firepower. Should we get started?"

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Really, Lily understands the concept of not trying to frighten the beasts - unfortunately, that's well and truly beyond them by the point Winter asks that question. Because of course she's behind her; where else? Not like she's about to leave her, of all people, hanging in this sort of situation. She's already clutching her transformation device and nods in response.

"Honestly, they're going to panic no matter what we do. I'm ready if you are; I don't fancy trying to actually outrun a raptor when playing normal."

Banter is good. It masks the fact, to probably anyone but Winter, that she's sort of scared out of her mind. This is the first they've seen of something on this scale in so long... what the hell did it all mean?

[raisednpcs]

Just them, as the two women are conferring, a certain jingle plays.

It's innocuous sounding enough. Kind of cheesy. The sort of tune that someone would play as part of an advertisement or something, perhaps. But where's it coming from?

That answer is supplied by heavy footfalls, followed by the emergence of a beast from behind a building. It's a large predator, bigger than the popular tyrannosaurus, with a long, crocodile-like snout and a large sail on its back. It stalks into the square, looking around almost casually.

Then its gaze falls upon Lily and Winter. And the jingle plays again.

Then the beast roars, and charges forward like a massive, uncoiling snake lunging for its prey.