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

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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She's at least not mashed into the pavement by a big, stupid dinosaur foot but sadly the same cannot be said for her precious phone. As the dinosaur moves on, Twinkle pushes herself up to her knees to stare miserably at the smashed pile of plastic and circuitry that was once a cellular phone.

Just for a moment though before she balls up her fists and shouts after the ancient animal as it wanders away.

"Watch where you're going, you giant jerk!" ... Apparently she hasn't noticed somebody coming to her aid yet.

At least a Cure can take squashing better than most people - but it's for the best that the dinosaur has moved on.

...I said it's for the best that the dinosaur has moved on, Kirara. Umi reaches out to put a hand on her shoulder. "I guess you're alright."

No! No, it isn't! That dinosaur has to come back right this instant and answer for its crimes! Justice must be done!

That... almost seems like what she's planning to ~~try to~~ do when she feels a hand on her shoulder. That's enough to get her to stop and turn her head to peer up at the person who'd... oh, wait a second. She knows this girl. She almost starts to greet her and then stops abruptly. Kirara knows her, but Cure Twinkle has never seen her before. Instead, she goes with option B.

"No! That phone was brand new!" She slumps a bit. "Jeez, where are these dumbs things coming from anyway?!"

That dinosaur is both huge and a big lovable innocent dope, surely. Also, Jasmine won't stand for needless dinosaur abuse.

More importantly, Marina actually catches that moment of seeming recognition, although she can chalk it up to this girl quietly stalking the network for now. "Same place our powers, memories, and everything else comes from?" i.e. fuck if she knows. "Umi Ryuuzaki, magic knight and - and... Precure associate?" she stands up, crossing her arms. "Still ironing out how to market myself."

She doesn't want to abuse the dinosaur. Just... smack it a little. That's allowed, right?

Oh, forget it.

"Great. Nobody told me I signed up for stuff like this." She sighs and gets to her feet, brushing off her dress and turns to face Marina. "Hi. Cure Twinkle. New Precure."

Not her most extravagant introduction, but she's still upset about the phone.

No. No smacking.

"Magical powers are like, the best way to get caught up in stupid bullshit." Marina nods at Twinkle, smiling. "Nice to meet you, Cure Twinkle. Glad to have you on the team."

Although she's gonna be hella curious about her real identity now, because this identity-protection-aura thing is a pain.

... Fiiiine. No smacking. This time.

"No kidding." She sighs, one hand on her hip then looks up at Marina, grinning a bit. "Well... temporarily on the team. At least until we don't have to worry about anybody getting eaten or stepped on."

You can afford a replacement, surely.

"Hey, whatever works for you. Just glad to have your help while you can give it." She's not gonna pressure anyone to get involved in all this funky bull shrimp on a regular basis. "Now let's see what we can do about all that."

That's not the point!

"Sure thing! Just consider me part of the team for the day!" Heck, yeah, they've totally got this. Grinning, she turns to the city streets aaaaaaaaaaand....

"Sooooo... you've done this kinda thing before, right? How do you usually handle it?"

"Uh, well... this is kinda difficult, because dinosaurs really don't have any cohesive goals, so there's a lot of running around trying to clear people out, and keep the big scaly idiots from going too far." Yeah this is sort of a difficult situation to really coordinate.

"Oh, okay...." Man, this all sounds kind of complicated, and a total pain. Kirara doesn't usually like dealing with either of those things but... can't be helped. She's involved now and it isn't like she's okay with just letting people get stomped, or chomped. Or both.

"So, keep punching dinosaurs?"

It does and it is. Marina's not actually too into it, but like, what else can they do? Let dinosaurs rampage? Nope, Marina has a giant robot. She's doing something. "Punch ones that are going after people, specifically. Leave the rest alone."

"Okay! That works for me!" She grins widely, stretching her arms out and then she's dashing off in a flash toward where the sounds of chaos seem to be coming from.

Sorry, Marina, this new Cure is just as unfairly superquick as the other ones by the look of it.

"Hold up-oh." Dammit, she needs to get in the giant robot to keep up with these girls.

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

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