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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[billkiller]

Arlene's not asking questions right now. She's just had millions of years of evolution explode fear chemicals in her brain and the only concepts that ring clear and true are fight and flight.

Flight seems like the more viable option. She's out of shape but the way she's sprinting, she might as well be on the track team. Unfortunately, there's another animal that also has this option in mind, in a far more literal sense.

"Oh, shit fuck!" she shrieks, reaching for a traffic cone and flinging it blindly behind her as she scrambles to find some cover. A parked Hummer looks like a promising bet, and she drops and rolls to get under it.

[raisednpcs]

The pteranodon lets out a screech as the traffic cone strikes her, forcing her to flap her wings in order to remain airborne, stopping the dive. Then, she sees her prey ducking beneath a vehicle, and this makes her angry. She lands on the hummer and lets out a loud screech.

As if on command, two dimorphodon swoop down and try to crawl underneath the car with Arlene, biting and snapping at her.

[billkiller]

That stunt bought Arlene a few extra seconds, but she's still being pursued. The much smaller pterosaurs are nipping at her ankles, and she kicks out at them in an uncoordinated but vicious movement. Since this is very far from safe, she starts to roll out from under the Hummer, staggering to her feet and taking off at a run again, narrowly avoiding getting hit by a truck with its horn blaring as she takes off across the street.

[raisednpcs]

When Arlene comes out of of hiding, the Pteranodon screeches, as if in victory, and spreads its wings to chase after her...

... only to be hit by that very same truck that almost missed Arlene, its lithe, winged frame splatted across the windshield of the vehicle, which goes on to swerve and crash.

The Dimorphodon are undeterred. Like fangy, violent winged rats, they spring up from the ground and come at her, flapping their wings furiously.

[billkiller]

Arlene screams involuntarily as the Pteranodon gets smashed by a truck that veers off the road and hits a lamp post just moments after. She wheels around and keeps running, only to realize that the smaller cousins of the downed creature are still after her.

"Leave me the fuck alone!" she half-sobs, flailing with her handbag as she desperately starts to search for a nearby business that isn't barring its doors to keep the marauding creatures out. "Someone help!!"

[raisednpcs]

For now, it doesn't seem like help is coming, and the dimorphodon are flap, flap, flapping away after her. At least it seems they're clumsier in the air than their so-called "cousin".

But a door to a nearby zoo affiliate is just within reach for Arlene!

[billkiller]

Just because they're small doesn't mean they aren't hugely troublesome. Arlene's handbag is only so useful against them when they clump and swarm after her, even if they do falter sometimes and give her extra time that the Pteranodon wouldn't have afforded her.

She charges through the door shoulder first, slamming it behind her and sobbing.

[raisednpcs]

And the dimorphodon hit the door with a heavy thud, sliding down the glass in an almost comical manner.

They do eventually get up, and start attacking the glass... but even creatures as ravenous as this come to realize there's easier pickings elsewhere, and fly off. It seems Arlene is out of the woods for now.