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.]

Comments

[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.