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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[guitar_case_vagabond]

It took another few seconds before she even managed a sound other than a sort of wheezing sound.

"Hhhhyup...." A pause, and a sound not unlike somebody clearing their throat and her voice is clear. "Yup. No problem."

There was a shuffling sound as she pushed herself up to her feet, the last few gashes and tears closing up in a glimmer of luminous threads. You wouldn't know that just a minute ago she was being torn to shreds by velociraptors. Although, her clothes were in pretty bad shape... not that that was anything new to her. Everything that mattered was still covered so it was all good.

"Okay, I'm good." She rolled a shoulder, flexed her hand. "Thanks for the assist there."

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Jasmine sighed in relief. No matter how many times Raye had been patched up and gotten back up again, Jasmine still worried that maybe this time she wouldn't. A brush with death would do that to you.

"Yeah, well, that's good then," she said, turning back around. "And you don't need to thank me... that's what friends are for, right?"

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Strangely, it hardly bothered Raye anymore. She'd been shot up, stabbed, smashed... even cut clear in half, only to regenerate each time. At this point, it was more or less par for the course. Even the pain that came with being hurt like that hardly bothered her, considering how fleeting it was before her Life Fibers fixed her up.

Well, that and she knew what dying felt like, and it didn't hurt. Pain wasn't the scary part.

"Yeah, well, thanks anyway." She looked over, checking to make sure that her Scissor Blades were still hanging at her side before looking toward the dinosaurs. "Guess we got more lizards to tie up now."

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Right. That was still a thing they had to do. Jasmine sighed and shook her head.

"You know, the last time we fought a bunch of monsters we didn't have to tie them up. This job is getting more and more tedious."

[guitar_case_vagabond]

"Things were more convenient when we didn't have to handle the cleanup, huh?" She grinned a little and then started off, stretching her arms out over her head. "Well, let's get this over with. Still got a lot of work to do."

... She could have sounded less eager to start fighting once more.