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]

They start to clear the alley they'd ducked into, emerging into a street full of people... and not full of dinosaurs, which is perhaps the important part. Still, there are questions she needs to answer, and a person in her care. "That's probably it, which means you probably had a memory first. And... it could mean that, yes." Hard to say, some days. Jasmine and Dark Precure, at least, are fairly far removed. Probably.

"The bracelet, I can't really explain. Not all of us get things that make a whole lot of sense. When I first got Raquel back, he was just a plushie - I didn't know what to do with him, except keep him close. That might be what this is - something else will change it again, into a new form." A bracelet... that could be any of a number of things, so it'd be hard to guess. Especially out of magical girl anime. That could be anything. Heaven forbid he's from something like Magical Remedy - he'd never stand out.

"Anyway," she continues, "we should be safe enough here. At least for a little while. So... is there anything else you want to know, right now?"

[sparklingscarlet]

As they turn onto the street filled with people, Blaise is trying to listen intently. However, her words seem to give less answers and raise more questions. Oh, great, so the bracelet could probably change later. Obviously, there isn't enough confusion going on. Oh, well, maybe it means super powers later? He wondered what kind he could get.

Blaise sits for a second as he thinks of any additional questions.

"What are the Numbers for? Is it something really important?" He'll think up more as this goes on and the fact that he's not running for his life right now will allow him to function a bit more in a minute here.

[peacefulwinter]

"The numbers... well, we don't really know. There's a lot we don't know, even after all this time. It's not like any of this came with an instruction manual, you know? At the beginning, we had to learn all of this ourselves. We made mistakes." Winter frowns. "A lot of mistakes. I probably seem like I know what I'm doing, but I had to go through a lot to get to this point." It's... been a hard trip through three years. It wasn't all cheery and happy, even if a certain addition about two years ago has made a huge difference in her mood.

[sparklingscarlet]

He thinks for a moment, and looks a little worried.

"Is being Numbered a good thing or a bad thing? I mean, obviously, you're good. But... is it something to be proud of? And what about the stuff you said, that you were also going to talk about you? What should I know about being Numbered. About what's going on right now?"

He nods his head back the way they came, indicating the dinosaur problem.