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

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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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You want some idea of what to expect in our first Echo Incursion? We've prepared a handy dandy write up for what's currently menacing Gateway City! These creatures are based off the dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park series, and thus, look and act like they do.

"Compys": Small, ravenous-little dinosaurs that run in groups. Isolated, they're not much of a threat, but in a swarm they're incredibly dangerous. Don't make them angry.

Pterosaurs: Flying menaces who include Pteranodon and Dimorphodon. Dimorphodon are smaller and more bitey, while Pteranodons are larger and can carry off a grown human being in their claws.

Velociraptors: Pack hunters that are as intelligent as greater apes and as fast as cheetahs. These are some of the most dangerous dinosaurs, and the most violent, coordinating together to take down whatever they see as a threat.

Pachycephalosaurs and Triceratops: Herbivores, but more aggressive than most. Pachys are smaller, but they're aggressive and territorial, plus they like hitting people with their domed heads. Triceratops? Think a rhinoceros that's scared and angry and has three horns on its face, then make it the size of an elephant.

Tyrannosaurus: Did you think we'd leave this one out? The king of all predatory dinosaurs, the T-Rex is a formidable hunter. Unfortunately, her vision is based on movement, which gives people a way of dealing with it... but that only helps so much, because her sense of smell is just as good.

Spinosaurus: As if the T. Rex wasn't bad enough, you have this to worry about. Rivaling the T-Rex in size and power, the Spinosaurus is also more cruel and relentless. Rest assured, if you anger it, it will hunt you down.

Brachiosaurus: Gentle giants, the Brachiosaurs are massive, long-necked herbivores. That means they're not dangerous, right? But they've been driven out of the city by carnivores, and when you're that big and that scared, you don't tend to watch what's underfoot.

That's what you all have to "play with", folks! Mods will be responding with the NPC account, or you can handle your threads yourself. Just say which you prefer somewhere in the post itself. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask here!

Edited 2015-08-10 18:44 (UTC)

It was an otherwise normal day for Edwin Weller. He was getting lunch away from his office, making a show of walking down the street like a normal, everyday person. He even had his cane with him, and was making sure to walk with a pronounced limp. All in all, he wasn't exactly ready for rumors of a blur with red lightning to be circulating through the city.

That's when he noticed something out of the ordinary. Namely, loud roars and screeching in the distance. That was strange enough, only for it to be followed by more normal, everyday screams from people beside him on the street.

That's when Weller noticed the horde of tiny, green lizard creatures swarming people at people's feet, tearing at and climbing up their legs. His own eyes widened and he let out a shout once he realized the animals were biting at his legs.

Weller's mind raced a mile a minute. He couldn't exactly dash away from this in full view of multiple people. And... and what were these things, anyway? They looked like little dinosaurs.

As such, you'd see a middle-aged man, along with several others, screaming as they tried to shake the ravenous little creatures biting and clawing at them before they could do any real damage.

(I'm okay with NPCing these myself, along with anyone who wants to join me. Someone save Weller before he gets his legs chewed off because he's too stubborn to reveal his powers?)

As Mina walks down the street to the movie theater (a girl's got to get her exercise, okay), an unfamiliar scent drifts into her nose. She's still unused to the new sense of scent she's got, but it's full of novel experiences. Sniffing, she tries to figure out what it is. And then she turns around and sees the velociraptors stalking her. She freezes up at first. But then she bolts, the velociraptors hot on her track. Dinosaurs. Why'd it have to be dinosaurs now. This was even worse than the slime!

(Also alright with NPCing the dinosaurs myself.)

Torin is thusfar resisting the urge to summon Bragigas out this way. The giant robot dinosaur might cause a bit more confusion and destruction than either of them would like at the moment, so flying solo it is.

So he'll stop and land nearby one of the Brachiosaurs. "Hello there!" That's it, keep it friendly. His GigaGaburevolver is safely tucked away in the folds of his robe, and Feather Edge is only a call away. "I don't want to hurt you, I just want to talk!"

Why, yes, that is a birdman attempting to engage in peaceful discourse with a dinosaur. Totally normal, nothing to see. Nothing at all to see.

((I'd love mod dino NPCing here, since, well, Torin's trying to talk with it. I'm cool with NPCing anything he fights against, though.))

Edited 2015-08-11 02:06 (UTC)

It's a rare day off for Arlene. She brushes hay-colored bangs away from her eyes as she hurries to lick up her rapidly melting ice cream; since she moved to Gateway City following the invasion a year ago, she's managed to develop a routine, and though she still works hard to keep her figure, a mainstay for her is her weekly treat. Even if it's a small thing, it's something to look forward to, one of the few things she has.

This is true even now that she's Numbered, but she's not told her employers yet. Better not to draw attention to it when things are going so strange so suddenly.

As she's passing by the zoo, she hears a noise that no modern animal would make, and shields her eyes as she peers up past the gates at the extended neck of a brachiosaurus.

"Shit!" She exclaims, wide-eyed, oblivious to the glare a middle-aged woman with several children gives her. "Wow, is... is that real?"

Edited 2015-08-11 02:13 (UTC)

Gateway's situation is already a catastrophe in the making. With giant beasts running rampant through the city, people in a panic... but at the very least it seems a portion of the creatures are more-or-less peaceful. Herbivores more interested in staying away from their predators.

Until that behavior abruptly changes.

Without warning, several of the dinosaurs suddenly thrash as if in fury or pain or both, slamming themselves against walls and roaring as loud as their lungs will allow. When the fits pass, the creatures... change. Formerly peaceful plant-eaters suddenly become violent and aggressive and the predators... well, the predators only get worse.

But what could be causing this sudden swing? The only hint might come in the angry red light shining deep in their eyes....

And the cloying scent of dark magic hanging in the air around them, clearly detectable by anybody sensitive to its presence.

[OOC: So, yeah, welcome to Keldek's first move as a bad guy. He's done something to the dinosaurs to transform them into vicious, aggressive attack machines. Affected dinosaurs will attack everyone and everything they see but can be stopped if the enchantment is broken.

Dinos can be NPCed by you, or I'll take the reigns. Just let me know in your reply if you have a preference.]

Edited 2015-08-11 03:38 (UTC)

Winter knows, intellectually, what these creatures are. She's read enough textbooks for that. And yet... she can't really accept it. Dinosaurs. In modern-day America. Roaming the streets. "Seriously!?" is about as much as she can get out, as she initially stares at them.

She doesn't want to shift into form right away; seeing the Precure running around might cause a little more panic than having the extra power would be worth. So for now, she'll take advantage of the boost in speed and strength she has without it to jet around the city and begin rescuing everyone she can find that needs the help. She's not the best of fighters like this, but she's no slouch. Getting hit will be the end of her, but she'll take that risk. There's no time to lose, right?

At some point, a little later on, she realizes they can't keep going on as they are - someone's going to get hurt, and it's probably going to be Lily or herself. That's about the time she lands in the square, and growls as she sees they're still not out of the woods. Without even looking to make sure the girl's behind her, she starts, "Lily... I think we need more firepower. Should we get started?"

Blaise stares, wide-eyed, at the behemoth before him. It's a gargantuan dinosaur, and it doesn't look very friendly. He swallows, feeling his heart go a mile a minute in his throat.

"Sh...shit! What do I do?" His bewilderment seems to override any other emotion he has before the monster moves toward him. He lets out a yelp as he turns and runs as fast as his legs will allow, ducking as many corners as he can find. He's not sure if the big buildings will provide much of a shield, but it's got to be better than nothing.

"You can't be serious! Tell me I'm dreaming!" If he is, this is the most vivid dream he's ever had.

He collapses after turning the next corner, fighting desperately to catch his breath in the alleyway. What is he supposed to do with real live dinosaurs?

"This is like some bad nineties movie..." He frowns as he gulps and reaches into his pocket to retrieve his phone. He pulls up Winter's information and selects her Numbered number. "She said this one was for emergencies right? ...And this is an emergency...!"

He pushes dial and.... the gets an automated operator with an error message. A look of pure terror crosses Blaise's face. He quickly dials the number again and the same thing happens again. Great. It was a fake number girls hand out to people they don't like. Sweat drips down Blaise's face as he feels the ground tremble from the large footsteps nearby. He gets up and bolts down the street, squeezing his phone hard in his sweaty palm. 'This is it. I'm going to die! I didn't even get to figure out what I want to do with my life, or admit my crushes, or tell my parents goodbye! Crap!'

He stumbles and falls to his knees, fighting back tears as much as he knows how. A couple escape. Amidst his teary eyes, he sees something appear on his left wrist. A silver bracelet with a winged red heart. It's kind of cool that it has wings like his shield necklace, the thought briefly grazes his mind. But what follows is much more prominent.

"What... What the fuck is that?"

He shakes his head a little. Seeing the bracelet for some reason urged him to have hope. He picks up his phone again. This time, he dials Winter's personal cell phone and calls it. He lets go of the breath he was holding when he hears it ring.

Edited 2015-08-11 06:59 (UTC)

[A - Entry]

While holding close to Winter's position for both obvious and tactical reasons, Lily's still a fairly noticeable figure heading into the zoo. The purple hair coupled with her height does still make her stick out like a sore thumb, after all.

It's pretty easy to see just what they're facing from afar though, at least as far as certain creatures are concerned. Some of which... well, their very presence is assuredly tearing the place asunder. At a point, she catches a glimpse of a T-Rex from a considerable distance away, and stops short of breath.

What comes out of her mouth isn't anything she should be focused on, really. There's civilians to save, and what happened to the animals in there? No, what comes out of her mouth is... well, she sounds rather offended when she blurts out: "Why don't they have feathers?"

...it's a coping mechanism. Bear with her.

[B - Precure]

Late to join his partner, having been... well, absently sight seeing around the city at the time, Cure Moonlight's fairy partner Cologne gives quite an awful shriek. Really, far, far more shrill than you'd ever expect with his generally deeper-than-anticipated voice. This is because as he comes down towards his partner, there's another cry as a raptor leaps out of the bushes right for him as he nears Moonlight.

She catches it, mind you. More specifically, him, as she bounces back and snatches him out of the air, flipping back through it and landing as she skids back along the ground, and the raptor...

Well, it gets a face full of energy before she leaps much further away, attempting to clear a distance while still keeping her allies in sight. "You could be a little more careful," she says.

He just... gulps, audibly.

[A]

Jasmine woke up in New Zealand and turned on the news to find something literally impossible was going on in Gateway. Dinosaurs. Dinosaursof all things. Completely inaccurate ones too, but that was academic solidarity born from her father's chosen profession.

This was different from the damn santas and grinches and the various other monsters that cropped up over a year ago. It was like something from another time, place, or world had appeared right in front of them.

he can't really hesitate to get involved, and she figures with Lily and Winter here she can't afford to rest on her laurels. So, after checking in with Marina, she transformed and hoofed it to the teleporter. On the other side, she found the nearest window, opened it, and jumped out, taking wing.

That... was not exactly her wisest course of action, because no sooner than she was in the skies, was she set upon by a bunch of pterosaurs, who took issue with her being in the air. At least five of the smaller ones swarmed her, biting and scratching at her and trying to pull her down to the ground.

"Oh for the love of...!" Jasmine screamed as she flew low over the streets, pulling more of them off of her. But no mattter what she did, more of the "flock" set upon her.

[B]

After all of that, and some other things, Jasmine was looking a bit worse for wear. She needed a moment... even with her strength and speed, these creatures were a test of her endurance. Gritting her teeth, and grabbing her shoulder where she'd been bit, she found a nearby wall to set herself against.

"Stupid freaking dinosaurs... never going another Cretaceous Zone movie agaiin..."

And that's when a loud crash got her attention, and she saw a Triceratops smashing through a number of parked cars. Angry, the beast bellowed, before beginning its angry, terrified rampage anew, sure to cause yet more property damage.

Jasmine groaned as she tried to pick herself up. "Today... really... suuuucks..."

[A: hero time!]

Rakka always did want to see more of Gatewater City. This was not the way she wanted it to happen, though, by any means.

Dinosaurs! Real dinosaurs were literally popping out of nowhere and walking around, and throwing the city into chaos! And it wasn't just the city either, the television back in Shepard's Haven had been shouting every few seconds about it, live film and all. Though whatever reporters that were still around were probably in danger of becoming a snack for hungry dinos.

Thankfully, Rakka was on the scene sooner rather then later. She made her way into the zoo... stopping a small distance away to snap a few photos of the dinos on her phone.

"Whoa!" ...What? She's on the case!

[B: Dogfighting...kinda]

The fighting was getting tiring after a while. There were only so many raptors you could punch before it started to lose its luster. But Rakka was holding firm, and didn't let the dinos get far out of her sight... until she heard a voice cut through the chaos.

"Cure Feather!!" That voice, tiny and young but still echoing in Rakka's ears... And it was joined by the screeching of Pterosaurs.

"...Fougere? Fougere!"

She doesn't see her fairy partner, not at first. It's only when she looks into the sky that she spots the small, grey and white fairy struggling in the grip of a nasty Pterosaur. "Heeeeelp!" He cried out, surely afraid of what Rakka could consider becoming a snack.

There didn't need to be second thoughts, as Rakka quickly sprung off the ground after them. The first punch she threw missed, the Pterosaur looping and swooping through the air to avoid her. She could leap in strides still, though without Fougere's powers, true flight wasn't in her hands. And that was bad.

To make matters worse, there was the rest of the swarm of flying lizards that decided to mess with Rakka. "Ghh... Hold on, Fougere! I'll save you!" Somehow.

Edited (icon...) 2015-08-12 06:09 (UTC)

Well, things... had started out as a normal day, at least for her lately. It was a relatively slow day, just one quick interview to tape and then actually having a few hours free to enjoy the day.

That's how it started anyway.

What's going on now is a crowd of people rushing out the doors of a TV studio, harried by the smaller flying dinosaurs that swoop and snap at them. For a time, it seems like a dark situation indeed... until a girl in a sparkling yellow dress swoops down from the sky and kicks one of the flying lizards down the street.

Landing lightly, she spins around and casts a hail of tiny star-shaped bolts into the flock of Dimorphodon. With her free hand. Because her other hand is currently occupied with holding a cell phone close to her ear, a cell phone with the screaming voice of her agent on the other end.

"No-- no, really, I'm fine. I got away, no problem, totally safe. You just worry about yourself and I'll meet up with you later." A pause as the voice on the other end shouts something else, and she glances around, pausing for a moment. "... What screaming?"

The resulting hollering from the speaker makes her wince and hold the phone a little further from her ear. Sigh. Being a superhero is tougher than it looks on TV.

Toushirou is at home when it starts to happen, but news like this doesn't exactly take a long time to travel. Dinosaurs suddenly crashing around in the middle of a city is kind of noteworthy. At least having long-since abandoned his secrecy with Granny, he doesn't have to make up some kind of excuse for what he's doing. Just a quick explanation of "Dinosaur attack; gotta go" is all he needs to bother with before he slings his sword over his back and heads out the . . . tenth floor window.

He doesn't release his full power along the way, simply uses his speed and ability to stand in midair to hurry downtown through the sky.

And before long, he isn't alone in the air, narrowly dodging a screeching pterosaur swooping down at him. He's probably safe from that for the moment; it'll take a minute for it to get back up at him if it wants another shot. More important is that pachycephalosaur rushing a crowd below.

"Souten ni zase, Hyourinmaru!"

He sweeps his blade around in a wide arc, a dragon of ice flowing along it, and another swipe sends the dragon plowing into the charging dinosaur, knocking it clean off its feet seconds before its head would have smashed into someone. Eyes alert, he keeps watch for anyone in need of a little more aerial intervention.

[[OOC: Totally content with NPC-ing the dinos myself and with other characters.]]

Edited 2015-08-13 19:07 (UTC)

It wasn't very often that Raye left the peace of Shepherd's Haven, even rarer was her stepping in to intervene with problems out in the world. She'd made her opinion on the matter loud and clear a long time ago, and as far as she was concerned if the world was going to shit all over her and her friends, it could deal with its own problems.

This is a little different though. Fucking dinosaurs rampaging through the streets, man! It had been a year since anything like this had happened and while she had certainly been happy for that time, for somebody like Raye who almost thrived off of a good fight... it had felt like a very long time.

She'd been fighting for what felt like hours now and paused to take a rest, leaning against a dented street lamp and frowning a bit. Man, as nuts as all this is there's definitely something missing somehow. Most of the predator types were smaller and even though they were nasty, they weren't really putting up much of a fight against her power and her Scissor Blade and the bigger ones were pretty much minding their own business until something messed with them so taking the first shot just felt kind of lousy. There's gotta be something around here, that--

--that's about when her thoughts are cut off by a massive crash and she looks up just in time to see a very large mouth full of very large teeth slam shut on her.

.....

Moments later, a humanoid form goes flying across the street like a cannonball. She crashes through the glass of a stormfront and knocks aside mannequins and crashes through store displays before coming to a stop. The Scissor Blade clatters to the ground on the sidewalk. Outside, the ground shakes as one of the larger dinosaurs stomps into the road, growling at a long, bleeding gash in the side of its head that its prey had inflicted.

Just a few seconds pass and a pair of shoes hit the ground, crunching glass and catching the animal's attention. A blood-soaked hand reaches down and picks up the discarded weapon.

"Okay. That's more like it." Raye grins as she straightens up, clothes torn up and bloodied. Glittering red threads crisscross the grisly wounds in her body where teeth had impaled her, already pulling them shut. She raises her head, tightens her grip on the weapon and yells upward. "YO! LET'S DO THIS, BITCH!"

The tyrannosaurus answers her challenge with a mighty roar.

[Some NPCing would be great here but I can also take the rex myself. Raye might gripe a little that she wanted this one for herself is help arrives but all are welcome to step in if they so choose! Or stand by and popcorn. Whatever.]

Dinosaurs running amok out of the zoo of all places were hardly something even the most unobservant people were going to miss. In Emi's case, though, she was on the scene as soon as she heard about it, hard not to with the sounds coming from the city were certainly not the usual sounds.

Arthur's out but sure to become involved, but still she sends him a message before grabbing her parasol and heading out the door at top speed...

Her excuse for getting involved would be to get the chance to fight dinosaurs, it's nothing to do with people getting hurt. Really. The first unfriendly dinosaur she sees, though, is getting introduced to Gungnir.

[NPCing would be welcome, since she'll challenge the biggest, baddest dinos she can find. Basically, challenging alphas when she's not wreaking havoc on dinos in general.]

Edited 2015-08-18 19:25 (UTC)

Phillip likes zoos, for the most part. Animals are awesome, and a lot of zoos mostly keep animals that would have trouble surviving on their own, and even though it is sad to see some of them in cages it could probably be a lot worse.

Though, until today, he didn't realize that having a zoo with dinosaurs is possibly the coolest thing ever. And also super dangerous. But, come on, dinosaurs.

It probably shouldn't surprise anyone that the dinosaurs manage to escape. Zoos aren't really equipped for that kind of thing. Phillip would like to not fight them, for a variety of reasons, but if anyone could clearly use some help then he will. Or they could always try to 'rescue' the boy from the ones he keeps approaching.

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