The Tropical Vacation of Your Dreams

[applesaucemod]

The communal dreams of Manhattan have been downright pleasant lately, haven't they? Here's another sunny day for dreamers to enjoy in their sleep, though of course the tropical climate may prove just a little uncomfortable for northerners. The verdant jungle has its own sort of charm, though, teeming as it is with all sorts of exotic animals.

Make that very exotic animals.

Those who arrive close by any of the old buildings or fences will see that it's been a long time since the humans that made them disappeared. Everything here was once sleek, shiny, and state of the art. Now formerly electric fences stand bent and torn, automated SUVs sit rusting on their tracks or lie smashed to pieces where they were thrown by some enormous creature, and the jungle slowly works to reclaim a mildewy hotel and visitors' center.

Whether one finds oneself in the formless jungle that was once paddocks, in the aviary that would have housed a luxury resort, or even in the halls of what should by all rights be the most heavily fortified hotel in the world, one is always in danger here. The barriers that once separated human from dinosaur have long since fallen. Here dinosaurs have eked out a new ecosystem, the carnivores not particularly bothered about eating herbivores from entirely different epochs…or, for that matter, the funny little hairless apes that have appeared here on occasion. Here one is always in danger of running afoul of hungry tyrannosaurs, stampeding triceratops, or cunning deinonychus velociraptors (they're totally velociraptors, yup). Enjoy the eye-searing venom of that strangely undersized dilophosaurus, by the way, as well as the toxic bite of the swarms of compsognathus. Or maybe the dreamers will luck out, and the worst they'll encounter is an indifferent, bumbling brachiosaurus or an unassuming microceratops. Who here is ever that lucky, though?

Welcome to Jurassic Park.



[Mod note: Same drill as always. All players and characters are welcome, current members or no. Characters will remember or forget any and all dream events at players' discretion. Death in the dream does not result in real death.]

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[bluesuit_handy]

With a squint and a wiggly shrug that turns into a nod, Andrew turns and starts striding in the direction indicated. "Left it is!" he chirps cheerfully. "Come along, we'll be there in no time -- wherever there is."

[frank_doyle]

"Oh, don't be such a sissy!" Frank waves Barty off, then deftly catches the bottle, helping him steady it. "Ooh! Look! There's something - oh. Hmm."

He squints dubiously into the distance. "Wa-ait... Penelope, I thought we said velociraptors. Those are clearly deinonychus!!"

[stronglikebear]

"So with food?" Unfortunately, Yuri doesn't have much experience with any kind of animal other than the ones that come prepackaged in the supermarket or come from animal shelters.

[aly_brighteyes]

"They do appear to be plant eaters. I don't suppose an offering of shrubbery is within reach, is it?" Aly jokes. "They're amazing creatures."

[sadie_doyle]

"They're much too large to be velociraptors," Sadie agrees, tone playfully scolding. "Still, wouldn't a deinonychus look marvelous in our apartment, darling?" They could dress it up for the holidays, if they bothered enough with calendars to know when holidays were happening.

[bluesuit_hoofy]

Andrew's head swims as he squints in the direction they're both looking. Shutting his eyes and giving it a quick shake, he looks again. "What, really? They look like raptors to me."

Wait. "Other way!" he hisses. "I'm not getting eaten by a dinosaur today, thank you!"

[stronglikebear]

"Maybe if we put in two shrubberies with a little path between them," jokes Yuri almost automatically.

[aly_brighteyes]

Aly tilts her head. "That's a reference I'm failing to catch, isn't it?"

[stronglikebear]

"You could say that," laughs Yuri, not the slightest bit ashamed of himself. "Remind me when we're awake and I'll show you, it's pretty good."