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- character: daine sarrasri,
- character: johnny truant,
- character: peeta mellark,
- character: sunshine,
- dropped: aglet bottlerack,
- dropped: aiden,
- dropped: alianne,
- dropped: almondine,
- dropped: andrew noble,
- dropped: croach the tracker,
- dropped: dana cardinal,
- dropped: edgar sawtelle,
- dropped: gus fring,
- dropped: jodie holmes,
- dropped: sandalia de rabiffano,
- dropped: the doctor (10),
- party post,
- retired: peter vincent
The Tropical Vacation of Your Dreams
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 cunningdeinonychus 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.]
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
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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"Yeah," she says, following his dubious lead. Glancing at the Doyle's mode of transport, she adds, "We were gonna try and make it through that fence, so…" it's a safe bet that dinosaur won't fit.
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It's not a very elegant attempt to extricate themselves from the conversation, and Sadie isn't so drunk that a more subtle attempt would have gone unnoticed. She is drunk enough not to begrudge them, though. It's all well and good, meeting new people, but at the end of the day, Frank is all the company she needs.
"Well, the best of luck to you!" she says, lifting her glass. "And do try to avoid being devoured." Pity they don't have a gun, and she frowns thoughtfully. "What do you think, darling - could we spare one of the rifles?"
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Johnny stares at the gun, then, slowly, at Jodie. He hands it over with no hesitation.
"Welp," he says, which about sums it up, and sets off toward the 10,000 volt carrying fence.
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She waits until they're well out of earshot before saying, "So, that was weird," and risking a glance back. Neither of the Doyles seem to be watching their departure; rather, they're both standing between the dead T-rex and the triceratops, glancing between the two and making the occasional critical gesture. She turns away, shaking her head.
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He even manages a laugh. It might be the vodka, but it feels kind of nice regardless.
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"Just about anything would be," she says with cautious good humor. She's not sure if she should really be joking about it, even though he just did. Sobering a little, she adds, "And if you see that Zagreus asshole, be sure to point him out. I have pretty good aim."
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"Heh." He nods, digs his hands into his pockets as he shuffles along behind her. "Okay."
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Besides, if anyone is going to fuck Johnny up, it's going to be him, thank you very much.She'd known the fence was tall, but she's still surprised at how high it looms above them when they finally reach it. "Shit," she says as she tilts her head back, impressed. There's no way the juice is still flowing, but unless they find a gap to crawl through, they're in for a hell of a climb.
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"I'm going to climb it," she announces before pulling herself up onto the concrete barrier at the base of the fence. There's no hum of a current, and she's not surprised when a cautious poke doesn't result in her getting electrocuted (or woken up). Well, then. She starts to pull herself up.
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Yup. He kicks at a patch of dirt.
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She grabs the topmost wire, pulls herself up, and hooks an arm over it as she looks around. There's a hell of a view from up here; including a veritable shitton of dinosaurs. Most of them look like herbivores, which is some comfort. She looks both ways down the fence line and mostly just sees jungle, but to the north, there's a promising break in the trees. "I think there's something that way," she calls down to Johnny, pointing. "Hang on; I'm coming back down."
Ready, Aiden? she asks. His hum of resigned confirmation makes her smile, and then she jumps. Aiden curls around her, and the shockwave of his protective sphere hits the ground before she does. Jodie straightens, grinning, and says, "It should be a short walk."
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Recovered, not wanting to look like a TOTAL idiot, he strikes off in the indicated direction. "What kinda something was it? Like a promising something, or a we'll-settle-for-anything something?"
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As for the buildings she saw… "Maybe promising? It looked pretty sturdy from up there, but god only knows what kind of shape it's really in. I think it's a maintenance building or something, so it's… probably pretty well fortified." As compared to the more touristy spots.
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"So you really never saw this movie?" he says after several moments of awkward silence and walking.
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"Yeah," she finally says, her voice devoid of any humor. "They did." Emphasis on the past-tense.
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Try again. "So, um." God damn. Small talk is so hard. This is why he never has friends. It's so much easier when you can just fuck somebody and never speak to them again. "What did you, uh, do? Before you came here?"
She mentioned the army, but that can't be everything, can it?
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Jodie gives Johnny an exasperated sidelong glance. It's not his fault her whole damn past is basically off-limits, for both of their sakes, but Christ, couldn't he pick another topic of conversation? "I don't really want to talk about it," she says bluntly. Not least of all because the last thing she did before she came through the rift was destroy a historic downtown district and take out most of a SWAT team.
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She's about to suggest as much when she hears someone else talking. "Did you hear that?" she asks in an undertone.