The Tropical Vacation of Your Dreams

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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.]

Comments

[stronglikebear]

Yuri can't see a thing from the jungle floor -- he turns and frowns in the direction she's pointing, but there's nothing but foliage that way. "Okay," he says, "I gotta see this."

Who knew Aly was such a practical joker? Yuri comes over to the base of her tree and starts looking for handholds, inching his way up to join her.

[aly_brighteyes]

Aly waits for him and keeps her gaze on a distant hilltop where she can see some very strange creatures with impossibly long necks.

[stronglikebear]

It takes him a while; he hasn't done this since he fell out of a tree at age ten. Yuri joins her in the branches eventually, though, taking a moment to brace himself and catch his breath before looking out in the same direction she is. When he does, he freezes up, staring.

"Holy crap."

[aly_brighteyes]

"I did say," Aly replies, leaning back against the tree. She squints, doing a trick with her eyes that lets her Sight go a little further.

[stronglikebear]

"You did," Yuri allows, still unable to tear his eyes away from the unbelievable sight. "But how can there be dinosaurs? Where are we?"

[aly_brighteyes]

"Dreaming, I suspect." She leans back against the trunk of the tree and turning her face toward the sunlight. "Isn't that the only place these strange things would appear in New York?"

[stronglikebear]

"New York...." Yuri sounds puzzled for a moment, as if he's forgotten why they should be in New York, or why there shouldn't be dinosaurs there. Then the world seems to realign and he looks around with dawning understanding. "Oh. Oh, right -- yeah, there wouldn't be anywhere that looked like this for thousands of miles, even without the dinosaurs."

[aly_brighteyes]

Aly nods and then shrugs. "They don't look provoked. It's fascinating to watch though."

[stronglikebear]

Yuri grins. "Yeah. I've seen them in movies, but this is -- this is something else. Think we could get one to come over here?"

[aly_brighteyes]

"I'm afraid I haven't Daine's gifts with creatures, but I suppose it's the same as approaching any large animal."

Like a horse, only the size of a building. It's perfectly similar.

[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."

[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."