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Your safari car rumbles over the dirt path, and you hold onto the armrests, full to the brim with excitement and anticipation. You lean forward in your seat, eagerly, as you see the gates ahead of the car open, the tiki torches’ flames dancing in the breeze.

You read the sign above it.

Monday, April 13th - Thursday, April 16th

In a nutshell: Two fabulous days of relaxation, exploration, education and whatnot, and then two unfabulous (or fabulous) days of fighting DINOSAURS.

LET ME REPEAT

DINOSAURS!!!

First day is a breeze. Everyone wakes up at midnight to find themselves on a cruise ship headed to Isla Nublar, where there is a dinosaur theme park. Everyone is initially told it’s a fancy museum they’ll be visiting for a bit, but on the shuttle bus ride to the Visitor’s Centre it’s made very clear that there are REAL dinosaurs here. But relax, no problem; have a nice day of exploring, learning, seeing amazing things, etc. Everyone’s camping out on the herbivore plains, so they can see everything up close and REALLY experience the place. Keep in mind that this place has a lot of researchers and maintainers around to run the park; people won’t be allowed to get into trouble, as, for everyone’s safety, everything is kept in order.

 Second day is a breeze until the late afternoon, when it starts to thunderstorm. No problem, just an unexpected change in the weather. The last tour of the day on the Park Drive will experience a mechanical problem and the cars will stop and lock up in front of the T-Rex enclosure. They shut down completely, including radio communication with the visitor’s centre. Anyone on the tour will be stranded there, and anyone back at the visitor’s centre will be powerless to help them. Everyone will probably want to bed down in the visitor’s centre, seeing as the camp has been washed out. Still completely safe, don’t worry. Except, er, the T-Rexes are loose. Good thing they're just wandering around.

Third day comes, and the rain comes to an end around noon. Curiously everyone’s magical/supernatural/other powers come back around the same time. However, the problems aren’t over yet; the cars still aren’t working, so anyone still on the Park Drive will probably have to man up and start the hike back. But trouble strikes at six P.M., when somewhere off in the distance, the velociraptors figure out how to shut down the power to their enclosure. To get it back up, the Park workers reboot the system, but this means the power needs to be reset completely.

Oh dear. This is where the Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus Rexes come in. Shit, guys. The laboratory and research labs and all that are now your stronghold against those guys. A small team’s going to have to go out and fix the power, and once the boat’s been called to come save everyone, everyone’s going to have to get to the docks.

By 7 P.M. on the fourth day, everyone’ll be safe and sound on the cruise ship, which will pull away. Until midnight, relax, buffet and zen to your heart’s content, and then we’re back to the castle.

What an adventure! What a PERFECTLY SAFE ADVENTURE THAT WAS!

There will be a breakdown of each day, every day. You need only check the Jurassic Park plot tag.

I thought it’d be nice to run a 4 day plot with only the latter days of chaos and danger (ie; dinosaurs) where no one died. Injuries, maulings, serious bites, sure, but point being, if everyone kept their powers and whatnot, there’s really no excuse for mass death, and in some cases, even death at all. And this really means none of that “I happened to meander away without any powers or abilities and no one stopped me” stuff.

So what we have are NEAR-DEATH slots. Organize ways that people get saved from death. Close calls. This is both to give heroes and Peace Patrol some sort of relevance and an opportunity to do something that isn’t resting on their laurels.

1. Jude Feeny –– Rescued by John Stewart
2. John Stewart -- Rescued by Shayera?
3. Matt Parkman -- possibly Daphne
4. Bad Girl -- Rescued by Toph
5. Caboose -- Rescued by Hiro
6. John Hammond -- Rescued by Allen
7. Yue -- Rescued by Zuko
8. Peri Brown -- possibly Daphne
9. Lucian --
10. Bandit Keith --
11. Dr. House -- Rescued by Yoruichi
12. Suu -- Rescued by Superboy-Prime
13. Jennifer -- Rescued by Thors
14. Colette -- Rescued by Clark
15. Demyx -- Rescued by Aang
16. Zack -- Rescued by Cassie
17. Peach -- Rescued by Jet
18. Wolf -- Rescued by Fox
19. Rory Gilmore --
20. Sherlock Holmes
21. Souji
22. Alexis Meade -- Rescued by Marc
23. Gellert Grindelwald
24. Flack
25. Sweets
26. Kutner -- Rescued by John Stewart
27. Peter Petrelli
28. Elle Woods -- Rescued by Jun
29.
30.
31.

WE CAN HAVE AS MANY SLOTS AS WE WANT! Don't let the numbers fool you!

If you must, must, must, must, MUST have someone die, we can talk about it, but we really need a strong justification on it, or how they managed to get om-nomed when we have plenty of magical superpowered residents to protect them. It really has to be more than looking for a canon update or loss change; there needs to be in-character consequences for this, etc.

You’re in a cruise ship-style cabin. You’re wearing normal Earth clothes. You have a packed suitcase with your name on it, and inside is a few days worth of clothes, toiletries, and whatnot. Normal vacation stuff. Your journal is there too. Anything else? Sorry, love, you’ll have to do without your epic godsword with +12 Badassity. After all, where you’re going is completely safe.

If you ask any of the ship’s crew where you are, well, you’re going to Jurassic Park. It’s a dinosaur theme park. Don’t worry, it’s just a really fancy, ritzy MUSEUM. No real dinosaurs there.

Everyone is depowered/made into a normal human. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe. If your character is an animal/thing of some sort, they can either become human or turn into a dinosaur –– in which case, you are already on the island, grazing or eating goats or something.

If you leave the ship, you’ll be in a port. Everyone has until the end of the first day to get off the boat, because the ship is leaving, and there is no re-admittance after leaving the ship. There are shuttle buses to take everyone up to the visitor’s centre; on the way there you’ll be travelling through grassy plains, and, shockingly, there are huge herbivore dinosaurs meandering around. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe.

Once at the visitor’s center, everyone will be introduced to the park and what’s going on. The gist of it is this:

You’ve all been chosen to “test drive” this park; it’s perfectly safe, so don’t worry. You’ll have the lucky opportunity to camp out on the herbivore plains (it’s perfectly safe) and meet the dinosaurs (also perfectly safe). You’ll be given tours of the research facilities and get to experience the place almost to the fullest. Paradise, right? Yeah, a totally safe paradise.

As for geographical information, Isla Nublar is a remote island about 120 miles off of the west coast of Costa Rica. It’s very hot, and tends to be very foggy. Here is your map, have fun. Perfectly safe fun.

There will be a mass post with Hammond on the shuttle bus to give everyone their introduction to the place and their first encounter with, gulp, real live dinosaurs.

The Visitor’s Centre
Gift shop, restaurants, etc. Detailed information on things to look at there can be found here.

Museum
Old-fashioned dinosaur museum set up, with all the mounted fossils/bones and whatnot. There are a few theatres that show dinosaur-related documentaries, and there are presentations a couple times a day to further educate you.

It may be wise to pay attention; it seems like Paradisa is offering people a lot of information about these beautiful, magnificent creatures. But don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe.

The Park Drive
The Park Drive is that safari-car tour with the sweet little Jeeps on the car track. This runs all day and it is about three hours long. It runs right into the evening, with the last tour ending just after sunset.

A transcript of the tour is here.

EVERYONE is free to use and abuse the dinosaurs as much as they want; just keep in mind how dinosaurs think/move. Raptors are smarter, faster and stronger than the average person –– even someone who’s made a career out of hunting top predators can easily get nom’d by them.

As Alan Grant said:

“Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two 'raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.”

Oh, and seven dinosaurs you could take in a fight. Might come in handy.

Player Characters Introduced for This Plot
As with the Animal Crossing plot where Tortimer was there to introduce the residents to their location, there’ll be two characters around to help set the scene and push along a story.

John Hammond (you know, Walt Disney but DINOSAURS!) will be around to be enthusiastic and answer questions and whatnot. His account’s name is

sparednothing, as in, that line he repeats over and over again, “I spared no expenses.”

The other dude is Ian Malcom, who thinks this is all a very bad idea. He came in on the cruise ship. I'll edit in their journal info when I have it.

They’ll be directing and feeding the residents information and plot points over the week, so they have some idea of what to do.

If anyone’s interested in playing another Jurassic Park character for this plot, let us know and we can talk.

For all Earthlings: “Cretaceous World” is a popular 1993 movie about a bunch of people who build a time machine and go back in time and kidnap dinosaurs, bringing them back to the future to create a Dinosaur theme park in Hawaii. The owner, James Attenborough, was a ruthless and money-grabbing CEO who just wanted to make a profit off of it.

Additionally: MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH thanks go to Mimi, for suggesting this and giving us the bare bones. She didn't have time to run it herself, so she turned it over! ♥ Everyone say thank you to Mimi!