[152] BEST PORT EVERRRRR // Video.

[stopthat_destro]

[The camera turns on to show a shot of a grassy clearing from behind some cover, where it captures the final moments of a fight between a t-rex and a triceratops in the distance.  The triceratops puts up a valiant effort, but the t-rex ultimately wins and begins feeding.  SO AWESOME.  Rex-- the person, not the dinosaur-- keeps the camera on this

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[inhistorybooks]

You've seen Jurassic Park, right? [DID YOU MISS THE POINT OF THE WHOLE MOVIE.]

[stopthat_destro]

[Later, a disheveled, mud-streaked Rex appears!]

Yeah, but-- [Pauuuuse.] I'm not going to try to engineer more. [Or whatever Nedry was up to, he doesn't remember.]

[inhistorybooks]

[Trip has just been mostly hanging out with plant eaters and Preston, so most of the mud/disheveledness is from being here for a few days.] Well, in the third one, the raptors were pretty pissed to see their eggs gone.

What snuck up on you?

[stopthat_destro]

They were? [Hmm...] But a live compy shouldn't cause the same problems.

[Rex rubs the back of his neck, frowning.] A dilophosaurus. Luckily, it didn't chase me.

Video:

[rayney_day]

I'm torn between wanting to turn that thing's head into a trophy and...

Nope. Definitely better off staying behind.

Re: Video:

[stopthat_destro]

[So unimpressed right now.]

Yes, I, too, am glad that the pointless vanity killing of animals that were once extinct is being kept to a minimum.

[inhumandog]

An egg or what?

[stopthat_destro]

Compsognathus longipes. It's a small dinosaur, about the size of a turkey.

[inhumandog]

You're not getting an egg. [Maybe.] Or a dinosaur.

[stopthat_destro]

[SAD FOREVER.] I can manage a small dinosaur. I know how to care for reptiles.

[worstsongever]

...Rex? You're still alive, right? Just scream in terror if you're still running.

[stopthat_destro]

[A WEE BIT LATER. Enjoy a mud-streaked Rex.]

Alive and [He clears his throat, looking around, JUST IN CASE IT'S STILL THERE.] in tact. It just... wanted me to move.

[worstsongever]

[Biting the inside of her lip. Just a bit.] Got something on your face. Just a little bit.

...And that's better than it wanting to eat you, right?

[stopthat_destro]

[He brushes a hand on his cheek and pulls it back to look at the mud.]

Oh. [He starts to wipe at his face some more.] This might be a lost cause. [Muttering:] At least until there's running water...

Definitely. And now that there's some distance, I can almost appreciate the encounter.

[majorum_pride]

[Rhade's own camera flicks on and he's looking... tired, to say the least. His face is smeared with blood, and his forearms (and extended boneblades) are covered in it. The reason he's showing them is because he's got the head (it's still attached to the body, he didn't behead it, but he's got it pulled into his lap to show to Rex).]

This attacked me after I scared the first one off. Is it poisonous?

[Spiny man met spiny lizard. It did not go well.]

[stopthat_destro]

[Blink blink.]

No, it's... not. To my knowledge, at any rate. These dinosaurs aren't all... scientifically accurate.

[majorum_pride]

They aren't scientifically accurate? [Inquisitive tone? But... they're dinosaurs?

He's never seen Jurassic Park. Sorry. He opens up the velociraptor's mouth to look for any structures that might produce venom. Then sniffs questioningly to see if it can do bad things like a komodo dragon's bacteria.]

[stopthat_destro]

That is, they aren't consistent with what little we do know about their appearance, behavior... toxicity...

In my world, at least.