Welcome to a Jurassic Lark [Open]

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Characters: Riku, Sora, Kaldur, Kotetsu, anyone else...
Content: DINOSAUR SAFARI!!!!!
Location: North America near the Jurassic Period inland sea.
Time of Day: Mid-day
Warnings: Dinosaurs, antics, people with restored powers...
Notes: I have dinosaur books! I don’t expect this to be scientifically accurate, but I can answer questions! This will be done party-style with no posting order required. Don't feel required to tag every sub-thread, and feel free to create your own or take control of what's happening!


The group was immediately greeted with the scent of pine. Conifers created a sweet-smelling forest, ferns poking up where one might've expected grass. An occasional ginkgo tree dotted the woods as well. However, there was also the feeling of humidity and the smell of fish and salt, what Riku knew meant there was a nearby coast. Metallic blue dragonflies slipped effortlessly through the air, sometimes dancing with each other.

With a smirk, Riku looked back at the rest of the party. It wasn't the same time period, but there was plenty to be seen, regardless. This was going to be fun.

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[eyeofwildtiger]

Kotetsu squinted at the creature, trying to determine if it was a boy or a girl. Well, at least they didn't have to worry about being eaten. Now it was a matter of if mama was going to come back and accidentally step on them.

Even so... he had to admit that the whole situation was pretty damn adorable.

"Maybe it's hungry."

[optimistickey]

"Brontosaurus sounds right..." Sora said. It probably was a different name, but he was even worse than Riku at remembering those kinds of things. The dinosaur sniffed at his hand, but didn't bite. And there was still no sign of the parents anywhere...

Sora snickered a bit under his breath when the baby dino went up to follow Riku. "He thinks you're his mommy! You should give it some leaves to eat or something!"

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Riku inched backwards, still crouching, but managed to stumble over the foliage and fall on his rump. Before he knew it, he has a lap full of baby dinosaur, which, much to his dismay, wasn't particularly picky where it put its feet. He grunted in pain, cutting short a brief whimper as he moved the offending foot aside.

"D-do I look like a reptile?" His attempts to hide the ebbing pain weren't as successful as he'd have liked. "I don't know what kind of leaves to feed it. We don't even know if it's hungry!" The little dinosaur nuzzled his neck.

[acceptedburden]

Kaldur attempted to hide his smile as the baby dinosaur continued to pursue Riku. It was difficult, but the amusement ended a little and turned to a sympathetic wince when the dinosaur mis-stepped on Riku's lap.
He smiled slightly at Sora, "It would be unwise to attempt to feed them if we do not know the correct diet. Just because it is a herbivore does not mean that all leaves are viable for it to digest. Some plants could be poison to it and we have no way of knowing."

He crossed his arms, "Still. This might be a bad idea after all. If the dinosaur thinks Riku is it's parent then we will have to separate them eventually. And the parents have yet to return." He was starting to wonder if this nest had been abandoned.

[eyeofwildtiger]

"So, what're we gonna do about it, then?" Kotetsu asked. "Can't just leave it here or it'll be another dino's snack. Can't take it back to the satellite 'cos it'll grow up to be huge."

[optimistickey]

...Owww. Sora winced a little at that...he was now kind of glad the baby dinosaur hadn't spotted him first. But that still left them with what to do with the dinosaur.

Sora thought for a moment...this was a tricky situation. "Maybe we can try to find its parents, and send it back to them? If we stay far enough away, they won't notice us." Sora figured that since they were herbivores, the parents had less chance of going after them anyway.

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"The raptors smelled me, so who knows? Hard to guess how these guys will react." He slowly grew thoughtful. "Or how connected they are to smell." Riku slowly looked down at himself. ...And pulled his legs up to keep history from repeating itself.

Riku had tried to keep his vest after his encounter with the raptors, and while he was wearing it, it wasn't in the greatest shape anymore. Despite his efforts, there were still stains from foliage and blood on the white fabric. It'd been stretched out in a few odd ways, making it look odd at a few angles. It was torn from attacks, and claws had torn one side of the zipper half off. While he liked that vest, it was time for it to go.

"Think if we run fast enough, it'd stick around something that smelled like me?" Riku had to smack away the little sauropod's head when it tried to eat his hair. "NO."

[acceptedburden]

Kotetsu's words made him think of one of his friends. Size would certainly not have stopped Superboy from trying to adopt such a creature, he thought with amusement.

"Most animals tend to have a far better sense of smell than humans, regardless. I would think they would smell us unless we managed to get downwind. But this is a nest...one would think the parents would return eventually." The problem then being how to get the little one to stay.