Dinosaur Island RPG

[The Kingpin]

"For god's sake man, get your head on straight. What does a man who just orchestrated the deaths of all his co workers do to ensure he's the only source of info for competitors?" Said Jacob, frustrated at David's short-sightedness. "It explains the destruction outside. He destroyed all the information...so nobody could get anything" he added as he got the smell of rotting flesh, cringing. "Ugh..speaking of which, looks like we found his co-workers....or at least...some of them" remarked Jacob as he shifted back and forth outside the entrance, scanning for any trace of life inside. death attracted predators in nature. and when nature was allowed to run wild.....the laws of nature applied. odds were, there was something in there. "Got any flares?" he asked...

[C S]

"Its called being thorough. We only had a hunch that the doctor decided to completely **** over everyone he knew...until this" David replied as he headed into the other room, one hand reaching into one of his suit's rear compartments. He pulled out a long red stick and then bit down on the tip, tugging it off and spitting it out. Almost instantly with a loud hiss, the flare ignited, David quickly moved it away from his face and held it out in front of him, casting away the darkness with the crimson light.

[dinoman666]

The room was cast in a frightening red glow when the flare flashed to life, exposing the skeletons at the other end of the lab... except it wasn't really a lab. It looked more like a pen. Criss-crossing bars extended across the ceiling of the pen surprisingly tightly together, mostly still cloaked by shadow. No human would be able to fit between the gaps, though a smaller animal, like a Velociraptor, could. A number of small walkways extended diagonally up the walls and up towards the net of rafters, and various tiny bones of smaller animals. The human skeletons were picked nearly clean, with only a few bits of rotting flesh still hanging from them. No sign of life was within, even in the rafters. If any of the brightly-colored, feathered raptor species that had appeared so far on the island were in here, they most certainly would have seen them in here, and they were the only dinosaurs they knew who would fit in a pen this size...

Much to Barnes relief (who was admittedly almost stir-crazy from staying in the dank laboratory for so long), the group had eventually arrived at a large set of slightly rusting double doors. Jenkins moved forward, and with a grunt of effort, slowly pushed one of the doors open with an annoying loud and long creaking. Orange light from the sunrise outside shined into the building, and despite the lights they had, Barnes didn't expect such brightness and instinctively shielded his eyes. A cool, refreshing breeze wafted into the building, which groaned, as if with its own relaxed sigh. Barnes, however, was too focused on what was outside. The courtyard leading to what was apparently the front doors of laboratory was very sterilized, with only a few basic concrete sidewalks (now overgrown or smother with long grass) extending across the foliage-infested lawn. "Alright, ladies, let's mo--"

As if on cue, there was a steady thump of heavy footsteps, and Barnes inwardly groaned. "Screw it, get ready to fire! We may not be able to kill this b**ch, but we can show her how humans fight!" He raised his M4 Rifle to his shoulder and looked down the iron sights at the rustling treeline in the distance, aiming at the general area where Sue's head would no doubt emerge. Dodgson and Jenkins immediately scooted to the back of the group to give everyone else a clear shot at the incoming threat, the footsteps steadily getting louder and louder, until it felt like a literal earthquake underfoot. Again. That didn't serve to bring back any good memories to Barnes' mind...

[Godzilla Forever]

Max had trouble staying stable whilst holding onto Hiero, but he managed to get a good stance and readied his shotgun. If need be, he would sacrifice himself so the others could get away....

[Giratina93]

Persephone pulled out her magnum and aimed it at the same place that Barnes was aiming at. Sue AGAIN? Just when will this Rex ever give up and go after easier prey? the woman groaned in the back of her mind as she scanned the treeline. Unfortunately, her bow and arrow wouldn't be much help against a massive t-rex, unless...

[dinoman666]

Just as expected, the animal's head emerged... a good five feet lower than Barnes thought it would. He immediately lowered his weapon to continue tracking the target, but held his fire. It certainly wasn't Sue...

The animal was obviously another large predator, nearly as big as the female Rex from last night, but covered in gravy scales across the majority of its sleek body. Darker striping lined its back and tail, but what was most striking was its head. The dinosaur's skull was narrower and sleeker than Sue's squarish block of a head, and was capped with a pair of short, serrated-looking crests, one above each eye. They were an alarmingly bright red, and its eyes were a fierce yellow, like many of the predators on the island. The creature swung its head back and forth in curiosity, loudly sniffing the air. "Wa-wait, what?" Barnes muttered. "Oh, hey! That's not Sue at all! It's just an Allosaurus! Go figure, huh?" Jenkins piped in, a little too loudly. The Allosaurus paused, then looked up from its search of the grass in front of it, staring at the humans arranged around the entrance of their little fortress. With a snort, the Allo stood straight and bellowed, its roar slightly higher in pitch and more grating than a Rex's, before scratching the ground with a clawed hindleg, flexed its powerfully muscled forearms in anticipation. "Ah sh*t..." Barnes said, just before the Allosaurus sprang forward with a second, equally powerful roar...

[Giratina93]

If looks could kill, then the split-second glance that Persephone gave to Jenkins before she opened fire on the Allosaurus would have done that and more. She fired as fast and as accurately as she could at the carnivore, aiming at the head of the creature while she backpeddled back into the building. Sure, it wasn't Sue, which made her sorta happy, but it was still a large carnivore that was after them now... and she wasn't willnig to let anymore of her fellow mercenaries die..

[Godzilla Forever]

Horrified at the beast's speed, Max began backpeddling while holding onto Hiero, firing his shotgun multiple tiems at the beast's head, hopnig one of the shots hits an eye and scares it off.... or at least stalls it.

[dinoman666]

At the current distance, the wall of gunfire that rained down on the charging Allosaurus was beginning to spread, but it was still enough to stop the animal in its tracks. The bullets had some trouble penetrating the carnivore's thick scales, but they clearly hurt it, and it reared and stumbled back, howling in rage. Barnes didn't stop firing for a second, except to reload when he expended his first clip on the thing. Had the treeline where the predator emerged from been closer, it's likely that their concentrated gunfire would have torn the creature to ribbons, or at least badly injured it. Unfortunately, it may have managed to stomp them all into mush in that time frame, so Barnes wasn't really all that mad it was so far away. As Barnes paused to reload, however, he felt a cold lump in his stomach. The ground was shaking again, and not because of the angry Allosaurus, which was staggering back, likely about to run from the sudden rain of stinging projectiles. As loudly as he could, Barnes shouted over the gunfire, "HOLD YOUR FIRE! HOLD YOUR FIRE, D*MMIT!"

Naturally, he was too late, even if the mercs had heard him. A second shape exploded from the trees, this one much more familiar than the Allosaurus before them, which also turned to see what else had arrived. Sue, towering over the Allosaurus, emerged into the courtyard from the humans' right side, letting out a deafening bellow far louder than anything Barnes had ever heard bar a jetplane taking off. "This is just getting better and better..." he muttered, as the titanic T. rex began thundering towards the confrontation...

[raptor titanus3]

"Would you let go of me the meds have kicked in already," said Hiero Angrily as he shook himself free from the other mans arm as he suddenly moved with great speed to unholster his rifle. Two large creatures stood just outside the door and Hiero diddn't feel like trying to press his luck by trying to halfhazardly run through. "I say we close the door, let the two kill each other and we finish off whoevers left!"

[Godzilla Forever]

"Why the hell shouldn't we just run?! The ******* thing'll rip through here if we don't get out while Sue's killing that Allosaur!" Max bellows.

[dinoman666]

While it was true that they could have easily charged back inside, Barnes had had quite enough of hiding in a dingy, dilapidated laboratory for one night. They weren't about to spend another one in there. They'd be stranded for months. "Into the trees as soon as you get a chance!" he barked over the arguing mercs. Sure enough, the Allosaurus clearly had considered Sue a bigger threat, and bravely, if not foolishly, turned to face her down as she stomped towards them. At first the Rex completely ignored the other predator, her eyes practically boring into the humans. Her entire focus was on killing them, up until the point that the Allosaurus screeched at her, stepping between the Rex and her prey. Sue slowed to a stop and roared back, her own bellow deafening compared to the Allo's, who took an unsure step backwards. With the two carnivores focused entirely on each other, Barnes sprinted for the trees, hoping that the rest of them would follow his lead, especially Jenkins. The scientist was the only one who actually knew the way to the river, and Barnes would be d*mned if he was going to let him get stomped by a pair of angry carnivores...

[Godzilla Forever]

Max bolted as fast as his legs would carry him, and followed behind Barnes, narrowly avoiding being crushed by Sue's right foot. The fight was going to get worse, he knew that... he hoped the others would also realize the danger of letting the fight carry on while they waited, and would also bolt...

[raptor titanus3]

Hiero saw the wisdom in this plan and ran across the field for the trees. To avoid getting stomped however he took a bit of a longer path around the beasts. His greatest hope was that he would be noticed. Then again the creatures seemed more foucused on each other for the time being.

[dinoman666]

The Allosaurus struck first, attempting to catch his larger foe off-guard. With a sudden spring forward, he slammed his skull into Sue's chest. The blow did no damage, but was enough to force Sue backwards, more in surprise at the sudden charge than anything. As she took a step backwards, her massive foot nearly crushed Hiero as he scampered by and sent a violent shudder through the ground. One of the mercs tripped and fell as a result. As the man frantically tried to get to his feet, he found himself in the middle of the two furious carnivores. The Allosaurus charged forward again, not even giving the man time to scream before he simply disappeared underneath the animal's clawed foot. The Allo ignored this, however, and continued forward, only for Sue to do the same with her massive head, mouth wide open.

Sue's jaws, like those of any Rex, were some of the most powerful jaws in Earth's history. They could snap bones and tendons of animals far larger than a simple human being. It was no surprise, then, that when Sue clamped her fang-filled maw around the Allosaurus's neck, Barnes could just barely hear the gut-wrenching snap of bone that cut the Allo's pained cry short as he pushed through the trees. Sue let the dinosaur's limp body slump to the ground in order to release a massive bellow of triumph. She may not have killed the humans like she wanted, but at least she a good meal and one less predator to compete with in the future...

Barnes breathed heavily as he rested next to a large tree on the edge of the forest. He could still make out the ominous silhouette of Sue's form out in the courtyard, hungrily chomping away at the dead Allo. Maybe he shouldn't have pushed himself so hard. The distance to the treeline hadn't been THAT far. He was interrupted from his reverie when Jenkins and Dodgson ran around the corner and nearly crashed into him. "Whoa whoa, slow down you two!" he said, raising his hands. "Let's... let's just wait here for everyone else. I need to make a headcount..."

[Godzilla Forever]

Max soon burst through the treelines, getting into cover behind one of the giant trunks near Barnes, huffing and puffing before he slumped to the ground, obviously exhausted.

"I.... i don't think... I've.. had to... do this much... running in.... a long time!"

He slouches over to catch his breath and soon speaks again.

"Any.... anyone else... make it yet?"

[raptor titanus3]

Hiero strided in after Max and caught him on the shoulder, "Next time I will pack an RPG in case of a situation like this my friend," he said panting slightly.

[Giratina93]

"That T-rex... is starting to get on my nerves." Persephone said as she made her way through the foliage, nearly crashing inbto Jenkins, but stopping herself just in time. She hardly seemed exhausted, which wasn't all that surprising thanks to the hell she went through at Wespoint. "Next time she shows her face, she isn't going to like getting a knife in the eye..."

[The Kingpin]

"I was referring to your crack about what he was doing while he was alone" said Jacob as his eyes scanned the room from the office. "Well well...Man-sized bird cage. Convenient....if you're a raving lunatic" said the man as he backed away from it, moving towards the computer. "My advice: Back out of that room, and get something to keep that door open...If doors can open by themselves...odds are they can close by themselves too. And we wouldn't want that now, would we?" he mentioned over his shoulder. He had yet to find out what had caused the door to open, though he had a hunch motion sensors might've been the cause. And if there was one....odds are there were others. Last thing he needed was to trip a second one BEHIND that door, and get locked in. However....there could be valuable information in there. Something that might hint as to what happened. and with that, the man sat behind the computer, moving the mouse to see if he could find a command window or something that would allow him to deactivate the motion sensors to make exploration easier...

[dinoman666]

"There won't BE a next time, if I have anything to say about it," Barnes said as the rest of scattered mercs regrouped. It didn't take very long for the Lieutenant to realize one of them was missing. "Where's that Benny fellow? Hiero, I could've sworn I saw him near you when Sue showed up. Any idea where he went?" Dodgson repressed the urge to add, "Or how he died?" and stayed silent, watching the exchange carefully. He had seen the poor sod get crushed underfoot by the furious Allosaurus, but why open his mouth? He was already the bearer of bad news yesterday...

The computer was indeed asleep, and even had a window open on the monitor, suggesting that Jenkins had used it the previous day and haphazardly kept it open. The document that was open seemed to be some sort of personal journal the scientist had been writing, and was several dozen pages long. The most recent entry on the current page had little to it, other than a few short sentences:

Storm passed yesterday. Outdoor motion cameras across the island remain functional. Military VTOL seen attempting a landing just before storm hit land. Looks like Lewis is with them. Come to rescue survivors before they cover this place in napalm, no doubt. They're in for a big disappointment.

On another note, fed Henry and Marilyn with no incidents. They seem annoyed at me for not feeding them any more human bodies, but I ran out pretty quickly. Too bad Dodgson didn't authorize the breeding of Troodon. Had he known of their rather surprising affinity for human flesh, he might have changed his mind. They're quite the perfect little killers.

Having been roused by the flare's glow and hiss, as well as the low hum of the computer as it woke up and the humans themselves, a pair of dark shapes, slumbering in the rafters of the lab, stirred, their night-black scales hiding them in the gloom. They slowly shifted in position as they began to wake, making not even a trill that could potentially warn the humans of their presence...