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bakerstreet2013-04-16 06:51 pm
dudewheresmymeme) wrote in bakerstreet2013-04-16 06:51 pm
The Dinotopia Meme
You’ve washed up on the shores of mysterious island. You don’t see any signs of civilization, but there’s something moving in the forest just beyond the beach. You grab a nearby rock and wait to see what comes at you.
It breaks from the tree line and watches you. It’s something straight from prehistory. A dinosaur. You stand stunned, unable to comprehend what’s going on and then the dinosaur speaks.
“Welcome to Dinotopia. Breathe deep, seek peace.”
How To Play
1. Comment with your journal, listing fandom.
2. Feel free to write a little introduction on how your character came to Dinotopia, whether they’ve grown up there or they washed up on shore years ago.
3. Tag others. Use the RNG if you need help picking a scenario and location.
Locations
ii. Waterfall City: The first place where most stranded go after they wash ashore, Waterfall City is perched on top of a collection of waterfalls and is where you’ll learn even more about Dinotopia and the continent. Human and dinosaurs are common in all shapes and sizes. Careful if you’ve got a fear of heights, the only way to the city is by glider.
iii. Sauropolis: The capital of Dinotopia, home to the Council of Elders, it was designed and built by dinosaurs in a Roman style. While Waterfall City is home to mostly artists and craftsman, Sauropolis is populated by philosophers, mathematicians and scientists. Here the great thinkers of Dinotopia spend their days debating everything and anything.
iv. Canyon City: Canyon City city was built into the walls of the 5,800 feet gorge of the Amu River. Pteros, the Skybax rookery, is close by and Skybaxes are common in Canyon City. Here you can train as a Skybax rider, who act as messengers and patrol the skies of Dinotopia. Think hard though, Skybax training is demanding and a lifelong commitment. If you don’t like heights, you might want to try something else. The houses are either caved into the cliff-face or bricked up ledges. The small windows have paper instead of glass, and the walls are lined with frescoes.
v. Volcaneum: Home to the master smiths of Dinotopia, Volcanum is built on the caldera of an ancient volcano. Here they manufacture metal goods for the whole continent, including simple things like door hinges and complicated pieces of jewelry for humans and dinosaurs. One of the city’s most notable features is a lathe powered by dinosaurs. If you can’t stand the heat, Volcaneum is not for you.
vi. Treetown: Treetown is located in the branches of a massive forest and home to many long necked dinosaurs. Many athletes come here to train for the Dinosaur Olympics. It is also a stop along the path of Skybax training and Habitat Partners. Imagine the treehouse of your dreams because it exists in Treetown.
vii. Chandara: For years Dinotopia lost touch with Chandara when the Council of Elders closed the trade route to city. Recently, the roads have been opened again and travelers can once again visit the massive canal city, with its exotic goods and exotic dinosaurs. Everything here centers on courtly traditions and radiates out from the Imperial Palace. You must mind your p’s and q’s in Chandara as it is protected by an ancient race of warrior monks.
viii. Rainy Basin: The Rainy Basin is an enormous swathe of land that covers much of the interior of the Dinotopia mainland, roughly in the center of the island. Armoured convoys of dinosaurs and humans must travel in large numbers to avoid being preyed upon, and even then must often settle for pacifying the predators with offerings of smoked eels or fish. The annual Habitat Partner Conference is held there every year in the Temple Ruins. Bring a lot of fish if you plan to travel through here or you most likely won’t make it out alive.
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Scenarios
i. Arriving: You’ve just washed ashore somewhere on the island. Do you go look for civilization? Or do you stay where you are and try to survive? Have the natives found you and taken you to their village to explain the strange world to you? Or are you scared out of your mind by the massive dinosaurs you’re encountering.
ii. Market Place: Dinotopia's cities are filled with markets, selling all sorts of goods for humans and dinosaurs. There is no money in Dinotopia, only a barter system and also the belief that someone will only take what they need. There are handy guides all over the market to help you find what you need if you get lost. Just be careful where you step.
iii. Waterfall City Library: Located in one of the grandest cities of Dinotopia the Waterfall City Library holds a massive collection of knowledge from all over Dinotopia and from what gets washed up on the shores of the island. Here you'll find scientific dissertations, philosophical treaties and histories of the island. There are also collections of stories, poems and music. Dinosaurs and humans are allowed. It's a good idea to learn the Saurian written language before trying to read some of the scrolls.
iv. Dinosaur Olympics: Participants at the youth camp in Treetown, were entered into the Dinosaur Olympics at the season's end. If they won the Ring Riding Event in Cornucopia they would graduate from the camp, and may choose their habitat — the race comprised four groups consisting of one boy and one girl riding a Deinocheirus running laps around an oval track collecting rings on a poll. Once the race is won, the human pair may choose to serve as a Habitat Partner in the Land, Sea, or Sky.
v. Habitat Partners Conference: Habitat Partners are a dinosaur and human pair which monitor and protect an assigned area of Dinotopia. Skybax Riders, for example, look after the sky. There is an annual conference held at the Temple Ruins, in the Rainy Basin, where the Partners report of any environmental changes in their territory. Brokehorn 'chairs' the conference.
vi. Create your own!: Have an idea for your own scenario in Dinotopia? Feel free to just go for it!
Pogue Parry | The Covenant | OTA
Abe Sapien | Hellboy | omg my childhood
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dot matrix • reboot
Elena Fisher | Uncharted | HOLY SHIT IT'S A DINOSAUR
... Oh my god. I must have hit my head.
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Still, the care and upkeep of a proper camp takes a lot of material to manage. Material that needs to be scavenged up, and driftwood on the shoreline does one hell of a lot better than giant leaf fronds or scraps of bamboo. She's gotten better at dodging roaming packs of dinosaurs while she's at it, so her eyes are trained on the massive-- fat bodied, medium-head-sized-thingasaurus making its way through the sand when she notices a figure huddled down in shallow waves. A human figure.
One that gets increasingly familiar the closer she runs.]
--Jesus, Elena is that you??
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Chloe? What are you—? What is—?
[She gestures lamely at the living fossil lumbering its way along the shoreline.]
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Exactly what it looks like-- whatever the hell that is. How on earth did you wind up here?
[As if it isn't somewhat obvious with the washing up on shore.]
Sah'ot | Uplift
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Diziet Sma | The Culture
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Jane Alderberry | The Iron Dragon's Daughter
She was free. She'd escaped Spiral Castle. But where was she now? Was she trapped again? Would she have to kill again to be free? Whoever came to meet the new refugee would have to deal with such paranoia.]