Newbie Meet n' Greet

[cityship]

For the newbies, there are people waiting for them in the Obs Deck. A whole gaggle of people. Behind them is the nasty statue, and the beautiful sight through the windows of the stars streaming past and the swirling vortex of collars that was interdimensional travel.

There are more questions than answers, but the crew is willing to help, especially the Command Staff and greeters.

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[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

Red Snout taps his large, deadly looking killing claws. You don't mess with a man's raptor's rifle.

"Of course I talk! What do you think I am? A stegosaurus?"

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

Marcus is a lot less impressed with those claws than he would have been last week. Well, last week for him. His sense of time is getting seriously thrown out of whack by all the time travel. "Dead?" he suggests. Although if he's not dead, maybe there's a similar explanation for the dinosaurs-- no, he really doesn't want to think about dino-Terminators.

[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

"Dead? Pfah! I am a great warrior! I am not dead! Fool!" Red Snout hisses, pulling himself up to his full height to look more impressive.

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but dinosaurs are dead. Have been for millions of years." Marcus points out, still more confused than impressed by the raptor. He's also pretty sure they didn't talk.

[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

"Obviously we're not dead, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here." He snorts, tilting his head. "Stupid human."

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

"Could be time travel." Marcus suggests, very seriously.

[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

"How? Humans arrived on my world a while ago. It's not like you're natives or something." Incredulous snort goes here.

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

Marcus' robot brain is starting to hurt. "I'm pretty sure humans and dinosaurs weren't alive at the same time."

[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

"Shows what you know! Humans encroached on our hunting ground last year. That's where I got these." He holds up what appears to be a human scalp.

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

So the dinosaur gets to keep a scalp, but Marcus doesn't get a gun? Not okay, Stacy, not okay at all. "But humans and dinosaurs never lived together. They were separated by millions of years."

[raptorwithagun.livejournal.com]

"Feh! You are foolish, human. But believe what you will. No skin off my snout, after all..." He turns his attention else, snorting. "Don't believe what I have shown you, the proof of my actions."

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

Marcus really doesn't want to have this argument, and he's being ignored by something that should be dead, never mind the fact that he should actually be dead. Today has been one of the weirdest days of his life. So, in response to being ignored by what looks like a velociraptor with paint on its nose... he ignores the velociraptor.