Scene #4829: Open the door, get on the floor

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Anne Blakely	It is NOT the Grand Opening, but it is the preview opening. Apparently staff and VIPs are allowed in... and tickets can be purchased for an exhorbitant amount, but they CAN be purchased. The park is pretty large, and the expense is easy to see. For one thing, it consists of numerous domes, and visitors are required to wear masks when they visit. This is because the atmosphere was a bit different during the various eras, and it needs a little adjustment to be comfortable for people. Overall, though, the park looks... on the level. There ARE dinosaurs glimpsed from the entrance, and it looks like the employees are excited and peppy. How people get in is up to them. The park is relatively high security, but it's meant to keep out normal people, not legendary sorts. Or... people can just buy a ticket. If they can afford it. There aren't many visitors right now, but just like the news said, there sure is a gift shop with a redhead manning it. No sign of Gepetto or Penelope yet, though.
Adele Rozenbach	The sunlight is a problem, but Adele is an elder of her kind, and it's just a problem, not a death sentence. She's wrapped herself up in heavy clothes to cover most of her skin, and the masks are a perfect excuse to cover her face as well. As such, the undead princess has entered the park, an androgynous person in a suit at her side. "Fascinating, don't you think, Jeeves?" She asks while approaching a nearby exhibit. The servant answers in an eager to please, "Of course, mistress."
Xiaomu	Dinosaur zoo? Pretty awesome. Lots of potential danger - Xiaomu's seen enough movies about dinosaurs running amok in the modern day to expect trouble. Also pretty expensive - between travel fare, entrance tickets, and all that jazz, Xiaomu would likely have had to sell off a substantial portion of her entertainment library to afford one, never mind just 'saving up her paycheck' - Shinra doesn't pay her that well. Fortunately, she happened to hear about a drawing for a full-visit prize package. She might have bought more tickets for that drawing than she actually needed to, but it was cheaper than paying her way normally - and her luck paid off, or maybe it was just a fervent prayer at the Inari shrine near Shinra's headquarters. Xiaomu's dressed pretty much like she always is as she enters the park; the carrypack across her back holds actual vacation/amusement-park 'supplies' as well as what she would routinely describe as her 'troubleshooting' gear, and she's taken the liberty of donning one of those wide-brimmed straw hats so common to medieval Buddhist monks (and traditionalists of various stripes since that era), which kind of goes well with the monk's staff she carries. Hey, it's a big park. You can't expect ANYONE to walk all over the place and not avail themselves of some kind of support!
Devon-7	Right so after things happened in that there Tenra place, the name 'Anne Blakely' became something of blip on the radar of a Guardian. Not all of the Vanguard, but just one Guardian. Devon-7 is at the park; having arrived to at least check it out, on hearing news of Blakely's investments. Worse comes to worst it's something terrible and sinister. IF that's not the case? Well no one says the Hunter can't have a little fun and see some dinosaurs. And thus, the space cowboy enters the park under the greatest stealth imaginable. He has bought a ticket. "Hay, Devon. What's a dinosaur?" Oakley asks, his Ghost floating at his side; the blocky little construct casting her cycloptic gaze left and right. "Bones, I reckon." He replies, expression masked entirely by the full face space helmet he never ever seems to take off.
Winnowill	Under her guise of Lady Venovel, Winnowill appears to be a well-dressed human accompanied by two gruff-looking guards, who are looking... rather grumpy and uncomfortable. They're dressed in some old-style clothes and are looking /really/ nervous without their weapons, but Winnowill doesn't appear worried at all. She's just walking between the exhibits, wearing a flowing dress, her fingers pinching the skirts to keep them up and off the ground. By all accounts she's just enjoying the view, and with how expensive her dress looks, perhaps she's a VIP or investor. Though it's the same look she's used in other missions where she appeared human, so...
Rebecca Chambers	Unlike the others, Rebecca Chambers was asked to come here to possibly see about doing security detail work here. But she'd have to familiarize herself with the place first, so that's why she was given a free ticket to get in. Granted, she'll be doing work here instead of enjoying herself as a visitor, but that's just fine with her. Still, she is a bit uneasy about this whole thing. After all, who HASN'T seen that movie? Rebecca's arrived wearing her S.T.A.R.S. uniform, as is part of the requirements for her detail, so that she can be identified as such to anyone who might be wondering. That is, if anyone needs to know. Because Rebecca's wearing a light green jacket over her top which would obscure her vest and uniform. To most, she's just a girl who likes green and hi-top sneakers.
Sakura Haruno	Flowers did not make an extraordinarily high amount of money by multiverse elite standards, but she did draw multiple checks, and perhaps rather more to the point was generally quite cheap. Cheap enough that she last paid for her own meal at a time when she'd been all but homeless. So when she decided she really didn't feel like trying to sneak in, and to just figure out how much was in the direct deposit bank account Psyber had set up in her name that had been untouched other than the deposit for literally years, she'd been pleasantly surprised to find that buying a ticket wouldn't put that big a dent in it. Someone at the park is probably going to wonder about why someone with that kind of money to burn would show up with pink hair and mismatching socks, not even getting into the apparent tattoo covering a large portion of her face. She's going to just pass herself off as an eccentric, it seems.
Camilla Ulyssa	If Camilla ever wore the mask she'd been given, she took it off at some point. It'd be hard to miss the fact her clothes are actively magical right now, shielding her from atmospheric changes. She could 'breathe' in space, with her clothes, so this isn't that big a stretch. More pressing for the park administration is probably the fact, on the other side of whatever safety glass or fence there is separating Adele from her choice exhibit, the foxgirl has taken to sitting on the back of the dinosaur and making wheee sounds. This is probably a breach of at least five safety regulations right there, six if you count the fact the dinosaur is probably endangered and Camilla could kill it in self-defense. On the other hand, absolutely worth it.
Setsuko Kaminagi	This is on purpose. This is a trap. It has to be. Anne just showing herself on TV like that? She's trying to lure them out on purpose. Into a public place densely packed with innocents. This absolutely screams 'trap'. Setsuko has made her choice. Bypassing the security can't be too difficult for someone who can fly. Disguising her weapon, on the other hand, now that's trickier. But she's got a trick she's never used before, one that she'd only pull out as an absolute last resort for a situation like this. When Setsuko steps out around a corner, she's wearing a sort of arm-brace cane - a thick one, the sort you only see on people with a permanent problem in one leg who can still walk assuming they have some kind of support to lean on. And she walks quite naturally as if her left leg were permanently maimed, which - given all her scars - is not all that hard to believe. Get out of the way, six-foot disabled veteran Japanese woman coming through. Naturally, Zanjintou's concealed inside the brace-slash-cane.
Finna	The Union has an interest in this place, and it's finally found a situation where Finna can be in her element: SAVAGE DINOSAURS EVERYWHERE. Sure, some investigators will be doing this through the front door. But the Lunar shapeshifter has easily slipped through security and into the exposure. It did take her a good five minutes of struggling and tuning her biology differently off in some bushes to get used to the air, but this is absolutely nothing to a Lunar! For now she's chosen to stay relatively near the V.I.P. tour and, once she has the opportunity, she'll expand her snooping around in the enclosure to sniff down and investigate the so-called 'dinosaurs.' Her form, well, it's fairly appropriate to the locale. The locals might refer to it as a Microraptor, while some tribes of Creation's deep east might call it a Winged Strider. The size of a wild turkey, it stands on two legs and sports a long and whip-like tail. Its forearms are in fact quite-usable wings. The creature's tiny and agile body proves perfect for high-speed stealthy scampering through the area, and sense of smell is on the prowl for anything... odd. Or just anything in general!
Uriel and Qemuel	The VIP tour has someone else in it who doesn't look TOO out of place. That is, a young girl. Very young. A child, even! And... she looks very pale. And is in a wheelchair loaded with medical equipment. Her mask was brought by herself, and perhaps too obviously, she's the victim of some chronic condition that is making her extremely ill. But... she gets to see dinosaurs. More interesting is the pair with her! Light and dark, blonde and raven-haired, two young women who are standing on either side, except when she needs moved. Uriel and Qemuel swap places when it's time to push the wheelchair, taking turns with the girl who is delighted to see the dinosaurs. They're dressed in casual clothes, and of course the wings aren't out right now.
Annie Sandberg	Annie was concerned to hear about the situation here, particularly as she'd heard some not-so-good things about this Blakely person who was helping to run it. And considering that she was encouraging children to come here, it seemed like a good idea for Annie to come along and see what, if anything, might pose a threat. Fortunately (considering that the tickets were a bit beyond Annie's current means), Xiaomu had won a free trip for two, giving Annie the opportunity to tag along. For safety's sake though, she'd changed her appearance using her flowmetal skin, giving herself the look of a Japanese girl. She didn't want anyone here thinking she was anything but a regular child here for fun. ...admittedly, dinosaurs were always pretty impressive to see.
Anne Blakely	The dinosaurs are... well. They actually seem to be actual dinosaurs? "MA'AM! MA'AM PLEASE!" Real enough that the security detail is kind of CONCERNED that Camilla is riding a dinosaur. Who wouldn't be? They're waving their arms, but they aren't about to step in the T-Rex pen to actually take care of it without being armed. "Where are those tranquilizers?" "Who are you shooting, the 'rex or her?" This'll end well. Otherwise, most of those who came into the park are finding it...a ctually pretty nice! The walkways are air-conditioned and every once in a while a stand is selling overpriced lemonade and ice cream, in order to cool off from the muggy heat of the exhibits. Security is watching people, even those who snuck in, but they don't seem to have a full roster of who is attending... they're just watching for trouble. Well, most of them are dealing with Camilla, actually! "Eheh... sorry," says the head of security to Rebecca. "We'll have to delay your interview a little bit, but what do you think of the park?" The owners don't actually seem Confederate-aligned, so the interviewer is clueless. Anne, however, is... in the gift shop still? She's wheeling out a cart to stock the display with little clockwork dinosaurs... which are packaged in fake eggs. Even if she sees someone she knows, she's just going to continue with her business. It's just a park! Totally normal, right? Well... everything SEEMS normal. The dinosaurs aren't holograms, and smell like dinosaurs, and everything! Though Finna might pick up that the smell actually... seems like there are more that aren't visible. That's like the only suspicious thing so far! Anne might recognize some, but she isn't telling... for some reason.
Rebecca Chambers	"Oh, that's OK. I'll just enjoy myself here anyway," Rebecca replies with a smile, as she purchases herself a lemonade. Sure it's expensive, but she's paid enough for things like this. "Thank you, though." She runs a hand through her hair before sipping her lemonade. "This is so amazing, seeing dinosaurs like this up close and personal." She says to herself. "I wonder what kind of things we'd uncover at the Bio-Research Center?" Then something begins to get on Rebecca's nerve. She turns to look away from anyone else before reaching into her pocket and pulling out the paper notice that she received. As she looks over it, she realizes that the document is actually a forgery. "But how? How did they find me? And why did the ticket work at the entrance?" Rebecca narrows her eyes a little as she continues to walk around while slipping the notice back into her pocket quickly. "I've got a real bad feeling about this..."
Adele Rozenbach	"Please." Adele approaches one of the security guards, "Let her. It'll be more interesting to see what happens if something goes other than she expects. I wonder if she'll get torn into pieces, or just mildly wounded." She says that like she's watching a TV show where everything is scripted and the wounds aren't real, "I'll be displeased if my show gets disturbed, I paid good money to get in here, and I would hate to seek a refund." She puts some emphases on that last line that suggests that it's very much a threat of more than a mere financial nature. In response, 'Jeeves' hunches and steps back a little in a clear display of terror, and then there's a quick lashing out. "Jeeves, stand up straight and next to me." The servant jumps and heads back into place, a terrified squeek can be vaguely understood as "I'm sorry mistress."
Camilla Ulyssa	"It's cool, don't worry! We're already best friends!" Camilla insists towards the gathering security, still handling this like nothing's wrong. In her defense, she has yet to do anything that may make the t-rex especially inclined to eat her. On the other hand it's a dinosaur and it isn't going to need much of an excuse at all to eat her if it wants to. "And PLEASE," she says towards Adele, "I'd eat this thing for breakfast. Probably. I mean, I've never hit a dinosaur before, so I have no idea. I'm pretty sure I can wrestle it though. Armwrestle for sure. Look at these teeny tiny arms, how does it even grab things? It needs to evolve arms. Maybe just one big burly arm, so it can choke a bitch and punch people." <My advice,> her swords, sheathed, ping in their flat, male voice, <Is to shoot her, not the dinosaur.> "Shut up, swords."
Setsuko Kaminagi	Creak. Creak. The crutch goes creak. Even if it's metal, it is technically hollow, and Setsuko is pretty solidly built. So her walking assistance is making some noise. Between that, her height, her scars, and the simple 'look at me, I am Significant(tm)' aura she exudes, it's impossible to miss the silver-haired demigod. But that goes both ways - she's watching the crowd quite sharply. So when she spots Uriel and Qemuel, the demigod slows, almost to a stop, and stares... and /holds/ that stare, until the duo have made eye contact with her. Long enough to give them a silent 'I see you.' Then she moves on. Her destination is a certain gift shop. Or rather, her destination is the side of the path /opposite/ the gift shop. Somewhere that she can stop, lean her weight on her canecrutchbrace, and stare in through the door in silence. She's almost certain Anne will notice her, probably rather quickly. If anything, that suits her fine.
Devon-7	So far so good. Devon's cover is perfect. He's just a cowboy here to see some dinosaurs. It's not like he has any distinguishing recognizable features. Like the tattered coat. Or the always dusty armor. Or that stylish hat. ... Or the chatty little talking spiked baseball following him everywhere. Look the fact of the matter is, the Hunter sssssllliiides himself as casual as can be as though he wasn't here out of half suspicion and half mild interest. He's not quite actively trying to keep out of Anne's sight, he's merely trying to not make himself blatantly obvious by shying away from the gift shop. He chooses a victim. Or in this case victims. "Ma'am. Ma'am. Li'l lady." Uriel and Qemuel, and their young ward are beset by a genteel cowpoke, already doing the right proper and polite tip of his hat in greeting. "Been a while. How you two fine ladies doin'? Mind introdicin' me to yer young ladyfriend?" He only pauses to look over towards the commotion of the security. And Camilla. Another familiar sight. Considering how he watched her charge Taken without a care in the world, Devon doesn't find himself wholly surprised. "So. Interestin' park, huh?"
Xiaomu	While Xiaomu hadn't entirely planned on having a companion on this trip, she certainly doesn't mind Annie's presence. It's another pair of eyes, and a chance to look into things that might escape Xiaomu's attention ... and if nothing else, it should be an interesting trip for both of them, with or without trouble getting unearthed along the way. Xiaomu is seriously hoping to be wrong about the genre involved here. But she's also seen Blakely's 'research' in other venues, so if she's here, trouble of some kind is most likely afoot ... somewhere. Maybe in the gift shop, maybe not. But for now, the sage fox is content to pretend that she's a regular tourist visiting the park ahead of the grand opening. As long as the breathing masks are the proper kind that fasten behind your head, instead of the cheap kind that hook over your ears - well, there ARE a bunch of non-humans in the Multiverse, and cries of discrimination against non-humans would put one hell of a jagged-edged hole in the park's reputation right from the start, wouldn't they? And it's all the better that other people are raising such a ruckus. Seriously, if you were meant to ride a dinosaur, they'd come with convenient seats and they wouldn't try to eat their passengers. For now, Xiaomu seems to consider Camilla part of the show - or if not really, then at least a side entertainment to be enjoyed before the main attraction. "Seeing anything worth notice, Annie?" she asides to her companion.
Winnowill	Camilla's antics have attracted the attention of more than one other. Adele will have Venovel walking up next to her, tsking softly. The aura around her is the same as around most of the dinosaurs, not that Adele should be surprised. More to the point, she will point out, "These creatures are not hungry, and are accustomed to humans and humanlike beings bringing them food. She will probably be fine unless she annoys her. Fortunately she hasn't laid any eggs." The two men shift uncomfortably at how terrified Jeeves appears. That look is far too familiar to them. The look of someone cowed by brutality and viciousness. Kinnda like them!
Finna	So far so good! Finnaraptor does pause when she emerges following the sounds of a rumbly-throated Tyrant Lizard and finds an... honest-to-goodness FOXGIRl riding it. What. The raptor's tail swishes.... uncomfortably? The shadow that tail casts is far too puffy-fluffy though. And just like that, the little creature quietly hops on the T-Rex's tail and begins ascending its back. Because she has one insane sudden goal and one goal only upon seeing this. Sneak up behind Camilla... then... "CHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!" ... screech bloody murder as a prank.
Sakura Haruno	Flowers is not exactly in the most convincing of disguises, which is to say she's not in a disguise at all. She's also got no subtlety about her reason for being here, not really. She gets distracted by a phone call for a moment, fumbling at it, losing her focus just long enough to disorient her as she has a brief conversation. Once that's done, well, she's going to be approaching where Setsuko already is, and if anything she stands out all the more. However, she completely fails to spot Uriel and Qemuel, in spite of knowing them, only seeing the girl in the wheelchair rather than the two behind her. This is probably going to be regretable for her later.
Annie Sandberg	Annie shakes her head to Xiaomu. "Everything seems normal to me," she notes. "...as normal as dinosaur parks get anyway." She's not quite ready to risk delving into the park's computer systems either. "What should we do?"
Annie Sandberg	Also, Annie gives a friendly wave to the girl in the wheelchair when she spots her.
Uriel and Qemuel	The girl, who up close appears to be a petite thirteen or fourteen years old, looks up at Devon as he approaches. Thus he is the first one to be spoken to. "If you are trying to hit on my girls you'll be sadly disappointed." Curt and kind of rude, huh? Her voice is a lot clearer and more firm than expected for someone in a wheelchair, though. Qemuel clears her throat, "Master, this is someone that we worked with on Phobos, during one of our missions. He's simply saying hello, I think." "You think," says the girl flatly. Qemuel murmurs, "This is Merlaine, and she is seeing the park. We're her escort." Uriel nods, then turns to Merlaine. "Master, I'm going to make sure Miss Blakely is all right. Call if you need me?" Merlaine makes a little shooing gesture, then a glower at Annie. Somewhat reluctantly, she waves a hand... but only after Qemuel nudges her. Grouchy child! Uriel will head over to where Sakura and Setsuko are pestering Blakely, leaving Merlaine and Qemuel to watch the dinosaur-riding and what is likely to be a disaster.
Anne Blakely	This is all... going to be a mess, yes. Adele and Winnowill and Merlaine get a show all right, because Finna does that surprise and it has the effect that one would expect. A loud booming ROAR and a startled jerk to the side, with the Rex's tail swiping harshly at the little raptor. This has it moving suddenly, jerking and twisting as if to throw Camilla off. It's going to be a spectacle, that's for sure. The guards are grabbing the tranq guns anyway. Juuuust in case. The park is getting very busy now, thanks to the threat of a rampaging T-Rex. At least it's still in the pen? Sakura and Setsuko will see... Anne! She gives a casual wave to the two. "Hello... my, I didn't expect you to come in here and actually approach this way. Please don't wreck the park, I put a considerable sum into it. Could I interest you in a real hatching egg? Or perhaps the girl over there?" She gestures toward Annie and Xiaomu, while holding an egg up. It pops open and a clockwork pteradon flutters out, flying around her head before flitting toward Annie to try to land on the girl's shoulder. "Quite the park, isn't it? Oh... Uriel, is something the matter? Aside from the T-Rex threatening to go berserk?"
Camilla Ulyssa	'Used to humans.' Thank you, Venovel! Not that Camilla knows she's called that, but that is going to give Camilla enough confidence to do what follows: Finna probably hoped she'd scare Camilla and make her fall off the t-rex, and if Venovel hadn't intervened outside the pen that may have happened. What happens instead is, at the sight of the smaller raptor riding the t-rex alongside her, she immediatly reaches for Finna and attempts to place her on her shoulders (which is probably exactly as awkward looking as it sounds). "Yeah! Now I'm riding a dinosaur while a dinosaur rides me! Best themepark ever!" She is not even giving a second thought about the fact they may have been called here for a reason other than enjoying the installations.
Rebecca Chambers	Realizing how suspicious (or at least unusual) she might look, Rebecca quickly makes her way forwards, trying to look like a visitor all the same. She spots Annie and Xiaomu, and waves to them with a slight smile. "Good to see you two here," She says. "I must say this is a rather interesting sight to say the least." She's trying hard not to show the uneasiness in her voice, but something about the way she's talking seems a little 'forced.' Taking another sip of lemonade, Rebecca continues to smirk at the two of them. "How are you enjoying yourselves?"
Devon-7	Devon-7 is halted completely in his stride. Spurs clink, spin, and wind to a halt as the Guardian is slammed by the verbal force of a child in a wheelchair. For a long moment he stares, expression unreadable behind his visor, looking to Merlaine. Then to Uriel. Then Qemuel. Then back to Merlaine. Oakley snickers as she floats out from Devon's cloak. "Dayum, she sassed you out of the park, Devon." The Hunter harrumphs, setting hands on his hips with a chuckle. "I like her already." He decides before shaking his head. "But nah that ain't right li'l lady. Not that your ladyfriends aren't fine, I don't think we're actually com-pa-ti-ble like." He says assuringly. See, he was just beinf a right proper genteel gentleman. And he displays no shift in demeanor in the least at the mention of Anne. No he swings right along as though that were completely not an issue at all. 'Cause right now it ain't. Off Uriel goes. Leaving Devon with an angel, a sickly child, and a ninja. He's been in worse company every poker night. "Oakley here was wonderin' what a dinosaur was. I told her 'I'm pretty sure they're bones', but when yer Ghost wants somethin' ya don't say 'no'." He says at Qemuel and Merlaine.
Finna	This... this is not what Finna was expecting. The little dinosaur soggy-squeaks as it's plopped inelegantly on Camilla's shoulders, leaving it staring out at the world looking incredibly deflated. THE T-REX STARTS GOING BERSERK AND THRASHING under her, but no matter how the ride rocks and shakes she smoothly adjusts her weight to maintain balance seemingly without thinking about it. Seems that for the moment this turn of events is so bizarre and unexpected that even Finna's train of thought just utterly shut down. For now.
Adele Rozenbach	And then, as things get more interesting, but not sufficiently interesting, Adele flatly proclaims. "You bore me." And then, her clothes fall to the ground as her flesh and bone turn to blood. This quickly changes shape into another creature, bone forming first, then blood coalescing into organs and flesh, and soon enough scales cover the being. Though anyone with a proper background can tell it's not the genuine article, it's far too big for that, and more importantly, it's got a human mouth in between its eyes, it's a fairly good approximation of a T-Rex. Then, while the guards are presumably too stunned to act, she leaps her way into the cage. "I paid to be entertained."
Annie Sandberg	Annie gives a cute giggle as the pteranodon alights on her shoulder. "Thank you," she says to Anne with a smile and a nod, trying to keep up her appearance as a regular child. She looks a bit curiously at the wheelchair girl, who didn't seem to be what she was expecting. It was just as well- she wouldn't have minded making a friend, but that wasn't what she was here for. "Hello, miss. I'm having fun. Dinosaurs are so cool!" she says. Not much more can really be said at this point, with so many others around. "I want to go see more of them!"
Setsuko Kaminagi	To be fair, Setsuko isn't really /pestering/ Anne. She's simply standing there across the 'street', staring. Watching, and being obvious about watching. And giving Sakura a brief nod of acknowledgement, before returning her gaze to the gift shop(pe) and its proprietress. Who... is approaching now. Setsuko shifts her weight slightly, moving as if to put less on her cane and more on her 'good' leg. She meets the woman's gaze, only to reply, "I won't start anything. But I /will/ finish it." Well, it's... /something/. "I don't have any cash to spare," she adds. Phrased in such a way so as to be a /technical/ truth. It also gives her an excuse to look away from Anne, and instead at Uriel.
Xiaomu	Xiaomu leans slightly away from Annie as the clockwork pteranodon comes in for a landing ... and ... doesn't seem to be doing anything other than roosting, once it's there. Huh. "Yeah, it's really impressive so far," the Chinese foxgirl agrees with Blakely. "That's a pretty cool toy, too ... how does it 'know' where to fly or what to do, anyway? Is there some kind of control system in the shell, or is it totally autonomous?" She pauses briefly. "And how much do they cost? Might be a cool souvenir for a few people I know ..." She's actually serious about being willing to spend some money on them, if the price isn't TOO unreasonable. The rest of it - how the clockwork pteranodon (and any other, similar, 'toy' dinos) 'think' or how they're controlled or whatever - will just determine whether she plans to give them to friends or to enemies.
Sakura Haruno	Sakura's pestering Anne, on the other hand, or at least planning it. She's still unaware of Uriel, though, even as she frowns. "What are you doing this time? Are we going to find out that you're feeding people to the dinosaurs, or that the dinosaurs are former people, or what?" It seems like she might just want to skip ahead to the end! That first one's kind of a lame plot, though. Finally, finally as Setsuko looks away towards the angel, Sakura will turn and yelp. Her last time with this one hadn't gone super well for her, after all. Especially since the weapon she grabs for isn't there; coming with a legitimate ticket had meant not coming armed to the teeth.
Staren	Anne Blakely, owner of the local gift shop. That phrase caught the attention of Staren's muse, who flagged it for his review. Since he already transferred into his robot body for visiting Lordran, he simply remains in it for a few days, so he can wear it here. Just in case. Of course, without the armor it looks normal enough on the outside. Staren isn't much of one for... trickiness. He simply walks up to the front gate, shows his Union badge, and demands entry in connection to an ongoing investigation -- he'll even name Anne Blakely, if they ask. If they refuse him, though, plan B is to put on an invisibility cloak and jump the fence. Either way, once he's in, he sends insect-size drones to scout the gift shop... only to see not Anne there, but some of his allies, and some girl?
Uriel and Qemuel	Left alone with space cowboy. Merlaine does soften her expression a little, sighing. "I'm sorry, I'm just trying to enjoy a day out." The apology seems sincere enough. Qemuel tsks. When the big mess starts inside, Merlaine looks at that in fascinated wonder. Qemuel resumes speaking. "Devon. Yes, we've heard of you. On opposite sides of the war, but it's nothing personal. I'm an Angel of Battle, I'm kind of obligated." Uriel will just stare at Setsuko. "Why are you looking at me? I'm not going to buy you one! I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to try to stick a sword through her. She's not the one doing anything untoward here."
Winnowill	"Interesting work," Winnowill says toward Jeeves... and reaches out to touch, without any hint of personal space. She is paying more attention to that than the dinosaur at the time... but then she casually comments, "By the way..." She points to Finna. "That isn't a park dinosaur. Might want to put it down."
Anne Blakely	The clockwork pteradon 'awks' in a tinny voice at Xiaomu, then tries to fly and land in Rebecca's hair. It seems harmless enough. Anne has to be honest though, "I'm controlling that one a little. Most are much more simplistic in their programming. Fly in a circle around whomever opened the egg, then land nearby. Also it isn't self-perpetuating... it'll need winding in about an hour." Yes, Anne is there having a mostly cordial conversation with Setsuko and the others. How much are they? "Well, they aren't cheap, but they won't break the bank. Cheaper than a video game console. Seventy credits apiece for the simplest one. Larger and more complex ones can run pretty high. They're the prize attraction. Do you think they'll do well? I was a toymaker before, it's good to bring back the old skills." Meanwhile at the pen, the guards are opening the door so they can rush in with the guns... only to scream and dive aside when Adele decides to 'join the fun' and make it an Elite party. Sigh.
Setsuko Kaminagi	"Even I am not that crass," Setsuko replies to Uriel. "I'm here to watch Blakely. If I must do more, it will be because someone else started things." Speaking of which, to Anne's entire spiel, the demigod has only stony silence. She now has to divide her time between watching Anne and watching Uriel, though she does briefly meet Sakura's gaze - and twitches her left arm, as if to remind the mednin that the canebrace isn't just for show. They're not completely unarmed.
Anne Blakely	Sakura gets a stare. "They're toys. Just toys. This isn't a research project for me, I DO like to turn a profit. The most sinister thing I've done is buy on the margin."
Staren	Wait, no, there's Blakely. Staren can't believe it at first, but it's her. Just standing there, out in the open, talking to people. His first instinct is to explode her, but... Hmm. Panicced people and panicced dinosaurs might be bad. What about just shooting her? Some risk of panic, but... not as much, and Anne is serious bad news. Staren finds a position that isn't being watched too closely. Maybe atop a roof or something. He removes the invisibility cloak, and takes aim with his trusty laser pistol (Alas, he left most of his heaviest munitions outside. He didn't expect to actually see Blakely here! He figured she'd have run before they showed up.) With robotic precision, he aims at her head. But something doesn't feel right. WHY are people just sitting around chatting? Even those annoying angel bodyguards are here, he notes. And yet there's no fight. What is he missing? After hesitating a moment, he pulls the cloak back on and radios the Union. And possibly also starts running if he was spotted.
Annie Sandberg	Annie watches the pteranodon. She might want one for herself, actually- it looked like something that'd be fun to tinker with, especially since they didn't seem to be particularly intelligent. Maybe, if this whole operation turned out to be legitimate after all, she'd get one on the way out. "What other kinds are there?" she asks. A flying one would be useful, but perhaps the others would have their own benefits.
Sakura Haruno	"I'm pretty sure I'm going to try to stop her, just as soon as I figure out the immediate thing that needs stopped. Should I go digging? Every other time, there's some horrific scene underground." Sakura will point out, even as she relaxes just a little bit at the lack of immediate combat. She's not as well armed for this as she would like to be, after all. "And it's not like those looked like anything other than stores on the surface, either!" Even if they'd involved more creepy human shaped dolls and fewer cute dinosaur shaped ones. This is at least an improvement.
Camilla Ulyssa	"Wheeeee!" Camilla is too busy enjoying the fact she's riding a dinosaur while one is riding her to really pay attention to much of anything. Adele transforming, horribly at that, into a dinosaur of her own does cause pause though, which coupled with the movements of the beast underneath her almost makes Camilla tip over. She gets wobbly enough Finna has more than a good opportunity to hop off if she wants to. The fox hops off the t-rex though, now hovering in mid-air and watching with interest what the Adellosaurus Rex is going to do. Maybe she should pay attention to all the other chaos, but she doesn't for the time being. Let's see what happens next! With or without her shoulder raptor.
Xiaomu	"Huh," Xiaomu 'replies' as she eyes the wind-up pteranodon and weighs what Anne's just said - about it, and about herself. 'I was a toymaker before' is putting it pretty mildly next to what the Union group learned from visiting that village Blakely supposedly hailed from; even with no sign of her 'golems' in the park thus far, the sage fox kind of wonders how Blakely went from wind-up toys to wind-up weapons ... or beyond. She's also wondering whether any of the toys for sale are possibly weapons-grad in their own right - but she doesn't really want to spend seventy credits (or more) just to find out. Especially if she (or someone she likes) might find out the hard way. The commotion in the pen has grown to a point by now that Xiaomu can't pretend to keep ignoring it very well, and she looks away from Blakely and Annie, noting briefly how the mini-pteranodon toy seems to think Rebecca's hair is a nest worthy of occupation, and then takes a few steps further away, trying to get a better look at the chaos between an actual dinosaur, a shapeshifted Adele, and a similarly shapeshifted Finna. She's trying to keep half an eye and half an ear (or so) on Annie, though, and not to get too far away from her. Even if the little android girl can totally take care of herself, there are principles involved.
Finna	Finna does INDEED leap off the moment she comes back to her senses. Which doesn't take long - she was just stunned a bit pondering the ignominy of how her prank turned out! The Microraptor spreads its wings and VAULTs clear of Camilly with a short but sharp screech and heads up into the nearest tree - or failing that, anything else tall. She does NOT favor being shot at by tranquilizers or anything else! ... Yeah. She's just going to.... scoot off and continue investigating the enclosure...
Rebecca Chambers	The pteradon comes into Rebecca's hair and she gasps a little, thinking that there's a dinosaur trying to attack her... until she learns it's just a toy, and she smiles nervously. "Oh, yeah... how silly of me." She blushes, but then her attention turns to the chaos that's happening inside the pen, and her eyes go wider than when she witnessed a Web Spinner moulting during a B.O.W. incident in Nebraska-923 (and if you think a normal tarantula moulting is bad, wait till you see one of THOSE things moulting!) At first, Rebecca debates going for her Beretta, but then realizes there's too many innocent people around, and there's also the fact a simple hand gun won't work very well against dinosaurs. Not to mention the other nonsense that's happening. "I just KNEW it, I knew there was something sinister at work here!"
Devon-7	"And I ain't gonna stop ya, li'l lady." Devon replies to Merlaine. He may be smirking under that helmet. He does not remove the helmet to show it. No one needs to see that tin mug. But the apology seems fine by him. He whistles. "Ah dayum, word gets 'round fast huh? Well I remember you and your... Sister yeah? -- Yeah, yer sister from Phobos." He says, nodding. "And naw I ain't takin' it personal. In fact I'm much obliged to you and tours for that bad stint on the moon." He says, making a lazy-friendly finger-gun motion. That's a lot of commotion at the pen though. Yeah he's not going over there. Not tonight, he's decided it's his night off. Cowboys take nights off.
Uriel and Qemuel	Qemuel is amiable, "Glad you aren't. We have our tasks. Ah... I'd better get her to safety..." Qemuel starts to wheel Merlaine away from the pen! Merlaine sighs, "I wanted to watch the transforming woman and the cute fox fight a t-rex!" Aw, complain complain. But... "You're probably right. Take me to the gift shop." "Yes, Master." Hm. So the wheelchair-girl is heading FOR the shop to look over the toys. Uriel is already there. "Good... but if you're looking for something bad being done, you're in the wrong place." Qemuel clears her throat, and Uriel suddenly clams up.
Annie Sandberg	"Isn't that just... what dinosaurs do, when they get mad?" Annie points out. People were clearly messing with the dinosaur on purpose. That wasn't actually evidence of a conspiracy, just... bad security. "Maybe we should go somewhere else. Too many people around will prooooobably just make it worse," she says. And they weren't going to discover anything standing around so close to the entrance anyway.
Adele Rozenbach	The Adellosaur sighs when things seem to defuse themselves, and tramples back out of the pen, returning to her clothes and then dissolving into blood once more. The clothes fill up, and she ends up being back to a humanoid shape. The clothes conceal too much tell if the reconstruction was the same. Jeeves meanwhile, keeps very very still as Winnowil examines them. The servant scared of repercussions for doing anything other than suffering the ignonomy. Adele heads over, "Thank you. I fear this a fairly usual set of alterations, I go through butlers so fast, you know?"
Winnowill	"Indeed," Winnowill says. Or rather, 'Lady Venovel' says. She stops poking Jeeves, and glances at her two very nervous guards. "I don't bother with alterations. Not since the last group tried to assassinate me. Did a better job than most, so I had to handle them more strictly. I suppose better me than the Djun though... at least I spared their families." Not out of mercy, but lack of knowing their families, or caring, but she doesn't say that. It does make the men shift uncomfortably. "Hmm..." Winnowill stares into the enclosure at the T-Rex. "Not harmed, so I suppose she can just rest." Strangely, the Tyrannosaurus does seem to be... wheezing tiredly, and now might make it more obvious that it doesn't look well-fed, despite Winnowill saying the creature wasn't hungry earlier. And it doesn't seem hungry, that's true.
Anne Blakely	Sigh. Hearing that, Anne is prodded into action when the park manager comes in, "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" The redheaded witch hurries out and makes shooing motions. "That's it then, I think you should all leave. It's a bit short for your visit, but I'll arrange for everyone to have free tickets to the grand opening. This really is just a job, you should enjoy yourselves." She even glares at Sakura. "This isn't 'my shop' like you seem to be thinking. THAT one is currently being moved. This one was built by the park owner."
Sakura Haruno	"We'll see about that. I'm sure there's something you're doing that's horribly wrong." Sakura will state, with a glower, but she doesn't seem inclined to start a brawl given the situation either. So, for the moment, she'll allow herself to be shoo'd off by the witch. It's rather embarrassing, really, but at least there were dinosaurs.