New RP: The Challenge of the Time Thieves.

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The Challenge of the Time Thieves.

In times past there have always been legends of great challenges, greater feats of heroism, and magnificent songs of lore detailing adventures beyond imagination.

What no one ever talks about however is how true some of those legends really are.

This is one such legend, a tale that spans across time itself and reveals a cavalcade of heroes and heroines that would become as much a legend as the adventure they partook in.

It started on a common day, much like any other, the weather was fair, the temperature was warm and humid, though it could be said that a vast majority of such humidity probably came from the excessive amounts of water that surrounded the majestic haven that was Waterfall City.

Waterfall City as it were, was so aptly named for it's location of construction and foundation, given the entire city was constructed on a collective of running waterfalls. The City was formed from cavernous stones carved into individual bricks to construct the city street ways and buildings many layering several stories tall. The only land bridge onto the city was protected by a gateway, along the path into the city following from this gate any who traveled it would be able to see a massive glove on which was the depiction of an ancient super continent known as Pangaea.

The streets were littered with the every day passerby individuals that inhabited the city, both human and saurian alike. Indeed it was a truly awe inspiring sight to see a casual man walk the streets along side a parasaurolophus walkeri. While passing through these streets of a civilized dinosaur and human world one might have found themselves rather breathless by the overall rather deeply stunning impression such a place could leave, or they might find themselves in the middle of such a civilization quickly making friends.

but for two individuals this day would be spent not outside enjoying the sun, or exploring the traded goods of the market, but rather inside a library.

The Library itself was large, easily large enough to fit most medium sized saurians in between the shelved book cases, medium here having the loose term given a medium dinosaur was roughly the size of an elephant in scale and mass.


Reguardless, there in the library stood two humans, both of a middlish age more on the youthful side, dressed in khakis, cloth shirts, and brown leather vests, a deeper brown leather set of boots on each of their feet, one male, the other female.

The female of the two sat at a table a scroll rolled out in front of her, her eyes darting back and forth across the page as she read rapidly, as if in attempt to find some form of specific information.

"Ruddy hell Astina, what is taking so long, you should have been done with that scroll by now" the man said rather impatiently, given his poster and the crossing of his arms he seemed the type to disapprove of waiting for more than a few minutes to get whatever he sought after. The man's hair was a dark wood like brown, his eyes a bright green and his complection a fair caucasian tone.


"Patience Barlamus, these scrolls are of an older text and dialect of saurian, it's harder to make out what they're saying" the woman replied. Astina as it were had bright ginger red hair, and also green eyes very similar to the man she was apparently company with.

"Patience my foot woman! We have no time for games, the captain wanted an report on what we could find out, I don't believe he wanted us to waste our time in a bloody library!" Barlamus responded his tone raising a bit causing just a few around him to look up curiously before he lowered his voice and leaned in closer. "Let's just take the scroll get the hell out of this musty old place, besides these scalies are starting to creep me out, and we should report back to our captain rather soon!" he said before leaning back up.

"Fine, fine we'll do it YOUR way Barlamus" Astina replied with a heavy sigh as she quickly gathered up a collective of papers and the scroll quickly then with a skill that could only be obtained by one who studied for a living, she placed the documents into her satchel with a sort of ease that would keep the documents in mint condition as she quickly got to her feet and began making her way towards the doors, the man quickly on her heels.

Their appearances and mannerisms seemed so common to those surrounding them that none seemed to notice their rather speedy exit, nor the missing documents from the table they had been occupying, as the duo made their way out of the library and onto the streets of Waterfall City blending rather seemlessly into the crowd.

"Breath Deep" A man said in passing as the duo walked down the street. Honestly there was nothing wrong with the statement in the slightest and it was even rather cheerful. The proper response of course should have been "Seek Peace" as any Dinotopian would have known, and yet there came the rather ear befuddling response of.

" Go blow it out your-"

"Barlamus! I'm sorry sir you'll have to forgive my friend... he's cranky and suffering from a rather painful tooth ache" The woman spoke up immediately shooting a rather threatening look to her companion Barlamus as if to tell him to silence himself.

The man in passing blinked rather taken aback but nodded all the same, "O.. of course, I understand fully, I do hope you recover well and soon" he said before turning back to his intended path and continuing along his way.

The man and woman continued along the streets as well, for a silent minute before the man spoke up, "Tooth ache? " he asked inquisitively.

"Yeah, because if you hadn't shut up back there I was going to punch you in the mouth and knock some teeth out, remember we're supposed to make these pacifistic morons like us!" She said double checking that none had heard her.

"Now either be polite, or can it!" she finished quickly before taking an abrupt left into an ally way following along a seemingly specified route in order to reach a dead end, at which stood a total of five other humans, each of them dressed in similar renaissance-esque style.

"So.... you've had all morning... what did you find?" asked a man sitting center to the group of five. He sat atop a barrel his back to a wall in recline as he puffed a pipe and paused for an answer.


" This place is crawling with dinosaurs, and everyone is extremely gullible" Barlamus responded crossing his arms again.

This earned him a swift elbow to the ribs as Astina spoke up, "We searched the city and did some research in the Library, there haven't been any real documents describing what you're looking for Captain, though we did find a few scrolls describing a type of rock material that gives off a radiant light called Sunstones... they're described as being rocks that are so beautiful to behold one might swear they were holding the sun in their hands.... gemstones like that would fetch a fair marketable price back home" she said with a smile.


"Is that so?" the man with the pipe asked rhetorically, "Well we're not here for sunstones... not yet anyways... The texts back home describe there being stones of unique properties on this world on this exact island! Those "Sunstones" you're jabbering on about are little more than the radiating cores of some long past space rock that hit this planet eons ago any miner with half a brain back home could go out and dig one up!" he spat out quickly....

"We're here for stones that invoke the powers of time travel." he said looking to the others... "IS THAT CLEAR?" he asked demandingly as all at once he recieved a rather quick

"Aye Captain!" in response.

"Good... now then keep digging for information, ask the locals as well, someone somewhere is BOUND to know something..." He said as his crew of six got to their feet and began fanning out into the city, "I want you all back here in three hours time with something BETTER to report.... I'll be finding us a place to stay in the mean time, and DON'T BLOW YOUR COVER!" he said looking specifically to Barlamus as he said so.

Barlamus nodded " Aye-aye captain I'll be as polite as possible." he said in a reassuring tone.

"You'd better Barly... or so help me no one on this Earth will be able to help you." their captain replied rather ominously.



Meanwhile, in a rather secluded allyway on the opposite side of Waterfall City....

All was quite, in fact there weren't even any humans or saurians near by, then all at once a breeze began to blow, as a strange siren type sound seemed to howl through the air as if carried by the wind from a place not of the world. The breeze grew stronger into a gale of wind blowing papers and some trash about as from a central point in the air lightning seemed to arc all over the place webbing to the corners of the buildings and along the walls.

A hole rather suddenly opened up as the electricity induced inter-dimensional rift seemed to stretch backwards then hurl forwards like a slingshot throwing forward an individual no bigger than an eight year old human child.

The figure was a light pinkish red in color, tones of yellowish orange could be seen along the neck and the underside of a rather saurian tail suggesting that this individual was not quite human. The figure sported a crest from the back of its head as well as several bluish feathers. The figure had bright blue eyes, and seemed dressed much like a human would, in khaki traveling pants, a black long sleeve shirt and a brown vest, from which a golden chain extended to one of the vests pockets. a similar chain was wrapped around the figure's neck, as a necklace. The figure wore no shoes, most likely out of comfort given they had clawed feet.

"Right... well.. oof" the individual saurian like creature began to speak to itself as it clambered to its feet and dusted itself off.

"Not one of my more gossamer landings, but not the worst" it said simply, by this point one could judge from the sound of the voice that this individual was most likely a youthful male.

The saurian reached into his vest pocket and pulled out an antique looking solid gold pocket watch of sorts, flipping the cap open as he looked at it, a smile creeping across his face.

" the early two thousands, Earth, Ooooh Dinotopia, Waterfall city? no kidding" he said rather softly his eyes widening with excitement as he clipped the pocket watch closed and pulled out a pen sized cylindrical device of sorts, it was black on one end that seemed to taper to a cone like point from which a small blue light glowed. the rest was a shiny metalic silver as the saurian held it in his hand like one would hold a paint brush or a pencil perhaps. he pressed down on a button as the tip glowed brilliantly the color switching from blue to a bright red as he quickly moved the glowing red penlight of sorts left to right quickly. All the while the penlight was making some sort of whirring hum sound almost as if it was vibrating out a frequency.

The saurian then looked to this rather strange penlight and smiled, "Oh really... seems I'm not the only one." his smirk widened, "Marvelous" he said as he put the vibraty pen thingy away in his inner vest pocket and stuffed his clawed dinosaur hands into his pants pockets and began walking out of the ally way as if nothing unusual at all had happened in the slightest.

Tag: Any and All, This is the start of a new RP... let's have fun with it . (introducing Saurie as the Dinosaur)

[Rosa]

Tiana Starr stood by the low stone wall and stared out over the waterfall, listening to how the water roared in her ears. When she placed her hands on the wall she could feel the vibration of the falls pounding furiously at the stones. It seemed amazing that the whole city didn’t crumble beneath such a beating. An uneasy feeling came over her as she thought about how the city was built in the midst of the great falls. It seemed like all her sixteen years she’d wanted to experience Waterfall City and all its grandeur, but now that she was finally here, she found herself secretly longing to leave. It seemed like there was no place where she could escape the perpetual roar of the water. Even in the buildings the sound could still be heard, though much quieter—sometimes even almost unnoticeable—nevertheless it was always there, like a never ending thought in the back of her mind.

She glanced around, hazel eyes searching her surroundings, wondering where her deinonychus companion had wandered off to. It didn’t take her long to spot him. Too often he stood out like a sore thumb, often getting into trouble because of his high strung personality. She spotted him several yards away, creeping up behind a small flock of dimorphodons. Tiana knew he wouldn’t intentionally harm them; he just meant to have a bit of fun scaring them. But to the onlooker who didn’t know him, it looked as if he were hunting them, closing in for the kill.

“Sekani, don’t!” She called, but her words were muffled by the roar of the falls.

Too late. Sekani pounced and the unsuspecting dimorphodons scattered every which way. Tiana could hear their panicked screams above the noise of the falls. The young deinonychus happily chased after a few, snapping at them, but taking care not to actually grab hold of any.

Tiana raced forward waving her hands, trying to get her friend’s attention. Finally Sekani caught sight of her and reluctantly stopped his merry chase. “You’re going to get us in trouble.” She said when she reached him. She glanced about nervously, hoping the incident hadn’t raised too much curiosity from any one nearby. A triceratops was glaring at them, and a few people were looking their way with startled expressions on their faces. She hoped there were no street guards nearby. “Come on. Lets go before we get in trouble.” Tiana hurried away, with Sekani close behind.

They didn’t slow down until they reached a smaller street that was much quieter and less populated. In fact, as Tiana glanced about, it didn’t look like anyone else was around. Satisfied that they were alone, she sank down onto the cobblestones for a rest. Sekani happily pranced up and down the alley, having thoroughly enjoyed their bit of excitement. Tiana smiled and shook her head. “Sekani, I know you had fun, and I did to, but the city officials here are really uptight. We have to be careful and limit our pranks, okay?”

Sekani grumbled a response which she couldn’t make out. He practiced a lot on speaking the human language, but his vocabulary was still limited and hard to understand at times.

“What was that?”

“No like rules here.” He growled.

“Yeah. I know. It isn’t as fun as I though it would be here. But hey, I finally managed to get an appointment with the head librarian. Just think, tomorrow I’ll actually be able to show someone my writings and I hope, hope, hope, they’ll agree to print extra copies and add them to their prestigious collection in the library.” Tiana spoke in a very animated fashion, with vivid facial expressions and swift hand movements. “I’ve worked on writing these stories for several years now. What if after all this time, they read them and don’t like them? What if they’re not good enough and they don’t want to bother with printing more copies?”

Sekani rolled his eyes. He’d heard this same conversation many times now since they’d reached Waterfall City. It was starting to get old. “Do not worry.” He said, just like he’d said all the other times.

Tiana sighed. “What if this whole trip was for nothing? What if no one likes my writing?”

“Do not worry.” Sekani repeated.

Tiana smiled sheepishly. “You’re right. I shouldn’t worry. Sorry.” She got up, brushed off her skirt, and smoothed back a few strands of dark brown hair from her face. She adjusted her ponytail and straightened her belt.

While Sekani waited for her to finish primping he shifted from foot to foot, indicating his eagerness to get going again.

“Alright, alright. I know.” Tiana said. “I’m ready now. But listen, we’re not going to make any new friends by creeping up behind them and scaring them all the time.”

Sekani ducked his head, grinning sheepishly.

“Come on then.” Tiana headed out of the smaller street. “I’d really like to make some new friends.”

[solstice]

He made a mistake. He knew he had made a mistake the moment his foot had slammed into that nest and he had felt his talon latch into the opening. His movement had been blindingly fast, preventing himself from tripping, which would have doomed him given the great black wall of destruction that was following hot on his trail.

It was still not enough. He had been too slow, even with the thingytail of trans-phased particles allowing him to bend time until the entire world was moving at a crawl's pace. The explosive shockwave from the killer asteroids that had destroyed the homeworld was too close and with this last mistake, he would not make it back to his home time period.

His namesake would have never made such a gross mistake. When Solstice the First had led the Saurians to the Strangers' arks and into space, away from the doomed homeworld, he had never made mistakes like this. For all of his brillant yellow scales and red eyes, he knew that he was nothing like his illustrous ancestor. For one, he wouldn't find himself doomed when performing a routine mission in one of the lesser impact zones from the final years of the homeworld.

Just how much of the liquid phased matter was left in his body? How much of it had he wasted performing little shifts here and there? He barely had enough. Soon, he'd have nothing left. He needed to perform the jump, to get back home.

He yelped, diving to the ground as a massive piece of rock was lifted from the shockwave and thrown forward. The boulder, several times his size, barely missed him. The very moment he had dived to the ground, he kicked into the ground while pushing himself, resuming his breakneck sprint, his time shifting ability slowing down time and allowing him to keep ahead of the shockwave.

But he was weakening and even with the time slowdown, it was gaining on him. Time jumping usually require a certain level of speed, to reach a natural runway so the jump could be correctly performed. An incorrect jump could send him way, way off-course. It could send him in such a way that he'd appear inside of a solid object or maybe even in deep space. But he knew he was not going to make it.

He's not dying on a lousy routine mission. Inwardly, he accepted that he had always been a mediocre Runner and well, he always knew he would fail miserably someday. After all, there exist two types of Runners: mediocre Runners and live Runners. But no, he didn't want to, he wasn't ready. He's not becoming a pile of bones on a doomed world. He's not joining those who could never make it off in time.

He decide to chance it.

In one supreme effort, the exotic matter inside of his body begun to glow as his heart pounded, pumping it through his entire being. A blue light surrounded the raptor as it ran, after-images trailing as he accelerated beyond what the laws of physics should allow. In one great flash, the figure vanished...


... but the sight of his home base did not greet him. The metal walls of the Runner base was not what he saw. Instead of metal, he saw... stone. Instead of low ceiling and the weak light of artificial lighting machines, he saw daylight.

So... yeah. He knew it would cause him to go off-course.

"Where am I?" he asked himself, aloud, not suspecting that although he had left the time period as he had intended, he was still on the same planet, unaware that his entire view of what had happened on the homeworld was going to be changed forever...

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The smells were not actually that alien, in retrospective. Although it was very, very different from what he was used to, it did remind him of home... in a very distant way.

Okay, he's kidding himself. This is just surreal and he knows it. Still, he saw the great city in the distance and he could not help but feel awe. Not because of size but because of what it was. His home, in the primary city of the capital world, was a dual-layered metal construct, with great skyscrapers and super structures supported by a great plain of mechanisms that hanged over the ground. And of course, below lays the unnofficial second city, set upon the bare earth, under the steel sky that was the first city...

By contrast with the great plains and walls of metals, mechanisms, and wires, this was... well, he guessed it was beautiful. He was familiar with nature ; his constant runs on the homeworld before Apocalypse had allowed him to witness the world before the asteroids had destroyed his ancestors' planet. But his ancestors hadn't evolved, their brains and minds weren't advanced enough to build anything like this.


Of course, all of this brought him to one tiny question that his mind had been blocking out: where is he? He could feel that he was back in the present day, that he knew. His emergency jump had been maybe a bit on the dodgy side but fine control of time travel was practically instinctive to him. The main question was... where is he? This cannot possibly be the homeworld ; the planet was rendered a dead world by the asteroids.

Maybe some lost colony that shunned the common Saurian technologies? He had heard of such worlds. It is probable he might have jumped to one such world...


The bright yellow Deinonychus stood tall, his fingers brushing against his wrists briefly. He had trimmed all of his feathers ; to better increase his speed during his runs and reduce drag. For some reason, his mind once again wandered off of his current situation to mundane details. More exactly... that he wondered what Saurians would look like, coming into that city.

As what one may call a raptor, his kind had changed very little with the passing decades. Their bodies were already very much adapted for civilized life. The only real change had been an increase in brain size and an increase in flexibility, in particular dexterity for the hands. When performing a run on the homeworld, he blended among his ancestors except for his bright colors.

... well, maybe, no. Not evolved, not really. Uplifted...


... he's stalling for time in his mind. He's taking in the sights, trying not to be overwhelmed. Well, he thinks he's okay now.

Solstice leaned forward, going from his formerly upright position to something more characteristic and common for his kind and then pushed himself forward. Guess it's time to meet with the locals. He just hope they speak the same language he does...

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The day was drawing into the early afternoon, the sun rising high in the sky past it's mid point arc and beginning it's gradual decent down. As it were Barlamus and Astina had made their way back to the grand library much to the discomfort of Barlamus who insisted he stand outside of the structure to keep an eye out.

This of course made little sense to Astina since everyone who was in this city was far to pacifistic anyways, and it really took her no time at all to figure his real reasons for wishing to remain outside, she just hoped to herself silently as she read over the texts she had gathered that he wasn't going to do something rash or stupid.

Barlamus was, at that exact moment standing silently, his back to the closest pillar he could lean on, arms crossed as he kept his gaze towards the ground for the most part, or at least so one would have been lead to think given how his head was angled down, yet his gaze truly was constantly scanning his surroundings.

It was in this exact moment that he saw something unusual, a dinosaur... which in itself was not unusual, but rather it was the details about the dinosaur that were unusual. The manner in which it was dressed, the way it presented itself, the way it walked around, and... quite interestingly the fact that this dinosaur, unlike all the others was very deeply interested in EVERYTHING around it as if it was seeing all of this for the first time. which was the part that made no sense to Barlamus at the time since he was under the impression that all the dinosaurs on this island were born and raised here... so then who in the world was THIS quirky individual?

Barlamus' curiosity demanded that he investigate, but his senses told him he was better placed staying put so as to avoid any possible screw-ups to their assignment, besides as smart as Astina was she could always ask for help....

Well ok, no, not likely, she was probably fine on her own, but well he was certain the Captain would be pissed if he left her alone in a building full of strange and unusal creatures.


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With excitement coursing through his every fiber of being, the strange, strange youthful dinosaur walked along the streets of Waterfall city with a spring in his step. He openly observed anything and EVERYTHING around him with a facination that made him seem much like the childish age he appeared.

True that at first he acquired a few odd looks from the locals, but this was quickly replaced by further joy as they openly greeted him, and he seemed to somehow know the proper responses despite this being his first time coming to this world.

Although it seemed his excitement had also raised some slight concern, as while he walked along, he was rather suddenly stopped by a tallish human male dressed in scarlet attire wearing a sort of brass like armor plating and padding, next to whom stood a feral parasaurolophus walkeri, both of them examined the eccentric dinosaur with an unfathomable level of curiosity.

The first thing to be asked of course was, "Are you alright... young ma'am?" the pause came from the fact that neither one of the two could confirm the dinosaur's gender at first and were making a rough guess, much less able to guess the dinosaur's proper age and were simply guessing based on his appearance.

"Oh I'm marvelous, thank you for asking." he replied rather contently with a smile that spread from ear to ear as he stuffed his hand like paws into his pockets, "And I'm a male by the way" he added with a slight wink, "But we can look past that... what can I do for you two brilliant gentlemen?" he asked retaining his cheerful demeanor.

At his response both the human and Saurian guard seemed taken aback, he definitely seemed more intelligent than a child saurian at his age would... and he also distinctively looked different as well.

"Oh, I apologize sir for the confusion, it's just that many of our local denizens haven't seen you around Waterfall City before and have found your behavior to be rather unusual. We were wondering if perhaps you could tell us your name and where you came from so that we could confirm your registration to Waterfall City or at least be able to look up your birth records."


At this the odd little dinosaur blinked and then gave a light smile as he nodded.

"Certainly, I'm The Dinosaur, and I'm actually not from Waterfall City, or even from Dinotopia as it were, in fact you could say I just got here not even an hour ago."

This really threw both guards off as they looked at each other then to the youth in front of them. The human started to chuckle a little, surely this was some sort of game that was being invented with one who had an over active imagination.

The saurian of the two however seemed a bit more serious as he listened, but said nothing as he waited.

The guard spoke up again as he finished his hearty chuckle and smiled, "Well I think you'll find there are a lot of dinosaurs around here son, but really what is your name, where do you live?" he asked trying to get a more straight forward answer.

The Dinosaur blinked as if he had somehow given a legitimate answer and was told it wasn't good enough. It was then his turn to laugh as he shook his head... "OH, no no no, I don't mean that I am a dinosaur... though I am... I meant my name IS quite literally "The Dinosaur"... it's what I go by and answer to..." he said in attempt to explain himself.

This statement left both guards quite befuddled as they looked to each other then back to the youth in front of them as the human guard spoke up again, "So wait... your name is just "The Dinosaur" ?" he asked trying to understand the concept.

"You got it" The Dinosaur replied cheerfully as if he found this whole thing rather amusing.

"The Dinosaur?.... really?" The human tried to confirm again, as if such a name was so hard to understand.

"Yep, hello!" The Dinosaur responded with a straight face while trying to keep himself from laughing, though it was quite humorous to see the responses he got from others attempting to understand his name.

"Just... the Dinosaur... nothing else, no middle name, no last name... nothing?" The guard asked again.

"Brilliant one you are! Yes that's me I'm The Dinosaur.. JUST The Dinosaur... anything else I can do for you two?" The Dinosaur responded as he now tried to clearly drive his name home and memorize it to the man.


"Right well then Dinosaur, where are you from? Did you come from Tree town? Sauropolis, surely your name is on a registry somewhere. Where were you hatched?"

The Dinosaur stopped and thought for a moment then shrugged, "Well to be quite honest I'm not from anywhere here, in fact I'm not even from this island initially... or well let's just keep it as I'm not from around here"

This once again seemed to confuse the guards, though both were doing a fantasitic job of retaining their patience.

"Alright then Dinosaur... where exactly are you from?" The human guard asked again trying to get a straight answer out of the child for once.

"I told you, I'm not from around here... let's just leave it at that.... I'm not from this place generally speaking" as the young dinosaur responded he motioned a paw to all of around him. "I'm not sure how much clearer I can be on the subject. Also... I don't believe either of you two introduced yourselves and yet here you are knowing my name"

Well he certainly had a point on that one which caused the guard to nod, "Very well then, Dinosaur, I am Captain Eliz Turner, and this is my Saurian Partner, Captain Troya Farthane. Now then if you can't tell us anything useful about yourself, do you perhaps have some sort of official documentation on you that could clear up any details?"

The Dinosaur smiled and nodded, "Oh, of course, please hold on a second" The youth reached into his vest pocket and pulled out his vibraty pen light thingy he had used earlier as he pointed it at the two guards and in a split seconds notice pressed the button on it as the light turned a bright yellow on the tip, he held it for no more than 3 seconds and then stopped holding the button down and put his pen away.

"Oh! I see, I'm sorry sir, I didn't realize you were so... unique" the Guard responded as he seemed to blink as if having a revelation, the saurian guard seemed just as newly refreshed from the experience.

"If you don't mind my asking... what did you just do to... us?" the human guard asked rather quite curiously. Though he now understood who the Dinosaur was, he seemed lost as to how he so suddenly knew it.


"Oh, right, well this..." The Dinosaur started as he pulled out his pen, "Is an omniversit Sonic Stylus, it's a small bit of technology from my world, it's uses are practically limitless it is also specifically encoded to me, and retains my personal information" he explained, "I just had to show that information to your brain through your eyes via the tip of the stylus transferring the information to you in that flash of orange light you saw."

The more The Dinosaur spoke the more interested the two guards seemed to become in him, That is until at last The Dinosaur backed away from the two and gave a light bow, "I do apologize to you both, but I really should be going. Though perhaps before I get going, could either of you two tell me if you both might have seen other individuals that are new here?" He asked in hopes of getting a clue about his earlier discovery.


Unfortunately no such answer came as both guards shook their heads.

"I'm sorry, but I can't say that we have." The human guard replied.
"Are you looking for someone?" The guard then asked in attempt to help his newly made friend.

"Oh not particularly, but sort of a general thought, thank you anyways" The Dinosaur responded as he smiled and waved cheerfully, it was then that he turned, spotting the library as his smile widened, "Oh brilliant, the library! ... I'm gonna go there" he said with a wave towards the two gaurds, and began making his way towards the structure.


(tag any and all)

[Rosa]

Tiana and Sekani meandered down the broad street trying not to look bored. Even though they’d been in Waterfall City for a couple of days now, they’d already walked the whole circumference of the city and seen each of the mighty falls. It wasn’t that they weren’t appreciative of the sights, they were simply anxious to sniff out an adventure and being surrounded by waterfalls made them feel penned in. Also, Tiana was having a hard time being patient waiting for the time of her appointment with the head librarian to arrive. It was probably for that reason alone that they unconsciously made their way toward the library. However, they’d just missed the unusual conversation between the Dinosaur and the two street guards which had taken place only moments before they’d arrived.

Tiana, in dream world, didn’t notice anything unusual about her surroundings since her full focus remained on the grand structure known as the library. Even though she’d stopped by the day before to make the appointment, she was still amazed at the beauty of the structure. Her eyes swept over the building, taking in the details seemingly for the first time. Yesterday she’d been so nervous about meeting with the head librarian that she’d paid little attention to the details of the building. But that was over now and rather than meeting the head librarian, she’d had to settle with speaking to a secretary who’d arranged an appointment for two days later. Now that she was relaxed, she enjoyed taking the time to let her gaze wander over every detail of the beautiful building. In the future she might need to remember how to describe it if she wanted to use it in one of her stories.

Sekani, on the other hand, let his keen eyes sweep the streets, searching for an outlet to relieve his itch to get into mischief again. For the most part everyone occupying the area seemed busy, including an oddly dressed raptor rushing up the steps to the library entrance. Sekani only glanced over him briefly though. Judging by the way the saurian danced up the steps, Sekani figured he must be late for whatever activity he was involved in. Sekani moved on with his gaze and let it settle on a dark haired man lounging at the base of the wide steps, leaning his back against one of the immaculate pillars. A devilish grin spread over the young deinonychus’s face. Now there was someone just waiting to become the victim of a prank. Sekani thought about the flock of dimorphodons and how they’d screamed so loud that for once it blocked the monotonous roar of the falls from his sensitive hearing. It had been so delightful to chase after them, that is until Tiana stopped him and reminded him that they needed to be careful.

Sekani watched the man closely, trying to decide what kind of harmless trick to play on him. That’s when he noticed the man lift his head just slightly watching the costumed raptor heading up the library steps. Sekani detected the look of surprise in the man’s green eyes, subtle as it was. The young deinonychus knew it wasn’t proper etiquette to intrude upon this man’s business, but his mischievous streak seemed to overpower him at the moment. With his decision made, he turned sharply, making a wide arc so as not to be notice and snuck up behind the pillar that the man was standing in front of. Then he jumped out, with a vicious roar, hoping the man would react with a yell. Even better yet, maybe the man would run and Sekani could chase him for a minute just for fun. He didn’t intend on harming the man, of course.

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[tarion]

O.O.C - Solstice hasn't posted in nearly 2 weeks since he has other things to attend to *despite me reminding him nearly daily to post here* so his turn will be skipped.

That having been said let's continue shall we

I.C -

The library in all it's massive glory was quite a site to behold. Which of course caused The Dinosaur to stuff his hands into his pockets and stare at it for a few brief moments looking at it in awe as he simply uttered, "Marvelous" and began making his way into the rather ancient looking structure.

This would have been the point in which Barlamus would have stepped in and attempted to intercept The Dinosaur, however that plan was derailed as he picked up on a slight sensation crawling up the back of his neck. Being a time pirate Barlamus had developed a sort of esp to being watched and being snuck up on.

He was getting that feeling right now, he rolled around the right of the pillar and got it up to his feet, walking around the other side and sure enough... a dromeasaurid of some sort, who seemed rather confused. It was then that Barlamus smiled and tapped the dromeasaur on the right haunch as he moved in closely getting face to face to the raptor.

"Boo" he said simply a light hearted joke but well he also wanted to make a point to the raptor not to sneek up on him.

"Don't you have a human you need to be with" he added as he stood up right and crossed his arms. "Run along lad, I've no mood for games at the moment." he added as he leaned against the pillar.

As Barlamus removed his attention from the raptor he returned his eyes to looking about the crowds entering and exiting the library. His eyes widened, WAIT.. where had that weird one gone?!

Looking to the library, Barlamus sighed well clearly that unique character had been heading in this direction, so he couldn't be that hard to find.

Meanwhile inside the library, Astina had struck the jackpot of all information, the catalogs of explorations, this book included maps, charts, and layouts of structures. The more she read the catalog the more she found clues hinting towards the time stones!
It was then that she heard something unusual, a voice beside her directly addressing what she was looking at.

"Ooooh, The catalog of explorations, marvelous read really."

Quite startled Astina turned and looked rapidly to her left and right only to discover a strange dromeasaurid looking individual. The individual in question looked quite interested in the book.
Astina sighed lightly and quickly put on a facade to hide her intentions.

"Oh... oh I'm sorry, you startled me... yes, yes it's an interesting ... book" she paused, then tilted her head a little, "I'm sorry but I don't believe we've met, who are you?" she asked curiously.

The dromeasaurid looking individual smiled politely and nodded, "True I haven't introduced myself." he paused his smile widening, "I'm The Dinosaur" he said simply as he swished his tail behind him a little, "And... you are?" he asked simply.

"Astina" she added her expression changing slightly... 'had he called himself the dinosaur? what kind of a name was that?' "So... I should just call you Dinosaur then?" she asked curiously.

"Wow you caught on to that much faster than the guards did... kudos." He added with a smile.

The duo paused as Barlamus walked in looking around.

"Oh good, Barlamus" Astina started, as she turned... only to find the Dinosaur wasn't there. Looking around again, how could someone that easy to remember be so hard to locate?

The Dinosaur meanwhile had actually made his way around several book cases and was heading towards the central lobby of the library, where the information desk was.

It was at that moment that he took notice of a girl ... a girl that seemed to stand out more than the others in the library, she was accompanied by a Deinonychus. Intrigue gripped the Dinosaur as he made his way towards the duo at the desk and put his hands into his pockets.

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[balaur]

Isfrit Quicktalon was currently sitting down at a small cafe near his house. It had only been two days since he heard his whole village, including his family, had been killed. Sighing, he picked at some of his smoked Lepidotes, and decided it was time to go. Getting up, he payed the waiter and made his way to the library.