Official Opening!

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Who: All the lovely test visitors of Jurassic Park and your very own host John Hammond!
When: July 21st in the morning hours after the first helicopters with guests arrive
Where: All over the safe area - check the subheaders for specific location options or make your own subheader if something you'd like is not yet included!
What: Getting settled! Hammond holds a welcome speech and you can get a tour through the Visitor Center. Once that is done, why don't you choose a room or check out the exhibits and café? A new world of wonders awaits and you're just getting started!

It's a beautiful but slightly nebulous day on Isla Nublar. You have arrived this morning and didn't get much of a chance to check out the place yet. Still, one thing is clear... Dinosaurs are a new one. That herd of brachiosaurs you spotted walking in the distance is pretty impressive.

This is a mingle-log that you can use to tag around with as many people as you want. Unless otherwise stated, it is assumed all comments here are fair game to reply to with all characters - they are all in close proximity to each other after all. If you have any specific preferences for your threads, state them in your subject line (e.g. if your thread is closed to a specific character or is set at a very specific time or if you don't want thread-jacking once a thread has started).

The log also gives a chance for characters to talk to John Hammond for a while - he might not be overly helpful, but go ahead and meet your host!

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Safari Lodge

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[ Seems like you're ready to get own to business. First thing you feel needs to be settled is your housing situation. As such you weaselled out of the social commitments pretty soon and made your way over to the hotel to get settled. Maybe you're not the only person with that idea though - you might run into some of your new neighbours here. ]

w/Shiro - OTA

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[One can bet that as soon as they're feasibly able to, Sora and Shiro are going to make a beeline for their lodgings, most likely as soon as they've been released from that lame intro ride. Well, presentation-wise, it probably only got several points, but once they got down to the informative parts, Sora had soaked it up like a sponge.

...but he's had his fill of socializing for the year day, so as soon as he and his sister figure out what room they've got, they're on their way up to the second floor. As soon as the elevator comes down. Sora is so not lugging this heavy luggage up two flights of stairs. That's what he gets for packing several video game systems.]

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[Sweet, sweet refuge. Shiro can almost taste the four walls that will serve as their temporary retreat from the rest of the world.

Well, okay – 'tasting' may be a little extreme, but if she had the ability to vibrate in place while waiting for the elevator, she would be doing so. Her energy levels have depleted just as quickly. Instead, she waits patiently next to her brother, staring intensely (and somewhat tiredly) at the numbers lighting up in sequence to what floor the elevator was moving from.]

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[At least it seems there's only three floors, but man, elevators. Finally it pings, and the great metal doors yawn open.]

All right. Just a little longer, Shiro.

[Sora at least tries to offer his sister a smile, tugging the luggage along as he steps over to hold the door open for them both to slip inside.]

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[The girl looks up at Sora in a daze, only to blink as the doors open up for them. But she nods. She trusts her brother to make sure they reach their destination.]

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[Once they're inside, he hits the button for the second floor.]

We've been assigned to room 201. All we have to do is set ourselves up and we should be good for the next three weeks.

[Yeah. They totally plan to stay in their room for the duration of this torment vacation.]

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Hou.

[It's a little noise, but it also encapsulates her understanding and comprehension functions. They've been around each other forever, so it all makes sense.

As the elevator chimes and opens its doors again, Shiro toddles out ahead, pausing to wait for her brother and the luggage.]

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[Sora tugs his load after them once they've reached their floor, only having to make a little extra effort when the wheels get stuck partway.

Their room isn't hard to find, so it only takes a moment longer to get the door open so they can head inside, although not without a precursory glance down the hallway, mostly to spy if there are any vending machines within reasonable distance. It's only got one queen bed, but that's fine since they're used to sharing.]

Well, here we are...

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[There's a timid peek into the room, almost as if she's expecting something terrible to come out of nowhere to surprise the both of them. But nothing comes. It's just an ordinary hotel room.

With that, she heads straight for the bed, flopping on top of its quilted comforter.]

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[Nudging the door closed behind them with a sneaker, Sora steps over to follow suit, finally relinquishing hold of their precious luggage. He lets the backpack slip from his shoulders as he maneuvers around Shiro to faceplant on the bed beside her.]

hope you don't mind prose; brackets are hell on mobile

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She'd meant to get on the elevator going up. Dagnabbit, now she was going back down to the lobby. Ugh, that was what she got for not paying attention. She blamed the dinosaurs. Tamora could handle just about anything within the scope of standard suspension of disbelief, but dinosaurs? That was just ridiculous.

Oh well, she could ride the elevator down and then back up again; she wanted to check the view from the roof. As the doors slid open, she was met with the faces of two young people, a boy and a girl. Stepping back to let them enter, she pushed the button for the third floor.

"Got that, champ?" she asked, watching the young man struggle a moment with what looked like a very heavy suitcase.

A-OK

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     Sora blinked. Oh. Guess they weren't the first ones here after all. For a moment, he was about to step back to let the woman out, but apparently she was keeping the doors open for them and not about to step out, herself. Glancing briefly at Shiro, he shrugged, nodding for his little sister to start in first so he could tug the luggage in after them.

     "It's fine, thanks," he said almost offhandedly as he wheeled it in behind him. He tapped the button for the second floor before sighing tiredly.

     "...you forget something?" he asked once he finally lifted his attention back towards the woman, seeing as how she'd only just come down...right?

Prooooose

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Oh. They get to share the elevator with someone. Not that it's a bad thing – it was better to share the ride with one person than a whole bunch of strangers at the same time.

Shiro shared the glance with Sora, training her eyes back onto Calhoun as she toddled ahead of her brother. As she did this, she backed into the corner farthest from the older woman.

sorry for the wait; internet issues

[chargethesebatteries]

She pressed the button to hold the door open as the boy dragged his suitcase in, then watched the younger girl press herself into the corner. She wasn't really unfamiliar with this sort of behavior, actually: Tamora knew she was kind of a commanding presence. She liked it that way. The rookies tended to have the same reaction.

She wasn't here to bark orders, though, and she did like kids for the most part. She gave the girl a smile.

"I won't bite, short stack," she said, looping her thumbs through the belt loops of her jeans. She glanced back at the boy then, shaking her head. "Nope, just accidentally got on the car going down instead of up. I was gonna check out the view from the roof. I'm on the second floor, too."

She leaned out to see if anyone else was coming, then frowned a little and let the doors slide closed.

"You two here by your lonesomes?"

Weren't they a little young to be here without their parents? The boy only looked seventeen or eighteen ish, and the girl couldn't have even been thirteen.

No probs!

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     Once inside completely, Sora took up a spot dutifully near his sister, leaning against the wall beside her. He nodded thoughtfully at Calhoun as she explained. Understandable, he figured.

     While he tried not to stare openly at her, it wasn't too difficult for him to figure that she must be some kind of military. Definitely the athletic sort at the very least. Who ran around calling people 'champ' anyway?

     "Yeah. Our parents decided to generously pass off their invitations to us," he replied, obviously not very thrilled about said generosity or thoughtfulness on his parents' part.

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Although a little shy, Shiro understood the lady. The subtle changes in her expression were softened by a few degrees but still earning the respect and command deserved, a strange similarity the little girl was sure to have seen in some video game images.

She did detach herself from the corner eventually, stepping a little closer to Sora as she listened to their conversation, making faces at the appropriate times whenever he did.