#dino-sitting

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Team Nepotism and their Nepo-Baby.

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Monday, July 4th, 2016

Shortly before artificial sunrise, Darius helps his friends infiltrate the compound. Forced to separate from them by an early-to-rise Kash, Darius distracts his captor by playing on his gamer ego (and quickly finds that his own ego is just as vulnerable when Kash manipulates the program in his favor).

Sammy discovers that she is now a teenage mother of two, but quickly copes by helping her babies escape to freedom...unfortunately not before her troublesome tykes accidentally free a Ceratosaurus. Alerted to the security breach, Kash goes to investigate...and soon discovers that the babies are missing.

Scattered by the predator attack, the kids eventually rendezvous in the jungle biome while Darius convinces Kash to search the entire sublevel of the complex, Eventually, Kash notices a raised feeding platform and realizes that he needs to expand the search.

The newly-deployed fleet of BRAD-X models locate the baby Brachiosaurus in the afternoon, and Kash tests one of his prototype chips on the unfortunate creature...but the results are disappointing, with the infant apparently failing to understand any command besides "stop".

Unable to stand down anymore, Ben decides to enact an escape plan, and uses Brooklynn's BRAD-X to convey the message to Darius. Late in the afternoon, Darius calls Kash back outside to begin a dangerous game of tag, luring him into the forest biome where they can spring a trap. They are unprepared for a delivery of new Pteranodons that threaten to disrupt the operation; fortunately, they disrupt Kash, too, who takes time subduing the creatures before following one of the babies to a waterfall. Tricked and locked inside, Kash can only scream with rage as he finally realizes that he's been deceived for the past week.

As evening approaches, Ben returns to the basement to retrieve the baby Brachiosaurus--appropriately named "Firecracker". They reunite with the rest of the CampFam and Mae, and for the first time in a week, the Nublar Six are safe, reunited, and most importantly: free.

Five days to demo.

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Ben got absolutely destroyed.

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I really don't like the Ceratosaurus scene in the Mantah Corp basement...it had the POTENTIAL to be good, but it just...wasn't. It cracked into a chase scene too quickly, when it should have been a good two minutes of maze-hunting and suspense.

"Our heroes must escort three baby dinosaurs through a maze of boxes". Treat the boxes as walls of a narrow hallway, and just...make it a labyrinth. Use a bunch of cuts to heighten the tension and tease the Ceratosaurus getting closer.

My only real argument against that is that it might have been Too Scary for the target audience.

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