#raptordyne

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Update on the tar gun, its actually hasn't been that bad to sculpt. Once I'm finished and key both the helmet and this they'll be up for download on cults3d

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how does Caruso interact with the other raptordyne employees?

Outside of Peter and Alpha, it depends on what role that employee occupies.

Caruso doesn't really interact with HR, or the secretaries, or really any of the pencil pushers handling the business side of things, and most of that crowd isn't aware of Raptordyne's true purpose anyway. Lab techs and field agents are the ones Caruso interacts with the most.

Some of the scientists are just there for the opportunity to play god with genetics, some are there to act as R'n'D for Raptordyne's public face (including developing the products Raptordyne publically sells), but a good chunk of the scientists really wanna see Veloci's dream of "return to dino" come true... though they all sort of have their own interpretation of that dream. So a lot of the scientists Caruso regularly interacts with are really excited about him... if not excited to work with him after he annoys them endlessly. It's kind of weird for Caruso, to be the center of attention not because of something he did, but because of something that happened to him. It almost grates on him, feeling undeserved, but he still can't help but preen when Mina geeks out over his dorsal plates or Robert rolls out a series of targets for Caruso to hit with his thagomizer. It gets harder and harder to reduce these people to just "Raptordyne goons" for Caruso the longer he knows them, and the longer he works with them.

Caruso better watch out, though, 'cause some of them really wanna experiment on him (they are going to put him in a fucking maze when Veloci's not looking).

With the field agents, it's kind of the same? In that they're all people outside of their jobs and they've all got different reasons for being there. And we've seen Raptordyne field agents showing regard for each other before (like when the truck crashes in the beginning of "Headline Nuisance" and they ask each other if they're okay), so it'd be weird if they ALL hated Caruso and Caruso hated ALL of them.

And then there's the other interns Caruso meets in the summer. One of them (Emily) is an overachieving high schooler from the midwest interning as a lab assistant, two of them (Rachel, Lukas) are college students a year and three years older than Caruso working on GMOs and irrigation respectively, and then the last one (Pam) is a woman in her forties who went back to college for a business degree and took the summer internship in the Raptordyne offices for something to do. None of them know the truth about Raptordyne (though Emily's pretty close to finding it out) so it gives Caruso a group to interact with in Raptordyne outside of the whole "take over the world and make it dino" thing. Which I find interesting!

(Rachel's ambitious and really wants to work for Raptordyne and climb the corporate ladder, so she gets jealous of Caruso's obvious special treatment. It's Lukas who comes up with the sugar daddy theory though, because in his words "Caruso's hot enough to be a sugar baby."

Caruso and Emily don't get along at first because Caruso's got a very strong "what's with this sassy lost child" energy and Emily thinks he's an airhead. Caruso and Pat end up gossiping about office drama and get on just fine.)

Which, again, gives Caruso kind of an interesting dilemma, as he gets more used to and friendly with these guys. More used to and friendly with Raptordyne. And as Veloci keeps trying to convince Caruso that the plan to return to dinosaurs is the better path (and Caruso picks it apart, only to realize that not only is Veloci reliant on the humans he's hired to make this whole thing work, he's also not got a concrete vision in mind! though. Caruso's tendency to run his mouth. Not only gives Veloci ideas for experiments. It also helps Veloci refine things a bit. So uhhhh whoops!), Caruso's faced with a question:

How is one ancient dinosaur and five young adults supposed to stop all of this?

[dinosquad-central]

January 2023 DinoSquad monthly prompt:

What product/invention/discovery gave RaptorDyne its start? Or, how did Veloci form his company and make a name for himself in the field of genetic research?