It's The Year Of The -- Portal?

[thosetwoturrets]

Well, it's certainly a new year, and that means a new birthday party! This time for our favorite foul-mouthed turrets! How these two got through GLaDOS's assembly line is anyone's guess. (Except the mun's headcanon is that they were taken off the line as regular turrets and reprogrammed by bored programmers, sooo. . .) Anyway, you all know the drill -- red and white Inkwell, the boys sitting around the bar playfully shining their targeting lasers at everybody, cake, snacks, the works. Come in and welcome the New Year in style!

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[thosetwoturrets]

"What, with like some big fancy magic forcefield?" Steve asks, sounding quite intrigued by the idea.

"Maybe," Vic says. "And however it calms you down, it's good that you have a place where you can just relax. From what I've heard, most of your attempts at pure pleasure trips tend to go horribly wrong."

"Meh," Dee says, scrunching up her nose. "Daddy made me lots better, and that's what counts."

"Indeed," Vic agrees, before holding up a finger. "Hang on, I'm gonna grab TrilDoc and see what he has to say about the situation."

[alienlisa]

AL nods. "Yes. The same kind that's around the jungle to keep the dinosaurs in...yeah, Alnilam has dinosaurs. That's the alter ego's fault...she was obsessed with them as a kid so she made a spot for them on Alnilam. A prehistoric environment surrounded by a powerful forcefield run by Kamelion, a unicorn who, true to her name, has the ability to blend into her surroundings. The Doctor added in a perception filter, too. That's why, when you look at the Orion constellation through a telescope, you only see Alnilam the star and not the planet."

AL pats Dee's head. "Of course he did. Because he's awesome." She grins, then nods at V. "Okay, then."

[thosetwoturrets]

"Now that's sciencey stuff," Steve declares as Gary nods in agreement. "Dinosaurs running around, forcefields, invisibility stuff. . .I can hear Johnson yelling about how we should have invented it all first."

Vic snickers and nods, then disappears for a little bit, coming back soon with another Doc in tow. "So, I understand everyone's wondering if we have a possible cause for the glitch in the time circuits in Part II that more or less caused Part III?" he says, looking around.

[alienlisa]

"We kind of forget the dinosaurs are there most of the time," AL says with a shrug. "You have to pass through two meadows and the forest to get there and it's not worth seeking out since you can't get in unless Kamelion lets you."

They wave at the new Doc. "Yep, we are. What say you?" She feels goofy saying it but she said it anyway.

[8docs_n_1victor]

"Seriously? That kind of sucks," Gary says, snuffling. "You should at least have some pterodactyls or something flying around."

TrilogyDoc chuckles. "Well, considering every glitch with the time circuits before Biff got his hands on the car was a result of the starter being less-than-reliable, I would say that Biff is responsible. Or, at the very least, if the issue was present in the background, his poor handling of the car is what made it display. It certainly didn't start flashing until after he returned it. I may have been worried about Marty's future kids, but if I'd seen it earlier I would have fully taken advantage of future technology to repair it."

[alienlisa]

"Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs," says Twelve. "Dinosaurs do not fly. Or swim."

AL nudges him and gives him a look. "He sounds like he's being snotty but he's not...it's the accent. And his tone. We have a few flying reptiles in there. Actually, there's something from every part of the Mesozoic Era. Which might not work normally due to the different climates of the three eras the dinosaurs lived in but, well...magic." She shrugs and smiles.

After listening to TrilDoc's explanation, she nods. "Yeah, I think that'd be my Doc's take, too."

[thosetwoturrets]

"How the hell aren't they dinosaurs?" Steve asks, waggling his flaps. "Serious question -- why aren't they lumped in with them? Why can't you have a dinosaur fly?"

"Or swim?" Gary agrees. "We ain't biologists -- come on, spill the goods."

"Magic fixes everything," Vic replies with a little nod. "And yeah, it all sounds perfectly reasonable to me too."

"Certainly to me, and I'm the one who dealt with the problem," TrilDoc jokes, grabbing a glass of punch from the bar.

[alienlisa]

"The term 'dinosaur'," says Eleven in his best professor voice, "is restricted to just those reptiles descended from the last common ancestor of the groups Saurischia - those who walked on two legs - and Ornithischia - those who walked on four legs. The reptiles who flew and swam are not classified as such by your scientists. Not currently, anyway."

"Didn't some scientists just find out a few months ago that Spinosaurus could swim, though?" Jesse points out.

The Time Lord nods. "They found that it had a number of anatomical features that suggested it was semi-aquatic, yes. Perhaps that will be the catalyst that will change their 'dinosaurs don't swim' views." He shrugs.

[thosetwoturrets]

"But why not? Who the hell are they descended from, then?" Steve demands to know. "What makes that one ancestor so special?"

Both he and Gary perk up when Jesse and Eleven talk about the recent discoveries about aquatic Spinosaurus. "Ooooh -- and see? I mean, I guess don't exactly make the guy a Plesiosaur or whatever you're supposed to call 'em, but still!"

"Why do you care so much?" Vic has to ask.

"No good game or console wars online. Gotta entertain ourselves somehow."