Swamp Tonic

All of the action with the Simvan riders attracted the attention of Florida man who was in the area anyway. He pounced on the APC from a tree the way you would ambush a large dinosaur only then realizing it was manned by the rest of the Dinotours Excursions employees.

After some quick introductions to the new tourists, and Florida man again trying to sell his 'action figures', they headed out to the SEEGA and Primal rage. When they arrived the children enjoyed playing int he berry and nut grove with the SEEGA children. After stopping to sell off the dinosaurs that Ray had captured from the Simvan riders they made their way to the arena to try and get good seats since it was first come first serve.

Butch was approached by Melechar, high priest of Sauron, again about becoming an initiate and Florida Man worked his contacts to try and get 'box seats'. As they were discussing the evenings ceremony, they worked their way over to the ice cream stand that Ray had invested in. The proprietor of the ice cream stand explained that business was not great since a number of people had gotten ill from eating the ice cream and Ray suggested that they mention to the patrons that it was nut based to avoid any more issues with people who may have allergies.

Alderic sought out Socket again to ask him if he would try the dinosaur control rig and socket politely declined to give it another go. However when Raban, Diablo's handler offered Ray the chance to try out the control rig, it was demonstrated that a dragon was inherently magical enough to use the rig with ease.

After being told that 'box seats' were reserved for the devote, the employees of Dinotours were told also that this evenings ceremony was going to be extra special because it involved showing the Gods strength by pitting puny Kopar humans with sharp sticks against them. This ruffled Butch's feathers quite a bit and everyone decided that it was probably best that the children not be exposed to a group of Dinosaurs being controlled by humans, eating other humans; for fun. So everyone turned to Florida Man for a tour of the other nightlife in SEEGA.

While they toured the local food Butch got some kabobs and then not at all ironically gave the 'sharp sticks' to the children to play fight with; which no one apparently cared to notice but gave him a chuckle. Likely no one noticed because the mother of the children had already started to heavily imbibe Ray's 'Swamp Tonic' as she affectionately named it provided to her most gleefully by Florida man who could actually enjoy the taste since it took way too much of it to actually get him drunk.

The children's father, like a couple other tourists, was enamored with Butch's war stories and failed to notice the degradation of his wife's inhibitions as they approached the SEEGA Primal Rage museum. Here there was a test rig for children to try and use to control a pair of scampers. This museum and this rig is how the SEEGA determine the small part of their population that have 'the gift' also known as the magical and psychic abilities to use one of their combination psychic and techno-wizard dinosaur control rigs.

Socket recognized immediately that allowing the CS children to try out these devices was a very very bad idea because of the implication if one of them could actually do it, but was not able to communicate this because of his existing issue with dealing with people compounded with the anxiety of demonstrating that a child of CS citizens was magically gifted caused him to go semi-catatonic. So with Florida Man and Ray were left to try and make the judgement on weather or not the children should try out the machines.

The children's mother was so far sloshed that she probably would have agreed to allow the children to have a flame thrower fight, so after Ray made sure that if by chance one of the children could use the device that they would not be detained and forced to become SEEGA 'players', gave the children a great big thumbs up. The two older kids got into the rigs and started to play around.

The oldest child had no luck and his scamper simply stood in the pen doing what it had done before, however the middle child instinctively and enhanced by the 'Easy Mode' suit, proceeded to make his scamper do jumps and kicks as well orchestrated as any 'player' could. This made the attending priest's eyes bulge as he excitedly started to exclaim that the child had 'the gift'. At this point the children's father took notice of what was going on and realized a little too late and with some not so gentle explanation that his child must be magically gifted.

This rocked Brian's world a little bit and he proceeded to order the children out of the suits immediately and then scooped up his wife to head back to the APC in a severely foul mood. As usual, Ray had trouble understanding why Brian was so agitated but offered some help to the wife after realizing that she obviously did not have the metabolize of a Dragon or a crazy and so must have consumed entirely too much of his brew.

The following morning everyone was trying their best to help Brian come to terms with his child's abilities and Ray said that once the kid was of age that they would have a job down here where they could live a mostly normal life. This seemed to ease some of his anxiety and they all agreed to let he issue settle itself.

The following evening they watched the primal rage ceremony and everyone had a great time. There was no more mention of the previous day's events and the following morning they headed back to Dinotours HQ.