Henry Wu wasn't nervous per say. More… how to say unbalanced? Yes, that worked. He was unbalanced for the simple reason that he was about to Pitch to John Hammoned the work of almost three years worth of his own spare time.
Truly it wouldn't be the end of the world if he said no, but it would be rather disheartening. Either way John would either make or break his proposal, and based on his previous hesitance to the Idea of mixing in Frog DNA he might just shoo him out the door the second he said the project name.
Project Chimera.
The Idea was simple really, with how replacing the missing genetic puzzle pieces of DNA with Frog DNA had shown significant promise. Especially considering every Living dinosaur on Isla Sorna, and Nublar wouldn't exist without it.
Anyway it had shown that creating hybrids was possible, and that it hadn't had any detrimental effect on the creatures themselves. Sure it had probably changed the pigmentation of the dinosaur skin tone, and they had a strange habit of growing feathers oddly enough. But small hiccups couldn't be helped.
Project Chimera was to see if creating more varied and extreme hybrids would be viable, but also humane. It would not be a good idea to create a masterpiece only for it to die five days later because it's genetic code had caused extensive complications after all.
Project Chimera was the idea to create ten Hybrid Dinosaurs of varied extremes in pairs, and monitor them for health defects and other issues such as diminished life span. At the end of the study (about five years at the longest based on how long it took the T-rex to grow to adulthood) they would present the findings to a board of experts, executives, and humanitarians alike in order to judge if creating further hybrids would be allowed. Whether that be as further attractions, or just for continued study.
He just hoped John didn't chase him out of the room with that exasperated look of his. What Kind of scientist would he be if didn't try to push boundaries! He knew John understood that, after all the man had been doing for most of his life, even if it was in a different vocation. It was how he'd made his fortune in the end.
Project Chimera, how hybrid are you? (Pick 1)
[] Extreme Hybrid
We have Clearly Crossed a line here, but let's keep going and see what happens.
Pick up to six Genetic Variations (3 Active, 3 Passive)
Gain drawback Short life Expectancy, and Genetic Car Crash
[] Major Hybrid
Frankenstein's monster of the dinosaur world.
Pick Up to four Genetic Variations (2 Active, 2 Passive)
Gain drawback Reduced Lifespan
[] Minor Hybrid
Martha, did you give me the right gene sequence?
Pick up to two Genetic Variations (1 Active, 1 Passive)
[] Barely Hybrid
What the hell? Did we even modify this embryo?
Pick Up a single Genetic Variation (1 Either active or Passive)
Project Chimera, How big will you be? (Pick 1)
[] Titan
You are the biggest of the big, the tallest of the tall.
(your final size will be either the same size, or slightly bigger than the spinosaurus)
[] Large
You might not be the biggest thing to wander the forest but everything still knows when you pass by. (Your final size will either be as tall or slightly taller than a T-rex)
[] Medium
You're not big, nor are you small. Just the right size to be you.
(You can be anywhere from the size of a velociraptor, to the size of a triceratops)
Project Chimera, Pick your Active Genetic variations
[] Active Camouflage (Cuttlefish DNA)
You can't see me!
You can hide in plain sight.
[] Taser skin? (Electric Eel DNA)
Huh I didn't see that one coming
You can cover yourself in electricity.
[] Venomous (Snake DNA)
That's, probably okay. Though we should probably get him to the infirmary.
Your can make you bites venomous
[] Write in
Godammit Henry!
Anything you can think of as long as it is either amphibious, a bird, a fish, or some kind of lizard. (Author reserves the right to look at you strangely, and to veto anything too odd)
Project Chimera, Passive Genetic variations
[] Un-ageing (Jellyfish DNA)
Are you sure we're not trying to manufacture a master race?
You can't die of old age, removes Reduced Lifespan and Short Life Expectancy
[] Intelligence Upgrade (Velociraptor DNA)
Oh god we are, arn't we!
You are smarter, really it isn't rocket science.
[] Muscle boost (Whatever Henry gets up too when alone)
Martha, stop hyperventilating and put the gun down!
You are far stronger than a creature of your size should be.
[] Write in
"I heard Martha had a mental breakdown after looking at one of Henry's ideas for a hybrid." "That is not as surprising as it should be."
Anything you can think of as long as it is either amphibious, a bird, a fish, or some kind of lizard. (Author reserves the right to look at you strangely, and to veto anything too odd)
Project Chimera, What do you look like?
[]Write in
Take note that your choices in the story will have an effect on your appearance.
Okay everyone, welcome to my new quest! This is quite literally my first story on this site with most of my stuff having been on ffn. This also my first quest, so be gentle as I work out how this is all going to go. If you haven't guessed this is a Jurassic Park quest where your going to be the dinosaur.
Regardless of your choices once you egg hatches and we finish character gen, you have a year until the Jurassic Park incident, and two until site B is abandoned. When you, along with all the other Dino's are released into the wild.
As the story progresses you will have choices as this is a primarily narrative quest. You will have Low danger choices, medium danger choices and high danger choices, and write ins will be evaluated by how well thought out they are.
Low and medium choices will be entirely narrative, whereas high danger choices will be decided by either a dice roll or by spending points with high danger option typically being stupid moves and point allowing you pull through like you typical protagonist. The type of points will be listed as below in the following post, and you will gain them as the story goes on depending on your choices. The points won't be a factor until after character gen finishes anyway.
Any please be Patient as I learn the system, and thanks for reading.
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