Might as well have a drink!
You walk over to the river. It feels surprisingly natural to walk like this. You feel like a cross between a bird and a wolf.
When you get to the river, you dip your mouth into the water and have a drink.
You're just finished drinking when you hear a cracking noise. You raise your head. The noise came from across the river. You see three small dinosaurs running out of the forest.
These dinosaurs look a great deal like you, but they are much smaller than you, only about half your size and more vividly coloured. You realize that these "mini-yous" are Deinonychus, another type of raptor.
Wait, how did you know that? For that matter, how did you know that you were a Utahraptor? Did the change somehow imbibe you with this knowledge?
One of the "mini-yous" is holding a bird of some sort in its mouth. It seems like the three of them are squabbling over how to divide it. Are they speaking in a human language or some raptor talk? You can't tell because they are too far away.
They suddenly look at you, and then to your left. There, upriver, on your side of the river, is a another Utahraptor. <span class="female">Your maybe-imbibed-maybe-not knowledge tells you that it is a female.</span> It's upwind of you and the "mini-yous," and it doesn't seem to have noticed any of you.
Clearly the "mini-yous" are scared of the two larger predators in their midst, for they begin to move away, downriver. You feel a pang in your stomach. That bird they have might quench your hunger.
What do you do? Do you approach the female Utahraptor and see if you can get any information out of her? Do you try your luck with the "mini-yous" and see if you can get that bird? Do you do anything at all?
Written by on 23 February 2014