Jump 065: Jurassic Park

Jump 065: Jurassic Park

Location: Isla Sorna
Age: 28
Identity: [-50] Geneticist
Drawbacks: [+600] Biosyn, Scavengers, Prion Disease, It Rex Everything

[200/1550]  The Phones Are Working
[300/1550]  Soundtrack
[900/1550]  Chaos Theory Mastery
[Free]      PhD (Genetics)
[950/1550]  Missing Link
[1050/1550] Cloning
[1200/1550] Genetic Improvements
[1500/1550] Hybrid
[1550/1550] Barbasol, And Nothing Else

For all the talk about man's hubris, the real issue with Jurassic Park was that a programmer deliberately made a single point of failure that could serve to cripple the park at Site A, without bothering to debug it. After all, turning everything in the park off and then back on is more than a matter of flipping a switch. Because disabling security protocols and electrified fences is a thing a sane person would do, but who could really judge Nedry, to be honest? The man needed to line his pockets, and Biosyn was willing to commit to anything and everything it could to get what it wanted.

It's really quite fortunate that John Hammond had someone on staff at Site B that was not only a geneticist, but a regular renaissance man. A person and who ensured there were satellite phones as an emergency backup at both sites, in retrospect. Maybe a minute after the systems went down on Isla Nublar, the thing rang... though it took a little longer for it to be answered. Certainly, it shouldn't have gotten a signal with the hurricane ongoing, but it did.

The geneticist, as it turns out, was accidentally left behind at Site B when the rest of the staff evacuated; he was most decidedly not a happy camper. But on hearing that something had sabotaged systems at Site A... well, he went into the 'there is a problem and this is how we fix it' mode, walking everyone through the process of restarting the systems without needing to leave the comfort of the room.

Other than the tour stopping for about ten minutes before it resumed, there were no problems with it and things went smoothly. John Hammond thanked him for his assistance once they got him off Isla Sorna, and Jurassic Park opened as expected. There were hiccups, of course, but nothing terrible. Really, the worst aspect of it was that he was continually followed by a pack of compys that seemed friendly enough. And that Biosyn kept trying to steal his belongings, tried to hire him away, and actually succeeded in kidnapping him once... only for his natural magnetism toward the various dinosaurs to bite them in the ass when a utahraptor chased down the jeep they'd stuffed him into and shredded the kidnappers.

Later litigation saw to the complete and total liquidation of Biosyn and its assets being bought by InGen, because it seems they chose the wrong person to kidnap.

On the plus side, said natural magnetism made him the ideal candidate to help stress-test the enclosures that the various exhibits were kept in. Perhaps he simply imprinted on them somehow before birth? No one knew, but it certainly kept life interesting. In the sense of the ancient Chinese curse, that is.

>"Hold on now, you're telling me-"
"-that the reason the raptors went so crazy aggressive was a prion disease, yes. A misfolded protein. Irreversible, untreatable, like rapid-onset violent dementia."
>"I see. So what does this mean for the park?"
"It means that all dinosaur remains will need to be disposed of by incineration to prevent it from entering the environment, dino-steaks are decidedly NOT recommended, and we're going to have to take radical measures to deal with them going insane."
>"Define 'radical measures', doctor?"
"I recommend we implant a shaped charge at the base of their skulls when they reach adulthood, until we can find the source of the prion disease and eradicate it. If they are aggressive and cannot otherwise be contained..."
>"You just want revenge for the pterodactyls ruining your picnic, don't you?"
"Don't be ridiculous. A pterodactyl falling out of the sky because its brains were liquefied would have ruined the meal far worse."
>"This is still madness."
"Madness is letting the guests see Rexy being torn to shreds by her mate, Mr. Hammond, and then escaping because it's gone too mad for security measures to contain it."
>"Point taken. Make it happen."