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< Thursday, July 14, 2016 >

Everyone wakes up on a peaceful island. Little Eatie greets her battered mother in the jungle biome; Brooklynn goes down to the gas-free drill and stabilizes it; the one-day girlfriends take the kids to their snowy home (Ben is there, too); and Kenji finds that Toro spent the night digesting his prey in a frozen stasis, and smashes the controller to free the poor lad now that the Tyrannosaurs have returned home.

Having repaired the doors and shuffled all the dinosaurs back to their homes (and having found a third Velociraptor lurking about somewhere), Darius and his friends sit happily at the end of another productive day. Kenji even works up the courage to get himself back in Brooklynn's good graces...but the day is not over yet.

A boat arrives from Isla Nublar--after a day's trek back across the island and a careful navigation to the northeast, Mae has led Dave and Roxie back to their kids...and Brandon Bowman back to his brother.

Darius and Brand are reunited.

The kids are saved.

Saturday, July 9, 2016

Demonstration Day!

Brooklynn tries to convince Kenji not to trust his dad, but Kenji feels that he can't trust his friends anymore. He goes to assist his dad with the setup for today's demonstration, while the others slip off to find out if there's a way to stop this--and Mae lets them know that if they scramble the control chips with magnetic batteries, the controllers won't work.

Unfortunately, the kids' route to the pitch is blocked, and in the time that it takes to go around, Daniel Kon has already proved his product to the investors. The kids sabotage the demonstration anyway, trying to keep the dinosaurs from hurting each other--and trying not to get hurt themselves by the ruthless businessmen. During the chaos, the CampFam successfully neutralizes all the chips, resulting in two investors being killed...along with Kash, who got caught up in the disaster while driving off the representative for Biosyn.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Kenji gets his dad to come see a demonstration of dinosaurs doing something besides fighting, by returning Big Eatie to the forest biome and reuniting her with her child...who Yaz and Ben have to fetch. With their powers combined, they bring the dinosaurs back together and overcome Daniel's fears and violent impulses to prove that not only are dinosaurs gentle, but they can listen to speech.

Daniel abandons his dinosaur fight idea, his mind turning to a scheme far grander. He allows the kids to spend the evening celebrating and relaxing, and waits for them to go to bed (or, rather, to cuddle up on the floor together after the prior night proved restless), and then takes Mae on a moonlit walk to bring her up to speed with everything that happened while she was recovering from the medical operation over the past twenty-four hours...and informs her that she has forty-eight hours to assist Kash in preparing for the demonstration.

< Friday, July 15, 2016

It has been two hundred and eleven days.

Thirty weeks (and one Leap Day) after beginning a two-week promotional tour for an amusement park's expansion, the newly-christened "Nublar Six" finally set foot on the mainland as they reunite with their families at an undisclosed port in Central America. They're older, messier, scarred, changed...but alive.

Yasmina and Sammy come out to their parents, making their intentions clear and finding themselves welcomed...and Kenji finds himself welcomed, too, as Mrs. Bowman accepts him into the fold with her two kids. They even have time for an interview before they go, sharing one last laugh before facing whatever the world has in store for them...because for now, it's over.

< Wednesday, July 13, 2016 >

Sammy and Ben take care of the dinosaurs in the forest biome while Darius and Brooklynn set up a drone to alert them for when the Kons return; Yaz goes for a run and realizes that she wants to commit to her feelings for Sammy. Her intentions are thwarted by another earthquake--which the kids realize is coming from the unstable core. Stuck between fixing the core and rescuing the local Nothosaurus, the CampFam decides to split up. Danger once again presents itself, Darius has to rescue Brooklynn, Yaz and Sammy have to rescue each other, Ben is there, too, and in the end...Yaz confesses her feelings and Sammy gets the girl!

But before they can live happily ever after, Kenji and the Mantah Corp mercenaries return with their saurian cargo. Unprepared and caught further off-guard by the presence of Bumpy, the kids scramble to locate a flash drive containing Mantah Corp's backup files and rescue their club-tailed friend. Ben manages to break Bumpy free through the power of love and friendship (Kenji helps to distract the mercs), but Darius and the girls lose the flash drive when Hawkes subdues the Spinosaurus.

Holing up in their familiar forest biome, the kids grudgingly accept Kenji back on their team, and try to scatter the dinosaurs--but Big Eatie has no intention of ceding her territory to some interlopers, and a tremendous battle begins. Brooklynn and Ben skirmish to delay the enemy while Yaz and Sammy get the smaller animals to safety, with the latter getting a hit in on Daniel Kon himself. Darius and Kenji get two of the mercenaries killed, but Daniel takes control himself and gravely wounds Big Eatie, scattering our heroes throughout the facility.

< Tuesday, July 12, 2016 >

Sammy Gutierrez chills with her friends in the cave as they plan on how to better care for the dinosaurs: putting their heads together, Darius and Sammy come up with a plan to flood a depression with water in order to give the dinosaurs a peaceful place to live.

Unfortunately, Yaz and Ben have to bow out in order to collect the baby dinosaurs and talk about her feelings or something trivial like that. Fortunately, Yaz still has Darius and Brooklynn to help her...but Darius goes to keep the Tyrannosaurs off Sammy's back, which is appreciated. Brooklynn also decides that she would rather run around with dangerous animals than do some dirty work, which is less appreciated.

Thus Sammy is left to work alone...and work, she does. She builds a dam. She climbs a shaky tree. She hauls herself up a cliff, descends into the rank darkness of the tunnels, and struggles with engineering. She finds herself stalked through the labyrrinth by a skeletal foe she thought deceased, and dodges fire and hides in the shadows. Winged beasts descend on her from the sky, forcing her to make her escape by hurling herself off a cliff...

...and she survives. She accomplishes her mission. She's muddy, bloody, scorched, soaked, aching, shaken, and bruised, but she did work today, she accomplished something, and for her farmgirl self, there is no greater joy...except, maybe to feel the warm hand of her beloved friend in her own, and to feel the rush of the sky as they leap into the water together at the end of the day.