Terrible Lizards story and timeline

The store page sells the premise in a sentence: an old Route 66 attraction, something under it, and you had better run. The narrative devlog is more specific. The day is 19 Sep 1992. The place is Dalton's Dinos in New Mexico. The founder is Dalton Coolidge, a paleontologist, and he is not on site. You meet him through tapes and notes. His wife Elena is mostly letters. Their son DJ is the missing child.

The people on the headset and on the road

• Jordan drives from Chicago toward Los Angeles and stalls at the park. You play Jordan. A press note and a cast wiki put Kellen Goff in that role. The cast page separates what the press release confirms from the longer table.
• Stella is a paleontologist and a friend of the Coolidge family. She reaches you by phone. Guides later have her read an elevator code. That code is a route detail, not a character fact.
• Staff are already missing when you arrive. The store description says so. Dr. Fellows, a body in Cavern B with a crew-lift key, is a single wiki's addition. I am naming him once and not building a biography.

Under the gift shop the attraction stops being a museum. The creature devlog says the dig found something other than fossils, and the Hybrid is the first body that proves it. Dennis, the dilophosaurus Paleo Pal, is the story's other dilophosaurus: a mascot who, in the guides, is also the thing in the dark with DJ. A community theory says Dennis used to be human. The studio has not said that. I am not upgrading the theory.

The launch note and the Q&A both treat the plot as one complete game, not episodes. Four chapters are a guide structure. The timeline I will actually date is short: 19 Sep 1992 inside the fiction, 29 Oct 2026 in the real release calendar, and 2 Nov 2026 as the day I checked the posts. Anything between Jordan's arrival and the crew lift is on the walkthrough pages, with the source counts attached.