tricksandmischief: (Moodiness)
Loki Laufeyson ([personal profile] tricksandmischief) wrote in [community profile] thearena2015-02-23 09:24 am

Arena 13 - Open

Who| Loki Laufeyson (MCU) and open!
What| Arena 13
Where| Mostly around the caves
When| Primarily the current week, but a catch-all for anybody who wants any back-dated encounters
Warnings/Notes| Violence, maybe? Will update as needed.


Loki had discovered that not every Arena was equal and some were much easier to get through - especially if you escaped the Cornucopia unscathed. He had run into Thor soon after but he'd gotten way from that strange encounter and found his away along the river to the caves.

The increasing cold had not bothered him too much up to this point but he was grateful to find semi-regular supplies sent in, including food, knives and such things as blankets. As it is, he'd made it through the the last few weeks in relative comfort - as much as one can in such an environment. He'd played it safe, keeping out of most people's way and so encountered very few besides Sif and Haruto.

Maybe his luck was about to change, though.
needlebearer: (❆ 011)

backdated just to keep my chronology straight!

[personal profile] needlebearer 2015-02-23 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
The cold weather hadn't bothered Arya too much at first. She'd grown up in the North, and the summer snows had stood her in good stead for an Arena of ice and snow. But as the days had passed and the temperature plummeted further, she knew that she needed better shelter than the rocks she'd curled up against that shielded her from the icy wind.

By the time she reached the caves she was huddled over to stop herself from shivering, her hair turned to icicles from where the snow had settled and melted and frozen again in it. She curls up, exhausted, hoping that no one else has thought to use this place as a respite, or that if they have, they don't intend to harm her.
needlebearer: (❆ 006)

[personal profile] needlebearer 2015-02-25 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd heard his footsteps approaching, but she'd used up so much energy in getting to the caves that she couldn't bring herself to gather her things and move again, and just hoped that whoever they belonged to didn't have murder in mind. She squeals a little as he kicks her, more from surprise than because it hurts, snapping to attention and reaching out to grab his foot, her knife in her other hand, in case he's thinking of doing it again.
needlebearer: (❆ 001)

[personal profile] needlebearer 2015-03-03 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
She holds on for a second longer, quickly weighing up her options, but she knows that if whoever this was wanted to hurt her he could anyway. She lets go, sitting up and squinting at him while her eyes adjust to the lower light, the knife still gripped tightly in her hand.

"I didn't know anyone else was in here."
needlebearer: (❆ 006)

[personal profile] needlebearer 2015-03-08 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He's entirely correct: while she's killed before, it's been opportunistic rather than because she has any great fighting strength. Her strategy here had been to keep her head down and out of trouble, and hope she could outlast some of the others while they killed each other off first.

"The forest, mostly. I was trying to keep alongside the river. But it got cold."
needlebearer: (❆ 001)

[personal profile] needlebearer 2015-03-15 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Arya sheathes her knife, glancing toward the blizzard raging out of the mouth of the cave and then back up at Loki.

"Arya. From District Ten," she adds as an afterthought.
whydoyoushine: (skeptical)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-02-24 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Heading for some sort of shelter in the caves seemed like a good idea. Even though he still wasn't quite sure as to what was going on here--blah, blah, blah, Arena, Games, something about killing people, whatever--Zed knew that a shelter would be warmer than sitting out in the open. Even if the cold had never bothered him much before, he'd never been out in conditions quite like these before, either.

His clothing looked like it was in good enough shape that either he was some insanely talented survivalist and combatant to have lasted this long unscathed...or he'd not been in the Arena for long and hadn't had a chance to get too scuffed up yet. The self-assured way he was carrying himself might have suggested he thought himself to be the former; he wasn't at all moving like a man who feared an attack might come from any direction. Sure, he was cold, but he wasn't afraid. The idea of going into some dark, unknown cave didn't bother him at all. It was dark in there, so what? He was well acquainted with and unafraid of all manner of things that liked to hide in the dark...

If he notices Loki, it doesn't show. He glanced in that direction, sure, Either he's oblivious to the other's presence, or he just doesn't care.
whydoyoushine: (talking)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-02-28 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Zed lazily turns to face the source of that question. If he's worried, it doesn't show. But he's also unarmed, and he's not reaching for anything. "I'm Zed." Just Zed. He's just going to leave out that whole Emperor of Darkness bit, not unless someone somewhere calls him out on it. For now, he's just some normal guy in a murdergame. "And you are?"
whydoyoushine: (chillin' with my homeboys)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-02 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Can't say I've ever heard of you," is Zed's breezy response. He's still pretty relaxed, at least outwardly so.
whydoyoushine: (point)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Zed likes that answer; he's more amused by it than anything. That next question is likewise amusing. "Prepared? I don't know how much preparation you can get after wandering around for a few hours out here." He snapped his fingers. "Maybe I should have picked up that shiny rock I saw outside."
whydoyoushine: (talking)

No worries, it happens!

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-07 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Zed gave a dismissive shrug. "I dunno, they were talking a lot. Kind of boring, something about a death game? Seems like a lot of trouble." He didn't exactly sound concerned about his situation.
whydoyoushine: (pretty wary)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-15 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right, right. The killing game thing, I think they said something about that." Zed just seemed bored with the whole idea. "So, what, are you saying you want to go at it for a few rounds?" He sounded more annoyed with that prospect than actually worried, and his overall posture still looked lazy and unprepared.
whydoyoushine: (don't have time for this)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-17 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"That's good. I don't really feel like fighting right now." He sighs. It's a bit of a theatrical sigh at that, for Zed would start fighting without hesitation if Loki tried anything. "Such a pain..." Because that's the problem with a death arena. Personal inconvenience, not any of those pesky ethical dilemmas.
whydoyoushine: (chillin' with my homeboys)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-19 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know about common, but it's not like this has never happened before." Only it was one of his underlings forcing residents of a small town to duel each other. Similar enough that he doesn't care, even if he wasn't really in on it.
whydoyoushine: (point)

[personal profile] whydoyoushine 2015-03-28 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Just a little bit of this and that. I figure I'll just work on my tan out there." Zed keeps his own tone just as conversational. He's still working out what's going on in this place, no need to be spill everything. "What about you?"