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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-03-16 04:55 pm

Arena 06 - Happy

The last few hours before the Arena have a strangely stifled quality, as if half the people they interact with are trying very hard not to laugh. Maybe it's the costumes, the fancy gowns and velvet tunics, the short capes. Or maybe it's their destination.

The round courtyard to which the tubes bring them could not be more different from the last arena. Though outside the circle of pedestals, disrepair and neglect has taken over the roads and buildings, the garden inside the circle could not be more perfectly sculpted. Every hedge is a smooth, rounded shape. Flowers bloom brightly in concentric circles of insane color. The Cornucopia sits gleaming and golden, and just in front of its mouth, a bronze statue of a man and a mouse stands amid the heap of supplies.

20, shouts the voice from the sky.

Aside from it, there is a hush. No flies in the flowers, no wind in the trees. It is a cool day, with the comfortable chill of early spring and noon's short shadows.

19 - 18 - 17


Outside the circle, behind the tributes on the northern side, a castle looms. Through its wide gate, devastation everywhere, but it, itself, is shining clean, glowing pink and blue. Opaque windows look down from the heights of it, as uncaring as every hidden camera the veterans know is there.

12 - 11


Music starts as the countdown nears the bottom, a whimsical, dramatic tune.


3

2

1


And with the final note, the gong rang out, and a firework shot into the sky from the castle's peak, bright enough to burst redly across the sky above them all. Let the Games begin.



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itswhoyouare: (everybody get out of here now!)

anna morasca | ota | heading towards tomorrowland

[personal profile] itswhoyouare 2013-03-17 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
First, she gets shoved into a ridiculously impractical aqua-colored dress like she's freaking Cinderella herself, and then on the ride to the surface she realizes that she's been thrown into a post-apocalyptic Disney Land. Great. She vaguely remembers the trip to Disney World she took when she first came to the states, but this is just... wrong. On so many levels.

One look at Eliot on his pedestal is enough to make her feel less ridiculous - at least she's not bright orange like a hunter in the woods, sticking out like a sore thumb. Having been taken out so easily last arena during the Cornucopia bloodbath, she decides not to go for any supplies.

3...2...1... BOOM.

While the other Tributes are bolting off of their pedestals in the usual flurry of fear and determination, Anna steps off casually and keeps watch vigilantly for Eliot, Parker, Howard, and Donatello. It's not until she nearly gets her head taken off in the fray that she decides to make a run for it - towards Tomorrowland with Space Mountain in mind for cover.

She'll have to regroup and hope that Eliot and Parker can find her.
nunpunching: (Checkin' up on some shawty.)

Re: anna morasca | ota | heading towards tomorrowland

[personal profile] nunpunching 2013-03-17 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Punchy gets to Tomorrowland fairly quickly for a guy with only one eye. He's ditched the cape, and his shirt has been reduced to a single sleeve, ties around his face like a horrible pink blood-soaked bandana. It covers the gash in his face where he once had a left eye.

He notices Anna from where he's set up, at the base of Space Mountain. He's not resting so much as reclining, trying to win sponsors by showing off his rock-hard abs (he'd like to think you could grate cheese on them, or perhaps chop vegetables). He sits up when he hears footsteps and peers out as well as he can with one eye.

Why, look at that. It's a hot babe.

Punchy does the totally gentlemanly thing and wolf-whistles at her.
itswhoyouare: (find a way to make things right)

epic failure at tagging lately /shame

[personal profile] itswhoyouare 2013-03-29 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, this is new. Not entirely, but being whistled at in an Arena is new. On second thought, the one eye thing is new too. The man's injured and... is he flexing? Clearly, not a threat.

Oh, where to start? So many choices...

"Let me guess. Lost your eye pissin' off one of the women by whistlin' while you 'work'." Only Anna would halt her walk to stop, drop a witty one-liner, and roll out the snark. Never mind the whole deathmatch matter.

This clearly takes precedence.
nunpunching: (Herpaderp most ungangsta of faces.)

[personal profile] nunpunching 2013-03-30 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Nah, shawty, lost my eye bustin' my ass saving some homeboys who were a little less jacked than me," he says. He tries to wink, but that doesn't quite work with one eye.