etcircenses: (Default)
Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-05-17 03:17 pm

ARENA 10-Placid Hollow

The Tributes are taken early in the morning, most of their support teams seeming in good cheer as they dress them in warm clothes, getting them to their tubes. There is obvious comfort in the familiar for the prep teams, and they chatter with, or in some cases, over the heads of their Tributes as they get them ready and load them up.

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If the Tributes could see the area they are passed up into, they would see a deeply overgrown, dilapidated town green, with a large bandstand rotting away in the middle. The spoils of the cornucopia are not gathered in one spot, instead scattered throughout the thigh high grass and weeds around the town green.

Around the edge of the green, the old business stand a silent sentry, looming out of the fog as it thins and winds into them, providing much desired cover.

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But the Tributes cannot see the ground around them. The fog, thicker even than it will be in the rest of the arena, makes the world small around them. The sound of the count down echoes strangely, the tributes seeming too close as the fog brings sounds of their breath, their coughing, the snap of twigs under their feet right to ears of the other Tributes. But with the fog bringing visibility down to only a few feet, it's hard to tell what is a true danger, and what is only the fog playing tricks on them,.

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The gong rings out, and the countdown's voice announces "the Arena is now open". The Games have begun.
formersurgeon: (i believe)

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2014-05-23 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
He was right, of course. Gong back to the Cornucopia was running toward danger, not away from it. It couldn't be avoided, though. She had to try to find Sherlock.

"Thank you," she answered. "Take care. Maybe I'll see you again."
youbarium: (I don't believe it!)

[personal profile] youbarium 2014-05-27 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
A thought struck Carlos. "Who are you looking for?" he asked. "If I see him, I'll tell him where you went."
formersurgeon: (air conditioner)

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2014-05-27 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a good thought. With all this fog, who knew if shed find him? Better to have more people looking.

"His name is Sherlock," she said. "Not the one who..."

Who supposedly lit himself on fire then jumped off the roof. She swallowed.

"...who was on the comms. This one is more scruffy. He has tattoos, if you need to verify it's him for some reason."
youbarium: (when I'm dancing close to her)

[personal profile] youbarium 2014-05-27 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded, once, firmly. Carlos did not want to discuss the other Sherlock any more than Joan did, so he merely pressed his lips into a thin line and said, "I'll keep an eye out. You'd better get going. Don't want to stay in one place for too long."
formersurgeon: (listen)

Sorry for the delay!

[personal profile] formersurgeon 2014-05-31 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you. Be careful, okay?"

With that, she looked around for her bearings, then headed off into the mist again.