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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.
carsassian: (10; this is our potential breakup song)

no worries! I hope it's going well for you!

[personal profile] carsassian 2014-05-25 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course." Silence would help ensure that whatever advantage they had cultivated remained an advantage. After all, and he was loath to admit this even if it were true, humans were adaptable creatures. A few minutes of blindness and their others senses would kick in. They'd start hearing instead of seeing and that wouldn't be good for anyone left near the Cornucopia.

Garak resisted the urge to tsk delicately, as he led her through the field. The tall grass around them bent and crunched, but there was only so much they could do, only so much that would be heard over the fray anyway. In the distance, he spotted a small outcropping of structures. They could head towards that. It might not be safe, but it would at least be away from their obvious assailants for the moment.

it did go well, thank you :] everything's all good now!

[personal profile] assassinat 2014-05-27 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Not much is safe here and Natasha wonders to herself if it's really safe to be leaving the sight of many others with someone she's spoken to once before. It isn't an ideal situation, but she's capable of working with surprises.

Provided he doesn't spring them relentlessly onto her.

Her gaze travels down to take in what sights she can. Seeing ahead and through the fog is futile, so maybe there's a way to recognize the greenery. There's not a lot of hard work put behind it as she steps up to his side in an attempt to read what she was most familiar with: his face.

"Doesn't sound as if we're being followed." Real helpful.
carsassian: (06; rolled right off my back)

Awesome. c:

[personal profile] carsassian 2014-05-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
His alien features have fixed themselves into something not unlike a poker face. He isn't frowning, but he isn't smiling either. His eyes are set ahead of them because while he isn't blind like everyone else, he also doesn't want to miss something and run headlong into a conflict.

"No," he observed, after a moment of listening around. "It doesn't sound as if there's much happening at all. How odd." Of course that could all have been due to his terrible hearing. There were numerous reasons for him to be avoiding conflict.

Abruptly, a structure came into view in front of them. It looked to be an old fashioned concessions stand, but as nothing like that existed in Cardassian culture, Garak found himself looking at it with an undue amount of suspicion. To him it seemed too innocuous, too convenient. "Easy, my dear. I would rather we didn't walk into a fight if we can avoid it."

[personal profile] assassinat 2014-06-02 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
"The cronies who work those things couldn't capture a hot dog thief, much less either of us."

A jest, then she remembers quickly he might not know what it is. Funny, he can pinpoint her name's location, but not recognize something like this? Interesting, but not enough to draw attention to it. The most she spares it is a cursory glance for anything useful, but determines that stopping there would be a waste of their time.

"Must be decor for the Arena. Nothing more."