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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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18…


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.
gardienne: (wary)

[personal profile] gardienne 2014-05-25 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Eponine simply gaped, moving back quickly as Fili just dismantled the car. How is he doing that? It's solid metal, isn't it? Eponine moves closer again, reaching out to touch the car.

"How are you doing that, Sir? I do not think I could lift even half of that. But hit me with it and I promise you'll be sorry. Orc will not forgive you hurting me with that."

She looks into the mess of wires and boxes and plastic in the bonnet. She doesn't know what any of it is, really, and she's hesitant to touch.

"Do you know what it is we look at, Sir?"
khiluz: (It scares me half to death)

[personal profile] khiluz 2014-05-26 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"I simply pulled it out," he spares her a glance, then picks up the bonnet to place it aside on the ground. He makes no move at all to hurt her, of course, true to his word.

A word gets his attention, though, and it is with a frown that he tears his attention from the wires and boxes inside the car to look at her. "Beg your pardon, did you say orcs? There are orcs here?"

How that is possible, he does not know. It is unlikely there would be any here and never once would their paths cross with either himself or Kíli until now, and impossible as far as he is concerned that any of them would ever be interested in the safety of a young girl.
gardienne: (I don't want your money)

[personal profile] gardienne 2014-05-27 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not OrcS, Sir. Just Orc. He is my 'boyfriend' - that is what they call them here. We are courting, you understand?"

Why is her so fascinated by Orc's name? "Do you know him? Are you from the FAYZ with Howard and Diana? They mentioned nothing of a dwarf, Sir, though Orc is a monster, so perhaps it is usual there?"
khiluz: (And a touch)

[personal profile] khiluz 2014-05-31 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I..." He looks confused for a moment, but shakes his head nonetheless. "It is a strange name. Where I am from orcs are creatures of evil. They do not care for the well-being of human girls. I thought it was what you spoke of."

One last glance, and he turns his attention back to what was under the metal cover. It is an intricate system of plastic boxes and wires, pieces of metal as well, though as it is he can't tell what could be used or not. So he simply takes hold of the first thing he sees and yanks it out without much difficulty, then another, piece by piece in hopes of finding anything useful.