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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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19

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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7

6…


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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2

1


The gong rings out, and the countdown's voice announces "the Arena is now open". The Games have begun.
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[personal profile] googledox 2014-05-26 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
The whistling stopped and a pebble dropped on his head from above.

Brainy's voice was very quiet as he peeked over the roof, barely audible just as his face was only just barely visible in the fog.

"There's a ladder around the back."

A fire escape.

"High ground provides a slight tactical advantage."

And also meant he could keep whistling for Lyle without it seeming strange. Bird song wouldn't work as well as a signal if it was coming from the ground.
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[personal profile] oredinary_hero 2014-05-29 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Rokk didn't reply verbally, just darted around behind the building as fast as he could. He stopped to 'catch his breath' by the fire escape, listening for any hint he was being followed. Once he was sure he was clear he climbed up to join Brainy, crouching silently by him on the edge of the roof and keeping watch for Lyle.
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[personal profile] googledox 2014-05-29 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Brainy immediately resumed the whistling, looking out into the fog for Lyle and planning to stop doing it if any shadows loomed up that didn't seem to be him.
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[personal profile] atippleoftransparency 2014-06-17 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Lyle had been dodging figures in the fog since they'd turned the Tributes loose. He'd been trying to get some idea of the layout, figure out a good place for three sentients to hole up, but weird way the shouting echoed had been throwing him off. It didn't help that apparently the goodies were scattered all over the place instead of being in a single spot -- he'd kept having to hide.

Finally though, finally, he'd heard something familiar. It took him awhile to find it in the fog, but there's a building looming out of the fog, and it has to be better than being out in the open. It was also a good place for an ambush.

He hesitated, waiting for another birdcall, hoping he was in the right place.
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[personal profile] googledox 2014-06-20 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
The whistling continued, until it turned into bird song that sounded more like the official anthem of the United Planets.

Probably the right place.
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[personal profile] atippleoftransparency 2014-07-01 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. Had to be the right place.

"You'd better be a friend of mine," he said, approaching the building while trying to keep an eye out for the springing of a trap. "Or else no bets in reality will save you."