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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

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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] aintyourdad 2014-05-30 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
The kid was nice and bloodied, and Joel would've been fine with finishing the job - but he was keenly aware of the situation - out here, like this, making so much noise - he was a sitting duck, and even if this psycho couldn't hurt him anymore, someone else could come along any minute even worse.

And he needed to find Ellie. Stay alive, and find Ellie.

So when the hands dropped, for even a split second, Joel took his chance - he scrambled away, ignoring the pain in his ribs, excruciating as it was, and stumbled into the mist, grasping for anything he could get his hands on. Only a few feet away, and there was a bag on the ground. Without even thinking, he grabbed it up, dragging it along with him.

Whatever was in the bag, well - he'd figure that out later. He'd need all the help he could get, anyway.
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[personal profile] blinkersoff 2014-06-03 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Jan sat up, holding a hand to his bleeding face, seemingly in shock.

It was an alien feeling, bleeding. Mortality. It was revolting and at the same time, it dug down deep and reminded him of the things before the void, the ones that had been lost so long ago.

Even so, he was still furious over being made to bleed.

"I'm going to kill you!" he screamed shrilly as Joel ran away, hos voice completely hysterical. "I'll turn your skin to tissue paper!"