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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.
carnagecarnival: (A crown dusted off.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2014-06-05 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
"TENDS AS LIKE TO DO THAT OFTEN," He responds easily, with no offence taken. It's hard to be insulted by fear when his power, his whole physical makeup, everything is built on it. And it helped in strife. He lowers the pickaxe down.

Really, he's more surprised at the comment of "friend", and he hasn't the faintest idea what a jesus is. But Mirth be damned, he'll take it.

"Nearly cracked your motherfucking skull, don't a brother know," He says, just short of laughing. "MESSIAHS HAVE BORN MOON OVER YOU, MOTHERFUCKER."
libertin: (do anything for my mum i love you)

[personal profile] libertin 2014-06-07 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I am rather lucky that you refrained from striking me," Courfeyrac answers, shaking off his momentary fright. He still has to get used to the term 'motherfucker' being thrown around as though it were an everyday term. Call him old fashioned, but he's still used to thinking of it as an insult. Or like, literally.

"Mercy, I'd no idea you were quite so tall." He does smile then, figuring he must eventually get used to the trolls who populate the Arenas and the Capitol. "You must be faring quite well indeed."
carnagecarnival: (Protector of our hearts and homes.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2014-06-14 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Only eight or so motherfucking sweeps," He boasts. Because what else was ridiculous height like this even good for? "GOT LONG MORE TO GO YET, HE UP AND DOES." He's snickering before Courfeyrac can even make any kind of face. It's preferable to joke of it than lament and ponder how in Mirth's name he's gonna get through a door if he reaches proper age.

"Fear fucking not, it ain't prevalent for his whole kind. AIN'T EVEN COMMON," He amends.

"And how has a brother's own self faired? HAVEN'T SEEN FOR FUCK ALL. Haven't got a gander on for no one. BUT YOU." If nothing, he could offer something of his own claim... but he's still too much of a troll, invested in his own survival to think of such. No, it was generous enough to let him live. He had to craft something for Capitol.
libertin: (sugar cane back lanes)

[personal profile] libertin 2014-06-18 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Only eight? Is that all?" Courfeyrac didn't know what a sweep was, but he could play along fairly well. For all he knew, eight sweeps was the amount of liquor he'd had, or something equally bizarre. He didn't ask, though. He was curious, but this was hardly the time or place for it.

He was still left mystified by the commanding presence before him, but managed to collect himself before he gawked for too long. "I have not seen anyone else as of yet. This fog is so thick. I cannot make heads or tails of this place. All I can see is mist."
carnagecarnival: (I am waiting for you to attack.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2014-06-20 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
He shakes his head, though not in disagreement. He looks out unhappily.

"Ain't no better for he. IF IT WERE LIKE ONLY TO BE OF DARKNESS HE'D BE JUST DAMN FINE BUT CAPITOL COULDN'T UP AND DREAM ACTUALLY PROCURING SOMETHING MOTHERFUCKING CONVENIENT." He makes a nosie crossed between exasperation and disgust.

He breathes deep. "Can tell there's water though. IT'S OFF IN IT SOMEWAYS. Not manufactured up whole and entire. LIVED BY OCEAN, THE FUCK BEFORE. Ain't usually this damn much if not for that and circumstance shit, but there's still trace of water up in it." He looks at courfeyrac, eyes blinking open. "SOMETHING WHAT TO WATCH FOR. Maybe if we're lucky it ain't poisoned." His laugh is dry.
libertin: (but they don't wear these shits)

[personal profile] libertin 2014-06-22 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Courfeyrac laughs too, just as bitterly as his troll companion did. "The would be tremendously lucky, now wouldn't it. I shall not be the one to test those waters, however. I do not trust them not to pull some foul trick on us. Besides, I am afraid I do not swim very well. I should hate to drown myself by accident." The thought is extremely unpleasant.

"Now, my friend, wherever are you wandering to? You are in search of your friends, no doubt."
carnagecarnival: (Just this way to the neon orange gallows)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2014-06-23 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
He's quiet for a minute, and his face goes oddly blank. Then he shakes his head. "NO," He says. "He has to... make up for things not motherfucking done. HE HAS TO GET ON MAKING UP IN SHOW FOR THINGS NOT DONE PRIOR. Going off to be a motherfucking monster up in this again, brother, be what all he was brought for initial. SHOULD HOPE HIS FRIENDS AIN'T AROUND FOR THAT."

He smirks and it's empty. It don't reach his eyes. "Should make as to fix that soonlike. HE'S SURE THERE'S A MOTHERFUCKER WHAT CAN BE ABOUT SCHOOLFEEDING A BROTHER THE STROKE AND STRIDE THROUGH WATERS. Drowning ain't a thing what he'd want none either." He shrugs off the shudder. He ain't got time for fear of such.

"IF THERE'S ANY WHAT YOU AIN'T WANT DEAD, DON'T LET THEM NEAR," He warns.
libertin: (sixteen you sent me through customs)

[personal profile] libertin 2014-06-25 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
He's taken aback by the warning, but accepts it and nods. "I shall endeavor to do exactly that. Regardless, I do wish you the best of luck going forward. The conditions of this Arena seem as though they will be much more fickle than the last one."
carnagecarnival: (A crown dusted off.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2014-06-25 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good then. SAME UNTO THEE, BROTHER," He says. He gives the pickaxe in his hand a small twirl in his fingers. He grins, for real this time. "Come back afterways. AIN'T NEAR ENOUGH MOTHERFUCKERS WHAT HE GETS ENJOYING A DISCOURSE UP WITH." Calling back to their last conversation, and his last regard. He gives the smallest nodding bow. "May the Holy Messiahs clear your motherfucking paths." And then he starts with a wave into the fog.