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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.
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[personal profile] firefall 2014-06-13 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"She's fine," Riley says, the words whipping out flat and harsh. "My girl's fine. She knows how to handle herself. But I'm gonna feel a lot better when I find her."

She moves in to poke through the toolbox, stirring the implements around a little. Decides on a wrench and a screwdriver; between them and her crowbar she should be pretty well able to handle a lot of the finicky bits involved in old, long-ruined buildings.
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[personal profile] ka_sera_sera 2014-06-15 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Roland keeps rooting through the closet, noting but not reacting to her tone. "I know the feeling well."

Something orange catches his eye and he pulls it out of the closet - it's been quite a while since he's seen one of these, but he knows that the metal on that one end and the rubber on the outside says this was once meant to carry electricity. None of that here now, but well, why not? It'll make an adequate rope, if not a fantastic one. He recoils it, winding it through one of his belt loops, and turns to face her. "Any more that can be used from this place? Or do you mean to go looking for her right away?"