Mini Arena 2

[etcircenses]

Tributes are woken early, and the hovercraft ride is a long one. Not the longest some have experienced, but they are clearly going far.

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They land on the deck of the boat, and are ushered underneath, to the lower levels, quickly. Their stylists go from cabin to cabin, decking them out in over the top finery, before loading them into the pods installed into the corners of the rooms.

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The platforms lift them up, and they are all ringed around a grand buffet table, loaded with a grand feast looking ready to sag down from the weight. Among the food are supplies, plenty of them, all for the taking.

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They've all been warned, don't step off your pedestal early. They have also been warned to put on a good show. That's all this is about, a good show. None of them have been told that there can be multiple winners this time around.

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The sound of the gong plays crystal clear across the opening. The games have begun.

Comments

Yus

[polyturtle]

Donatello ran by, not paying attention, concentrating on keeping ahead of the cold water. It was just one of the newer tributes, in the corner, near a live electrical wire.

At least, not until his mind clicked as to what was happening. The girl had been kneeling down, near electricity, in water, and--

Oh, shell. He knew he wanted to win, this time, but on the other hand, he didn't feel right at least not warning the girl that doing what he was pretty sure she was about to do was a very, very bad idea.

"HEY!"

He was back in her vicinity again. What was in that bundle...? Actually, no, no, focus on the problem at hand.

"Don't touch that!"

Re: Yus

[ruffntumblenut]

She jerked back and twisted her head around to see him...letting out a startled yelp and grabbing the bag at her hip. She had never seen Donatello before and first reaction was to shout "Dragon!" And fling her only weapon.

Said weapon was apparently a large irritated rat.

[polyturtle]

"What the--"

The next thing Don knew, he was catching a flailing rat in his hands. Just as quickly he dropped it into the water.

"What are you doing?!"

[ruffntumblenut]

"Whoa!"

Ruffnut's yelp was more that the rat he dropped into the water shrieked and then burst like an overcooked sausage.

"WHOA!" She called out again eyes wide. "What the heck just happened?! The Rat exploded!"

She was torn between shock and wonder at the sudden impossibility of exploding rats.

[polyturtle]

"Um..." Sorry, rat. "He was electrocuted to death. That's what will happen if you touch those wires while standing in water, do you understand that!?"

[ruffntumblenut]

She blinked at him slowly, then looked to the wires. Then her gaze moved to the glowing sparking water, then to the exploded rat. Then back to him.

Then back to the wires.

"Not really no." She confessed betraying her ignorance.

[polyturtle]

"Its a live electric wire," Don replied, pointing to the wire. "Electricity, its...basically what lightning's made of. Just generally grounded, but that live wire? Isn't grounded. Meaning if it touches water - or something that's on the water - it'll instantly ground through you, electrocute you and kill you!"

[ruffntumblenut]

"I...ground? What?" This all sounded vaguely familiar. In her mind she was drawn back to a situation where lightning was striking Berk aggressively and she thought it was the gods anger.

"You mean they actually tried to contain Thor's power? Does Thor know?" She gaped and leaned in close once again making the hair on her head rise up.

[polyturtle]

"Its not Thor's--" Well, probably, it was, considering there was a Thor, but. Semantics. "Its more complicated than that. Its not just magic, its science. Electricity is basically charged positive and negative ions, and an electrical current is electricity that flows through a conductor to the ground!"

[ruffntumblenut]

Another line of complete dumbfounded and confused staring. She turned her attention back to the water and studied it looking obviously dumbfounded.

"Ions?" She asked as if that would clear it up. She seemed to have spotted something in the water because she drew closer to it squinting.

[polyturtle]

"Electric particles."

Don's eyes watched Ruffnut as it moved closer. As much as he had promised to win, he also knew being electrocuted was a nasty end. Not exactly one he'd wish for a kid like this. A kid who was probably around his age.

"What are you doing!? Don't touch it-!"

[ruffntumblenut]

"There's something in there. Look!"

She pointed with her finger only two inches from the surface at the water.

"If you can't swim it's fine, I'm a great swimmer."

[polyturtle]

"I'm actually a good swimmer, but that's not the--"

Point. Instinct to protect overtook his caution, and he leapt forward.

"DON'T TOUCH IT-!"

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut unfortunately mistook this as an attack and let out a yelp diving for his legs trying to scramble past him and in the process crashing headfirst into them.

...well at least she was away from the water. However momentum might be a problem.

cw: electrocution

[polyturtle]

Momentum wasn't just a problem for Don; it was positively fatal as, suddenly, he found himself flying from the hit, right into the water.

"No-"

And then he was shuddering, dancing, as he hit the water face first. The voltage shot violently through him, and sickening snaps could be heard in the water and in the turtle himself as time went by. There was no more intelligible sound to be heard from him, even while his body involuntarily smoked and jerked long after life had left it.

Re: cw: electrocution

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut's eyes went wide as she spun about on the ground to watch Don's death. She'd seen people get electrocuted before but Vikings were a sturdy enough bunch that it had been little more then a laugh.

This was clearly not the case as the Turtle man splashed into the water and lay still, smoldering and jerking.

Despite herself, she couldn't help but smile.

"That...was awesome!"