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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-01-12 03:36 pm

Arena 05 - Chill

Usually, the tribute's outfits for the arena aren't accessorized. But today, the last thing their stylists hand them before the countdown begins is a pair of heavy black glasses, polarized and thick-lensed. They look at odds with the thick, winter gear they've been outfitted in.


It's a long rise to the surface today, inside their individual little tubes, much longer than usual. They start to feel the cold only about halfway up, and to hear the wind. It howls across the surface as they reach it, pressing all of their clothes flat against their bodies. And the reason for the glasses is immediately apparent.


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The sky is white. The ground is white (and gray and black and blue but mostly white), the far-off sea is blinding silver. Everything in sight flings light around, fractures it into scintilating rainbows and sheer white beams of reflection. It is strong, cruel light, and it bears no heat at all. The surface is so cold that the little metal trackers ache in everyone's arm, and the countdown has to continue at a deafening volume to be heard.


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The circle of silver pedestals is the only regular shape to be seen. All else is fractured and split, the most uneven footing imaginable. And at the center of the circle, the Cornucopia sports icycles hanging from its lip, almost to the pile of supplies tucked all neatly inside its mouth.


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There's a lull in the wind just as the gong sounds, letting it peal out across the frozen glacier, and echo off the high rock cliffs in the distance. And the ice answers, with a loud crack that seems to come from miles down.


Let the Games begin.

[personal profile] warbleronsmythe 2013-01-13 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
For once, his speed was going to work to his advantage. Sure, he had no other skills but running and tackling, but it would get him at least through the first round of fights. As he saw people tear each other limb from limb, he ran, using all the agility he could, he ran towards a pack.

Grabbing it, he ran away from the group. He had no idea what was in the pack, but he knew there had to be at least something helpful in there, otherwise why would they use it? Slinging it over his back once he knew he was far enough away, panting, steam coming from his mouth, he kept running until he could no longer hear the people at the blood bath.