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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-03-16 04:55 pm

Arena 06 - Happy

The last few hours before the Arena have a strangely stifled quality, as if half the people they interact with are trying very hard not to laugh. Maybe it's the costumes, the fancy gowns and velvet tunics, the short capes. Or maybe it's their destination.

The round courtyard to which the tubes bring them could not be more different from the last arena. Though outside the circle of pedestals, disrepair and neglect has taken over the roads and buildings, the garden inside the circle could not be more perfectly sculpted. Every hedge is a smooth, rounded shape. Flowers bloom brightly in concentric circles of insane color. The Cornucopia sits gleaming and golden, and just in front of its mouth, a bronze statue of a man and a mouse stands amid the heap of supplies.

20, shouts the voice from the sky.

Aside from it, there is a hush. No flies in the flowers, no wind in the trees. It is a cool day, with the comfortable chill of early spring and noon's short shadows.

19 - 18 - 17


Outside the circle, behind the tributes on the northern side, a castle looms. Through its wide gate, devastation everywhere, but it, itself, is shining clean, glowing pink and blue. Opaque windows look down from the heights of it, as uncaring as every hidden camera the veterans know is there.

12 - 11


Music starts as the countdown nears the bottom, a whimsical, dramatic tune.


3

2

1


And with the final note, the gong rang out, and a firework shot into the sky from the castle's peak, bright enough to burst redly across the sky above them all. Let the Games begin.



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[personal profile] kind_of_a_nerd 2013-03-31 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks. Lottie's a nice name too." He smiled at her and then frowned up at the castle.

"Well...it used to be charming."
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[personal profile] needsaprince 2013-04-02 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Use to be?"

She looked over at him, curious.

"You sound like you've been here before."
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[personal profile] kind_of_a_nerd 2013-04-02 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, when I was a kid? And a couple years ago, in my time. This place was awesome," Atticus said, sounding remarkably disappointed at the very idea.
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[personal profile] needsaprince 2013-04-06 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
A happy childhood memory, all dirtied by these people? Lottie suddenly had the chilling though of her precious home becoming one of the arenas, and without thinking, she reached to put an arm around Atticus.

"I'm so very sorry..."
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[personal profile] kind_of_a_nerd 2013-04-07 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Atticus was a little surprised by the gesture, and he laughed a little. "Um...thanks? I mean, it's not your fault. It just sort of...makes it seem that much creepier, I guess."
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[personal profile] needsaprince 2013-04-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
(Did you wanna continue or handwave this?))
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[personal profile] kind_of_a_nerd 2013-04-30 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ooc: Handwaving works!]
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[personal profile] needsaprince 2013-04-30 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
((They just traveled for a bit then, and then got separated by like IDK he went to check something, and Lottie heard a noise and had to bolt?))
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[personal profile] kind_of_a_nerd 2013-05-01 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[[Sounds good!]]