Cornucopia: The Sequel

[x5452]

WHO| Everyone going back to the Cornucopia
WHAT| Picking on the leftovers. Who lives? Who dies? Who looks exceptionally smashing in their Tribute unforms?
WHEN| Two days in
WHERE| The Cornucopia.
WARNING/NOTES| Violence! Possible salty language!


Max made slow headway toward the Cornucopia. Even while her genetic enhancements were being suppressed, she still had sharp eyes and could move with great stealth. Pausing, she half turns while keeping her eyes on the area to murmur to the others with her.

"Lottie, you and Tony think you can manage to collect some things? Don and I will keep an eye on you both."

She sees a spot that looks like it might be clear for a snatch and grab and gestures that she intends to move forward unless her team tries to stop her.

Comments

[nightlightheart]

God, it's hot out here. A hell-hole really, and Tony's actually somewhat familiar with those. He feels exposed and vulnerable, and yeah, maybe he's got some sort of alliance with la femme nikita and the turtle. Lottie too, he supposes, but Tony has a hard time viewing her as anyone other than someone he should be trying to save from this place.

Yeah.

Saving people.

He does that, thank you very much.

Doesn't mean he's exactly feeling like waltzing through the streets with them though.

"I've always had fairly reputable collection skills," Tony says with a shrug. "You guy work the perimeter while blondie and I make a run for it?"

[polyturtle]

Don wasn't entirely comfortable with doing another run on the Cornucopia. He knew that once people realized that there were still supplies left, they would come and fight over them. And they would be on Tony and Lottie if him and Max weren't careful.

"That works." Don nodded. "Just be careful."

Tony he wasn't as worried about. He was pretty sure when push came to shove, the guy could figure out a way to defend himself. Lottie, on the other hand, was an all too easy target. She wasn't as able (or perhaps, less not able and more not willing) to defend herself.

[x5452]

Max seemed willing to be the forward scout. Perhaps she thought she was expendable, or the most likely to survive any head on danger.

Keeping her body low, she scuttled forward on silent feat, and once established that a given area was clear, raised her hand with two fingers up and gestured people forward - but making sure none of her team advanced ahead of her before she had scouted a given area.

Finally, she spotted some booty worth bothering with (she could just imagine Stark sniffing at that turn of phrase in defense of his derriere), she outspread her hand and gestured Don forward.

Let the scavenging begin.

[jadaryl]

Eliot looked up as he heard a pair of footsteps. He yanked the end of the fuse loose of the platform and stood. "Shit," he muttered under his breath.

He turned to where the girls stood safely away from the platform. "We have company!"

[jadaryl]

"Watch my back," Eliot says quietly to the girls as he kneels beside a platform. He pulls out the piece of metal and starts digging around the platform's edge. He didn't have to look very deep before he found the explosive with a short fuse running into the platform.

Eliot frowned slightly. This is a time he could really use a pair of scissors or a good knife. He sets the small land mine down and begins to pry at the platform with the metal plating. He really needs the fuse or the mine will be useless.

[polyturtle]

It wasn't just the land mines that was the problem, though whoever had possession of the landmines would have an incredible advantage. It was more the fact that as long as this guy - clearly strong, clearly capable of fighting at the least - was in the way, Lottie and Tony weren't exactly going to have a safe or quick supply run.

Still, Don wasn't going to kill this guy, if he didn't have to. But he was going to need get him out of the way. And that's exactly what he planned to do.

Say hello to a mutant turtle flying out of nowhere and landing in front of you, Eliot. And maybe swinging a makeshift bo in order to try and knock him aside.

[jadaryl]

Eliot dodged the flying turtle-man's attack and retaliated with a fist aimed at his attacker's head. He really wasn't happy about having to fight this... whatever he or she was. It evidently knew a thing or two about band weapons and with that turtle shell, he'd have a hell of a time landing a punch that would do any kind of real damage.

[polyturtle]

"Sorry, buddy!" Donatello managed to block the punch with the bo, though it snapped in half Figures. "Nothing personal, but I can't let you do that!"

With that, he threw a kick aimed at the man's shins.

hey ariadne let's sneak plan an alliance okay

[cowardfacinghappiness]

Momoko watches Eliot dig uneasily, not exactly comfortable this close to live explosives. She looks sideways at Ariadne, then says, "I will watch your back from a little further back. Where I--we can see more." True to her word she takes several steps back and it does give her a wider view of the area. She tries to catch Ariadne's eye and gesture her over, now that, for the first time, she's out of Eliot's earshot if she speaks quietly enough.

Nobody ever said your alliances had to involve everyone you had already allied with, after all.

okok~

[buildingreality]

Ariadne isn't necessarily sure that she wants to be standing that closely to Eliot anyway, if he's prying up potential explosives. She follows Momoko's retreating movement of the corner of her eyes, taking a tentative step back as well; when she sees that little gesture, she finally glances over properly, frowning before hesitantly joining her a few more steps back, just outside of Eliot's earshot.

[cowardfacinghappiness]

Momoko hesitates, not sure how to start, then decides that simply sticking with her usual blunt nature is the best choice. "He doesn't understand yet," she says quietly, indicating Eliot with a nod of her head. "How it works in here. This is my first time, but I watched, before. I don't think you're dangerous for killing that man." She frowns, then amends that. "I mean, you are, of course, but that's how it works. It makes you smart. That makes you dangerous, which is good. In here."

[buildingreality]

She understands the conversation well enough; Momoko may be blunt, but she's the same as Ariadne that way. Why mince words when you can state it obviously?

"He seems to think we'll get out of here intact," Ariadne confirms, still frowning, watching Eliot from afar. There was nothing wrong with that way of thinking, but it was idealistic. It wasn't going to happen. "Physically, mentally, emotionally. I only killed that man because I didn't know what he would do if I stopped and helped. I got lucky in the past; I doubt it will hold up. Unless I'm smart."

Team Vulture

[theworsekind]

Tate and Kevin hadn't actually gone back to the Cornucopia, but instead stayed in the outskirts (around 15-K). They had spent the past day making weapons and stalking tributes, waiting for the right moments. The weapons were mostly metal and rusty, which made them all the more lethal. If the attack didn't kill you, infection would.

They had been lucky to spot the rush back towards the bags and followed the group. There was very little need for them to risk themselves being spotted by going for their own bag, not when they could wait for the others to retreat.

Both stay hidden and watch from the second story of a nearby building. High enough to watch, but not be spotted. Neither had any intentions of joining those beneath them

[cowardfacinghappiness]

Momoko runs from the action in the general direction of her fellow District representative and his current ally, though she doesn't realize it. She's stumbling on the uneven terrain, the heat starting to get to her, but she's making decent time, even as unwieldy as she is carrying a bag in one hand and a long board as a makeshift weapon in the other.

Her stamina's not going to hold out long, she knows, but she just needs to get somewhere relatively safe, somewhere sheltered, to wait out the fight. Then she has every intention of meeting up with Eliot again, should he survive. Mostly every intention, anyway.

[needsaprince]

((Y'all mind if I pop in here?))

[cowardfacinghappiness]

((Go right ahead! I imagine Tate has plenty reason to hate the both of us. :D))

[theworsekind]

((yes! please! :D))

[needsaprince]

So when the fighting started, Lottie did well to get her self twisted round.

Everything looked the same. And the same was awful. She gripped her bags, following similar logic as Momoko. Get out, meet up with everyone later. She nearly run into the other girl, before letting out a shriek and falling back, holding her bag of cans before her.

And then recognition sets in.

"Oh Momoko!"

[theworsekind]

Tate spots the petite Asian girl immediately, maybe its her hair, but she stands out to him. Then his eyes find the bag she is carrying and she makes for an excellent target outside of him already wanting to show her a thing or two by keeping his word to her. He gave Kevin a nod to bring his attention to her as well. Also to signal to get his back as he was planning to go after her. Kevin didn't budge, giving his consent.

Tate crept down silently stalking his prey, only pausing to watch and see where Momoko would stop so that he could plan his next move. A small smirk crept on his face, as if he were excited for this.

OOC

[x5452]

[Hey Don and Tony, you want to start a new OH NOES DON IS FATALLY WOUNDED! thread here?]
[Also, Lottie...have you left us? :(]

Re: OOC

[jadaryl]

[I think Lottie's probably already left. She's having a reunion with Momoko last I saw.]

[Tate, Kevin, Lottie, and Momoko, anything ready to go down on that front to get certain people over to your area?]

Re: OOC

[cowardfacinghappiness]

((We've got a little bit to go--the plan is for Tate to at one point be strangling Momoko so sometime after that starts happening would be the best time for a rescue!))

Re: OOC

[needsaprince]

((Sorry this week is a little crazy. Lottie has not seperate from you guys as a team, in her brain, she just got separated while grabbing stuff and reunited with Momoko. Her plan is to meet up after))

Re: OOC

[nightlightheart]

[I am down to do this still if anyone wants to backtag...]

[retrieverchef]

Eliot looks up as he hears the distant shriek. It had come from the same direction Momoko's footprints are leading them. He glances back Ariadne. "Hurry up," he calls to her as he begins to run.