thearena | Cornucopia: The Sequel

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Cornucopia: The Sequel

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.

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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.

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.

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."

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."

Momoko shrugs. "Some people are impossible--they just don't understand reality." She pauses. "Most people are impossible like that. But smart is good, smart is what you need. Smart is what we need." She looks back at Eliot, then resumes her vague watch over the landscape. She thinks for a moment she sees movement, but nothing more happens when she stares hard at the spot so she moves on.

"He's not very smart, I don't think. Not for in here. But he's strong and I'm not, so he's useful." She looks at Ariadne. "I think an alliance with someone who knows when to kill is useful to, whatever he thinks."

Ariadne, however, keeps watch all around them, making sure that if they need to, they have Eliot covered. She's not sure that someone wouldn't have attacked them by now if they were going to, but it doesn't hurt.

"I think you might be right," she replied softly, voice even more inaudible than before before glancing over. "What are you suggesting? That we leave him?"

"No, no." Momoko shakes her head, looking away again and scanning their surroundings. "He's useful, like I said. Strong." Stupid enough to just give away food for no reason, Momoko adds silently. "Besides, I'd rather be on the same side as the person with explosives than not. But I don't know how long he'll last really, with an attitude like that. And just because he's not willing to work with you because you killed someone already doesn't mean I'm not."

She shrugs again, trying for nonchalant. "Even if he doesn't want you to stay after this, or you decide to go find Kaidan or something, we can still at least decide not to attack each other for now, work together in the future. The three of us." She glances at Eliot, then goes back to keeping watch. "Or the two of us."

"You're right," she confirms again, more firmly this time. More sure of herself. She's sure that she wants to talk to Kaidan again at some point, find out what his strategy is for the Games this time around; she also doesn't want to burn the bridges she's only just built.

"Do you really think he'll make me leave?" Ariadne asks, regarding Momoko. Though not entirely certain that the other girl will know any better, it's worth asking. "Or was it a bluff in case I planned on killing you both?"

"I don't know," says Momoko thoughtfully. "He didn't say anything about it to me. I think he just doesn't trust you or anyone else who goes along with the Game. I think he only trusts me because he thinks I'm weak." He's not wrong, Momoko has to admit, even if it grates on the girl who stood up to half the biker girls of Japan and walked away.

Walked away into this nightmare, so not quite the triumph she'd believed it to be. She continues, "If you're useful here and you ask to stay, I'll argue for you." That's not necessarily true, since Momoko hasn't decided who she'd rather side with if it came down to it, the apparently soft-hearted criminal or the experienced tribute.

A glance over Momoko, a furrow of her brow, and Ariadne purses her mouth slightly. "If you were that weak, you'd be dead by now. As it is, you've already found people to ally with, and a makeshift weapon."

She glances back to Eliot, watching him still intently. "If you go along with it, it goes better for you. The Games, that is." Mainly because of the cameras. Put on a good enough show, and you're good to go; don't, and you'll probably die.

Momoko can't help but stare at Ariadne for a moment. This is the first time since she understood what the Games were that anybody has shown any sort of confidence in Momoko's ability to survive due to her own efforts. It's...strange.

She follows Ariadne's gaze to Eliot, not sure how to respond and so moving on. "Yes, everyone was very clear on that. He'll learn soon. Or he'll die." Like some horrible prophecy, as soon as she says this she shrieks as a giant green creature springs out at Eliot. How had they missed that? How--wait. The two began fighting and Momoko blinked. Was that...the turtle man?

Easy. Ariadne had missed it because her head had been turned the other way, watching something else in the interim. It was a rather false sense of security, all things considered. She tenses the moment there's a flash of green across her vision, her hand tightening on the can; her first priority is defending herself and Momoko, since Eliot's already in the fight.

"There's more of them," whispers Momoko, spotting movement beyond the fighting pair. Working with the turtle man or waiting to pounce on both of them when they tired? She can't tell, can't even see how many there are, but if they all fought like the turtle man a teenager with a board and a young adult with a can weren't gonna be able to do much.

"We need to run," says Momoko, decisively. It's not cowardice, just sense, and even it was that didn't matter. What was cowardice but common sense? "We can't fight, not like that, we'll just get in the way. And lose what we came here for," she adds, meaning Ariadne's bag from the first Cornucopia and the other they found just a little while ago that Momoko's holding on to.

((Okay, going with the assumption that we only saw and grabbed one bag, then started on explosives. If that doesn't work for others just say so and we'll pretend that part of this post ~never happened~.))

[ooc: works for me! Also, did you want Ariadne down there as well, or have them meet up after?]

"We need to get the explosives first," she replies quickly, hastily dodging around the fights, away from the newcomers seemingly intent on either killing them or trying damn hard. She knows Eliot can't get the explosives when he's fighting, and that was one of the main reasons they came back in the first place.

So she skids, feet slipping out from under her in a controlled fashion as she falls beside one of the platforms, digging at it as she saw Eliot do not too long ago, but in a more more rushed fashion.

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Cornucopia: The Sequel

hey ariadne let's sneak plan an alliance okay

okok~

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how much more you wanna chat before the fight?

one more post, maybe? should be good from here~

reaction to giant turtle attack is a go then!

\o/ relocate to another thread, yeah?

yep! i'm hopping down the vulture thread then

okok \o/