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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-06-22 02:42 pm

Oh my love, I know you are the Candy Man

Although the mood in the Capitol is...taut, once the Tributes are in the transportation craft, things seem to lighten. The peacekeepers almost seem jovial - as jovial as peacekeepers ever seem. About half the Tributes are checked over and given an injection into their tracking device.

In the underground room, the stylists have all their prep teams running busy, dressing up the tributes in bright costumes, chatting with each other, clearly excited to have so much freedom over what their Tributes are wearing in. Each one is dressed in a personalized costume, elaborate, and entirely soft.

Finally the Tributes are placed on their pedestals and sent on up, all gussied up.

25 - 24 - 23

The light is blinding for a moment, before the candy-colored world around them comes into focus. And it's not just candy-colored - it is actually candy. Some Tributes might be reminded of the game Candy Land, if it was something in their home world. Music plays, scarily cute animals roam, and every thing just looks so gosh-darn happy.

20 - 19 - 18 - 17 - 16

The Cornucopia sits, candy-striped itself, and over-flowing with a generous bounty of food, weapons, and supplies. Even these all reflect the nature of the arena, brightly-colored, and cheerful-looking, just begging to be gathered up.

11- 10 - 9 - 8

They've all been warned not to step off their pedestal early. But as the final number ticks off, those Tributes that had their tracking devices adjusted in the transport suddenly feel a sting starting in their arms. A slightly diluted version of what Ariadne was given the day before is dumped in their veins.

The dilution doesn't help them, of course; it just causes the poison to take effect more slowly.

5 - 4

3

2

1

Go.

The burning is starting for half of them, spreading through their body, lighting their nerves on fire. Within 10 minutes it's effecting their motor skills, causing them to stagger, twitch, to move against their will.

Those who are small fall faster, barely lasting 15 minutes in the bloodbath. The stronger and bigger among them might make it 30 minutes at most.

By the time the bloodbath is over, the Cornucopia is surrounded by corpses. Half of the Tributes have fallen without even a single competitor having to touch them.


[OOC: Don't forget the OOC Arena post, especially those of you running for the Cornucopia. Every Tribute must post to this post. There will be a Cornucopia thread, and anyone else feel free to post as you will. Please add a tag with your character's name.

Those who were poisoned are anyone in group 2. You will have a second post up shortly.]
lassoftruthiness: Wonder Woman holding up a hand. (Hold on there.)

[personal profile] lassoftruthiness 2013-07-15 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Diana tenses at the growl, but he doesn't attack and she resists the urge to bring up her arms in instinctive defense. It doesn't have the same effect without her bracers anyway. She does blink, nonplussed, when he shouts at er.

"I'm not in any position to judge," she points out mildly, then frowns. "What do you mean, half are dead already? It's barely started."
carnagecarnival: (And the weaker.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2013-07-15 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
He gestures quick with a jerk of head and horns.

"LOOK UPON THEM. Motherfuckers shake like to break apart. DROPPING LIKE SO MANY LOWBLOODS ON A GLUB'S SOUND. Half have been poisoned, Sister." Including himself, but she need not know he's weak in any way. "ROT IS SET ABOUT VEINS TO LEAVE DEAD THINGS. Doubt at all will live." His claws bite into his palms to keep from shaking his own self. He's got no intention of dying but he's made of stronger things. He's bigger and his blood runs slower. He has time to find a safer place to try and heal at.
Edited 2013-07-15 05:02 (UTC)
lassoftruthiness: Wonder Woman looking shocked, hand to her mouth. (Oh my.)

[personal profile] lassoftruthiness 2013-07-15 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
She turns, scanning the falling and the fallen behind them. "Why?" she mutters, and it's not really a question she expects an answer to. "Why would they do that? What's entertaining about poisoning half the players just as the game is starting?"

If it was a lesson, she couldn't tell who it was meant to punish. It seemed almost random, although of course she couldn't yet tell exactly who had been poisoned or not.
carnagecarnival: (And the weaker.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2013-07-22 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
"ASSURE UNTO SHE, HE INTENDS TO FIND OUT," He says through grit teeth. "Perhaps a joke. PERHAPS IT IS FUNNY. To see at them all twitch and scatter. PERHAPS IT IS SHOW FOR WHAT THEY CAN DO. Whatever they think, they have not seen for a show yet."

But once he healed, oh, he would make to deliver.

His hands are starting to shake. Messiahs let her be distracted.