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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.]
amplifying: (◎ now it's fine)

[personal profile] amplifying 2013-07-18 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Beck noticed that odd kind of grin. And that's what made him suspicious the most.

He never saw this User before; she was just someone who was tracking him down for what was on his back. She chased him into this sticky, weird kind of woods, and even knocked him down with a lollipop. And all of a sudden she was just going to stop chasing him? Either let him go his way, or she go around? Either Beck wasn't understanding this like he should be, or she was up to something wrong. At this point in time, Beck was going to assume both.

It wasn't like he had much choice, though.

"Fine. I'll go." He lowered his weapon, giving her a look that was somewhere between a glare and a suspicious glance. "I don't care where you go or why. Just leave me alone."
doesnotsew: (the sky and I we've had our fights)

[personal profile] doesnotsew 2013-07-25 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
She kept her hands out innocently enough, though there was a sarcastic hint to it enough. The fact of the matter was that she couldn’t fight him confidently now, and she was under no rush to hurry it along anyway. If she played this carefully, instead of swinging herself around willy-nilly like she had the arena before, she could take this a lot further.

Still, she didn’t move—didn’t move, but didn’t speak, either, watching him with that strange smile like she was asking why he hadn’t gone yet.
amplifying: (◎ and i'm so glad)

[personal profile] amplifying 2013-07-29 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, okay. Beck didn't trust this person, not in a million cycles.

...But at the same time, he didn't want to stick around.

Making sure his pack was protecting his disc as much as it could, he turned around and sprinted forward as hard as he possibly could. At first he slipped and almost fell over himself (his weird injury felt absolutely awful, and Beck hated it), but he managed to regain his balance at the last possible moment, and made a straight shot to the opening out of the gross sticky things. It wasn't about trying to fight this User off now. It was more about just trying to get out and hide his tracks.