Still kickin' in Arena 1

[doc_holi]

Who: Doc Holiday and open
What: Killing doki-dokis, being scary, having one arm, etc. Open to all!
Where: Candy Arena, near or around Milkshake Lake
When: Early Week 4 at anytime
Warnings: possible violence and the other usual stuff


Holiday stayed motionless as the arena was plunged into total darkness again. Disorienting wasn't a good enough word for this. Not only did she not know how long she had been in this place (it felt like eternity) but she also had no handle on a sleeping pattern. The latter might have been a good thing, though... Still, going instantly from bright to dark was really annoying in a place where everything was trying to get the drop on you.

The heavy blood loss and shock was still wearing down on her, but Holiday had been doing considerably better since then. Her left arm was still gone, of course, but she was managing. Honestly, it was luck she was alive. A fight hadn't come her way since the Cornucopia decades ago.

She did make Chris go his separate way, but she had a feeling he didn't go too far. That was fine with her. So long as Holiday wasn't weighing him down, that was fine. Chris had a real chance of winning this one if he could last just a little longer. For now, she was just focusing on getting by. Her gifts of food and water had come at a surprising and thankful twist. Perhaps Jack saw something in her that she didn't. It was enough of a motivation to keep her moving.

Finally, her eyes had adjusted again. Soon enough, the blinding day would be back and it would be another panic attack of who was where, but it wasn't right now. Holiday let out a silent breath and continued to move. Migrating was key.

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[doc_holi]

Holiday understood that much. This was still incredibly risky, but she didn't have a whole lot left to lose at this point. So, she slowly approaches this Julie.

"I have food. Could use more weapons if you can spare one." Hopefully the girl won't twist the phrasing and give her a sword through the neck.

[misscabernet]

Probably good it was dark enough to hide the way her face lit up. Christ, she was getting a little pathetic, but. Yeah, showing her desperation wasn't for the best. Not when negotiating. She was just hungry, all right? Really hard to think here.

"Umm... yeah, sure." Please don't stab me in the face after this. The irony. Giving someone the weapon they killed her with.

Joy.

Julie drops down, tugging her backpack up against her legs. The bat rests against her, her go-to bludgeon. The thing packed a hell of a punch. The numerous dents running up it attested to that. "I got these little ninja things? I dunno how helpful they'll be." She thought about the dagger, but that thing's more important than the bat. And sharper.

So she takes the bag of ninja stars out -- unused so far, all pink and bright and obnoxious, but their points are sharp enough to embed them in wood without much effort. She tosses the thing over, still on her guard. "Go ahead and take them if you want."

[doc_holi]

Oh goody, more ninja stars. At least Holiday would feel better about using them as distance weapons now that she has more than one.

She moves closer and kneels down next to the bag. Before picking it up, she digs through her supplies, pulls out a few pieces of bread and a dead (and cooked) doki-doki from her belt, and throws them over one at a time. If the girl wanted distance, Holiday would oblige.

[misscabernet]

It's probably a miracle she manages to catch each thing in the dark, grinning to herself with victory. Oh, yeah. Her stomach's making itself known; the rumble in her belly practically vibrates out to all her limbs. Seriously, she hasn't eaten for going on three days.

Ravenous didn't cover it. And being here before didn't make it any better.

"Thanks," she manages through a mouthful of bread, already chomping through the first one. Just one, then she'd take it slow. Pace herself so she didn't throw it up later. Definitely done that before. God, that was good. Even bland as all hell.

She'd go with the bread first. The dead... thing, uh. Not so much on the appetizing side. "You cooked one of those things? Seriously?"

[doc_holi]

"Well, it was an accident the first time," Holiday explained. "I was running around out there with a pretty bad wound and they swarmed me. Swung one or two into a rainbow on accident while trying to get them off of me and I found that the rainbows aren't there to just look pretty. Since I had nothing else, I tried eating them. I'm still alive. Every now and then, I go further out and get a few more."

As she spoke, the doctor rubbed her sore shoulder where the joint met a stub and then nothing. She was probably getting an infection out here, in this heat, with this candy, and dirty bandages, but that's fine. "Don't make yourself sick on that food."