Who| Susannah, Harley, and Detta
What| Susannah hoped having a friend around will help her keep herself together in the Arena. She picked the wrong friend.
Where| Section One of the Maze
When| not too long after the Cornucopia
Warnings/Notes| Hella manipulation on Harley's part. Detta fucking Walker. Terrible people being terrible. To be added to if needed.

Like always in the arena, the sight of a friend helps bring Susannah back to herself, although maybe not as easily as it had with Bert or with Eddie. But maybe that's due to the friend in question.

"Harley!" Susannah waves her longspear as she jogs forward to catch up with her friend. "You have no idea how glad I am to see you, sugar!"

The mood is strange, even for an arena. Every stylist is different, of course, but this arena has thrown people for a loop, and they adjust to them differently.

25 - 24 - 23

The clothes are simple, and the tribute are loaded up quickly. Obviously the stylist have been informed what to tell them, what warnings to give. That there will be two sounds, one for a murdered death and one for an accidental one.

20 - 19 - 18 - 17 - 16

The platforms lift them up, and they are in a tight ring, all facing outwards, in a courtyard ringed by a tall stone wall. To one side is a ring of weapons laid out, brutal looking things. To the other is a ring of supply bags. The pedestals all sit directly in the middle. And beyond them a series of entrances to the maze beyond.

11- 10 - 9 - 8

They've all been warned, don't step off your pedestal early. They have also been warned to put on a good show. Don't kill yourself off, and make sure not to be in the arena when the time ends, without having won. Or else you might not be coming back.

5 - 4

3

2

The sound of the gong plays crystal clear across the opening. Let the games begin.

((OOC-feel free to play out cornucopia here, and then start your own threads just like any other arena. There is still some OOC plotting going around, so I am going to say there are 10 people murdered and the arena lasts 22 hours.))

WHO| Guy and Justin, Guy and Susannah
WHAT| Guy, a tar pit, and a mercy kill
WHEN| Week 6
WHERE| Third floor, the tar pit
WARNINGS| Deeeeeath

Exhaustion and hunger were setting in. Losing so much blood hadn't helped, though his arm had been bandaged very well by Dr. Watson. The wound had clotted up properly and he'd managed to keep it from getting infected by washing it regularly. So far.

But he was tired and the lack of a working arm - as well as the dizziness from what had happened to his ear - weren't making things easy.

He hadn't wanted to go back after everything that had happened, but he decided to try taking a moment on the remains of the third floor to rest, figuring that most wouldn't try to go there after its collapse.

That made it dangerous but potentially safe at the same time.

It turned out it was empty, devoid of all people. But the tar pit was there, still bubbling away. He couldn't take his eyes off it and quickly came to the realization that, safe place for a breather or not, he'd rather face danger and other forms of death than be this close to it.

Who| Courfeyrac / Everyone
What| Courfeyrac sets off a series of explosives and the museum has to be evacuated
Where| Across the Arena. The fourth floor will get the brunt of the explosion, however the entire Arena will become uninhabitable by the conclusion of this log (which is set for Tuesday.)
When| Week 07, Monday.
Warnings/Notes| Shawty fire burning on the dance floor.  Also there's a header for each floor of the building to react to the rock a-fire explosion.  Feel free to make your own threads under each floor header, tag around, etc.  The mods will post a follow-up log tomorrow!

( This place about to blow! )

Who| Some and Susannah (and Cuthbert?), and an open thread before if anyone wants to catch him tracking.
What| Some's last days in the Arena, and his death.
Where| Various.
When| Week 6
Warnings/Notes| Discussion of maneating. Graphic descriptions of injuries. Mercy-killing. Some will only track humans, but anyone can come across him doing so.

Open

A sixth week. Some rarely made it so far. There was something, after all, to the tactic of simply holing up and only venturing out and back in short excursions, or from hideout to hideout. He missed his spot on the whale model; it had been almost comfortable. It had also been almost directly below the volcano.

But he thought about shelter less and less, now. And food, more and more. Of those left in the arena, he knew more or less how many were human. He found himself, when he was near exhaustion and his will was weakest, casting around for their scents, creeping on all eight to follow them while conserving strength. It felt good to simply follow, catching scent off the floor, finding things his prey (no, not prey, he was not a predator) had touched. He would catch himself, sooner or later, and barricade himself into a corner to rest, but before then, nearly every day, there was a period when he could almost have imagined himself hunting in a pack with his siblings, as he had never done at home.


For Susannah

By the end of the week, there had been near calls. Some knew he should cut this all short. But he hadn't quite worked up the will yet. He was being still more careful tonight, with a scrap of stolen clothing from the wax-people floor tied across his face to mask distracting scents as he carefully, quietly slipped onto the darkened Fifth Floor. His claws had gotten long, and he walked carefully, silently so as not to click, making a weaving path for one of the water fountains.

WHO| Howard and open, Howard and Wyatt
WHAT| Howard stumbles around blindly through the basement, dies
WHEN| Week 6
WHERE| Parking lot
WARNINGS| Death, some description of injury.

( Every now and then I get a little bit lonely. )

Who| Zelos and Susannah
What| Zelos learns not to underestimate chakrams... by lesson of death
Where| 6th floor
When| End of Week 5
Warnings/Notes| Death?

( flames to dust )

Who| Karkat Vantas and Justin Law, later Karkat's corpse and whoever wants to find it
What| Karkat goes off on his own to look at the glowing things and gets murdered by crazy kid hopped up on God and chucklevoodoos.
Where| Bioluminesence exhibit!
When| Early week five.
Warnings/Notes| decapitation, dismemberment, gore

( A little bit louder a little bit worse )

"The museum will be closing in half an hour. At that time, something very special will be distributed to the Tributes brave enough to risk their peers at the first floor elevators."

The storm is still raging outside, casting everything on the first floor in a dim light occasionally shattered by flashes of lightning. The thunder rolling in the background seems to set the tone, although some may find it a welcome distraction from silence.

Half an hour passes. Five minutes before it's done, the elevators cease functioning, leaving Tributes to use the stairwells.

Each elevator door opens to reveal a handful of weapons: firecrackers, revolvers, grenades. There are no threats to the Tributes who try to retrieve them - none but their fellow competitors.

[OOC note: party-style post. Everyone tag away.]

Who| Starkiller and Susannah Dean
What| Starkiller gets keelled
Where| A floor. It's vague.
When| Week 4
Warnings/Notes| DEATH?!

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