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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-01-18 02:35 pm

ARENA 09 - THE MUSEUM

The Tributes are woken up early for this Arena, and switched from whatever sleeping attire they're currently in to a set of pajamas, each designed for the individual in questions. Women wear onesies, and most of the men wear two-pieces, but other than that any similarities are at random - the outfits are in all sorts of colors and patterns.

The floor of the helicopter taking them to their Arena location, and of the underground entrance to the tubes that hoist them to the surface, will feel cold under their bare feet.

Rather than bringing them to sunlight, like the tubes have in the past, instead the Tributes are presented to a dark concrete ceiling in a badly-lit parking lot. Fluorescent lights do little to illuminate the cavernous space.

The countdown begins, announced as if from far away.

20

19

18…


The Cornucopia, a ghastly thing carved from stone and concrete, sits at the center of a pattern of white and yellow lines reminiscent of spots for parked cars. The painted lines create a sort of spoked wheel, providing lanes for the Tributes leading to the prizes at the center. Some of the more unfortunate Tributes will find the concrete architecture has placed pillars in their lanes.

8

7

6…


Six parked cars lie around the outskirts of the huge lot, barely visible in the dim lighting. Glowing exit signs on two opposite sides of the chamber announce where Tributes should go to escape the bloodbath. Elevator doors are perched beneath them.

3

2

1


The gong rings out, and the countdown's voice announces "the Arena is now open". The Games have begun.
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[personal profile] earthborn 2014-01-19 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Shepard had never liked doctors.

Her first memory of one had been more on the line of a pest control than an actual medical practitioner. The delousing agent burned in the cuts and scrapes and then it was questions and stern faces and pinpricks with burning syringes— she went out the window, first opportunity. She was tough, she didn't need it. Later, medics and particularly field surgeons much like Hawkeye, became more necessary, but they still weren't people so much as walking towers of judgement. Like gods in white uniforms, telling you how shit you'd been, and never laughing at jokes. It wasn't until Chakwas that she'd made a friend.

Still, that didn't make her intersections with modern medicine any more fun. So maybe there's a little bit of vengeance in the motion when she immediately veers left and shoulder-tackles Hawkeye off his feet, and keeps going. Or maybe she's just like that with everyone. Either way, he'd be better off on the ground than any nearer the slugfest, that's for damn sure.
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[personal profile] swill 2014-01-21 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Christ, he hadn't even seen her. What a way to go. Blinded before the starting gates open. He'd make one horrible racehorse, Hawkeye thought- ideas only coming to mind, no images, no sensations, no words. Because he felt something hit him like a truck, and saw the gray of the pavement rush up to meet him. Because he felt himself fall and hit and scrape, and wondered for a moment, idiotically coherent, if his underwear had done a good job of hiding his package or if it had been shown to the world when the robe rode up and his legs sprawled in a panic.

And then there's the whole 'you're going to die' thing that keeps playing in his mind like a broken record. It makes him gasp in a breath when it's knocked out of him, and makes him push himself up to his elbows a second later, searching for-- well, that. There. The movement away that had red hair and a figure he figured he knew and Christ, the movement was away. A second more and Hawkeye's scrambling back on his feet, hesitance refound and. Well. Hesitant for the first time in such a deafeningly and heartbreaking short time. But someone ahead just got slashed- he could see the mess alright, you know, and he half thanked the distance for it- and that meant he had to go.

"The matter with-" is all he swears aloud, brows furrowed, face contorted in confusion, before he realizes he'd rather save his breath. It might help his chicken heart, because he wasn't a soldier. He charges forward again, keeping the assailant (and if he thought Shepard had 'assaulted' him just then, wasn't he in for a rude awakening?) in view but far enough away. He hoped. The bitch.