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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thearena2015-05-25 01:44 pm

Arena 14: A Grimm Age

The morning breaks to a familiar routine for most of you. Bright and early the Tributes are roused by their escorts and stylists, escorted from their rooms and to the waiting hovercraft. The flight takes them a few hours out from the Capitol and after landing they are escorted quickly into an underground complex to be prepped. Tributes will find to their dismay that their outfits are a little less practical and a little more costume this time around, the ratio of which depends entirely on the whims of their stylist. Peacekeepers will appear almost immediately after they've finished dressing to put them in the waiting launch tubes.

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They rise up from the ground and -- phew, what's that smell? The Tribute's look around them to see a full-on medieval village, constructed entirely from wood and thatch. There are empty pens that might have once held pigs and chickens attached to the houses and a well is visible down the street. What commands attention though is what's in the centre of the village square where the Tribute's are standing; a pyre built around a tall wooden stake. Those who look amongst the piles of twigs and wood will see the gleam of weapons, as well as backpacks containing survival supplies. This is your Cornucopia, Tributes.

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Anyone who tries to look further afield, over the roofs of the houses, will see the main feature of this arena looming above them. The castle stands tall and forbidding, a monstrous sized building of stone with flags bearing the emblem of the Capitol flying from its parapets. From here, if they squint, they can see the drawbridge is down and the portcullis is open. For now.

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A triumphant sounding of trumpets is what signals this arena's beginning and with it those Tribute's with powers may feel a sudden tingling in their bones, a rush of energy as those powers are restored to them. Any with constantly active abilities will find a light illuminates immediately over their head, signalling that something about this powered arena is going to be a little different from the last. For those who try to use their powers right off the bat... well, they'll be in for a nasty shock.


[[OOC: A mod reminder that this arena is designed to punish Tribute's for using powers. If your character will attempt to use powers at any time in week 1 of the arena it needs to be reported here to be RNG'd by the mods for chances of success or injury.

There will be a thread on Death Roll posts for subsequent weeks power usage to be reported.]]
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Éowyn | OTA

[personal profile] shieldofrohan 2015-05-26 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Éowyn plans to head for the woods and the fields, where she'll be away from the smell of decay. But the village offers shelter and the hope of better resources than she got from the Cornucopia. Bow and quiver slung over her shoulder, she goes hunting - not for prey, but for food, water, some weapon better-suited to close quarters. She's smeared her brightly-coloured green-and-scarlet livery with soot from the fire, paying particular attention to the scarlet quarters. Part of that is simple practicality - Panem's red and gold shows up far more brightly than Rohan's green and white - but she also takes a perverse pleasure in covering up the eagle and laurels. She has no love for the Capitol, and no time for its symbols.

Rohan's white horse, on the other hand, remains almost untouched. She ought to cover that up, too - it's the horse, not the green field, that will betray her if she's trying to hide - but she can't quite bear to. Although she's a little surprised to be wearing Rohan's banner rather than Gondor's, it's the first piece of home she's been allowed since her arrival, and she can't cover it up so easily.

When she's done dirtying herself, she'll start scavenging, ducking from house to house with an arrow held ready in her fist. She has no knife, no close-range weapons, only a bow she doesn't know how to use. But that's more than many people have, and she has Firo's training in hand-to-hand combat, as well. It's not much, but it's something.