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Who| Alistair and you, dear Tribute.
What| Alistair has chosen to break path with Tabris and Anders to see if there is a safer route or if their current route is Tribute-infested.
Where| Someplace in the woods.
When| Sometime in Week 2
Warnings/Notes| Alistair's kind of angry, tired, and has his stick.
He had been through hell and back. Literally. But this hailed in comparison to the sheer frustration and anger he had felt when trudging through these woods. He had chosen to leave his things with Tabris and Anders, and he had told them to keep quiet and still. Tabris still wasn't one-hundred percent, and there's a chance that Anders would be facing retribution for using his powers any time now. It had been hours... days? He didn't know how quickly time passed, nor did he want to. Biting down on his lip, sharpened stick in his left hand (it was the best he had, since he didn't get a knife from the parachute... although, he wouldn't complain; that food did them well, and that water moreso). However, Tabris did have control of one, and with a smile and a promise of kisses that would make a certain ex-Warden healer vomit into the nearest set of bushes, Alistair wielded the knife in his right hand and was pulled through the woods by his own instincts, looking around for something... anything.
And the outfit he was forced into was NOT helping. A complete replica of something that the King of Ferelden would wear, albeit it was tattered and torn from the encounters, and the metal-plastic crown that once adorned his head was thrown into the dirt in a fit of anger and frustration. This was dangerous, this entire thing was... but he had to find out, he had to make sure that Anders and Tabris were going to be safe. Anders was their healer, their medic; he was irreplaceable, and Tabris...? Well, Tabris was his wife, so it would be common sense for him to protect her, but she was a strong fighter, and if she was willing to risk punishment to use her Reaver/Beserker powers, she would be a force to be reckoned with.
As a Templar, Alistair had... well, his skill with a blade, and the power to dispel other magic. In comparison to the other two... there was really not much he could do. And that's why it was his idea to go and be the scout. Wielding the stick less like a sword and more like a javelin, the tattered not-king pushed back a branch, trained eyes peering forward for the first sign of danger. But what his eyes didn't see (and what his ears heard) was that the danger was behind him. Upon hearing a twig break behind him, the branch was dropped back to its natural state, and he turned over his shoulder, jaw set and makeshift weapon ready to strike.
He didn't call out for the trespasser to identify themselves; in actuality, he hoped it was just his imagination.
What| Alistair has chosen to break path with Tabris and Anders to see if there is a safer route or if their current route is Tribute-infested.
Where| Someplace in the woods.
When| Sometime in Week 2
Warnings/Notes| Alistair's kind of angry, tired, and has his stick.
He had been through hell and back. Literally. But this hailed in comparison to the sheer frustration and anger he had felt when trudging through these woods. He had chosen to leave his things with Tabris and Anders, and he had told them to keep quiet and still. Tabris still wasn't one-hundred percent, and there's a chance that Anders would be facing retribution for using his powers any time now. It had been hours... days? He didn't know how quickly time passed, nor did he want to. Biting down on his lip, sharpened stick in his left hand (it was the best he had, since he didn't get a knife from the parachute... although, he wouldn't complain; that food did them well, and that water moreso). However, Tabris did have control of one, and with a smile and a promise of kisses that would make a certain ex-Warden healer vomit into the nearest set of bushes, Alistair wielded the knife in his right hand and was pulled through the woods by his own instincts, looking around for something... anything.
And the outfit he was forced into was NOT helping. A complete replica of something that the King of Ferelden would wear, albeit it was tattered and torn from the encounters, and the metal-plastic crown that once adorned his head was thrown into the dirt in a fit of anger and frustration. This was dangerous, this entire thing was... but he had to find out, he had to make sure that Anders and Tabris were going to be safe. Anders was their healer, their medic; he was irreplaceable, and Tabris...? Well, Tabris was his wife, so it would be common sense for him to protect her, but she was a strong fighter, and if she was willing to risk punishment to use her Reaver/Beserker powers, she would be a force to be reckoned with.
As a Templar, Alistair had... well, his skill with a blade, and the power to dispel other magic. In comparison to the other two... there was really not much he could do. And that's why it was his idea to go and be the scout. Wielding the stick less like a sword and more like a javelin, the tattered not-king pushed back a branch, trained eyes peering forward for the first sign of danger. But what his eyes didn't see (and what his ears heard) was that the danger was behind him. Upon hearing a twig break behind him, the branch was dropped back to its natural state, and he turned over his shoulder, jaw set and makeshift weapon ready to strike.
He didn't call out for the trespasser to identify themselves; in actuality, he hoped it was just his imagination.
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"Whoa, there, your highness." She told him, smiling slightly. Not that she was one to poke fun, in her dumb jester outfit, but hey. Maybe it was being in character.
"I was just poking around the area. I promise I'm not trying to kill people." She continued, hoping that he was, in fact, also not one of the people running around trying to kill the other tributes. Not that she blamed them--the sooner everyone died, and they could go back to the Capitol, the better. And of course, killing was more interesting. More interesting, more sponsors, the better your chance of being the one who won this circus.
But even recognizing the reasoning, she couldn't bring herself to do it. Not yet. Not unless someone presented a danger to her.
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"And somehow," spoke Alistair, step taken back, a branch crushing under his heel, freezing his step, "I don't quite believe you when you say you aren't here to kill me. Is that not the point of this Arena?"
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It had seemed easier with Nick with her. He'd wanted to go around, start killing. If he were besides her, this may have ended differently. Of course, if Ellis were here, they'd probably already be chatting about gumbo recipes or something like that, like they'd all been best friends. And, of course, Coach...Well. He'd probably be lecturing the both of them. But she was alone, and she didn't want to kill anyone.
"I suppose you don't have much reason to trust me, so trust this--Look at the two of us." She had a mace, but even with all the food she had eaten in the Capitol, and the food that Nick had gotten that she'd taken, she was on the short side of average, with a scrawny build. Then he was standing there, over six feet and built like a brick wall. "You've got at least 50 pounds on me. Probably more. I'd be a damn fool to try to come after you in melee."
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"What are you doing out here," he asked of her, well aware of his own intention but not of hers, "What is it you need? Scouting? Foraging? Returning to a group?" Caring little as to whether or not he told her the truth (honestly, anything short of 'I'm here to kill Tabris and Anders' would be good enough in his book, and the two could go their separate ways with one less death threat), Alistair drove the sharpened point of his javelin-esque stick into the ground, leaning against it.
The clothes were awkward, far from battle ready. No proud warrior would think about stepping foot into battle wearing these... furs. Tch.
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Avoiding being killed by random tributes was definitely high up there though, and she was pleased that this man seemed to have decided to not try. Could she have fought him? Maybe. Did she want to? Hell no. It was risking getting injured, seriously injured, and she further from her group than she'd like to try to hobble.
"Foraging, mostly. Seeing if there's any plants I can recognize, or maybe some animals...? Not sure what to do about the animals. But it's worth a shot. Firewood, if nothing else." She shrugged again, rubbing the bad of her neck. And trying to see if she could find any abandoned camps of tributes. Either left while the occupants were roaming the arena, or because the occupants had died. Scavenging wasn't the kindest thing to admit to, though, so she decided to pass that bit over.
"What about yourself?"
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"Red berries, for the most part, are fine..." He purses his lips, trying to see if there was anything else he could remember from the other members of his party. Leliana had mentioned something about mushrooms... "And if a fungus looks like an egg with paper cobwebs on it, it's also poisonous."
A look of content crossed the face of the Warden, and he nods, crossing his arms over his broad chest, breathing strong and steady. There was absolutely no reason for him to be helping the woman except sheer sympathy. The blonde didn't like these games, at all, and if he could be the one to assist someone into living just a moment or so longer, just to be able to see daybreak for one more day, he wouldn't mind it at all.
"Myself? I'm doing well..." he nods, not telling the stranger about his party of a mage and elf wife just yet. "I'm simply scouting. Checking the path ahead for volatile, dangerous tributes. Perhaps..." Running his tongue over his lips, he folded his arms behind his back, shifting his stance in a pseudo-parade rest. "Checking the camps of the deceased. Unsavory, unsavory, I know. But here... you do what you need, I suppose."