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ʀɪᴄᴋ ғᴏʀᴅ ([personal profile] intenserer) wrote in [community profile] thearena2015-06-25 10:12 am

[OPEN] what kind of fuckery is this

Who| Ford and YOU.
What| One vaguely-disoriented spy arrives in medieval hell, proceeds to heck shit up.
Where| The castle + village
When| Week 5
Warnings/Notes| Language, ridic spy antics.



He'd never admit it, never in a million years, but Rick Ford is fucking disoriented. Sure, he'd woken up on that bullshit cot with men in white coats holding him down and injecting some hellishly large tracking device in his arm. They'd told him some cock-and-bull bloody story about being part of some game, but Ford knows better than that.

Obviously, this is all some elaborate kidnapping plot by the KGB. They're trying to crack him. Trying to gain intel. But that's impossible, because he's Rick Fucking Ford, not some silly girly wanker like Fine or Wright or one of those other vaginas back at the CIA. He's a real spy. He can handle this. And above all, he can play along.

Of course, nobody's seen fit to give him a gun. Just an alarmingly stylish Louis Vuitton keyfob that's attached to the hem of his idiotic fucking costume. Ford isn't really sure what he's supposed to be, exactly; some sort of medieval cobbler with a stupid little hat that reminds him of a goddamn wimple. But his clothes are sturdy, anyway, and he's thankful for that fact. And he makes them look downright sexy, he does.

Ford spends some time scoping out the village, kicking down doors and going through each miserable little hovel like he's on a search-and-destroy mission. At some junctures, he may be humming the Mission: Impossible theme under his breath without even realizing it. Without a proper weapon, he's taken up a hunk of brick, which he's found is a good substitute for a bludgeon when necessary. The rats, while tenacious, aren't a threat in his eyes. Ford crushes their skulls under his boot heels without hesitation, and if necessary rips their heads from their bodies where they come leaping at him. He works at the Bureau, he knows how to deal with pests.

After seeing what there is to see in the village, Ford heads for the castle, hoping to score food or weapons. He spends some time perusing the feast, picking out a few crusts of bread that aren't moldering, giving the Avoxes suspicious looks, and even spending some time telling one of them exactly who these people are fucking dealing with. He can't resist a captive audience, and he has no idea that the nervous look on the Avox's face has nothing to do with Ford telling him exactly how many ways he's killed a man.

Once he has some food in his stomach (he's not really worried about paltry things like food poisoning), Ford heads upstairs to do some exploring. He spends quite a bit of time trying to wrench a decorative spear off the wall, finds it impossible, and gives up, barging in on bedchambers and trying to ignore the wretched smell that seems to pervade this entire hellhole of an Arena. If you were trying to sleep, good luck. Ford will likely barge in on you and talk your ear off. Or threaten you. Or both.
shiny_and_chrome: (my wheel!)

Castle

[personal profile] shiny_and_chrome 2015-06-25 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Nux felt extra terrible. He'd erased the 'maybe' from the 'maybe drinking that guy with the weird blue blood's blood was a bad idea'. It was now definitively a bad idea.

He's staggered into a bedroom but that big smooshy thing in the middle of the room weirds him out. All that fabric? What do you even do with all those?

So he's on the floor, which is nice and solid and no confusing duvets and what the hell with those seventy five different shaped pillows?! That is, until the door crashes in.

But Nux is a War Boy, so he's got reflexes like whoa (to match his intelligence like wuuuuut?), and he grabs the first bit of cutlery he's been hoarding, brandishing a mighty and terrifying...fork.

"I know how to use this!" Well, it looks kind of stabby, at any rate.
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/dying

[personal profile] shiny_and_chrome 2015-06-25 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
....that wasn't quite the reaction Nux had been going for. Even the Wives had been at least a little afraid of him.

"I'm not a kid!" Would a kid have a V-8 engine scarred into his chest? No. No, he would not.

He mostly picking and choosing the words that make sense to him because...what is America? Or a Russian? All he knows is that this new guy is not respecting the fork. At all. "If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead." SO DEAD. You would be.

shiny_and_chrome: (pic#9207107)

I should not laugh so hard at your tags they're fantastic.

[personal profile] shiny_and_chrome 2015-06-29 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, fair enough: anyone older than 30 is impossibly ancient to Nux. Like the Immortan himself. Whoa.

But that whole fork...eating...thing? Nux is following along and his face goes through various permutations of wait, what? and WTF with a side of that's got to have hurt. Before finally settling on 'damn that's impressive'.

"That's...so chrome!"
shiny_and_chrome: (this is my happy face?)

he's amazing shush

[personal profile] shiny_and_chrome 2015-06-30 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's probably not a hard guess: Nux is about as easy to read as a billboard. And the word 'car'... He may almost bounce. If there's someone to brag about cars to, it's probably Nux.

"Is it here? Can I see it?" Can he TOUCH it? "Nobody has any cars here. It's weird." Okay, beyond weird, just downright unnatural.

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it's so beautiful ;_;

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voiceinthephone: ([Older PG: Answer])

Village

[personal profile] voiceinthephone 2015-06-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Phillip was raiding the last of the village's wares, wearing the beaked plague-doctor's mask as sent by his mentor when he hears...humming. He hears humming, and the first thought that comes to mind is Oh great, one of the other Tributes went bonkers. Considering the fact that he's managed to live this long and yet wary, the Phone Guy is way too exhausted to put up a drawn out fight if it came to be.

Though he was legally dead before the Mission Impossible movies happened, Gray can spot some similarities with the James Bond theme. Wow, they brought in James Bond as a Tribute. He paused, giving way to We are so screwed then. Either way, he's keep an eye out for this guy.
voiceinthephone: hollow-art ([Oh what the hell Mike?!])

[personal profile] voiceinthephone 2015-06-30 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Phil's eyebrow are raised as he watches the stranger rolls into the pitiful structure, "You could have opened the door like a normal person would." What does this man have against doors? They're good ways to keep killers out. He hesitates in tossing the man a meager meal of a dead crow, keeping what little he has left of his food rations back for younger tributes and himself.

"Bon appetit...I think...you're new aren't you?"
voiceinthephone: ([Bitchface PG])

[personal profile] voiceinthephone 2015-07-01 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ew, Phil flinched at the sight of someone just biting into the dead bird without even cleaning it or cooking it. But it's the ridiculously manly story that makes him do a double take. "How did you...how did you walk away from breaking your leg then apparently her back?" Phone Guy's curious, that's for sure.

"Points on the Hungarians," Phil took his hand away from his knife for the moment, "but no...you're in Panem now, guest and performer to the Hunger Games. No KGB," Unless he counts Molotov but he hasn't seen her in the Arena since the first week, "Italians or any other countries it seems. Did they tell you anything?"

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The Castle

[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-01 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Bayard is, in fact, asleep in one of the bedchambers of the castle, wrapped up in the bed as if he doesn't have a care in the world, one hand resting in the palm of the other and his supplies sitting in a pile next to the headboard. He might even appear to be part of the scenery, so removed from the fear inherent to the Arena. He's taking a quick nap between collecting supplies for his allies, and has tended towards the castle more than usual lately since that will keep him far away from the forest where those awful voices try to convince him his father is in need of help.

He looks peaceful, but he's both alert and racking his way through the tangled memories of those voices in the woods, and so as soon as he hears feet in the hallway he kicks off the blanket and sits up, grabbing his knife and shoving his supplies under the bed. He grabs the handle to the door and holds it, not about to block it like a scared biddy at a barricade but not lunging out to investigate yet.

"This room," Bayard says, in the deepest voice he can manage, which still can't help but sound childish, "is occupied."
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-10 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not about to get hurt," Bayard says, mulish, his voice still with that affected and phoney scratchy depth even though he knows the jig is up. "There ain't nothing in this room and I'm willing to defend it, so you best watch out."

Bayard's not really the type to make threats, and so it sounds disorganized and limp atop of childish. He takes a deep breath, hand still on the knob.

"Who are you?"
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[personal profile] yoknapatawpha 2015-07-29 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
The door opens to Bayard, all well-under-five-feet of him, frowning at Rick as if there were no difference in size or power at all. He's stubborn and unwilling to relinquish to the clear reality here.

"Maybe I just like privacy like any decent person. And you sound like an Englishman," Bayard says bluntly. "I won't hurt you either. Promise."

Really, Bayard talks a good game for very obviously being a scared kid with not much in the way of muscle mass or combat skill.

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actually112: (Uh stranger danger)

Castle

[personal profile] actually112 2015-07-04 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Aang has become more cautious within the arena, partially because he keeps getting killed by people he thought he could trust and partially because Bucky keeps nagging him about safety and stuff. So while he's at the feast and hears someone coming, he runs to his best hiding spot. Or, well, climbs. He likes hiding in the rafters. It allows him to scope out the people around him before making himself known.

A very angry man comes in. Then he starts yelling at an Avox. Aang stares, somewhat bewildered, for a good twenty minutes from the ceiling before he finally says, "You know he can't talk to you, right?"

If Ford looks up, he'll see a tiny monk boy with arrow tattoos and growing stubble on his normally shaved head.
actually112: (Yes Zuko it was this easy to catch me.)

[personal profile] actually112 2015-07-09 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Note to self: get that man to tell more stories when he's not so angry.

"Yeah, exactly. They cut out your tongue and condition you to do whatever you're told if you do something really against the law. People like him serve in the Capitol. They're called Avoxes." Maybe that's more information than the man was asking for, but Aang likes to be informative for the new people.

Aang dangles his feet off the beam he's perched on, looking down curiously at the man. "It's mostly teenagers and adults here. You're new, right?"
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[personal profile] actually112 2015-07-13 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least he apologized? It's better than how most people treat the Avoxes, at least, so credit where it's due, Aang guesses.

"No, I think you're the circus acrobat." He said he's good at trapeze, after all. "I'm an airbender, though, so you were close. I like to be in high places, and I go up to the ceiling when someone I don't know comes near, so they won't be able to attack me easily while I figure out if I should run or not."

Aang's gotten much more practical about the Games since coming here.

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