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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecircus2014-11-29 06:35 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME



Welcome to Panem. You have been selected to participate in the 75th Annual Hunger Games!

Premise: Something has gone a bit wrong with the device, and it's pulling in more people than the Capitol had planned. Extras, doubles, or even the same exact version of someone already pulled into Panem, with or without their memories! It's a mess. But somebody has to clean it up. And what better way to do so than to have a televised death-match!?

This Arena is designed to be a small mock arena not all that dissimilar to the in-game arenas we run here at The Games. Our hope is to give new and prospective players a place to get their feet wet, and get a feel for the fun (and bloody) mess that goes on around here. This meme is open to anyone and everyone who would like to play. Current cast members, veteran and new, as well as anyone just wanting top drop in and have some fun!

How To Play.

Current cast members - you may tag into this Arena in any way you choose, even cast members who aren't or are no longer tributes.

This meme may not count for in-game CR because it will not be considered as having actually happened, plot-wise.

Guests - welcome to Panem. This is your first time here. Your first Hunger Games. Run for the Cornucopia. Hide in a corner and cry. We don't care. Go crazy. Have fun. Make new friends. Profit.

***An important side note, as it is within the confines of the Area in-game, all powers are lessened/nullified to bring any character down to a vincible level. (I.E. Make more magical/super-powered characters easier to actually kill for a normal person). Rule of thumb: If it's a physical difference, the Capitol will not mutilate it out (wings, etc), but other wise it's gone.


The Arena.

Below, you will find a description of the setting for this arena as well as a few details regarding weapons, supplies and hazards.

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Setting.

The building is old and musty, light filtering down through the dust particles that every movement sends into the air. It was obviously once a grand and beautiful place, a bustling hub, but this is far from true anymore.

The building consists of multiple levels. The main concourse is a huge, cavernous room, a hard place to hide in, but where all the cornucopia goodies can be found. Blue paint speckled with gold can still be seen clinging to what's left of the room, but any design has long since eroded away. Below that, a floor that ones held business and restaurants of all natures, and lower still levels of tracks, now long past the days of holding trains. Some of these tracks can be followed down a bit, if you want to make the jump down into them, but eventually all end short, either collapsed over the years or long since flooded out, ending in dark, murky water.


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You have been outfitted in a pair of heavy cotton denim jeans, solid boots, a light cotton t-shirt and a heavy cotton hoodie. The upper floor can catch a draft, especially as night comes, but below the temperature is moderate, even warm.

Many thins are falling apart here, but the bulk of the building, made of cement and marble, has stood against time well. However, window have long since broken out, and store fronts, benches and counters made of woods have not fared as well.

Al thought electricity stopped here long ago, the Capitol has rigged partial power into the arena. Sometimes. The flickering lights are dim, and unreliable, and seem to always come and go at the worst times. Expect to find yourself exploring a tunnel by flickering lights, to suddenly be plunged into the kind of darkness you can only find under ground. Just you, the rat, and the person following you alone in the cozy darkness.
 
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Supplies.

The Cornucopia is your first, most important resource. Around it are scattered the available resources:

Weapons:
-crowbar
-six-inch serrated hunting knife
-night stick

Equipment:
-day-glow orange backpacks containing the following items:
waterproof matches, high-tensile metal chord (12 feet) iodine
-small crate labeled "apples"
-chords of nylon rope
-metal quart-sized container presumably full of water
-flash lights


**IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!

Since this is a meme, we are going to allow each character the pick of ONE weapon and ONE equipment item, if you believe that your character would risk running for the cornucopia. Just remember. These are high demand items and we rather encourage you to fight over them ;) So long as you all remain civilized about it, of course. If things get out of hand, a mod will step in. Have fun with it, but be realistic too.


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Immediate Hazards.

-The rats. They are big, nasty, and hungry. And there are MANY of them, especially if you go into the tunnels.

-Debris. Broken glass, rusted metal, broken concrete, rotten wood. This place has been falling apart for years and you weren't given a tetanus shot before you came here.

-Cave ins. The tunnels have not been maintained. They are not as stable as they once were after years of flooding and damage with no one to patch them up.

-The Water. Easy to acquire but bad to drink. Maybe you should pray for a rainstorm...

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Wildlife.

**Columba livia. Common city pigeon. They are available in mass, flying in from the broken windows and holes in the roof. They are flighty, and messy, but not particularly smart.

**Loxosceles reclusa granda. Aggressive and unnervingly large brown spiders native to the area and love to lurk in dark corners. Their bites are incredibly poisonous and will begin to rot away the surrounding flesh if not treated promptly.

**Rattus norvegicus. The common rat. Edible if cooked. Known to be carriers of diseases. (Especially if they were put here to do just that...) These guys are EVERYWHERE and some of them get to sizes that might make you wonder if they are cross breeding with stay dogs. And if you explores the tunnels, beware the mythical rat king a massive bundles of rats whose tails have knotted together.

Foodstuffs.

Both the rats and pigeons are edible. In additions, some of the restaurants might have food tucked into the back, in various states of edible.

Dripping water can be found in many places. Drink at your own risk. Some is fine, some...not so much.

As always, we here at The Games would like to wish you a very happy Hunger Games!

May the odds be ever in your favor.
darker_alice: (cut pose)

Re: Hiro Hamada | Big Hero 6 | tribute

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-11-30 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a stillness in the air Alice would have equated to walking through the Queen's keep on her second visit: quiet with an air of death that kept you on the balls of your feet. This place was nowhere near as terrifying, but deserved the same sort of caution. The uneasy state of the place she could adjust to, scaffolding she could manage, but people? They were unpredictable, the less she knew about them. A world of strange looking people with their own intentions and their own survival instincts.

So when she saw the trap, she tripped it deliberately: the string was light enough someone would overlook it, though she had to admire the ingenuity applied. The bits coming down she avoided quickly, and now she felt a little less amused, and her knife was out again, hunting for the perpetrator of the trap, ready to punish for the attempt at her life.

In the darkness, she actually trips over him in her search.

"BLOODY-" she begins, then stops. "Oh. A boy."

Well that certainly changed things.
hirodynamic: (pic#)

[personal profile] hirodynamic 2014-11-30 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Things had been dark, quiet, and very much like a nightmare until all of a sudden there's a person bodily crashing into him and Hiro barely has time to react.

He scrambles to his feet, knife in hand, holding it in both hands as he points it in the girl's direction.

"Back off!" he yells, even though she clearly isn't coming after him.
darker_alice: (water type)

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-11-30 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Alice had her knife out, of course, and she eyed him a moment. He was not a stabber, no: she had seen her share of street urchins who had a knife at hand and knew how to use it, worse came to worse. This boy, he was just scared, and likely her appearance had done nothing to calm him.

"Back off," though? Really?

"I should be the one cautious," Alice replied, clearly ruffled. "Those objects coming from above could have killed me. You have nerve, trying to frame me as the aggressor."

Never mind that she DID still have her weapon too.
Edited 2014-11-30 15:19 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hirodynamic 2014-11-30 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"You ran into me!" says Hiro defensively. "Anyway, it's your fault you weren't looking where you were going."

He tries to calculate the quickest route to escape, but it's dark, and she looks like she knows how to handle that knife. It's almost as if this whole thing is rigged to make them fail, and it angers him. A lot.
darker_alice: (How do you do)

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-11-30 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"It was dark," Alice said, "of course I ran into you. As for your trap, clearly I could see it, or I would have been killed. One hopes that you will be able to handle yourself when someone else approaches."

Alice wouldn't stab him, of course. She didn't needlessly murder children when they had done her no wrong.

"Are you new, or used to these kinds of situations? I have never been in a killing Arena before. At any rate, your clothing suits you better."
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[personal profile] hirodynamic 2014-11-30 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoever she is, she doesn't seem like she wants to hurt him, but still Hiro stays on his guard.

"Can't say I've ever been pulled away from home to fight to the death in a nasty old warehouse, no," he mumbles in reply. "And I didn't really wanna kill anyone, okay? I'm just trying to protect myself. And now I gotta build a new trap, no thanks to you."

Maybe this one will be a little less lethal.
darker_alice: (Set in my ways)

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-11-30 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Alice chuckled, shaking her head. "A warehouse? You could do with a bit more observation. This is a station, though a good deal bigger than I'm used to. It's a shame to have fallen into disarray: it looked like it could have been grand, once."

Was he blaming her for NOT dying? Rude!

"You'll excuse my wish to live," she said dryly. "That aside, do you have a name or shall I simply think of you as 'scared, bedraggled boy in the dark that attempted to kill me?'"
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[personal profile] hirodynamic 2014-12-01 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Who are you calling bedraggled?" Hiro replies, indignant. "And for the last time, I didn't wanna kill you. Not really."

He seems sort of bothered by the insinuation, because honestly, why else would he have set a trap like that? Certainly not to scare anyone.
darker_alice: (Irritation)

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-12-01 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Alice raised an eyebrow. "You would prefer 'unkempt' then? Of course you did not want to kill me: I have known those that do, and that intent is unmistakable. You merely attempted. You are not a killer."

Which, of course, did not bode well here.

"I am asking for your name."

hirodynamic: (pic#8549089)

[personal profile] hirodynamic 2014-12-01 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
"How 'bout neither?" says Hiro stubbornly. "And my name is Hiro. Who are you?"
darker_alice: (Quiet contemplation)

[personal profile] darker_alice 2014-12-01 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"We will stick with 'Hiro' then," Alice replied, who found the name amusing considering the circumstances. "As for me, my name is Alice, Alice Liddell. A pleasure to make your acquaintance. I do wish it were under better circumstances, but clearly that is beyond our control."

Now what should she do? Leaving him seemed cruel now, given he was clearly unsettled by the things he might have to do. Alice herself found them demeaning and purposeless: killing was not, after all, a taboo subject for the girl, given the right motivation. Self preservation clearly factored there.

"Now that we have met, Hiro, perhaps we ought to relocate. I do not give our chances much, sitting in one place in the dark."
Edited 2014-12-01 14:11 (UTC)