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The Announcer ([personal profile] gameannouncer) wrote in [community profile] gamesarena2016-06-02 05:28 am
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Round 1 - Preparation Stage

Introduction
There was a drum roll and as you entered into this world. You are surrounded by cheering crowds, bright lights and cameras. You have just been announced as a tribute for a specific district and this begins your adventure into the Games Arena.

There is a lot to do before the Arena opens. The audience must be informed of all your vital stats so they can place their bets. Are you going to win because you're the strongest? Are you going to win because you're sneaky and smart? You won't see any of that however. The next few weeks are going to be filled with the following:

[Please thread below in any or all of the locations. It would help if the subject of the top level comment could list where the tribute is just so it makes it easier for other characters to tag in.]

Training Arena
There is everything that you could ever need in the training area. There are teachers around 24/7 who will be more than happy to teach you the skills needed in the Arena.

Such as: hunting, wilderness survival, tying knots, camouflage, botany, weapons use, general fitness experts and anything else you believe may be required.

It might save your life to go to at least one of these tutorials. There are also gyms and equipment which will help you focus on specific skills such as climbing, swimming and anything you may think of. 

In this Training Arena, you will have access to any weapons your character may have back home in canon. They will only be available in the training arena so you must leave them behind when you leave here and when you make your way to the arena. 

There are also public and private training facilities so you can choose whether you want to show everyone your skills or hide everything until the arena stage.

Rule: Any tributes that physically attack each other before entering the arena will be punished upon the games beginning. This is announced to the tributes as they are released to their own devices.

Publicity Shoots
It is up to your prep team to make sure the public love you. That's what they get paid for. As Battle Royale is school themed, you will be taking lots of school based photo shoots in the following uniform:


Look familiar? Well, in this game it doesn't matter whether you're in the white or black uniform so take your pick at whatever you think will look nicer. These will be the uniforms that you enter the arena in. This may be your last chance to look pretty and your last chance to be remembered.

Private Dorms
At the end of each day, you have your own room to retire back to. Each district has an entire floor to themselves and each floor has two giant dorm rooms.

There is room service for each dorm room and you can order whatever you want. Really, anything. You're about to go to your death so you might as well enjoy the remainder of your life. You are free to go to each other's rooms if you want to visit. Make friends, make enemies, or scout out your competition.

These rooms are state of the art. You have a large shower where it feels like the water is coming from multiple directions and a range of fancy soaps, shampoos etc. You can even choose to have a bubble bath if you want.  The bed is large and covered with the blankets and sheets your character most adores. There is also a giant wardrobe with any outfit you would like to wear available at a touch of a button.

Each tribute will also have 2 avoxes following them around when they are in the private dorm area to get them whatever they need and clean up after them.

Private Social Area
There is a living space with games, other hobbies and an eatery for people who don't want to eat in the solitude of their dorms. But why aren't you in the training hall trying to make sure you stay alive in the arena? This is where you'll find out the gossip of where you are, what's going on. You can speak to your prep team to learn about why you're here, what your role is and the fact that you're probably going to be dead in a month. And probably at the hands of the person eating at the next table and smiling innocently at you.

Other
You are welcome to create anywhere else you want to be. Want to watch a movie? Go ahead. Want to visit a library? Yeah sure. The Game Creation team have designed a little city for you to play in before you enter the Arena so if you are certain that an extra day in the training facility won't make you live much longer anyway? Might as well go out and enjoy yourself. It's on me.

Note: Wherever you are or whatever you're doing, there is a chance that your actions will probably get broadcasted to the public on TV.  
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[personal profile] internalizings 2016-06-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
training area.
[ After a particularly taxing reunion with Luke, Tear can be found in a variety of places. She's good with throwing knives, so she doesn't feel the need to go there just yet. Maybe if she feels like she has to practice--which she likely will, considering that she hasn't fought for her life in a very long time--she'll make her way over there. But for now, she moves from station to station: snares, edible plants, knots, fire starting. It's stuff she's done before, but it's things that can keep both her mind and hands occupied. ]
private dorms.
[ She doesn't go to her floor until she absolutely has to.

Usually, Tear's not one to avoid. But, honestly, after fighting Van to the death--literally--and losing Luke not long afterward, she's hesitant to approach him. Tear supposes she should be happy--her brother is here, alive (but he might be dead again, before long) and seemingly well. Luke is here, so very much alive and warm and real.

But it's difficult for her to settle down. Eventually, she does go to their shared dormitory floor, and her movements are careful, calculated.

It's time for a touching family reunion. ]
private social area.
[ ... So, all things considered, this isn't... terrible. This place, anyway. The idea that she's going to be thrown into an arena and fight for her life still lurks, dark and nagging, at the back of her mind.

At least the entertainment's good, and the food is delicious.

Find her pretty much anywhere, here in the social area. She'll, probably, be willing to talk towhoever comes over. ]
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training

[personal profile] bubblings 2016-06-03 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Starting a fire without her powers is something Hiyori doesn't have a lot of experience in, so playing nice, she comes over to this person who seems to be doing pretty well for themselves. ]

H1, how d0 u do that? Can u pl3ase teach H1yori?
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[personal profile] internalizings 2016-06-04 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A little girl? Ugh, if the general situation weren't enough to put a sour taste in Tear's mouth, this is. ]

Of course. [ Tear's voice is a little tight, but she makes room for her. ]
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[personal profile] bubblings 2016-06-04 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Th@nks!

[ She sits down net to Tear, and picks up something that looks like what the other's holding. ]

Sh3 uses th1s?
Edited 2016-06-04 17:24 (UTC)
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Private Dorms

[personal profile] allthatdies 2016-06-04 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Time for a touching family reunion? The thought made Van laugh bitterly. After he had just made his pact with Lorelei to save his life, it was already time to die again -- and this time for a place he knew next to nothing about, and with his sister by his side. He would think this whole thing an absurd dream, if it wasn't more vivid than the past two months.]

[Regardless, it was still best to assume the worst: that this is his new reality, and that he had one last chance to see his sister before they have to meet yet again on the battlefield.]

[He knocks on he door:]
Tear? Are you there?

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[personal profile] internalizings 2016-06-04 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Of course she's here.

But she doesn't answer immediately. There's a tightness in her throat that Tear can't seem to get rid of. Tear realizes the silence hangs heavy between them, and she has to say something, because it can't stretch on forever....

She crosses the room and opens the door. What do you say to the brother you've said goodbye to too many times? ]


Van.
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Social Area

[personal profile] 99purroblems 2016-06-07 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[The tips of two hard orange cones begin to peek over the armrest of a sofa. Slowly, they rise until their bases disappear into black hair, and then under that, curious yellow eyes stare at Tear.

Nepeta blinks once, then sits up more and folds her arms over the armrest, sort of draping herself over it.]


You seem furry quiet. Are you okay?