Round 1 - Arena Open

[gameannouncer]

On the day of the official start of the games, each tribute is moved into their own waiting room with their partner from the same district. Your prep team will hand you a school bag filled with miscellaneous items and they will also clasp a bracelet around your dominant hand and a similar anklet around the opposite ankle. 

[For people who have watched Battle Royale or know the fandom, you will recognize what this is. It's just on a different part of the body. Your tributes will not be told what this is. These devices cannot be removed and they also serve as trackers and monitors to track health levels and locations.]

Your prep team will give each tribute a hug and some warm words of encouragement (or a slap on the back for you manly folk) and then you will be moved into your relevant entry tube. Time will count down slowly but one by one, the tributes will be moved into the arena and announced on TV for the viewers at home. The tributes have been advised that if they step off their starting point prior to the official start of the game, their platform will explode. Do not move until you have been advised that you can.

Each tribute gets one of these cute school bags.

 

Inside, you will find the following:

1 small bottle of water

1 map of the arena (below) 

1 defective compass (it is up to you how you want it to be defective. (Eg. Points you in circles, walks you in a random straight line and then changes direction after a certain distance. Is just plain broken. Makes funny sounds when you shake it etc) 

1 day's supply of dry rations - such as jerky or the equivalent your character likes.

A pencil case with a permanent marker, child safety blunt scissors, a small plastic ruler, a pencil and an eraser.

The following tributes will have a bonus item:  bakegarasu  grapeeater  marimohead  2wei  tornaway  blood_lust replacementaliengoldfish  no_dreams_for_you  50_shades_of_blue 99purroblems 
Bonus - 1 jar of elixir cream that is 1x use only. This cream will instantly heal any wound that you apply to it no matter how large the wound is and how fatal it should have been. As soon as it is applied once, the entire jar will disappear.

There will be no other explanation attached with the map. This is exactly what the tributes are getting. There is a N point on the map but the compass doesn't work. Oh wait, the tributes don't know that either. Good luck.

The tributes all start an equal distance from the cornucopia which is right in the middle of the grey area. They are in a semi circle with district 1 members being on the bottom left corner of square H8 and District 12 being in the top right of square G10. 

The following information is for OOC use only and only comes into play when your tributes encounter them in game:

• The fruits in A8 are edible fruits. There is a wide range from apples and oranges to mangoes. Everything your character would want. However, to get there they must navigate past 3 packs of wolves or try to traverse over a very bustling river.
• The Lighthouse in C10 has a secret stash of grenades (x10) on the top level. 
• You are welcome to come up with whatever you want in the forest/lake/sand areas. Please comment into the info post when your character encounters anything really amazing so I can update this post with the square and information. Then everyone else can also suffer.
• Cornucopia - This is where you will find 6 weeks worth of food (the food will stay fresh for that long) and water. There is enough to feed all 12 districts of tributes. Are you guys going to share? Behind the mountain of food is where all the weapons are. There is a large stash of guns, swords, knives, enough to arm the amount of people in the arena with 1 type of weapon each. Amongst the weapons there are also fandom specific items that your character wishes they had from home. If you want it, you'll have to fight for it. Asides from that, there is also a small range of electronic devices (1x actual working compass) and a range of items that can be used to set traps. (eg. tripwires, long range bomb detonators etc).
• The water in the lakes and streams coming down from the mountain are drinkable.
• In the beach area on the line of I3 and I4 there is 1 buried treasure. This treasure chest includes 3 bottles of water and 3 days worth of food rations.
• In the shelter B6, there is medical equipment. Bandages, antiseptic creams etc. This is one medical kit in 3x separate rooms in the shelter, carefully hidden away.
• It will take a tribute roughly half an hour to get through each square. Since the map is quite small, your character can essentially tag into any thread. It would help if you mark top levels where the tribute is for easy tracking. 
• The arena is surrounded by an invisible forcefield that will bounce back items that you throw at it.

Game Updates
As your character picks up any items from the above list, I'll remove them and add them to the list here. First come first served. The items will go to whoever comments on the mod top level below. Please comment linking to the thread when your character picks up the item.

Twist 1 - Announced 23 July 2016 - 24 Hour Battle
Twist 2 - Announced 6 Aug 2016 - A little noise disturbance
Twist 3 - Announced 20 August 2016 - Phoenix
Twist 4 - Announced 3 September  2016 - Musical Bracelets
Twist 5 - Announced 17 September 2016 - TBA
There will be no further twists so Arena Post for Twist 5 will remain in play until end of round.

And with that...there is a loud gunshot...

The games begin. 

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Comments

all over | ota

[100arts]

H&G | Forest
[ Mafuu needs no compass to find the way (she doesn't know how to use this kind of compass, anyway). She has already pinpointed her current location and the map has been securely memorized. The items she has acquired by the cornucopia are securely in her bag or at her waist.

She also has a current destination as goal but she is not going to go there directly. It won't do her any good in case she is followed.

So she heads in a different direction, in the direction of the mountains. Staying in the shadows of the trees is good for her anyway, and it helps her preserve energy and restore what she lost while she was in the sun.

She stays on the ground most of the time, but sometimes, when she is certain that she is alone, she jumps into a tree - with effortless grace - and sits there just to listen. Not that she can't sense auras of those nearby, but it is useful to sit down and listen sometimes. She will without question notice if someone is closing in on her location, and she looks over to see who it is (but she might already know through the characteristics of the footfalls or whatever she might hear). ]

E6 | River
[ She has no desire to cross the field of sand, or the stretch of open land that is located above it. On the other hand, the mountains are of interest to her, she wants to find out what is in them, if there are any useful caves or tunnels that she can make use of.

She is standing in the shadow of the trees, just a few steps out of the sunlight, and she's surveying the riverbed. ]

D10 | Nightfall
[ She prefers staying out in the nature even at night. The shelter exists of course, but she does not know the standing of all the people in this so called "game" and she does not know who will use the shelter, or what the layout of it looks like. She plans to investigate the next day but for now, she chooses a tree not far from the edge of the arena, and hides in it. She erased her presence entirely a long time ago, so no one could have followed her even if they tried, and it should be as safe as it gets when she hides far up among the leaves.

What she will do is any of the other "tributes" appears within close range, she does not yet know. ]