Round 1 - Arena Open

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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

Map Alterations

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If your tribute picks up anything listed above, or makes any large alterations to the map, please comment to this top level so the changes can be made to the post.

Cornucopia Initial Battle

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For all of the tributes who are wanting anything from the cornucopia as soon as the gun sounds then please battle it out here.

For people who come to the cornucopia outside of this top level, you may find only remnants of whatever is left. Weapons scattered, food taken etc. You may get lucky if you sneak back later but if you desperately want something, now is your chance.

All over the map - OTA

[dancermai]

G6 - initial location
[As the gun goes off, Mai bolts in the direction she's facing and that would be right out into the forest. She didn't have a plan and she didn't even think that she should stop and get anybody's attention. All she knew was that she had to go and find somewhere to feel safe. Somewhere away from all of the people that she had met. All of the people that could potentially now want her dead.

She only slows down after she has run through the thicket of trees for quite some time. Mai's panting hard, already covered in sweat, glad that she has a high level of stamina from dancing but running will only get her so far. She leans back against the tree and sighs.]

D6 - Later on in the afternoon
[After walking around for much of the day, Mai chances across a small lake. She decides to sit down by it for a short while. After hesitating for a few moments, she takes a drink of the water and realizes that it was clean. She'll need to keep this in mind in case she runs our of water a little later. Now is the time for her to go through her backpack and take stock of what she really has...]

B6 - Inside the shelter at sundown
[There was a building! A place that felt safer than the other places on the map. Potentially, the other tributes will find this place as well on their map and make their way here but she finds her way into one of the rooms and locks the door behind her. That door probably won't keep out anybody desperately wanting to get in but at least she feels a little bit safe. Just for now anyway...]

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. ]

[2wei]

[ Having her magical abilities back, Illya keeps to the shadows. It's best to make sure that nobody surprises her, and utilizing the Assassin class card; she can utilize its Presence Concealment, along with the ability to have Ruby duplicate herself. Which means that nobody can see her... for now, at least. Especially as she travels the map.

It's for the best that she doesn't run into people, lest she has to deal with battling them. ]

☆ B6: shelter ( late evening )

[ It's relatively safe here, so she Uninstalls Assassin, bringing her back to her usual magical girl garb. Which is 100% fine, considering that she can still utilize a good portion of prana in this state. Placing the card back inside the case, she swallows hard, more than a little nervous. She's tired, but that's only natural.

Illya needs to find a place to sleep for the time being, but she needs to make absolutely sure nobody's claimed this place as their own yet, much less rigged it for traps.

Which is why Ruby warns her in a quiet whisper before she opens the door with a small creak, hoping that nobody attempts to attack... ]

☆ A8: fruits ( morning the next day )

[ She's rather hungry the next day, and unfortunately, her brother isn't here to feed her and she can't just use the food in her backpack, either. Which is why she looks at the map and -- oh. There's fruit! There's also a pack of wolves near that area, too, but she might be able to avoid them.

Of course, to her, a pack of wolves is literally nothing compared to. . . well, Heroic Spirits. But she opts to fly over the river instead of dealing with wolves.

And she'll just be packing that fruit now, thank you very much. ]

☆ B8: wolves ( afternoon )

[ Aaaand of course she winds up having to deal with the pack of wolves anyway. Which causes her to tense up, swallowing hard as she grips onto Ruby. ]

Ruby, you ready? [ "Of course! Illya-san, you don't need to worry. These wolves aren't as powerful as Kuro-san or Rin-san, or even Angelica-san, for sure." ] Mm, you're probably right. But let's not underestimate them...!

[ Hence the barrage of mana bullets headed straight their way. One might even accidentally hit you. And those things hurt. ]

Around!

[replacementaliengoldfish]

[F9, center-ish]
[It's actually only been maybe twenty to thirty minutes since the horn by now, thanks to his incredible speed, and he's walked far enough to feel like he's safe to take a break. He doesn't know who is planning to kill and who isn't, aside from Mai and Luke. He's not even sure if he's planning to. That can come later.

Right now, he's going to sit with his back to a tree and rest. He may have only released himself for a few minutes, but, assuming he's relatively safe right now, he needs to recover while he's got the time. The other thing he needs to do is look over his spoils.

...Basic school supplies. That feels like they're being made fun of. Dried jerky and water, some kind of ointment - medicine?, a map, a compass, useful. ...Scratch the last one, the compass has four arrows, but no indication which one is supposed to be north. Well then. Maybe it'll be better to travel by night. As for the food he grabbed, looks like a...lot of dried apple slices and a twelve-pack of instant noodles? Could be worse...]

[D10, edge]
[He'd hoped to find a source of water, because that's the real sticker in his supplies. Not much to drink, and he's going to lose fluid quickly without a fresh source. What he finds here isn't water, but some kind of....slightly shimmery patch of air.]

What on earth...?

[C10, lighthouse]
[It's still not water, but it is shelter. That'll save him some trouble. he's careful to scout around it first for signs of someone else getting there first, but...it looks clear. Once he enters, he props a large stone up near the door, such that anyone who pushes the door hard enough will make plenty of noise doing so. Then he begins to search the whole place thoroughly.]