[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 14, 2014 11:31:13 GMT -5

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Post by gm bourgeois decadence [aya] on Sept 14, 2014 11:31:13 GMT -5

SWIMMING: 100M BACKSTROKE

Welcome to the 100m Backstroke tournament of the very first Panem Olympic Games! The swimming pool is located within the aquatics center, with stands for spectators traveling from Districts One, Two, Four, and the Capitol to watch the competitors. Television cameras are set up around as well, to broadcast the event to anyone staying home as well as to the other districts who aren't as lucky and competent as you all! Please be sure you stretch and warm up with your coaches before you're called to the pool for your race, and remember, make your district proud!

The execution of this event is simple. Feel free to roleplay your character getting ready to begin the race, and then paste the code [*roll=1200+6200] without the asterisks into your post and roll, as you would with a Hunger Games die. This will result in a four-digit number that will correspond to a time, which is read with a decimal point separating the first two and the last two digits (e.g. 5000 is read as 50.00 seconds)

The competitor with the lowest time wins this event. Times for this event will be continually updated on this thread.

After everyone has rolled, feel free to edit your post with your character's reaction if you so desire, but please keep it to one post rather than multiple.

There is NO POSTING ORDER; you may post whenever you please. Keep in mind that this event must be wrapped up by the end of the Olympics Day.

Roster
1. Samson Sanders - d4
2. Basil Artois - d4
3. Calypso Leto - d4
4. Makoto Tachibana - d4
5. Phenom Firestorm - d1
6. Oceania Krearns - d4
7. Bartholomew Swallow-Birch - d2
8. Jasper Finch - d4

Standings
1. Calypso Leto - 64.19
2. Oceania Krearns - 64.52
3. Samson Sanders - 65.27
4. Jasper Finch - 68.57
5. Makoto Tachibana - 68.59
6. Phenom Firestorm - 70.84

TL;DR
Dice: [*roll=1200+6200]
Deadline: 09/19 ~8:59pm EST

Last Edit: Sept 17, 2014 0:29:12 GMT -5 by ✌ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 14, 2014 13:56:15 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Sept 14, 2014 13:56:15 GMT -5

Phenom Firestorm

"Dialogue"
"Hearing"
Thoughts
Narration

Other than this lone district two qualifier it's just me versus district four. Its quite obvious to me that they will win all the medals here. They live near water heal they probably breathe water. IT might even be in their veins, but the only thing I can do is show them that they are not as superior in the water as they think. If I can beat even one of them it will go a long way to proving my skill despite my bad arm and leg. Here goes nothing. Win or lose my swimming time better be one of the best here or something will go down after the event.

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 14, 2014 21:53:19 GMT -5

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Post by Sage on Sept 14, 2014 21:53:19 GMT -5

Your head pounds from the liquor the night before and you pop a pain pill before heading to the swimming pool for the final event. The night before had been a lot of fun but you were sore all over the place. You smiled, knowing that Sail would be watching you today as you swam and you wanted to do your best.

As soon as you were changed into your bathing suit and your hair was pulled back on top of your head, you padded to the starting line, knowing you had this in the bag. District four always did well in these events because they were amazing and swimming came naturally. When the timer started, you began your backstroke.

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Last Edit: Sept 14, 2014 21:54:23 GMT -5 by Sage

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 15, 2014 2:14:56 GMT -5

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Post by cass on Sept 15, 2014 2:14:56 GMT -5

Captain Jasper Finch --

He'd decided that he'd try out a swimming race. Being born into the arms of the ocean he was feeling decently confident in the abilities he had. He'd never really tried backstroke, though. Personally, he was more of a freestyle kind of guy, it was straight forward movements just like he was. Whereas backstroke seemed to rely more on intuition, knowing that if you go too far that way or the other way you were going to crash into the side. He doubted he'd be very good at that, in all honesty. Still, he had decided he'd give the entire competition thing a go, so as they were called he pulled at the tight clothing around his legs and made his way to the lane he had been assigned. Goggles went on all around him and they jumped into the water. He pulled himself upwards, breathing even. It was time to race.

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Last Edit: Sept 15, 2014 2:15:36 GMT -5 by cass

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 15, 2014 2:59:34 GMT -5

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Post by [ retro gm ] angel lí ✨ on Sept 15, 2014 2:59:34 GMT -5

calypso leto.
She likes swimming backwards because she can hardly ever tell when it's about to end. All she can do is swim and swim and swim and pretend that the water runs for infinity. That there is nobody standing at the edge of the pool to tell her she's too slow or too sloppy or what she thought was perfectly fine was actually terrible. In fact she's really not all that bothered about the time next to her name or whether she comes first, second or dead last: she just wanted to get in the water again.

Always, always, she hears her sister in the back of her head. For a long time she'd be haunted by shrieks of agony or plagued by sobs, but today her driving motivation digs into her memories and the very core of herself. The familiar drumming of "Calypso can't swim, Calypso can't swim, Calypso can't swim!" makes her grit her teeth and her knuckles turn from red to white. This had always wired her up, but today she uses her memories as fuel and not fire. Not even the drumming of her own heart or the screams of the crowds or the bang of a gun can drown out her thoughts.

"Calypso can't swim, Calypso can't swim, Calypso can't swim!"

That's what you think.

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Last Edit: Sept 15, 2014 3:00:39 GMT -5 by [ retro gm ] angel lí ✨

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 15, 2014 4:23:39 GMT -5

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Post by lionel estrada d5 ᥫ᭡ kiah on Sept 15, 2014 4:23:39 GMT -5

MAKOTO TACHIBANA

This was my time. For years I have waited for this opportunity, I have trained, trained so very hard, participated in so many competition. I was ready. I was ready to race. I was ready to give it my all. It was the last day of the games and I had watched my friends go through them, I have watched and I have joined them in trying our bests to get the medal at the end. But this event, this was the one that I was most prepared for. This was my element. This was my style.

A smile on my lips I slip into the water. I was in lane four. One of the best lanes to be in. I look to my left and right and give a small smile to the people who would try to rush ahead of me. I don't wait to see if they respond. My hands clasp the start point and I pull up and the first beep. My blood was racing My mind was spinning and my hearing was focused, waiting for that next beep which wold allowed to kick off the wall and which would send me flying into the water, like a dolphin ive, but only backwards.

Another beep sounds followed by a sharp bang and I am moving towards the water, my hands hitting first, My whole body focused on the mission at hand.

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[Day 5] Swimming: Backstroke Sept 16, 2014 21:59:29 GMT -5

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Post by Kire on Sept 16, 2014 21:59:29 GMT -5

≋ S a m s o n ≋ S a n d e r s ≋

Does, Says, Thinks

I never knew if I was doing well in these competitions. Nothing ever seemed to stay straight in my head, like whether it mattered how many times I broke the surface or not, and whether I was actually ahead or behind of people with a lower time. Surely being able to hold your breath longer made you a better swimmer? Either way, I was being as most like a submarine as I could be, and I think I at least succeeded in that regard. Whatever was happening, I was having fun - or I liked to think I was having fun, so I guess that counts - and that was all that mattered, right? Now it was time to play this whole game again, only this time we were swimming upside down, well on our backs. From experience I knew this was the easiest way to get water up your nose but hey, it's what they want us to do apparently.

It took me a minute to realize they didn't require us to be completely under the water, but I could have managed either really. Oh well, all in fun.

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Time: 65.27 seconds

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Last Edit: Sept 16, 2014 22:01:25 GMT -5 by Kire