Anthem - Day 5

Chanel fiddles brutishly with the control panel, sitting at the desk while Ruby and Sloane stand behind her. It's her job to turn the day over, do more grunt work that should be a junior gamemakers job but she keeps having to do anyway. She can feel Sloane and Ruby's eyes boring into her back, keeps catching their reflection in the glass, the sharp light in both their eyes.

“See Chanel isn’t this quite exciting?" Sloane croons, stepping forward to put either of her hands on the younger woman's shoulders. "The weak ones are finally dying."

Chanel wills herself not to bristle. Her phone buzzes, Becks name lighting up the screen, and she grits her teeth against the instinct to flip the thing over so the Head Gamemaker can't see.

"They all do weed themselves out eventually," Ruby says to match, grinning at Sloane in that way Chanel's been trying to commit to memory. She'll be damned if these two don't make the perfect witch villains for her next book.

When Sloane goes on, Chanel swears she feels the other woman's nails pressing against her carotid. The message is clear. No one here gets to take a step out of line. Not even an inch. 

"Soon enough we will place a crown atop someone’s head.”

A sense of calm settles into the roots of the arena, the ground no longer crackling with lingering electric currents. As Day 4 sinks into sunset, any remaining clouds dissipate, the sky turning purple all over again but in a different way, streaked through with threads of pink and orange. It was a wonderful, marvelous sight, and the entire arena stops to catch its breath at the sight before being plunged into night.

Whether they sleep through the night, or rest fitfully, they are at least glad on this night to see the stars. Stark blue skies welcome the tributes in the morning, coming with its own dizzying realization just how far up all of you really are. Clustered in your little camps around the mountain, every tribute can see to the outer edges of the arena. Blossoms catch on the breeze, cluster together and put together ballets on the wind for all to see.

For the tributes in the arena, the faces of the fallen appear in the nighttime sky.

Amaterasu Yamamoto, District Six
Steele Cassidy, District One
Dorothy Hope, District Eight

16 still alive. 15 must die before one of them can hope to return home.

Congratulations, tributes, on surviving Day 4!

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GENERAL INFORMATION.
Day 5 ends on Friday, March 24th.

Posting is mandatory for all tributes.

MANDATED FIGHTS

GREATER MOUNTAINS
JUST FRIENDS [Itzal 98/14, Mirage 34/11]^~ vs. BOG BOYS [Johnny 26/16, Karl 75/11]^†
(Posting Order: Itzal, Karl, Mirage, Johnny)

SLAY [Svetlana 56/6, Theo 18/4, Elm 23/10] vs. THE ADEPTI [Francine 70/16, Autumn 37,17]^~ vs. NIKO [86/14]^%
(Posting Order: Nikolas, Francine, Svetlana, Autumn, Elm, Theo)

ANCIENT RUINS
STARLORDS [Pierce 68/14, Brennan 92/8, Haizea 74/16]^~ vs THE MARAUDERS [Dyno 22/14, Rene 6/1, Maverick 32/17]^†
(Posting Order: Brennan, Haizea, Pierce, Maverick, Dyno, Rene)


Additional notations:
* denotes that a mutt will start the fight
^† 1 tribute death is required
^% 2 tribute deaths are required
^! tribute opted for double healing
^# new muttation unlocked for the bestiary
^~Tributes were moved. Moved tributes have the option of gathering items from original location or new location, but not both.


CLIMATE.
Clear skies, high winds. The temperature drops, and gusts of wind cut like ice across the tributes cheeks every few minutes. The sun burns though, hot and bright, warming their skin again once the wind dies down.
Temperature: 55°F/16°C
Humidity: Moderate

A continually updated table can be found here, on the HG Engine.
Our lovely member Rook also made this companion engine!

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