The Bloodbath

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:09:29 GMT -5

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Post by rook on Feb 15, 2014 11:09:29 GMT -5

willis keeni

for everyday robots getting old
when our lips are cold
lookin’ like standing stones
out there on our own

More screams, more blood. I pull away from the Tribute I was engaged with, taking a breather. I'm am always conscious about what's around me, paranoid that someone will attack me from behind. I feel so vulnerable. Vomit still dribbles down my chin, staining my uniform. Not a great start, was it? I feel sick to my stomach, and I'm scared that I'll throw up again. What if that's the death of me? I can't think like that. I can't.

I'm not hitting very cleanly. My hands are shaking too badly for me to get a good hit in on anyone. I'm a burden to Eye and the others. They should just go, leave me here to die. Better still, they should kill me. I wouldn't put it past them. I'm so damn pathetic. A stain on humanity. A drunk. Even now, when I am fighting for my life, all that I can think about is drinking, to make this all pass easier.

I've got nothing. Nothing to fight for. My eyes sting with tears as I take a step forward.
"I'm sorry..." I say, my voice shaking as much as my hands, "There's no other way!"

[Willis Keeni attacks Luke, Katana]
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[Severed Left Leg at Hip -- 10 damage]

I grab a terracotta jug, to my dismay it is empty. I curse under my breath, shoving that in my rucksack too.

[Willis Keeni picks up one Empty Water Jug]

everyday robots just touch thumbs
swimmin’ in lingo they become
stricken in a status sea
one more vacancy

sword

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:10:38 GMT -5 by rook

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:10:03 GMT -5

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Post by Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy] on Feb 15, 2014 11:10:03 GMT -5

I feel like I'm flying. That's the only way to properly describe it - it's been so long since I've run that I had completely forgot what it even felt like, and now I know. It's like there's a breeze, and you're pulling yourself forward and forward and forward, and it's so easy to forget the world around you because your lungs burn and your throat scratches and your heart pounds, and in all that time your brain is rushing every which way, trying to make sense of all the commotion.

Because the Bloodbath is just that: a bloodbath.

There are so many people rushing around me that there's no way to tell who's who or if anyone's behind me or if anyone's even dead yet, and I'm not scared. At least, I don't think that I'm scared, except my body's betraying my and my heart is racing and I can't tell if it's because of the running or because of the panic.

The thing that scares me the most is the sword between my fingertips. It doesn't make sense, not at all, not when my mind so hesitantly flashes back to images of the avox girl with a blade through her arm, her leg, her ankle, her neck..

Nothing makes sense, and I must force myself to think about what matters.

Home.

Go home now. Do it.

With that thought in mind, I test out my sword for the first time.

[Colgate attacks Luke with sword]
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[Picks up backpack]

1182 -- Shallow Cut on Right Shoulder -- 3.5 damage
(Sword)

sword

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:10:44 GMT -5

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Post by Kire on Feb 15, 2014 11:10:44 GMT -5

Gray

Gray was the biggest pain in the ass I ever met. I came across him, his brother Shade, and Shade's friend Black while walking outside on a sunny day. Warren had explained to me not long before that he was leaving, and it wasn't because he didn't want to be around me. He told me that it was because it was time for him to move on, and that I helped him to do so. Alone now, I came across three shadows painted on a wall. I could hear them arguing, two of them yelling at each other and the third trying to stop it. It was then I met them, and when they realized I could see and hear them they started to follow me around. Over the past years we have become close, like brothers and yet like friends as well.

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CLAUDE attacks LUKE DAVIS with SAI
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Shallow Cut on Back of Head -- 4.5 damage

[Picks up Roll of Bandages (15 ft)]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:11:22 GMT -5

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Post by maverick hale 🌧️ d5 [nyte] on Feb 15, 2014 11:11:22 GMT -5

I am not the first one to the cornucopia. No matter how fast my feet attempted to carry me, it wasn't enough. (It's never enough). And the killer, which I had so desperately searched for within those twenty-three others is suddenly... real. They swing at each other, any amicable conversation made suddenly forgotten. (They're your enemy Lyric. Fight!)
All this time I had been searching in the wrong places. Looking into others, to discover how a child could kill another. All I had to do was look at myself. I could feel it building within me, the warm glow of the embers becoming that of a roaring fire. Hungry, desprateto engulf anything that it needed to stay alive. Desperate to keep itself from being quenched. All my friend ships, the boy on the train, those at the talent show, were dead. Replaced by a title, molded into perfect little actors.
It was my turn to play my part. My fist clenches, so tightly carefully cut nails dig into my palm. (Action!)
And I swing.

[attacks Luke, unarmed]
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[broken nose, 5.5]
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Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:13:26 GMT -5 by maverick hale 🌧️ d5 [nyte]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:11 GMT -5

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Post by Anatra on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:11 GMT -5

The Bloodbath

***** ***** *****

With the speed of the wind, I let my feet take flight. I run. I look forward and nowhere else. I am flying. I am waiting for the inevitable stop, the air brushes on me. But I have no time.

I am struck.

The blood is more than a familiar sight, but when it is mine own I can feel hope stretch. Too much force, and it will snap, and my life will go with it.

They surround me, beating at me. My blood lowers and lowers. There is nothing to feel but pain.

I have to get out, I can't fight back. I have to run.

I try.

[Luke Davis attempts to flee - #1]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:24 GMT -5

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Post by gamemaker kelsier on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:24 GMT -5

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
― George S. Patton

There was a day when we hauled in the nets and we had a squid caught in one. My father told me not to touch it, that it was dangerous to do so. Once a little shit, always a little shit. Of course I did and the result wasn’t pretty. I was cleaning ink off of my skin for weeks and weeks. The kid’s blood sprays in a pretty similar way to that jet of ink, but it smells different and is less black. It also isn’t ink. It’s funny what the brain links together. I can’t help thinking that mine might be a bit off. That’s a given of course. I’m the boy who walked onto a live stage wearing nothing but my birthday suit. They expect me to be quite mad. I expect me to be quite mad. However, I continue to surprise myself. I feel completely sane in this moment, like it’s any other morning workout. The blood is a neat effect; I do know it’s quite real.

I wonder if it tastes the same way my blood tastes. I’m sure it does, not that I really wish to find out. I’m just curious, is all.

I wish to illicit more.

Before I do, I sling a tent onto my back. We can’t be sleeping outside, there are most likely things that slither and creep.

[Eye Saw adds tent to inventory]
[Eye Saw attacks Luke]
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[1085 -- Shallow Cut on Stomach -- 4.0 damage]sword

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:21:17 GMT -5 by gamemaker kelsier

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:30 GMT -5

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Post by Baby Wessex d9b [earthling] on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:30 GMT -5

ARGONITE SHORE

He couldn’t see Magenta’s face. It seemed that no matter where he stood, dodged, attacked, she remained out of reach. Her dark hair flying, her body twirling. He caught glimpses, but never the whole picture. It infuriated him, in a way few things in life ever had. Frustration. What was that word to a Shore, who had been given a silver spoon at birth? He’d only come to truly understand the term when she died. When she left on the train and never came back. What could be more perplexing, more irritating than never being able to talk to a person again. Never being able to hug his sister, even if she didn’t – and perhaps especially when she didn’t – want to hug him?

He could feel it tickling his guts. The switch that usually only Pyrite could trigger. A line of sweat had beaded on his forehead and upper lip as he worked, picking his way around the Cornucopia, both stalking his quarry and edging closer to his allies. All he wanted was to reach out and take their hands. Lead them away from the blood, so he could finish things quickly. Put your hands up make ‘em touch, touch. He lifted his naginata, trying to hail them, before he slashed down again. “Ladies, honestly!”

[ Argo attacks Luke Davis ; Naginata (Pole Sword) ]

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[Block -- 0.0 damage]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:34 GMT -5

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Post by Python on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:34 GMT -5

Now that her sword was bathed in blood she was all the more tempted to escape when she had the chance, but when her frantic gaze found Eye she immediately bolted to his side, breath too hasty and desperate for her to speak to him. The most she could do was scream, but she would save that for her deathbed. With her ally by her side she could follow him rather than wander like a lost child through the most dangerous part of the games. Now all she needed was Willis and Claire. Bring it on, assholes.

[attacks luke - katana]
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Shallow Cut on Right Calf -- 3.5 damage

[grabs pliers]
sword

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:16:01 GMT -5 by Python

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:47 GMT -5

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Post by Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy] on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:47 GMT -5

And the more I think about home, the more angry I become. It's an awful feeling that grows slowly in my chest, and yet I think I feel kinda powerful, kinda good, like I'm doing something to save them, doing something with my own two hands and my own force of will to bring them into glory, to bring them back a victory of food and health and safety, something that I could never have otherwise given them.

I can still hear Hannah saying my name.

Col?

Col?

And then that same voice, loud and insistent, acting like I betrayed her, acting like leaving her was the first thing I could ever do. I won't even let myself wonder if she'll forgive me if I die, because I'm not willing to die. I'm just not going to do it.

Better them than me. If I die, so do seven other people.

[Colgate attacks Luke with sword]
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1047 -- Stabbed in Stomach -- 9.5 damage
(Sword)
[Picks up pliers, throws them away]

sword

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:16:17 GMT -5 by Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:15:57 GMT -5

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Post by rook on Feb 15, 2014 11:15:57 GMT -5

willis keeni

for everyday robots getting old
when our lips are cold
lookin’ like standing stones
out there on our own

We have to get out of here. It's a Bloodbath. Every second we stay here, we risk dying. There's so many of them. So many people trying to kill us, each one as desperate as we are. Their motives are the same as ours - Kill or be killed. I grip my sword, shaking like a coward. Get a grip, damn it Willis, your family are watching. The family who ignored me in my hour of need. A goodbye, a good luck, a thank you. I got none of that. I didn't even get to see them. They abandoned me.

I grit my teeth, the shaking in my hands quelling somewhat with my anger.

No. I will not abandon my family, just because they abandoned me. That's not what family is. Even if they hate your guts, and want you to die, you still fight for them. You fight for them because you've got nothing else to fight for. Because family is everything. Tell that to Pyrian and Gypsy. This ain't about Py' or Gyp'. This is about me, and this is my story. If I want to fight to get back to District Six, to get back to my family and prove to them that I am more than a fucking waster, then I will.

"You bastards can't stop me. You hear?!"

[Willis Keeni attacks Luke, Katana]
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[Shallow Cut on Back of Head -- 4.5 damage]

I grab a blanket and roll it over, shoving it into my rucksack as quickly as I can.

[Willis Keeni picks up one Blanket]

everyday robots just touch thumbs
swimmin’ in lingo they become
stricken in a status sea
one more vacancy

sword

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:16:29 GMT -5 by rook

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:17:04 GMT -5

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Post by maverick hale 🌧️ d5 [nyte] on Feb 15, 2014 11:17:04 GMT -5

(A weapon) my hand curls around a cold metal hilt. I hold it up to my eyes, it's a blade. Almost small enough to be a knife. A cold grin spreads across my lips in the midst of this bloodbath. Death surrounds me, but how glad I am to be able to fight.
What would the boy with brittle bones think? As he sits in my former home, eyes glued to the television, watching the death commence. Was he angry, that I simply did not run away from the thick of the fighting, that I fought here at the cornucopia instead of ensuring my own safety.
Perhaps he's glad that it was not him, or the little girl in this madness. Or, he could simply not care. Eyes glazed, directed blankley to the screen as his sister's face flashes across it, a crazed grin sewed upon her face by the knife in her hand.
Is he glad I'm gone?

[attacks Luke, sai]
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[shallow cut on right hip, 3.5]
-picks up backpack-

knife

Last Edit: Feb 15, 2014 11:20:06 GMT -5 by maverick hale 🌧️ d5 [nyte]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:17:11 GMT -5

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Post by Baby Wessex d9b [earthling] on Feb 15, 2014 11:17:11 GMT -5

ARGONITE SHORE

The lights dimmed, the chorus of well-wishers fading. The arena was not filled with cheering fans, hands slapping together in adulation. It was filled with sweat, and blood, and tears. He skirted around the Cornucopia, his naginata dripping in his wake. His allies, his ladies, had already disappeared in the distance. He could stay. He could claim the Wealth in the name of Shore, as it was foretold.

Except he had grander plans that taking control of the Cornucopia. He circled the horn until he came to the place where they had staked a claim. Argonite waited for a break in the chaos, and then bowed to the alliance, the Masters of the Cornucopia. “If any of you find a hat, I’d be most obliged if you’d bring it to me.”

With a smirk and a twirl of his soaked naginata, he turned and marched away. He did not run, did not flee. He was not afraid. He used his glaive as a golf club, sweeping aside socks and kits and the occasional limb as he made his way from the Bloodbath. At the edge of the devastation, he lifted the naginata with one hand and blew a kiss to the sky with the other. “For you,” he promised all of Panem.

[[ Argonite Shore has fled the Bloodbath. ]]

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 11:17:53 GMT -5

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Post by loren on Feb 15, 2014 11:17:53 GMT -5

[ c l a i r e p a r t r i d g e ]

. les quatre cavaliers .
. elle est la mort .

"We can't escape, there's no way.
They'll call our names through the speakers.
When they find you they'll retrieve you,
take you where sphered domes will freeze you"

Well, I got another song. Some music connoisseur might consider it a ballad; with a nautical ebb and flow. The grunts of struggle and anguish around me blare like a French horn, the clash of swords sing out like a desperate cello, the sick thuds of bodies as they hit the ground beat as my percussion. And maybe, in another world, we all could’ve been beautiful. We all could’ve held hands in a dance meant solely for us, not for the watchful eyes of the fruits of a war we all forgot why we were fighting. I didn’t start this war, and my death sure as hell will not end it.

" These beautiful moments we shared together
All end now
They'll make me drink this potion
I'll sleep forever, until I wake under the
t h e g l a c i a l g r o u n d "
x

[attacks Luke Davis --- kamas]
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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 12:12:52 GMT -5

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Post by Sage on Feb 15, 2014 12:12:52 GMT -5

(OOC: La, la, Kou tibsitting)

I step into the tube and feel it rise, I'm afraid because I know that I could die right now. I can do this, I can do this. I shut my eyes tightly and and feel the cool breeze hit my face and blow my golden hair around. My tribute uniform, some kind of gi with a a gold belt. I look around, the twenty-three other tributes who will be waiting and any one of them could kill me.
No, think positive.
'Ladies and Gentlemen, let the sixty-sixth Annual Hunger Games begin!'
60...
50..
40..
30...
20...
10...
9...
8...
7...
6...
5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
Gong!
And then I sprint off my plate.

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The Bloodbath Feb 15, 2014 12:17:06 GMT -5

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Post by Sunrise Rainier D2 // [Thundy] on Feb 15, 2014 12:17:06 GMT -5

All of a sudden, I can feel the strength behind my limbs. All those years of working and struggling and fighting against starvation have paid off, because even this pain doesn't feel like much. Maybe it's just the adrenaline pumping through my veins, but aches and pains and cuts don't phase me, and I've got a clear image in my mind of where I'm going, what I need to do, how I am going to survive.

I throw the backpack over my shoulders and leave it open so I can stuff things in it as I go, and the next thing I pick up is a blanket. There's no way to tell at this point what the Gamemakers will do to us in terms of weather, and I surely don't want to spend my nights shivering in the arms of my allies. Comfort is a hard thing to find in a place like this, so I don't hesitate to take the blanket.

In a split second, another tribute passes into my line of sight. I slash forward without even thinking, but this weapon is so much different from the ranged ones I used to wield back in the hunting days.

[Colgate attacks Eye with sword]
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[Picks up blanket]

sword

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