[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 11:01:25 GMT -5

Post by ghosty on Sept 3, 2016 11:01:25 GMT -5

SWIMMING: 800M INDIVIDUAL MEDLY

Welcome to the 800m Individual Medly event of the second 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=12000+52500] without the asterisks into your post and roll, as you would with a Hunger Games die. This will result in a five-digit number that will correspond to a time, which is read with a decimal point separating the first three and the last two digits (e.g. 52500 is read as 525.00 seconds) I will then convert this to minutes and record it here.

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. Typherius Krearns - 10th retro gm | paxton hayes
2. Lightning O'Hana - Arrows
3. Katrina Sykes - charade
4. Nautr Shek - djed carnelian . d8m [kap]
5. Brooke Destin-Libertine - d7f amber bosch 🌿 tris
6. Poseidon Arnav - napoleon, d2m ₊⊹ 🐁 ɢʀɪғғɪɴ.
7. Saul Hauger - MrMista
8. Torka Hammerfell - Malachor Erso D2 (Cato)

Standings
1. Typherius Krearns - 8:46.93
2. Torka Hammerfell - 8:52.74
3. Nautr Shek - 9:23.73
4. Saul Hauger - 9:30.85
5. Lighting O'Hana - 9:45.12
6. Katrina Sykes - 10:39.37

TL;DR
Dice: [*roll=12000+52500]
Deadline: 09/09 ~11:59pm EST

Last Edit: Sept 5, 2016 3:15:18 GMT -5 by ᕙʕ•ᴥ•ʔᕗ

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 16:11:38 GMT -5

Post by charade on Sept 3, 2016 16:11:38 GMT -5

A Hammerfell, Libertine and another Krearns. Not Crayola. Fairly tough competition. But nothing she couldn’t handle. She’d already beaten Torka in the discus throw. The libertines hadn’t had a tribute in a while, and well as for the Krearns, well, Typherius was the one she was keeping an eye on. Bouncing on her heels, she kept looking around, staring at the other competitors and the people watching, offering a shark toothed grin to any that met her gaze. All of the other careers in the event were from district four, so there was no chance of being embarrassed by a one or a two.

Even if she didn’t win a medal in this one (which she was heavily convinced that she would), she’d at least only come in behind fellow fours, and she was slightly more okay with that notion. The signal sounded and she launched herself into the lane. She needed to redeem herself from the hundred meter freestyle. This time, she’d get a medal. It was what she trained for. Maybe she couldn’t beat some of the other people with speed, she’d do it by endurance. Eight hundred meters was a fair distance, and not everyone could hack it. With that in mind, she knifed through the water with purpose.

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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2016 16:13:56 GMT -5 by charade

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 16:31:53 GMT -5

Post by Arrows on Sept 3, 2016 16:31:53 GMT -5

Lightning O'Hana

Anger it fuels my every step, bleeds from every one of my cells. All my life I have been forced to succeed for the good of my family and now I find myself drowned when the spotlights kissed my skin. I have spent years of my life swimming within the cool currents, but when the buzzer rang I came up far short. It was my moment to expose myself and my strength to world as a swimmer. Now they look upon me as a slow fool never to deserve a medal.

Chaos tells me it was just nerves, but I know it wasn't. I wasn't shivering from fear or wrought of worry. I was shivering from anticipation, yet it was that very anticipation which caused me to swim too quickly on my first fifty. Which caused me to fail on the final stretch of the pool. However, I will not allow myself to do the same again.

Once more I find myself positioned perched above the pool, but everything this time is different. All four strokes swim through my thoughts as well as the voices of my coaches. I have always been a head case, but not this time. Instead, I let my body slide naturally into its start position. When the buzzer blares I dive again, yet now I am determined to swim a smart race and to close it with the speed of my best stroke. Breaststroke.

I have to be as fast as Lightning.

Lightning Swims
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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2016 16:32:36 GMT -5 by Arrows

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 17:03:17 GMT -5

Post by MrMista on Sept 3, 2016 17:03:17 GMT -5

He still couldn't believe it. Saul was here, at the Panem Olympics, with thousands of people watching him. True, he was only competing against people in his district, no surprise since the 800m IM was a water-based event, but nevertheless, there was a fire inside the aqua-loving child that spurred him to try his best. He knew the chances that he'd do well were small, almost nonexistent. After all, he'd only tried out for the Olympics on a whim. Still, the possibility of victory flashed before his eyes, and Saul vowed to himself that he would do his best.

Maybe a strong performance would lead to a bright future for his family, a chance for the twins to really get some help. With them in his mind, Saul readied himself for the starting whistle. When it finally blew, he dove right in, eager to make a good showing.

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 21:11:36 GMT -5

Post by 10th retro gm | paxton hayes on Sept 3, 2016 21:11:36 GMT -5

Typherius Krearns
Seventeen| Male | District Four

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

Apparently being in district four has it advantages, and jumping from rocks into the oceans below have proven worthy of my time despite the long wait after the tsunami hit the district. I never thought diving was something I was good at. Fear of heights had made jumping difficult, but here I am proving that I am more than the scrawny, good for nothing, Krearns. I hope to make a name for myself. To prove that just because the waves struck against me and tried to kill me doesn't mean I'm down for the count. But diving is easy. Swimming on the other hand is difficult because my bones in my arms still ache from the nasty breaks. My legs are sore and numb most of the time - learning to walk again was the most difficult task of all. If I can do that, I can thrive in the Olympic games.

But it's not about thriving. It's about finishing what was started. It's about bringing honor and hope to the family name. Someith gave me hope, and it's up to me to keep it alive.

~~Besides looking at all these men make my time worth it.~~

Focus.

Mother and father would kill me if they knew the thoughts going on in my mind. I blink a couple times before taking my place onto the side of the pool. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to make a name for myself. I'm ready to perform once more.

The moment the buzzer sounds, I dive into the water, and I swim with all my might.

I pray it's enough.

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lest we forget [the characters]

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 3, 2016 22:25:54 GMT -5

Post by Malachor Erso D2 (Cato) on Sept 3, 2016 22:25:54 GMT -5

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Torka Hammerfell

Looking around, I know that I'm outnumbered. I'm the only non district four competitor that's competing. I know that district four is set to win this match, but I will not let district four win. It's me against everyone else just like it was when the boy from four struck down my brother in cold blood in the icy arena. They cannot stop me. I move around trying not to draw much attention to myself because I want to save it for when I'm swimming as fast as I can showing district four, that I am the only one worthy of having the honor of walking away with the prize. I am stronger than my brothers. I am better than them. I'm better than my sisters. I take my place, and I stare into the water. Sure district four has the advantage seeing as they live near the water, but that won't matter anymore. A cocky grin twists across my face, and the moment the buzzer sounds I jump into the pool, and I swim. Not once do I look back.

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[Day 2] Swimming: 800m Individual Medley Sept 4, 2016 20:52:08 GMT -5

Post by djed carnelian . d8m [kap] on Sept 4, 2016 20:52:08 GMT -5

Nautr Shek
800m Individual Medley

Stretch. Get ready. Prepare yourself.

It was day two of the Panem Olympics, which meant my first day of competition. I was told at home that I was a rather good swimmer. Now, it was time to put that to the test in front of the other career districts. People from One, Two and Four were there to watch me. I was a twelve year old girl. There was no doubt in my mind that I had to be one of the absolute youngest competing in anything there. Looking around at who I would be swimming against, I hoped I would do well enough.

Even if I didn't do very well, however, I was confident that I would at least be satisfied with whatever my time was. At least, I hoped I would be. It was rather tough, being a competitive person. You always want to beat everyone else, or at least to better than you did before. I, however, didn't have a 'before' this time, meaning that I had to do better than at least someone to be satisfied with how I did.

I felt the water streaming against my body as I swam. I was confident, and I was ready to see how well I did when I emerged from the water.

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