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[murdergame]

blood match day four



open arena

16 players remaining

The morning is just as hot and muggy as the previous day, but this morning the air hangs heavy with clouds. There's smoke still in the air from the volcano yesterday; not as dark and thick, but still enough to make your lungs hurt and your eyes burn if you exert yourself too much, especially in the vicinity of Zone 0. Later in the afternoon, the clouds burst; the heavy rain only lasts a few hours, but it clears away the remaining smoke. Otherwise, things seem calmer today, though there are still places where the jungle is damaged from explosives yesterday, and it seems that the foot bridge between Zone 3 and 4 has been bombed out, and is no longer accessible.

As the sun rises, an announcement plays:

Good morning, contestants! Today, Zone 4 is off-limits. If you're in Zone 4, you have an hour to leave it!

Also, we've learned some of you don't like playing this game! Special new rule! If you kill your partner, you get to go home! If your partner already died, sorry, that's too bad. Okay, good luck!

True to these words, an hour from sunrise, the road bridge and tunnel to Zone 4 will be locked off by a thick metal gate. The rest of the arena is still accessible, but around midday, a fire in Zone 1 will begin to push players out of that zone as well. As a result, everyone will be pushed towards Zones 2 and 3.

(OOC: When starting a thread, please put in your header the following: ZONE # - TIME - AREA. This will hopefully make it easier for everyone to keep track of which character is where.

Please remember to update the Weekly Check-in with your character's planned movements. Check in is due by Monday at 9 PM)

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Zone 0 | various | 1-4PM

[volcanoes]

A; Supply Hut, 1PM
[Iceland is pretty wary of this place, considering what happened last time. Still, the crates are tempting. If he just opens one, it should be fine, right? He checks to make sure no one's in the immediate vicinity and that there's no one actually inside the hut (no bees, either) before he uses the non-spear end of his makeshift fishing spear to pry a crate open.]

B; near the magma fields, 3PM onward
[With the smoke cleared away, Iceland is taking the time to examine the magma fields a little more closely. To most people, this would be an extremely dangerous prospect, but Iceland was born of volcanoes as much as he was of his people, so what he's really doing is judging how quickly he could use it as a possible escape route if he had to.

He has a bruise on his neck, looking like a dark black butterfly just above his collar, and his left eye is red from burst blood vessels. Someone probably tried to strangle him. Occasionally he raises a hand to his eye, but he always puts it back down. If he rubs it, it will make things worse, even if it does itch.]

B

[whiterosefoes]

[Well, here comes someone he could attempt to escape from!

Except not, because Harriet is certainly not making a rapid approach toward the piping hot magma. He seems to be alone, which is interesting considering the morning's announcement, but it wasn't like there was anywhere nearby that his partner could be hiding for a trap either. She decides not to find it suspicious, for now. Still, what is he even doing? She finds herself lingering nearby to watch him (and quietly making note of the unusual bruise, but she can't see more than the back of his neck for now) ... you know what, she has to ask.]

Staring into magma. What on earth do you want in there?

[volcanoes]

[Iceland looks back--he'd heard her approach; this is certainly the ground he's most familiar with. But when he looks, the burst blood vessels in his eye are plainly visible. Norway isn't too far off, Iceland knows, and he has a quick emergency exit if he needs it, so while Iceland is wary, he doesn't move to attack, instead shoving his hands into his jacket pockets.]

It's good to know the territory. [Magma is part of this territory.]

[whiterosefoes]

Yeah, but do you reckon there's something on the other side of all that?

[It isn't a part she's considered getting acquainted with. If others are, though... her curiosity is piqued.

His guarded stance is also noted, so she'll keep her distance as well. From the look of his eye, he has good reason to be wary. For what it's worth, both of her hands are free at the moment, though her weapons are within reach. She points at her own eye.]

Who did that?

[Might as well learn who else is hostile.]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland's arm twitches a little in response--he wants to rub at his eye still--but he holds it steady.]

Mayu. I guess she's dead now, so it doesn't matter.

["I guess". Iceland has a good poker face, though.]

[whiterosefoes]

[On the other hand, Harriet doesn't even bother to hide the slight roll of her eyes when he mentions it was Mayu. Strangulation, of course it was.]

... Yup. "Just Desserts", as the trap card says.

[which is apparent nerd speak for karma's a bitch. She won't really elaborate either, so for all he knows it could be sympathy on her part. She stops pointing to set her hand on her hip instead.

But, poker face or not, it looks like Mayu came pretty close to killing him. How did he escape? She was a rasetsu, after all... she's gotta ask.]

Was it you?

[volcanoes]

[He shakes his head.] I just ran while she was healing. [A lie, but Iceland would rather not be seen as that much of a threat.]

She killed your partner, right? ...Sorry.

[But the snorkel might have some uses. Not that he's showing it off.]

[whiterosefoes]

[... Hmm. She supposes she can buy that. It's what Harriet did herself, after all. Well, maybe Mayu just ran out of life, like Souji thought... but he was still able to injure her enough to run, from the sound of 'while she was healing', so the lie didn't end up concealing much.

She won't know that he has it, but hopefully the snorkel wouldn't bring him the bad luck from its two dead previous owners. Harriet didn't expect condolences to come out of this conversation (did everyone know it was Mayu now?) but she nods after her brief surprise fades.]

Word does travel quickly. Everyone I've met has been quite sympathetic... my thanks.

[It's worth noting. For a bunch of people that are meant to kill, at least there's not much outright disrespect for the dead.

but hey, on the topic of dead partners.]

...Do you think anyone'll go for this motive?

[she notices he's split from Norway. But, they were brothers, right... perhaps it was purely directed at Sougo, but she hasn't seen him since their walk in the flowers.]

[volcanoes]

Maybe. [Sougo and Hijikata come to mind.] If someone wants to take themselves and their partner out of the game, I guess that's none of my business.

[But Iceland clearly has no intentions of doing it, based on tone alone. He and Norway have to get out of here together, there was no other option.]

If it's aimed at who I think it's aimed at, we'd probably all be better off. [He saw Sougo and Hijikata's ratings.]

[whiterosefoes]

It does seem that way, but I wonder. Sougo seemed like he was rather enjoying himself.

[maybe he really would prefer to kill everyone first, and then Hijikata would be the only one tempted by such a bargain. Or maybe there's a little more to those guys than they let on... she may have caught a glimpse of that, before.]

Oh well. It matters even less to me, obviously. [Still sounding bitter about partnerless life....

She gazes idly back out at the magma field after that. They're just kind of standing around it, despite its inherent danger, so she had to eventually.] Don't let me interrupt what you were doing there, by the way. I'm actually curious.

[teach her about volcano stuff!! but not hands on like tamaki]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland looks out across the magma field.] There's not a lot in this area. I was checking to see if there was anything over here besides the obvious.

[And also checking on the obvious, but admitting he was checking on the lava specifically sounds a little too antagonistic. And also weird.]

B

[quncertain]

[Iron Bull could probably come up with a decent reason why he's wandering near a magma field, but if he's perfectly honest with himself (and he usually is), it's because a volcano seems like a perfect dragon lair and he's still holding out hope that one will show up. Or a rage demon. Or something to hit that isn't a goddamn kid or an innocent person.

Huh, is that...?]

Isn't this kind of a hot place for someone who calls himself The Ice Land? Not that it isn't ice to see you! [IRON BULL LAUGHING ALONE AT HIS OWN PUN]

[volcanoes]

[Thanks, Iron Bull, he's never heard that one before. But he supposes having this guy making puns at him is a lot better than the many worse alternatives in a situation like this. There's no way he would take out this guy in a one-on-one fight, after all. Well, he at least has decent ground to work with, if it comes to that.

He's just going to hope this guy makes more puns.]

It's good to know as much of the territory as you can, I think. Better than being surprised.

[quncertain]

[Is it really. Is it really worse, Iceland. These are going to be some pretty terrible puns.]

I didn't think someone like you could be surpriced. [Okay he's done for now...probably....not....]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland can endure the terrible puns in the name of not getting on the bad side of the giant guy with bull horns and also bull right in his name.]

Depends on how well I pay attention so things don't escape my notice.

[Iceland manages to say that with a completely straight face. Okay, so maybe Iceland is kind of fond of stupid wordplay.]