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[murdergame]

blood match day one



game start

28 players remaining

The morning the game starts, all pairs will be escorted from their rooms by friendly robot buddies into their own underwater shuttle waiting to take them to the arena. Should anyone try to resist, the collar around their neck will start beeping ominously and their friendly robot escort will become a lot less friendly and a lot more forceful. While in the shuttle, each player will be stripped of whatever clothing or items they have on them. The robot buddies will give each player the following:

- a uniform consisting of a light water-resistant jacket, a t-shirt with the words BLOOD MATCH '15 emblazoned on it, track pants, and standard-issue undergarments. All clothing has been tailored to the player's size perfectly and comes in a classy shade of steel grey.
- a small backpack which holds: three matches, a small canteen with a day's worth of water, and a day's worth of packaged rations
- a digital watch
- a booklet with all the character information cards in it
- a randomly assigned tool

The shuttle ride lasts for around half an hour, docking in a large garage. A friendly robot buddy will then guide each pair into their own elevator and a countdown will begin from 10. Once the countdown hits zero, the elevators will rise and the players will emerge in a shallow bay of what appears to be a volcanic island.

(OOC: Please update your character's info card with the ranking they would have likely received based on observation of their stay at the training facility. Rankings should be between 1-10.

Also, 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.)

Setting
Competitors
Weekly Check-in

Comments

Zone 0 -> Zone 1 - ~9:30AM - Zone 0 Beach -> Ocean -> Zone 1 Beach

[volcanoes]

[The ocean, thankfully, doesn't look too rough to prevent swimming to the mountainous area they're heading to--though it would take more than rough waters to sink Iceland, swimming too far in it certainly would. They have boats for a reason, after all.

But this is easy enough; better on his feet than running will be, he's sure, and the jacket seems water resistant enough. They'll have to check supplies more thoroughly (they'd only done a quick search to grab anything that would be ruined by the water and secure it more carefully), and once they know what they have they can work from there, but Iceland's probably skipping ahead a little with the way his blood is pounding through his veins.

On the shore, he doesn't even stop to dry off before he continues the trek; the beach is pretty exposed, so of course they're not staying there.]

[fjords]

[ Norway has one goal in mind: mountains. They're what he's used to and what he knows how to defend himself in. Not to mention, the high ground in any fight is good. They should be fine in these two zones; he can't imagine anyone has more experience with mountains than him.

Once they arrive in the shade of a few mountains, he stops and drops the two backpacks he has, the small and the large. ] Let's see.

[volcanoes]

[Iceland is glad to stop--he hasn't done this much running in a very long time. Still, he tries to hide the deeper breaths he's taking and instead places the two backpacks he has with Norway's before opening his smaller one.]

Matches [which he'd secured earlier for the trip across the water] a canteen-- [which he pauses to shake. There's water inside, which is good.] food, a compass, and this book.

[He opens it up. Looks like it has information on the other players. Basic, but there's a bit of a spark in his eyes. Memorizing information is something he can do.]

[fjords]

[ Norway nods, finding they have the same items in their small backpacks, which means everyone else has them too. ] How kind. [ Not at all.

He opens up the larger backpack and takes out one of the flash grenades ] Ah... It stuns people. [ Digging a little deeper: ] And food.

[volcanoes]

[Iceland obviously wants to examine the booklet more closely, but instead he moves to his larger backpack. The flash grenades in Norway's look useful, but only if they can do something after they stun someone.] More food--ah, a dagger. No, two.

[That's a little exciting. One for each of them, though Iceland doesn't really want to get that close to anyone. It's better than no weapons at all. He holds them up for Norway to inspect.]

[fjords]

[ Norway takes them both and looks closely at them, tapping his index finger on the point of one--and then he carefully tucks one away and keeps the other in his hand. Both of the daggers are for him, in his mind. Iceland shouldn't need to use them.

After putting the backpacks back on, he starts walking again. ] We'll hafta hike.

[volcanoes]

[Iceland isn't really surprised that Norway takes both, to be honest. Really, he might not even complain about something like that under other circumstances. But he still doesn't want to be totally defenseless and only able to hide.]

What do you need both for? [He scrambles to get his own backpacks and follow Norway.]

[fjords]

[ Norway glances behind himself only to make sure Iceland is following close behind. ]

It looks cooler if I use two. [ Which is not at all a real answer, but he doesn't feel the need to explain that Iceland shouldn't use one. ]

[volcanoes]

[Iceland is keeping up as best he can--which, for now, is pretty well.] They were in my backpack. [Maybe he wanted one.]

[fjords]

Ice. [ Using his Big Brother voice. ]

[volcanoes]

Nore. [Using his whining voice. Wait, he was already doing that.]

[fjords]

Have ya ever used one? To hurt someone?

[volcanoes]

Yes! [Iceland stabbed someone in the ankle once when Norway took him on a raid.

He was very small.

He isn't actually sure how well-aimed that was; he might have just nicked them.]

[fjords]

[ Sighing! Norway is luckily in a good mood because of hiking. ] If it comes to that. [ What does that mean?? ]

[volcanoes]

What's that mean?

[fjords]

If you need to.

[volcanoes]

I wouldn't have time to get you if I needed to. [Therefore he needs something he can defend himself with.]

[fjords]

I'll be right here next to you.

[volcanoes]

What if you're busy? [Killing someone. Iceland doesn't like the idea of that happening so casually, but what else can he do here?]

[fjords]

I won't be wearing the backpack, then.

[volcanoes]

You're not leaving them in there, are you? [Unless Norway means he expects Iceland to hit someone with the backpack.]

[fjords]

I guess I could carry two... [ You are making this harder for yourself, Ice. ]

[volcanoes]

Just let me carry one! [Come on, Norway!]

[fjords]

No. [ Firm tone! ]

[volcanoes]

Nore! [Huff!]