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blood match day three

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The morning begins as another hot and muggy day on the island, though there's a little more of a breeze, and as a result, the weather is slightly more pleasant. It's a calm day out on the seas, too, though there are a few clouds gathering in the skies. This morning, the birds in the jungle are chirping loudly.

As the sun rises, an announcement plays:

Good morning, contestants! You must now switch zones from where you were last night. You won't be allowed back into that zone until you hear from me again. Don't test the rules, or you might regret it!

Now, today will be a special day. There will be fun surprises all day long, so stay alert!

True to these words, throughout the day, you'll notice a number of dangerous situations seem to occur roughly every few hours, though trying to time your watch to it won't work perfectly. Still, you can expect the following throughout the day:
10 AM: An earthquake! The earthquake lasts about five minutes, and rumbling aftershocks take place throughout the hour. You might want to avoid anywhere rocks or trees could fall, and to try and avoid inside spaces, caves, or other shelters that could collapse. You might also want to avoid the beaches and seek higher ground, as dangerous waves crash onto the shore.

11 AM: Rain. A heavy rainfall will fall throughout the hour; if you're outside in it, you're liable to get soaked, but inside spaces may get flooded. During the rainfall, the waters will be choppy and dangerous.

1 PM: Lightning. In Zone 4, the zone hums with live electricity, sparking small fires and breaking windows. You should try and get away from anything electric. In the other zones, lightning strikes trees and sparks jungle fires. In Zone 3, the swamps become particularly toxic, and panicking animals are likely to attack.

3 PM: An aerial attack. Small devices, too far away to really see what they are, are up in the sky, and will drop items. The items may contain poison gas, may contain explosives, may contain food and water. The attacks will take place at random intervals for two hours - when one begins, you had better run and scatter.

6 PM: The volcano on Zone 0 rumbles ominously, and projects smoke into the sky. The smoke is thick, dark, and makes it hard to see and breathe. But nothing else happens. While immediately at this time the smoke is thick and dangerous, it dissipates but never completely leaves.

You can try to hide, run, or fight your way out of these situations. It's very likely that at some point you and your partner or crew will get split up, or have to run for it, but it's up to you where you go and what you do.

(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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[Now she's on the ground. The scrape on her cheek heals, but her wrist still looks broken. His brain slams together conclusions with a rapid, harsh pace he can't remember ever feeling before. His brain is dizzy and focused at the same time. She's reaching around in her pocket. That's not allowed.

He slams his dagger into her wrist and finally responds to something she said minutes ago.]

If Norway isn't included it's a worthless promise! [It's not necessary, but he brings the dagger down into her wrist once more. Suddenly he wants to shatter all of her bones like that, string her up and make her regret ever even looking at Norway, but he can't allow her even the smallest opportunity to get away.]

[The dagger slams into her good hand - bad hand, now. They're both bad. The smell of her own blood is thick in the air and it's nowhere near as tempting as his would be, but her sanity is already so frayed that it takes very little to push her over the edge. This time she doesn't hiss - it's a full-out shriek as her bones shatter, start to set themselves, and then shatter again.

Her expression is crazed and frenzied as she stares up at him and bares her teeth.]

If it's worthless then I'll kill you both! That's my new promise!

[First Iceland and then Norway, she means, but for all Iceland knows he's the last one she has to kill to make good on that promise.]

[A fury like Iceland has never known throbs though his veins, shudders his bones, pulses behind his eyes. The words that come out are in Icelandic, but there's no mistaking the magma-hot fury behind them.]

Then I'll tear you apart first.

[It's quiet, he's not shouting, because he realizes he means it. He means it, and then he's doing it, driving the dagger down into her stomach and tearing through cloth and skin and muscle. He can convince himself it's reasonable because since her healing seems to be moving more slowly on more grievous injuries he just has to injure her enough for it to stick. He can convince himself, but it doesn't matter as much as it matters that she see, right now, that he's pulling her intestines out and he's not going to stop until they're piled on top of her, he can't stop, he doesn't know how, because all of his emotions are erupting inside of him and he's crying and doesn't even know it.]

[Maybe she should do more than laugh. But she doesn't know what he's saying - she can tell that he's angry, so angry, but she doesn't know the words - and when his dagger cuts into her skin, she doesn't think it's going to be a problem. It healed before. It's healing slowly now. So why would it—

It strikes muscle, and she lets out a sob that almost sounds like a laugh. He hooks the first bit of her intestines, and pulls, and she gasps for breath. He's going and going and he won't stop, and Mayu hears a piercing shriek but doesn't realize until it stops when she has to gulp in air that it was her. There are still tears coming from her eyes, and she's giggling uselessly.

She can feel her wounds trying to mend, but maybe it's too much. She can't do much with her broken wrists but she does bring one hand up to the pile and nudges it as if it will help it return to where it's supposed to be. Her face is pale and drawn, and her movements are sluggish.]

Ahaha.. haha.. you love.. your brother this much..? [Her shoulders shake. Maybe it's a sob, or a laugh, or just that she's going into shock from the pain.] ..I wish Mio loved.. me this much..

He's--he's-- [She's still alive, but she's not healing. He doubts she'd be able to stand, so he gets up, still crying but able enough to see her. What he's done is--is horrible, but the parts of him that are able to care are so distant and useless.

He was the first person I ever saw.] He's my big brother. [Iceland loves him more than anyone else.

He kicks Mayu into one of the livewires on the ground.]

[She connects with the livewire, and it's all over.

Maybe she could have survived the disembowelment - somehow. Maybe, most likely, she wouldn't have. But it would have been a slow, drawn-out death, and this is faster. Electricity courses through her and she lets out a strangled gasp. But it's not one she can hear. Her eardums pop; all she hears is a dull ringing, all she feels is heat and pain as her body contorts and tries to right itself.

Her tears have been seared from her cheeks, but the tracks they've left on her skin remain.

She must be seeing things, because she thinks she can see Mio. She's standing there a ways off, just within Mayu's sight, and she wants to reach out to her or call out to her but she can't. She can't move. She can't speak. She wants to scream, Don't leave me, but she can't force the words.

The Mio who isn't really there turns away and shakes her head. Mayu's vision blurs, and she knows no more.

Together...

She doesn't crumble to dust immediately. She lays there, charred and broken, for a few long moments, unmoving and unseeing and unspeaking. Her fingers are the first to go from her outstretched arm, crumbling into a soft grey ash, spreading up her arm and to the rest of her until the only things that remains are her damaged clothing, her backpack, the dagger, and a delicate gold locket that has somehow been left mostly unscathed.

...forever.]