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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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[Haruhi tries to score a three point landing like a loser, complete with head snap. A new character, friend or foe! But upon seeing the person before her, she regrets it, because crouched like this she feels very tiny. She's never been around someone so tall in her entire life; it was easy to round down during the interviews and with the cards. Her mental math is going haywire. Could he reach out and bash in her skull just with that crowbar? Probably. In that case, there's no point in evading the conversation. She draws herself up to stand, shivering all over, only mostly because of the cold.]

No. Nobody was in there, sir. It just flooded on account of all the rain, making the force too great to open the door.

Damn. And here I was looking forward to getting to hit something. [Probably not the best thing to say to someone in a murder game, but he mitigates it somewhat by offering her a hand up.]

And you really don't have to call me sir. Not unless you wanna sign up under my command. [He'll just ignore the fact that not even the Chargers call him sir.]

[She reaches for him in such a slow, reluctant motion that her grasp encircles his wrist, insofar as her fingers can even wrap around that much.]

I won't make that mistake again. Are demons, like, real in your world? Do you fight them for a living? [Haruhi is cold, but at least not at all skeptical.]

Edited (icon) 2015-04-03 02:35 (UTC)

[He makes a super disgusted face.]

Oh, they're real all right. And creepy as fuck. [Dramatic shudder.] I'll fight them if I have to and if I'm getting paid for it, but I won't like it.

...well, up until the point where they explode. Then it's pretty cool.

They EXPLODE??? That's too cool! I wanna see that! I wish that happened to bodies here...

[Haruhi, no you don't. You just miss summer fireworks and not seeing dead bodies on a daily basis]

Well...all bodies tend to explode after they've been laying around in the sun for a while. Demons are just louder and faster about it because they're assholes. [Bull why are you discussing this with a kid BULL STOP]

In the sun? I've never seen anybody's bodies explode, but... [As young people do, Haruhi thinks about this very seriously and gets even more uncomfortable.] The one time was at night and the other time was in the jungle under the shade, so I guess I wouldn't know.

Sun, heat, whatever. Leave a body out in the open long enough and it bursts open like - [He notices that Haruhi doesn't exactly look comfortable with this topic and coughs.]

Well, anyway. It's not as cool as when demons do it. They don't leave behind any decent loot either.

[Around this time, the integrity of Haruhi's backpack straps finally decreases enough that it slides down her shoulders and gets caught around her elbows. She breaks eye contact so she can get the backpack set back up properly again.]

I wonder if that's what those people were calculating for when they only gave us one day's rations at a time. [This has been on her mind a lot considering she just finished her penultimate Dead Friend's Rations meal.] Then again, they probably thought more people would end up in the eastmost zone if they stocked all those stores so much.

[He shrugs.] I'm guessing they also want to avoid watching us just live on the island without trying to kill anyone. The more desperate people are to survive, the more they tend to resort to desperate measures. Not having enough food can play a big factor in that.

They didn't spend much time worrying about that in Battle Royale. But then again, their collars were programmed to go off in, like, three days. [What had that one guy said? A week? Two? It already feels so long ago.]

It'll really suck if we start running low on water though. That'll make it harder to have good conversations.

[Squinting at her with his one good eye.] You've...been in this kind of situation before then? [She seems pretty damn young as far as humans go, but then again, since when does the world care about what age you are before it starts making your life hell?]

Ha! Maybe we can get them to send us more beer in that case. This shi--uh, stuff tastes like water anyway.

No.

[She stares at the ground, all at once feeling very silly.]

It was just a book.

That's cool. [He scratches his nose, trying to appear nonchalant - he hadn't meant to make her feel bad about it.] Still more experience than I've had with this sort of thing. That book of yours offer any advice on how to take down the bastards running this show?