Open RP post!

[inasmithsyard]

I will add prompts or scenarios in comments, or feel free to come up with your own!

Currently up for grabs characters:

Rosie
Spindle's End
inasmithsyard

Rosethorn
Circle of Magic
earthandpine

Briar
Circle of Magic
thornandmoss

Hadand
Inda
deheldegarthe

Charity
Dresden Files
charityandfaith

Molly (Rag Lady)
Dresden Files
veiledthreat

Karrin
Dresden Files
isgoodpeople

Maggie
Newsflesh
talesuntold

Chouji
Naruto
16autumnroad

Neville
Harry Potter
mimbletone

Rue
Hunger Games
daisiesguardyou

Kitten
Tortall
skysung

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[daisiesguardyou]

Rue had made it to the woods, and she was doing well at staying out of sight. She knew it couldn't last. Her chances were small enough, and that was without the Gamemakers interfering to make the Games more interesting.

It took an effort of will not to bolt like a startled squirrel when someone appeared below her. To Rue's short-lived relief, not a single leaf rustled. Then her heart sank just as quickly as Chandra looked up. "You're not a tribu--" Rue began, but visibly flinched at the fire.

Not a tribute, strange abilities. A Capitol trick. A fire muttation. Rue's voice shook. "The Gamemakers sent you to kill me."

[fistlogic]

She really choose the wrong place to come to, everyone seems to be paranoid and really boring. "Nobody sends me anywhere, nobody tells me to do anything I don't want to do. And I haven't killed anyone, well, yet."

Chandra put out her fist, hand returning to a normal limb without any sign it was ever made of fire. What the hell was the deal with this place? "Look, I just wanna know where I've ended up and why the hell people keep thinking I'm trying to kill them? It's like you have no idea what pyromancy looks like. I'm Chandra, the world's worst courier."

"And so long as you don't try to stab me, punch me, shoot me, or anything dumb like that I don't mean you any harm." Unless there's a really good reason for it that isn't in the above list, which could happen, its happened before.

[daisiesguardyou]

Rue has absolutely no idea what Chandra's talking about. Pyromancy, courier, any of it. "Don't you know where you are?" she asks. "This is the Hunger Games. You have to get out of here if you want people to stop trying to kill you. I don't think the arena has any ways out, though."

She isn't coming down from this treetop anytime soon, and Rue has no visible weapons. She just hopes Chandra doesn't launch fire at her or burn her tree down. (But she must be a Capitol trick. She has to be. No one could use fire like that if they weren't a muttation, or unless it was fake fire, like Katniss from District 12 was wearing.)

[fistlogic]

"There's always a way out." Chandra didn't believe in the no escape situation. "I got out of being executed once... I may have set everything on fire in the process. But they started it."

"This is the biggest arena I've ever seen. Where's the audience?" It wasn't a very good arena if nobody was watching. What was the point of executing people, or having them fight to the death, without someone to understand why they died. What they did to make society so upset that they put a kid into an arena. "Well, I'm going to look for a way out. And then I'll probably burn this place to the ground because it doesn't seem like nice people are in charge."

Chandra's practical that way.

[daisiesguardyou]

"The audience isn't here. They use cameras, and then they show what happens in the arena all over the country. No one's in here, except for the tributes. ...and you. How did you get here anyway?" There's not supposed to be a way in anymore than there is a way out. People could mount (probably unsuccessful, but it only takes one person succeeding to undermine the Capitol's authority) rescue attempts.

"It's not most of the tributes' faults they're here. I didn't choose to come here, and neither did most of them." And then there's the threat of Capitol reprisals. Oh, Rue doesn't want to think of those. She thought she knew what the worst was when they drew her name she dreads to think that there might be more they could do, to Rue or to her family.

[fistlogic]

Chandra's eyes immediately went to the sky again. Looking for thopters. It was how the Consul kept an eye on things. But that didn't seem to be the case here. Her eyes scanned the trees for anything out of the ordinary. Ahah! She spotted what looked to be a little less than barklike mechanisms in the knot of a tree. She blew the camera a kiss before it was clear something inside of it exploded a little. Not enough to damage the tree, but there was smoke and the sounds of inner workings ceasing to be.

"Oh, I was exploring the places I could go and found myself here. Didn't mean to." This place seemed as good a first trip from Regatha as any, how was she to know how messed up everything was here. It probably wasn't the best idea to get involved in a conflict she had no business being involved in but... little late now. "So you got thrown in here so... other people could watch you fight and die? Is that why people kept trying to kill me?"

She just assumed it was the same reason as always. Her luck sucked except for the Monastery.

[daisiesguardyou]

Rue's eyes widened. There had to be more cameras on them. She doubted they could possibly find every one even if her new acquaintance was good at destroying them. "How can you not know about the Hunger Games? Everyone in Panem grows up knowing that our names go into the Reaping once we're twelve."

The idea that Chandra could have gotten here from somewhere else didn't even occur to her.

[fistlogic]

"Didn't grow up in Panem, just got here." Chandra is just making finger guns at all the cameras in the area and they are exploding exactly as Chandra wants them to. She's beginning to feel that the entire area is fake, the forests, the trees, whatever those bug things were. Whoever came up with all this had some skilled workers. Almost a shame to break everything.

Almost.

"So... this is about food? You're fighting to the death over food?" What sorta messed up plane was this?

[daisiesguardyou]

Rue shakes her head emphatically. "No. It's not that simple." And she figures that she's already in the arena and unlikely to make it out again, so she might as well tell the truth. "They're making examples of us. Every year they take two children from every district, and they put all twenty four tributes in the arena until there's only one person left alive. One victor. They're reminding the country that the Capitol has all the power, and that no one can ever stop them from doing this."

"How did you get here? Why would you come here?" No one should want to be in Panem.