http://lone_centurion.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] lone_centurion.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] slt_archive2010-07-05 12:51 am

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Who: Rory, Lynx, Anyone
Where: The Lynx and Corvus area.
When: Day 145, afternoon
What: Look, some new people!

[There's a person in gray walking around the new buildings. He seems to be scanning the area around the two buildings, getting his bearings perhaps? Though he looks pretty calm and collected.

Bother?]

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
So I'm guessing really really hot. Okay. Following ya so far.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
*for purposes of not redacting this thread, please reverse 'west' and 'east' in all previous comments, because player fails*

Good guess. The berries like the heat, we think, so the closer you get, the more there are.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[rubbing hand over his face]

Okay. So. Know where to get additional food and water...

... think those guys in gray have been talking about those games and judges and stuff.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods*

I know I've been talking to them about it. That's what most people are curious about, but we haven't had any new teams for a while, so there are usually teammates around to handle things like food and water.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[bit of a lopsided attempt at a smile]

So not a totally off-target way to go about things? Was starting to think I was doing something wrong there...

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Survival's important too. And you'll get all the information anyway, most likely.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Point for me, then.

... so some creep-ass girl was going on about wildlife and things hazardous to our health. Mentioned other teams.

[yep. there is an edge of wary suspicion here]

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*looks around. what creep-ass girl is he--oh.*

Let me guess. Red hair and a severe attitude problem?

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That explains it. She's got a bit of a complex about this; she's basically decided that anyone who disagrees with her or goes against her whims is her enemy, at least until they grovel enough to satisfy her.

I'm not going to tell you that there aren't dangerous people on some teams, or that there aren't Games that force us into fighting or killing each other. Unfortunately, that's true. But when we're not forced to, most of us try to get along in the limits we're given.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[... okay, so the idea of there being death and dying apparently didn't enter the equation in this guy's head before the girl mentioned it]

Games... get that bad? And they're still called games?

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Think "gladiatorial." They can get pretty unpleasant, or be totally trivial; the last one was drawing cards from a deck, and the team who drew the lowest-value card won. The one before that...wasn't pretty.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
... and what exactly does "wasn't pretty" mean?

My team just woke up, Jace. We got the short end of the stick here. I'm not gonna-- [... well, whatever he's going to do or not is up in the air because now he's glancing over to where his two teammates are]

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
*follows his gaze a moment, then shrugs*

Representatives from each team were chosen and placed in a series of rooms. In order to move on, you had to leave a partner-team pair behind in each room. The first room was a steam bath, dangerous but not fatal; when there was disagreement, our representative and his partner decided to take the fall. The next room, everyone who passed on had to break someone else's bone, and that dissolved into a brawl pretty quickly before Orion and Cepheus stopped it by volunteering. The third room had walls that closed in, not completely, but enough to break ribs if you were at the center. Unfortunately, everyone was so busy fighting that they couldn't get out in time.

The thing about games like that is that there's usually a way to minimize damage all around, but sometimes people don't see it, or don't look.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
... so basically, you guys could've gotten through it quicker and everyone would be okay?

[thinking for a moment before releasing a breath and giving a bit of a nod] Okay. I got it. Thanks.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods*

Exactly. If people kept their heads, they'd be better off -- but that's easy to say, and hard to do in a crisis.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Trial by fire. Sounds like fun.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The fun never stops around here.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-05 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can tell. That kind of game and then a whole bunch of clueless newbies.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-06 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Well, we can hope that the next few won't be too terrible, but that's about it.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-06 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
It's not much, but sometimes it comes through.

[identity profile] sonuva_gun.insanejournal.com 2010-07-06 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I bet. Dagger named our other teammate that.

[identity profile] blue_mind_group.insanejournal.com 2010-07-06 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Did you pick one for yourself yet?