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Post by cobrawax on Feb 4, 2012 21:53:46 GMT -5
"Get ready Conrad" said Bobbeh as he gave the final shove to get the girl's corpse into that river. He took a couple steps back and observed once the body was in.
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Post by Aeon The Phoenix on Feb 5, 2012 5:42:08 GMT -5
"Oh god please don't let me die this way..." Conrad thought, dashing into the river and racing across as fast as his legs would carry him so as to spend as little time in the deadly waters as possible.
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Post by Seryna on Feb 5, 2012 5:42:29 GMT -5
"Here," Chisel hands his pack to Cypress, who edges into the water. He hands his extra trident to Vibrance. He maintains a hold of his trident and the items on his belt.
"You go with him." He encourages Vibrance, who nods in agreement.
"Wern't we supposed to throw it in away from us... like farther down river?" Cypress fretted; glancing towards Bobbeh.
Indeed; the body was sinking a mere five feet from Conrad. Was this attracting more piranha to him?
Conrad walks into the water , the neoprene shoes that the tributes had been provided with now make sense as he wades into the ankle deep water, retaining traction. The water is chilly, causing goosebumps on his legs as the water reaches his knees. Just three feet until the shore... Your eyes want to go to the mauled body of the young girl; lying on the opposite shore bank. Something brushes your leg! Glancing down, you notice a dull colored fish resembling a trout swim by, taking no notice of you.
The others, however, are treated to a grisly show as Cadence sinks below the water into a sea of red blood. The occasional piranha leaps into sight; a chunk of gore a trophy in its mouth.
Conrad hears a splash as Cypress enters the water behind him; just as he reaches the shore safely. Cypress is joined a second later by Vibrance, who both hurry across the stream. The activity by Chisel, Singer and Bobbeh dies down as once was Cadence vanishes from sight.
"Now, you two go." Chisel proposes to Bobbeh, bending and hauling Viker along by his arms. When he is about twenty feet from Singer and Bobbeh, Chisel lowers Viker to the floor, dropping him on the rock unceremoniously.
"Go now!" He directs, shoving the body into the water.
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Post by cobrawax on Feb 5, 2012 10:17:29 GMT -5
"Lawd, please let these fishes be too full of other people to eat me." Bobbeh prays as he runs across.
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Post by Aeon The Phoenix on Feb 5, 2012 10:57:16 GMT -5
Now on the other side of the river, Conrad eyed the remains of the girl who hadn't made it across intact either. Hurriedly separating the dead girl's torso from her backpack, Conrad gestured to Vibrance to give him a hand, closing the eyes of the dead girl he was trying to mandhandle.
"If we throw what's left of her in as well, it might buy the others a bit more time to get across." Conrad explained.
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Post by Seryna on Feb 5, 2012 17:38:25 GMT -5
As Bobbeh prepares to enter the water; Singer stands at his side. Her face is pale and drawn and she bites her lip worriedly.
As Bobbeh enters, he realizes that because he is slightly shorter than Conrad that the water creeps past his knees. Beside him, Singer also cedes height to the water as the water creeps up her thighs. The two hurry through the stream as Chisel shouts from upstream. "Pick up the pace!"
Vibrance glances to the poor mangled girl's body, but gives a sharp nod. Her face is expressionless as she grasps the girl's arms.
Cypress stands at the shore line worriedly, but turns towards Vibrance and Conrad. "Down river." She reminds.
Before Bobbeh and Singer are safely ashore; Chisel begins to run down the shore towards you. He moves with quickness; jogging into the water. He spashes forward, shouting encouragements to the two ahead of him.
Now three people are wading in the piranha - infected water; not knowing if one of them is about to be attacked...
The time for Conrad and Vibrance to act is now.
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Post by Aeon The Phoenix on Feb 5, 2012 18:19:02 GMT -5
Grabbing an arm and placing a hand on the base of the girl's tattered side Conrad lifts and prepares to swing the body into the water with Vibrance's help.
"On three. One... two... three!"
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Post by Seryna on Feb 5, 2012 21:59:35 GMT -5
Vibrance helps Conrad swing poor Jewel's body into the stream. As the splash sounds, the water churns with underwater activity around the body. It works its magic; however, as Bobbeh, Singer and a minute later, Chisel, haul themselves ashore.
Singer immediately hurries from the shore line; standing a good five feet from the stream as she turns and surveys the two avenues open to them, the meadow and the woods.
Jewel's backpack remains by Conrad's feet. Investigating it reveals a blowgun, a case with 4 blow gun darts, an empty water skin, a filet knife for filleting fish and an odd electronic device. It has an electronic display that had a red on off button. The inactive screen displayed a single fish. Below the display was a long staff... could it be an underwater sonar?
Singer takes a drink from her water skin and glances towards the Lake.
"I bet the others went to the lake in the Meadow," She proposed. "- to fill shier water skins."
"Want to see if we can pick a few off?" Vibrance wonders, walking to stand beside the girl.
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Post by Aeon The Phoenix on Feb 6, 2012 13:02:00 GMT -5
As the last member of the Alliance safely crosses to the Wood-side shores, Conrad immediately turns to the dead girl's backpack, adding the contents to his own. He paused briefly as he examined the electronic device, before throwing that in his backpack as well.
"Okay, Meadow seems to be a rather popular choice." Conrad stated, hauling the food bag onto his back once more. "Let's go for it."
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Post by Seryna on Feb 6, 2012 13:06:40 GMT -5
Cypress moves beside Conrad, frowning towards the Meadow.
"Alright... we know at least three tributes made it over here. No cannons, so... we assume that they're waiting for us?"
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Post by Aeon The Phoenix on Feb 7, 2012 4:49:43 GMT -5
"Apparently so." Conrad replied back, pausing after he said it.
"No cannons... shouldn't some have gone off already from the other fallen tributes? At least four should have sounded out by now."
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Post by Seryna on Feb 7, 2012 4:56:56 GMT -5
Vibrance cocked her head to the side, looking back towards Conrad. "Thought it was adrenaline..."
"No," Cypress said slowly; who had been tentative and certainly not flooded with adrenaline. "- there were no cannons. We saw Jewel fall into the stream...and what happened after..."
She swallowed hard.
"Could mean less of them are waiting for us." Chisel suggested. "We probably still have the anthem tonight. We can double check our numbers then."
"We need some way," Singer said slowly. "- because every one has split up. This is a big arena. Could take us awhile before we get to the islands... and do we want to go to the island?"
She glanced from face to face.
"Those fish were fierce in four feet of water. Then there's the open ocean."
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Post by Seryna on Feb 7, 2012 16:27:37 GMT -5
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