ARENA 06-THE HAPPIEST PLACE IN PANEM

[gamemakers]

Tributes Will Be Released Into Arena 06 On March 16!





Setting:

- Main Street [Green] -

The tributes' pedestals circle a garden, where the gleaming gold Cornucipia rises amidst neatly trimmed hedges and flowers. The little garden is an anomaly, groomed and tidy. All else is ruins. Just outside the mouth of the Cornucopia, surrounded by the supplies, stands a statue of a man and a mouse. And beyond it, outside the circle, a castle overlooks them all. Tall and ornate, it has a fairy-tale look to it, and though one tower hangs askew, the building is scrubbed, clean and pink and blue. The bridge leading to it is framed by rotting, tattered flags.

In the opposite direction, a broad road made of broken bricks runs between two rows of buildings, their fronts all tightly boarded up. Their architecture is strange. The ground floors are all of normal size, even grand. But their second stories are half that scale, and the highest half that again. The road ends at a train station, perched on a berm above the little parody of a town's main street, with blocked tunnels beneath it. There's no sign of a train, but beyond the tracks is a high, black wall. A wall that encircles the park.

** Additional info ** Breaking into the boarded-up buildings that line this road may be worth your time.


- Tomorrowland [light blue] -

West of the Cornucopia, through a gateway of fake stone formations that still glitter in the everpresent sun, past a toppled tangle of gold machinery that could have been a massive orrery, is a long, twisting plaza between massive, blue-silver buildings with fin-like spires. Shattered neon tubes are everywhere. A monorail track curves through the space, its train, red faded to pink, derailed and crashed into an old stage, wire tables and chairs scattered everywhere in the wreckage. Scores of little, two-man cars are tumbled together near a twisted track full of collapsed bridges.

On one side of the plaza, a toppled rocket ship nearly blocks the way to an immense, mountain-shaped building topped with needle-like spines, a ramp leading into its core. Strange noises come out of it, day and night; snatches of music and a low, intermittent rumbling.

-- Additional info -- Inside the remains of Space Mountain, a lone car is still trying to run, rocking mechanically against its brakes. Maybe someone can rock it loose? But how much do you trust the track?




- Fantasyland [Pink] -

Right behind the Castle is a space that resembles an old fairground. A merry-go-round is there rusting into a heap, its horses all askew, their peeling paint making them look leprous. There are decaying murals everywhere, where the walls have survived at all. Not all of the buildings are whole. One looks to have exploded, revealing an inner labyrinth of panels in weird, faded colors, little fiberglass buggies overturned everywhere. The roof on another has collapsed, exposing broken little ships and a plastic island to the sky. Shops and restaurants molder, merchandise and trays strewn about their doors. There is still food rotting behind the counters, strangely.

A train lies on its side, over watched by the gaping map of a cement whale. A building of white and gold clockworks has been overrun by what once was topiary and shrubberies, though its canals, long dry, still lead into the dark interior. Overlooking that, a mountain of tangled rubble and rusted iron sprouts trees.

-- Additional info -- Inside the clockwork building, thousands of dolls watch the dry canal, the abandoned boats. But not all of the eyes are dolls, and none of them seem benign. The muttations here look like round-faced little children, but with grasping claws and broad, horrible mouths full of big sharp teeth. They attack in swarms.


- Toon Town [Yellow] -

Under the train tracks at the northernmost edge of the park is the entrance to perhaps the strangest part of the arena. The buildings are all bulbous and deformed, the wild colors all long faded to browns and ugly, crusty reds. One of the houses is filled with soft rubbery panels, lining the walls and floors. It might appear a tempting place to sleep.

-- Additional Info -- More muttations up here. These will not wake until the first night someone sleeps up here, but once they do... There are five, all more than six feet tall and massive. Two rats, bipedal, with huge blackened ears and round white eyes. One wears a pair of tattered red shorts, the other a decrepit polka-dot dress. A dog, taller than seven feet on its hind legs, wears a green vest and an orange hat. A duck with molding, rotten feathers wears a blue sailor's shirt. And a black rabbit with a scarred white face and one ear, wearing blue shorts. They all have three things in common: the jagged teeth of a deep sea fish, the long, curved claws of a bear, and they will follow you.


- Frontierland [Orange] -

Rustic is the best way to describe this zone. Peeled logs make the fences and handrails, at least half of them collapsed now. There are crates and barrels everywhere, but they're mostly empty props. A shooting gallery's roof has fallen in, but its guns are props too.

What aren't props, though, are the weapons scattered here and there in the scenery, propped in amongst the wild plants and set pieces. Swords and axes, hammers and a long spear or two.*

*There will be a weekly roll for luck in finding these weapons.

There's another train gone to ruin here, wound in and around a big fake mountain of red cement. Rotting fake animals stare with missing eyes and torn skins. A goat's head lies on the tracks, wires trailing from its neck.

-- Additional info -- Hunting around inside the big fake mountain, be careful where you step. If the unstable dynamite hidden among the props there doesn't blow you up, maybe you can use it.




- Adventureland [Red] -

Overlooked by a towering, cement tree with tattered, half-melted leaves, this zone is dominated by a marshy swamp that has overrun its sculpted banks. What looks to have once been a ferry landing, albeit one carved out into narrow lanes by well-worn handrails, stands in knee-deep water. A half-dozen little boats are sunk just off the dock, their metal canopy frames still above the water, draped in moss. Anyone exploring into the swamp will find more decaying man-made animals, and and caricatures of people too, all so far rotted as to be skeletal, moss-draped monstrosities.

Just west of the swamp is a pyramid, its peak blackened. The tunnel that leads into it is unlit and dank, lined with bampoo poles that are actually plastic over steel. This is at least made to resemble a ruin, but only the first stages of decay are deliberate. Deep inside, five jeeps sit on a track, immobile and unmovable. The track leads through a series of doors into a tunnel leading down, and ends in black, stinking water. But what is that hissing?

-- Additional info -- The ripples in the waters of the swamp are nothing friendly. The piranha muttations are always watching for wading feet. And down inside that ruined ruin? Giant snakes swim the black water and crawl its tracks and stages, eager to pull you down.


- Critter Country/ NO Square / Rivers of America [Violet] -

In the westernmost corner of the arena, a broader, deeper body of water holds the hulks of two sunken ships. The sailing ship lies on its side, its bow impaling the boxy steamship wedged cockeyed up on the bank. A tribute with sure footing might cross the mess of slanted decks and tangled, decaying rigging to the island in the middle.

Along the far shore of that water, elegant, antebellum buildings sag like abandoned wedding cakes around a plaza cratered by some percussive damage. A little lane of elegant shops looks to have been the victim of some past inferno, leaving only the wrought iron frames of the windows intact. Through one entrance, past a small forest of waist-high brass poles still bearing the rotted remnants of velvet ropes, a subterranean canal still flows, ancient machinery clanking deafeningly as it sends an endless of barges through, their empty seats all damp with spray. Is that a voice echoing up from beyond the first of its waterfalls?

Just past the range of the long-ago blaze, another elegant house sits apart on a hillock, surrounded by graves. Its doors hang loose, and inside, a broad, round shaft yawns blackly.

Past the mansion, a road leads through a massive thicket of real plants intertwined with fake ones. Noise drifts from somewhere, a repetitive, jangling tune that never seems to resolve into something one could call music. The road ends at yet another false mountain, and a dry canal, log boats sitting askew in it.

--Additional Info -- Somewhere in here is a muttated bear, its yellow fur and red shirt long stained with something awfully dark. Down in the darkness where the plastic barges float, blind white sharks patrol the water, swimming in and out of the fake wrecks above real and unreal bones. And that ornate mansion in its graveyard? Huge webs line the tunnels beneath, with their obligatory occupants.




- The whole park -

--- The whole park is surrounded by the big black wall. It's very high and very slick and the force field is at the top. Anything you toss over will be flung back at you, very hard. Trying to climb over it will be very shocking.

--- Here and there all around are little stone markers. They look newer than most of the ruins, and are very clean. There are twelve in white, numbered one through twelve, and the same in black. Each one has a little gold piece set firmly into them, that techy sorts might recognize as some kind of microchip. Nine of the twenty-four are scattered randomly around the foot of the castle, the rest are much more widely spread. Some are out in the roads, some are deep inside this tunnel or that one, one is on the upper floor of the sunken steamship.

[For those who haven't been to Disneyland or who haven't been there very often, here is a detailed map.]


Powers:


In this arena, certain areas have powers. They are listed below:

Fantasyland| Magic based powers will work here. Glinda, Draco, etc.

Tomorrowland| Power that were created through technological advancement will work here. Steve, Bruce, etc.

Critter country/River of america/Tom Sawyer Island| Powers that were created through natural development. Copy Cat, Gaila.


Supplies:

The Cornucopia is your first, most important resource. Around it are scattered the available resources:

weapons:

!! NO WEAPONS !!

Not at the Cornucopia, at any rate. You will have to look elsewhere.

equipment:
•many blank cans, presumed to contain foodstuffs and water
•10 watertight bags, contents unknown. Will contain some of the following items:

-Empty jar
-50' rope
-50' twine
-Folding knife
-Fire-starting materials
-Sleeping bag

**Note: The canned food this arena tends towards the high-end. Pineapple is the most common by far. Salmon instead of tuna. There may even be caviar. There is definitely soda.


Immediate hazards:

Any water feature, and you'll see plenty on the map, is hostile territory. Your characters will learn that soon enough.

So is anywhere that daylight doesn't reach.

As in any ruins their are multiple broken down buildings, exposed metal, etc.


Clothing:

Each district is in matching, color coded attire shown above. The ladies have wool stockings and a slip underneath, and both have leather boots and woolen capes.

District 1: White, District 2: Red, District 3: Orange, District 4: Aqua, District 5: Purple, District 6: Pink, District 7: Light Green, District 8: Indigo, District 9: Yellow, District 10: Dark Green, District 11: Lavender, District 12: Black


Wildlife:

Feral cats. These are everywhere, and they're nasty, high-strung animals, fat on the local vermin.

Rats. Big rats. Especially along the northern side of the Arena. Seems like the closer you get to Toon Town, the larger they get. They are more than bold enough to take a bite out of a sleeping tribute or three.

Ducks. But strangely, you never see them on the bodies of water around the park, at least none deep enough that you can't see the bottom. There are even ducklings. They're very cute. Until you notice that they're prone to attacking and eating one another with sharp, tiny teeth.



Foodstuffs:

In Tomorrowland, all of the landscaping is food-producing. There are orange trees, wild corn just now coming ripe, tomatoes a little past their prime, wild carrots, and blackberries running wild.

And of course, you can always eat the cats. And the ducks. And the rats. If they don't eat you.

Full Arena Map:



Explore away!

Cornucopia.
With each new Arena opening, your character has the opportunity to grab themselves a few supplies! (At the risk of facing almost every other tribute in the arena at the same time, of course.) If you would like your character to make a run for the cornucopia, please comment to this thread so we can roll for your chance of success. And don't worry if you don't remember what your odds of success/death/etc. are; if you decide to chance it, you can find the information on what all that entails, here.

SPECIAL NOTE: Cornucopia results are all rolled at once, because there is often a limit on supplies and we don't want the first repliers to be the ones to get all the rewards. As such, YOU MUST REPLY TO THE CORNUCOPIA THREAD BY NOON - 12:00 P.M. (MST) - ON WEDNESDAY. Results will be given Wednesday, before the opening of the Arena.



Plotting.
Since everyone is about to be at the same place at the same time, this is a perfect opportunity for some exciting things to happen. We have a thread started for anyone who wants to discuss new plots for within or outside of the Arena, here.

Gamemakers [Mods]. Any arena-related questions, comments, concerns are also welcome in thisthread at any time. As always, we here at The Games would like to wish you a very happy Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favour.

Comments

PLOT

[gamemakers]

[needsaprince]

LOTTIE IS HOME.

And De is gonna be like "This shit is fucked."

[mudbloodhater]

Draco feels strangely dapper.

So who wants this guy? He's basically going to be wandering around, as per the usual.

Re: PLOT

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard's heading to Thunder Mountain the red mountain in Frontierland. He's looking for high ground in familiar circumstances. Anyone care to join him?

Punchy's heading for Tomorrowland, but he's also going to be trying to break up fights at the Cornucopia. Would anyone like to make him really, really regret that?

Javert, presuming he survives the Cornucopia, is heading to NO Square.

Re: PLOT

[lassoftruthiness]

In the Arena:

Diana: assuming she survives the Cornucopia is open for allies/people to protect, and will be doing her best to avoid putting on a show while still keeping as many people alive as possible. Also she will probably be drawn towards the castle. It's a princess thing.

Alpha: again assuming he survives the Cornucopia will start snooping around the ruins for tech to use and something that would make a good lair. Also possibly making Howard believe he's helping Howard win?

Outside the Arena:

Momoko will be hosting a 'long-shot' party and feeling strangely uneasy watching her friends in the Arena while she's safe and sound.

Valeria will be...I dunno, annoying Cinna and not sleeping enough.

Re: PLOT

[polyturtle]

DON IS PROTECTING LOTTIE. OK. HE IS GOING TO PROTECT HER LIKE A PRINCE OUGHT TO.

Anyone up for being allies and helping with the happy ending Don is trying to make?

[gruesome]

Some is making a beeline for somewhere out of the sun. Who wants to explore one of these cavernous rides with him? Small World, perhaps?

Re: PLOT

[makeflowersgrow]

Eponine will be at home in the clothes - and quite proud of them. She will be running from the Cornucopia as usual - but to where is open to debate. She'll definitely be intrigued by the castle though and want to get closer to it!

Re: PLOT

[freebitchbaby]

Glinda will be fine but probably looking for people to protect her as there's no weapons this time.

Gaila will be less than happy about the outfits and stripping for great justice and looking to ally up with people. She can fight some and is very pheromoney and not afraid to use it.

Wyatt & Wesker

[the_marshal]

GUESS WHO'S HEADED FOR FRONTIERLAND? WYATT. THAT'S WHO. Given he survives the Cornucopia, of course. Would anyone like to bump into him/do anything this arena?

Wesker... I don't know. Nothing immediate or concrete for him. Anyone want to mold his plans?

[tailforbrains]

Neither of my characters recognize this place at all. Sadness.

Riddick is doing his usual lounge about and laugh at people, trying to tame feral cats, and avoiding killing people. I wouldn't mind somebody trying to change his mind on that and attacking him, this round, no matter who winds up winning. I don't see him picking a single place and sticking to it, but I imagine he'll be around Tomorrowland a lot for the attempts at free food and the fake space stuff. Because irony.

Neeshka is looking for good hiding places. I think she'll home in on Adventureland and Indiana Jones and Tarzan's treehouse. She'll be wanting to hang mostly with Wyatt and Lindsey?

Re: PLOT

[luckofthedevil]

Hahaha Alex is going to be so disturbed by this Arena. He's been to Disneyland Paris, though not the California park.

Alex will be doing the Cornucopia and, provided he survives, will likely head toward Tom Sawyer's island (it's still called that right?).

[big_badass_hero]

Chris's last trip to this park his sister was like... 9. So he didn't get to explore that much, but he'll be headed to Tomorrow land. He'll probably hop over to the other areas but this time he's steering clear of the blood bath.

[doc_holi]

Holiday's first Cornucopia. What do.

If she gets out of the first bit, she'll be making a bee line for Tomorrowland.

Also, something to note. She has absolutely no plans to kill anyone which makes her a better target but if someone wants to die by her hands, I'd love to play that out. It needs to happen sooner or later.

Re: PLOT

[from_a_distance]

Clint: if he survives the Cornucopia, will be looking for a place to hide out up high and near water.

Atticus is going to immediately recognize the place, and will probably head for Tomorrowland.

Re: PLOT

[doesnotsew]

It's Asha's first arena and she's got no idea what sort of bizarre hellish world she ended up in! She doesn't know what technology is, so assuming she'll survive the arena she'll be sticking around water for familiarity's sake, probably around Rivers of America. She will also be casually murdering people if she thinks she can get away with it, especially to loot their stuff!

Bruce is in green and he's not sure if he should take this personally. He also thinks this arena is pretty messed up, but interesting from an extrapolating information on how much time has passed point of view! He'll be trying to explore for research purposes and not murdergame ones, because he still doesn't want to play. Also Disney owns Marvel so he probably feels some sort of meta homecoming or something.

PLOT ME BLAZER

Daniel Jackson | Stargate SG-1

[hi_there_aliens]

Depending on whether he survives the Cornucopia, he'll book it for Indiana Jones Ride/JUNGLE CRUISE Adventureland to try and get himself some breathing room for a little while.

R

[shambler]

R's going to be wandering around mostly between areas if he survives Cornucopia. He's actually pretty willing to work together with people but he'll also be starting the arena hungry and probably trying to go zombie at people.

Like last time, he won't actively be trying to be the last man standing, so there's that. Up to the player if they want me to have R gun for them or not. He may be more motivated to try to protect someone if he knows them or considers them a friend.

Re: PLOT

[teethofneedles]

Karis is completely new.

She's more likely to kill anyone she comes across, but she might be willing to talk, depending on what your character has to offer or say.

Sherlock and Maximus

[gluteus]

OKAY SO I'M A BIT LATE BUT

WHO WANTS IN ON A DISNEYFIED LEGION? or something

sobbing

plot stuff with me. I'm still at work but i need this so much

Re: PLOT

[pinklady]

Don't forget Chibi-Usa. She will be super-sad because waah Disneyland :(

[casa_gabriel]

Gabriel is heading for Fantasyland first. He's definitely up for alliances and fights and finding better clothes, but I don't know that he'll really prefer tourist T-shirts.

Eventually, I want him to end up in Adventureland so he can climb inside the ruins of the Indiana Jones ride for shelter and snake jokes and potentially deadly situations.

Sandy

[justoutrunyou]

Sandy's never been to Disneyland before but she's heard of it.

So just like snow was ruined for her by the last arena she's gonna be soured to he whole idea I'm thinking.

Anyway like before her main goals are stay out of everyone's way and try to figure out who's safe to talk to and stick close to.

Anyone want to look at something specific?

PLOT Parker

[whosalicewhite]

Parker will be looking for Eliot.

After that, if she's met a tribute previously, she may go near, but, more often than not, I'm looking for her to be able to stealthily take a few things from others' camps / hidey-holes.

Re: PLOT

[originalgaangster]

Sokka's probably heading to Frontierland or Adventureland if he survives Cornucopia.

WHAT DO?