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Arrival - Careers Plot
Feb. 27th, 2014 11:17 amThe days in the training facilities were highly regimented. Every walking moment was spent developing their skills in the hope that they would have the honour of representing District One and triumphing in the Hunger Games. From the many that began the training, the classes winnowed through the years, focusing on those who were best. The best is what they all wanted to be, all they would accept.
Today's exercises had them split into teams of four, picked supposedly randomly, but no one believed that. They were matched to see how they worked with every type of personality, every age. This team up was a successful one, the four having dispatched all but two other people within the simulated forest environment. Their youngest was in the trees, using her agility and lightness to range and find their target.
If the environment suddenly became colder, if the trees changed their shapes not one of the team notices. It was exactly the sort of thing that their trainers would do to keep the team on their toes, especially when they were so far ahead of all the others. What does make them pause is the appearance of someone none of them recognised jogging through the trees. She was too old, and not dressed like the rest of the potential tributes. She started, unsurprising considering the three on the ground all carried metal weapons - swords and an axe. They were only supposed to go for sensors, but this was a new situation, something different.
It was the girl in the trees - Amethyst - who decided things for them all. Calling out, she dropped down onto the woman, stabbing her with the knives she favoured. It only took a moment for the others to join in, a bloodlust they had trained into them rising given the opportunity. When the woman was well and truly dead Amethyst looked to the others with bright eyes. "There's a city out there. Not 1. Is this a test?"
They abandoned the woman where she lay, scouting through the wooded area and the park that lay around it. In the end they decided whatever it was, they didn't trust it. If this was a new test, a new sort of Game, they needed to stick together at least for now. They needed to make a camp, get supplies and then they'd decide how to proceed.
Today's exercises had them split into teams of four, picked supposedly randomly, but no one believed that. They were matched to see how they worked with every type of personality, every age. This team up was a successful one, the four having dispatched all but two other people within the simulated forest environment. Their youngest was in the trees, using her agility and lightness to range and find their target.
If the environment suddenly became colder, if the trees changed their shapes not one of the team notices. It was exactly the sort of thing that their trainers would do to keep the team on their toes, especially when they were so far ahead of all the others. What does make them pause is the appearance of someone none of them recognised jogging through the trees. She was too old, and not dressed like the rest of the potential tributes. She started, unsurprising considering the three on the ground all carried metal weapons - swords and an axe. They were only supposed to go for sensors, but this was a new situation, something different.
It was the girl in the trees - Amethyst - who decided things for them all. Calling out, she dropped down onto the woman, stabbing her with the knives she favoured. It only took a moment for the others to join in, a bloodlust they had trained into them rising given the opportunity. When the woman was well and truly dead Amethyst looked to the others with bright eyes. "There's a city out there. Not 1. Is this a test?"
They abandoned the woman where she lay, scouting through the wooded area and the park that lay around it. In the end they decided whatever it was, they didn't trust it. If this was a new test, a new sort of Game, they needed to stick together at least for now. They needed to make a camp, get supplies and then they'd decide how to proceed.
