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Accession Mods ([personal profile] empirestategods) wrote in [community profile] partyofthree2013-05-31 12:14 am

Event ϟ Cabin 11 vs The World

Who: OTA
When: May 31st
Where: The woods
What: Capture the flag!
Warnings: Violence! If anything specific, please mark it in the subject lines!

Friday morning, before training, Chiron pulls each of the campers aside to the armory. Everyone is fitted with a breastplate and helmet, and loaned the weapon of their choice. Parent by parent, of course, starting with Zeus’s children, and ending with the unclaimed in Cabin 11. Yeah. Sorry about that. Cabin 11 is outfitted with red-plumed helmets. Cabins 1-10 and Cabin 12 are given blue plumes.

Keep it safe, you’ll need it later if you don’t want severe head injuries, he says. Completely casually. Like that’s not worrying.

Mr. D and Chiron wait at the edge of the forest, just after lunch, waiting for the demigods they’ve informed of the mandatory meeting. It’s time for a time-honored camp tradition to come off of hiatus. Though Chiron seems enthused at testing the thus-far-unexamined skills of the new campers, Mr. D is obviously just here because he needs to be.

Nevertheless, he steps up to explain.

"Right. So."

He's already rolling his eyes. Evidently, someone can't wait for this to be over.

"For those of you who have never had the privilege to play this exciting game. You people," he points at those with the red plumed helmets, "and you people," now at those with blue plumed helmets, "each get a flag. Each team picks a part of the forest, and puts their flag someplace visible. While I don't particularly care, if you put more than two people there to guard it, we will be here all day, so don't. The rest of you, go out and grab the other team's flag, and try not to kill each other because that is a mess nobody wants to clean up."

A sigh. He looks so put upon, honestly, why can't you kids already know all this?

"Right. The creek will be the borderline, so if one team manages to grab the other flag and carry it all the way across, they win. Questions?"

He doesn't actually wait for anyone to speak up.

"No? Good."

“What,” Chiron sighs, trying not to seem exasperated, “Mr. D means is that we are playing this to help prepare you for what’s really out there. This is to see how your skills have progressed, where you still need work, and how you all work together as a team. When you become more accustomed to camp and more of you have been claimed, you will choose your own teams. Each of you have your own strengths and weaknesses. Now, it’s time to see what they are.”

He smiles at the campers. He’s ridiculously fond of you all already. He likes that no one’s died yet! It might very well be a record. “You’ve all been here for a month and aside from one or two... incidents, you’ve performed well. Continue to do so and rewards might be in store. It isn’t uncommon for the unclaimed to find their parents in this game.”

He looks Very Meaningfully at Cabin 11.

“I will reiterate what Mr. D said, however. You are not to purposefully maim or kill any other campers. You’re all on an even playing field at the moment. Play fair, work hard, and most of all, have fun. Guards of the flag can be no closer than ten yards away at any given time, magical items (when you have acquired them) are allowed, the flag must be displayed in your territory--it cannot be hidden, and the game is won when the flag crosses the river.

“Now, go make your bases!”

The blue team’s flag waves with a beautiful painting of Mount Olympus--all the Olympians but one. The red team, a caduceus--the symbol of Hermes.

Fight hard, tiny demigods!

[OOC: It was determined via coin toss that the Blue Team will be the victors this round. How close you want this to be is up to you guys and don’t forget, we do have a plotting post!

Please feel free to make your own threads, but the mods have a thread for both the blue team base and red team base!]
anythingwithstrings: (Sigh)

She'll leave if you hand over that flag.

[personal profile] anythingwithstrings 2013-06-07 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, a tree is a terrible place to be when dealing with someone who has arrows. A sword, sure, you're well out of sword fighting range, but with arrows you're very limited on things like dodging. And when you have a flag strapped to your wrist there is no 'going unnoticed' in this.

Maya doesn't even feel too rushed, moving to just the right spot before she loosed an arrow for the girl's right shoulder. This close to the stream there wasn't much point in trying to find cover. And if she didn't stop her now, well... game over. And Maya did not want to lose.
youridethebitchseat: (Focus)

screw that

[personal profile] youridethebitchseat 2013-06-07 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The arrows didn't scare her. They hurt of course but she knew that she went through far worse such as falling from an underground mountain without magic to keep her steady. Hell, it was a miracle. So when she got clipped by Maya's arrow yet again, she bit her lip trying to hold in a scream.

"...you honestly think that's going to stop me?" she gritted out before continuing her climb and further into the branches.
anythingwithstrings: (Desire)

[personal profile] anythingwithstrings 2013-06-07 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"That was a warning, I don't want to hurt you too much, but I do need you to give me that back." Maya drew another arrow. She'd have to make these last shots count. If she was going to tough her way through the climb then she either had to hobble her (and Maya really didn't want to do that), or...

Maya's next arrow is for the wrist with the flag tied to it, in the hops of going right through the bindings and making the flag drop to the ground. What good was she if she couldn't even get back a stupid flag in a game? Why did... whoever did that light show claim her if she wasn't suppose to stand up and finish this game.