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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!]
youridethebitchseat: (down but not out)

[personal profile] youridethebitchseat 2013-06-07 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It was enough to actually make her fall into the hole and wince because ow her ankle felt kind of funny. Whoever did that knew she was on the move and getting close to her goal and it made her want to move more. But she will have to admit that whoever did it...well, they could do better.

Aisha peeked out from the hole and jumped out before any other choices could be made. Yeah, try getting the flag from her.
brat_from_hell: (tee hee!)

[personal profile] brat_from_hell 2013-06-08 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
He recovered quickly enough from being shocked and considered his plan of attack. For the moment, he tried to repeat his first display of powers. Darkness manipulation came easier to him than controlling the earth, and it wasn't long before everything went pitch black around Aisha.

The sound of small footsteps ran up and he darted in to make a grab for the flag.
youridethebitchseat: (Power)

[personal profile] youridethebitchseat 2013-06-12 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
And there's the problem: Aisha just got done with being blind and in the dark for a bit. So being unable to see? That kind of spooked her. Scratch that, it scared her a lot. It was because she might have thought Valtor came to the camp and was causing chaos again...she did not want that happening with her powers being nonexistent.

Which is why the kid might feel some shaking close by. Looks like someone is unknowingly using her earthquake powers.
brat_from_hell: (being lectured)

[personal profile] brat_from_hell 2013-06-16 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
When the ground beneath Phibrizzo began to shake, the small boy landed gracelessly on his rear end. He let out a yelp of surprise and tried to re-assert his prior control over the earth. He tried to tug at it as if playing a game of tug of war. The flag was momentarily forgotten in favour of trying to stabilize the ground.
youridethebitchseat: (follow the light)

[personal profile] youridethebitchseat 2013-06-16 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
For once, Aisha was thankful that something happened here and on her side. In other words: she didn't know she used her new powers to distract the boy. But it was good enough for her to bolt out and head back to the river.

'Sorry but I'm not willing to lose.' she thought.
brat_from_hell: (wince)

[personal profile] brat_from_hell 2013-06-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Phibrizzo tried to grab at the flag once more, but was unsuccessful. Reaching out with his newfound earth manipulation powers, he attempted to trip her up once more. It didn't work. She ran too fast and he wasn't experienced enough with his powers to catch her.

"Aw, this sucks!" he pouted, stamping his foot. A small chunk of rock hopped up as his foot stamped down, then dropped back to the ground harmlessly.
youridethebitchseat: (Back to me)

[personal profile] youridethebitchseat 2013-06-20 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, it'll be ok. Maybe next time he'll get stronger and knock her on her butt. But as she ran, Aisha couldn't help but try and think of a way to make it up to the kid.

He at least tried after all.