gamemakers: (peacekeepers.)
The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-03-03 12:18 pm

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Who| Everyone
What| Lockdown
Where| Tribute Training Center
When| Starting around dusk
Warnings/Notes| None atm. If your character tries anything extravagant, shoot the mods a pm.

Dusk was falling when it started.

Anyone in the District 12 suite's would have heard heavy sounds above them moments before a loud explosion rocked the entire building. The electricity flickers once, twice, then goes out, replaced by cool, blue glowing lights running along the ceilings. Avoxes appeared silently, as they do, herding people from one room to another.

Once the door shuts, it doesn't open again until the last person is there, sealed shut. The windows in the rooms with them were darkened, and the computer would not respond to any request to show anything. However, food could be called to the room, the trays appearing as they normally do. But the doors would not budge, and the cool blue lights stayed the only light source, the only power.

Although there was nothing to see, there was lots to hear. Banging, foot steps in the halls, on the floors above, explosions, straining metal collapsing, scraping down the side of the building. Occasionally the repetitive rapping of gun shots. Yelling. Screaming. Those near the top of the building could smell smoke, at times strongly. The elevator can be heard moving up and down, even though it doesn't respond to any calls from those trapped.

The sounds last into the late night, finally quieting around midnight. Finally, at 1 am, a calm, cool voice comes over the loud speakers.

"The rebellion forces have been repressed. We will be clearing the building for the next few hours. Please stay patient and sleep well."
warrior_become: (Worry/Panic.)

Adel | OTA

[personal profile] warrior_become 2013-03-04 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Adel is practicing the Torf technique against a dummy when the attack starts, sighing through her nose as she realizes that she's nicked the side of the dummy's head again. Unacceptable for this technique. Even an aristh could perform this technique without fail, why couldn't she?

She stumbles and then steadies herself on her four hooves as the building rocks. She knows an explosion when she hears one. <What's happening!? Are we being attacked?> She tries to keep her thought-speak voice calm, but panic sneaks in against her wishes. Who would be attacking them?
tailforbrains: (balance)

[personal profile] tailforbrains 2013-03-04 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Neeshka wasn't even in the training room when it all started up. She was just going past it when the avoxes hustled her inside, and now she's less than thrilled about it all. Her own tail is lashing.

The telepathy takes her a little by surprise-- she hasn't had much interaction with Adel, as of yet-- and she blinks over at her. "Uh, yeah. Which would probably be why we're all being shoved in here."
warrior_become: (Worry/Panic.)

[personal profile] warrior_become 2013-03-04 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Was death permanent outside of arenas?

Tail arched as if she expected their attackers to come pouring in at any moment, Adel looks over at Neeshka with her main eyes, her stalk eyes rotated up to look at the ceiling where the sounds of gunshots and shouting can be heard. The humanoid being seemed so calm.

<I've not been told of enemy forces.> She says, before questioning whether or not they could truly be considered enemy forces. She did not know their motive, after all, and she certainly was not in alliance with the Capitol humans.
tailforbrains: (facepalm)

[personal profile] tailforbrains 2013-03-05 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"You think it's peacekeepers making all that noise by themselves?" Neeshka snorts, not quite getting what Adel was worried about. "They've got to have somebody to fight, since it's obviously not us." No, they get to be locked in a big room together. She eyes the potentially-threatening tail with a kind of wary interest, but stays out of range, for now.
warrior_become: (Arrogance/Contempt.)

[personal profile] warrior_become 2013-03-05 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
She turns her stalk eyes back down to fix on Neeshka as well, the edges turned downward in a frown. <No, I do not think that it's the Peacekeepers making this noise themselves. But I do wish to know who would be an enemy of the Capitol.>