The Horn Blares.

The contestants rush out from their podiums, scrambling to gather materials, weapons, and other sorts.

Vincent Sparks confronts piku and secures a temporary alliance to get through this beginning. Better to make friends than foes, right?

grug cavecool rushes with crood speed and grabs a sharp dagger, flinging it towards Charlotte. It hitting her smack through the forehead was mostly luck, but grug would never tell you that.

Mardatron also luckily enough manages to grab some gear, some food, a knife, a bomb... wait, a bomb? Nevermind. better plan. Blow up the corncopia itself.
And so he did, while 3 others were looking through its contents. Remnants of rations and contestants scatter the arena alike.

4 REMAIN.

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Progressing away from the cornucopia, the remaining 4 contestants, Vincent Sparks, piku, Mardatron, and grug cavecool, all try to prepare themselves for upcoming future conflict.

Vincent Sparks discovers a cave, a helpful resting point and makeshift shelter.

piku practices their archery, a helpful tool for ranged offense and defense.

Mardatron sets traps, to protect themselves and to eliminate others.

grug looks for food for their pack, sees a loaf of bread on the ground, grabs it... and falls into Mardatron's pitfall trap.

3 REMAIN.

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As night falls, and the sky goes dark, Mardatron settles in their secure shelter, and is surprised to see a crate of food be dropped near their location by an unknown sponsor. Someone must want Mard to win. Who? No clue.

Meanwhile, Vincent Sparks... uh. actually i have no clue what they did.
we have trackers for the contestants and piku just dissappeared. like not even a body was found they just poofed out of existance?????
uh anyways

2 REMAIN

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Day rises on the arena.

Vincent Sparks prepares a nice meal, courtesy of these unknown sponsors that keep sending stuff into my arena.

Meanwhile, Mardatron just keeps repeating things. Like they said nothing but "I am very powerful" repeatedly for the last 6+a half hours.
then they said some weird stuff about a girl who turned into dust in front of him. eh.

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As night falls, and dusk settles, Vincent finds Mard, weapon in hand.
Mardatron pulls out their own.

Knives clash during the forested sunset, each just barely outmaneuvering out of being hit.

With a ballsy move and a flick of the wrist, Mardatron aims to disarm Vincent Sparks, and does so successfully, knocking their knife out of their hand... but Mardatron's grip slipped, so his knife went flying too.

Now with both with just their hands empty, Mardatron puts up a boxing stance, mocking Vincent.
Vincent steps forward, puts up a boxing stance, and kicks Mardatron square in the nuts.

Mardatron grimaces, keels over and curls into a ball.
Vincent Sparks, not satisfied with this enounter at all, just walks away disgusted. This is not how this game should end. Not at all.

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