"Thanks." Cypress accepts the apple, slipping it into her backpack.
Cypress surveys the gear as she takes a drink from her now full water skin. She drinks deeply for several moments, then refills her water skin immediately. She straps the water skin back on her belt and looks up at the allaince members.
"We should probably divide this up so we can carry it easily. Conrad has the food... any one mind if I get the supplies, like the blankets and the wood?"
Chisel and Vibrance, still holding thier new tridents, nod agreeably. They don't seem perturbed, tucking the apple in thier backpacks.
"Want us to carry the weapons; or should we divide them?"
Vibrance asks.
Singer is surveying the gear, plucking out a hunting knife, a blanket and iodine tablets. She remains quiet.
"Suits me." Conrad stated. "I've got my fair share of sharp pointy things for the moment."
Conrad took the opportunity to fill his water flask, though he didn't partake of a drink just yet.
"I just gotta say, thanks very much all of you for sticking with the Alliance plan. Dad reckoned we'd stand a better chance stood together than going it alone and I concur wholeheartedly."
"Yeah, worked out." Vibrance stated, filling her & Chisel's water flasks. You note he remains on guard by the mouth of the horn. She returns Chisel's flask and sits on the ground, opening her back pack.
"I think we made a good team." Cypress replies; although she is watching Vibrance and Chisel.
"Vibrance, you look pretty hurt. Maybe I can patch you up when we get away from here."
As you negotiate the gear, those around you start shifting what they had grabbed around the Cornucopia; choosing to put things on thier belt or rearrange thier backpacks.
Vibrance kneels on the ground, the trident beside her. She places her water skin and dagger on her belt, laying out a hatchet on the ground in front of her. She also surveys a small green bag, saying: "Camoflague kit? Wierd. Any one want it?" And placing it with the hatchet in front of her.
Chisel places his water flask and hatchet on his belt, choosing to hold onto his trident. Chisel wears a backpack that looks full of gear. He remains by the mouth of the horn; surveying Buckley and Diedre who remain away.
"Just let me know what you want me to carry."
Cypress reaches out to the gear, selecting a belt pouch. "Hope no one minds if I take this."
She stated, slipping it onto her belt.
"And this vest," She states, slipping it on. She surveys her pack, laying a few things on the ground as she rearranges, including a poncho, snorkel and a tin of cookies.
Singer slips the iodine tablets in her backpack, rolling the blanket atop of her pack. She slips the hunting knife on her belt with her water flask, choosing to hold her mace in her hand.
"Where are we going?" She asks plainly.
"If we're thinking of heading to the woods, first we have to cross that river with the piranha in it. I know it's fairly gruesome, but I was thinking there's enough... bodies around that we could throw them in as a distraction." Conrad said uneasily.
"Here you go." Vibrance stated, passing the hatchet and camouflage kit to Bobbeh.
"I'd like to head to the Woods as well." Cypress stated. She frowns a bit at Conrad's suggestion.
"Well... yeah, we need to cross. And some of us are bleeding. They may attracted to that."
"Whatever works." Singer stated.
Singer slips a sword scabbord around her hip; pulling a padded vest from her backpack. She dons it, pulling it snug against her petite torso. She shrugs her backpack on and stands, holding her mace. She quietly moves over to look out around Chisel, surveying the Cornocupia.
Cypress removes a few things from her backpack, matches, binnoculars and a flashlight. She slips these things into her belt pouch ; then selects the small things from the supplies in the horn, such as the waterproof matches, lighters and iodine tablets and puts those in her belt pouch as well. She grabs one of the bags in the cornocupia and places the bundles of wood within it, tying it atop of her back pack. She picks up the three extra water flasks, filling them from the same water jug. She places two in her backpack, offering the other one to whomever wants it. She also selects the snakebite kit from the gear Conrad had brought over, slipping it into her belt pouch.
She hefts one of the water jugs up, strapping it onto the strap of her backpack. "I'm going to need help with the other three."
Vibrance grabs one of the other bags, placing the 3 machetes from the pile of weapons within it. She then moves to the gear that Conrad had brought back, placing one tent, the water proof matches, the gloves, the flash light and the ten throwing knives within the bag. She straps the bag on top of her backpack and dons her backpack.
Chisel uses the extra bag to cover the pointed tips of the trident, tying it atop of his backpack. He also takes one of the water jugs, hefting it easily and lashing it atop of his backpack.
"All right..." Cypress looks to Bobbeh and Conrad. "I think we're ready."
"Get ready Conrad" said Bobbeh as he gave the final shove to get the girl's corpse into that river. He took a couple steps back and observed once the body was in.
"Oh god please don't let me die this way..." Conrad thought, dashing into the river and racing across as fast as his legs would carry him so as to spend as little time in the deadly waters as possible.
"Here," Chisel hands his pack to Cypress, who edges into the water. He hands his extra trident to Vibrance. He maintains a hold of his trident and the items on his belt.
"You go with him." He encourages Vibrance, who nods in agreement.
"Wern't we supposed to throw it in away from us... like farther down river?" Cypress fretted; glancing towards Bobbeh.
Indeed; the body was sinking a mere five feet from Conrad. Was this attracting more piranha to him?
Conrad walks into the water , the neoprene shoes that the tributes had been provided with now make sense as he wades into the ankle deep water, retaining traction. The water is chilly, causing goosebumps on his legs as the water reaches his knees. Just three feet until the shore... Your eyes want to go to the mauled body of the young girl; lying on the opposite shore bank. Something brushes your leg! Glancing down, you notice a dull colored fish resembling a trout swim by, taking no notice of you.
The others, however, are treated to a grisly show as Cadence sinks below the water into a sea of red blood. The occasional piranha leaps into sight; a chunk of gore a trophy in its mouth.
Conrad hears a splash as Cypress enters the water behind him; just as he reaches the shore safely. Cypress is joined a second later by Vibrance, who both hurry across the stream. The activity by Chisel, Singer and Bobbeh dies down as once was Cadence vanishes from sight.
"Now, you two go." Chisel proposes to Bobbeh, bending and hauling Viker along by his arms. When he is about twenty feet from Singer and Bobbeh, Chisel lowers Viker to the floor, dropping him on the rock unceremoniously.
"Go now!" He directs, shoving the body into the water.
"Lawd, please let these fishes be too full of other people to eat me." Bobbeh prays as he runs across.
Now on the other side of the river, Conrad eyed the remains of the girl who hadn't made it across intact either. Hurriedly separating the dead girl's torso from her backpack, Conrad gestured to Vibrance to give him a hand, closing the eyes of the dead girl he was trying to mandhandle.
"If we throw what's left of her in as well, it might buy the others a bit more time to get across." Conrad explained.
As Bobbeh prepares to enter the water; Singer stands at his side. Her face is pale and drawn and she bites her lip worriedly.
As Bobbeh enters, he realizes that because he is slightly shorter than Conrad that the water creeps past his knees. Beside him, Singer also cedes height to the water as the water creeps up her thighs. The two hurry through the stream as Chisel shouts from upstream.
"Pick up the pace!"
Vibrance glances to the poor mangled girl's body, but gives a sharp nod. Her face is expressionless as she grasps the girl's arms.
Cypress stands at the shore line worriedly, but turns towards Vibrance and Conrad.
"Down river." She reminds.
Before Bobbeh and Singer are safely ashore; Chisel begins to run down the shore towards you. He moves with quickness; jogging into the water. He spashes forward, shouting encouragements to the two ahead of him.
Now three people are wading in the piranha - infected water; not knowing if one of them is about to be attacked...
The time for Conrad and Vibrance to act is now.
Vibrance helps Conrad swing poor Jewel's body into the stream. As the splash sounds, the water churns with underwater activity around the body. It works its magic; however, as Bobbeh, Singer and a minute later, Chisel, haul themselves ashore.
Singer immediately hurries from the shore line; standing a good five feet from the stream as she turns and surveys the two avenues open to them, the meadow and the woods.
Jewel's backpack remains by Conrad's feet. Investigating it reveals a blowgun, a case with 4 blow gun darts, an empty water skin, a filet knife for filleting fish and an odd electronic device. It has an electronic display that had a red on off button. The inactive screen displayed a single fish. Below the display was a long staff... could it be an underwater sonar?
Singer takes a drink from her water skin and glances towards the Lake.
"I bet the others went to the lake in the Meadow," She proposed. "- to fill shier water skins."
"Want to see if we can pick a few off?" Vibrance wonders, walking to stand beside the girl.
As the last member of the Alliance safely crosses to the Wood-side shores, Conrad immediately turns to the dead girl's backpack, adding the contents to his own. He paused briefly as he examined the electronic device, before throwing that in his backpack as well.
"Okay, Meadow seems to be a rather popular choice." Conrad stated, hauling the food bag onto his back once more. "Let's go for it."