Jesse managed to trip forward and sprawl very ungracefully forward onto her pure white glass plate as her entire body solidified and almost cracked the glass by accident.
The huge screen revealed the woman, who was lounging like a cat on the chair, before she sat back up, cat-like eyes crinkling up. "Welcome back, Hiders and Seekers! Let's explain how elimination works, and then we'll get right into the final point count."
"So! Hide and Seek's elimination works like this: I think I've said that whoever has the least amount of points gets eliminated, right? Yeah? Alrighty then! Once your team has been eliminated, you may no longer participate in the game. It's nothing dramatic, y'all aren't gonna die or anything like that."
Everyone breathed an immense sigh of relief at this.
"However, you will still come to the stadium, where you will watch as our spectators! You'll be able to see the locations of the Hiders AND the Seekers on a little map in the corner of the screen, while our handy-dandy cameras will film everything from different points of view. Nothing drastic; except you will still receive bangles every time a round starts."
Ivor opened his mouth to ask why, but Cat-Eye cut him off. "I'll explain why, Potion Master Snape or whatever your name is, hold your horses! Now, the spectators still have a chance to 'participate' in the rounds of the game. They will still be able to communicate with everyone, although there will be no more 'private' channels, so whatever they say can be heard by everybody. So in this way, if they decide to, they can help out the Hiders or the Seekers. However, besides that, there are still three more things the spectators can do!
"The first thing, which is a prerequisite for the two other things, is to 'bet' on one team! When you 'bet' on a team, you are betting that that team will win. If the team loses, you don't really get anything, but if the team wins, you will gain the ability to bet on more teams at once. This way, you are able to either help out more of your friends, or sabotage them! Which leads us into the other things you can do.
"One thing you can do is to help your team! You can either cause a small distraction, if the team you've bet on is a Seeker at the time, privately suggest to a Hider a better spot for hiding, or, and this is the most 'expensive' option, now, a forced teleportation, which will get one or both members of the team you've bet on out of imminent danger if they're hiding. However you are only able to do it once, so pick wisely, alrighty?
"The next thing you can do, is to sabotage the team. That's right, you heard me there! If you 'bet' on the team, you are able to sabotage them! You can feed them false info about where a Hider or a Seeker is, or, and this is more 'expensive', lock them in place for a few minutes to run out the timer! Hiders will be unable to change positions, and Seekers will be unable to look for the Hiders in that time period. I find that a little dumb, because if you sabotage the team, you will not be able to vote on as many, but whatever.
"So, help or hinder? The decision is yours! With that said, let's get into the final point scoring!"
Her face disappeared, the subtitles vanished, and the final scores came onto holographic board.
Jesse and Ariza: 6
Olivia and Cho: 5
Petra and Becky: 6
Lukas and Gommie: 7
Axel and Toni: 3
Ivor and Rebekah: 2
Ivor grimaced a little at Rebekah, who just kind of shrugged at the result philosophically.
Subtitles appeared on the screen again. "Ooh! It was a pretty close one there, but Toni and Axel just barely beat out Ivor and Rebekah here! Good thing we didn't have to go into overtime. Everyone else has surprisingly high scores. Good job! And with that, Ivor and Rebekah! Are! Eliminated!"
Ivor's bangle started buzzing harshly, rattling so much that it nearly fell off his wrist. On the other side of the circle, Rebekah's was doing the same. Jesse leaned over to get a better look at it. Flashing across the little screen read the words: "SPECTATOR- YOU WILL SPECTATE NEXT ROUND. I HOPE YOU LISTENED TO WHAT I SAID, 'CAUSE I'M NOT REPEATING IT."
Jesse snorted at that, before Ivor let his wrist drop. Cat-Eye seemed to be thinking. "Ah... yeah. The next round will be tomorrow at the same time, so please be prepared! The reason I can't start the next round right away is because it takes a very long time to set up the following arena. So, I will see y'all tomorrow! Have a nice day! Go do whatever. The bangles will drop off right... now." And there was the sound of metal scraping on metal as the bangles clattered to the glass plate.
"Please leave them there, you'll have to wear them tomorrow next round. Well then, I'll see ya! I do recommend you spend some time with your teammate and get to know them, because, well, you want to have a teammate who'll have your back, right? Right! Well, I assume so, at least... well, anyway, bye!" And the screen flickered off.
All of them looked at each other awkwardly. They had nothing to do right now, so...
Jesse finally glanced at Ariza. "Uhh, did you want to do anything...?"
Ariza thought about that for a minute. "... ehh, did you just wanna chat or something?"
Jesse shrugged awkwardly, looking at the black-haired girl. "Sure."
"Okey-dokey-Loki, c'mon then," and she started trotting off out of the stadium with a small smile on her face.
Slowly, the partners congregated, and Jesse spotted Petra and Becky walking out of the stadium at a slight distance from the other one on the opposite end as she walked out as well, before turning around more and breaking into a light jog after the girl with green eyes.
"H-hey, wait up!"
A/N: Next chapter or two we'll take a break, and then we'll have dinner and sleep, and then we're probably going to jump straight into the next round? Who's excited?
Please vote on the poll on my profile! It won't take a minute, promise!
ChoyofBonk: I believe so xD And I don't play officially, but when we played volleyball in PE my arms would be so sore... And oh xD You probably should've mentioned that... ah well too late xD
rebekahtpe: Hahaha xD And cookies. Cake is too sweet for me. Ahh, that sucks.
NoItsBecky: Hehe xD And yep.
Choco: Yas x3
RapidSammi: Yes. Yes she did. xD
Toni42: Heh heh heh xD
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