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[yourhosts]

Quentin "Q" Continuum settles into his seat next to Flickerman, ready to commentate over another oh-so-exciting Hunger Games. Hopefully something interesting will actually happen this year. Hopefully the bartender this year remembers how to actually mix drinks. It's hard being Q.

"Think any of them will step off the pedestals early this year?" he drawls to Flickerman as some extremely forgettable gofer brings him his drink. Q takes a sip. Acceptable. He nods and waves the gofer away.

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[hellocomputer]

Scotty slumps a little and groans in frustration as Servo goes down. Poor lad. At least an arrow through the neck is relatively quick. And.... yes Ceebee is safely out of the bloodbath. Thank god.

Actually, is she...? Yes, she's teamed up with one of Murphy's. Good.

Good. That's at least two of their combined little ones out of the bloodbath safely, and, judging by the noises Walter's making over there, at least Caro's safe as well.

Good.

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[murphypendleton]

Murphy hears a soft little-half sob from beside him when Willow takes an arrow to the back.

"Goddamnit." His own voice comes out both quieter and more grief-stricken than he'd like it to, but he doesn't think the mentors close enough to overhear it will give a shit.

He sees Cypress spare a glance back to Willow and his breath catches in his throat, but the Tribute with the bow picks another target instead; Servo. Cypress and Ceebee vanish into the relative safety of the forest, for the moment, and Murph taps his monitor to show a playback of the kills and who made them. A Career, of course.

Heather's in her seat beside him, quietly wiping at the corners of her eyes with the heels of her hands. He reaches over and squeezes her shoulder briefly, there's a nod of... acknowledgement of some sort, before Murph turns and levels a very icy glare at the mentors from 2.

It's not personal. It's just the games, it's the nature of the beast. He knows this.

But he can't help it, either.

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[datasoong]

Data winces as Servo goes down. He expected as much. If anything, he's pleasantly surprised and relieved to see Ceebee make it out of the bloodbath with one of Pendleton's.

He looks down at his infopad in time to see a replay of Caro swinging her backpack up in time to block an arrow from one of the Careers. Data actually smiles a little at that, but something makes him back the footage up and play it again.

Did she... yes, she swung the backpack up deliberately. She knew something was headed her way and blocked it. Very good.