died8yearsago: (simple hands in pockets)
Detective Rosa Diaz ([personal profile] died8yearsago) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2019-07-12 07:14 am
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Fandom Gladiators Part DEUX! - First Period, Friday, 7/12.

Because smoke-filled skies during the day and creepy-ass nightmare fuel during the night wasn't disorientating enough, Rosa decided this week might be a good week to debut the Sky Track. So when the gladiators entered the Arena that day, they'd find a sort of race track set up for them. Only it was on the ceiling. And upside down.

Of course, esepcially considering the proclivities of certain people to be able to just hang from stuff like it's no problem, upside down racing seemed just a little bit too simple, so Rosa had added another element on the ground, because flanking the whole course were several little turret stations with some guns that might look familiar to those who were in the class last semester.

"This," Rosa announced, "is the Sky Track. It's an upside down racetrack that you'll be harnessed into and have to race each other while upside down. Easy, right?" Well, for some of you, Spider-Man.

"I've broken everyone down into heats; you'll race each other, and then the winners will go up against each other tournament style until there's only one person standing. To make things more interesting, when you're not racing, if you'd like, you can man one of these turret stations and try to make things a little more interesting for our racer by shooting either foam balls at them or water; there are guns that shoot both. Use these weapons to try to impede your competition or help out your allies. Just remember, kids, we totally kicked your butts last week," granted, there had been quite a few more teachers than students due to, you know, dumb labyrinth stuff. "You think you can handle it if we do it again this time around?"

Because, spoiler alert: they totally would.

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in_sidon_we_trust: (swimming forward)

Re: Group One: Chill vs Anakin vs Leviathan - Gladiators, 07/12.

[personal profile] in_sidon_we_trust 2019-07-12 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sidon was discovering that swimming upside down and crawling/running upside down were not even remotely similiar, and then there might have been at least a brief moment of discomfort in realizing that the way he needed to move in this harness against this track was a bit too similar to how he'd sometimes lope around as a monster a few weeks ago, but he quickly banished that from his mind, figured out a good approach to it, and managed to find his stride.

It might have been a bit too late, though, even if he could cover quite a bit of distance rather quickly thanks to his size, though he was pretty sure, since this was the danger shop, those straining creaks he thought he heard from the apparatus were just put in to make him and his competitors feel nervous about the structure's ability to hold his weight. But why would Detective Diaz do something like that??