Let the eating begin
Sorry if it's a bit wordy, I won't type nearly as much after this. Just wanted to get the setting going.
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Rolick coughed against the dusty ground he had just been shoved into. Several bruises became painfully evident across the side of his body and he winced, rolling over lightly. The guards, his "escorts" were already heading back out of the actual arena and shutting the massive iron gates. He turned his head to his left side, to see a roaring crowd a few hundred feet away in a massive row of seats and benches. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, placed his hands against the rough ground. and shoved himself upward onto his feet.
Rolick opened his eyes again, turning slowly around to get a grasp of his surroundings. He was in the middle of the immense stadium. The ground was brick overlayed with a thick covering of coarse sand. A few patches of blood, too stained to ever be washed away were scattered along it's surface. There were no foreign objects on the field, but he knew that earlier in the competition they had been used, rocks and wooden platforms, for the hunting competition. He was made to watch that himself, as a preview of what he would get. The beast that was to be set upon him was one of the best. Of the some 1o or 11 gladiators onn the field, the creature was able to singlehandedly rip apart 3 of them, and gut a prize leopard. The monster, unfortunately, was not allowed to feed on any of this, and was probably still just hopping to grab a chunk of his flesh.
To his right was a large box-like structure toward the top of the audience. In it was the emperor, the man who singlehandedly ruined his nation and his life. A farmer by choice, he had tried to defend his farm when the cowards came running through his fields setting his crops on fire and killing his animals. He failed utterly. As punishment, he had been forced to watch his wife and two daughters systematically decapitated, their heads within inches of his own bound feet. The translator they had told him that he would get special treatment, and though he had no contact with anyone who spoke his own language after that, he had gathered enough information to understand what his fate was.
And now he was standing here, in the middle of a cheering, leering, bloodthirsty crowd, dressed only in a small white loincloth. The weather was frustratingly comfortable, but the very nature of his purpose here caused large, heavy, beads of sweat to travel down his neck and onto his fit, tanned chest.The emperor had silenced the crowd, and was now yelling something (probably about "examples" and such nonsense) across the arena to the crowd. When he was done they burst into cheers once again, this time for almost 20 seconds, before a hush of perverted fascination came over them.
The gate on the opposite end of the stadium from him was opening, slowly, and he could here low growls and cat-like noises from the blackness of the corridor.
Thrown to the lions (Me and Anubis)
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Re: Thrown to the lions (Me and Anubis)
Bump, still here. Don't want this to get lost to the second page.
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((so sorry i missed this, for some reason my 'latestposts' button doesnt like me, anyhoo, ill post very soon, likely tonight as ive gotwork in a bit.))
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(( Thats, cool. Glad you found it. And I take it that the "(("s and "))"s contain OOC posts, so I've learned something today as well. ))
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((Bump again?))
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