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(Pre-Show) The Barracks
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Oookay...a few hours of walking and I seem to have lost my sense of direction. I've gone past walls of books from all kinds of places, climbed a mountain from some outdoor park, faced and fought a couple of incredibly agile training dummies and now I'm back to the Recreation Dome. Somehow, the place is less crowded than it used to be. Might as well grab a few grub before searching again. All that walking got me drained again.

Walking towards the same grill stand, I wave at the man flipping the huge slabs of meat as I casually stab three of them off the smoking grill with my scythe. I sink my teeth into one of the juicy slabs and chew on it like there's no tomorrow. I sit down on the ground to finish my second slice when I feel a hand on my right shoulder, turning my head at it and ready to bite. Looking upwards behibd me to see who was the owner of the hand, I see a man dressed like the local security.
"Are you Carn?", he asks.

"Yep! Need my help?"

"We've been looking all over for you, sir. All primes are to report to the barracks before the game starts."

"Well, I got lost somewhere and ended back here since I'm hungry."

"We understand. I will now escort you to your room. Come with me," the uniformed man says. He grabs me by the sides and hauls me up like a kid. "My, you're heavier than I thought."

"I can't help it. I ate a lot," waving the third slab of meat stuck on my scythe as I swallow it.

"I see. We have to go now sir. Follow me," he orders me as he turns around towards the direction of the lobby door. I reach out my scythe one last time at the stacked grill full of chunky beef before following the Syntex guard. "Right behind you!" I call out smiling.

He leads me back into the lobby hallway and walk towards the silver elevator door at the far end of it. Now how did I miss that there?? Soon, we reach the elevator door as it opens with a 'cling' sound. Wierd. The silver metal box feels unsettling as I cramp myself into a cold corner, ignoring the music playing on the speakers. Finally, it stops and the door opens again with another 'cling'. I step out and the Syntex guard hands me my rom key. "#36," he says. "Also, please leave all your weapons in your room or we'll have to deal with it later on," he informs me. Oh my...did he just say I should leave Trauma and Tremor behind? This is bad.

I stand in front of the elevator door for a few moments, contemplating what he just said. "I'll be unarmed in this game...but, so are they. Hmm."
I would have stayed there longer if I didn't here the mumble a short distance away from me spot. At the far end of the dull-colored hallway is a crowd of people who will probably enter the game as well. I ignore them for now while looking at the key given to me. "#36, I guess that's my bunk," I walk up to the third floor hallway that has '31-40' written on it. I guess one of the rooms are mine?

Walking past each room as I scan the names posted for each door, I spot Okor's and Galel's room. "34...35...36...3- oh that's mine!" I stick the key and turn the knob. Inside the room cntains a single bed a duffle bag and some and some little cabinets. I sit on the bed as I drop Tremor, leaning the thing on the wall with a rumbling thud. The act causes a muffled voice coming from the other side of the wall, my neighbor. Wartortle was it? "Sorry! I didn't do it on purpose, slightly..." I apologize with sarcasm. I lean the scythe beside the cleaver, stabbing it into the wall. "I hope I didn't hit anything in there," I cover a chuckle with my left hand.

Now losing interest at my neighbor, I concentrate on my Omnillium as I summon a stack of my calling cards, grabbing a few inside my right pants' pocket as I pull the duffle bag in front of me and put it on my lap. Grabbing the zipper as I run it to the other side, the bag opens, revealing a few packs of silver wrappings and bottles of clear, transparent liquid. I check each one, wondering what they could be. The silver packs are labelled with 'MRE' and little instructions at the back. The writing is too long for my attention span but it does havw the word 'food' which gives me an idea what it is for. I guess this is what people eat in here?

I grab the plastic bottle and immediately read the label. It says "Aquafina" with a little subtitle "by Pepsi. Co". Sponsors? Nah. I zip the bag close, grabbing the silver packs of foil and casually shove one into my mouth, crunching whatever contents was inside. I walk outside to the other side, passing by room 37 for a person named "Luffy", followed by room 38's Desco. "Desco? Right!" I hurriedly search for my calling cards in my pocket and knock on the door. With no reply, I simply stuff the card below the door and move on. I see Victor is just beside her followed by Tartaros at the end of the hallway. I stuff a card below Tartsies' door as well like I did with Desco's as I proceed back to my room, picking up more of the cards I made earlier.

I run towards Galel"s and Okor's rooms, pressing cards on the door slits with a tap on their doors. I didn't stop though since I recalled a crowd of people a few moments ago, hoping I get to talk to them and maybe get a friend or two in this fun competition. Seeing Desco's door made me want to look for Guu's door too, leading me back to the crowd of people. I stop beside a kid with a straw hat who oddly smells like meat. Pushing the tasty thought away, I walk towards the biggest person in the group, a man with some unusually colored hair, who seems to be talking to someone little by the way he was bending low for some reason. I poke his relatively squishy side, unlike those of the big guys I met earlier which had metal armor for skin. "Uhm, hello mister. Do you happen to know a person named Guu? She's a friend of mine. Pink hair, pink dress, yellow scarf," I give him a basic description while gnawing on the silver-foiled MRE. "She's a little girl like-" I stop, well, no one made me, I just found something that interrupted me, is all. "Desco! Hihi! Nice to see you here!" I run around the big man to meet my friend.

"Hello! I got something for you! " I give her one of my calling cards with my trademark white '?' in a black background and on the other side, all the necessary information to contact me. "I got one for Guu too but I haven't found her yet...it's a shiny card!" I turn around to meet the eyes of the big man. "Hello! I'm Carn!" I introduce myself with a bow for some reasons. "So yeah. I'm looking for Guu. I'm giving her one of these!" I hand a card to the man. "You can keep it," I smile.

"My, they have weird food here. This one tastes like a paste of carbohydrates, broth of protein and fibers of tissue...wait, it is tissue." I comment on the whole silver pack I'm eating like a biscuit.


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