The Hunger Games

[Elend Venture he/him]

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*quietly shuffles away so that I won't be obliberated when Voidus strikes down TLP*

 

[BeaverBuster]

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Can I get a sponsor please, I don't have one yet.

If I win I will raise a monument to the Shard (of Adonalsium) of my sponsors choice.

 

[+Sorana she/her]

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*glances at the sky to see whether Voidus is on his way*

Do we have enough sponsors for all tributes? Last time we hadn't, but I'd be willing to switch if there is a large gap between the two.

@AonEne

[Darkfinder she/her]

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I just checked and it seems to be equal at the moment 

 

[Channelknight Fadran]

*Waits impatiently to die.*

[+Doomstick he/him]

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THIS HUNGER GAMES IS SPONSORED BY VOIDAPPLE!!!!!!

 

[Gears]

If it's not too late, could I join?

[Wind he/him]

14 minutes ago, Gears said:

If it's not too late, could I join?

Me too please!

[+Sorana she/her]

Nervously I open and close my hands, only to open them again, look at my palms, at the slight scar on the left one, where I'd gotten too close to a heart as a child, played with the beautifully glowing stones lying in there, moving them this way and that way and finally catching one, as I would a ball.

I close them again, take a breath and then press my fingers together tightly, focus on the sharp pain of my nails biting into my flesh. Waiting. I always hated to wait, prefered to work, to do something, to be active. But instead they force me to wait. To sit in this room and to wait, wait while they do whatever it is these people from the capitol do. Maybe drink the sweet wine I tasted a few days ago. Or eat roasted pork, with sauce tasting like oranges. I bit down on my lip in frustration, walk around in the small chamber. Waiting. I had been nervous when I was elected, had felt as I've been rushed away, as if it all had been nothing but a dream, like a train I'd hoped onto and missed getting off in time.

I open my hands, exhale, the air leaving my lungs in a gush and I shake my head at my own reaction. I knew this moment would be coming. I knew. But now, right here and now I feel like a little boy, walking on the square for the first time, his name in the bowl. But I'm not a little boy anymore. I am older now and I should have known it would happen. I should have. But now that the day is here, that it's about hours, about minutes, not about weeks I wish I would have a little more time. And a sponsor. I wish I would have a sponsor. I had no idea that a dear friend of my writer already decided to stand by my side. How could I know. I wasn't talking to them, to those whose money would decide the game. But I saw her. The eyes, the kindness that flickered in them. Maybe she would be here, stand by my side. ( @AonEne )

My hands close themselves again. I open them. I close them. I wait, count my breaths. Soon I will see the other tributes. Soon things will happen. Soon, I will be able to do something.

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Please don't feel stressed, I just felt like writing something.

(We didn't talk about districts yet, so I kept the background very vague.)

 

Edited July 29, 2020 by Sorana

[AonEne he/him]

14 hours ago, Sorana said:

Maybe she would be here, stand by my side. 

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Sure, why not  

Ene pokes her head through the door. “Hey, where’s the bathroom - hang on, this isn’t...” Her voice trails off. She expected to find one of the president’s aides, to direct her to somewhere she could touch up her makeup. But this is someone young enough and plain enough that they can only be one thing here, in this land of glamor and whimsy. “Who are you?” she asks anyway. 

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On 7/28/2020 at 5:25 PM, Gears said:

If it's not too late, could I join?

Tribute or sponsor? 

On 7/28/2020 at 5:39 PM, A Windrunner said:

Me too please!

Tribute or sponsor? 

Gamemakers, if we need to have some other people help out then that’s fine, but how are you guys doing on planning? I know Stick’s leaving in a couple weeks, so maybe we can start before then? 

@Lunamor @Blessing of Potency @The Last Post 

Edited July 30, 2020 by AonEne

[Wind he/him]

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Tribute, thanks.

 

[Gears]

1 minute ago, AonEne said:

Tribute or sponsor? 

Tribute, though if the numbers get unbalanced, I'd be fine with sponsor.

[Wind he/him]

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3 minutes ago, Gears said:

Tribute, though if the numbers get unbalanced, I'd be fine with sponsor.

Me too.

 

[AonEne he/him]

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Done, you’re both good to be in tribute. 

I’ll start working on a district system. Happy to hear any suggestions! 

 

[Vapor she/her]

great

[Lunamor she/her]

@AonEne

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We may be able to start soon, I’ll check with the other gms.

 

[+Sorana she/her]

5 hours ago, AonEne said:

Ene pokes her head through the door. “Hey, where’s the bathroom - hang on, this isn’t...” Her voice trails off. She expected to find one of the president’s aides, to direct her to somewhere she could touch up her makeup. But this is someone young enough and plain enough that they can only be one thing here, in this land of glamor and whimsy. “Who are you?” she asks anyway. 

I whirl around when the door opens. I had expected a lot, but not this, not someone stumbling in on me, in this last few hours that I belong to myself and not to the crowd. It's a girl, hairstyle and makeup easily showing that she belongs to those who will watch the games. Someone from the capitol. "I..." I start, somehow speechless by the fact that a girl from the capitol just walked through that door. Or maybe it's the fact that she stayed and didn't immedtiatly leave again.

Depite the hours I've been groomed by them, my hair cut into shape and dyed a strange seagreen colour, those living in the capitol still strike me as weird. "I..." I start again, suddenly unsure what she wants to hear. My district? My name? My ranking? Uneasily my hand moves towards my plain cloths, indicating them while I state my name. "Marik." I reply. "I was just passing the time, you know?" I laugh awkwardly, unsure what to make of her and at the same time I'm incredibly glad that she found her way here, that she pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Who are you?" I ask, throwing away all thoughts of caution. "Can I help in some way?" I'm not sure how I might be able to, but the words leave my mouth before I think too much about them. I definitely can't show her the way to whereever she's supposed to be right now. Mostly because I have no real idea where I am in the first place.

Edited July 30, 2020 by Sorana

[+Doomstick he/him]

14 hours ago, Lunamor said:

@AonEne

 

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I won’t be on internet starting tomorrow for about 12 days

 

[AonEne he/him]

10 hours ago, Sorana said:

"Who are you?" I ask, throwing away all thoughts of caution. "Can I help in some way?" 

"I was just trying to find the bathroom," Ene said, then sighed and facepalmed internally. "I'm a sponsor for the Games. Well, my parents are sponsors. I'm here with them, I guess." She cocked her head thoughtfully and looked at Marik. "You're not from the Capitol, are you?" 

[+Sorana she/her]

On 30.7.2020 at 6:50 PM, AonEne said:

"I was just trying to find the bathroom," Ene said, then sighed and facepalmed internally. "I'm a sponsor for the Games. Well, my parents are sponsors. I'm here with them, I guess." She cocked her head thoughtfully and looked at Marik. "You're not from the Capitol, are you?" 

"The bathroom's not here." I reply and only when the words have left my mouth do I realize how they sound. Awardly I laugh, as if I made a joke, and then shake my head. "No, I'm not. I've never been here before." Before I was brought here to be polished up before getting killed.

The thought easily snuffs out my laugh and I frown instead. "It's incredible." I say while tugging on the sleeves of the shirt they gave me. It fits me well, as if it was made for me, the color enhancing the green of my eyes and the blonde of my hair. "I wish I had a little more time to take a look around." the honesty in my words surprises even myself. The place is loud, bright, crowded, but if I had the time, I would love to take a look around.

[Vapor she/her]

Vapor walks in nervously. "I was told to go here, it's where the other tributes would be."

[Channelknight Fadran]

Fadran struts saunters into the room. "Helloooo fellow death row prisoners!"

[Vapor she/her]

"Not for me!" Vapor says as she walks into the middle of the room. "I'm surviving!"

[Channelknight Fadran]

"That's the spirit!" Fadran replies. He laughs, then pauses. "Who are you?"

[AonEne he/him]

18 hours ago, Sorana said:

"I wish I had a little more time to take a look around." the honesty in my words surprises even myself. The place is loud, bright, crowded, but if I had the time, I would love to take a look around. 

Ene leans away from the man who said he was on death row nervously, focusing on the tribute she was talking to. She got the sense that she really wasn’t supposed to be in here. “Well, maybe we can arrange that,” she said perkily. “If you win you get to come back, right?” 

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*facepalms* Sponsor-Ene, you idiot, these are murder games.