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Who| Timaeus Nadir and all his guests. If you are in the Capitol, you've been invited!
What| A spectacular Viewing Party and opportunity for tributes to get sponsorship
Where| The Victoria Ascendant, on the lake
When| After the most recent death roll!
Warnings/Notes| Probable skeeviness of the Nice Guy variety.

Welcome to the Victoria Ascendant, latest in the Ascendant line of luxury yachts as built by the Nadir company. Tonight, the Victoria Ascendant is the stage set for a spectacular party, also paid for by the company and specifically designed and organised by a team of event specialists overseen by your host for this evening, Timaeus Nadir- wealthy eligible bachelor, melodramatic heir apparent to the company chair, frequent sponsor of the Games. The Victoria Ascendant is fully equipped with every obscenely luxurious item imaginable, and practically drips opulence.

When first welcomed aboard you will be assured that your every need will be seen to, your every desire catered for. Staff are on hand to answer any questions you might have or guide you to various areas of the ship, provide you with food, drink, or suggestions of how best to take advantage of the Victoria Ascendant's many amenities- they are here as hosts, but also as salespeople for those of the guests with money to burn- this party is serving more than one purpose. Tributes who responded to their invite will also receive a delicate, hand-written note in a golden envelope as they board- the content of which will be posted as a reply to their response to this post.(I'll do this once your character turns up.)

Although the Victoria Ascendant has a magnificent dining room for formal, sit-down occasions, the food for the party will be circulating the various lounge areas and decks. There is also a buffet table, for those of you who prefer to help yourselves, and a fully stocked bar. Provided are a baffling variety of foods and beverages, seemingly unconnected- but each tribute will find that if at any point during their stay in the Capitol they have requested a particular food or drink item, it is available here. Or, at least, the closest approximation the catering staff could conjure up. Seating is provided in intimate groupings around tables for the most part, though there are large, sprawling couches against the walls. Central to the dining area is a magnificent aquarium filled with brightly coloured fish. Anyone looking closely enough will recognise them- varieties of piranha- but don't worry, they've been more than adequately fed and the glass is thick.

While there are various screens displaying the Games throughout the ship, Viewing is also taking place on an enormous screen, set up in a seperate lounge area with full floor-to-ceiling windows all along one side. Here, staff wait to take bets or help organise the giving of sponsor gifts. Large, comfortable couches line the room, and the central table overflows with a spectacular arrangement of edible flowers and fruit.

Later in the evening, you will be told that the firework display is about to begin, and invited to go up onto the main deck to watch. The fireworks themselves will be launched from smaller boats across the lake, and the display is set to be truly spectacular. It will be set to some music that Tributes may find familiar- various melodies pulled from the most recent Arena. The large swimming pool on the deck is open, but it is too early in the year to be comfortable to use. Instead, it is being used as an unusual centrepiece for the evening. Floating in the illuminated water is a gigantic iceberg, sculpted into a stylised model of the current arena and populated with frozen figures. Eagle-eyed Tributes may be able to spot themselves depicted in ice- more often than not, the moment of their deaths are the pose of choice, if a little tweaked for the sake of a more dramatic scene.

Enjoy!

Adachi · Ariadne · Asha · Atticus · Beck · Blaine · Calico · Callista · Chris · Diana · Don · Eddie · Eponine · Eva · Gaila · Glinda · Harley · Howard · Julie · Kurt · Marty · Maximus · Momoko · Neffa · Parker · Peeta · Phil · Pruna · R · Sigma · Some · Thane · Timaeus · Topher

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Prim was playing a different sort of game - he might notice that she approached the tributes, avoiding the eyes of citizens where she could - and that those eyes that did land on her almost invariably shone with recognition. Even pleasure, often flickering toward the other figure she was avoiding: Katniss. If he'd been there long enough, he might very well know of Primrose Everdeen, who Katniss had taken the place of in the games. Not hard to fit together the pieces if he knew them all. ...Otherwise, she was just an odd girl exhibiting odd behavior.

Either way, she was coming in his direction. Not on purpose, merely ducking away from another citizen before they could spot her.

He raised and eyebrow. Well wasn't this fascinating. What was someone that young doing in THIS kind of party? The kind of party that would put Tony Stark's infamous pre-Afghanistan bashes to shame.

When she walked by him, he spoke up. "There's a nice little alcove over there behind the curtain. If you're that desperate to get away for a bit. and don't mind dirty dishes."

She wanted to meet the tributes, of course. She had to meet them, rather. She needed to find out if she could help them, in any way. Do something for the fact that she was spared of the arena, and they're... not.

That would include him, as it happens - but as she hadn't seen Phil, she was jumping up now in surprise. She still gathered herself enough for a head shake, though. A moment later, words followed.

"I wanted to meet the tribute."

He just raises an eyebrow at her. Phil was fairly sure that his death had been on the highlight reels... if only for the emotional carnage he left behind.

Fucking voyeuristic vultures. Enjoying other peoples very real pain as entertainment.

"We'll you just did."

"You're a tribute?" she asked, more curious than surprised. Really, there were only a few types of people who came to these parties.