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Timaeus Nadir ([personal profile] neclectus) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-12-09 07:18 pm

People In Glass Houses...

Who | Timaeus Nadir and guests
What | Timaeus is hosting a picnic get-together/catch-up.
Where | The picnic will be taking place in the Tropical Habitat Dome.
When| We'll be using a bit of wibbly time so that people who want to attend can.
Warnings/Notes| None as of yet.

(This is an opportunity for me to make some new CR as well as catch up with ongoing relationships, but I also want to encourage tagging around between characters! Feel free to do whatever you like in the setting with whoever you like! Also I will be backtagging this so don't feel you've missed the boat if you haven't tagged in immediately <3)

Timaeus certainly knew how to organise a gathering- even if it wasn't an outrageously opulent celebration to be held on one of his own yachts. This one was to be held under the expansive dome of the Tropical Habitat- the entire location rented out for the day to Timaeus and his guests, a loosely private affair- formal invitations as such hadn't been extended, but those welcome knew they were. Naturally, all tributes and victors were included in this group.

The Dome was a beautiful piece of architecture in itself, though antiquated when compared with the technology used for the Arenas. Rather than invisible forcefields, the climate of the interior was separated from the outside by elaborately curving steel and glass. Inside, tropical plants of all types thrived- there was a still, green pond and, deeper inside, a cascading waterfall. Butterflies in hundreds of colours, sizes and shapes flitted about, tropical birds swooped between the trees, brightly coloured fish darted in the water.
Blankets and cushions had been scattered in the main clearing with hampers of food, but there was plenty of space for the guests to break away from the gathering if they so desired- the dome was full of winding paths through the greenery- some even climbing around the trunks of the largest trees and leading to viewing platforms above. In a temporary gazebo in the clearing, a string quartet played music that wasn't quite the classical pieces Tributes were familiar with. 

Timaeus himself seemed in a brighter mood than he had been for months, more than happy to make conversation with anyone who approached him- though he was certainly keeping an eye open for particular individuals. Some that he'd met, some that he'd lost and had returned to him, and others still that he had yet to meet.
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[personal profile] deafscythe 2013-12-19 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
History is of some interest to Justin (or at least, what he can learn from in terms of strategy). Which is why he'd been watching the Arena footage in the first place.

"Ah, is that so? Have you found anything interesting?"
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[personal profile] asklepian 2013-12-22 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
"The only interesting thing is the lack of anything. All the history books I've been able to find seem to be rather...diluted." To say the least, there was nearly nothing of the war--which had been what he was trying to find out information on. Also there was basically nothing on the time before the war. It was as if the world itself had formed at the same time as the conflict--which he knew couldn't be true.

Which meant there was something the powers that be didn't want them seeing, but there was nothing he could do about it. Immensely frustrating.
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[personal profile] deafscythe 2013-12-22 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah. I wonder who has sufficient clearance to view actual records." Justin knows all about hidden information, history watered down and covered over for everyone except a select few (looking back at it, he thinks he should not have been so accepting).

"What information have you been able to find?"
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[personal profile] asklepian 2013-12-28 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Basically nothing, aside from what we've already been told. There was a terrible conflict, which the Capitol won, and then they instituted these yearly 'Games' to remind the rest of the country of their defeat."

Which he considered to be barbaric, but this wasn't a discussion of his personal opinions. Yet. Probably shouldn't be, considering the atmosphere.

"History before that point is kept very vague so as to be completely unhelpful, at least to compare to the history I know."
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[personal profile] deafscythe 2013-12-30 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah, how crude. There are far more civilized ways to control a rebellious population."

Justin has no problems providing commentary.

"And now with our arrivals, that purpose seems void. It is not as if we are actual citizens of the districts we have been assigned to."