Do not adjust your screen.

[thefallout]

[Like before, the screen turns black, with green text appearing on it.]

I hear they're sending you all out to the Districts to play happy Tributes.

They will tell you all sorts of things while you're out there. 

But remember...you all have died for us, and we are thankful. But there are lots of dead children, brothers and sisters from the years before. Aunts and Uncles never meet. Hell, probably a few mothers and fathers.

They don't exactly hand out birth control in the districts. They all know we'd just use it till there were no more of us.

So thankful, yeah. But pissed off too.

Not at you all. But there is too much pain to keep pretending everything is fixed by some magic trick of temporary death. 

[A touch screen keyboard, something your devices previously didn't have, appears. The option is only available when you look at this message and its replies.]

((OOC- Replies can be anonymous or not, though ICly your character is going on the word of the post. Please post in your subject whether your comment is anon or not, and make separate threads if you have an anon and  "logged in" reply. Also, although the rebellion may reply, this is more for characters to talk to each other under the guise of anon, or lack of it. You can reply to a logged-in comment anon, and vice versa; just clarify in the subject.))

 

Comments

[totally anon, and only because he's sure that using the rebellion's feed will protect him]

[setfires]

Pissed off doesn't begin to describe it, honey.

[thefallout]

I didn't want to scare them right out of the gate.

Anon

[carnagecarnival]

What exactly are you asking of us? To let ourselves be kicked for the sake of appeasing their anger? You say yourself, we have died for you. Is this a promise on your part, so we may bide our time, or is this simply yet another of the many things we are asked a lot of.

[absolutely, positively, completely anon]

[polyturtle]

For once, I have to agree. We're the symbol of the Capitol's continued oppression, and we're not their children. I can't help but doubt that many outside of you don't see us as anything more than fellow travelers.

[thefallout]

I'm not asking you anything, right now. Just trying to let you all know what the Capitol is throwing you into, since they aren't going to.

totally logged in;

[orestes]

This is the first opportunity we will have, to my knowledge, to know the people we supposedly represent. It is in our best interest to appreciate it. That may involve biding our time for the moment until we can establish some sort of actual rapport with the Districts.

In the meantime, sparing their children is something which we can do to provide them with hope, and hope is by far the most dangerous element to a tyrant.

Anon

[deafscythe]

Perhaps we should kill them instead. One death for each of ours.

Anon

[president_evil]

Come, come, now. Is it really all that bad?

I, for one, am quite looking forward to these little field trips. There's so much we haven't seen; so much to learn.

[thefallout]

It's pretty bad. But keep your eyes open.

[orestes]

And how would you propose we help to genuinely fix it?

[Totally logged in, fuck the police. Also let's be real, Monsieur 1832 couldn't make something anonymous even if he tried.]

[thefallout]

[He is not sure if you are brave or dumb, but he is impressed.]

I doubt there's anything you can do during this. They'll have you all hobbled as tight as they can.

Anon as hell

[clarityinchaos]

I need to know if the possibility of dying here is worth losing the battles I'm fighting in at home.

[nooneleft]

Well finally. Someone else shouting their mouth off. You hear that? EVERYONE is pissed.

[Someone's jubilent]

Is she anon or not?

[thefallout]

If they aren't, they aren't paying attention.

anon

[alldeduction]

[What follows is in code, more complicated than the last he used, but still breakable if someone interested in cryptography gives it a good go for a few minutes. It isn't meant to be unbreakable.]

Come back to flirt again have we?

I would make a note about abstinence but no one with half a brain would ever suggest that it works.

Any other travelling tips?

[thefallout]

[It takes a few minutes, but then he's replying back in code.]

You know how lonely it gets without you.

Watch. I have no clue which district you are going to, but there are al dealing with things differently. But someone, somewhere, is you ally.

anonymous;

[thatwasme]

Not a fan of pennyroyal? Sounds like you're not spending time with the right kinds of folks.

'Temporary' death isn't a magic trick. It's a malicious one, knowing what happens in the districts.

[thefallout]

Can't say I am, on either account.

It's a toxic bandaid.

oh so anon

[tis_allgood]

You again. So now you're going to steal our pain to use it as your own?

[thefallout]

You steal ours. Seems like a fair trade.

Trust me, I'd happily have the people I've lost to the games magically come back to life. But they're dead. So it's not happening.

[crabulous]

I don't know about you, but personally, I'm very excited to meet all of my many fans!

[thefallout]

...

not anon, video

[swill]

[Politicians, the lot of them. There's so much talking and so little of it said anything new.

Curly was brave, but boyish. And he'd have much rather read the spiel than have to hear it, and now Hawkeye would be damned if he didn't feel a tinge of worry. So distractions are in order, because stupidity always draws eyes from danger. And stupidity here means missing the point of this all, and replying deadpan and oblivious. Because that was a lobster talking ahead of him.]

--but my fans are better.

[Adding so much to the riveting conversation, really.]

[thefallout]

you two can argue it out on your own time.

[anon]

[whoseesbynight]

Of course it's not fixed. It wouldn't be. But dying and coming back isn't very fun either.

[thefallout]

I can't imagine it is. Only the Capitol would think so.

anon [cw: abortion joke]

[nunpunching]

bch hav ur shawtees not hrd of coat hangrs yet????

u must not be frm the dstrct dat sell us dem threds

where u at homie if u aint in 8 or 3???

anon

[retrieverchef]

Not funny. And they'd be dumb to answer that.

anon

[retrieverchef]

I hope they stay angry. If we all get angry enough, maybe we can change something around here.

Anon little rat

[saveswithsong]

Anger is only half of it.

Anon

[deafscythe]

If their children are killed, they are angry. If people from another world die a thousand deaths in place of a thousand of their children, they are angry.

It seems that nothing can satisfy them.

[thefallout]

not killing people for sport is a good first step.

but the whole point is that option B pisses them off less, but it doesn't mean that our dead came back to life.

anon

[sleeplessinalternia]

See, this is why having parasitic young messes you up. If you were trolls you could just be giant perverts that pour their buckets out when they're done. Or don't even use them.

[thefallout]

...what?

anon

[doc_holi]

It's not fixed, but better us than their own children.

[thefallout]

I'm...glad you think that. And it is better, but it's still not good. You all don't deserve it either.

and it doesn't solve the other issues of this government. Like food shortages and slave labor.

[anon]

[savedbyasong]

[He never replied to the first one, but he risks it this time, tripple checking that he is in anonymous mode] Trying to heal pain with more pain has never worked for anyone. Killing more people, even to revive us was never intended to bring those the districts lost back to them.

[thefallout]

they think it's some sort of consultation prize. but you're right. in the end, it won't work.