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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-03-24 12:14 pm

The Crowning of Mindy McReady

Who| Everyone who's anyone.
What| The Crowning.
Where| A warehouse on the edge of town.
When| Starting from early evening till late into the night.
Warnings/Notes| Be sure to check the linked thread for plot purposes, even if you don't tag into it.

The party is brightly colored.

The theme, subtly, is super heroes. Boldly paints city scapes are splattered across the walls, and hallways are made to look like dingy, potentially crime ridden alleys. From the upper walkways of the warehouse, party goers can get hooked into harnesses and swing out over the dance floor. Above them, tributes and VIPS can find themselves on a clear plastic dance floor levitated above everything, looking like they're hanging in air.

Masks are passed out in plenty, and capes are easy to find, while brightly colored drinks themed around super powers are plentiful. None of them actually work, but many of the Capitol people are happy to pretend, mocking super strength or invisibility with each new beverage.

Under the dance floor a catacomb of tunnels and rooms full of obstacles is splashed with black light receptive colors. Party goers are given vests and laser guns, marked green for villains and red for heros, and set loose to hunt each other in the laser tags playground. The screens in the dance floor keep a running tally of which side is winning, displaying the players on the screens around the room, along with clips from the arenas.

About half way through the night, everyone is gathered to the main stage for a special announcement.
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[personal profile] acroodawakening 2014-05-22 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Guy waved his hands next to his head and wiggled his fingers.

"Mind. Blown. But that makes so much sense. Everything's pulling each other but everything's dancing around each other so nothing falls. Nothing bumps into each other."

He looked over to his right and picked up the goofy helmet he'd taken off and put on the floor.

"I have this to throw," he said, holding it out to Lyle.
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[personal profile] atippleoftransparency 2014-05-29 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Lyle took the helmet and hefted it.

"Because we are both men of science, I will not take the opportunity to chuck this at someone important and then point at you and run away," he said with a wink, backing a few steps away from Guy. "Okay, if I just throw it flat out--" he tossed it gently in Guy's direction without putting a curve on it, so it hit the ground at his feet. "--It gets pulled down by gravity and hits the ground pretty quickly."

He made grabbyhands in Guy's direction, to see if he'd earned enough interest to have Guy toss it back.
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[personal profile] acroodawakening 2014-05-29 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Guy tossed it back eagerly.

"Which is why if you're throwing across a distance you have to aim higher, so it goes lower as it falls. To compensate for grabbity, right?"

His eyes were alight with excitement over the opportunity to learn.
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[personal profile] atippleoftransparency 2014-06-06 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly!" Lyle said, gesturing at him with the helmet before tossing it up into the air in an arc so that it should land right in Guy's hands. "But if you could throw it hard enough at just the right angle, then it could go so far so fast that it would start missing Earth when it falls, just like the moon."
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[personal profile] acroodawakening 2014-06-17 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"So it'd just float around the world? And go around and around it in circles, never getting pulled to it by grabbity?"

He was picking up these concepts pretty easily but it helped having no preconceived notions of The Way The World Is.

There were only the myriad ways it could be.
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[personal profile] atippleoftransparency 2014-07-01 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, it is getting pulled in by gravity," Lyle said. "That's why it doesn't fly off into space. It's...chasing the world at the speed of gravity, but the world is moving just fast enough that it can't catch up, but it can't escape gravity either."

Guy was picking it up fast, though. Lyle felt very, very secure in his decision to try and cultivate him as an ally -- even if he and Brainy couldn't work together.