Slumber Party

[etcircenses]

Who| All adult Tributes
What| Slumber party fun times!
Where| The common room
When| during the Chilren's arena
Warnings/Notes| For those who earn tickets, please see this thread to post who they send them too.

The Tributes are told to arrive back at the Tower by 4 o'Clock. Anyone not there by 5 will in fact find themselves nudged home by their friendly, neighborhood peace keepers.

Everyone finds a set of P.J.s on their bed, and although there isn't any particular theme to them, none of them fall under normal, and all lean towards the children's side of things. Footsie P.J's, knee length plaids in bright pink, polyester frilly princess night gowns. And although the night isn't saturated in it, pink and purple are solidly the color code of the night.

Once everyone had been dressed, even if it is by force, they are all hearded down to the common room, which has been decked out. Pillows are everywhere, and large chunks of the floor have been changed into giant beds. The whole room is geared just slightly larger, to give the tributes the subtle but inescapable feeling that they are smaller. Gauzy curtains separate areas of the room by activity, but most furniture has been removed, sans a few scant pieces left for party purposes. Each Tribute is passed over a bag, blues for the boys and pinks for the girls. Within are a selections of goodies-face masques, a small personalized blanket with their face printed on it, and a check list of the activities. For every activity completed you get 5 tickets to send to any kid in the arena, and for completing them all you get a 20 point bonus.

On one huge wall, the Children's arena is broadcast across the whole wall. No matter where you may be in the room, you can see this wall, and the majority of the pillows are gathered around to watch it. An avox near the side of the wall will take any earned tickets and get them to the Tribute of choice in the arena, who will receive it with their next ticketed activity. Directly across from it is a huge table, dripping with every variety of junk food. Pizza's are piled high, and whenever the pile runs low a "delivery" avox will bring more. Chips, soda, cookies, and even more hand made variety of junk food like buckeyes and pigs in a blanket are spread across the table. And there is always an avox near by to "spike" your pop.


Pillow Fight: A padded arena for two is set up, with pillow armor and stuffed weapons.

Make Overs: A small salon is set up, full of ridiculous supplies like wigs, tattoo stencils, and rainbow make up. Nothing is neutral here. There are no stylists however, just lots of their toys for the Tributes to play with.

Fashion Show: After your make over you can walk over to the dressing room, full of things that are all over sized. Shoes, dressed, boas, all made sized up as if the Tributes were children themselves. You must walk the fashion run way to get points.

Video Games: A whole gaming area is set up. However the only game is a fighting game programmed with all the Children Tributes as characters.

Cup Cake Decorating: Just about everything is here to decorate, including decadent things such as live flowers and real gems. Everyone is told they must submit a cupcake for judging, the winner gets 20 extra tickets.

Spin the Bottle: Much like the traditional game, except the bottle is full. Take a swig of whatever is in the bottle before you drink, and it makes you feel much better about having to play spin the bottle after just one shot.

Seven Minutes in Heaven: Two participants are chosen at random throughout the party and hurried into a large closet for 7 minutes "alone," which anyone outside the closet can see on the monitors on the wall behind the closet. Which your character may or may not have seen before being rushed in.

Comments

[worldsaway]

"Practically nothing." He says politely, a curious smile on his face despite the fact that this seems like a difficult subject for Carlos. He feels he's at his most comforting when he's disarmingly friendly, so he doesn't stop.

"You can tell me." He assures. "I will listen."

[youbarium]

"Well," Carlos begins, "you know how Tributes sometimes pretend to be in a relationship for the cameras but really it's just a PR stunt? I -- Cecil and I did that, after Arena 10." He sounds ashamed of it, more than anything else.

[worldsaway]

"Of sorts." He answers, but Carlos continues before he can really form an opinion of it. He can understand the value of it, but he knows he'd never be capable.

"I see." He continues, his voice free of judgment. There's sympathy in his tone, because it is terrible that anyone feels obligated to do as much. But alas, he can't help being confused when he doesn't realise Cecil wasn't complicit in that much.

"Do you believe this cheapens your affections?"

[sizeofyourbaggage]

Almost as soon as she says that, his mouth opens again as he starts to ask her. But the flush makes him hesitate, especially when she follows it up by saying she’s kidding. There’s a part of him that wants to ask her anyway, but he’s pretty sure that’s the part of him that’s still a little drunk and isn’t thinking about the longterm at the moment.

So he backs off, giving a little rueful smile. “Yeah. Me too.” He pauses, then, “Raincheck on my turn at questions?”

[celebrityskinned]

"Absolutely." She uses his shoulder to lever herself up (too drunk to rise to her feet standing alone), and then heads off, head held up straight as if that could substitute for sobriety.

[youbarium]

"No," he says. "I know how I feel about Cecil, and I know how he feels about me. It's just that it didn't start out that way. It started with a very real breach of ethics.

"You see -- I knew how Cecil felt about me from the beginning. He didn't even try to keep it a secret. I'm pretty sure he put it on the network, and it definitely wound up in some of his radio broadcasts. He wasn't pretending. But after my first Arena, I...I did something I shouldn't have, something I think it is highly inadvisable to even talk about. Because of that inadvisable decision, and because I was falling into every Gamemaker trap they could think of, I was convinced that the Capitol was trying to kill me with every intention of not reviving me for the next Arena." Carlos takes his glasses off and cleans them on his oversized pajama-like lab coat. It's clearly a fidget.

[worldsaway]

Thor can already tell it's going to be a long story, so he refrains from his observations for the moment. He falls entirely silent, raising a brow every so often but listening all the same.

"And so..?" He asks finally, only when Carlos begins to fidget without really elaborating. Thor lets out a faint chuff, something like a chuckle that he thinks better of. "You need not be wary of honesty with me, Carlos. I've no place to judge past mistakes." Nothing says you done goofed like an awkward, genocidal period.

[youbarium]

The encouragement gives Carlos the push he needs to go on.

"I know I should have talked to Cecil about it before I did it," he sighs. "I'd considered the idea, but I thought I'd never do something that unethical. It was out of the question. But then, when I was actually dying...I really thought they wouldn't bring me back," he confesses. "Not unless I did something. So I said on camera that I was in love with Cecil Palmer."

He drops his face into a hand.

"The worst part was that he believed it. I had to tell him I had lied about it."

That had been one of the worst conversations Carlos had ever had. And he has had some pretty bad ones.