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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-11-01 07:57 pm

Slumber Party

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.

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-07 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll agree to that," she replies on a nod, folding her arms over her chest. Her scowl is fixed back on the screen and she sighs, looking away again.

Tess could bring herself to watch the old footage from the archives but this...this is something she can't watch for more than a few seconds. Not when she feels helpless standing there while being able to do nothing.

"Still, we won't be helping them by standing around here."
burningdaylight: (tough choices [thoughtful frown])

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-07 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Luke concedes the point, wishing he had something close to a feasible plan in mind. And while he reconsiders the checklist he was provided he’s keenly aware that every second he stalls may very well come at a terrible price.

He couldn’t save every kid. It's impossible; some have already been lost. But no one says he couldn’t try his hardest. He blinks thoughtfully, glancing back to Tess. “Then I guess we better get started.”

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-08 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Because she'd left her bag off on a random table somewhere, Tess does a slow twist around to see what activities are spread out for them. They should probably start at the closest one. She's pretty sure that one involves picking up a video game controller and playing some kind of a game that she's never even heard of before.

Scratch that.

"Looks like there's an area for...cupcakes?" Tess leans forward and squints. That's what the small sign reads...doesn't it?

She shoots him a questioning glance.
burningdaylight: (resting)

haha, let's do this

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-09 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
He looks to where her gaze had lingered only moments before. "Makeovers, actually." He corrects her, not unkindly.

The easier options, subjectively speaking – video games, pillow fighting, and spin-the-bottle – are the most popular, it'd seem. He has an apologetic knit to his brow as he reaches back to scratch at the nape of his neck. "I'm tellin' you now I, uh... don't have much experience workin' with any a' that makeup stuff."

It's one of those time-consuming, sacred rituals his girlfriends would have never let him help with, not that he had ever thought to ask. He figures it's on the same level as having someone else shave his face for him. "Figure it can't be all that hard, though. I mean, it ain't rocket science."

hell yeah

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-10 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Coulda sworn that said cupcakes," she answers his correction, not offended in the slightest.

Tess looks between him and the make over activity section, lips pressing together as she tilts her head and looks over his features. She's sure she could try to work something on him. Or not, she never cared for make up as a teenager and the same for after the outbreak.

"And you think 'cause I'm a woman that I'm born with a gift for it? I leave that shit to my stylist." All of this she says over her shoulder as she begins heading in that direction.

Brush on some mascara onto his lashes, add some blush to his cheeks - how hard could it be?
burningdaylight: (unsure.jpg)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-10 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
He follows along, meeting her backwards glance with an almost apologetic frown. It occurs to him that it’s probably best not to annoy someone who will be applying cosmetics to his face. He isn't in the mood to look all too ridiculous -- but with everyone else forced into silly pajamas maybe he'd blend right in.

“Hey — look, I didn’t mean it like that, I jus’… Hell, if I’m gettin’ my face done up then I figure I ain’t gonna be the only one between us. We’re in this together now, right?”

There might be the faintest twitch of amusement at the corners of his mouth, despite himself, as he sinks into one of the spare seats by the mascara and face-sponges and finally flips up the hood of his onesie. But it's gone in an instant. Sure, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s had make-up applied but the setting and the circumstances are so very different now, this sorry excuse for a party blatantly mocking everyone’s suffering.

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-15 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Tess is far from being in the mood for half of the ridiculousness that they're being pushed into at this gig but it isn't like they're being given much of a choice on what to do and where they can go. She sends him another look as she hears him semi-apologizing and she says nothing as they enter the little area.

Her hood is pushed back as he moves past her to find one of the seats, making her way for the table of assorted make up. It all looks like unfamiliar territory; when's the last time she's touched mascara for herself or applied lipstick? And what about all the steps necessary for that perfect coverage with primer and concealer and foundation and setting powder?

It makes her head hurt, sometimes.

"We'll see how I feel once I'm done with you," she makes the off-handed reply, hands on her hips as she makes a face down at the choices.

Now where to start and with what? What do her stylists start with usually? Gee, it would be real nice if she started paying attention to that sort of thing
burningdaylight: (go on...)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-15 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Why do I get the feelin' I'm gonna regret askin' you that?"

It’s not a very promising response she has given him but he wasn’t sure what he was expecting, really, from someone who manages to look more fed up with the entire ordeal than he feels. He rests a hands over his thigh, glancing up at her expectantly. “Look -- iunno. Jus' draw a few lines on me, or somethin', an’ maybe we can call it a day."

Wishful thinking, probably.

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-17 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Somehow I don't think that's how it's gonna work here." Tess tries to sound contrite - tries. "Your face is like an open canvas or some shit like that, I intend to take full advantage of it."

A concealer pen is plucked up and shaken as she turns to him. "I might be in the mood to paint a water scape, who knows. Hold still," she instructs as steps in closer, knee brushing his as she uncaps the pen, leaning forward to dot it over any blemishes or bruising or scarring he might have.

"You might want to close your eyes for this."
burningdaylight: (eyes closed)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-17 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Under different circumstances her unflinching, no-nonsense bluntness would have had him cracking a laugh – but today he takes it all with little more than a slightly quirked brow before he shuts his eyes, wondering just what he is subjecting himself to when this makeover is beginning to sound like some sort of painful medical procedure. Her knee touches his as she leans in and he shifts his leg a little with the smallest twinge of awareness. Though he doesn't draw it back.

He’s free of scars, at least as far as his face is concerned. But he seems to have a talent for acquiring bruises, fresh ones generally appearing before the others have the chance to fade entirely, and today is no exception. Not seeing eye-to-eye with Peacekeepers will do that. But the point of the concealer dabbing against his hot, aching skin - the edge of one cheekbone and his jaw - undoes it, little by little, while he obligingly sits still.

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-20 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
She sees the bruises and is careful with dabbing the concealer over them, her fingers surprisingly gentle when she smudges the make up into the skin to conceal the colored patches. Once that's over and done with Tess moves onto the powder. There's liquid and then there's powder as her two options; it's better to stick with the powder, she figures, less gunk to stick to his skin and pores. Not that she's a god damn make up artist and knows this.

The powder is applied (she tries to color match to his skin as best as she can and ends up a shade off) and then the blush, which in her opinion looks too silly for words that Tess can't stop herself from smirking.

As she leans back she tilts her head and wonders what could go on next. Lipstick? Mascara? Eye shadow? The guy doesn't look like he needs his brows filled. "Okay, I think...that's it for the cover up. What's your favorite color?"
burningdaylight: (listening; neutral)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-20 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It really is time-consuming business, he’s discovering, and he has all the more respect for the level of commitment the women who do apply make-up have for this ritual. He keeps his eyes closed, eyes moving slightly under the lids, lashes stirring as she powders away at his face and more gingerly than he expects.

"Orange, I guess." Not even his favourite colour will be able to save him; there's no such thing as coming away from this looking anything but ridiculous, he's sure. But he's far from the only one and maybe in time - when Clementine and Beth were back and safe, or safer than they were out there - he'd laugh at the lengths he'd go for them.

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Orange. Sure, we'll go with orange." Tess leans towards the drawer of make up, a hand pressing to his thigh to brace some of her weight.

Luke, if he hasn't already, is going to regret answering that question. Tess pulls out a tube of orange lipstick, uncaps it, applies a small streak over the back of her hand on a snort.

"I'm almost afraid of handin' you a mirror after this is all done. Mouth open," she tells him, something her stylists tell her every time.
burningdaylight: (in a chair)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-24 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
With his eyes closed still, her touch comes as something of a surprise and his leg flexes under the warm weight of her hand. A slow tensing and release of muscles.

“Pretty sure it ain’t gonna be the worst I ever looked, if I’m bein’ honest.” He says, feeling the echoes of the same reflexive clenching elsewhere in his body. A soft snort escapes him. "I guess that's sayin' a lot." He absently licks his lips again, edging them open.
Edited 2014-11-24 04:44 (UTC)

[personal profile] oopsright 2014-11-24 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
She's looking at his mouth in waiting when he flicks his tongue out to wet his lips not thinking anything about it. He parts them and Tess takes him by his jaw, feeling the powdery texture under callused fingers, her thumb pressing to his chin to pull his bottom lip open a little more. Her thumbnail scrapes lightly against it before she's swiping the lipstick, following the curve to paint the lip orange.

"You guess?"
burningdaylight: (undecided)

[personal profile] burningdaylight 2014-11-24 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
The subtle differences in touch are everything. Had the fingers tucked under his chin or the grip on his jaw been any firmer he’s sure he’d have locked up more than parts of him already are. But she’s careful. Every move is calculated, it seems, waking his nerves to something other than pain for the first time in a long time, and he catches on. It’s hard to miss her intent when the tip of her thumb presses, tinglingly light, against the soft damp of his inner lip. Lingering there before lipstick traces the curve and adds a splash of colour to his face altogether different from the bruises hidden under layers of powder. Tension creeps into his shoulders, into his neck.

He doesn’t know her, he reminds himself; doesn’t know what she’s capable of.

And still some worn-ragged part of him is too ready to give in completely at the smallest promise of respite whether or not there was really any to be found. Was this just another game like what the Capitol is imposing on them?
Edited 2014-11-28 16:02 (UTC)