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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-01-20 10:58 pm

The Crowning Of The Signless

Who| Everyone.
What| The Crowning of The Signless.
Where| An alcove in a nearby mountain.
When| From dusk to dawn, on Thursday.
Warnings/Notes| This event is mandatory for all Tributes to attend. Even if you do not tag in, your character will attend this party. Peacekeepers will be on high alert. There will be no chance to runaway.

Tributes are encouraged to sleep all during the day, before the crowning. The reason for this is revealed when they are roused at sundown and brought to the closest mountain to the city, where they are greeted by an alcove within the moutainside that has been carved into a temple to what may be an illicit faith. The stone alcove is dim-lit by candles arranged along walls and by what appears to be altars set before iron cancer signs, some plain, some inlet with intricate carvings. Bright red drapery hangs about the room, tapestries with the cancer sign and cirles of blending color spectrum. There are also some waist high leggings hung upon one wall. In the center of the room, shackles hang, glowing bright from some sort of internal heat and light. A hole in the ceiling is set on each side of it, to allow the smoke to escape from the great bonfire that roars beneath it. If one takes a seat upon any of large stones and logs aranged around it, they can see both the stars twinkling down and the way the smoke looks as though it is coming off the shackles.

The only windows otherwise are made from stained glass depicting images from the Signless's life, such as his rescue by "Alternia's First Mother" (so described on the metal plate below), "The Recording of His Teachings" depicting The Disciple writing the Signless's words into a book, "A New Follower" showing the Psiioniic joining the Signless, a boat deemed "The First Ship", and "The Execution" which features the death of the Signless before thousands of followers, a fifth troll- resembling Terezi- bearing the shackles as a necklace and another with great brown wings, a single window of Karkat and Kankri Vantas, as well as a sinister depiction of six indistinct shadowy figures of cerulean, blue, indigo, violet, tyrian, and maroon. Cave-style paintings cover the stone walls, styles ranging from simple scribbled etching to circles featuring twelve colors in circle, with bright red at the center, and yet more elaborate shadowy depictions of those in the stained glass, esepcially the Signless himself, both prior and following his execution.

But not all is dedicated to the Signless and his old posse of biblical age trolls. A shrine has been set up for redeemed and then so quickly lost victor, Matthew 'Punchy' O'Conner. Punchy has been painted upon a cave wall like he fits right into the theme. Upon his shrine lay all varieties of bling; Bling-jewelery, a bling goblet, bling boxing gloves, a hoodie, a nun habit, and a stone with a memorial rap engraved atop-- with bling, of course, all shimmering by the spotlights placed before the shrine. Refillable 40 oz bottles are lain out so that sorrowful guests, wishing to pay their respect to the boy so cruelly slain by rebels when he had turned from them, can pour one out in his honor.

Marius is also honored there with a tea light and small framed photograph set upon an empty table with an empty chair, along with souvenir versions of his and Cosette's wedding rings that guests can take home. Beneath all these rings is a photoshopped picture of javert with a single tear running down his manly face.

The only seating besides the stones and logs and Marius's single chair, are those that are sat at a table at the end of the room. Each is draped in a different color, six on each side for each district and each blood hue-- presumably of the Victor's choosing. Between these chairs sits yet one more with a tall back like a flogging jut that got the redesigned at the base to make a throne that some trolls might recognize as belonging to the Empress. The arms of the chair feature open shackles. The throne is decorated in chains of gold and jewels of all colors. The victor is given a crown of gilded flowers and thorns on chain.

Food can be found upon the altars or the victor's table, in surplus. Alternian delicacies are served, featuring insects, flavored or plain, and food made from insects. Guests may find a giant beetle being served upon a spit roast. Even the meats appear to be topped with bugs. The cakes, marshmallows (which can be roasted with stick by the fire!), and orange creamsicles may be the only things truly bug-free. Drink options are water, wine, and soda.

Stylists are encouraged to dress their tributes primarily in black, with a single bit of color put into the design matched according to district (with exception to trolls), or any manner of draping fabrics, cloaks, and costumery reminiscent of religious iconagraphy that one might expect of ancient aliens. Waist high pants and leggings are also in high regard, as well as fake horn, fangs, contacts, and anything to make guests look more trollish. The only rule is for the main colors to match to the blood assignment.

The music playing is the sort one might expect from a church, featuring mournful vocals, soft bells and melodies, and of course, organ music. But for one or two jarring differences. Where this music is coming from remains a mystery but since the space is open and clear, guests have plenty of room for dancing.

Those who don't wish to dance can talk and regale tales around the bonfire, or may instead seek out the book of "scripture" at one of the altars that features nothing more than various parables- with names that Tributes might recognize! Each Tribute has one parable contained within, telling a tale in flourished manner of a part of their life, featuring a pro-capitol moral at the end.

Elsewhere, are models of the flogging just, where guests can put their hands through the oversized cuffs and pretend to writhe in agony, an Alternian bioware helm where guests too can pretend to have their lifeforce and power used a battery for the sake of the Alternian empire, a dress-up station where guests can customize their appearance to match trolls sold into gruelling slavery to seadwellwers, and an area designed to look like a cave with extensive "Alternian" (gibberish) writings of the Signless's words, where guests too can pretend they've lost everyone they love and are carrying on their legacy by writing upon the walls and leaving their own messages of love and mourning. Not to mention, a life-sized drone with realistic piercing claws, for all your picture posing needs.

A sandpit lies just around a corner for children to make castles, dig trenches, and act out games of pretending they've trekked thousands of miles through zombie infested desert just to speak to a couple of people! Guests can also meet a "mutantblood lusus" a four-eyed crab creature with lizardlike structure-- only sized no bigger than the average dog and perhaps about as intelligent. Guests are warned not to put their hand too close, lest the claw pincers manage to pinch them.

Late into the crowning, everyone is brought out to the dark mountainside, well monitored by peacekeepers, and divided into teams. Everyone is given belts with velcro flags attached, colored according to the "blood" they were matched with by district. Those in the eighth, ninth, twelfth, third, tenth, and eleventh districts are deemed the "lowbloods. Those in the first, fourth, second, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts, are deemed the "highbloods". Each team is given a velcro board to attach the flags to. The first team to lose all their flags loses, winners getting tiny necklace copies of the shackles. The last one standing with a flag wins a larger necklace copy and the option to get it redesigned into a symbol of their choosing.

If you failed not to be "culled", fear not! All tributes receive a participation sticker at the end. This sticker features a number. It is not indicative of districts or of age, as will be announced shortly, but of the new scoring. These will be announced for everyone to hear- and pick out targets from.

The crowning officially ends with the coming dawn. And so begins, to everyone's surprise, preparation for the arena. Tributes will be going right from the crowning off to the Tribute launch tubes. Happy Hunger Games!

[Note: This is ICly on Thursday! Just before the arena on Friday!]
infinitemayonnaise: (laughing)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-02-14 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Drop it?" Nitou waves it around a little more as the wisdom of these words sets in. Once it does, he pretty much flings it to the ground and begins stomping it out. "Aww, maaaaaan! I got marshmallow all over my shoes!" But he gives the Capitolite girl a thumbs up. "But hey, fire's out! I had it all under control."
talltaleteller: (Wait What)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-02-16 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Really? That looked pretty outta control to me..." Slowly rising from her marshmallow-avoiding crouch, she coughs and holds back on the desire to be kind of sassy. Tributes are cool but they're still Tributes. And this guy's one of the ones that manages to take the cake in the 'what the heck' competition. He's a weird magic cannibal.

"You've... you've roasted marshmallows before, right?"
infinitemayonnaise: (but wait there's more)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-02-16 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep, perfectly in control!" Nitou can be so full of it sometimes. "Of course I've roasted marshmallows before--I've roasted a lot of stuff before. I cook all the time when I'm on the road!" He's just not going to mention those times he's had mishaps with the lighter fluid. "And one time, I got some little chick marshmallow things off an American tourist, those things roasted real good!" Even if the sugar coating had sort of melted and they'd fused into some massive Peepball...
talltaleteller: (Clever Smiles)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-02-23 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"...Peeps? You roasted Peeps?" And now he has her attention. For Felicity is a connoisseur of all things sugary and sporadically available, and Peeps are one of many things that she is fond of. "Do they really? You mean, you've got those, where you're from?" This is sort of a revelation. Or did the Capitol get the Peeps from elsewhere and just haven't told anyone? Oooh, it's a marshmallow mystery.
infinitemayonnaise: (best food i swear)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-02-24 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Nitou snaps his finger at the name. "Yeah! Peeps, that's what he called them!" Such strange little candies. "Not from where I'm from, really, but the same planet's got 'em in another country! And sometimes tourists have 'em!"
talltaleteller: (Alert)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-03-08 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh!" And one question deserves another question, since he did bring the issue up... "Where are you from? Is it a lot like Panem? Or different? It gets tourists, right? So it must be really awesome, right?" Now she's wondering if it's one of those places tourists go because there are spas and fancy things to see, or one of the places they go because there's some neat landmarks and it's fun to 'rough it'. Gotta know! This could really help improve her writing!
infinitemayonnaise: (best condiment ever)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-03-09 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Talking to her couldn't be too much of a problem, could it? Just regaling a Capitolite with a few stories of home...might get him some points with Sponsors later on. Maybe she was a Sponsor's kid! That could work. "I'm from a place called Japan--it's pretty cool! And we got a lot of nice cities, but I don't think we've got anything as fancy as this." There, there, don't say anything nasty about the Capitol. "I like hanging out around the middle of nowhere around old ruins better than hanging out in the cities, though."
talltaleteller: (Thinking the Deepest Thoughts)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-03-10 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Someday, she will have enough influence and pull and discretionary allowance income to help out her most favey-favs in the arena. But for now, this is a bit selfish. She's listening raptly, though! "Japan... oooh, so nice like District 1? That kind of nice?" Talk of ruins gets a surprised look from her. Not quite lit-up-with-joy, but certainly paying more attention.

"That sounds kind of spooky. And you're allowed? That's allowed?"
infinitemayonnaise: (but wait there's more)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-03-11 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Parts of it are! And parts of it aren't--it's like a whole spread, all in one little country!" He seems surprised at the idea of ruins being not-allowed, honestly. "Of course it's allowed--I'm an adventuring archaeologist! No one's gonna tell an archaeologist no!"

He's just not going to mention all those times the trespassing hobo has gotten thrown out of places he wasn't wanted...
talltaleteller: (Duckyface)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-03-18 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
"Oohhh!" He's an archaeologist? This wasn't at all stuff that his district was promoting! She had heard about him being loud, vagrant, and mayo-loving, but not this stuff. It felt like she was really getting the inside scoop! "So you travel around, and you dig stuff up and record it, and you roast stuff on fires? That's what you do? Did? Do? That's your thing?"
infinitemayonnaise: (showing off that ring)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-03-21 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"That is exactly what I do!" Oh, yeah, Nitou has this kid thoroughly impressed. It's doing wonders for his ego. "I do all that, and I'm a wizard on top of it!"
talltaleteller: (Woosh)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-04-19 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah! That's what you and that other guy do, right?" She's been studying. She's been paying attention! "Although.... you guys really aren't what come to mind when people think of wizards, I'm gonna be honest... I mean, you're really young! For starters!"
infinitemayonnaise: (furry hoodie)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-04-21 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's because we're just that good!" He is so pleased to be recognized, if only a little. "But I'm better than Haruto is. Way better. I'm an Ancient Wizard, even if I'm really young." At least he's being honest and not screwing around saying he's actually really old like he has on a few occasions here when people gave him grief...
talltaleteller: (Really?)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-04-21 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh huh?" First, she sounds like she believes it. "...Really?" And then, not so much. "Ancient? Ancient? You're too young to be an Ancient Wizard!" And she is being honest and calling him on this silly nonsense. Sure, Tributes have to build up a cool persona, but this guy is trying way too hard.
infinitemayonnaise: (why me)

[personal profile] infinitemayonnaise 2015-04-22 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, my magic's ancient, even if I'm not." Come on, kid, work with him. "So it still counts!" Yes, definitely, that definitely counts.
talltaleteller: (Thinking the Deepest Thoughts)

[personal profile] talltaleteller 2015-05-01 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you say so...." Yup, he is trying way too hard. She should know. She's an expert at trying way too hard. Her eyes wander idly to the side, and then she exclaims, attention fixing on something across the way. "...is that a giant crab?"

And without so much as a 'bye', she is skittering off into the crowd to see this for herself.