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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!]
carnagecarnival: (Til the sun goes down.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2015-04-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
The Initiate can't help but sigh, both in relief a motherfucker's getting understanding on enough he ain't gotta fight his ways out of this some other means, and up in exasperation that this came to be up at all. He runs a hand through his hair.

Part of the deal. He supposes that's one way to put it.

"IT'S BEING A PRETTY BIG MOTHERFUCKING PART OF THEM PARTICULAR DEALINGS," He says, trying for patience. "We got four different kinds, us trolls. GETTING ALL UP IN A BROTHER OR SISTER'S BUSINESS AS TO BE KICKING IT A PARTNERSHIP ALL OF KEEPING SANE AND SAFE OF ANOTHER IS BEING A MOIRAILLEGIANCE. You only get on one moirail." Unless you fucked up, like him, and pitied a motherfucker you had once and lost what went and forgot you and you was also being with another and shit was all fucked up in that ways too along with them on there own selves...

Or just being Signless and having no problem get pale all for everybody. He sighs again, softer this time.
a_minute_younger: (idle thoughts)

[personal profile] a_minute_younger 2015-05-08 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The previous revelation was, unfortunately, probably the furthest level of understanding Gary is capable of right now (and possibly also the furthest level of understanding when he's not embarrassingly drunk, too). He stares ahead as the Initiate explains, blank and uncomprehending save the occasional baffled twitch of his brow like someone's trying to wind up the gears in his brain. There's four different kinds of romances, and one of them is apparently being the others' therapist? That's the only way Gary can think to interpret 'all of keeping sane and safe of another.'

This is kind of weird. "Why's there only one?" he balks, scratching his head. "That's like...a really common thing, you know? Talking about problems and stuff. People do it all the time!"
carnagecarnival: (You'll see death's machinery exposed.)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2015-05-12 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
He wonders if he shouldn't try talking to a wall. He feels as though he'd get much farther than this right here.

"YOU'RE A HUMAN," He continues anyway. "Your kind ain't got that quadrant. DO IT ON ALL MESSY LIKE GETTING LOOSE PALE ON ALL EVERY MOTHERFUCKER WHAT'S ABOUT WITHOUT ACTUALLY GETTING TO MEANING NONE. Ain't like that for us trolls. AIN'T ALL EVERYONE'S GETTING UP IN OUR GUTS AS LIKE THAT EXCEPT WITH A MOTHERFUCKING KNIFE, YO. It's being special feeling of moiraillegiance at with another. THAT'S WHY THERE'S ONLY BEING ONE."

He'd been conforming a little, simply because with all every human getting about like that, there wasn't much choice. But it didn't change the fact that this was a romance for him. It didn't change the intense feelings what got involved.
a_minute_younger: (Great!)

[personal profile] a_minute_younger 2015-05-23 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
There are some obvious parallels here about loose relationships and how some people are more comfortable with them than others, but Gary is in no mental state to draw them. Instead he remains silent, staring with wide eyes and mouth slightly parted, until finally he breaks into a quick, sharp laugh.

"Hah! That's weird," he giggles, and reaches out to playfully prod the Initiate in the shoulder. "You're weird. I mean, nothing wrong with that, but damn. That's gotta be tough."
carnagecarnival: (nuh)

[personal profile] carnagecarnival 2015-05-23 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The look Initiate dons then isn't so much whither as it is simply worn and done. He gives up. He doesn't know why he motherfucking tries at all when time and time again that has proven inconceivably stupid one way or another.

"Yeah. TOUGH. Real motherfucking tough, that's what it's being at."

The prod goes like he's hardly even noticed it.
a_minute_younger: (Hello!)

and that's a wrap!

[personal profile] a_minute_younger 2015-05-23 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
In some capacity, Gary realizes that maybe he's crossed a line--or at the very least, played the Initiate out. He's not being very entertaining anymore and he's been telling Gary to go sort out his problems with someone else. He can take that hint.

"Alright, man," Gary sighs and abruptly stands, although it takes him a little bit to regain his balance on his wobbly legs. "Thanks for the talk and stuff! The, uh--platonic talk." He flashes the Initiate an exaggerated wink, one final unintentional insult before he starts staggering off.