Staffer's Retreat

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WHO| Every Escort, Stylist and Mentor. Any Capitolites or Peacekeepers who might have reason to oversee or visit.
WHAT| A professional retreat for the overworked, underpaid, and super underappreciated Tribute Care Teams.
WHERE| A chalet in District One, easily accessible by train.
WHEN| Before the next death roll.
WARNINGS| Typical Capitolites being entitled asshats.
NOTES| I've put up some subthreads for various activities, if you want to add more just do so under the appropriate day subheader!

Staffer's Retreat. Mandatory. The teams for each District are given a handful of days to prepare for the weekend, which, they're told, is going to be scheduled for a weekend with no big shake-ups in the Arena and perfect weather for outdoor activities. On Friday morning, they're taken by train to a small chalet tucked into a mountainside. A few inches of snow covers the ground but the sky is clear, reflected in the beautiful lake at the base of the mountain.

Until Sunday evening, their days will be packed with "professional development". The schedule looks something like this:

Friday:
Icebreakers
Trust Falls
Hypothetical Scenarios: How to Be the First Person Chosen for a Bomb Shelter
Three-Legged Race
Self-Care Hour: Mandatory Yoga
Dinner
Breaking Down Stereotypes Workshop

Saturday:
Mandatory Mentor Group Therapy: PTSD is Not An Excuse
Mandatory Escort/Stylist Workshop: Building Trust with Your Tributes
Mandatory Sexual Harassment Training: Focus on Tribute/Mentor and Tribute/Escort Relationships
Lunch
Capture-the-Flag
Group Lego-Building
Dinner
12am Karaoke

Sunday:
5:30am Continental Breakfast
Compliment Circle
Journal Hour
Farewells

Comments

[dead_black_eyes]

"Personally," Linden contributes, glancing sidelong at Swann, "It doesn't actually matter how many are saved. It would never be enough to repopulate the planet, and what kind of life is it, living in a bomb shelter anyway? I want to know more about what's on hand in this shelter. If there's a gun, obviously they should draw straws. The shortest straw gives everyone a humane end to their suffering, and then himself, if he so desires. If there are medicines available, specifically opiates, there's an even gentler solution."

[lionhearted_victor]

"You're a ball of sunshine, Linden" Leo rolled his eyes, "If there is a chance to start again, the group should try to push on as best as they can. It's better to go down with a fight than just lay down and die."

To Swann, the trainer then offers, "Let's say you were able to warn everyone but there is a limited amount of shelters out there and there is no way to save them all or keep communications. We're talking complete isolation from each group. Those six people have a task to keep alive and regroup until there's a viable chance at meeting and not killing each other."

[sergius]

"We can only pick six. You can't just change the scenario and say there's more than one shelter or enough notice to save more people. That's defeating the fucking point of having to come up with criteria in the first place." Sergius rolls his eyes, then momentarily locks eyes with Val before looking away again and continuing. "You can't repopulate the planet with six people, but maybe you could like... preserve knowledge or some shit. I say, you pick people who can somehow document the greatness of humanity, so that maybe someday in the future, aliens or whatever can find a record of our existence and achievements. Think about it? Yeah?"

[revvinguptheharley]

"Nah, we've already got plenty of that laying around." Harley objected curling her arms around her legs as she folded them against her chest. "Books, Discs, cloud media whatever. Humans are so full of themselves that it'll take a long time for all of that to turn to dust anyway presuming the end of the world doesn't totally toast it all."

With a grin she began rocking in her seat. "I mean if we wanna get REALLY crazy we need science types. Big brains who can either work on a time machine to go back and warn people so Swanny's plan of saving everyone can happen. Or we need the nerds to figure out how to bring back the dead like they do with us tributes. That way after everyone's dead they can just hit the reset button and POP! Plenty of people to repopulate!"