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thecapitol2015-05-05 11:17 pm
talltaleteller) wrote in thecapitol2015-05-05 11:17 pm
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Who| Torin Byrd, Felicity Yoshida, and all you party people that aren't part of the break-in!
What| A District 2 promotional party is way overdue. If the scheduling is convenient, well, that's just a coincidence. If the party's theme seems strangely familiar, well, there's another coincidence for you...
Where| An event hall somewhere in the Capitol
When| During the Binding plot, the evening of the break-in.
Warnings/Notes| Doing horrible things to public domain works of fiction? (Feel free to make a top level post and mingle!)
It was a small idea, at first. A small suggestion on Torin Byrd's part that he host a party on behalf of District 2. Nothing too major, some food and some music and some featuring of his District's Tributes... but then he had gone to his sister Candy to ask for some assistance with it all. With her being the socializer in the family, it seemed certain that she'd know just how to do it. But Candy had ideas. Ideas that, once she started bouncing them off her daughter Felicity, meant that this low-key party was going to be far, far more of a spectacle than District 2's poor mentor had ever imagined. For a party needed a theme, and wouldn't a nice classic story do the trick?
The word's been put out that there's another party going on tonight. If you like things that are off the beaten path, or maybe have party-hopping on your mind, there's a fantastic one themed around that Panem classic, the Warlock of Om. Something playful, something fun, something to take your mind off any heavy things that might be bothering you. The theming starts right at the coat check and foyer, which is lit in cool shades of blue with the faint sound of rippling water piped in. You're on your way to the Land of Om, just like Emily Rush was washed there by a flood. Passing into the ballroom proper takes you Om itself, a purple stone path snaking all throughout it. If you care to ease on down the road, it goes around the dance floor, passes by the refreshment tables and the bar, and has detours to comfortable seating, but comes to a stop at the far end of the hall where a Great Garnet City is done up in cloth and lights and projections. But just walking the path won't really take you there. The party itself's the journey.
It took some hard last-minute work and negotiation on everyone's part, but the opposing walls of the ballroom are floor to ceiling holographic screens, projecting Om-ian scenery, vivid and alive. And making their way through that scenery are renderings of District 2's current Tributes. Maybe they couldn't make it in person, but it's important to remember what the evening is really about. It was all on short notice, so they're relatively simple loops stitched together from existing promotional footage, but it's striking to see Jet Link darting through the clouds of Giantland, or Luke striding easily through the woods that the Pugilistic Puma called home. Just what scenery you'll see depends on the time that you're there, for it cycles through the stops in the story as the evening goes on. Though the walls and the lighting aren't the only things to change. Courses of hors d'oeuvres and drinks are cycled out, the servers undergo quick and simple costume changes, and the little clockwork animals adorning the tables and clicking cheerfully are switched to thematically appropriate ones. Squirrels and rodents give way to birds and serpents, and finally as the music swells and the arrival to the Great Garnet City is nigh, winged lizards just like the ones belonging to the Warlock himself.
However long you stay for, they're happy to have you. And the hosts do genuinely hope that you'll remember this and the fantastic Tributes of District 2 when the next arena rolls around. Don't you want to be that person that helps them along on their road to victory?
What| A District 2 promotional party is way overdue. If the scheduling is convenient, well, that's just a coincidence. If the party's theme seems strangely familiar, well, there's another coincidence for you...
Where| An event hall somewhere in the Capitol
When| During the Binding plot, the evening of the break-in.
Warnings/Notes| Doing horrible things to public domain works of fiction? (Feel free to make a top level post and mingle!)
It was a small idea, at first. A small suggestion on Torin Byrd's part that he host a party on behalf of District 2. Nothing too major, some food and some music and some featuring of his District's Tributes... but then he had gone to his sister Candy to ask for some assistance with it all. With her being the socializer in the family, it seemed certain that she'd know just how to do it. But Candy had ideas. Ideas that, once she started bouncing them off her daughter Felicity, meant that this low-key party was going to be far, far more of a spectacle than District 2's poor mentor had ever imagined. For a party needed a theme, and wouldn't a nice classic story do the trick?
The word's been put out that there's another party going on tonight. If you like things that are off the beaten path, or maybe have party-hopping on your mind, there's a fantastic one themed around that Panem classic, the Warlock of Om. Something playful, something fun, something to take your mind off any heavy things that might be bothering you. The theming starts right at the coat check and foyer, which is lit in cool shades of blue with the faint sound of rippling water piped in. You're on your way to the Land of Om, just like Emily Rush was washed there by a flood. Passing into the ballroom proper takes you Om itself, a purple stone path snaking all throughout it. If you care to ease on down the road, it goes around the dance floor, passes by the refreshment tables and the bar, and has detours to comfortable seating, but comes to a stop at the far end of the hall where a Great Garnet City is done up in cloth and lights and projections. But just walking the path won't really take you there. The party itself's the journey.
It took some hard last-minute work and negotiation on everyone's part, but the opposing walls of the ballroom are floor to ceiling holographic screens, projecting Om-ian scenery, vivid and alive. And making their way through that scenery are renderings of District 2's current Tributes. Maybe they couldn't make it in person, but it's important to remember what the evening is really about. It was all on short notice, so they're relatively simple loops stitched together from existing promotional footage, but it's striking to see Jet Link darting through the clouds of Giantland, or Luke striding easily through the woods that the Pugilistic Puma called home. Just what scenery you'll see depends on the time that you're there, for it cycles through the stops in the story as the evening goes on. Though the walls and the lighting aren't the only things to change. Courses of hors d'oeuvres and drinks are cycled out, the servers undergo quick and simple costume changes, and the little clockwork animals adorning the tables and clicking cheerfully are switched to thematically appropriate ones. Squirrels and rodents give way to birds and serpents, and finally as the music swells and the arrival to the Great Garnet City is nigh, winged lizards just like the ones belonging to the Warlock himself.
However long you stay for, they're happy to have you. And the hosts do genuinely hope that you'll remember this and the fantastic Tributes of District 2 when the next arena rolls around. Don't you want to be that person that helps them along on their road to victory?