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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-06-16 06:11 pm

Oh, this is the night and the heavens are right on this lovely Bella Notte

Who| Everyone who signed up for blind dating!
What| An evening of romance, or disaster, take your pick.
Where| The Swift Cut restaurant
When| 16th June
Warnings/Notes| The course of true love never did run smooth. Remember that if your character was not rolled in arena but you signed up for them to be here, you will need to mark their death on fatality reporting.

The atmosphere at the Swift Cut this evening is bustling. It's clear from the moment one enters the restaurant that they have pulled all the stops out for this televised extravaganza.

Every fire is lit and the air is filled with the scent of the roasting meat on spits over the flames; boar, beef, pork, venison and more. Pots bubble with the smell of hot stew, vegetables are being roasted in ovens and from giant casks around the room beer is being drawn. The staff are in full 'barbarian' getup, consisting of skimpy furs on both the male and the female servers but luckily for you they don't seem to expect a similar dress code from their guests.

Tribute's stylists may have had other ideas, of course.

The giant room has been clearly divided. Tribute's will find themselves directed to one side while trueborn citizens of Panem and petitioned out individuals are brought to the other. It is left up to them to find their table with the number they will be handed upon entering the restaurant. Whether they are the first to arrive at their table is a matter of chance but they can be sure that a cameraman will always be there to capture the moment of realisation on both participants faces when they realise who their date is.

Once everyone is seated the music will begin the play. Minstrels strum lutes and harps, their voices filling the air softly with traditional medieval ballads. There is a space set aside for dancing if anyone is in the mood.

Throughout the evening, and certainly at the end, Tribute's and Capitolites will find themselves sporadically approached by the show host to be asked questions about how they feel the evening is going. It's up to them how honestly they answer, though they should remember the camera's are always watching.
revvinguptheharley: (Harleen: Pleased with the results)

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2015-06-22 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey it could be worse. I once had a stylist that told me the cave-woman look was in and tried to get me to glue fake hair to my body. She had to take a few days off once I glued it all to her face." Harley giggled with wicked delight at the memories.

"Harley Quinn, Mentor for District Nine and general nuisance." She introduced herself raising her glass in toast.
Edited 2015-06-22 13:45 (UTC)
cartas: (008)

[personal profile] cartas 2015-06-23 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Lilah grins at the image, finding herself rather impressed. "They see it as fashion when they're doing it to you, but a disaster when it's done to them. I wonder how my stylist would like being pushed into the hideous skimpy knight outfit I was sent into the Arena with?" Knowing Beck, she probably wouldn't mind it at all actually, but the double standards grates on Lilah nonetheless.

"Lilah Cadash. It's a pleasure. A Mentor, you say? That means you actually won one of these things." More and more impressed.
revvinguptheharley: (Harley: So here's the deal)

[personal profile] revvinguptheharley 2015-06-24 10:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh sure, it was about a year ago give or take a few months." She confirmed, "They did this special thing where the Districts voted on their favorite two form each district, and they sent us all into a maze. Instead of the usual "Kill everyone" rules they told us anyone who collected all twelve items at the ends of this maze and made it to the end would win. So out of the twenty four of us who went in, four of us won." She sighed and pouted.

"And would you believe we barely got any fanfare for it? They just awarded us our mentorships and moved on to the next arena. Total let down."