A Big World Out There Like the One I Saw On the Screen [OPEN]

[vissernone]

Who| Eva and any Escort, Stylist, Mentor, Sponsor or Avox
What| Mentor green room party!
Where| Training center
When| As the arena begins.
Warnings/Notes| None yet.

Watching the Cornucopia isn't for the faint of heart, and even after years of seeing it, Eva has to be a few drinks in to see it in company. She's already on her third glass of wine when she arrives at the Tribute lounge dressed in a red and brown dress decorated in antler, vertebrae and a pelvic bone. With all the Tributes gone, the lounge is open to Stylists, Escorts, Sponsors and Mentors, and Eva's hosting a little get-together.

By 'hosting', she mostly means she's bossed the Avoxes around into bringing up enough wine and crackers to get her through the evening. She has her fingers crossed that few people do show up - Elias, Cinna, Ariadne - and that a few invitees don't - Baron, Billy.

She settles onto a couch, careful not to catch her unwieldy outfit on anything. At the very least, it should keep people from sitting right next to her. A television's counting down - five minutes until the Arena begins.

[OOC: please go forth and mingle!]

Comments

[buildingreality]

The first bout of information went immediately to her head, filed away for future nitpicking and future reference. It wasn't every day you managed to get ahold of something that was actually useful, of course, and though Ariadne had noticed the force fields around the edges of the Arenas - enough people had gone near them, after all - she wasn't entirely sure what was meant by the chips. The tracking chips, most likely, but what about them?

"Unfortunately, no. I never got the chance to study it much beyond the basic alphabet."

[vissernone]

"But the basic alphabet, do you know it?" Eva's body language is still drunk, but her tone is clear, her eyes bright.

[buildingreality]

"Well enough, if I'm watching closely enough." She was selling herself perhaps a little bit short, but she hardly wanted to promise something she couldn't necessarily follow through on. That said, Ariadne was already running through the letters in her head, finding that she remembered more than she thought she might have.

[vissernone]

"What if you were watching at the Noir restaurant?" Eva signs something against her own neck, just A...B...C..., making clear that it's tactile.

[buildingreality]

Her eyes followed the movement, subtle as it was, and it clicked. "I could manage that."

[vissernone]

"We should go, sometime. I have an opening next Saturday at noon. It's usually pretty quiet at lunch." She picks at a piece of cheese. "The food'll be better there than here. This cheese tastes like it's been regurgitated."

And with that she sways off, yelling for an Avox to bring her something 'actually edible'.

[buildingreality]

"I'll be there," she replied softly, turning aside to take a sip of her drink and try a bit of that cheese. Eva was right - it really wasn't that good. Then again, after having Parisian cheeses, not much was.