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Who| Timaeus Nadir and all his guests. If you are in the Capitol, you've been invited!
What| A spectacular Viewing Party and opportunity for tributes to get sponsorship
Where| The Victoria Ascendant, on the lake
When| After the most recent death roll!
Warnings/Notes| Probable skeeviness of the Nice Guy variety.

Welcome to the Victoria Ascendant, latest in the Ascendant line of luxury yachts as built by the Nadir company. Tonight, the Victoria Ascendant is the stage set for a spectacular party, also paid for by the company and specifically designed and organised by a team of event specialists overseen by your host for this evening, Timaeus Nadir- wealthy eligible bachelor, melodramatic heir apparent to the company chair, frequent sponsor of the Games. The Victoria Ascendant is fully equipped with every obscenely luxurious item imaginable, and practically drips opulence.

When first welcomed aboard you will be assured that your every need will be seen to, your every desire catered for. Staff are on hand to answer any questions you might have or guide you to various areas of the ship, provide you with food, drink, or suggestions of how best to take advantage of the Victoria Ascendant's many amenities- they are here as hosts, but also as salespeople for those of the guests with money to burn- this party is serving more than one purpose. Tributes who responded to their invite will also receive a delicate, hand-written note in a golden envelope as they board- the content of which will be posted as a reply to their response to this post.(I'll do this once your character turns up.)

Although the Victoria Ascendant has a magnificent dining room for formal, sit-down occasions, the food for the party will be circulating the various lounge areas and decks. There is also a buffet table, for those of you who prefer to help yourselves, and a fully stocked bar. Provided are a baffling variety of foods and beverages, seemingly unconnected- but each tribute will find that if at any point during their stay in the Capitol they have requested a particular food or drink item, it is available here. Or, at least, the closest approximation the catering staff could conjure up. Seating is provided in intimate groupings around tables for the most part, though there are large, sprawling couches against the walls. Central to the dining area is a magnificent aquarium filled with brightly coloured fish. Anyone looking closely enough will recognise them- varieties of piranha- but don't worry, they've been more than adequately fed and the glass is thick.

While there are various screens displaying the Games throughout the ship, Viewing is also taking place on an enormous screen, set up in a seperate lounge area with full floor-to-ceiling windows all along one side. Here, staff wait to take bets or help organise the giving of sponsor gifts. Large, comfortable couches line the room, and the central table overflows with a spectacular arrangement of edible flowers and fruit.

Later in the evening, you will be told that the firework display is about to begin, and invited to go up onto the main deck to watch. The fireworks themselves will be launched from smaller boats across the lake, and the display is set to be truly spectacular. It will be set to some music that Tributes may find familiar- various melodies pulled from the most recent Arena. The large swimming pool on the deck is open, but it is too early in the year to be comfortable to use. Instead, it is being used as an unusual centrepiece for the evening. Floating in the illuminated water is a gigantic iceberg, sculpted into a stylised model of the current arena and populated with frozen figures. Eagle-eyed Tributes may be able to spot themselves depicted in ice- more often than not, the moment of their deaths are the pose of choice, if a little tweaked for the sake of a more dramatic scene.

Enjoy!

Adachi · Ariadne · Asha · Atticus · Beck · Blaine · Calico · Callista · Chris · Diana · Don · Eddie · Eponine · Eva · Gaila · Glinda · Harley · Howard · Julie · Kurt · Marty · Maximus · Momoko · Neffa · Parker · Peeta · Phil · Pruna · R · Sigma · Some · Thane · Timaeus · Topher

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Oh wow - you must be clever. But you know, they have schools for that here. I mean, I don't think they'd let you be a Game Maker. But they might let you design some buildings - actually, I bet you could make a BOMB doing that! Can you imagine how much these fools - I mean, these lovely people - would pay to live in a house that a Victor built?"

Cal's eye's go wide as she slips, and mentally she kicks herself. But hopefully nobody heard her. Right? She needs to concentrate more.

The slip saw her smiling a bit more. At least it was subtle; it could have been attributed to anything else Calico had said. "I don't think they would either. I was talking to Timaeus about a potential job with him, though. Designing anything would be good enough at this point."

Especially since there was no chance of her designing dreams any more; she wasn't stupid enough to even suggest it to the Capitol. They wouldn't use that for good at all.

"Well, you know what you're doin', right?"

There's that smile plastered back on Calico's face again. "What are you gonna be designing, honey?"

"I do." Not I like to think I do. There's a difference; one implies a humble idea of how good one is. The other is how acutely aware Ariadne is of how good she is at building and designing.

"I've entertained thoughts of redesigning the entire Capitol, but I don't think they'd let me. I'll have to see what else is available to me. Even designing something like this-" A gesture, indicating the yacht. "-would be enough."

That wasn't what Cal was asking, really. But she can only nod and pray that Ariadne really knows what she's getting into. Calico isn't over familiar with Timaeus but she knows what sponsors are like.

"I don't think they'll let you do that, love. Maybe a boat. I still think houses though - houses designed by a victor would sell amazingly well."

Whether in terms of knowing what she was doing in getting in with the Sponsors or her actual work, the answer was the same: it was just easier to address the latter. After her interactions with Baron, anyone is better.

"Houses might be something to look into. I'd like to get my name out there first. Not in terms of being connected with the Games, but in terms of my work."

"Well, honey," Cal's drawl was slow, "I wish you all the luck in the world with that, but I gotta warn you know, love. You were brought here for a reason, an' no matter what you do, they ain't gonna let you forget it."

She popped a piece of spicy chicken into her mouth as she finished speaking, and chewed slowly. Almost reflectively, she added,

"Couse, being a Victor does have it's perks. Good food being just one of 'em."

Ariadne kept quiet at that, studying Calico thoughtfully. She knew she was brought there for a reason, though what that reason was was beyond her. The Capitol hadn't made anything obvious, and she thought that if they knew about her criminal behaviour back home, they would have done something with it in the past. Which told her one thing: they didn't know.

"The food is definitely good," she replied mildly, glancing down to the food in question, plucking up a bite of her own.