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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

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Not quite either, really... though the citizens did make her a little nervous, she mostly wwsjr interested in them. The tributes we're the ones who needed help.

She smiled a little as she spoke. "I don't think so.... there wasn't a lot of time." And she came secretly. "I found it in my closet."

"Well, it's beautiful, honey."

Not something she'd design. Cal's far more outlandish than that. More is DEFINITELY more with her.

"Just make sure you find your sister, alright? It's not exactly kid friendly round here.We don't want the fish to eat you, do we?"

Was that a tiny flinch? A widening of her eyes? She tilted her head down and didn't bring it back up entirely when she nodded.

Katniss wasn't allowed to know she was here just yet. Not until she was ready to be smothered in protectiveness by her sister.

"Hey! Hey, I was kidding, sweetie. They can't eat you."

Calico's natural maternal instincts are kicking in, and she can't help thinking of Bobbin. Would he be scared of fish like this kid? When he was Prim's age, of course. He was seventeen now, too old for that silliness. But maybe he would. Poor kid. She didn't even know her brother.He had been torn from his family because of HER. And she could do nothing to protect him from the Capitol. She made a vow there and then, though, not to let anything happen to this kid. She can't have two helpless children on her conscience.

Prim was more worried about Katniss finding her than the fish... though come to think of it, she'd never come across ocean fish before. Did they like to eat people?

Her face just got more and more worried as she looked over toward the edge of the boat. "Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

She taps the glass. "They won't be letting the fish out - and I'm not planning to smash it anyway. They'll die without water though."

"That's not good," she protested, suddenly concerned. She stepped closer to the glass herself, fingers pressing against the case as she peered through and into the water.

“Are you sure they’re safe?” What if the glass really did break? That's even more worrisome than them eating her!

(Apologies. My essay ate me. Ditto for Eponine tags)

"Whaddya expect, sweetie?" Calico laughs. How can someone not realise that fish died out of water. She was from a District with even less wildlife than Prim's... and yet, she knew.

"They're safe. No way in, no way out."

(It's fine. It happens. I'm being sucked into the graduation vortex myself this week...)

She did know... mostly. But it was a sort of blurry knowledge, like something she'd heard but never put much thought into: She'd never thought she'd see a living fish, after all.

Now, she was staring at them, plainly curious. How would one even go about healing a hurt fish, anyway?

"That's good," she said, pulling her attention away. "I don't want them getting hurt..."

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