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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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Beck looked at the little communicator...and shrugged. He knew what the inside of a computer looked like, but he certainly didn't know much about what it looked like outside. It was kind of hard to imagine the entire city of Argon (and Purgos, and Tron City, and Gallium...) inside of such a small little thing.

It didn't look normal to him...but then again, the entire idea of his world seemed to be abnormal to people.

"I'm...not sure." He said, giving Neffa a shrug. "I was just told that I was from a computer. It's hard to imagine where I came from being in a tiny thing like that, though."

Beck pulled out his own communicator and looked it over. "Where do you come from?"

Neffa was content to file that away under Things to Think About Later, when he had a free morning to himself and an inclination to talk philosophy with the air. He took a drink, and let his mind move to other things.

"It's called Ristopa," he said. "A city. The city, rather. As big as this one, or bigger-- just, not so tall." This city crowded out the sky in a way that sprawling Ristopa didn't; Ristopa punctuated the air rather than filling it, with the spires of the five sky-towers in their five corners and the palace climbing the hill to the west (silhouette-dark against the sunset, blinding white in the morning, a day's colors more reliable a clock than the watchtowers). "In the dry season it's full of dust, and in the wet season mud. It's the center of the Magicians' Guild, and the elementalists' order, and-- well. Magic in general, I suppose."

He paused; smiled and shrugged, in a way meant to come off nonchalant but looking more helpless. "Though magic means little to the people here-- I'm sure you've experienced something similar."

Magic. That was...kind of a foreign thing to him.

Beck didn't think of magic as a guy in a suit pulling a rabbit out from a hat. He saw it as a definition for things he couldn't really imagine being possible. Of course, it was a rather juvenile way to put it, but if no other word came to mind, that is what he would think of. Because you could try and go against your programming, or train a little harder, and whatever was "magic" wouldn't really be magic anymore.

He shrugged and took a sip of his own drink, a hand rubbing at his jaw as it sent a little zing! down his teeth. "Kind of. I guess."

Beck witnessed magic with Tron plenty of times before. How he managed to get through training every cycle was magic. "Magic meaning things that were kind of hard to do?"