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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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Just Topher then. He could go with Topher, and while he didn't know what he was smiling about, it had to be something sort of funny. Maybe something that had happened back home?

"Adelle is your mom?" Just a guess for that one. His mom never called him by his name when she was mad at him. "You know, I might be? Science isn't really something we had back home, not beyond learning how to mine."

He had just about taken a sip of his drink when Peeta asked his question; what a glorious spit-take that would have been. Instead Topher pushed down a nervous laugh and shook his head. "Boss lady. Adelle is not mom material." Try as he might Topher now couldn't get image of Adelle attempting to be parental with actual sincerity behind her actions. It was a frightening image.

Science was a much safer topic than Adelle. "Oh, you're from that dirty District. Hey, oh, are you the other half of that couple everyone gossips about?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake." Boss, right. That also fit, and to Peeta, it was an easy enough mistake to make; his mom had been his boss, back home. That wasn't really a good thing.

Wow. That was sort of rude. It might be sort of dirty from the coal mines, but still. "Coal mining district, yeah," He nodded. "That's me. Katniss is my partner, she's around here if you want to meet her. We sort of got split up in the crowd."

Topher usually lived in a self-contained environment; dirt was for other people. Dirty people.

He raised a hand and shook his head. "No, it's okay, I saw her on T.V. already. Besides, I have a feeling the crowd would follow and I'm not really a people person." Really, in case Peeta couldn't tell. "So, a coal miner turned budding scientist? I mean, if science catches your interest. One of my stylists mentioned a library at the university. I'm gonna check that out once I can lose the crazies trying to get me to go more of these things. You should pop by and fill me in on a bit of history while I fill you in on science."

Peeta didn't blame him for not wanting to talk to her, especially with the crowd thing. There was also the fact that Katniss probably didn't want to talk to anyone else right now, because she wasn't the most social creature, either.

"Oh, no, I'm not either of those," Peeta laughed, waving his hands. "More of a baker turned painter, but any kind of science would be great to learn about. We don't learn a lot about it besides what you would need for mining, though, so it could be interesting to learn more about."

He grinned. "I'd be willing to do that trade. I heard about that library, too, but I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. But maybe I will, and we'll fill each other in on stuff we might not know."

Artist. It left a funny taste in his mouth even though he didn't repeat it. While Topher considered himself quite the artist he didn't really have much respect for people who spent time doodling. He pasted on a false smile and nodded.

"Yeah. Can't wait." His eyes wandered the room. "So, what does Catherine do?"

Peeta raised an eyebrow. "Katniss, you mean? She..." He trailed off for a moment and then grinned. "She does whatever she's not supposed to. I love her surprises."

"Yeah her." Oh, she was one of those sorts, huh? It was like listening to someone gush all over Echo and her weird malfunction. If Topher knew anything it was that people like that tended to get everyone else in trouble. "Surprised she's still talking, or is there a rule against Avoxing a Victor?"

"I don't know. If you find out, write it on a piece of paper for me or something," Peeta joked. Avoxing were a tricky subject, and honestly, the less spoken about them, the better.

"Look at you being funny." It really was the sort of delightfully morbid joke Topher tended to make, so he could appreciate the whole thing. That doesn't mean he suddenly likes the artist or anything. "Hey, she's the boat rocker; I just like to play with computers."

He grinned. This place could give you a morbid sense of humor, but Peeta had always been pretty good at being funny. A little funny, anyway. "Then we're pretty lucky to have you around, right? I've heard being a boat rocker can be a pretty dangerous profession."