The shocking and thrilling adventures!

[gamemakers]

Who| Everyone
What| The Capitols oh so exclusive interviews~!
Where| Primarily the common areas, but the interviews would be on every TV everywhere.
When| This evening, at 6 pm sharp
Notes| Use this post to ICly react to the interviews (if you don't make plans of your own!)

The advertisements hit hard today. Tune in at 6 o'clock, you won't want to miss this special! Everywhere a person could look, it was there, and the city was clearly excited for whatever this mystery event was.

As if that wasn't enough, escorts were encouraging Tributes to be in the commons, and a small feast of finger foods was laid out along one wall, extra avoxes available for drinks.

And, as promised, at 6 pm sharp, all the TVs flickered to the ever flashy Caesar, on an equally flashy tabloid-tastick reality style "interview" of the tributes. All the TVs in the common area light up with it, as well as the Districts suites, even if the TV had been off before.

Hope you all enjoy your dose of fame!

Comments

Lounge but also the roof if anyone wants!

[shinyisfalse]

This wasn't the worse thing he'd ever seen on the televisions here in the Capitol. But it was up there with the more ridiuclous stunts that they had pulled. Maybe it was something only obvious to the tributes and former tributes, but this had to be one of the best examples of taken out of context content. The Capitol citizens were probably eating this up with the biggest spoon they could find, but from the faces of people in the lounge, they weren't doing the same thing.

Peeta did want to laugh, though. In fact, he'd covered up some laughter with his hand and focused attention on the tributes from where he could see them at the back of the lounge, against the wall. This whole thing was a mess, and this just helped make it a worse one. Hell, just the cannibal thing... a lot of damage control would have to be done. He'd stay in the lounge for awhile, talking to whoever wanted to talk to him, but then he was going to the roof. It was a nice night tonight, and he didn't want to miss it.

Lounge!

[69problems]

Oh, man, was the Signless glad to see Peeta. If anyone knew what to do about this whole awful clusterfuck of a show, it was his mentor (he hoped. Oh, god, he hoped).

"I want to assure you we don't eat humans," he said, clearly still a little distressed but doing his best not to show it.

Re: Lounge!

[shinyisfalse]

Oh good, he wouldn't have to go around and look for Signless. It wasn't like it was really crowded here, but he didn't know everyone here, either.

"It's okay, I know," Peeta reassured him. "If you're not sure about killing animals, I know you're not going to start eating people." He tried to say it in a joking manner. He wanted to let him know that it was okay, that all of this was okay, even if it wasn't. They could handle this. They could.

[69problems]

Thank goodness someone here had the sense to see through the editing. Signless immediately relaxed (not entirely, but still enough to be getting on with).

"Not everyone knows that, though. How bad do you think this is going to be?" Every sponsor counted, he knew, because he simply wasn't the type that usually got a lot of them (not enough murdering). He couldn't afford to lose many.

[shinyisfalse]

Peeta blew out some air. "It looks pretty bad at first," He began, crossing his arms over his chest. Now that it had finished airing, though, he could think about what he'd seen. The initial reaction wasn't always the one that stuck.

"I don't know if you know who Titus is. He's this Tribute who... went sort of crazy, in the arena. Years ago, not any time recent. But he started to eat the other Tributes after he killed them. They had to stun him just so they could collect the bodies before he got to them." It was pretty bad. "The Capitol doesn't really like cannibalism. But they do like you. All of the trolls, they like you. Maybe we can spin it."

[69problems]

"I suppose just trying to tell it's not true won't work?" he said, with a wry smile.

[shinyisfalse]

"That's the first step," Peeta shrugged with a smile. "Better start as soon as possible. If anyone asks, let them know, but don't bring it up yourself. That seems like it's fake, that someone coached you for it. Just let it come naturally as the conversation goes."

party on the roof roof roof

[pythianjudgment]

The pain about being nocturnal in a diurnal world is that when nighttime comes, you don't really feel like settling down. Fairly wide awake, Terezi meanders her way up to the roof for some fresh air. It's something she hasn't done for quite a while. You don't get a fresh nighttime breeze on an asteroid that's a million miles in the middle of space.

It doesn't take her long to notice that she's not the only one with that idea. There's a human here, one she hasn't talked to yet, and she has to wonder if he was watching that broadcast earlier or not. She didn't pay a whole lot of attention to who was in the lounge at the time, but... Well, odds are that he did see it.

"Sure was nice of them to leave a snack up here," she remarks breezily as she settles herself nearby. Her and Karkat's tussle with Jack certainly didn't teach her not to joke around about things like that. She really doesn't understand why more people don't find this hilarious.

Re: party on the roof roof roof

[shinyisfalse]

A fresh nighttime breeze is the best part of the roof. Plus, you could see the stars, or what little of them could be seen with all of this light from the city in the way. But you could look off and see all the lights. The people in the streets, the cars passing by. it could get windy, but there wasn't a lot of noise. Peeta didn't know if it was because of the force field or what, but you could only barely hear what was going on down below.

Peeta loved it up here. The tinkling of the wind chimes, the plants, everything was very relaxing. Until someone comes up and makes a comment about possibly eating him. Not as relaxing this time. He gave a visible start before catching himself and laughing, turning to look at the person who made the comment.

Or, maybe not a person. It was another troll, like Signless. "I really hope you're talking about the flowers," Peeta grinned. "I don't know if they brought the fish back to the pond, yet."

[pythianjudgment]

Oh, a human with a sense of humor. Finally. Terezi grins wider at the boy.

"Are you trying to appease me with plantlife?" She lifts both eyebrows in as skeptical an expressions as she can muster... Waggles them a moment... Then drops it completely and laughs herself. There is absolutely nothing serious about this.

"Yes, okay. I will take your delicious flowers as supplication. Contrary to popular belief, I happen to be a rare benevolent breed of omnivore. The fish may be spared this day as well." She accompanies that with a grand gesture by her arm, fit for any creature of prestige granting such a pardon to her lesser.

It's all in good fun, though. She settles once that bout of silliness has passed and sniffs at her conversation partner. He seems kinda cool, as far as she can tell from the handful of seconds that she's known him. Cool enough to at least get his name.

"What do they call you, anyway? And what do you do around here?"

[shinyisfalse]

He gave a laugh. "Yeah, you could say that. I think the flowers would be a lot tastier, too. People in the arena are a little too lean." There wasn't enough silliness of this kind in the Capitol. Oh, there was plenty of silliness along the lines of fashion, of the kind of parties the citizens threw. But Peeta preferred some of the darker humor that all Tributes and Victors seemed to possess.

Really. At the grand gesture, he stepped back a little and took a deep and overly dramatic bow. It really all was in good fun, and with no idea as to the coming arena, they could all use some good fun.

"They call me Peeta Mellark, but I'm pretty sure that's what my actual name is. I'm a Mentor for District Twelve. How about yourself?"

[pythianjudgment]

Terezi beams wide when Peeta bows back at her antics. Congratulations, you've just made Terezi's A list, Peeta. She really needs more people that she can just be silly around, and already she feels comfortable with this weird human boy.

"You can call me Terezi Pyrope, which also might actually be my name. What a coincidence! They shuffled me into District Three. I'd be jealous at your Tributes having such a cool Mentor, but mine's pretty interesting, too. It's my Escort human that can go suck an imperial dung beetle." Terezi smiles, a mockery of sweetness. "But you didn't hear me say that."

[shinyisfalse]

Sometimes you just needed to be a little silly. And not in the silly of this place, but he'd been over this before. He grinned.

"Terezi Pyrope. That's an interesting name, I like it. Is it okay if I call you Terezi?" He has to ask that, since he'd already made the mistake before of insulting someone because he hadn't used their full name. "Well, most mentors can be pretty cool... as long as they're doing their jobs!"

He laughed. "Don't worry, eventually you get used to the Escorts. It'll take awhile, but they're always pretty punctual, and helpful. If you can get past the hair, make up, and general caffeinated happiness."

[pythianjudgment]

"Terezi is fine by me! I also answer to Mighty Dragon Huntress, Scourge of the Skies; but I understand if that is a mouthful."

For all of her silliness, she doesn't seem to back down too much from the Escort thing, though. In fact, her own cheerfulness seems to take on a bit of a sardonic edge. "Really? Mine seemed delighted to point out the fact that they'd be sending me off to die over and over and over again. Downright smug! What a peculiar way of showing she cares. If I didn't know any better, I'd think she was a soul-sucking abomination that feeds off the misery of others; but I guess I'll have to take your word for it, huh?"

It might be possible that Terezi just simply never stops grinning, no matter what happens to be coming out of her mouth.

[shinyisfalse]

"I don't know if I could remember the rest of that, but I could definitely try, Terezi... dragon something," Peeta laughed. He understood that about the Escorts, and why everyone hated them. He had been really annoyed by Effie, and for a long time, but soon learned of her usefulness. She really was something you could count on, despite it all.

"Mmm, no, I think that's stretching it. My Escort, you know what the last thing she said to me and Katniss before we went off into the arena? She said that she wouldn't be surprised if she'd be promoted to a better district for the next games. No escort wants to be working with the older districts, if you know what I mean." At that, he looked away. "Try to get to know them. They really do want you to win. They're just not good at expressing it."

[pythianjudgment]

The look that Terezi gives him is clearly skeptical. None of these Escorts sound promising just, and Peeta's is no different. But eventually she sighs. It's long and belabored, and you would think you were asking her to do something exhausting and troublesome.

"I guess! I could stand to hold off on lighting her room on fire or something. At least until I'm certain whether or not she deserves to have everything she owns go up in justifiable flames."

It's moments like these where it's really difficult to tell if she's still joking around or not.

[shinyisfalse]

"If you do decide to light her room on fire, could you do it when most of the other tributes are not in the suites?" Peeta grinned. "I'm just imaging the chaos of trying to get everyone out of the tower when the smoke alarm goes off, and I know I'd like to not get trampled or anything."

He took it as a joke, because he made it a joke. It could very well not be a joke, but you didn't really want to think that this person you just met was going to burn down a room. Peeta wasn't sure what they would do with that; he'd never had to deal with fire alarms before.

[pythianjudgment]

There is really no telling if she was joking or not because Terezi never really stops grinning for anything. Or at least, it seems that way.

"This is why your shitty human race needs to build better fire escapes. We can do a test run, if you're that worried!" She gets up from where she was sitting and motions towards the stairwell. "All we need is a match and a smoke detector. We're even in the best position to do it! One trample-free pass to science-town, population: us!"

Come on, Peeta. Engage in fake arson with the alien girl. She's practically begging.

[shinyisfalse]

No. Definitely not. Peeta is shaking his head even if he's laughing. Nope.

"I don't think we'll be on our way to science-town if we did that. More like on our way to a peacekeeper holding cell, and that's not as much fun as I imagine science-town to be," He pauses, looking at the stairwell. Trample-free wasn't going to work well, either, he felt.

"How about we do something different then pretending to set the place on fire? There's tons of other stuff to do."

[pythianjudgment]

Do you see this pout? This is a legendary pout. No man has ever lived to tell the tale of witnessing this pout, which is why Peeta might not have heard of such a legendary pout before.

"I don't know! You are going to have to find something pretty amazing to convince me that there's something better than our trip to science-town. I had my bags packed and everything. You are cancelling my personal vacation to the theme park of Science and Screaming, and I demand to be compensated."

[shinyisfalse]

Oh dear. Not the pout! Anything but the pout. Peeta's will crumbles, but only a little. Not enough for him to actually do anything about it, but he gestures for her to come over with him to the edge of the roof. He grabbed a couple of apples along the way, too, and then turned to look at her.

"Ever play catch before?"

ajdjfbfsjdjfb peeta!

[itswhoyouare]

Anna really can't be surprised by this; it's the same tactic used by the press and even certain cops and lawyers to discredit innocent, honest people. And in her case, probably to get her angry after the whole Baron incident. But after some time to cool her jets, she's ready to go back to her usual routine.

As she walks by, she spots Peeta near the wall and stops to check out his angle. He's good at putting on a face for the camera, as far as the footage goes (and she's done her research). But she'd be remiss not to do her own investigation of the mentor and gauge just how far on the rebellion scale he sits.

"Well, I can't say I'm surprised."

:D :D :D

[shinyisfalse]

He turned towards the voice, meeting her eyes and giving her a small nod. "I can't say I'm surprised, either. But maybe just a tiny bit unexpected, at this stage right now."

Peeta knew her. Not personally, of course, much like many of the other tributes he saw here. But he'd seen them in their games, and he'd seen her. Maybe he couldn't remember exactly what everyone did, since he did have a lot of games to catch up on since he was able to come back to the public. He needed to do some re-watching.

"Whoever puts together these shows really know how to get an audience hooked."

[itswhoyouare]

It wasn't until Katniss and Peeta showed up the Capitol that Anna and the others were pulled into this mess. But she really can't be angry with them. Peeta seems to genuinely love Katniss, and she seems torn in the footage. What she's seen in the arena alone is rebellious enough to get Snow angry. She can't believe they're still alive.

"It's basically marketing 101," she drawls. "Unfortunately they seem to be great at it." Testing the rebellious waters, if he gets the subtext.

[shinyisfalse]

"Oh, they're very good at it," Peeta agreed, giving a small sigh with a smaller shrug. "They always hide out some things, I think to keep people guessing. It's an interesting tactic. You know when they show the highlight reel of whatever game it was, and how so much is put on the victor? It tells a story of what happened, but not everything."

He laughed. "You couldn't put every little thing into a reel that people need to sit through to watch."