Test Drive 17

[sixthiteration]

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→ Choose one of the scenarios below or make up your own. Feel free to try multiple scenarios.

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Prompts

It's springtime in your brand-new home, villagers! Many exciting new experiences await you, although you might want to take care; not all are for the faint of heart.

1. NEW FRIENDS - Congratulations, you are now the lucky recipient of the undying love and devotion of your very own CROC-DOG. Maybe you fed it, or maybe you just didn't run away screaming when you saw it. Regardless, it's your buddy now through thick and thin. Constantly. Everywhere. All the time. We hope you're up for some companionship!


2. LET YOUR EENT SHINE DOWN - You've come across a SHINE BIRD. You heard its call. Now you can expect an hour's worth of sudden, intense increase in one of four emotions: Joy, sorrow, rage or loneliness. It's entirely possible you'll be apologizing to some people tomorrow.


3. SPRING IN SPRING - Hey look, it's everybody's favorite prompt: It's warm enough now that it's not completely crazy to go have a dip in the HOT SPRINGS. Naked. And then accidentally get caught.


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Texts

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text messages to other villagers.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
- No usernames, everyone is listed by their name

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[juststayalive]

"I don't think there's an incentive large enough to get anyone from the Capitol to enter the arena willingly." So either they're not from the Capitol or this is some new kind of punishment that only includes certain of the Victors. Which raises the question: if they're not from the Capitol, then where are they from?

This is the strangest arena he's seen. Unusual creatures, a need to survive, but they've been given lodgings and the very environment isn't trying to kill them.

So there really are no answers at all.

[burn_with_us]

“No but if they’re political prisoners that haven’t been made into avoxes for some reason, that might be why they’re here. I remember two people who cane to the fence in 12, two people from the Capitol. Whatever they did must have been awful if they preferred going it alone in 12 to living at home in the Capitol.”

Most people in the Capitol are extremely wealthy but even stylists and merchants live a far better life than anyone in the districts do. And, also, they have the benefit of not being Reaped.

[juststayalive]

"Life in the Capitol wouldn't be that great." Even with the abundance and variety of food and drink available there, even with everyone knowing that they have a place to sleep and food to eat, even with all of that decadence and safety, it's not a life Haymitch would choose. There's no privacy, and everyone is made up and fake, and he'd rather be allowed to live his life in obscurity, which will never happen.

"You think they're spies?"

[burn_with_us]

"I would hate it," Katniss agrees. "But they were Capitol people. They'd have preferred the life they were living over going through wild lands in the Districts. They don't have any real skills in the Capitol."

Fashion, parties, gorging themselves to excess - that's life in the Capitol.

[juststayalive]

"Do something for me. Next time you see Effie, tell her that." He doesn't disagree. He just knows that Effie would have an opinion of what counts as a skill. "Anyone going from the Capitol to the districts must have had a very good reason."

[burn_with_us]

"I think they stole information somehow," Katniss agrees. "They were trying to get it to the districts. Maybe they saw something they shouldn't have seen or they knew how to take the Capitol down. It could have been anything at all. But whatever they had, they wanted to be sure I never heard it. They made them avoxes for a reason."

They sent a clear message to her by assigning Lavinia as her avox.

[juststayalive]

The Capitol has its own brand of subtlety, messages aimed at a specific person and perhaps missed by anyone not familiar with the situation. It's a reminder that they know everything, and that they have the power.

"Not everyone in the Capitol is enthralled by the lifestyle." He doesn't know what did it for these two, of course, but sometimes all it takes is something happening to someone they care about. The system isn't so beneficial when it targets one of your own, after all.

[burn_with_us]

"No, I guess not. It still doesn't solve what this place is, though, and we need to know if we're going to get out. I think it feels more like a district than an arena but maybe it's a new kind of arena, a new prison. Maybe we're all prisoners of the Capitol somehow and they keep us here so we can't cause any more trouble."

Maybe there's an agreement in place like the agreement with 13 - don't make trouble, keep quiet, we'll leave you alone and you leave us alone.

"I would think they'd just take care of me on live television, though. I'm too problematic."

[juststayalive]

He makes a noise at that, not really a denial, but that's what it's meant to be. It's complicated, and he knows it. He's been playing that game for twenty-five years, from the moment he left his own arena.

"But then they would have to admit that their system isn't perfect, that maybe winning the Games isn't what they've said it is. You can't glorify your victor, turn them into a symbol of everything the games stand for, and then destroy them."

Which is what had happened to him. They'd needed to make an example, to show what defying the Capitol would do, but they couldn't touch him. Not the hero of the moment. So they'd come up with some other option.