So what we figure out so far?

Day Three

Your train arrives at the capital. Everything from then on is a blur. You pass out and in the morning, you’re fed, bathed, shaven, styled and then dressed in a ridiculous costume that represents your district. You and the rest of the tributes are forced into matching carriages and your carriage pulls you into a massive building. On every side, there are people from the capital cheering and shouting from stadium seating. You listen as the announcers discuss each tribute with predictions, backstory and anecdotes about games past.

A few other tributes stick out in your mind: Shine and Gem, the dangerous looking brother sister duo from district 1, Cano, son of one of district 2’s previous champions and the overall favorite, Bax, district 4’s lean and powerful tribute, Tyson, a rare volunteer from district 5, little Cassius and one armed Sigmas from 7 and Sile from district 11, a massive field worker.

After the “parade” you’re given a change of clothes and taken to the training room. Immediately in front of you are a group of training dummies with a handful of athletic adults, probably from the capitol, standing behind them. A rack of weapons with swords, axes and other blades is between them. This must be where weapon training happens. Behind the melee trainers, along the back wall, are a variety of targets with racks containing bows, blow guns, throwing knives, throwing axes and javelins. On the side walls, stations have been set up with instructors for knot tying, fishing, fire making, wood working, camouflage, first aid and plant identification. In one corner of the room is a large obstacle course. In another, a pool for teaching swimming.

A woman approaches the group. “This is your first session. There will be another today and four more over the next two days. Each session is four hours. You may not spar with each other. Save it for the arena. Begin.”



Please send your instructions for the first training session. You must train in one hour increments to benefit from the training. Your skill in any particular area is rated 0-4 with 4 being the highest. Also, let me know how you will treat the other tributes. After all players have sent their action, you will be informed of which skills (if any) you have gained/increased and what you have noticed about other tributes.

Example: “Train with a sword for 2 hours, then with a bow for 2, trying to act as intimidating as possible. Scowl at anyone who approaches unless they’re from my district” or “Train at the fire making station until I gain 1 skill level, then move on to the first aid station until the session is over. Smile slightly at any tribute that looks my way who isn’t from districts 1, 2 or 4.”

Day Four

After four hours of training, the tributes break for lunch.

You will be sent your training results. Do not sit down for lunch until you have received your training results.

12 tables are set out. You may sit at a table by posting on the thread "Sit at table X"

From then on, you may post but each post must start with "Table X" and the rest of your post must be within a spoiler box like this one.

Remove the space at the end to make a spoiler box.
[spoiler]Text you want in the spoiler box[/spoiler ]

You may edit your post if you accidentally don't post a spoiler box or forget to say what table you're posting from.

You may only click on spoiler boxes (revealing the text inside) if the you were at the same table as the player who posted the message at the time it was posted. Clicking on spoiler boxes of people who sat down before you or are sitting on other tables IS CHEATING. DO NOT DO IT.

You may not switch tables but you can post "Leave Table X" to do exactly that, at which point you may not read posts from that table.

The idea is that everyone can see who you are socializing with and everyone can see who is doing a lot of talking but nobody can hear what the other tributes are saying unless they are close enough to hear.

You have 24 hours from when you are sent your training results to send in your action for the second training session.

Sit at table 3

Table 3:

Table 3

If you did not get your training results, they will be sent today around noon central. Apologies. I underestimated how long it would take to finish writing those.

Sit at table 5

sit at table 4

Sit at table 5