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Trustfell Mods ([personal profile] trustfellows) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2017-09-10 12:15 am

Welcome.


Rise and shine.

There are a few things that matter right now - the fact that you're waking up in an unfamiliar but decently comfortable bed, the fact that you don't recognize the room you're in, the fact that you seem to have some sort of headache... Nothing severe, mind. Just the sort of odd, heavy fuzziness that comes with having slept far too long.

You don't really remember where you were immediately before this, not upon waking. Something will come to you eventually if you think long enough, however - a couple of seconds of consideration will bring to mind a place, a memory, a recollection of where you were and what you were doing.

It probably wasn't anything that would result in you being here, though.

Welcome to Graceside Preparatory Academy.

You may want to pick up the key to your room before you leave the room, but don't worry too much - your door won't lock automatically, so you won't be locked out if you've forgotten to pick it up. It seems you're not alone, either; the hallway outside your room is most likely full of other confused people by now, and should you turn around to look at the door of the room you just left, you'll find a nameplate with your name printed on it. There's a single word underneath it with no explanation. This is your title, but don't worry about that right now.

Depending on when you left your room there may be a clock chiming in the foyer up ahead. It seems like it's seven, though it's difficult to tell if it's seven in the morning or seven at night. There aren't any windows, after all. Should you venture into the room with the clock, you'll find that the only exit is closed - there's absolutely no way to break down that steel bulkhead. It looks like you're not getting out of here anytime soon.

The foyer also holds some very interesting information. There's a bulletin board with thirty-five pictures on it. Beside each picture is some very specific and very familiar information. Feel free to examine it. The bulletin board is large enough for plenty of you to gather around and gawk. Don't try to get at it though, that glass in front of it is very thick. If you try to break it, you'll find out the hard way that it's shatterproof. Sorry about that.

Perhaps even more of a concern than the glass is the list beside the profiles. It looks like a set of rules. You might want to examine those, though they're not providing much of an explanation for why you're here or how you got here.

So relax and get to know your fellow Participants. You might be stuck here for awhile.
flagitate: (sways (1375))

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

Panem, I guess.

[ School didn't teach about science.... ]
didntgetdadslooks: (17)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Panem...

[ She tries to think of what that might? Be??? She's spent plenty of time looking at star charts... ]

I can't say I'm familiar... maybe your planet is somewhere out without space travel yet, somehow?
flagitate: (byfamira_175)

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I mean, I think a long time ago, people used to be able to do that.

[ then everything changed when the world went to shit ]
didntgetdadslooks: (10)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...

[ So maybe an old colony world, then. That would explain why she doesn't know anything about this place, certainly. ]

Is there... do things like this happen on Panem?
flagitate: (lamination)

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
You mean, what it says on the rules? About "violence against other Participants"?

Or the kidnapping bit?
didntgetdadslooks: (17)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
I was... well, I was talking about the kidnapping part, but now that I think about it the rules are pretty important too, from the sounds of it.
flagitate: (sways (676))

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Not the kidnapping part.

[ Pause. ]

But the other parts, yeah.
didntgetdadslooks: (10)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so more like a... an arena kind of thing?
flagitate: (♪ transfer command.)

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
.... Yeah, exactly.

[ Quickly: ] I've never been in one, though.
didntgetdadslooks: (08)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
I mean... you don't exactly look like the arena type. They're usually... bigger. And gruffer. And covered in guns.
flagitate: (sways (1279))

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Guns? No way. The Capitol wouldn't waste their precious guns on Tributes.
didntgetdadslooks: (10)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ "Precious" guns. A Tediore ad jingle runs through her head. ]

Right. Well, let's just say outside of certain places, guns are very common on Pandora.
flagitate: (sways (692))

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Pandora must be pretty rich. It takes a lot of money to make guns.

[ uh. probably. she doesn't really know for sure, but it seems like it'd be Expensive. ]
didntgetdadslooks: (17)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-10 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I... it's more that the gun companies target planets like it, but. Look, I think we're talking in very different scopes.
flagitate: (lamination)

[personal profile] flagitate 2017-09-10 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe, yeah. I'm kind of getting the feeling that everything about Panem's different from what everyone else is used to.
didntgetdadslooks: (16)

[personal profile] didntgetdadslooks 2017-09-11 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Not that that's necessarily bad! Different places are just... different, that's all.