District Tours Information Post

[gamemakers]

Need to know information:

-Each district has its own thread below. Feel free to ask any clarifying questions there that apply to each District. For general questions, see the mod thread linked at the bottom of this post. This post is for information; later this week we will have a plotting post up.

-The plot will start on January 7th. At that point all the characters in your District will be put on a train. In game time, they will be on the train for a day (or two, for the far districts), depending on how far it is. There will be two days for open play in the setting, a banquet party post, and then another day before they head home.

In real time, the plot will last between a week or two, depending on how long is needed.

-For reference, here is our map of Panem.

- There will be an HMD Friday, and then a game wide Player Plot Post for plotting before the event starts, as well. You can feel free to contact Districtmates for plotting if you'd like over plurk/IM/PM if you want to get started before the PPP.

-If you are connected with a District (Stylist, Escort, etc) you are welcome. If you want involved but aren't, let us know and we'll see what we can do.

-We are not NPCing interactions with locals. You can handwave them or NPC them yourselves. If you would like to handwave anything not already laid out as being within the guidelines below, ask us and we can work out the plot together.

-Anything not addressed? Drop it here.

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DISTRICT 2

[gamemakers]

District: 2
Export: Masonry
Government: Mayor Duo, a strict looking, harsh woman who hasn’t seemed to laugh in years. Her dark hair is pulled tight to the back of her head, accentuating her sharp cheekbones.

Mood: Although this district is favored by the Capitol, there is a strict tension in the air. It’s like everyone is working too hard to prove how loyal they are. Everything said comes off as a sort of phony propaganda-ladened script.

Those in Two are none too warm to the Tributes. Mostly it is just a cold welcome, but if someone was to push, it would not be hard to start a fight. And although there are a lot of Peacekeepers here to break things up, none of them seem particularly interested in protecting te Tributes. Some citizens will just snub the Tributes or mock those who didn’t perform well in the last Arena.

Environment: The main city is not a long train ride from the Capitol. The landscape is beautiful, even if the city is not. To the west, mountains cut sharply into the sky, their peaks covered with a thick blanket of snow. To the east are the plains, and if you find a high enough vantage point, they will stretch as far as you can see.

The weather is cold, and snow clings to the ground, but for the Tributes visit it is generally sunny. The city is worn down, obviously a working city. Most of the population uses the trains to commute to mines in the mountains, particularly “The Nut”, a hollowed out mountain that sits just west of the city. They work long hours and are not seen returning home before dark.

The area that would count as “downtown” has a patched-together old west sort-of feel, with small brick buildings lined up along the main street, and more recent, shoddily-made buildings spread out from there. When darkness falls, all power is diverted to the heating systems, and outside of the street lamps and city hall, everyone uses lanterns and candles. Curfew has been imposed, but Peacekeepers are extremely lax in enforcing it, and citizens consider it something of a popular joke.

Locations:

The city hall is a brick building, clearly newer than the other, but built to match their style. The banquet is held in its main foyer.

The Tributes are staying in a small, old hotel. It is musty and creaky and not too terribly warm, though they are given plenty of blankets. Some of the walls in the rooms have been worn away, revealing the brick foundation beneath, and the heaters are old and temperamental. Like the rest of the District, the hotel ceases to use electric lights after dark, insisting instead on candles. The hotel overlooks City Hall and is within a stone’s throw of the train station, although the hotel staff insists that the sound of the train isn’t so disruptive that the Tributes shouldn’t be able to sleep.

Tributes can also explore along main street. There are stores, though not very exciting ones; work clothes, imports from the other Districts, butchers, candy shops, bakeries. A restaurant and pub is at the end of main street, a dark and rowdy place, and from there it is into the neighborhoods, a sad affair of rough working people in cheap housing. Technically Tributes are not allowed past mainstreet, but Peacekeepers might let them get a few blocks in before pulling them out.

Misc: Cats and domesticated weasels are popular pets in District 2, as they are both self-sufficient and useful for warding off rodents, a endemic problem for the working neighborhoods. The weasel especially is seen as something of a mascot of the District, and its emblem is visible not only on the pub sign, but in the nickname ‘The Weez’ for the train that goes into The Nut.

Re: DISTRICT 2

[fire_punk]

I don't suppose there would be a way Kevin could come home with a weasel without getting in trouble with a peacekeeper?

Re: DISTRICT 2

[mediumdrip]

Blaine would totally be willing to help with this, if he can.

Re: DISTRICT 2

[fire_punk]

That would probably lead to a second weasel for Blaine....

Re: DISTRICT 2

[gamemakers]

Yes they can.

However, they will be fairly expensive (affordable for them, but obviously the natives are price gouging) and they will need to be hand tamed, as the district generally sees them as working pets, so they ae clean, but barely tame as bbabie.

[gluteus]

I really should be signed in as Sherlock for this, but:

How much surveillance is apparent through the district? Similar to capitol levels where you can expect most things to be bugged / have cameras, or is surveillance mostly done through the peace keepers?

Is there any sort of tech (see: computers that can access the network) or is that limited only to city hall, like the lights?

For those of quick deduction just how prevalent is rebellious thought under the propaganda surface? (And should I be asking rebellion-themed questions in private?)

[gamemakers]

It is not as heavily surveyed as the Capitol, but the areas the Tributes are in are heavily enough surveyed that anything done would have to be done very carefully and slyly. Audio would be much looser than the Capitol however, especially outside, and mainly rely on human ears.

you'll have your communicators still. Everything accessible to the tributes would be very low quality, compared to their communicators (think an ipad vs that busted computer your library had in 1998.)

As a whole, 2's loyal front is fairly strong, however, there are weaker individuals through out that someone super observant such as sherlock could probably suss out.