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 8

[gamemakers]

District: 8
Export: Textiles
Government: Mayor Octo, a plump elderly woman, tired-looking, but someone even now quick to warmth. She greets the Tributes with a hug.

Mood: This is not a happy place. There have been open rebellions, and then tension is thick. The place is filled with Peacekeepers, and there are many restrictions on the citizens including where and when they can go and how many can go at once. Most of the Tributes interactions are only with certain citizens, as large groups are not allowed to gather, even to greet visitors.

Environment:

The trains leaves the mountains, crossing many miles of snowy plains, before plunging into thick, green lands, broken by farms and eventually large expanses of factories.

The city is a sprawling, gray, miserable thing. It is a mix of old and new buildings, most of them huge, smoke belching factories. A thick smog hangs over the city on the few days when there isn’t a low cloud cover. A low, cold cloud cover. It is lightly snowing most of the day, heavy a few of them, with that lovely humid cold that cuts right through all warm fabric.

Everything in the city is dirty and polluted. The near by river is slow with the pollution dumped into it, and walking the roads is an awful potpourri of terrible smells. Most of the citizens shy away from the Tributes, keeping their heads down and heading to work. Peacekeepers are everywhere, and their rule is draconian. Any small step out of line is met with harsh resistance. Fortunately, Peacekeepers seem to be keeping to their own rules, and aren’t going out of their way to use their authority to receive favors or take bribes.

The Tributes are only allowed to interact with the the higher members of Eight society, such as government employees and factory owners. Some of them seem to appreciate the stricter rule, but many of them look haunted themselves. A few complain that since Eight has come under harsher controls, they’ve been unable to receive support from the Capitol in other ways, such as technological support or access to imports from other Districts.

Locations:

The Tributes are marched down the main road to the Civic Building. All stores have been closed, and it is made clear no one will be going anywhere without supervision. And there really isn’t anywhere to go.

The civic center is an older, solid building. It is the nicest one around, but that isn’t saying much. Several rooms have obviously been hastily and temporarily remodeled into living quarters. They are nice enough, in a generic hotel sort of way. Food is brought to the Tributes at specific times, and compared to the Capitol, it is not very exciting food, flavorless but filling. When the Peacekeepers aren’t around, the employees here are very chatty, although they seem to know better than to say anything about the Capitol, and instead prefer to ask questions about the Tributes’ lives.

[doc_holi]

Will the tributes be able to see the average citizens at all, such as seeing people as they're being taken to the civic center and etc without any interaction? Or will things be super strict and it'll seem like a ghost town filled with peacekeepers and the more wealthy folk of the district without ever seeing the faces of the poorer workers?

This actually is an important question for how Holiday's going to handle this trip, as nit-picky as it may seem. Sorry about that.

[gamemakers]

No worries about nit picking!

they will see them going about their business, but they are kept.seperate, and are not allowed to socialize with the tributes.