| Due to the backlash from the reveal that Districters are subsidizing the Tributes’ credit lines, all credit cards for the Tributes have been suspended indefinitely. Though they’ll still have a place to sleep in the Suites, and whatever’s in their wardrobe, essentials like food, even from the Training Center cafe, will be charged for.
There are five ways to receive enough money to buy your essentials:
1. Kill someone in the Arena. For every Arena kill, your character will receive a thousand assi, which is somewhere around $1,000 in US currency and will buy about that much in the Capitol. This applies retroactively to the prior Arena, so if your character killed two other Tributes in Arena 14, they will have two thousand assi at their disposal.
2. Turn in a ‘treacherous’ Tribute to the Peacekeepers. After an investigation, if your report is valid, your character will receive ten thousand assi.
3. Apply for a ‘credit pass’, which will be rewarded at the Capitol’s discretion to worthy Tributes who have a proven history of being grateful to the Capitol. A post for this will go up soon.
4. Receive an underling position with the Peacekeepers. Your character, to continue being paid their modest-but-livable salary, will have to follow any orders they receive from the Peacekeepers, from working on propaganda to occasionally being deployed ‘in the field’ to punish unruly Districters.
5. Aggressively court Sponsors and brands and receive advertisement or spokesperson deals. Tributes will have to work, competitively, around the clock to make a living at this, as the Capitol will garnish 85% of their wages to ‘pay back’ the Districters who worked for them. Escorts and Stylists can help with this.
6. Get a job, such as Rochelle's reporter job or a service job. Feel free to contact the mods, because we are happy to be creative with what your character can do. Want to get them involved with making Avoxes? Barista? Figure out the Panem tax code? Let us know. However, these jobs will be extremely low-paying. Your character will need a source of supplemental income if they expect to have a meal every night. Sponsor deals are by far the more lucrative option, and that's just sad.
As a note, this isn’t something you can just handwave your character ignoring. All Tributes will have to take part in this, or they won’t be able to use any money in the Capitol for food, medicine, or anything else they might need. They won't be able to eat. They can, however, borrow money from other characters, including Staffers. Characters who have build up savings ICly through Sponsorship deals in the past can still have those, although bear in mind that in the past Tributes have not been incentivized to save.
This is not meant to establish any sort of OOC currency system that the mods have to keep track of; we are placing our trust in the players to be honest and reasonable about their characters’ methods and results.
Mentors, both classic and offworld, will continue to receive their earnings. Staffers’ salaries won’t be affected. Petitioned characters won’t be affected.
You may use this post for plotting if you like, or to ask questions for the mods. |
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