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thegamesooc2013-05-04 12:10 pm
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Languages, currency, communication, death...
a few things that have come up that people were unclear on!
Communication devices
The communication devices are hologram based. If you have read Mockingjay, they are non-military, non-as cool version of the thing Boggs has. They go on your wrist and have a little "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi" hologram that comes up. They mainly just have communication capabilities and basic info (maps, weather, etc)
If you want to do a text/anonymous/voice post, it is possible, just cover/point away the image capturing part. For text posts, you'd have to physical write out notes (As a character. You are welcome to if you want to as a player, but also "This is hand written" is fine) Anonymity is more controlled then to every one, except the Capitol.
To keep something anonymous from the Capitol would require putting up physical messages while hiding your identity.
More advanced computers can be bought. They are liker modern tablets had a baby with Jarvis from Ironman. No where near that powerful for the layman, but in that vein.
Language and not being overheard
The Capitol only knows big languages. Think what you might possibly find in a High School-Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Mandarin, Russian, etc. However, if you are in your room teaching a language, they can record that and learn from it.
If you want privacy to learn a language to speak in code, or just to speak about more sensitive things more freely, anywhere outside and busy is safe. Inside and busy as long as you aren't in the training complex is moderately safe (As long as you aren't loud and obnoxious you should be fine, but if you are like "Why don't we all just stab Ceaser!?" Someone might notice.) and inside the Speakeasy is fine recording wise, but it is an open establishment, so very private conversations should request a private area.
Dying
You can voluntarily kill your character anytime! Also characters will ALWAYS return to the Capitol EXACTLY as they arrived here the first time. If they were hungry when they were first pulled, they're hungry when they come back from the arena.
If the winner is too badly damaged, the same it true of them. It they are repairable, it's not.
Money
We have decided, to make it easier to differentiate between OOC credits earned for activity and IC money earned for kills, to call the IC money As or Assi, a play on ancient Rome's money.
When you kill people in the arena you get 100 assi. This would be around $500. If you kill enough people you could live comfortably by The Capitol's standard without going into debt. The Capitol does not consider having food, shelter, and clothes provided as comfortable. This may change as they figure out this plan isn't working.
Communication devices
The communication devices are hologram based. If you have read Mockingjay, they are non-military, non-as cool version of the thing Boggs has. They go on your wrist and have a little "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi" hologram that comes up. They mainly just have communication capabilities and basic info (maps, weather, etc)
If you want to do a text/anonymous/voice post, it is possible, just cover/point away the image capturing part. For text posts, you'd have to physical write out notes (As a character. You are welcome to if you want to as a player, but also "This is hand written" is fine) Anonymity is more controlled then to every one, except the Capitol.
To keep something anonymous from the Capitol would require putting up physical messages while hiding your identity.
More advanced computers can be bought. They are liker modern tablets had a baby with Jarvis from Ironman. No where near that powerful for the layman, but in that vein.
Language and not being overheard
The Capitol only knows big languages. Think what you might possibly find in a High School-Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Mandarin, Russian, etc. However, if you are in your room teaching a language, they can record that and learn from it.
If you want privacy to learn a language to speak in code, or just to speak about more sensitive things more freely, anywhere outside and busy is safe. Inside and busy as long as you aren't in the training complex is moderately safe (As long as you aren't loud and obnoxious you should be fine, but if you are like "Why don't we all just stab Ceaser!?" Someone might notice.) and inside the Speakeasy is fine recording wise, but it is an open establishment, so very private conversations should request a private area.
Dying
You can voluntarily kill your character anytime! Also characters will ALWAYS return to the Capitol EXACTLY as they arrived here the first time. If they were hungry when they were first pulled, they're hungry when they come back from the arena.
If the winner is too badly damaged, the same it true of them. It they are repairable, it's not.
Money
We have decided, to make it easier to differentiate between OOC credits earned for activity and IC money earned for kills, to call the IC money As or Assi, a play on ancient Rome's money.
When you kill people in the arena you get 100 assi. This would be around $500. If you kill enough people you could live comfortably by The Capitol's standard without going into debt. The Capitol does not consider having food, shelter, and clothes provided as comfortable. This may change as they figure out this plan isn't working.
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Firstly, what's provided to the tributes for free? Is it like in books/movies, where they get all sorts of awesome stuff just for being tributes? Like food, their rooms, awesome clothes, etc? I mean, in canon they were expecting all but one to die and stay dead, so they knew it was all temporary and they were going to make a fortune off of tours/merchandise from the stuff the tributes used, so that's why I ask.
Second, is killing people in the arena the only way to make money?
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And yes, although if you had ideas for a way for your tribute to make money, we could discuss it.
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unless it was exotic dancing or something.But no, it totally makes more sense for them to only make money from kills since it's more of an incentive to get involved with the killing. Anywho, thanks!
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It says that characters are given a credit card, I'm assuming that anything they buy using that is like minus money (so debt) and when they earn money for kills this pays off the debt and any more goes into credit and then the card is more like a debit card until they get to 0?
Just checking this is how it works.
Also if characters don't kill people, and therefore get into debt are there any consequences within the capitol of doing so?
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And maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe, you should get into lots of dept and see :3
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And pfft shion might do that for science!
And because he will refuse to kill