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Fond Farewells

Hello everyone. Fritz here.

The Games wasn’t my creation. Originally, the Games was the work of people like Te and Hats and those on the original mod team. It was the tireless work of Lisa, whom this Game has really belonged to alongside Te. There’s been a lot of changes there in the team just as there has been in the playerbase in the four years this game has run. From Megan and Manda who helped in the Spring to Summer (or opposite seasons, as was for Megan), Lysoke and Reiko who pulled through and got me through some of the middling legs of the race before it was over, Danya and Ema who were around at the winter’s end, other mods and helpers along the way... And of course, those who were never mods but who helped me immensely both with their advice, counselling, and offering writing help when I was at my wits end (looking at you Michi,Terra, and Bri; I couldn’t have made it without you).

There’s been a whole lot to happen here, a little of it stressful, but most of it wonderful. We’ve all done some amazing things here. We’ve met new people, we’ve tried new means of storytelling and written our hearts out, we’ve stuck it by one another all this way. We’ve challenged ourselves and I feel it’s been rewarded.

This is only my second ever game and my first time modding so my experience has some bias. It’s a little funny, as I was never fond of the books, the Hunger Games. But I played here, with all of you and some who sadly couldn’t make it to endgame with us. This became my home game, for better or for worse. There are many people from here I know I will never forget. I type this now to you wearing my Mockingjay pin. I am so grateful to have had the chance to play with you and I am proud to bring this all to its close. Together, we made a fantastic story through and through. It was three years here for me, culminating to all this, a game embodying and growing bigger than the story this lifted off from.

I know when this all ends, many of us will part ways and find new pastures to play in or move on to. Before you go, I want to thank you all. I, personally, cannot think of a better game to play.

-Fondest Regards,
Fritz, Head Mod/Gamemaker.



Moving forward doesn’t mean having to say goodbye completely. From here we open the Games up to be a musebox. People may play as much as they like here, whenever they like. Personal post-game plots are absolutely allowed and encouraged. On July 4th we will be posting a 10 Years Later log but people are welcome to play out the time before then and of course the time after. We also have a Love Meme that is up right now! Share your favorite memories from Games, thank fellow players, receive affection! And finally, here below you can plot out the future of your characters and let everyone see what is had in mind.

Happy Hunger Games
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The Final Battle

And with the end of the Last Flower Girl Plot, our Final Battle is ready to go! This will run much like an arena in that there will be rolls to determine who makes it to what part, a place to do buyouts, plotting, etc, and there will be events with each roll (most of them small, a few of them bigger). The first roll will go on up June 1st. Rather than have this go weekly, the rolls will be every three OOC days and will follow the events of one IC day. There will be eight rounds total. Plotting and all else will be on one page which the rolls will all link back to. We would also like to note that while there will be events with each roll, players are not obligated to play with each one. You are all 100% free to pick and choose!

Those who signed up for fourth wall will finally get their time to shine with the beginning of these battles. Once these go live, you may all finally reveal your secret!

We hope you'll all have fun and stick with us for the true actual endgame and aftermath to follow. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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AC Reminder

The following characters have yet to reply to the following pages:

Staying Or Going IC

Augustus Sinclair
Chuck Hansen
Derek Souza

Emily Finch
Jason Compson
Swann Honeymead
Temple Drake


(If there is some reason your character will not go on the mission, please alert mods.)


Players have to the 25th of May to complete all these objectives. Those who fail to do so will be considered inactive and swept from game! If you are mistakenly on a list, please let us know.
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AC and The Games Insurance Plan

Hello Games! We've been tracking the AC very closely this round! Not all have made the 200 AC but we've decided (Within reason of course) that this will be allowable for letting people wrap up their plots. However, the thing we want to go over is that we've been tracking everyone's points and have calculated that If every person threw in their extra points, everyone, including those of the fourth wall, can be safe in the final battle death rolls! Each character needs 200 to slide on by, so anyone with extra may contribute toward helping those without! Consider this a contribution to the Games Insurance Plan!

With a slight overestimate of 4000, we can help every person get through to their endgame. Every point counts! To illuminate, we already have enough to cover everyone if everyone with extra points contributes!

For those without extra points who are only a few points short, this plan is here to help you, so encourage others to throw on in. If our characters can work together in the final leg, so can we!

Please state below if you're contributing and by how much! If you intend to off your character in the end, you may throw in your 200 from that as well and get us extra set. There will be bonus rewards to those who contribute.
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Activity Check -- Game Cycle 15

ACTIVITY CHECK -- Game Cycle 15
Please read thoroughly as some information has changed.


This is the activity check for Game Cycle 15 (12/31/15 through 05/18/16), our last AC check. You can make separate comments, or one comment for all characters if you have multiples, just make sure we can clearly pick out the characters. All activity is counted from the last post, until this one. Any activity posted after this post will not count for this AC. For example, if you started a thread, and it is at 7 comments right now, you can count all the points for that thread up to 7 comments, but if it hits 10 tomorrow, it does not count.

Please remember you need to report at least 200 credits worth of activity. This can be achieved in any combination of ways. To review the different ways to earn credits please refer to this post. The more you claim, the more credits you have, but you are only required to claim 200 to pass AC. All credits earned between 12/31/15 and 05/18/16 count for this cycle.

You will also need to reply to the IC and OOC posts for The Last Flower Girl plot to pass this AC. This can be found here and here. The final thing we need from you all is to fill out this here. That is at least three things! AC, Last Flower Girl, and War Motives. Be sure to hit them all.

IF YOU HAVE A DISPOSABLE PC:

Capitol Disposable PCs need only provide a link to an open post made this cycle (between 9/11 and 12/30) as proof of activity. District Disposables need not comment.

IF YOU ARE A NEW PLAYER/HAVE A NEW CHARACTER:

If you have joined within 3 weeks of this post you are cleared for no activity and will begin this round with the default 200 credits all new players are given. However, we would like to know you're here! Please comment to this post that you are 'checking in,' just so we can be sure you're still with us. If you've earned more than 200 credits already, please feel free to claim those instead, but note that you either get the credits you've earned or the 200 default credits. You do not get both.

If you join after this post went up, your character will receive the default 200 credits upon checking in. Any activity you accumulate going forward will count toward the next cycle.

If you do not check in, you character will be considered dropped and hand waved to have been killed in battle. All active characters must reply to this post, otherwise they will be considered dropped.

You have until 11:59 pm Eastern time on Thursday, 05/25/2016 to report in for AC.

You will want to have as many credits as you can get, however you only have to post 200. You will be using credits both to potentially buy out deaths and to purchase things like smuggled letters. Remember: things can get pretty pricey! The more credits you've claimed, the easier it is to buy stuff! Credits DO NOT roll over. Use them or lose them!


***Comments will be screened after a mod has seen them. We reserve the right to ask for proof of activity, and if we ask you to provide proof, please be prepared to back up your claim with links, a spreadsheet, or some other form of proof. Here is a link to a handy-dandy example spreadsheet. Please feel free to copy it to your own Google Docs and fill it in to use as proof.***
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War Motives

Hello Games! Endgame is just around the corner but we need a few more things from you. The final battle will be taking place in the Capitol. What we need to know is what your character will be up to (to help calibrate rolls). Are they going into the Capitol to dismantle the establishment or act as support to those who will? Are they a Capitolite fleeing for their lives or fighting to defend their world? (Will they be protecting Snow and/or the Portal or looking to destroy them?) In simple terms, please state here what they are doing.



Comments will be screened.
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The Last Flower Girl - DETONATION PLOTTING

The major part of the portal plot has finally begun! Capitol-soldiers and all Capitol-offworlders (as hostage) are now entering the fray but disaster has struck! Characters will need to work together to stop the Destruction of Panem! How this works is as follows:

1. Those who want their characters to go home (especially at the risk of breaking the character if not) will get to do so! They may or may not have memories of Panem. The chances of memories are low but we're not going to stop you from having characters bring their chips with them! Characters who are leaving will have this last minute chance to shout goodbyes. Let us know in the "LEAVING" header if that's the case for you. (You are still, of course, welcome to stick around with NPC peacekeepers or with the 4th wall.)

2-a. Those characters who are staying are staying for life! They may not even go home on death, who knows, but keeping memories is something that will (need) to be dealt with later! Panem is your home now and you've got to fight for it. If your character is a native, this has always been home and so of course they'll be staying. Regardless, If your character is on this mission and staying please leave a comment under the "STAYING" header.

2-b. If your character is staying, what you'll need to do is place at least one comment from your character in the scientist thread! This comment is about taking hands to help the scientist reach the computers without being drawn in. Once everyone who's staying has commented ICly, the portal's ties will be closed for all but President Snow's, putting a bandaid on the disaster! After that, a third and final piece of this plot will be placed in.

Once this plot is wrapped, we will be heading into our Final Battle and true endgame. Make sure you mark your character in the appropriate comments. If we don't see your name we'll have to assume you're not sticking around!
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[personal profile] biiowiired2016-05-15 11:36 pm
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Hiatus

Got a guest sleeping in the computer room, which means I can't keep my weird tagging hours until probably the 22nd. This affects Altair [personal profile] theflyingone and Psii [personal profile] biiowiired. PM their journals or my plurk [plurk.com profile] misosoupaddict if you need me.
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[personal profile] beckstitch2016-05-15 08:00 pm
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(no subject)

So, hey, guys. I mentioned this on my plurk, but I'm really struggling to keep up with life at the moment. I hate to do this at such a crucial point in the game, but I think I need to take a step away from the internet (along with some other stuff) until I can get my head in order.

Hopefully, this'll only be for a few days, but I've been dithering so long I figured I should really just post a damn hiatus already.

If you need/want me for any plotty things, I'm still checking my email once or twice a day, so PM me or ping me and we can talk shop. But, yeah, my characters are gonna be out of circulation for a while.

This affects Beck ([personal profile] beckstitch), Alain ([personal profile] atouchofka), Éowyn ([personal profile] shieldofrohan) and Sansa ([personal profile] porcelainandsteel) although I've been so slow lately I'm sure nobody'll notice the difference orz

I'm really sorry about this. I should probably have done this sooner, but admitting defeat is not my forte. Hopefully I'll be around again soon!
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Sick to the soul...

It comes worse than it ever has before. For a full fifteen minutes, the offworlder "illness" strikes all offworlders and everyone else previously affected by this sickness, no matter where they are. It lingers, sticking, and leaves everyone with an unsettling feeling, like they've been somewhere they shouldn't be... or maybe it's everything else that should go...
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A Player Plot that needs you!

Hello, Games players! We have a plot brewing on the horizon and we need your help!

First: the plot involves a plan on behalf of Albert and Jet to blow up the empty Tribute Tower in the Capitol. For this, we need your vote. Would you like to see the tower blown up or would you like to see it spared and the plan foiled before the fireworks so it could be used later for whatever anyone might want? Please go to this handy post here and cast your vote!

Second: we need sign ups! This plot might be planned by Jet and Albert, but they’ve been ICly reaching out to all kinds of people, pro-Capitol and pro-Rebellion for the last several months and these are the kinds of people we need.

There are four groups of sign ups we need people for:
1) Those going to the tower to set up the bombs and potentially set them off

2) Those who are at least perceived to be pro-Capitol to escort the detained offworlders from the detainment center to the tower for their little ‘field trip’

3) Someone with some computer skill to break into a technology center and distribute the secrets to D13 that this explosion is covering for, and anyone to accompany them

4) People to steal and then store explosives during the upcoming 4th wall plot!

This last one is optional and can be handwaved if no one is interested, but we need at least one person in each of the other groups. This is also a bit of a freebie to cause some mayhem, since Albert and Jet intend to take the blame entirely, so unless you explicitly want your character to suffer some sort of consequence, that’s on us.

ICly, this plot won’t happen until much later in May and will come with three posts: one for the tower and placing the bombs, one for the technology center and an interactive thread for breaking through its security, and one with the results of the plot broadcast to D13 and the Capitol itself.

If you have any questions, ask them here!