Round 1 - Preparation Stage

[gameannouncer]

Introduction
There was a drum roll and as you entered into this world. You are surrounded by cheering crowds, bright lights and cameras. You have just been announced as a tribute for a specific district and this begins your adventure into the Games Arena.

There is a lot to do before the Arena opens. The audience must be informed of all your vital stats so they can place their bets. Are you going to win because you're the strongest? Are you going to win because you're sneaky and smart? You won't see any of that however. The next few weeks are going to be filled with the following:

[Please thread below in any or all of the locations. It would help if the subject of the top level comment could list where the tribute is just so it makes it easier for other characters to tag in.]

Training Arena
There is everything that you could ever need in the training area. There are teachers around 24/7 who will be more than happy to teach you the skills needed in the Arena.

Such as: hunting, wilderness survival, tying knots, camouflage, botany, weapons use, general fitness experts and anything else you believe may be required.

It might save your life to go to at least one of these tutorials. There are also gyms and equipment which will help you focus on specific skills such as climbing, swimming and anything you may think of. 

In this Training Arena, you will have access to any weapons your character may have back home in canon. They will only be available in the training arena so you must leave them behind when you leave here and when you make your way to the arena. 

There are also public and private training facilities so you can choose whether you want to show everyone your skills or hide everything until the arena stage.

Rule: Any tributes that physically attack each other before entering the arena will be punished upon the games beginning. This is announced to the tributes as they are released to their own devices.

Publicity Shoots
It is up to your prep team to make sure the public love you. That's what they get paid for. As Battle Royale is school themed, you will be taking lots of school based photo shoots in the following uniform:


Look familiar? Well, in this game it doesn't matter whether you're in the white or black uniform so take your pick at whatever you think will look nicer. These will be the uniforms that you enter the arena in. This may be your last chance to look pretty and your last chance to be remembered.

Private Dorms
At the end of each day, you have your own room to retire back to. Each district has an entire floor to themselves and each floor has two giant dorm rooms.

There is room service for each dorm room and you can order whatever you want. Really, anything. You're about to go to your death so you might as well enjoy the remainder of your life. You are free to go to each other's rooms if you want to visit. Make friends, make enemies, or scout out your competition.

These rooms are state of the art. You have a large shower where it feels like the water is coming from multiple directions and a range of fancy soaps, shampoos etc. You can even choose to have a bubble bath if you want.  The bed is large and covered with the blankets and sheets your character most adores. There is also a giant wardrobe with any outfit you would like to wear available at a touch of a button.

Each tribute will also have 2 avoxes following them around when they are in the private dorm area to get them whatever they need and clean up after them.

Private Social Area
There is a living space with games, other hobbies and an eatery for people who don't want to eat in the solitude of their dorms. But why aren't you in the training hall trying to make sure you stay alive in the arena? This is where you'll find out the gossip of where you are, what's going on. You can speak to your prep team to learn about why you're here, what your role is and the fact that you're probably going to be dead in a month. And probably at the hands of the person eating at the next table and smiling innocently at you.

Other
You are welcome to create anywhere else you want to be. Want to watch a movie? Go ahead. Want to visit a library? Yeah sure. The Game Creation team have designed a little city for you to play in before you enter the Arena so if you are certain that an extra day in the training facility won't make you live much longer anyway? Might as well go out and enjoy yourself. It's on me.

Note: Wherever you are or whatever you're doing, there is a chance that your actions will probably get broadcasted to the public on TV.  

Comments

Training Arena

[bakegarasu]

[Otoha frowns and crouches near her, looking at the plants.]

That one with the green leaves you can chew and then spit out onto a wound to help with healing. The red one is a painkiller, but fatal in higher dosages. The one with the yellow flower is edible, or you can boil it to make tea.

Training Arena

[99purroblems]

[She starts a little when he gets so close, but when he pays more attention to the plants than to her, she relaxes. Slightly. Not enough to let her guard down, but to talk.]

Are these plants from your planet? You seem to know a lot about them.

[bakegarasu]

I went past this station before, but they seem pretty similar to some of the plants at home. Not from my region, but I've read about them.

[And... well. Healing yokai is one of his 'jobs' as a Karas.]

[99purroblems]

They don't look like the furrlora on Alternia at all.

[And she hasn't recognized any cooked food so far, either. At least the meat's been good...]

It's sort of unfair, don't you think? That some people will have such an appurreciable advantage from the start.

[bakegarasu]

I guess so. I don't know how much that stuff will come into play, though. Apparently the arena or whatever is random. There might not even be plants.

[99purroblems]

[She actually shudders a little.]

Well, I hope there's food available for forage in some capacity. We won't get furry far if we're all starving to death!

[bakegarasu]

Yeah. And since this a 'reality show' thing, it'd be less entertaining for them.

[If he finds a camera he's going to smash it.]

[99purroblems]

I suppawse there's that aspect, too...

[Let's be real. Is this really any different from what's available on troll television.]

It's weird, though. I'm sure a TV show involving young trolls like me and Karkat would hardly get any mewership at all in the Empire. Is this a human thing?

[bakegarasu]

I don't think so. It seems like something my brother would dream up, but he's not exactly around to do it. Not something they'd show on human TV at all, though.

[99purroblems]

[...Er.]

What's a brother?

[bakegarasu]

... A sibling. Someone who is born from the same parent as you.

[99purroblems]

[Oh boy.]

Um...what's a parent?

[bakegarasu]

One of the people that helped give birth to you.

[In his case his brother and father are the same person but uhhh he does not need to tell her that.]

[99purroblems]

[It takes a moment, but then her eyes widen.]

Oh.




You're mammals.

[bakegarasu]

Yes. And you're not.

[At least he's guessing so from that reaction.]

[99purroblems]

Nnnnnot so much, no.

[She actually sounds faintly horrified by this realization.]

You people really...carry your young in your...?

[bakegarasu]

Y... es?

[This is not the conversation he wants to have holy shit.]

[99purroblems]

[Just stares right the fuck down at Otoha's stomach.]

[bakegarasu]

Not in males!

[Nope nope nope.]

[99purroblems]

That's still horryiffying! How do your cubs get out?! Do they chew through their purrgenitors???

[bakegarasu]

[This is not a subject he is comfortable with.]

No. They're pushed out through an opening... here.

[He taps his crotch area.]

I guess it can stretch? I mean things can go wrong, but with how medicine is these days they usually don't.

[His birth did, but again, not a conversation he's having.]

[99purroblems]

[This is the most]

[99purroblems]

[horrifying]

[99purroblems]

[conversation]

[99purroblems]

[she's ever]