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

[99purroblems]

You humans and your bizarre geografurcal delineations.

[He grip is strong but not painful, and yes, she is as small and young as she looks. The half-gloves hide any calluses she might have, but she's middle school age, at best.]

[bakegarasu]

[Yeah... she's young.]

It's weird, yeah. I didn't make it up, though.

[99purroblems]

I didn't think you did. I didn't make up the hemospectrum, after all, and you all seem to think that's weird. We will just have to acknowledge that we are mewtually aliens to one another and that's fine!

[bakegarasu]

I guess so. I don't mind aliens, though. They're not any more weird than yokai are.

[99purroblems]

Yo...kai?

[bakegarasu]

They're like... they're creatures that exist on a different kind of plane of existence than humans, though they can interact with them. Most people would call them 'monsters', I guess.

[99purroblems]

Do humans not have monsters on their planet with them? How weird! You all must hardly fight anything at all, efur!

[bakegarasu]

Most humans don't fight, no. And yokai generally stay away from humans.

[99purroblems]

Humans must really not like fighting if they go to such effurts to avoid it...

[Her interest furrows into confusion.]

But if your species isn't violent, then why do they want us to play in these games?

[bakegarasu]

I don't know. Maybe this is a different world's version of humans. Para... pa... different universes or something.

['Parallel', Otoha. The word you're looking for is 'parallel'.]

[99purroblems]

Ohhh, like diffurent timelines.

[She nods sagely. She knows all about those.]

You would have to talk to my friend Aradia about that. I never really got it, furrankly!

[bakegarasu]

I don't get it, either. I've just heard about it in movies or something...

[It's not like he reads.]

[99purroblems]

I should have paid more cattention when she talked about stuff...

[Nyoro~n.]

[bakegarasu]

No point in worrying about it now, right?

[99purroblems]

Not really, no. It would just have been nice to compurrehend exactly how we got here. If it's an alternate human unifurse, there must be a Time compawnent to the displacement as well as a spatial disturbance!

[bakegarasu]

You... uh. Lost me.

[99purroblems]

Well...obviously we're not in the same place as where we should be, right?

[You know, because none of them are actually from Deathkill McBloodsports, Childmurder County, right?]

But if these humans are diffurent from how humans are where you're from, then purrobably something happened earlier on in the timeline to make them evolve diffurently, right? [Her brow wrinkles a bit.] I think that's how it works.

[bakegarasu]

Oh. ... I guess? I wouldn't know, I'm no good at this kind of stuff.

[99purroblems]

Neither am I, to be honest. But I had to pick certain threads up here and there.

[bakegarasu]

Oh. It's better to pick stuff up on the fly anyway, I think.

[99purroblems]

Uh-huh! Expurrience is the best teacher.

--Oh, but, um! Speaking of which. Thank you furry much for helping me with the plants.

[She bobs her head, unsure how humans express gratitude.]

[bakegarasu]

Oh. Uh. No problem. I have to deal with them at home a lot...

[99purroblems]

It was still nice of you! Es-pet-cially if we're going to be competing soon.

[bakegarasu]

I'm not all that worried.

[He grins, but... well. It's not exactly a nice grin.]

[99purroblems]

[She's taken aback for a second; she really thought that perhaps this human adult, strange as it was to believe, might be a friend. But Nepeta knows how to deal with grins like that, and she just smiles in return, bright and cheerful and friendly and baring very sharp wildcat teeth.]

There doesn't seem to be much I can do here, but when we see each other in the figurative circular melee container, let me know if there's anything I can do to return the fafur!