The Reaping [District Four]

[Lulu]

Stepping out onto the stage, the Mayor of District Four looked a bit green. He had been out on his boat the entire day yesterday, fishing his heart out, and he still did not like the way it rocked with the waves. But he could handle it. This was Reaping day.

"It is time," he said as he stood over the impatient people of his District, "To once again honor two of our own children with the opportunity to compete in the Hunger Games." A smile crossed his face. "Let us begin the Reaping!"

[[Roleplaying is allowed in this thread, as long as it is not done excessively. The tributes will be announced soon!]]

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[Gorim]

Columbia stood in her dress, chewing gum and waiting. Would she be picked? She knew who would be the male for her district, and that made her a little sad. She looked over to the boy side and stood on her tippy toes, looking for the hulking Toss. He should have been easy to find...

Seeing him, she waved slightly, wondering if he'd notice her.

[gm bourgeois decadence [aya]]

"Ladies first." The sponsor fished around the glass bowl and pulled out a single strip of paper. "Diamond Spot." They then proceeded to extract a name from the other bowl. This turned out to be the unfortunate Ranvier Calivan

[gm bourgeois decadence [aya]]

Am I a curse? wondered Toss. Just the day before he'd told Ranvier that he'd hate for him to be picked. And what had happened? He'd been picked. Of course. Hesitant as he'd been for weeks and weeks to volunteer, Toss doubted what he had to do no longer.

He pressed through the crowd, shouting "I volunteer! I volunteer!"

[[The owner of the drawn tribute may either accept or decline the offer of Volunteering.]]

[d-wayne]

"Ranvier Calivan," our mayor announced. I felt my heart skip a beat. This could not be real, they must be playing a joke on me. How could this of happened? It wasn't but yesterday that he was carefree and fishing with Toss.

All of the sudden a noise broke his chain of thought. "I volunteer! I volunteer!" I heard Toss say as he broke through the crowd. I can barely hide the relief I feel, as I turn towards him. I meet him on my way back "Thank you, and good luck to you, Toss." I say as I make my way back into the crowd.


[glow=red,2,300][[PS, I accept Aya's offer.]][/glow]

[riddled;;]

"Diamond Spot." I was picked? I was picked? I didn't know whether I heard right. I couldn't get picked! Out of all the slips of paper, I was picked.
I closed my eyes trying to calm my nerves. I make my way up the stage when I hear a voice of "I volunteer! I volunteer!" I snapped my head back thinking hopefully someone else would volunteer for me. My hopes vanished after I saw it was another guy, volunteering for a guy named Toss.
Oh great... I am so dead. I thought to myself, trying to spot my friends and family.

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[keazer]

I couldn't hear correctly, considering I was coughing profusely, but it seemed to be that somebody had voulunteered.... Joy over fills me, that's the spirit of the games! I sneeze. Maybe my district has a chance of winning after all! Lots of spunk, this district. I look at my soon to be district tributes. I shall mentor them to the best of my abilities.

After the whole dramatic effects and such were over I walk up to Diamond Spot and the boy who volunteered. "Hello Diamond, I am Keazer." I greet myself. I look over to the other boy, the one with the spunk. "You are, my dear lad?"

[riddled;;]

As I stand there Keasar, District Four's mentor, greeted me. I plastered on a fake smile, the one everyone else fell for. He turns to take a look at the boy who volenteered, Toss. I gave out a shiver, looking at how musceled he was.
I am definately gonna die, I reminded myself before turning toward the audience, who were now clapping.
I cursed under my breath and felt frozen as a deer caught in headlights.

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[hg1m4]

"Toss. Toss Mako." It surprises me that I can get any words out of myself. I manage to remain composed on the outside, but my heart feels as though it's bursting out of my chest. I feel like a bottle that someone keeps forcing air into, filled with pressure and about to split open. My ears clog up and my head feels like it's packed with something expanding.

I don't let it show. I can't. And I know that whatever I'm feeling now is not fear. I am not afraid at all. I reach out to shake the hand of Keazar, my mentor. And I hope with all the small part of my thoughts that can be designated for hoping at the time that he's competent.

[Pike Dover]

Pike looked up at the announcers with a look that could only be recognized as anxious. He didn't want to be chosen, but he didn't want any of his friends to be chosen either. Hearing Diamonds name being called his breath got caught in his throuat. There was no way, out of all of the people that could have been chosen it was Diamond. He had not known her for very long, but that was the only friend that he had that was a girl.

Seeing a boy volenteer Pike's eyebrow raised. Only the brave or the stupid would volenteer and he wasn't quite sure of which one Toss was. They barely knew each other, only from when he used to go to school. But, either way they'd both be in his thoughts if only for the part that they were part of his district.