Anthem - Day One

[Tori]

The clouds part in the sky as the boastful melody of the Anthem blares throughout the Arena. Tonight, the haughty tune sounds more arrogant and taunting than usual, as if the Capitol means to personally remind you that they are in control, that they stuck you here.

As the song finishes, the faces of the dead from the previous day appear in the sky, in order by district:
Oz Myrrh -D1M
Sylthis -D4M
Jasna Michelson -D6F
Ralph Hawk -D7M
Senia Alexanderson -D8F
Dalton Fahert -D9M
Jayson Calloway -D10M
Prenten Sichian -D11M

Eight dead. You do the math. There are still fifteen other tributes competing with you for their lives.

The Capitol seal flashes once, and the sky fades back to black.

Congratulations on surviving Day 1, Tributes! Here is your weather forecast for tomorrow, by area. Make sure you keep this in mind as you RP.


The Cornucopia
Temperature: High: 11°F (-12°C); Low: -3F (-20°C)
Wind Speed: 13 mph (20 kph)
Precipitation: None
Visibility: Clear

The Mountain
Temperature: High: -36°F (-38°C); Low:-54°F (-48°C)
Wind Speed: 17 mph (27 kph)
Precipitation: Light Snow (less than 4in/10cm)
Visibility: Slightly Reduced

The Cliff
Temperature: High: -22°F (-30°C); Low:-37°F (-39°C)
Wind Speed: 19 mph (30 kph)
Precipitation: Snow (1 foot/0.3m)
Visibility: Reduced

The Fissure
Temperature: High: -21°F (-30°C); Low: -34°F (-37°C)
Wind Speed: 10 mph (16 kph)
Precipitation: Light Snow (less than 4in/10cm)
Visibility: Slightly Reduced
Other:

The Lake
Temperature: High: 3°F (-17°C); Low:-15°F (-27°C)
Wind Speed: 6 mph (9 kph)
Precipitation: Clear
Visibility: Average
Other:

The Forest
Temperature: High: 9°F (-13°C); Low: -1°F (-19°C)
Wind Speed: 4 mph (6 kph)
Precipitation: Light Snow (less than 4in/10cm)
Visibility: Slightly Reduced
Other:

The Clearing
Temperature: High: 3°F (-17°C); Low:-10°F (-24°C)
Wind Speed: 8 mph (12 kph)
Precipitation: Light Snow (less than 4in/10cm)
Visibility: Slightly Reduced
Other:

The Tundra
Temperature: High: 11°F (-12°C); Low: -6°F (-22°C)
Wind Speed: 33 mph (53 kph)
Precipitation: Heavy Snow (4ft/1.2m)
Visibility: Very Low - 330ft (100m)
Other:

The Crater Wasteland
Temperature: High: 30°F (-2°C); Low: 14°F (-10°C)
Wind Speed: 8 mph (12 kph)
Precipitation: None
Visibility: Slightly Reduced
Other: A thick, choking black smoke is billowing from several of the middle craters. It is carried by the wind, making it slightly more difficult to see and breathe.


Deaths:
None

Mandatory Fights:
(The selected tributes below must fight by the end of the Games day. Any tributes allied in the fight may participate, if desired. It is not required that each fight result in a death, however, a winner of each fight will be choosen and they may do what they wish to the other tribute. That means they can kill you, let you live and take your stuf, whatever. If your fight consists of multiple people on each side, please specify who you are attacking immediately before you insert the combat block. As always, please notify staff to judge the winner of the fights.)

[The alliances of...]
Blue Kilio versus Jestina Lelborne
Archer Fields, Arbor Halt, and Jeremy Houser versus Ruby George and Iris Brookside


Notes:
>You are still allowed--and encouraged--to fight, even if your alliance/tribute is not listed above.
>Please make sure that your tribute is in one definite location by the end of this day. It makes it easier to set up fights when it can be done by location and not by randomness.
>Remember that your tribute can only be in one thread at a time during the Games, and any finished threads should say that they are finished in the title.
>It is not mandatory--though it is encouraged--that you do post during this day, However, it IS mandatory that you post what area you are in at the end of the day. Tributes who fail to do this will more than likely die of hypothermia. Or be mauled by a pack of Mary-Sues. Or something.
>It would also be helpful if, when posting your location, you posted your current allies, so that you are not pitted against each other before your alliance breaks off.
>Day 2 will start on the 17th of Febraury and will end on the 22nd of February.
>Tributes are asked to refer to the new time-space relation version of the Arena map, located here: i49.tinypic.com/vs11kp.png Keep in mind that these areas mean time from the center of the map, and it would take double the amount of time to cross from one edge of a time-circle to the other.
>Please note this means you have tuesday to finish any and all day one posts. Thank you.

-made by Aya-

[aya]

I think we're all pretty familiar with the discrepancy regarding the mandated fights that came up for Day Two of the Games that just started. The "Mandatory Fights" column decrees that any tibutes allied in the fight may participate, if desired.

We're aware that a good number of members are going to be quite biased in this, given that everyone's got a tribute or one side they favor and all that, but hear me out.

This is specifically regarding the random union between the two alliances, "Team AIR" and "Team 13" right before "Team 13" was supposed to have a fight with "Team EXP."

Personally, (and truly, nothing against anyone associated) I find it quite unlikely that two separate groups would magically join up like that for no reason in the Games. I suppose it's possible that two groups of allies would randomly team up without a real reason in the actual Games where everyone's trying to kill each other... but it just doesn't seem likely.

Furthermore, I think that if it's an option for people do randomly become allies right before a fight, it would be possible for literally the entire arena to exploit this and gang up on one tribute, who, maybe is a bit of a threat, or maybe is just annoying. I think this would be extremely unfair and also quite difficult to manage.

It just isn't right that someone could see they've got a mandatory fight and then appeals to a few other tributes to help them out for that once. I mean, you wouldn't know about what was going to happen until it happened in the actual Arena.

I've come up with what I think is the most logical solution and greatest compromise regarding alliances:

We will be adopting a rule, effective immediately, that no alliances can be formed on one day that would effect the participants in a mandated fight. For example, if Team A and Team B are supposed to fight on Day Five, Team A can't make an alliance with Team C until after they've fought Team B.

This will prevent such random and unfair hook-ups, but won't lock people into their alliances from the get-go.

We will listen to any complaints or arguments you guys have.

[tardisgirl]

I think that, well I can see what you're saying, that it's not fair to pit to teams that are so un-fairly matched in the first place. One vs one is fair, but five vs two? Not at all. The fights, when manditory, should be equal. There would be no need for people to go looking for more allies if the fights were even in the first place.
Also, unlikely as it may be that Team 13 and Team AIR would ally, it's also very unlikely Team 13 and Team EXP would fight. Team 13 would just avoid them at all costs, never fight them.

[aya]

The fights from henceforth will be done randomly by area, so naturally, if there are more people in an alliance, there will be a greater chance of them having to fight someone. Now, I'm not really sure how the fights were done this time. Tori did then, and we didn't know where about 2/3 of the tributes ended up at the end of Day 1 (hence the required declaration of area today) so I can't speak for that.

However, due to the very nature of the games, there are going to end up being some unfair fights, because it's not a 100% evenly matched field (hey, you've got everything from career-type tributes to blind kids) so we're doing our best to keep it as fair as possible.

edit, in response to your edit:
Well, we can't particularly guarantee that EXP would have come across them just as much as we can't guarantee that 13 would have been able to avoid them initially simply because this isn't the actual Games, and there isn't a way we can throw 24 people together and see who bumps into who, who teams up with who, and who would kill who, so we really just have to do the best we can, which is put the people most likely to run into each other (ie: two relatively large groups in the same general area) against each other.

[tardisgirl]

The blind kid IS a career. Anyway, it's not fair or realistic in my book. The fight simply wouldn't happen. They'd flee at all costs. Such an unfairly matched fight is no fight, it's a death sentence.

[aya]

Um... no. No, Arbor is not a Career in any way, shape or form. He's a scrawny kid who can't see, who didn't train, who literally just played his guitar all day long back in District 12. He just got into a good alliance is all.

And, hey, you are free to try and run. But they're free to try and chase you, attacking you all the while.

You don't have to participate in the mandatory fight. No one's forcing you to post. Just know that if you don't, you will die and your partner will have to do the fight alone. It might not be completely fair, but if you want to come up with a system of running the Games, some algorithm that makes it completely fair and logical, anything that is completely fair and realistic, well, be my guest. PM it to me and we can implement it. No, it's not completely accurate. But it really is the best we can do, and I'm sorry if that's not good enough for you.

[Lulu]

Okay, look, it's impossible to make this happen as realistically as it could be. We can't satisfy everyone here, so therefore we're trying our best to make it random and fair. Obviously it's not going to be perfect, but we have to work with what we've got. Yes, I can see how 13 vs. EXP is unlikely, but it's still possible for them to run into each other, in whatever way, and just fleeing wouldn't guarantee survival. If you believe they would try to flee, though, then by all means roleplay it out that way, but it would have to come to a fight in the end. It's up to you guys; we're trying to make do with what we have, and we expect you all to do the same.

Thanks.

EDIT: And also what Aya said, because I didn't see her post while I was writing this.

[CC is SO Sorry D:]

Well, it's a roleplaying site, and not everything will be perfect. The staff's doing the best they can. (Which is pretty damn good, btw.) I think it's awesome they been able to make such an incredible site...

So, um, yeah, that's all. Hip-hip hooray.

[Campion/Darkday]

I feel like this is a completely fair fight, I mean Katniss had to fight the careers and there was like 6 of them.

[Fane]

Yeah but she Katniss was the main charicter. The main charicter very rarely dies.

[tardisgirl]

Yes, it is possible that the fight would happen, but it's also possible they'd get away. There ought to be a 50/50 chance they could escape. A flee function should be added to the Games.

Also, in the real Games, the annoying Tributes and those who are threats DO get ganged up on and taken out. I'm not saying that I think the staff did a bad job coming up with this, I'm only trying to get this one little thing changed and make it more fair.

They ought to be able to have help fighting. It's possible that some people seeing the fight would decide to go help, for fun, because they liked people on one side, because they dis-liked people on one side, because they didn't want to see a kid get killed by the Career pack, whatever. They ought to have that option, and if not, at least a 50/50 chance of running away.

And while Katniss may have gotten away from the Career pack, she didn't have to fight them all face to face, and we don't have the option of droping a trackerjacker nest on their heads and then running whithout trading a single punch.

[Tori]

TG,
I'm sorry, love, but this is how it has to happen. The rules are not going to change. I'm sorry. But the whole staff has made up their mind. This is what is going to happen, and this is how it is going to be. Team EXP has agreed to have Zinnia and Kara stand on the outskirts, but Iris and Ruby will be fighting Archer and Arbor, I believe. They have tried to make this has fair as possible. They care about their characters too. This is how it is happening and it won't be changing. I apologize. The staff is doing the best they can to make this entire games air. But we cannot please everyone.

-Tori

[tardisgirl]

Well, 2 on 2 is as fair as fighting can get. Just to clear it up, is there no choice to flee a fight?

[sbeeg]

I think I'd like to through in the fact that it's the "Hunger Games" it isn't fair- nor will it ever it be. No offense to anyone but- get over it.

[Quint]

Greenbeads, thanks a bunch. That's exactly what some people should get to their minds. The Hunger Games isn't some little free walk away. Which is something, honestly, Mrs. Collins made pretty clear when saying 'May the odds be ever on your favour." The odds won't be in everyone's favor. Especially when only one person is guaranteed survival. And the flee button, I think, would be pretty pointless and destroy the whole essence of the Games, with every single person in the Arena, scrambling to click it. The whole point in mandatory fights is so we don't have a boring Games where everyone survives. Fights are common in the Arena. No question.