General Information

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In the beginning there were no elaborate arenas, no Gamemakers, no mentors, no careers, no training sessions, no pomp and circumstance. No precedent. All of that developed piece by piece, over time and countless mistakes. The goal of this event is to backfill our canon — to create reference points for the present day.

Instead of focusing on the hope that our tribute might be the one to survive, the goal is to focus on the diversity of the stories that have already come and gone: the career dynasties of yesteryear that have been usurped by a surge of lower district victories; tributes who figured out how to cheat the system and cause the kind of mayhem that led to high tech solutions; the kids who thought that refusing to kill each other might mean that no one died — until mutts were introduced to prove otherwise; the very first person to ask if they could volunteer in someone else's place...

This is an incredible opportunity to write characters you might not normally write. To write someone who doesn't fight back or who is merciless without redemption; to take risks in your writing and commit to an idea, rather than bending a character to match their dice; to see how much you can do with so little time; to write selfish characters who aren't fighting for allies or last chance arena romances because everything is sudden and brutal and new and unknown. There are no rules to break because they have not yet been made.

THE REAPING

These Games will run on a condensed timeline. The reaping will take place the evening of Wednesday, August 28th to match members with a district position. Please see the Reaping Sign-Up thread in order to take part.

In place of a formal reaping, the tributes will be arrested by peacekeeping forces and brought directly to the Capitol. The specifics of this may vary by character and should be run by the GM for approval.

TRIBUTES

Each member will write a bio for their tribute — it may be a concise bio, but more in-depth bios are absolutely welcome. As per a standard Games, there will be one male and one female tribute per district, ages 12-18. All bios will be accepted by the GM and should be completed/accepted by the evening of Friday, August 30th.

Twelve of these bios will be allowed to be directly connected to the rebellion, either by being the children of high ranking rebel commanders or by being rebel soldiers themselves. Rebel characters will be granted the following combat stations: blades, hand-to-hand, and self-defense. Priority for rebel characters will be given to the site members highest on the reaping list.

Twelve of these bios will be citizens. Some of these citizens may be family members of government officials who (either actively or passively) assisted anti-Capitol activities. Such a connection will not grant any combat benefits. Other citizens will be average children of the community, without any ties to the rebellion. If too many people want to write one type of citizen versus another, priority will be given to the site members highest on the reaping list.

Since this is an old games, all of these tributes are dead in present day, including the victor. As such, face claims may be used for posts, but not claimed on the official site face claim list (as it would be confusing for the staff). Any FCs used should be unclaimed or used with permission. FCs are not required.

Descendants of a tribute's family may be made in present day with permission from the original tribute's writer.

THE BLOODBATH

The only fight of the 1st Annual Hunger Games will be the bloodbath, beginning on Saturday, August 31st at 12:00pm EST and will end when only one tribute remains.

There will be no alliances or pre-Games events. Tributes are not allowed to interact before the bloodbath begins.

Starting times for the bloodbath will be slightly staggered (determined by initiative dice rolls) and the required time between posts will be increased to 1 hour, in order to discourage pre-writing and encourage more in-depth tribute interaction.

The maximum time between posts will be capped at 24 hours and fillers are not allowed — breaking either of these two rules will result in a tribute's death.

Intro posts may contain attacks. All tributes may be attacked immediately, regardless of whether or not their intro has been posted.

Attacking in the bloodbath is not required, if it is not in character for your tribute.

Turn order will come into effect for the final six tributes.

Each tribute will roll for their starting health (everyone will start with 5-15 damage). This is to give the games a more manageable pace, but it's also to give everyone a sense of who the first tributes to die will be and prevent that from being based on OOC factors. This damage may be written as wounds from the war, a lack of strength, etc. Please consider making this important to your characterization and make the most of a character's weakness if you roll high damage. Remember, these games are not about competition or victory — they're about the stories and giving the site a fuller history to look back on.

It will be as much of an honor to be the first tribute ever killed as it will be to be the first victor; to be the first tribute to kill someone; the first district partners to turn on one another; the first runner up; to be the last person willing to attack and on and on. Every single writer who participates will be writing the very first tributes of all time and every single one of them will go down in history regardless of what place they finish in. Focus on that. Make the most of it.

THE VICTOR

Although the victor will be dead in present day, the winner of these games is highly encouraged to write a timeline, oneshots, etc of the rest of their character's life. Writing present day descendants will be allowed.

Please do not aim to win if you are not interested in writing follow-up content, as this is a major reason for these games. It is a huge honor to write the first ever victor and our hope is for that to be about much more than the title.