Round 02. [Video]

[districttwo]

[Cato has watched all of your shenanigans barge. Particularly the debacle between Nygma and Ladd and Crane. He has some words about this.]

You all suck at giving people a show.

[He's all kinds of cocky teenager] I mean you really do. I went back through the network posts and for whatever reasons or not you guys are lousy.

Plus, I'm amazed the admiral isn't taping all of this. Unless he is. Is he? [Cato is not preturbed by that thought. At all.] I mean okay then maybe I'd take it back because if he's taping this for an audience it doesn't matter if you try to hide what you did. The cameras will see, and people will place bets.

I honestly think that he should make the games available for viewing. [Anyone who has any experience with human emotion can tell Cato's trying to be brave when he says this. It sounds hollow, a boy's boast.] That way, people would have a good idea of what sort of tactics to use.

Or I'd just like to watch them.

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[deadliestviper]

You're planning on taking them all down yourself? [Her included, which means she won't be sharing her reconnaissance method unless he has a damn convincing reason.]

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[districttwo]

...I would never attempt that alone.

I'm not stupid. I know I need a good ally.

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[deadliestviper]

You must have one already or you wouldn't be asking this question, just observing.

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[districttwo]

...Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. [Glimmer was better at this] Three heads are better then two. Or six. Or ten even.

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[deadliestviper]

You do. [Or else you're not even as smart as you think.] And what exactly are you establishing alliances for? If you're planning to take over the ship, that doesn't seem to work so well. [Though it might go better with a group of people trying.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

Humiliation doesn't help anybody. It makes some people angry, breaks other people, but it doesn't help them.

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[districttwo]

[Cato looks interested] I think once you have a group of people who can pool their strengths and resources people will be more then willing to make a decision as a group.

[and then Cato will stab them in the back-and Glimmer will try and kill him. Because that's how it's done in Panem.]

[districttwo]

What would you know about it anyway? [There's a sneer on his face.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan smiles in response to Cato's sneer.]

About helping people? Actually kind of a lot.

[districttwo]

If you're teaching them to be weak that's not helping them.

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[deadliestviper]

You know, kid, it's going to be a lot easier to draw people to you if you start with some sort of plan in mind. I doubt you'll get many allies just for alliance's sake. [It's strange to think, but you do that and you're more likely to just end up with friends.]

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[districttwo]

[Friends on the barge. That's just plain weird.]

You're assuming we don't have a plan.

[districttwo]

...I'm best at the things that count. [His brow furrows]

It's not punishment, we're tributes. Sacrifices.

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[deadliestviper]

Don't you?

[hunt4commonwealth]

[It's almost like talking to a post-Fall Nietzschean.]

I'm not teaching them to be weak. I'm teaching them that they can be stronger when they work together.

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[districttwo]

[Allies only] You're assuming there's only two of us.
[so there is just two but what can he do.]

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[deadliestviper]

You just told me three heads were better than two.

[divine_right]

Games?

[truth_is_cold]

About living off planet? Or living life as a game?

Because if it's the latter, willing participants are an important issue.

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[districttwo]

...Allies only.

[And now he looks kind of grumpy at that. She got him. Damn it.]

[districttwo]

[There are a lot of similarities]

...I can count on one hand the number of times that's worked. [he moves his hand into a circle.]

...no. wait. One. One time. World War 2 in pre-collapse America.

[districttwo]

The Hunger Games. The only real games. Pitting the strong against the weak.

[divine_right]

Fascinating. We have no such games where I come from.

Tell me more.

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[deadliestviper]

You won't get too many with that sales pitch. Maybe you'd have better luck walking up to people in the mess hall and asking if you can sit with them.

[districttwo]

Living life as a game. I volunteered. It was an honor. It washes away dishonor.