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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[trenchcoatedly]

Given his strength, an eidetic memory isn't out of the question.

Games?

[districttwo]

...what nobody is asking is why.

[he's getting tired of explaining this.] the Hunger Games. The capitol's entertainment, the superior sacrifice.

[trenchcoatedly]

I think it's because the admiral wants more good people. I don't know if that's right.

What are the Hunger Games?

[imfollowinghim]

What exactly are you expecting us all to be doing?

[districttwo]

Something with a little more flare. How else would you get people to bet on you?

It might even earn people favor from the admiral.

[imfollowinghim]

Hilarious, kid.

[hunt4commonwealth]

I think the problem is that people aren't trying to put on a show. They're just living their lives.

[Dylan has been part of a show where people bet on whether he'd survive or not. He didn't like it.]

[districttwo]

...And they're all constantly trying to kill each other, maim each other, or put each other down. How is that living?

[Cato knows all about this man. Why didn't you like it? It's pretty cool.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

Hey, no one said living is always easy. And there are a lot of angry people here, who, unfortunately, turn their anger to violence.

Video

[vainqueurdeluxe]

Not everyone was groomed for the Games like we were... Think of them as though they were from the outskirt districts.

[She pauses a moment.]

[Private]

Have you been able to find us anymore allies?

Video

[districttwo]

...Good point. [He frowns] I do admit I felt some pity for those kids. Just because...well. Ten made a poor contest of it.

Most of them did. Except Glimmer.

[Private]

No, but I have my eyes on a couple of people. Apparently there is some kind of game scheduled-so if you attended you could see how they perform and I'll approach them for you.

[he's trying not to grin.] An actual game, can you believe it?

[ Voice : Private ]

[warisart]

[You people. Confuse him. So much. This is not logical behavior, nor is it the social behavior he was meant to observe outside of Manticore.

So much hard-voiced, even-toned confusion.]

What games? What bets? What people?

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[districttwo]

The hunger games. The only games that really matter, and the capitol-the only people who matter beyond the supportive districts.

[truth_is_cold]

My people generally believe everything is a game, and the only tactic is to survive.

But this is no intentional game, there's no room for advancement. I remember how it was as an inmate. [He knows that he probably won't understand that for a while now.]

[districttwo]

...Who are your people? [Cato considers him] ...are you from a District?

[You could be district 3 perhaps.]

[knowsaboutanger]

And I thought I had issues.

[districttwo]

...What? Oh come on don't tell me you think I'm in the wrong too..

Video:

[childhood_surgery]

I have considerably more interest in escaping this inept pit of despair than performing like some flea-ridden pyjak for your personal entertainment.

[So fucking annoyed at all these weird human impulses, right now - it's in those white eyes glowing through her visor.]

[video] [private]

[deadliestviper]

And just what are you hoping to accomplish by going over people's tactics? [As if she hasn't been doing the exact same thing ever since she arrived.]

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[districttwo]

Find out strengths, weaknesses. Illuminate who's who.

Standard games tactics.

[divine_right]

Games?

[districttwo]

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

[hungryanhorny]

You think this is some sorta game?

[darknessb4me]

Good. When he gets bored I can leave.

[districttwo]

Where would you go?