Fourth Dispatch: It's Not What You Think. Voice.

[trinkett]

Dear Fellow Residents of Luceti,

Wouldn't it be entertaining to put on some Games here in Luceti? Not that the Cultural Fair wasn't amusing, or any of the other activities going on here -- but true gladiatorial games. The pitting of one creature against another! Think of the thrill and drama and the release that goes along with that sort of entertainment! And here in Luceti we are ideally suited for a very exciting Games indeed.

Who would you sponsor or volunteer for this entertainment? Or would it all be...

[There is a pause here.]

Pokey-mans? I find human beings MUCH more interesting to watch, personally.

Comments

[voice]

[trinkett]

[She sputters a bit:] Yes! This book! [Because would that Sharpe fellow and Katniss appreciate this young man coming around the house? Probably not. They appreciated nothing that she did.]

[voice]

[generalflirt]

[Wow, he just teased an older woman successfully.

He's awesome] Alright then, the book it is! I'll be calling on your later, Effie-san!

[Video]

[trinkett]

Oh, I don't know. I find watching them to be entertaining. Actually, I might confide now -- I find that watching those watching them is the most entertaining. I love their emotion, their excitement.

[Sometimes she has a hard time feeling that. It's a vicarious experience.]

[Voice]

[trinkett]

Other things? Other things like what? [She asks this quickly, to cover up her uncertainty at the first statement.]

[trinkett]

She smiled a bit wickedly at listen, you. Ha. A sensitive spot.

"I'll pay you fourteen times more than that to participate in my Games."

[Voice]

[abjurer]

Some of them are. They see humans as playthings too.

[Private]

[trinkett]

So adorable.

"Would you tame one for me as a furry pet?"

Now that question was just ridiculous. And still derailing. Look over here, Jack. Don't look at my bloodthirsty gladiatorial project.

[Voice]

[swordprincess]

I don't know...anything to distract myself from fighting every now and then...

voice

[trinkett]

And wrestling is likely superior, being a more-ancient GREEK sport....

[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]

[asthehawkflies]

[Huh, he's impressed, he hadn't actually expected her to show up.

What she's wearing though...]

Guess I should have specified that comfortable usually means something you can run in.

[Because he's wearing loose jogging pants and a t-shirt, his bow slung over his shoulder.]

[voice]

[trinkett]

[Oh if only she were 15 years younger or so. Hopefully she won't go all cougar on him.]

Ideal! I look forward to it!

[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]

[trinkett]

Why would I run? [Why run when you can just stand there and fold your arms and glare? It was what she usually did to Haymitch.]

[Voice]

[trinkett]

I see humans as players.

[Except not in THAT way. Not, like, "playas." PlayERS.]

That's different.

[Voice]

[trinkett]

What about....what about making costumes? Costumes for a Games? [Because Cinna certainly seemed to enjoy flinging his creative powers about in that way.]

Re: [Video]

[complicatedliar]

How charmingly voyeuristic.

Too much of a coward to play the game yourself?

[Private]

[originaljackass]

Jack had done many things in his life. Taming wild animals did not number among them. Sure, he had briefly been King of the Apes, but those apes were all Fables and sentient.

"... why, Effie, do you need a mountain lion?"

[Voice]

[abjurer]

How?

You're talking about volunteering people for these games, other people, like they don't get a choice in the matter. Like... like dogs being volunteered for fighting rings.

[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]

[asthehawkflies]

[Clint just smirks and jerks his thumb back towards one of the training rooms.]

You wanted a demonstration.

[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]

[trinkett]

So you need me to dress like ...

[She gives him a VERY CRITICAL up and down look. Okay, so he's a rather quirkily good-looking man, but dressed like THAT?]

A homeless tennis player.

[action -- SIX O'CLOCK.]

[asthehawkflies]

Circus performer off-duty actually.

Unless you like getting nice clothes covered in sweat and dirt.

[Voice]

[swordprincess]

Costumes? Like armor?

[voice | locked]

[rather_be_surfing]

"Good luck with that."

[etudes]

Ah.. yes, I know of that. I've read about all kinds of sports, actually.. [ Not that reading about it is anything like experiencing it, but that's just how disconnected she is from reality. ] I guess they are a kind of "games" too. Although.. I didn't know people got hurt from that..

[Voice]

[voidseeing]

Gai Tsutsugami. And yours?

[greenjacketed]

A sensitive spot indeed. It was difficult to be an officer when your officer's pay was your sole source of income -- bloody hell, the mandatory mess fee ate into your profit. All the other expected trappings. Swords -- and sword maintenance. Decent lodgings. No, officers were meant to be wealthy in their own right long before they received their pay.

"You and what coffers, eh?"