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Test Drive Meme

Welcome new Tributes!
The Capitol has gathered a good crop of you at once, and to help morale, and to ease you into Capitol society they are throwing a banquet, just for those who work with the Games. Stylists, Escorts, mentors, a few of the Capitol elite, and of course, you all, the Tributes.
Instead of waking up in the normal way, new Tributes awake in lush beds, in a very posh ski lodge. Elegant but simple clothes are laid out for them, in a warm grey, and a note to come down as soon as they are ready. And if they linger too long, a peacekeeper appears to escort them down.
Those from the Capitol, are brought in on chartered party buses, one for each District, which are about as posh as a bus can get. It's a roughly 45 minute drive, well out of the Capitol's city limits.
Although the party is "mellow" by Capitol standards, it is still pretty damn extravagant. Alcohol flows freely, and banquet tables are kept fully stocked by silent avoxes. The whole ski lodge has been cleared out, and guest can hit up an ice skating rink, or pick out a swim suit and jumped into the huge, natural hot springs tubs.
As the night drags on, however, all does not go as planned. Half way through the night, there is a tremendous roar, and the hotel is plunged into pitch blackness. There is chaos for roughly 10 minutes, till low power emergency lights flicker on. However the generators don't have the power to keep the heater going.
A first aid station is set up, and the avoxes start pulling in blankets to the main lobby, lighting a fire in the fireplace and doing what they can to keep everyone warm. It is quickly communicated that there was an avalanche, and although the hotel remains in good shape, the power and the road to the Capitol has been cut out.
It's going to be a long night.
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Welcome, and may the odds be ever in your favor!
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"If their power was absolute, they'd have no need. So that may be one thing in our favor, already."
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"Issues of control manifesting in destruction. So noted."
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"You must have questions."
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"What do you have in mind?"
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"Sherlock, no. We're in a ski lodge in the mountains. It's forty-five minutes from civilization by bus, and it's freezing out there. The only thing we're likely to do is freeze to death, and they don't bring people back if they die outside the Arena."
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She draws closer so she can lower her voice.
"This is a chance. It's a chance to find other Tributes like us and share information. Maybe it's a chance for us to try to take over the lodge. Overpower the Peacekeepers while they're distracted with what's going on. If we go out there, we will die, and that chance? Will be wasted."
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She makes too much sense, sometimes. Her plan is a sound one and he can't find fault with it-- it just doesn't follow his own preferences. It's slow, and too reliant on others. He's just barely come to trust people. Gregson and Bell only barely make the cut, and Watson's own position in his esteem is entirely without precedent. He doesn't know if he could look at a room--an arena?-- of strangers and trust them.
He doesn't want to have to try.
He doesn't speak for a long moment. When he does, his voice is deceptively casual. "We might sabotage the power grid a bit. Give us a bit more time in which to make those plans."
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She has a deep fear that this place is going to destroy him, just like it's destroying his counterpart. But she's going to fight like hell to keep that from happening, starting with keeping him from just walking out into the snow to die.
"The fuse boxes are probably in the basement," she answers. "The generators are probably outside somewhere. Considering all the snow, they might be on the roof. There was a loud noise outside before the power went down, so I'm thinking that means the reason for the blackout is that the power lines are down."
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They could both do a sizable amount of damage in either case. The basement would be harder to navigate in the dark, the roof more perilous in the weather.
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"Everyone uses elevators. Hedonists, like I said. But there's always a stairwell."
And she always notes where it is.
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The stairwell is small and serviceable, and clearly doesn't see much use. In other words, it's perfect.
"I will want to talk about it, you know," he says conversationally as he begins to descend. "What you've been through, here. Just at a more appropriate moment."
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"Everything that happened in the Arenas was recorded," she says, the tightness in her voice the only thing betraying her conflicted emotions. "You can watch it if you want. Even if you don't want. They're constantly replaying clips from the games...deaths, mostly...and there are screens everywhere."
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Psychological health is something he's been fascinated by--no, it's something he cares about, now. He'd always understood it, on some academic level, but after his own struggles he realizes how much it actually matters. He has no doubt that Watson's mental fortitude is significant, but she always is the strong one, isn't she? And that strength can't be limitless.
He supposes he could always find a skull or a bust, here, and suggest she talk to that instead.
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Easier to mask how much she really needs to talk with practicalities like that. Turning it into his benefit rather than her own.
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"I would like the least biased view," he agrees. "Strictly for research purposes, of course."
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They reach the bottom of the stairwell, and one of the doors is already open. They can see flashlight beams bobbing within, hear the sound of voices. Of course there would be people down here figuring out what to do. Doubtless Peacekeepers and Avoxes.
"Should we hide and wait for them to leave?" she whispers.
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There's only one thing for it. "I suppose one of us could be the distraction."
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