The First Quarter Quell
Rated T for Violence, Death, Romantic Relationships w/out sex, and general dislike of other people.
Announcement to all districts, 1 month before the reaping:
Hello, my name is President Snow. I have been elected by the capitol citizens as the new president after the unfortunate death of President Jerome 3 weeks ago due to Pneumonia. As the President, it is my responsibility to oversee the actions of the gamemakers during the hunger games, along with the numerous other duties that come with running the hunger games and ruling Panem. I have decided that the hunger games need to be different this year. Give us a bit of extra entertainment, I say. Make this year's games more interesting than the previous games. So, I have created a new element of the game. Every 25 years, there will be a special version of the hunger games in which certain rule changes will be made. This shall be known as a "Quarter Quell". The first Quarter Quell shall happen this year. Here are the rule changes for this Quarter Quell.
1 week before the reaping everyone will attend a pre-reaping where everyone 10 and older will write on a slip of paper one boy and one girl that they would like to see as tributes. Both the boy and the girl must be between 12 and 18 years of age. Attend the pre-reaping unless you are on death's door, or the peacekeepers in your district will kill you.
The votes in the pre-reaping will be combined with the tesserae entries. The usual entries of 1 for 12's, 2 for 13's, 3 for 14's, 4 for 15's, 5 for 16's, 6 for 17's, and 7 for 18's will NOT happen this year, so do not include such entries in the pre-reaping /tesserae mix.
At the actual reaping, the boy and girl with the most votes in the pre-reaping/tesserae mix shall be selected as tributes. In the case of a tie, the oldest shall become tribute. In the case of a tie in age, those tied will have their name written on a slip of paper and put into a glass ball. The reaping host will draw a slip of paper at random, whoever's name is on the slip of paper shall become tribute. Not attending the actual reaping shall be punished by death unless you are on death's door.
Volunteering is prohibited. Attempting to volunteer shall be punished with a $1000 fine to the immediate family of the one who attempted to volunteer.
Training scores will be between 1 and 24 – and will be unique to each tribute. Therefore, the training score represents the predicted placing of the tribute in the hunger games – from 24th place, or first to die – to 1st place, or victor. The predicted placing may not match the game's actual results, but it will determine how many sponsors a tribute gets and how helpful said sponsors are.
There will be ample water and food sources throughout the arena – either tributes will die from bad weather or from contact with other tributes.
Remember – there can be only one victor.
That is all. A copy of this has been e-mailed to all reaping hosts, mentors, and head peacekeepers. I look forward to these 25th annual Hunger Games, the first Quarter Quell, as they represent a very special time within the games. The 26th Hunger Games will be normal, but the 25th will be the games that will truly entertain the capital- and all 12 districts.
May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor.
~Corolainus Snow, President of Panem, Supreme Ruler of the Hunger Games
~Fared Jarbles, Head Gamemaker
~Derius Tralk, Head Trainer
~Marvel Solar, Director of Sponsors and Mentors
~Ricardo Sympathy, Director of Stylists and Reaping Hosts
~Taron Turner, Head Organizer of pre-game and post-game events
~Kevin Solace, Interviewer
~Trenton Geronimo, Director of Production
~Jack Uranium, Director of Hunger Games Technology
~Daniel Johnson, Director of game- and tribute-support staff, including Avoxes
~Warrell Henderson, Director of in-game special events, including Feasts
~Erasmus Farrell, President of Peacekeepers
~Correll Flickerman, Grant Templesmith - Announcers
~Subordinates of all of the above
~District Mayors
~Past Victors
~ Harold Tomb, President of District 13
Estimated Release Dates!
Chapter 1 – April 30, 2012
Chapter 2 – May 6, 2012
Chapter 3 – May 12, 2012
Chapter 4 – May 22, 2012
Chapter 5 – June 2, 2012
Chapter 6 – June 12, 2012
Chapter 7 – June 18, 2012
Chapter 8 – June 24, 2012
Chapter 9 – June 30, 2012
Chapter 10 – July 7, 2012
Chapter 11 – July 14, 2012
Chapter 12 – July 20, 2012
Chapter 13 – July 26, 2012
Chapter 14 – August 2, 2012
Chapter 15 – August 8, 2012
Chapter 16 – August 14, 2012
Chapter 17 – August 20, 2012
Chapter 18 – August 26, 2012
Chapter 19 – September 1, 2012
Chapter 20 – September 7, 2012