HELLO! So this is my second ever SYOT, my first one Time And Memory Warp was completed just less than a month ago. That took over a year to do, but if you have read it, then you will understand why! I hope to take much less time with this story.

If you want to submit a tribute, the form is on my profile. I can only accept tributes through PM otherwise I breach a whole load of FF rules! Please answer them as detailed as possible and it won't be first come, first served, I will choose the tributes based on how they will fit with the story and the other tributes.

You can submit up to two tributes for the SYOT. PLEASE NO GARY-STUS OR MARY-SUES! I want interesting characters that can be developed over the story.

I hope you enjoy this little starter for the Games. I will continue to update this chapter when I have all the tributes with the tribute list. As each of the district's are filled, I will do the reapings so they won't be in order which was suggested by a fellow awesome SYOT writer.

The story itself probably won't be started properly until December as I am in the middle of writing NaNoWriMo, where I write a 50,000 word story in 30 days...but I hope to get something up in the next 18 days!

ENJOY and I hope you submit!


Gamemaker – Scorpius Ridgeway

This is the worst idea that anyone has ever come up with. We have been working on the plans for the latest Games for the last month or so; the President herself has requested that it is different, that it is better than it ever has been. And his reason? Because the people of the Capitol are getting bored, the people of Panem are getting bored. They require something that will get them excited by the Games. It has been nine years since the last Quell and it is still another eleven until the next one. This is where the audiences will start to get bored unless we give them something that is really spectacular. We have to pull out all the stops.

And so what has our genius Head Gamemaker come up with this year? A barren landscape with virtually nothing where the tributes will be exposed to the elements and to each other. That means the tributes will be dead within a week, either from being picked off by the more brutish tributes or by dehydration. It could be one of the quickest Hunger Games we have ever had. That is not what the President was asking for, it's boring and it will never be remembered. No one is going to remember a Games that was over in a week. It needs to be longer, it needs to be better, it needs to the best idea that we have ever come up with.

As deputy-head Gamemaker, I have the complete trust of my bosses, both the head Gamemaker and President. That means that I have to deliver to the ultimate boss and override my secondary boss. It wasn't as hard as I thought initially, Head Gamemaker Emma Thornton may be a good boss at time but she sure isn't good at hiding things. We have to hand in a dossier with every single detail of what is going to happen in this year's Games, tomorrow morning. It isn't so hard to find the dossier, she has even told us in public that the plans for the Games are going to be staying in her office overnight. It was practically an invitation to steal and change them. But what do I do if I don't get my way or I disagree with something? Well the answer is obvious isn't it? I get my way, I live by getting my way and it will happen no other way.

I have been constructing my perfect Games ever since I was appointed Deputy Head Gamemaker last year, following the failures of half of the previous team to provide a flawless Games. That in itself is very difficult. The design was good but the execution was not. I have a Games that will, without a shadow of a doubt, be executed and turn out perfectly from the point of view of the Gamemakers and the tributes. At least that is my hope and desire. We are all human and therefore people are bound to make mistakes, especially the tributes who are perhaps the group that will pose the greatest threat to the success of the Games. So that is why I have to be sure I have the right Games. I have to be sure for myself that it will be the perfect plan. And who knows whether something will go right better than its creator?

All I need to do now is ensure that President Carmen Schapansky gets the right details of the Games, the ones that I have designed and over half of the Gamemakers have agreed are far better than Emma's designs. The Forum, the building dedicated to the creation of the Games where the President has her own personal office just dedicated to this part of the process is the building where I am now. The Head Gamemaker's office lies directly to the right and I offer up a small thanks to whoever is up there, if anyone at all, that the door is ajar and there is no one inside. The woman is undoubtedly scatter-brained and I knew it would come to my advantage one day, and now that advantage has come to light. Her deficiency is my gain.

Checking that no one is in the corridor, there is no need to check for cameras, we are all too trusted not to go and steal other people's things. Clearly they did not have this situation in mind. I slip inside the room. It is exactly as I remember it, all glass and wood, a strange combination I think but it somehow works in the weirdest way possible. And there it is, lying on the desk right in front of me, the plans for this year's Games. They sit in a neat stack on her desk, every mutt, every Reaping timing, every single little detail for the arena. Or at least what details there are when the arena you have is practically non-existent.

It is all in a slip pocket that has '63rd Annual Hunger Games' written on a piece of paper that sits at the top. It is the perfect way to hide the real plans. Mine are exactly the same weight and number of papers, 12 to be exact, as Emma's and I know the woman, she won't even think to check that it her arena plans. It is the perfect way to disguise my own plans and finally get to right the wrongs. To cap it all off, I have not put Emma's name at the bottom of this plan, only seen on the last page, but my own. The President will suspect her of theft and then who knows?

I have a funny feeling that she won't be around as Head Gamemaker, perhaps at all, to see the Games come into existence; my Games come into its own. Oh revenge is sweet. People say that grudges don't last as long as love. I beg to differ; I have been waiting for this moment ever since we were 12. A grudge for something that was little grew up into something that we have been battling over for the last 20 years. This is the final straw.

Opening my messenger bag, I collect the 12 sheets of paper and look through them one last time, checking that it is everything that I want in the Games, everything I know I need to make 24 more children suffer as we did in the war. Yes, everything is there including the signatures of approval from my fellow Gamemakers. Using the gloves on my hands, I want to avoid the possibility of fingerprints being found in case Emma wants to investigate; I slip out her plans from the folder on her desk and insert mine, carefully ensuring that it is in exactly the right angle. I place it back on the desk, making sure once more that it is in exactly the same place as I found it. I'm observant and I need to be if I am going to execute this correctly.

Placing the now changed folder back onto the desk, I smirk to myself as I put Emma's plans into my own messenger bag. They will be placed in a younger person's belongings, someone who I don't like and undoubtedly I will find one of those soon enough, at some point in the near future. Checking that the coast is clear once more, I slip out, my slippers making no noise against the carpeted floor. Stage one of the mission to execute the perfect 34th Hunger Games, complete. Stage 2, to make sure I take all the credit for the plans and ensure my place as Head Gamemaker, bring it on.


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Here is the current tribute list:

District 1 Male: Florin Sols (18) – Demented Kitten Queen
District 1 Female: Sunshine Odale (14) - XxBloodandButterfliesxX
District 2 Male: Aries Jett (16) – The Mockingjay Lives

District 2 Female: February Maryn (16) – angelofmusic4ever
District 3 Male: Nico Helion (16) - Iris Hunt
District 3 Female: Tyria Becker (16) – charlieal12

District 4 Male: Aedan O'Hara (18) – gamings-reminiscence
District 4 Female: Zoya Pavlenko (16) – JGrayzz
District 5 Male: Cassius Anouma (14) – Call Me Fin
District 5 Female: Kaya Veridas (17) - Rikachan101
District 6 Male: James Saturn (17) - Socially Awkward Wolf
District 6 Female: Stephanie 'Steph' Marrass (18) – MoonofPluto
District 7 Male: Flint Decker (18) - Munamana
District 7 Female: Quincy Haisley (17) – leven1313
District 8 Male: Tavel Greige (15) – Chaos In Her Wake
District 8 Female: Jasmine Gemini (17) – EverlarkClato4ever
District 9 Male: Devil 'Delly' Jay (13) - Demented Kitten Queen
District 9 Female: Stephanie 'Steph' Hilget (16) - atlaluver

District 10 Male: Raphael 'Raffie' Reyes (14) – The Whispering Panda
District 10 Female: Audrey Manzel (15) – Amor-deliria-nervosa-7491
District 11 Male: Emmett 'Dirty Money' Spade (17) – Notthegovernment
District 11 Female: Ruva Fallow (15) - Chaos In Her Wake
District 12 Male: Lenry Stevenson (16) – makerboy13

District 12 Female: Jezabelle Wellwood (14) – bookcookie99