Game-Maker session
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Raynan Fields, Head Game-Maker
I sit down on my desk, Artemis by my side. During my leave I asked if she could take over but the President wanted Seneca Crane instead. I remember him being the idiot who asked how tributes would pay for food in the vending machines. Ugh… I hate to see an idiot like him replace me, but it'll only make my return more spectacular. The tributes this year are interesting, but the boy from nine must be killed before he can spew anymore rats barf about the Capitol. He'll be dealt with easily, and I'm not going to do what Seneca suggested. Please, he's already starting a rebellion I don't need the districts to think I that we killed him. His demise will be painful and efficient, but most of all, entertaining.
Ah, Talus, the boy from the Military/Victor family. He grabs a mace; I'm surprised to see him grab that instead of the sword he used in training, so he's hiding his best talent from his alliance. Interesting. He turns on 12 dummies, double the amount that he finished with a sword. In one hit the dummy's crumple, sometimes he takes on more than one at a time. He's smashed some of the best weapons in the process too, showing that he can use a mace on offense and defense. I'm impressed when they all hit the floor, their broken body's wires sticking out. He's got good power and stamina; I respect that, so he'll get a high score.
Silver is next, she also has a couple victors in her family, good. She takes about five spears and throws them; each one hit's the center of the target forcefully. Only at 40 yards does her power falter, her accuracy is still okay then, but not amazing. Silver the grabs the same spears and turns five dummies on, good she's showing her skills at close range too. She mercilessly kills the dummies, which are armed with a variety of weapons. After that she climbs the wall with only three connections, her two feet and one hand. The other hand is holding a spear; she's much faster than she was in training. Looks like Talus isn't the only career keeping secrets.
Clyde is next, grabbing a Sword to match his strength. He isn't in the career pack, which is strange but I like it. He turns on twelve dummies, same as Talus. But he's using the opposite hand that he used in their little game, I smirk. Clyde was smart enough not to show all his talent, like the two before him. I see a theme coming on. Clyde battles the dummies fiercely and I mentally note that he's a lefty; his speed and precision have doubled. After the dummies are gone he heads towards the knife station, I expect some boring throws but I get something different. He flips, and in the air throws the knife, still hitting the center. Excellent.
The twelve year old Vixen walks in, immediately rushing towards a bow. She hits the targets dead on, even in her small size she still hits with enough power to kill. Which is usually difficult for the younger tributes, she's good but I need more. After all, the last three performances were amazing. Vixen grabs a blowgun and turns on six dummies, all covered in armor. Vixen loads the poison darts and then proceeds to hit the weak spots in the armor, never missing, even when the dummies moved. I'm impressed, considering that the few gaps are the size of a quarter dollar. Almost impossible to spot or hit.
I sigh as I realize that I'll be getting a break from the careers. Julian walks in and I nod for him to get on with his performance. He spends his whole session throwing spears, he's okay but Sliver outdid him much earlier. I remember the improvement that he made since training though, he's a fast learner. And those are hard to come by, but at the end of the day he still has to be original. To make me remember him well enough, to not make me want to take another sip of this wine. Which I don't, out of politeness of course. I sigh when he leaves and I give him a mediocre score.
Olivia is in there quickly after he left; running towards the knives station like it's her home district. Seizing the knives and throwing two at a time towards a target, still hitting the center. I smile; it's nice to see someone doing something different. If Julian did something similar to this I would have given him a higher score. Her hits are impressive but she's tiring easily, couldn't she have held it out for another fifteen minutes? Whatever, I'm still impressed when she moves towards the dummies, hitting them with accuracy but little power. Unfortunately these hits that are in normal vital areas like the stomach are too weak to kill a tribute. Injure fatally, yes. But they won't kill.
Another from a career district, Cotton comes up; I know for a fact that he's skilled. He runs toward the tridents and spears, throwing them at the dummies accurately and powerfully. He's amazing at it, but like Julian he needs something else to give him an edge. Right now he looks like a normal career from district four who looks a lot like an older Finnick. If he wants a top score he'll have to show me he's different, in other words, special. It's as if Cotton hears my pleads when he walks over to the plants station, grabbing poisonous and healthy vegetation. Then he spreads the poisonous plants over one dummy and the healthy ones over another. The other Game-Makers are confused, idiots. They should know what he's doing; after all, they chose the plants. But I get it, he can fight and he knows survival skills, he's one to look out for.
Next Cottons partner Nicole comes in, I visibly sigh when I see her go to the exact same station as Cotton. She must not know that she's repeating her District partner; poor dear is making me compare her to the other tributes. She is almost the exact same as Cotton when throwing the tridents and the spears. But I am getting bored, I see my colleges drinking in the background. Chatting about the latest gossip in Panem like schoolgirls, I again have the urge to fire them all. Except for Artemis of course, who is now paying more attention than I am. I sigh knowing that Nicole will be given a lower score than her partner.
The real show is about to begin, Fuscous walks in. I truly pity the Game-Makers who are already drunk, they won't believe this. Fuscous strides to the weapon area, grabbing a knife and cutting into his own arm, he almost looks like he's enjoying it. I see some of my colleges gasp and I'm hit with a surge of annoyance. Have they forgotten about Fuscous already? He's practically knocking the stuffing out of the training dummies right now. After they're gone, Fuscous runs the track, faster than anyone I've ever seen. By the time he's about to walk out he shows us the same arm that he stabbed at the beginning. The cuts gone, there isn't even a scar. Amazing.
I see Nadia walk in, unfortunately she isn't as entertaining as Fuscous. But everything after him will be kind of dull, so there isn't much to do about it. Nadia heads to the obstacle course and sets the machines that aim for tributes to level six out of seven. It gives her a ten second head start and off she goes, not as fast as Fuscous but still easily dodging the tennis balls and occasional arrows. She climbs the wall so quickly that she isn't even hit once, and then she jumps over the side and lands onto the mat. She's doing well, that's for sure. She keeps running till her session is up, she isn't even panting and she's free of the usual bruises given by the tennis balls or arrows.
I watch as the first of the three Pranksters walk into the room. Jude turned on about five dummies, grabbing a club as he went. The first dummy ran at him, but as soon as it got into range Jude swung and hit it with the club. Throwing it into the trash-cans, making a loud crash. I grinned; all of my colleges were looking right now. Jude then threw the club away, and then grabbed the nearest dummy's neck with one hand. Throwing it effortlessly into the other three, who fell because of the force. Jude then grabbed one Dummy and laid it on the ground, then bent one knee over its neck and the other bent over his chest. Jude's back is on the ground, he has one arm of the dummy in-between his legs that he held to his chest. Jude pushed up his hips while keeping the dummy's arm on his chest, breaking the dummy's arm. Jude had just performed the arm-bar, perfect; I guess they call him Giant for more than one reason.
Avalon walked in shortly after Jude, whose mess was cleaned up by our amazing janitor. He really should be paid double that of whatever he is being paid now. Avalon grabbed a bow and started shooting dummies, she wasn't as good as Vixen but she was still quite good. Making red Xs with the berries so we'd know where she was aiming. Smart, by the time that the quiver had run out of arrows there were letters forming on each dummy. Spelled out by the arrows that stick to the dummies, clearly spelling out VICTOR. It was a good way to send a message to us Game-Makers, congrats Avalon.
Half way done, I couldn't really be more exited. Steven Fillburg comes up, looking extremely happy to be here. He clears his throat, I suddenly realize what the guys doing, he's reciting a poem. I'm closing my ears; it's a real… creative poem, about a handsome hero guy from Nantucket beating the snot out of 23 people. Describing details about each person the guy kills, just so we know who he's talking about. I swear that this is the first time I've ever seen Artemis drink during the Game-Maker session; it must be too much for her. I am really starting to hope that he's a Johanna Manson, I'm praying for it. Because no one can be that lame.
I sigh loudly when he leaves, I'm not the only one, Artemis is joining me. True steps in, not before asking 'he must have been really terrible, for you guys to be sweating like that' I give a nervous chuckle and motion for her to continue. True strings up six dummies, tying them together, and then grabs a formidable looking axe. She throws the axe, moving through all the dummy heads, decapitating them. Except one is still hanging by a few threads, True grunts in annoyance and rips the dummy's head off. Then slams it with her leg, knocking the whole pile of decapitated dummies to the ground.
I'm glad to see Fleance come up, he didn't do anything interesting during training, and maybe he's hiding something. Fleance grabs a knife and cuts some wire out of a dummy, then attempts to choke it or something with the wire. I'm not really sure, the lack of action is boring me and I still have a little less than half the tributes to go through. After fifteen minutes he gets the result he was hoping for, the dummy's head slid off. He holds the head like it's a trophy, no matter how impressive it was to him it's my opinion that matters. And any tribute could do that, so overall it was pointless. I give him low score and get
ready to move on.
The second prankster Evangeline shows up, I'm already exited. I saw what the three did to Talus, all of Panem saw. Evangeline grabs a dagger then goes to the fire making station, starting a fire without matches in less than thirty seconds. Evangeline moves over to the poison area then dips her dagger into one of the flammable chemicals. Back at the fire station she dips the dagger carefully into the fire. At first I'm afraid she's going to burn herself but she doesn't. She quickly throws the dagger into the nearest dummy, which causes it to combust, since they're very flammable. I'm impressed at her resourcefulness and I give her a pretty high score.
I grit my teeth; the boy from nine is next. I understand that the districts have some things to complain about, but don't start a rebellion during my Games, wait for Seneca's. That's how I get hanged, which is just lovely. William Ross pulls a bottle of alcohol out of his shirt. Then carefully sets the match inside the bottle, it hasn't touch the alcohol yet. He closes the cap and I suddenly realize what he's about to do, I shove Artemis to the ground just as the bottle bursts over our heads. Luckily Artemis and I are unharmed; the others jackets are on fire though. I walk to the nearest fire extinguisher case and smash my fist into the glass. I grab it and spray the whole area, getting our outfits ruined but we're all unharmed. The boy was dragged out the back by the peacekeepers.
We take a long break after that, I get a new jacket and the others take off theirs. Artemis thanks me for saving her, I'm just glad that she wasn't hurt. The little squirt just got a one way ticket to hell, I have half the mind to enter the arena and strangle him myself. Sonya quietly walks in, looking at the burn marks on the walls before arming and turning on the dummies. She's quite evasive, dodging all their attacks, not getting hit once. Managing five separate attacks at once is hard, so i give her a generous score because in comparison to her partner she's an angel.
Ethan's next, grabbing a sling and shooting targets. He's surprisingly accurate, and then he goes to the food station and grabs an egg. Then he shatters some glass that we had laying around somewhere, Ethan then stuffs the now half-attached broken egg with the glass and shoots it at a dummy. Hitting it square in the chest, this hit would have done a number on any tribute. Broken glass is dangerous; my bloody wrist can prove it. I'm impressed with Ethan's other talents, he replicated the sling that he picked up earlier and is shooting targets the same way. He may even be better with his hand crafted weapon, it looks sturdy.
Olivia's next, she's the youngest none career. She walks over to the spear station and grabs some spears, then walks over to the snare station. Eyes beaming in concentration, her nimble fingers quickly work their way into the form of a powerful snare. The spears are carefully set up high, angled at a red X on the ground. Olivia turns on a training dummy then pushes it into the trap. Suddenly a rope closes around its foot, knocking it over. The dummy is then pulled forward and the spears drop, hitting the dummy in the head, chest and leg. The other tributes will definitely have to watch their step now.
After Olivia, her ally walks in, Dave, who runs for an axe. He then goes over to the punching bag and throws his axe at the chain. It breaks on contact with the axe and the punching bag falls down. Dave then viciously attacks the bag, which is filled with steel wool. Soon it's reduced to unrecognizable rubble, which impresses me. Dave shows us some of his throwing abilities with an axe, his accuracy isn't perfect but it's still enough to earn him some more points. He shows us his ability to produce a fire and his knowledge of plants. So he's pretty equal with strength and knowledge of food, he's a survivor.
The last prankster comes in, immediately running towards to poison station. Nightingale makes five different solutions, which I'm genuinely curious about. Hopefully she won't repeat the boy from nine's trick. After dragging five dummies she prepares her presentation. She pours the first solution on the dummy; it turns green immediately, signaling death. The next three are her infamous pranking solutions, the sticky syrup, the itch water and the burn simulator. The last one she pours into the dummy's mouth, after a few minutes it turns red, signaling immobilization. She's a definitely a threat.
I sigh realizing that don't have any more pranksters to look forward to. Koal walks in, obviously angered about something, which is pretty typical of him. He grabs a dummy and practices combat on it, deliberately dealing blows that could kill. Just to entertain us, he uses a choke, breaks a dummies leg, and snaps a neck. He's powerful but I'm getting bored, his anger is fading and I can't tell that he's getting bored too. But it's not like I can shout that at him, if I did he wouldn't now be doing throws on dummy's. I sigh when he leaves and I give him a mediocre score, for boring me.
Pipers at a disadvantage before she even comes in, simply because more than half of the Game-Makers are drunk. Her small form grabs an axe and she throws it around the room, but she's not nearly as good as True or Dave. She summons up the courage to grab a dummy and turn it to easy, which she makes short work of. But a baby could beat training dummy on easy, Piper understands my mind message and turns it to medium. I'm betting today's the first day that she's using a training dummy, which is probably the reason why she's so shy around it. Never less she beats it after sweating a storm.
Score list:
District 1: Luxury
Male: Talus Agustine- 10
Female: Silver Hartford- 8
District 2: Masonry
Male: Clyde Fenix- 9
Female: Vivian 'Vixen' Draconix- 10
District 3: Technology
Male: Julian Raj- 5
Female: Olivia Medina- 6
District 4: fishing
Male:Cotton Steele- 9
Female: Nicole "Nikki" Lawrence- 8
District 5: Mutations (power)
Male: Fuscous- 12
Female: Nadia Kovak- 7 BB
District 6: Transport
Male: Jude Herra- 8
Female: Avalon Caverly- 6
District 7: Lumber
Male: Steven Fillburg- 1 BB
Female: True Whittier- 7
District 8: textiles
Male: Fleance League- 4 BB
Female: Evangeline "Evan" Scores- 9
District 9: grain
Male: William Rossi- 1 BB
Female: Sonya Saranglo- 6 BB
District 10: live stock
Male: Ethan Milner- 6
Female:Olivia (Livie) Madron- 7
District 11: agriculture
Male: Dave Picket- 8
Female: Nightingale Dessen- 10
Discrict 12: coal mining
Male: Koal Morrison- 6
Female: Piper "cherry" Pillock- 5 BB