Aubree Lune headed into the planning building. She went into the Gamemaker room, and found all of the rest of the Gamemakers already there.
"Hi, guys!"
"Hi, Aubree. Take a seat."
Aubree slid into a seat next to Primrose in the meeting room. She looked around the table – everyone was already there.
Whoops.
"Now that Aubree's here, we can get started. I presume that your preparations are going well?"
"Yeah," said Katniss.
"Today, we want to focus on organizing the reapings. Because those are going to be complicated," began Paylor.
"Yes. I was just wondering about that," said Annie. "Because what do we do if we end up with a girl whose mother is a Capitol spy and their father is a Peacekeeper and they moved from the Capitol to District 7 when the girl was 6?"
"So that's what I wanted to talk about. Especially to figure out whether we need one reaping day or two, where to reap from, how to manage the reaping bowls, etc."
Beetee jumped in. "It's a game of mathematics and logistics, really. So let's start by figuring out how to deal with tributes who fit into multiple sectors."
"Well," said Katniss, "why don't we put these tributes' names into the bowl of the first sector to which they apply, and then for each following bowl, if they don't get reaped for the previous sector, we put their names in, but take out one slip. So let's make Annie's tribute an 18-year old, no tessarae, for example. If she is not reaped for Sector 4, 6 slips with her name on it get put into the Sector 5 bowl. If she is then not reaped, 5 slips with her name on it are put into the Sector 9 bowl."
"OK," replied Paylor, "I like that. So now how do we monitor this?"
Katniss continued, "What we do, if this is possible, is we take each tribute and put their slips next to each reaping bowl for their extra eligible sectors. One extremely organized person-" she turned and glared at Beetee"- will have a master list of all multi-sector tributes. If they hear a name, then they will take all of their slips off of the table with all of the reaping bowls. If we can put the reaping bowl pedestals on a rotating circle, we can then just put the later reaping bowls, once we've put the correct slips into them, onto the pedestal, and it can rotate. Especially if we put each pedestal on one of the four cardinal directions, and always go boys, girls, boys, girls."
"You know, Katniss," said Paylor, "I didn't think you were that smart. That's an excellent idea."
"I can't do that," insisted Beetee. "I'm not quick enough. It needs to be someone young, quick, spry. Like Prim."
"I'll do it! As long as Beetee reads me names fairly slowly, and for which sectors I need to remove slips, I'm OK. Are you going to perform the reapings?"
"Yes. I'll reap in order of Sector, but the only sector that will be hovercrafted over here will be 13. All the others will take the train. Any other questions?"
"Paylor," inquired Annie, "we're going to be serving as Gamemakers, right?"
"Yes, but we're gonna get some tech help from Plutarch, who will be serving as Head Gamemaker, as well as from other rebel Gamemakers and other people from 3."
"So how much are we going to know about the arena, because we don't want to accidentally blurt something out to our tributes!"
"Well, I think that the mentors will be responsible for smaller games-related things, so not necessarily the arena. We'll figure that out. Yes, Aubree."
"Escorts and stylists. How are we doing this, number wise? I mean, having ten stylists for Sector 1 isn't exactly a good idea, but we can't have to few, because stylists are there for the launch. And we also need a bunch of escorts, between all of the districts and the Capitol."
"Good question," said Paylor. She fell silent for a moment, attempting to figure out, numerically, what made the most sense.
"In terms of escorts," she slowly began, "I think one escort for every four tributes. So Sector 1 will have 3 escorts, Sector 6 will have 2, Sector 14 will have one, and so on But, we'll have to send one escort out to every district to escort the tributes back to the Capitol. Just for ease. The escort for 13 will go on the hovercraft with them, and I'll meet them in their cottage for a mentoring session. No tributes will enter the training center until after the chariot rides."
"So now how do we deal with the stylists? Will each sector have one per tribute? Because that could be problematic. And plus, how are we doing chariots?" Katniss trailed off.
"I think we'll utilize the stylists and escorts. We'll figure that out once we see if any of the tributes relate to each other in any way, like relatives. I think we'll pair them up and have once stylist per pair. But we can work that out later."
"Good. So lets get working on the arena. Break.!"
I'm sorry this simple BUMP chapter took me so long! I'm in both our school play and musical, and the rehearsal process has been endless. So chapters in general may take me a while, but I'm working on it!
I want to insert a disclaimer here. As you know, I've asked all of you to submit stylists, chariot outfits, escorts, and prep teams. My plan is to utilize as many of these as I can, but I might need to use the escort of a S1 tribute for S5. So I'd like to ask your permission to rearrange as such.
Also, I'd like to remind you that by submitting your tributes to me, you are allowing me to tweak them in minor ways by adding or subtracting certain small points of their personalities. Also, you are accepting that it is more likely than not that the tribute will die.
PLEASE keep submitting! And advertise the story to people! I will also be checking in with those of you who have reserved slots to make sure you're still working on your tributes.
-goldie031
