( colligo ¬ get collected ) → network.

I know I'm supposed to use this thing to talk to people, but it's been very unsettling here. Haymitch says that it's safe, but I have a hard time believing that. Nothing feels safe after the Arena. Still, I would rather be here than to go back there, even if I do miss my family terribly. In that sense, at least, this is no different than the Capitol or the Arena.

I guess it would help if I made some effort at a normal life. Like a job. I'm not sure what I would be good at. But I'm willing to work hard. Is there anyone who needs some help?

this tyipng thing is bullshit. i don't know how you gyus do it, with your huge blocks of words and yuor fast repsnosses and shit. we never lernaed tihs knid of thing in 12. we leanred how to do things like, suvrive, and slaugther aniamls, and wrok in coal mines, and eat nohting but little bits of bread and small rodnets. and how to avoid the atentiton of peacekeaeprs. and how to mkae our own alochol out of wheatver was lying around. tihs typing shit didn't relaly come up. alouthgh i guess i did more wtih technolagy than most of the others from twleve, being a mentor and all. but thats not sayin much.

how do you make capital lettres? the phone just did it for me wheenver i strtaed a new thing. does somoene know how to mkae it fix my sentneces for me again? it keeps puttign differrent things than what i'm writign in the box.

tihs is taking foerver. there's so many damn kyes how do you guys typr so much? the buttpns on the phone wree tiny, but at least the phone had taht robot where you could ask it quesitnos. and this "computer" looks completly different form the kinds tehy had at the capitol, too. not like i was much good wtih those eihter, but at least tehy made some goddamn sense. why does tihs keybaord start with q??? what kind of alaphbet is that??

i quit. someone get the phone robot to write for me. where was that bar agian?

Mister Doctor, can you look at something real quick pretty please? I'm trying to figure something out and I think I did but I'm pretty sure I dropped an exponent someplace only I can't find it no matter how hard I look so maybe you can spot it?



Thanks!

[ooc: this was meant to be filtered to the eleventh doctor but, in her rush to figure out the problem, zoe forgot to actually put up the filter. feel free to have your characters respond if you'd like.]

( There's a shocked gasp, then the sound of someone moving around. When Maysilee speaks, her voice is soft and her tone is filled with confusion and wariness. )

What happened? I was just in the Arena and... ( a pause ) Is this a new twist in the Game? I don't remember ever seeing something like this in any of the previous years...but this is a Quarter Quell, so...maybe...did they decide to change the Arena?

( There are heavier footsteps as the knights move toward her, and she makes a soft panicked noise and there's the sound of running footsteps as she tries to get away from the knights. )

Stay away from me! This is...I don't know what to do. They didn't prepare us for this... ( quietly, speaking to herself ) It's okay. It'll be okay. You can figure this out...

( the doors open and she stumbles out, and there's the sound of the PDA clattering on the ground when the knights toss it out. )

What's this?

( another gasp when she realizes she's in a city, then nervously with a definite wariness )

What...how is this possible? I don't know what's happening. There have never been people in the arena other than tributes...

( a little louder, not so much talking to the phone as calling out to the area around her )

Haymitch? Are you here too?

( a pause )

Haymitch?

[The sound of someone landing in a crumpled heap and knocking against a bookshelf, sending several books to the ground.]

What the-- Is this a library? Does 12 even HAVE a library?

[Haymitch sounds baffled, and his speech is slurred. Liquid sloshes around in something metallic, and he unscrews the lid before taking an audible gulp of the contents. Sounds of clanging armor can be heard in the background, but they grow louder as if they're getting closer.]

What the fuck kind of get up is that supposed to be? What are you guys supposed to be, peace keepers? HEY-- Leggo'my arm or I'll pull out the knife, you crazy-- [Sounds of Haymitch smacking the shit out of one of the suits of armor and knocking several together with a clash before yanking his hand back with a wince, because knuckles + solid objects = painful.] HEY! HANDS TO YOURSELF, jackass. I'm leaving! Fuck off, you are NOT getting that knife-- What? What am I supposed to do with--

[Doors open, Haymitch, his flask and his knife all land on the stone steps outside the library with a thud and a clatter. He scrambles across the steps to gather them back together.]

HEY! Get your ass back here and tell me where the hell I am. WHAT DISTRICT IS THIS? I've done some weird things, but I'm pretty sure I've never drunkenly stumbled across district lines. Where are you going?? I said--

[A long pause as Haymitch slumps against the steps and sighs, unscrewing the top of the flask again.]


Hello?


Fuck. How drunk am I??