It was finally the day (most of) tributes dreaded. Launching day. In just a little under an hour, tributes were set to be launched into the Arena where they would be forced to fight to the death in the annual struggle to come out the lone victor of the Hunger Games. The rest of the Capitol was in a buzz as they all made their final preparations. The Gamemakers were huddled together putting the finishing touches on the Arena, the stylists were making last minute adjustments to the tribute's chosen uniforms (all identical, of course), and everyone else was impatiently waiting for the games to officially start. Everywhere you looked, people were running around and talking excitedly amongst each other, but not in the tribute quarters.
All tributes were confined to their penthouses until they were lead by peacekeepers to the launching tubes. This was most likely the last hour they would spend in a room with any of these people: Their escort, their mentor(s), even maybe their district partner. Everyone had time for one final goodbye, and of course, there was plenty of food and drink provided in the main penthouse common room. Though tributes are obviously advised not to stuff themselves, since they are about to engage in some extreme physical activity. The atmosphere of each penthouse is different, whereas some tributes might be looking forward to the launch (mostly the careers), others may be more nervous. Even scared. T-minus forty minutes and counting.
[OOC note: Threads in this post will be separated by districts, with each group in their own penthouse, but there's no initial posting order necessary so feel free to jump in as you see fit. Try to get to this thread as soon as you can, we want to be well into it before starting in on the official Arena thread that's going to be posted soon!]