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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcoasalazarm" data-source="post: 6027664" data-attributes="member: 26698">Trying to think of something for this setting: namely, I am trying to adapt The Hunger Games.10 years after The Vanishing, the world is still screwed up enough that the mentality of 'bread and circuses' is still pretty useful. Keep the people focused on survival, on civilization, etc, and as far away from the wastelands and the roaming insanity in them as possible.There are many, many, MANY death sports on CoreLine. Autodueling, Rollerball, 'Shoot Clock', old-fashioned gladiatoral duels... you name it.A great many of them are illegal-at least on paper. The truth being that the authorities still do not have enough reach to cover every where-and where there's a blind spot, THAT is where such things encroach.The Hunger Games... for starters, they have been renamed. Nowadays, they are the 'Collins Games' (after Suzanne Collins, the Author that created them), and the Megacorporations fund them and endorse them. They are simul-casted in 700 languages and through most major sports networks and through the Internet to all places in and off-world that can tune in.The Megacorporations have tried their damnedest to make them low-risk. Non-lethal weapons, non-lethal 'obstacles' for the arenas, the 'Tributes' are all rigged with a tracker that immediately teleport them off the arena when they're gravely injured, and so on......but like people say, 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'. And those who like to say this is every Fiction that comes from an Alternate of Panem.And it is these people who do their damnedest to prevent the Games from being made. At best, it's just a Facebook page with an insane amount of likes.At worst, it's outright terrorism against the Megacorps. And anybody else who would benefit from the Games.(So... anybody here has any idea what other death sports could be applied 'legally'... and 'illegally'?).</blockquote>

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