User blog comment:District3/D3's Mentor Games/@comment-5082922-20130406120725

Dear Kevin,

Nice to be mentor for you. As a career, I assume you have been waiting for these games all your life so let's make you do good in them, shall we?

Now comming up is the grouptraining, and that is an important time. As a career you may think: "Oh I don't need any training, I trained my whole life." Well, it is. You have to focus very good, so that you can get good odds, good sponsors and learn some skills along the way. Now first, we have to choose between different stations; Strength, agility, stamina, edible plants and survival skills. Now choosing between these are hard but think I have found the ones that are best for you to focus us.

Strength is one of them. The thing is that your weapons, tridents and spears, can both be used for melee and long ranged combat. But if you use them in Melee, you HAVE to be strong or else people will "out-strength" you with swords and such. As a career, I assume you are always very strong because of all your training, but you have to show people you're strong so they don't dare to challenge you in a melee fight, and it never hurts to get stronger since you're a bit younger than the avarage career.

Now the second station I want you to visit is survival skills. The thing is that as a career, you may feel secure that you are gonna be at the cornucopia with all the supplies and everything is gonna go fine, but that's not true. You never know if you will have to leave the cornucopia and so survival skills will be extremely important. They're are even better because when the career pack has to splidt up you will know how to survive, while the others won't.

As for the other stations, I will have to tell you not to focus on them as it will be too hard to focus on all of them. Now if you want the reasoning behind my choices, the reason why you do not have to go to the stamina station is that you as career are already pretty strong and you shouldn't need that much more training in it. For edible plants, it's because that you're from District 4, the fishing district. In the arena, there gotta be water sources somewhere, and where there's water, there's fish. If you were to leave the career, you would be able to feed yourself. If there for some reason isn't then I assume that "survival skill station" will teach you how to hunt/teach you how to make snares. But even if they don't teach you that and there's no fish anywhere, I can still sponsor you with food, so we should be safe there. As for agility, I think that with your long range weapons, spears and tridents, that agility would be not needed. You shouldn't have to flee from anyone as long as you're armed, and if you are unarmed, the fact that you trained your strength will give you an advantage even in a fight where you have no weapon. Also, if a tribute is fleeing from you, it would be easier to just throw your trident/spear at them rather than chasing after them.

Now for the bione stations, I have done a bit of research on the district 4 enviroment, what you're used to. Now, the district 4 enviroment is lush because of the sea being near and it being located in south Panem. You should be pretty used to forests, rainforest and tropical stuff, plants and such, so I do not think you need training in that. Now, enviroments you haven't seen are mountains (because you're close to the sea) and because it's warm where you are, I assume you haven't seen much snow in your life. So for biome, I want you to visit "Mountain Biome" and "Snow biome" so if the arena is that, you will know what to do.

Your mentor,

Anna