You are elevated by a small circular plate and it is just big enough to fit you on. The sun's sweltering arms engulf your body, overwhelming your senses. Once you are able to squint through your eyes, you feel a rather strange feeling. Déja vu. You recognise this place, it feels eerily familiar. No, you haven't been before, you have been told about it. You look around more trying to work it out. Stone buildings stand at least twice your hight above you, but you can hardly trust them. Whatever they were, they must have been built a long long time ago. They are slightly crumbled at the top and on the sides. Just a single stroke of them could bring off chunks of rock. They are a beige in colour and are simple stones, cemented together. It almost seems ancient!
Then it hits you like a bullet. Ancient. You realise why you recognise it. It was a town covered by a mudslide 2000 years ago. A sophisticated little Roman town, smothered by mud, caused by a devastating eruption by Mount Vesuvius. But something about it seems different to what you learnt. However similar it is, you never learnt about this place having two floors, the natural disaster was too powerful! No, it was another town neighbouring it. Herculaneum. it wasn't directly hit by the full blast from the volcano, but a a result from mudslides was covered for hundreds of years. As it wasn't covered in lava, it have two floors. Bam, you your history class only months ago could just have helped you!
You now only had 40 seconds left. For the next 10, you swivel your head rapidly around to have a peek to try and gain more knowledge about where you will be murdering. You are in what seems a court yard. It has little rooms surrounding the yard. They are more like pods, coming from the large centre. There are no ways out of the rooms other than the courtyard.
... So what do you do? Do you flee for your safety, or do you brutally slaughter other tributes? Do you have any allies and if you do, how do you use that to your advantage? Supplies, weapons, food... Do you get any? You wonder if the arena will supply you with it, or do you risk everything, your life, to possibly save it later if you survive? But do you really need it? Have you spent your training wisely and have enough knowledge?
The darker area is slightly raised and it is unknown to you what is in there, it could be more that you could possibly imagine, filled with jewels and more food than you have ever seen or it could be a pride of blood thirsty lions, waiting to eat their next meal. Do you risk it?
Red dots are where you all are. Starting under the darker mustard box, anti-clockwise, it goes in alphabetical so in order from first to last:
Adalyn, Aeneas, Aiden, Alice, Axel, Brianna, Britney, Cooper, Evelyn, Hanna, Harvin, Heather, Hinata, Jai, Kieran, Lacey, Liberty, Milo, Oliver, Sarah, Stephan, Tor(rel), Victor and Zoey.
Blue triangles are weapons, choose from; slingshot, set of 3 knives, sword, boomerang, machete, revolver with one bullet and spear.
Green squares are implements, choose from; small sheet of white cloth, empty 1l water bottle, umbrella, small block of glass, matches and box of paper clips.
Orange clouds are food, choose from; large box of crackers, 30 dried apricots, pot of jam and pack of parma ham.
Completely yellow stars is a mystery box.
Yellow stars with a black centre are also a mystery, but MUCH more valuable than you could possibly imagine. The trick to these two, is they have a puzzle/maze type of thing on the outside, making it impossible to get into for now. But I can promise you, they will be worth it if you manage to get one...
For now, simply put at the end of your submission where you go: Region 1, 2, 3 or 4. The map isn't ready yet so for task 4, you will then see where you have ended up...
The task is due Thursday the 13th at 12pm EST or 5am GMT. Not submitting without a valid reason given before the deadline, will result in your death.
Good luck tributes, and remember,
May the odds, be ever in your favour.
