SHOES!

The Cornucopia sits in the center of a forest. On the other side of the trees are all the Arenas from the previous Fandom Games.

Ladies and Gentlemen… Let the Fandom Games begin!

After leaving Blackmoor Manor, Magnus and I ended up in another one of those “cold pockets” of the Arena, Ramsey Hall.

It started to snow.

I couldn’t kill him like I was originally planning.

I couldn’t go home to my girlfriend and my dog, knowing I’d killed so many people here, knowing I’d killed the Doctor…

So, we ended up at this other really nice castle in the Arena.

The door we came in was in the basement. We went up to the upper floor and settled into some of the guest rooms.

Then we went to explore.

While the Doctor, DiNozzo, McGee, and Magnus were in the library, I went outside. Since this was one of those weird cold spots in the Arena, I put a coat on as I left. I mean, I worked in the Rockies in Colorado. I know how it gets when it’s winter.

Behind this storage shed, I found this square area of an ivy-covered wall. Under the ivy, I found the gate to a really gorgeous garden.

After checking it out, I ran back to the castle to show the guys.

But the door was locked. It was the only one into the castle.

I went to the storage shed to see if I could find a way to get back into the castle. I mean, I didn’t want to just leave the castle grounds. I didn’t want the other Tributes to kill me.

So I found the controls for the ski lift and went to start it up, hoping that the guys would see it.

The library was gorgeous. I mean, except for the huge hole someone clawed in one of the walls. We wondered when Ryan was coming back, so she could see it.

But anyway, Magnus and I started looking through books and tried not to crack up at the memory of the last library we were in, over at the Golden Gardenia.

After consulting a book himself, the Doctor looked at this really old painting of Marie Antoinette. “I wonder…” he said.

And then he climbed this set of spiral stairs to the upper half-floor of shelves. He climbed up onto this small seat, pulled his sonic screwdriver back out of a pocket, and used it to take the grating off an air vent. And he climbed into said vent.

“Doc?“ I asked. “Where are you going?”

“I can’t tell,” I replied. “We’re being too loud.”

And then the Doctor dropped out of sight, apparently climbing down a service ladder. DiNozzo, McGee, and I followed carefully. As it turned out, we were somewhere in the elevator shaft.

The Doctor pulled his sonic screwdriver out again, having put it back in his pocket during the crawl through the shafts. He used it to open some sort of grate.

We followed him down a set of stairs through the grate, ending up in the basement level of the castle, under the elevator itself, which was hanging precariously above us.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” DiNozzo said.

“Well, then I’d better work quickly. We must not have time to actually open these locks by process of elimination,” the Doctor responded, indicating a door that was normally hidden by the elevator.

He used his sonic screwdriver on all of the locks, and the door opened. The Doctor and I barely made it through the door before it fell, apparently having not been held in place by the emergency brake we’d seen elsewhere in the basement. DiNozzo and McGee, unfortunately, weren’t so lucky.

And it was terrible to hear them scream, and to turn back to see the elevator come down.

Trying to follow me, Magnus must’ve gone the other way, because I heard him call for me, confused, and then scrambled to follow me.

Turning right at a dead end, we ended up in a dungeon. One of the cells wasn’t actually a cell; behind the prison bars was another set of passages.

I used my sonic screwdriver to open the gate, and, after walking into the passage, I pulled a set of chains to turn a set of stepping stones to let us across a pit.

At another intersection, I turned left again. We were at the bottom of the Queen’s Tower. To get up all the stairs, I quickly solved a puzzle.

As I finished, Magnus asked, "What are we doing, Doctor? What’s so important that DiNozzo and McGee had to die?"

I sighed sadly. "I honestly didn’t mean for that to happen. I just... I get curious sometimes, especially when history is involved."

"Well, this better be interesting," Magnus said, climbing the stairs.

We ended up in a golden room. I bent down to look at a crest in the middle of the floor. I used my sonic screwdriver on it, and a hole opened up. A pedestal rose from the hole, with a diamond resting on top.

Yesterday, I saw a fire at the southern shore of the lake. And there were cannons. According to last night’s death broadcast, it was Demetra who had been killed.

I’ve decided to leave Moon Lake. There are so many deaths associated with this part of the Arena, and I don’t want to be next (although I do hate to leave the water).

After I’d traveled north a while, I’d noticed something odd: Five horses inside a castle courtyard. I was sure there was a stable somewhere, but not there.

The man in the doorway was as confused as I was.

Yesterday, I saw a fire at the southern shore of the lake. And there were cannons. According to last night’s death broadcast, it was Demetra who had been killed.

I’ve decided to leave Moon Lake. There are so many deaths associated with this part of the Arena, and I don’t want to be next (although I do hate to leave the water).

After I’d traveled north a while, I’d noticed something odd: Five horses inside a castle courtyard. I was sure there was a stable somewhere, but not there.