32nd Hunger Games

The 32nd Hunger Games took place during the presidency of Luperca Galba.

## Arena

After a sedate Arena of rolling hills, the Gamemakers wanted another spectacle along the lines of the indoor Arena. Someone with a sense of humor suggested a dump, and the others couldn't resist. The Arena consisted of a massive landfill. Piles of garbage, containing everything from wrecked cars to recently expired food, reached heights of up to thirty feet.

### Flora

The Arena had some measure of opportunistic flora, mostly in the form of mold on the garbage. Grass grew on any exposed ground and some trash was old enough to have sprouts.

### Fauna

Passing birds occasionally roosted on piles of garbage. Cockroaches and insects populated the filth. Rat mutts were released at the Bloodbath but quickly dispersed and nested peacefully after the initial attack. Other than the mutts, the Gamemakers did not place any animals in the Arena.

## Games Overview

### Bloodbath

The first death occurred before the gong sounded, when Yasmine Jackson of District Six dropped her token, a pearl necklace, and was killed when it set off the mines around her platform. Once the Games proper began, the Tributes began to wade through the knee-high sludge of garbage and sewage surrounding the Cornucopia, which was a giant black garbage bag stretched over a wire frame. At that moment, rat mutts were released from the piles, killing Ben Dover of District Twelve and Serena Hyland of District Ten. The weapons in the Cornucopia were broken and rusted, slowing the carnage but not stopping it. Bloodbath victims included Haber Dasher of District Eight, Barley Sturridge of District Nine, and Jay Dallas of District Eleven.

### Day One

Due to the plentitude of hiding spots among the garbage, the only death after the Bloodbath on the first day was Pepper Brye of District Eleven, who was stabbed by Alex Mason of District Two.

### Day Two

Emmeline Blythe of District Three was speared to death by Rapture Kai of District One.

### Day Four

Adair Outridge of District Five was stabbed to deaeth by Alex Mason. Sky Levings, his District partner, began the process of constructing a bomb, which she intended to use against the Careers.

### Day Seven

Priscilla Piscot of District One had been hunting Castiel Wickham of District Ten since the Games started, having volunteered with the aim to kill the boy from Ten since her brother Miall was killed by the Ten male in his Games. When she heard Castiel's alliance, she snuck up on them and attacked. Asper Fin of District Seven stepped between them, expecting his two allies to take her on together. They both fled, and Priscilla killed him as an obstacle between her and Castiel.

### Day Eight

Whyte Smith of District Four was killed in a freak accident when he stumbled and fell directly onto a broken chair leg sticking out a garbage pile. The leg fatally impaled him.

### Day Nine

Vera Busattil of District Four was betrayed and killed by Margo Caspian of District Two and Rapture Kai of District One. Priscilla Piscot, who would have come to her defense, had left the alliance earlier that day.

### Day Eleven

Hermes Track of District Six suffered a mental breakdown and turned to nihilism. He killed his ally Wyatt Sparks of District Three by smashing his head with a rock.

### Day Thirteen

Elara Angelou of District Twelve was stabbed to death by Margo Caspian. Rapture found Ryker Merlin of District Eight sleeping under a pile of garbage bags and stabbed him to death.

### Day Fourteen

Sky placed and detonated her bomb in the Cornucopia. The blast killed Margo Caspian, Rapture Kai, and Alex Mason. Priscilla Piscot was left as the only Career.

### Day Fifteen

Priscilla finally found Castiel. When she did, she elected to spare him, having come to see that killing him wouldn't bring her brother back.

### Day Sixteen

Dominique Rindelle of District Nine and Myrtle Bloom of District Seven formed an alliance. Shortly after, Hermes attacked them, stabbing Myrtle in the chest. Myrtle grabbed his ankle, tripping him as he tried to chase Dominique. Dominique attacked Hermes back, kicking him and beating him until the injuries killed him. She then tried to stop Myrtle's bleeding, but it was too late, and Myrtle died.

### Day Seventeen

Castiel and Dominique surprised each other as they rounded a corner. Castiel reflexively struck Dominique, who fell against a cinder block, fatally injuring her head. Castiel frantically tried to save her, and when she died, the guilt the devout Christian boy had been developing overwhelmed him. He decided that it would be immoral for him to try to win if it meant someone else had to die. He slit his own wrists and bled out, wanting someone else to be able to live.

### Day Nineteen

After two days of searching, Priscilla found Sky in the Cornucopia. Priscilla no longer knew if she wanted to kill anyone else, but Sky had no way of knowing that. To defend herself, she laid out a ring of explosives around the Cornucopia. When Priscilla approached to converse with her final opponent, she triggered the explosives and was fatally wounded. She spent her last minutes talking with Sky about her sister Kiko and how she hoped she didn't volunteer.

## Placings

24th: Yasmine Jackson

23rd: Haber Dasher

22nd: Ben Dover

21st: Barley Sturridge

20th: Serena Hyland

19th: Jay Dallas

18th: Pepper Brye

17th: Emmeline Blythe

16th: Adair Outridge

15th: Asper Fin

14th: Whyte Roberts

13th: Vera Busattil

12th: Wyatt Sparks

11th: Elara Angelou

10th: Ryker Merlin

9th: Rapture Kai

8th: Margo Caspian

7th: Alex Mason

6th: Hermes Track

5th: Myrtle Bloom

4th: Dominique Rindelle

3rd: Castiel Wickham

2nd: Priscilla Piscot

Victor: Sky Levings

## Statistics

* Deadliest Tribute: Sky Levings, four kills
* Most common cause of death: explosion
* Odds-on Favorite: Rapture Kai

## Trivia

* Sky's decimation of the Careers shares a spot with Acee Hal's similar exploit on Polyphemus Ignotus' Top Ten Hunger Games Moments list.
* Dominique Rindelle set a still-standing record for most sponsors for a non-Career.