27th Hunger Games

The 27th games took place in rocky caves. They became notorious for featuring flesh eating beetles and also cave collapses. The games lasted for 8 days in total.

This year it became very difficult for some game-makers to retrieve some tributes' bodies due to a design fault in the caves roofs, but this in turn added an extra aspect to the games, one that greatly affected its outcome.

Preceded by: 26th Hunger Games

Followed by: 28th Hunger Games

The Games
Day 1

Within minutes from the games beginning, tributes had cut themselves and were bleeding, after falling onto or brushing past the jagged rocks in the cornucopia cave. Farrell and his district partner Acropora followed the trails of blood from various escaped tributes creating a lethal team killing off Hudson (7) and Doris (9) within the first five minutes.

Day 2-7

For the next days, they hunted tirelessly for a source of water, whilst working together to capture insects for food. However, after coming beetles crawling from the flesh eaten corpse of Camila (2), the pair realized that not all beetles were edible. Soon, they also came to realize that the only water in the games had been bottled water in the cornucopia which had swiftly been snatched up after the games had begun.

Over the following days Farrell and Acropora encountered several tributes who appeared to have become insane with thirst, and so they rather easily killed these tributes. By doing this, it raised their chances of winning and they started to be sent food and water bottles from sponsors.

One morning as Farrell and Acropora were roaming into an uncharted section of the caves, they came across the career pack, who were sleeping in the middle of a small cave. Acropora suggested setting some of the beetles on the career pack, and so they carefully used water bottles to take beetles from the nearby corpse of Jetty (6) and they quietly dropped them into the careers cave. As they ran off, they heard screams of panic from the careers which were ended when Jupiter (2) killed off Diarite and Velva (both 1) due to their loud hysteria which could attract other tributes.

Day 8

With only a handful of tributes left, the caves started to collapse from the perimeter inwards. Whilst running back to the cornucopia, Farrell realized what he had to do and he tripped Acropora. This led her to collapse onto the ground and ultimately be crushed by the then-imminent cave collapses. As an injured Acropora screamed obscenities at Farrell, he kept running and ultimately had the final battle with Polly (6) in the central cave. They were both empty handed, but Farrell managed to kick her head straight into a jagged rock face before gouging her eyes until she died.

Post Games
After returning to District 4, Farrell suffered for several years after what he had seen and he developed an immense fear of any kind of insect. However after receving support from his mentor, Mags, he got better and went on to get married and have children.