With power comes madness...

@Niko has seen more violence in the arena than most others, not only struggling in battles for her own life but in being responsible for the deaths of eight others - a staggering third of the Tributes in the games. The psychological impact of this cannot be understated and has slowly transformed @Niko into a much more sadistic player than when she first stood on her podium at the cornucopia. Armed with the spear she'd pried from @NeoGabi's cold, dead hands during their battle to the death and maddened by trauma, @Niko goes on the hunt for Tributes and comes across @Gravity and @Perseus75, holding them hostage at the point of her lance. She ties the pair up and forces them to sit on the ground before her, wondering in which depraved manner to purge them from the games to her greatest amusement. While she contemplates their fate, the @JanexJaneway unexpectedly comes across the trio along the wooded path. @Niko jabs the pointed end of her lethal instrument into @JanexJaneway's throat, threatening to plunge it through her esophagus should they move.

The change in circumstances produces a fiendish idea in @Niko's mind, which tellingly washes across her face like the slowly forming grin of a Cheshire cat. "Let's play a game", she suggests to the group. "If you willingly play, I'll set two of you free", she offers, "but if you struggle, I'll kill all three of you right now". Optionless and preferring the offer of those odds to certain death, the group reluctantly concedes. With their agreement secured, @Niko forces @JanexJaneway to kill either @Gravity or @Perseus75. Having used her explosive at the feast and now weaponless, @JanexJaneway is unsure how they would even go about killing, but their hesitation is quickly quelled by @Niko's sharp stick, encouraging them through repeated jabs to their back. @JanexJaneway moves around back of the seated Tributes and makes their decision, removing the transparent plastic liner of their backpack. @Gravity and @Perseus75 brace for the worst as @JanexJaneway quickly wraps the make-shift bag around @Perseus75's head and holds it as he gasps and struggles for air.

Heartlessly watching, @Niko gorges herself on berries from a nearby bush as she takes in the diabolical spectacle until @Perseus75 collapses to his death. Shaking but grateful he wasn't chosen, @Gravity sighs a breath of anxiety filled relief. Keeping her end of the bargain only to torture them again later, @Niko lets both @JanexJaneway and @Gravity go, laughing menacingly to herself and wiping the purple stain of berries from her mouth, as they scamper off into the bush with their lives. Lost in wickedness and gluttony, @Niko fails to recognize the toxin contained within the berries on which she feasted, spreading through her unsuspecting body...


Wandering through the woods still in search of encampments to raid, @GXV3 wonders why seemingly no one has returned from the feast. While pondering where all the Tributes have gone, @GXV3 is unexpectedly gifted a rusty hatchet from a sponsor who must like his odds, he figures.

1 cannon shot can be heard in the distance

@JanexJaneway and @Gravity, both having fled in different directions into the bush and shaken to their core from the torture they endured at Niko's hands, each independently find a place to bed down for the night and try to get some sleep. Worried that Niko may return and find them for more sadistic games at any moment, neither is overly successful in achieving any meaningful state of rest.


Her mind clouded and unable to form a single coherent thought, @Niko staggers from side to side as she struggles to remain standing erect. Falling backward onto a tree trunk for support, she isn't feeling well today and cannot understand why. Gazing downward at her body for the first time in several hours, she's shocked and terrified - the few lucid feelings her mind is still able to process, seeing for the first time her ash-pale skin and black veins that have become varicose from spreading toxin, creeping through her circulatory system like a quickly spreading vine. She can actually see the putrid blood climbing its way through her body toward her head with each successive beat of her heart, and in a confused and petrified panic, Niko begins to run through the woods in a desperate attempt to find water - a purely instinctual reaction and forlorn hope to cleanse their body of the infection. Ailed and dysfunctional, @Niko screams desperately, unable to form words as each step forward turns into a step sideways or reverse. As the blight reaches her face, she's able to see it consumes her eyes and sight before advancing on her brain, causing her to collapse and convulse until tar-like secretion seeps from her face. The toxic berries she'd consumed reaping a poetic justice for the butcher of the games, @Niko is dead.


"Come outside to play, JanexJaneway!" @GXV3 fondly recalls from childhood memories growing up together in the eleventh district. Endless days playing on the dilapidated playground until nearly nightfall, when one of their mothers would have to round them up and bring them home for the night. Playing games throughout the day like red light/green light, tug of war and bizarrely, guessing how many marbles were in the other's hands, even though that's not how anyone else on the planet actually plays with marbles, @GXV3 cannot help but reflect on his childhood in this moment. He can hear their childhood memories and laughter echoing in his mind. As the pair grew older, their relationship only grew closer and as best friends, they disclosed everything to one another: their crushes, their hopes and dreams and their favorite internet memes. Poverty riddled their district, but they made do with what they had. Life was okay... all until these infernal games. When they were chosen as their district's tributes, @GXV3 recalled being thrilled and excited to be entering the games together, with their closest friend to rely on. But as the games have gone on, and the end draws ever nearer, @GXV3 realizes that with so few Tributes left, he and @JanexJaneway will soon likely be in the unfortunate position of having to turn on each other in a barbaric fight to the death... all for the entertainment of rich shits who bet on people like animals, he thinks to himself as resentful and remorseful thoughts stir in his mind. He knows the rules of the arena and there can be only one winner. Fueled by rage toward the spectating world, unable to even contemplate killing his dear friend and decidedly unwilling to place them in the position of having to murder him, @GXV3 takes a large step forward... and off the cliff-edge he'd been standing on, spreading his arms and falling blissfully to his death, his soul at least unburdened.

2 cannon shots can be heard in the distance

A victor emerges...

Snow falls lightly in the arena today - a blanket of tranquility concealing the sins that lie below. The arena is deathly quiet now, the 22 other Tributes having since fallen silent. Emotionally scarred, physically drained, weaponless, supply-less and ravaged with thirst and hunger, the two remaining Tributes emerge from the bush to find one another in the field at the cornucopia, where it all so recently began. There's no urgency anymore... no angst or apprehension - just inevitability, as @Gravity and @JanexJaneway limp to within a few meters of one another. No words need be spoken in this moment and both find momentary serenity in taking-in the snow-blanketed field, the glistening flakes that fall gently upon them... and the peaceful silence. As their gazes revert back to one another, each shares a fleeting empathetic expression with the other, understanding in that moment the horrors they've each endured.

As the moment passes and the inescapable outcome returns to their focus, the pair hobble toward one another and begin to struggle. There are no weapons left... no tricks remaining; just what's left of their body's strength that leeches from their aching muscles with each passing second that the scuffle continues. Cold and with precious little energy left to either kick or punch, neither Tribute appears to approach the skirmish with any particular tactic. As seconds become minutes and the minutes draw longer and longer, neither @Gravity or @JanexJaneway succeed in establishing any particular dominance over the other. With snow filling their clothing and chilling their starving bodies as they wrestle in the snow-fall, the will to live begins to escape them both. Freezing, exhausted and sweaty, the struggle eventually desists, the pair laying on their backs gasping for air and staring upward at the sky next to one another.

Deadlocked in a stalemate that could see their grappling continue indefinitely, @Gravity's willingness to persist is all but expired. "Oh just fucking kill me already" Gravity begs. The pair, sprawled on the ground and barely regaining their breath from the melee, share a moment of knowing silence. Reluctantly, @JanexJaneway obliges, uses their remaining strength to roll on top of @Gravity, mount him and clutch their hands around his neck until his breaths have completely ceased. @JanexJaneway collapses exhausted on the ground next to @Gravity's lifeless corpse, becoming the winner of Stonewall's 2021 Hunger Games for District 11!!

1 cannon shot can be heard in the distance

Tribute Placements

1. @JanexJaneway
2. @Gravity
3. @GXV3
4. @Niko
5. @Perseus75
6. @Midnighttlc
7. @ro-bink
8. @Traull
9. @AmandaTLevi
10. @Voleron
11. @Pelvic-Sorcery
12. @Vriess
13. @NeoGabi
14. @Saintplazma
15. @JimJMcL1a
16. @Jspectre
17. @queertribble
18. @JoystickJoshy
19. @ThatIndividual
20. @nicholasjohn16
21. @Zander_Hawk
22. @Gladiatorpope
23. @jmccomb1979
24. @doctormeow

District Placements

1. District #11
2. District #8
3. District #4
4. District #2
5. District #7
6. District #9
7. District #5
8. District #6
9. District #12
10. District #3
11. District #10
12. District #1

Kills by Tribute

8: Niko
3: @Perseus75
3: @JanexJaneway
3: @Traull
3: @Midnighttlc
1: @ThatIndividual
1: @Gravity
1: @JoystickJoshy
1: @ro-bink

5 SWC: @JanexJaneway (1st Place)
4 SWC: @Gravity (2nd Place)
3 SWC: @GXV3 (3rd Place)

5 SWC: @Niko - AKA The Butcher of the Games (Top Kills - 8)

3 SWC: @JanexJaneway (Bet on District 11, which won)
2 SWC: @GXV3 (Bet on District 8, which placed 2nd)
1 SWC: @Niko (Bet on District 4, which placed 3rd)
1 SWC: @NeoGabi (Bet on District 4, which placed 3rd)