Category: #CodeAthena

Centre stage. Centre of the pitch. Centre of the world. You get the idea – a focal point. Sad that it could be the focal point for your brave city’s demise, though, eh? They’ve started to take bets on your downfall online. We hear your group has come in #1 favourite. Well, here you are, then. Centre stage. Your final clue. Grab a pen; a colleague; a glass of water – whatever helps you think. Ready yourself for here it comes, your final clue:

Oh wait, and who’s that in the centre surrounded by stone lions – watch behind you – the water!

Once a hall full of grandeur, now a holding spot for the River Thames. Talk about fall from grace. But since we’re talking about falls, be careful you don’t. Rumour has it some of you aren’t so great on your feet. Here we were thinking the Nautical School would be the perfect candidate for all things aquatic. Oh, you are, you say? Fair play. Well you better do well with the riddle below, then…

Before the threshold, outside the perimeter lies a sign of what’s to come – they looked back to classical times for solace, but all too late.

You’re here. 

The first stop.  

Just as well: walk before you run, eh? Or paddle before you swim?

South Bank – your home turf. Not as you have always seen it, though, we imagine. News has it that it was the skaters who were the first to go. We hear the developers had wanted to turn it into a row of shops. How sad. They won that battle only to be drowned by the flood; Move fast, young reader. It might be your Mum’s house next…

Amongst the brutalist jungle of the arts stands the form of one of their greatest, now past –  holding a sword aloft: in defiance, or fear?