Tar Pits

Tributes are alerted that they are approaching the most out-of-place aspect of the arena as the ground beneath their feet shifts from rotting and thriving vegetation to crisped plants and, eventually, hard packed earth. This leads directly down a steep slope to the carbon-scented pits of bubbling tar. Tributes would do well to mind their footing around the viscous, steaming cresote, which is quite clearly hot enough to give someone a particularly excruciating death.