Praesidium in Britanniā
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Northern Britain, about AD 80. The governor Agricola has built a line of forts deep into the north, far from Rome. In one of them it is a freezing winter night. The moon is up, the horses are restless in their stables, and the soldiers in the yard are still drilling.
Two sentries stand guard at the gate. Then, out in the dark beyond the ditch, one of them hears a shout. Seven puzzles stand between you and the end of the night. Solve them all, and one last word tells you what the sentries were.
Crossword — the fort, the night and the watch, in Latin from Book 2.
Anagrams — unscramble seven things done in the fort.
Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — three adjectives, fortis ("brave"), longus ("long") and ferōx ("fierce"), with their comparatives and superlatives.
Picture Count — reassemble the fort, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself. Spelling and capitals are forgiving, and macrons are never needed.
Sixteen words from the fort. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Eight cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the eight red letters:
Seven things done in the fort. Unscramble each one.
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The password was:
Fortēs — brave. The shout in the dark was only a lost patrol coming home, but the sentries had held the gate until they knew. Thousands of soldiers spent years in forts like this one, far from home at the edge of the empire.