As night encloses us in its deathly shroud and the events of that fateful day remain imprinted indelibly upon my mind's eye I put nervous finger to keyboard in the fervent hope that should I too succumb to the magical spell of the themes we have released upon the unsuspecting RapidWeaving world, then I may rest in peace knowing that I have left behind me written testament if not of Moriarty's evil intent then of a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the Flood, leads on to fortune.

Responding to Lord Woodgate's urgent summons, sunrise greeted our arrival as we finally descended upon the legendary necropolis known as the Valley of the Themes.

"But Holmes," spluttered I, in a state some some distress as we approached the Tomb of Addons, "what of the ancient curse?"

The great man, weary no doubt from a night of deductive exertions, cast me a pitying glance before uttering these now immortal words:

"Do not worry your arse, Watson, the curse is but an urban myth. It has no power over those who know how to Google."

Upon which our guide led us deep into the bowels of the mountainside. Eventually we emerged in a vast burial chamber where torches flickered around the cavernous walls. Lord Woodgate climbed from the tomb to greet us.

Holmes wasted no time on pleasantries. "I observe from your red nose that you are a theme developer. Very well, show me this theme that defies all logic."

Woodgate indicated the ancient artefact unearthed during the night. "We have named it Flood,” he said.

"Notice its simplicity," said Holmes, lighting his pipe and disappearing behind a cloud of smoke. "What does that tell you, Watson?"

"But surely its sheer simplicity is its beauty," exclaimed I.

"A fact I have no intention of disputing, my dear Watson. Flood may well be a brand new theme but I suspect if we examine it in more detail we will find that it's modelled on the existing ThemeFlood website. Hence its name."

"I say, Holmes, is that really true?"

"You can bet your pimply sweet ass it is, Watson. Which means we'll find a clean and contemporary design, vivid banner container and cutting-edge navigation, suitable for a multitude of different project types, such as blogs, portfolios, marketing and e-Commerce."

“You astound me, Holmes! How on earth could you deduce that from so swift and cursory an observation?”

"It's all here in the manual, Watson. Its choice of four horizontal content containers leads one to conclude that they give you the ability to break outside of a conventional 2-column theme layout and build sophisticated layouts using stacks, Extra Content and PlusKit."

"You mean break up blocks of content into elegant columns and banners, oozing Web 2.0 goodness?"

"That's exactly what I mean, my dear Watson. Consider for a moment the wealth of powerful theme settings beneath the surface: the ability to switch between a standard drop-down navigation layout or a mega-menu, or set the content container to span 100% of the theme while supporting 39 embedded font faces, delivered via the Google Font Directory."

"My dear fellow," said I, in a state of some excitement, "that really is most excellent!"

"What worries me, Watson, is Moriarty's intent. Why create such a versatile and powerful theme and leave it here for us to find?"

"Perhaps there is no conspiracy, Holmes."

Holmes puffed vigorously on his pipe. "Or perhaps that's what they'd like us to think..."

I turned the theme over and studied its underside. "I say, Holmes, what does this hieroglyph mean?"

"It's the new HTML5 doctype, Watson. Its mere presence signifies enormous possibilities to use new code, stacks and plugins that are already compatible with HTML5. Not only that, I hazard this theme is also an excellent performer on iDevices, includes useful sidebar functions to display a searchbar, date, time or details of when the page was last updated. Not only that—"

Holmes broke off as an excited clamour arose from further inside the Tomb of Addons. "My God, Holmes, I do believe they've unearthed another theme!" said I.

So it came to pass that we followed Lord Woodgate through a labyrinth of passages descending ever deeper into the mountainside. At journey's end we came upon another chamber, only partially excavated, where a huddle of themeologists surrounded the find. Woodgate prised it carefully from its setting and passed it to Holmes, who subjected it to a moment's scrutiny.

"Seven months in the making, Lord Woodgate? I venture this is no average RapidWeaver theme. Correct me if I'm wrong: this theme promises brilliant results, without overwhelming your content or bombarding you with complicated settings and code. Everything works beautifully straight out of the box. In fact," Holmes added, peering suspiciously at the themeologist, "I suspect that this theme has been primarily designed for artists and photographers."

"Good God, Holmes!" uttered I. "How on earth could you deduce that from so swift and cursory an examination?"