Survivor: Unknown

[MessengerOfDreams]

___________Immunity/Reward Challenge____________

A red flag appeared in the distance from where Runouw was standing. The tired faces of Doram, Moy, Mic, Azn, Linkdroid, 24Murph, Buff and YoshiKid69 appeared in the distance. Oh, yeah, and Ridder followed them as well.

Runouw looked at them. “Well, you seem bright and ready this morning.”

Azn flipped him the bird.

Runouw flipped it back to him.

Their debate was interrupted by the falling of the blue team’s flag onto the sand, then by the falling of a few members of the blue team itself.

Runouw started laughing hysterically. “Oh, sweet Jesus, have mercy on me.” he spat out, clutching his stomach. “Well, normally I would say that they’re so out of it they can’t participate in this challenge, but, hey, I love a bit of misery, so, hop to it!”

Niklaw got up, staggering with the feeling of the worst hangover ever and said “What exactly are we ‘hopping to?’”

“I figured you simpletons needed an easy challenge to start off with, so I had my unpaid interns set up a path made up of stones that you can literally ‘hop to’ in the waters. It’s slippery and full of gaps, my favorite kind- for you, that is. Each team member will try to get as far as they can before they fall or get to the end. Farthest one wins for their tribe. Person to get to the end, if they do, gets the reward for the tribe. Wanna know what you’re playing for?”

Everyone nodded.

Runouw brought out a beautiful feathered necklace. “Immunity,” he started, finishing by taking the cover off a pile next to it. “And fishing gear!”

Doram and co. grinned as they looked at Scuba gear, fishing rods, nets and spears. Perfect for catching fish with. Niklaw just groaned, not wanting to look at anything related to fish right now. None of the rest of Kirby’s team was very enthusiastic about it either.

Doram elbowed 24 and said “We’ve got it in the bag, man.” 24 was about to nod when he saw that Linkdroid was still in high heels. “Maybe… if that woman who gives us from Detroit a bad name can stagger across the stones good enough.”

“So, we start in pairs. Most pair winners is the victor. If anyone gets to the end, reward is all theirs.” Runouw recapped. “First pair- Doram versus Kimonio. Ready?”

Kim nodded the best he could. Doram responded by taking his shoes off and throwing them aside. “Ready when you are, kiddo.” He said.

Kim nodded as the teams lined up before the stone path. “Age before Beauty.”

Doram rolled his eyes before starting out across the 10-stone path. The first one was easy. The second one was a bit jagged, causing Doram to wish he had kept his shoes on, but at the very least it was stabilizing. Then he jumped to the third, which was extremely slippery, and he fell into the water.

Kim was next. He jumped to the first one, slipped and fell. His team simultaneously slapped his forehead as he swam out of the water best he could. Niklaw made sure to Gibbs-Slap him as he returned to the top.

Mic and Four were up next. Four started this time without needing to be persuaded. She got to the identical first, second and third ones before getting dizzy and falling onto the fourth (a tad ironic when you think about it), head first, giving her a nasty bump. Runouw just chuckled when they asked for medical attention.

“Are you okay, four?” Brando asked.

“I guess, Niklaw.” She replied, alarming Brando a tad bit.

Mic was next. He hopped 5 stones before losing his balance and gracefully leaping into the water.

Next up was Linkdroid and Brandobrawl. Linkdroid refused to take off her heels and tripped trying to hop to the first one. Doram was seen burying his face in his hands.

Brandobrawl was next, easily hopping 8 stones before he stumbled and fell. Everyone cheered.

Buff vs Niklaw. Niklaw went first, stumbling 3 stones before falling into the water painfully. Buff went 4 steps before she herself tripped over the 5th stone, slamming her own head onto the rock. Unlike four, who just kinda floated back to her team, she got up and swam back to shore.

“Dang, you okay, Buff?” Mic asked as Moy got ready to go next.

“Course, Mic.” She replied. “Army, remember?”

Moy stepped up to the plate against Yoshi Boo. Moy had never liked jumping over any kind of height very much, and felt a tad bit nervous. This was intensified as he watched Yoshi Boo clear 6 stones, the second-most out of anyone, and more than anyone on their team had gotten. He started to clear his mind before he jumped.

1… so far so good… 2… ow! That hurt! 3… whoa… 4…5… here comes 6… it’s so far away… yes! Made it! Whoa… whoa, easy… whoawhoawhoawhoa

A splash was heard as he fell off the 7th rock, invigorated and swimming back to shore, giving his team high-fives.

Ridder was next. Its hooded figure helped it jump 5 spots, before she tripped over it and fell into the water. Nin10mode followed, tying her with 5 stones.

The score- 5 to 2, Doram’s team in favor.

Kirby was next. He knew his team needed to win every round in order to tie for the immunity. Before he started, Runouw shouted “Kirby, if your team ties with Doram’s, it’s a matter of who can make it to the end, all right?”

He nodded as he hopped over 6 stones before collapsing belly-first into the water. 24murph followed, falling just short with 5 stones. He slapped his forehead as he returned humbly to his forgiving team.

Avolerators was next, against Aznchau4ever. Azn went first. He hopped over 8 stones, tying Brando for the record. Avo gulped, not sure how he was gonna match that. He hopped over 1. The crew held its breath. 2, 3, 4, 5. The crew was practically taking spontaneous craps in their pants as Avo jumped over 6, 7 and 8. Avo stood perfectly still as the crew waited for him to jump one more. Finally, Avo took a daring leap, jumping right over 9 and into the water.
Everyone looked at Runouw in anticipation. Runouw made sure to drag his thought progress on as long as possible.

“Does it pass?” Avo, fresh out of the water, asked.

“It passes.” He nodded. Cheers came from Kirby and crew as the others groaned.

Last up was YoshiKid69 and Blablob. Doram was especially worried as no one knew much of anything about YoshiKid, except that he ran fast.

Blablob went first, staggering over 5 stones before falling into the water.

YoshiKid took a running start, to everyone’s surprise, and jumped, clearing 4 stones before firmly gripping the 5th stone with his feet. Then, he hopped onto the 5th, and effortlessly onto the 6th.

“Doram’s Team wins Immunity!” Runouw announced, causing everyone to cheer from said team, and groans of disappointment to come from the other.

By the time the cheering had stopped, Doram’s team spotted YoshiKid on the 10th and final stone.

“…and Reward!” Runouw said, causing them to cheer again. They all ran over and picked up a piece of the gear and started to march off to their camp.

“Kirby’s team, you know what that means.” Runouw said, causing everyone else to nod. “Tribal Council with me. Someone’s going home.”

[Ridder]

Mah character is virtually a BAMF.

I likes it. I think it kind of moved too fast after the very first pair tried, but it doesn't matter too much.
Still doesn't feel as great as some of the other stuff you does.

8.5/10

[MessengerOfDreams]

Ooh, that review was cool on SO MANY LEVELS! I didn't even know you THOUGHT I did cool stuff!

Either way, I will take guesses on who is going home, if anyone wishes to guess.

[YoshiKid54]

Now that was an epic competition.

[MessengerOfDreams]

_________________________________Kirby’s Team_______________________________

Apparently no one was safe, unless your name was Nin10mode. Everyone made sure to tell him they weren’t voting for him, which kinda made him uneasy.
Yoshi Boo was the last to walk up to him, while he was trying to get a coconut off a particularly high branch. “You having trouble there?” she asked.

“No,” he insisted, hopping up as high as he could, machete in hand, and took another whack at it. He missed and this time hit himself with the machete. Yoshi Boo winced and pulled it away from him.

“Sometimes you just gotta let stuff live and let die.” She replied.

“That’s just fancy talk for ‘giving up.’” He snapped back.

“I’ll take you back to camp after we talk.” She said, ignoring him as they sat down.

“About what?” he asked.

“Elimination.” She answered. “Right now, I’m leaning toward Niklaw, after all, she kinda made us high last night, and that doesn’t sit well with me.”

Nin10mode nodded. “Kim was pretty awful in the challenge, though.” He replied. “Didn’t even make it off the first stone. I mean, we all did pretty poorly, but he was just inexcusable.”

“But most of it traces back to Niklaw.” YB replied. “If she hadn’t messed up the stew, we may have won and we’d be fishing by the ocean and talking about life.”

Nin10mode had to admit, that sounded nice. “I have to admit,” he admitted, “That sounds nice.” He sat back. “Today’s all been a blur, pretty much all I remember is everyone sucking but Brando and Avo. Brando, he was awesome. It was if he was never… wait a minute…”

“What?” Yoshi Boo asked.

Nin10mode was working things out. “Brando was the only one who didn’t act high last night!” he said. “And he was the only one who didn’t act hungover today! He didn’t even fake it!”

Yoshi Boo snapped her fingers. “That conniving little- he tricked us!”

“So are we set on voting Brando?”

“Totally. I’ll start telling people.”

________________________Tribal Council_______________________________

Runouw welcomed the tribe into the tribal council area, directing them to the torches. “Everyone grab a torch, dip it in the fire.” He said. “Fire represents life, and when I quench the fire, as I will do for 17 of you pathetics, it means you are dead to me and this game.”

Everyone gave him a dirty look as they sat down.

“So, tell me, how fabulous has Island life been?” Runouw asked.

Most of them scoffed, but Nin10mode spoke up. “Aside from a really weird incident, actually not as bad as you make it.”

“Weird incident?”

Brando spoke up. “Someone accidentally put drug-like mushrooms into our stew last night.” He said. “Got us all high.”

Yoshi Boo shot him a dirty look. He shrugged and turned to Runouw, who was bending over in laughter to the point that he nearly did them all a favor and fell in the fire. “THAT IS FREAKING HILARIOUS!” he shouted, cracking up. “So, will that be a deciding factor in who goes home?”

Before Brando could speak, Yoshi Boo spoke up. “Definitely.” She said.

“Well, I’d ask more, but you already made my evening, so, it’s time to vote. Blablob, you’re up.”

5 minutes later, everyone had voted. Runouw went to go tally the votes.

“Once the votes are read, the decision is final. Person voted out will be asked to leave the tribal Council area immediately.” He stopped to smirk and continued with “And by that, I mean I will have my guards throw you out forcibly if you don’t leave immediately. Time to read the votes.”

“First Vote- Kimonio.

“Second Vote-Brandobrawl.









“Next Vote- Brandobrawl







“Next Vote- Brandobrawl









“Next Vote- Brandobrawl






























“Third person to leave Survivor- Brandobrawl. That’s 5, therefore that is enough. Gimme that torch.”

Runouw got out his torch snuffer, autographed by Jeff Probst, and snuffed Brando’s fire. “The tribe has spoken.” He said. “Time for you to go.” Brando threw his torch into the fire and stormed off.

_____________________________?______________________________

“Man, I hiked 5 miles to see you, girl. It better be good.”

“It is. My plan worked. Brandobrawl got voted out, and no one suspected me.”

“Good, good. Everyone has pretty much ignored me so far, but I plan on shocking them later.”

“Well, we’re here, so you wanna do something?”

“Sure. I found this Gameboy in Moy’s stash. We can play it and hang out.”

“Sounds good, Ridder.”

“Good, you go first, Fourinone.”

[Ridder]

Incredibly short chapter, much talking some of it necessary, but, If you eliminate all the talking, you get about three-four paragraphs, as an end for the very first round? Reasonably. As a chapter? Well, it isn't a chapter, so I guess it doesn't matter way too much.


I also find it weird to be the bad person in the team. oh, and could you explain why exactly anyone would want to poison their own team sometime in the future?

Back to

8/10

[MessengerOfDreams]

Four's Reasons:

1. To get Brando or Niklaw eliminated
2. (will be revealed later)
3. (will also be revealed later)

[Doram]

*catches up as quickly as possible...*
Hah! 59! Well, economies of scale. I'm twice the average age of the members around here, so it makes sense to be twice the age of the other contestants...

As for my character, I am a survivalist/environmentalist (when I'm not busy being a programming geek or art dilettante), but throwing away a map? Never. Not with my wife's navigational skills (rated solidly in the negatives...) I can tell you where north is with a watch and a shadow, but if I have jungle to trek through, I am bloody well going to have or get a map. Or, barring that, make one...... I've watched more than my fair share of Survivor-man, This Old House, and Star Trek(TNG or DS9 preferably...), so make of that what you will... I have also read an innumerable amount of books in my life, sci-fi/fantasy mostly, but plenty of other stuff. As a result, I have a large vocabulary that I enjoy using, although I am not above slang and net lingo (brb, lol, and wtf are just plain useful). I have also been called (and called myself) a big ball of cliches. I think they make handling life easier.

I know I'm still kinda new around here, and I'd like to say thanks for including me in something like this. Other than that, this looks very cool, and good job thus far. *ruffles MoY's hair*

Go Team Doram!!!

[MICrophone]

…Star Trek(TNG or DS9 preferably...)

Tsk tsk…TOS all the way!

Anyhow, this looks pretty good MOY…again, because of the type of story this is I'm not really drawn in yet, but it's well-written and engaging. Keep it up!

[MessengerOfDreams]

BTW to help me manage Daily and TRC, I've hired Kimonio and Ridder to Co-write this with me.


EPISODE 2!

Doram’s Team

Buffooner woke up the next day, satisfied from a good night’s rest. She grabbed a fishing net, went into the ocean near her and just stood there, net hanging limp in her hand. And she just thought. And thought, and thought, and thought.

Random things that came to mind, mostly. Food she wanted, people she cared about, and plans for the game. She saved the most interesting for last.

She knew she already wanted Moy, Mic and her to be the final 3, and let the chips fall where they may from there. They had been good to her and she enjoyed their friendship. She also knew that certain people couldn’t make it to the merge. YoshiKid, for example, who deemed a large physical threat after dominating the challenge yesterday, and Doram, who seemed a controlling and persuasive leader. And Linkdroid was just a prissy little witch in her opinion. Ridder was just weird, Aznchau was ok, and 24Murph… well, she’d have to see about him. But they were OK. For pawns.

She sighed as she realized that she had broken a promise to herself, to not take the game seriously, to just have fun on the island now that she had left the army. She didn’t like it, either. She should just leave it up to fate, let that decide who stays here the longest.

She came back to reality with a jolt as Mic tapped her on the shoulder. She sighed upon seeing him. “Oh, hey Mic.” She said, smiling. “What are you up to?”

“Well, besides wondering why you’re just standing there, watching the sunrise. Not bad, eh?”

“You’re not kidding.” Buff said, barely noticing it before. “I may sound crazy, but with the right adjustments, I would live here.”

Mic chuckled. “Well, all you’d need is a house, power, clean water, food, and heat.” He looked ahead and said “Yeah, but it’s not bad. Really beautiful, actually.”

“Yeah,” she grimaced suddenly. “I just can’t seem to enjoy it as much as I should.”

“Oh? Why is that?”

“Well, all I can think is ‘How do I get to next round? How do I stay in?’ And that cuts into my enjoyment time.”

“Well, you gotta find some way to stay. Maybe not spending 24 hours a day playing video games and eating chips?”

“True, true. I don’t think the tribe likes me.”

“Likes us.”

“Right, likes us.”

“It’s an interesting dilemma we have ourselves, eh, Buff?”

“Indeed it is, Mic, indeed it is.”
__________________________________________________________________________

Kirby’s team

Niklaw was walking along the beach, depressed. She had nearly been eliminated last night, never mind the vote count. If Yoshi Boo hadn’t caught Brandobrawl, she would have been gone first round. And that scared her. She had to get into an alliance, and she knew who with.

“Hey, Yoshi Boo!” she called, seeing her picking some fruit off of a nearby bush. “How are you doing?”

YB smiled. “Is this the part where you thank me for saving your butt and pledge to join forces with us?”

Niklaw opened her mouth to talk, but then realized that YB had gotten it right. “Jeez, what, have you played this before?”

YB chuckled. “I wouldn’t mind aligning with you and a couple more people. Nevertheless, I’m gonna have a talk with Nin10mode about it, see what he thinks about it.”

“See what I think about what?” Nin10mode asked as he walked up to the two of them.

“Well, I was thinking we take Niklaw to the final 3 with us.” She replied.

He just nodded. “Right now that’s the least of my worries. Now breakfast, however, that’s pretty high on my list.”

Yoshi Boo chuckled and said “Well, since Brando’s not here to cook for us anymore, then Niklaw, I’ll give you the berries, some more fish meat from yesterday, and then you have fun, eh?”

She nodded, waving and walking over to the fire pit.

Nin10mode grinned. “Nice lady.”

YB smirked and said “A bit old for you, isn’t she?” Nin10mode playfully punched her in the arm. “By the way,” he added, “Who do you think we should align with out of who’s left?”

“We’ll have you, me, Niklaw, Kim and Kirby.”