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MB. · 20-09-2017, 08:40 PM

[carried on from the BrantSteele thread] [I know this kind of thing could probably also go in Creative Writing & Books, so I'm sure that it can be moved there if necessary but honestly, the Survivor sub-forum is quiet enough as it is]

Previously, on Survivor: Judge Island...

People had opinions!

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Originally Posted by Ross.

Spoiler: Takondwa wins

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Originally Posted by Nick.

Perched for the Kristin & Jordan alliance

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Originally Posted by Shaun

I ****ing hate Josie already

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Originally Posted by Amy Jade

Edwina to win

People had (correct) guesses as to the identity of the brand new host!

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Originally Posted by Blurryface

Judge Judy?

People had cool made-up tribe names to inadvertently offer!

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Originally Posted by Rob!

Honifor Berajilo

And people just had general pleasantries to contribute!

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Originally Posted by RileyHollyoaks

Here for it

Well now I can proudly say that I've run the simulator and have begun to write an actual proper Survivor season in story form around the results. I'm using my own original cast, as you may have seen in the previous thread, and I'm using the Survivor: China simulator as the basis, although I'm replacing the challenges, rewards etc with ones of my own choosing given that stuff like "ride this Chinese dragon and win a trip to the Great Wall of China" is ever-so-slightly country-specific. Episode one, which I promise will be the longest of all the episodes, will be up shortly, but first, a reminder of the cast...

MB. · 20-09-2017, 08:41 PM

The men:

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Justin Holman, 29, from Huntsville, Alabama
Justin considers himself a “traditional Southern country boy, through and through”, by which he means that his family once owned slaves but are now completely broke. He somehow attributes this to Obamacare. A cattle rancher by trade, Justin is taking a pepper spray gun to the island as his luxury item, which he says he will use if any homosexuals try to touch him during the night.

Steadman Riley, 48, from Rochester, New York
Steadman has worked as an elementary school principal for the past fifteen years. He says that the key factor in deciding to apply for Survivor was when a co-worker mistakenly bought him a fiftieth birthday card for what was in fact his forty-seventh birthday last year, prompting a sudden realisation of his own mortality and subsequent midlife crisis. “It was either this or assisted suicide,” he smiles.

Christopher "Chris" Ortiz, 25, from Farmington, New Mexico
Chris decided from a young age not to follow his father into the family business (hardcore fetish pornography). Instead, with hard work he became an attorney, specialising in family law. With the million dollars, he hopes to buy an engagement ring to his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Stephanie, and give enough money to his father that he’ll never have to make yet another “My Saucy Deafblind Stepdaughter” sequel ever again.

Aubin Simpson, 37, from Birmingham, Alabama
Aubin is also a lawyer, suggesting that the United States has an incredibly short list of careers for graduates to select from. However, this one is a useful lawyer, in that he works in the field of civil rights. “Birmingham is pretty much the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement,” the father-of-two says proudly of his hometown. “Without civil rights, we may never have seen the ‘right in front of my salad’ meme.”

Kenton Harmon, 26, from St. Louis, Missouri
Kenton’s biggest secret is that he has an extremely rare condition: he was born without a personality. “It’s really hard,” says the soccer coach and part-time DJ. “All I do in my spare time, by which I mean when I’m not in the gym, is listen to The Chainsmokers and drink Bud Light. I haven’t been able to tell a joke since 1998. Also, I’m available for bar mitzvahs if anyone’s looking for someone to do the music. Seriously. I need the cash. Please help me.”

Callum Schultz, 23, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Callum is often perceived to be a typical nerd, but this is far from the truth – as he points out, he is in fact thick as shit. “It sucks”, says the grocery store worker and keen gamer, who lives above his parents’ garage. “I have early onset presbyopia and not a single law degree to show for it.” He says that he once had a real girlfriend, but this relationship came to an end when she realised he had used Nyle DiMarco’s photo in his Tinder profile.

Jordan Murray, 28, from New York, New York
Jordan has been on the Broadway stage since the age of nine, when he would regularly run on to feed Marlon Brando hamburgers during the star’s poorly-received one-man show “Pies and Dolls: How I Gorged My Way to the Top”. Jordan now plays the role of Old-Fashioned American Dude #4 in Hamilton, although he’s being replaced by Mandy Patinkin. He says that he is competing in Survivor on behalf of his boyfriend and his pet hyacinth macaw, a.k.a. “the worst animal you can possibly keep in a Manhattan apartment” and also his pet macaw.

Kyle Noel, 32, from Plano, Texas
Kyle says that he would normally describe himself as a good Southern country boy, except that Justin’s already filled that slot. Instead, he says he’ll settle for the “former-college-football-player-turned-successful-real-estate-agent-who-pretends-that-he’s-blue-collar-because-he-owns-a-tractor” slot. If he wins Survivor, he’ll buy another Mercedes and pay for his wife’s latest breast enlargement surgery, and also maybe a shovel. Because he’s ever so blue collar, you know.

MB. · 20-09-2017, 08:42 PM

The women:

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Kristin Larsen, 22, from Schenectady, New York
Kristin is a graduate in drama and dance, and currently works as a barista at Dunkin’ Donuts. She dreams of becoming a big-name comedy writer and hopes that all the spare time on the island will help her come up with ideas for a hit TV show. When she isn’t being hilarious or mopping up puddles of weak coffee, she spends her time watching Survivor – in fact, she has seen every episode “except Leif’s boot in One World, because that aired on the night that I lost my virginity. Fun fact, there.”

Edwina McNeil, 60, from Lincoln, Nebraska
Edwina is currently the CEO of a large-scale pet food company in Nebraska, but in a few years’ time plans to retire to Canada, where all three of her daughters now live. When she is not busy being the boss, she enjoys salsa dancing, writing erotic novellas and singing along to melodic death metal with her husband Bjorn. Although she is the eldest member of this year’s cast, she hopes that nobody will realise this due to the excessive amounts of Botox in her face.

Theresa Hardin, 47, from Jersey City, New Jersey
Theresa Hardin (née Giordano, previously Anderson and Gibson) comes from a long line of mobsters. However, she decided to take a different direction in life and now owns three salons and a casino in the Hudson County area, all of which operate legally. She has divorced all three of her ex-husbands, two of which are in prison and one of which is now a hand model named Leanne. These days, she makes her way through a rotation of four different toyboys, and hopes that winning the million dollars will increase that list to at least seven (“one for each day of the week. You know, like socks”).

Hallie Franco, 24, from Madison, Wisconsin
Hallie describes herself as a typical “girly girl” with a fondness for pink – a theme which runs from her interior décor to the colour of her beloved rabbit vibrator. For the most part, she runs a make-up and beauty vlog from her bedroom, although she also uses YouTube to review scented gel pens. Upon being asked to name a favourite scent, she breaks out in tears, although she does point out that it was with her peach-scented pen that she voted for Trump. With the million dollars, she hopes to make her childhood dream of starting a singing career come true, thus ending the stereotype that people who are deaf in one ear and have no discernible singing talent can’t make be successful in the music industry.

Alicia McCormick, 27, from Boston, Massachusetts
Alicia is from a large family of three sisters, four brothers and a six foot tall Great Dane. She works as a peace officer, which is apparently what Americans call a law enforcement officer, and is employed specifically within the drug enforcement sector. When she started the position, she was the youngest in her division, and one of only five women (none of whom, she points out, were as hot as her). She plans to use her brains, brawn, beauty and several grams of speed that she once confiscated to win the game of Survivor.

Josie Jackson, 31, from Spokane, Washington
Josie still considers herself a small town girl, having grown up on a dairy farm in North East Washington, even though she now works as a special education teacher in the big(-ish) city. Her constantly upbeat personality may make you forget that her husband Brad died in a whitewater rafting accident on their honeymoon, something which she only divulges when absolutely necessary in terms of her personal growth arc on a reality television competition show. She would like to win Survivor for “the children, because to quote Whitney Houston, they are the future.”

Rachelle Roth, 49, from Oakland, California
Rachelle is a self-appointed “fashion mogul”, having been the editor of three different fashion magazines over her illustrious career. She even claims to have had a character in Ugly Betty based on her, although she can’t remember which one. At the peak of her career, she used to fly from her California home to New York eight times a week, which she says will prepare her for the mental and physical strain of Survivor. “I mean, this one time they forced me to sit next to a child. If I can survive that, I can survive anything.”

Takondwa Roberson, 55, from Jacksonville, Florida
Takondwa, who proudly tells us that her name means “we are glad” in Chewa despite the fact that she has never travelled outside of Duval County, is the single mother of five children – the oldest of whom is 36 and has children of his own. She has worked countless jobs over the course of her life, including cook, janitor, housekeeper, cab driver, fake mourner, amateur boxer, dog food tester, drive-thru operator, snake milker and nursing aide. She is now retired and spends her days looking after her ten grandchildren, although she now finds them so annoying that applying for Survivor was her only way of getting away from them.

MB. · 20-09-2017, 08:56 PM

Episode 1 – "If Only He Were Twenty Years Older..."
Part 1

Day 1
The camera zooms in on a small island in the middle of the Pacific. Or maybe the Atlantic. I mean, it could be the Arctic Ocean for all I care. Anyway, from here we focus in on two parallel speedboats, each heading for shore. It is here that we are introduced to sixteen brand new castaways – among them, a cattle rancher, a fashion editor, a drug enforcement officer and a Broadway star – ready to play the toughest but greatest game on the planet, where they must outwit, outplay and ~~baloney~~ outlast their fellow competitors for thirty nine days in order to be crowned the Sole Survivor. They arrive on the shores of Judge Island where they are greeted by the island’s president, vice-president, treasurer, mayor, UN delegate and sole citizen, Judge Judy. She welcomes them to her island and immediately divides them into two tribes:

Honifor (the yellow tribe): Alicia, Aubin, Callum, Kyle, Josie, Noel, Takondwa and Theresa
Berajilo (the blue tribe): Edwina, Hallie, Jordan, Justin, Kenton, Kristin, Rachelle and Steadman

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Judy gives each tribe a map to their new home and sets them on their way, but not without a warning: nightfall is approaching, and if they'd rather not starve and/or freeze to death, the castaways had all better work together to ensure that they make it to their destinations on time. At this point, Jordan squeals in a confessional that he can’t believe he just met Judge Judy, and mentally puts the experience in sixth place on his list of favourite celebrity encounters, just above that time he starred alongside Barbra Streisand and Shelly Duvall in the off-Broadway production of Avenue Q for three years.

The route to Honifor’s beach is relatively straightforward, consisting mostly of a slow walk uphill. However, at one point grandmother-of-ten Takondwa trips on a stray rock and injures her ankle. She turns down the offer of assistance from her fellow tribemates, insisting that she’ll be able to cope by herself for the rest of the trek, but younger and fitter members Alicia and Josie share a knowing look that suggests that they might have a big liability on their hands.

Berajilo’s route, however, is much more complicated, and involves a three-mile trek through thick jungle. After the tribe walks two of these miles, designated leader Edwina confesses that she has been reading the map upside down, and that she has in fact been leading Berajilo away from their beach by accident. Upon hearing this news, vlogger Hallie begins to cry loudly and starts beating her fists into the chest of emotionless man mountain Kenton. Elementary school principal Steadman confesses that he’s used to dealing with immature people like Hallie, but unlike Hallie, they usually don’t come up past his knees. When they eventually begin walking in the right direction, Kenton and country boy Justin lead the pack, while Rachelle gradually falls behind, trying instead to flick non-existent bugs off her body.

Eventually, both tribes reach their destinations and make themselves at home. The majority of Honifor decide to bed down for the night, deciding that it is now too late and too dark to attempt to build a shelter. Kyle, however, stays up to start a fire. Unable to sleep, attorney Chris soon joins him, and eventually they get fire going. Over at Berajilo, the men decide that building a shelter immediately is their top priority, and Justin instructs Jordan and Steadman to go and collect driftwood and bamboo. The women, meanwhile, mainly hover around what they hope will soon be the fire. Younger members Hallie and Kristin bond, although Hallie begins to cry again when Kristin tells her that she has sand in her hair. Rachelle continues to try and flick invisible bugs off her body, whilst Edwina dances around camp singing “Eye of the Tiger” in order to increase the tribe’s fighting spirit. It turns out that after such a long, arduous trek, eighties hair metal is not exactly what Berajilo were after. Kenton is especially annoyed by her general presence, and sighs in a confessional that this will be the longest night of his life.

MB. · 20-09-2017, 09:26 PM

Episode 1 – "If Only He Were Twenty Years Older..."
Part 2

Day 2
Dawn breaks over Honifor beach and businesswoman Theresa, special education teacher Josie and grocery store clerk Callum are the first three up, although the latter is only awake as is trying to discreetly dispose of the wet sheet that he accidentally urinated on during the night. The three early birds bond and, upon Josie’s insistence (and not before telling a blushing Callum to look around to ensure that nobody else is awake) agree to work together in the game. However, Theresa later confesses that she would rather have waited to weigh up her options before rushing into an alliance. When the rest of the tribe wakes up, they agree that their best plan of action is to get working on their shelter, and with Kyle’s leadership they manage to complete their sturdy structure in under an hour. Takondwa confesses that she likes a man who can use his hands, and that she’d marry him “if only he were twenty years older and I had ten grandchildren fewer.”

On the other hand, Berajilo’s attempt at a shelter did not last the night, and the tribe awakes to a pile of wood and palm fronds. "It looks like a bomb's gone off," Justin says, shaking his head. To make matters worse, many of the tribe members wake up feeling exhausted and sleep-deprived, having been kept up during the night by their many failed attempts to start a fire, as well as Edwina’s persistent off-key singing of classic rock anthems (she made it all the way to “You’re the Voice” before drifting off). In an attempt to lift camp spirits, Jordan offers to talk in depth about his extensive Broadway career, at which point wannabe stage star Kristin’s eyes light up. She realises how much she has in common with Jordan and decides that she wants to be his best friend in the game, if not just to be one step closer to playing the female lead in the upcoming revival of Starlight Express.

Later in the day, Berajilo’s Steadman notices that fashion editor Rachelle has been excluding herself from the rest of the group, perhaps on purpose, and goes over to ask her if anything’s wrong. A few minutes into their conversation, Rachelle begins to cry that she’s not used to being stripped of such essentials as make-up and a personal masseuse, and that living with strangers in such an alien environment is beginning to play tricks with her mind – hence the imaginary bugs. As she dries her tears, she asks Steadman if he’s also a member of the Church of Scientology, and if not, she can easily sign him up, and all she needs to know is what blood type he is. Upon hearing this, Steadman begins to regret ever talking to her, and slowly backs away.

Meanwhile, things are going smoothly at Honifor now that they’ve built their shelter. As the tribemates relax and drink “Honifor special” cocktails (coconut water, except it's stirred with a twig), talk turns to life back home and, more specifically, careers. Theresa casually brings up the fact that she not only owns three salons but also the biggest casino in the Hudson County area, while Callum panics and lies to his impressed tribemates that he is a nuclear engineer with a PhD from Harvard. In a confessional, he says that he often says the wrong thing when under pressure, and in this case he didn’t want his fellow castaways to know about the fact that he's stuck in a dead-end job or that he lives above his parents' garage. Kyle talks about his past career as a college football player, before Josie tells everyone about how rewarding it is to work with special needs kids. Aubin then talks openly about his career as a civil rights lawyer, at which point Chris interrupts to say that he works as an attorney, and the two share a special lawyer handshake in kinship. In a confessional, Alicia (who is purposefully holding back the fact that she works in drug enforcement and is instead claiming to be a personal trainer, in order to seem less perceptive than she truly is) remarks that Honifor is full of people who can “walk the walk”, but wonders if they’ll be able to “talk the talk” when push comes to shove.

MB. · 20-09-2017, 09:56 PM

Episode 1 – "If Only He Were Twenty Years Older..."
Part 3

Day 3
The next day, the tribes arrive at their first immunity challenge:

For this challenge, the two tribes must run out and push their tribal boats into the water. Paddling out to retrieve puzzle crates, they must dive down underwater to release the boxes. Once all crates are retrieved and brought back to shore, the tribes must stack the crates into a staircase, with Judge Judy’s catchphrase “Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever” properly aligned along the sides. Then, two members of each tribe must solve a puzzle, giving them the combination to retrieve the correct key. The first tribe to run to the top of the tower, unlock and pull a lever, releasing the tribe flag, wins immunity and reward in the form of flint.

Thanks to the brute strength of Kenton and Justin, the athleticism of Jordan and Kristin, and the puzzle-solving skills of Steadman and Edwina (after the challenge, she goes out of her way to verbally thank the editors of the crossword in her local newspaper, the Lincoln Journal Star), Berajilo win the challenge, earning immunity and fire in the form of flint. For Honifor, nothing but a date at Tribal Council with Judge Judy later tonight.

A defeated Honifor return to camp, bummed out about losing the first immunity challenge of the season. Everyone keeps a very gracious exterior, choosing not to directly blame one another for the loss, despite the fact that Takondwa’s injured ankle clearly held the tribe back in places. Feeling guilty about the result, Takondwa decides to take Aubin, Chris, Josie, Alicia and Kyle aside separately. To her surprise, they all reassure her that her ankle will have no bearing on their decision making at Tribal. A relieved Takondwa then retires to the water’s edge and dips her foot in the sea, believing that the salt will do it good and reduce the swelling. Meanwhile, Josie rallies her troops Callum and Theresa in preparation for the vote, and soon realises that her alliance is currently a little threadbare in its current form. In order to try and recruit numbers, Josie goes up to each of her fellow castaways except Takondwa, separately pitching to each of them the plan that she has been keeping secret until now: as it is unlikely that Takondwa’s ankle will magically heal, the tribe will not be able to win challenges moving forward unless they vote her out tonight, and they will instead be more likely to win challenges if they are united as one massive alliance. Having spoken to almost everyone and believing her work to be done, Josie spends the remainder of the afternoon sunbathing.

However, while collecting firewood, to make up for the fact that they did not win flint in the challenge today, Kyle and Chris discuss the separate conversations that Josie had with them earlier. They both concur that her idea of making one massive alliance is ridiculous, and that Josie spoke to them in a patronising manner, as if she had been speaking to the children that she teaches. Agreeing that Josie seems to be getting “a little too big for her boots”, the pair approach Alicia, who suggests that they vote her out to prevent her from running the show. They later talk to Aubin as a trio, who confesses that he would rather vote out Josie than Takondwa, as they have already shared personal conversations about their children and (in Takondwa’s case) grandchildren, whereas Josie has seemed reluctant to speak about her family life and “seems dead behind the eyes, and that’s not the kind of person you want to play this game with.” As a foursome, they then walk up to Takondwa, who is still sitting by the water’s edge, and tell her their plan. She is thrilled to hear it, although also somewhat confused, as Josie had told her just hours earlier that she wasn’t going to vote for her – at least, not for being a challenge liability.

As the sun begins to set and Tribal Council looms, Chris suggests bringing Theresa into their plan, ensuring a strong majority of six to allow room for error. However, when they go to find Theresa, they realise that she is sunbathing right next to Josie. Not only do they feel unable to take Theresa to one side to inform her of their discussions, or else Josie may catch wind of the plan to blindside her, but they begin to worry that Josie’s conversation with Theresa cemented a potentially strong relationship between the two, and wonder if the other conversations secretly had a similar impact on anyone else in the tribe. If so, Chris worries that the whole plan could be thrown into jeopardy. As Honifor make their way to Tribal Council, Josie crosses her fingers that they will be a united front once Takondwa and her dodgy ankle leave tonight.

MB. · 20-09-2017, 10:26 PM

Episode 1 – "If Only He Were Twenty Years Older..."
Part 4

Tribal Council, Night 3
A nervous Honifor tribe arrive at Tribal Council. Once the castaways are all stood in the middle, Judge Judy tells them to collect a torch and dip it into the large camp fire, "as in this game, fire represents your life, you assholes.” She begins by asking Kyle whether he was disappointed to lose the crucial first immunity challenge. Kyle responds diplomatically by saying that of course he was disappointed, but he doesn’t believe that there is any one person to blame for the tribe's collective loss. At this, Josie’s eyes subtly drift in Takondwa’s direction. Judy then turns to Callum, and asks how the tribe morale is holding up following the defeat. Callum panics and says out of nowhere that he is voting for Takondwa, causing several of his tribemates to place their heads in their hands. Attempting to backtrack, he tries to pretend that he was speaking in hypotheticals, but this only causes Josie to become confused about whether or not he is loyal to her plan. Judy asks Takondwa if she’ll be using the same tactic of randomly blurting out her vote in the middle of Tribal, to which Takondwa replies, “no, I like surprises.” Going into the vote, Judy asks Theresa if she knows which way she’ll vote. Theresa responds by saying that she’s ninety percent sure, and that the remaining ten percent is pure hope that she'll be on the right side of the votes tonight. With that, the players go to cast their votes:

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Josie (voting for Takondwa): “It was nice getting to know you Grandma T, but as far as the game of Survivor is concerned, I'm afraid you don’t have a leg to stand on.”

Aubin (voting for Josie): “A few hours ago I was certain that this would work. Now, I’m hopeful.”

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Judge Judy collects the votes and tallies them. She then begins to read the votes:

“First vote… Takondwa…”

“Second vote… Takondwa…”

Takondwa takes a deep breath.

“Third vote… Josie…”

“Fourth vote… Takondwa…”

“Fifth vote… Josie…”

Josie's eyes narrow in suspicion at the reading of her second vote.

“Sixth vote… Josie…”

“Seventh vote… Josie…”

Josie gulps.

“First person voted out of Survivor: Judge Island… Josie.”

Josie’s eyes widen in shock as her name is called out. She solemnly gets up and goes to collect her torch. Once it is snuffed by Judge Judy, she turns to her fellow tribemates.

“None of you know this,” Josie begins, “but seven years ago, on this very day, I lost my husband in a tragic whitewater rafting accident. Every day since then, I’ve had to live with the pain of knowing that he won’t be there when I wake up, knowing that I’ll never touch him, or smell him, or kiss him again. I was playing this game for him, and I wanted us to be united for him, just in the hope that that would bring me closer to him. You didn’t just betray me tonight, but you also betrayed my husb-“

“That’s lovely, but we’re running over and I’ve got an episode of Stranger Things to go and watch,” Judy says, ushering an affronted Josie out of the Tribal Council area. She then turns to the remaining seven Honifor members and tells them that while they may think that they've successfully completed their first sprint by coming to Tribal Council, they've got one long ass marathon ahead of them. She then hands over a flint and bids Honifor goodnight as they make their way out of the Tribal Council area.

The votes in full:

Spoiler:

MB. · 21-09-2017, 10:40 AM

Episode 2 – "Threesomes Have More Fun"
Part 1

Night 3
Honifor return from Tribal Council, having just voted out Josie over Takondwa. In a confessional, Alicia explains that the day one hike initially left her worried about Takondwa’s injured ankle and its potential to bring the rest of the tribe down, but she decided to vote for Josie after noticing that she was playing too hard too soon. “I’d rather have a grandma with one working foot in the game than someone who could stab me in the back when I’m least expecting it,” she says calmly. Though most of the tribe’s members seem happy with their decision, Theresa (who voted for Takondwa alongside Josie and Callum, under the assumption that this was the plan that the others were also following) regrets being left out of the loop by what now appears to be the majority alliance, and in a confessional wonders how she can claw her way back to a safe spot before it’s too late.

The tribes, as they currently stand:

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Day 4
The next morning, early riser Theresa has strategy on her mind. She explains that she couldn’t sleep, as her mind was so full of thoughts regarding her position in the tribe. “Overthinking trivial stuff will be the downfall of me in this game, I swear,” she says, “but it’s just so damn easy to let paranoia get the better of you.” Chris is also awake, having made an early start at getting a fire going with the flint that the tribe earned at the end of last night’s Tribal Council. Theresa decides to talk to him, knowing that he and Kyle were the brains behind Josie’s exit. She explains that she has no ill will towards him or the rest of the tribe, and would have voted with them had she known what the plan was. Chris in turn points out that he was trying his hardest to inform her of the plot to save Takondwa and blindside Josie, but as she was sunbathing right next to the target, there was no inconspicuous way of pulling her away and filling her in so late in the day. “Well, I promise I won’t be topping up my tan the next time a crucial vote’s about to take place,” Theresa laughs, and the two shake on their new deal.

Over at Berajilo, having rebuilt their shelter and started a fire with the flint that they won at yesterday’s challenge, the castaways are feeling refreshed and calm compared to their hectic first night. In a confessional, Justin explains that they’re starting to become a kind of dysfunctional family: Steadman and Edwina are the parents, he, Kenton, Hallie and Kristin are the mischievous little kids “running around, causing mayhem”, Rachelle is the crazy spiritual aunt and Jordan is “the queer cousin that nobody mentions”. “Just a normal family,” he repeats. Elsewhere, the newly-united Berajilo tribe try out various bonding tactics including yoga, as led by Jordan and Kristin as the tribe’s most supple members. Kenton refuses to take part as not to dent his fragile masculinity, but Justin throws himself into it with incredible enthusiasm. At one point, he hyper-extends so much during his downward-facing dog that he pulls a muscle in his groin, and as a result spends the rest of the day rubbing his crotch with a palm leaf. While most of the tribe practice their yoga, Rachelle crouches on her knees to one side, doing something altogether more still. After they finish, Jordan goes over to talk to Rachelle, despite Steadman repeatedly warning him not to for his own safety. When he asks Rachelle what she’s up to, she explains that she is praying to Major William Cage, the character played by Tom Cruise in the film Edge of Tomorrow. Without asking any questions, Jordan turns his back and walks away.

Later, at Honifor, Callum employs Theresa’s strategy of pulling a member of the majority alliance to one side and pleading to them to let him join. He speaks to Aubin about the previous night’s Tribal Council and how badly he regrets telling everyone that he was voting for Takondwa, especially considering his answer was in response to a completely unrelated question asked by Judge Judy. Aubin tells him not to worry and reassures him that he isn’t on the bottom, although both seem to know that this isn’t exactly true. Nonetheless, taking this to mean that the tribe at least prefer him over Theresa, Callum happily skips off to continue building his to-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon out of shells. Aubin then confesses that although Callum is a “strange one”, he’ll keep an eye on him in case it becomes beneficial to work with him in the future.

MB. · 21-09-2017, 10:56 AM

Episode 2 – "Threesomes Have More Fun"
Part 2

Day 5
The next day, the tribes convene in a jungle clearing, where they are met by Judge Judy. “Berajilo, take a look at the new Honifor tribe,” she says, as the Berajilo eight look over to see Honifor walk in – or in Takondwa’s case, hobble in – without Josie. Kristin and Hallie look especially shocked at Josie’s elimination, despite never once meeting her. Alicia gives a smug glance back. Now this is out of the way, the first tribal reward challenge can begin:

One member from both tribes must hold a handled pedestal with an idol on top. The goal is to knock the other person's idol from their pedestal. The first tribe to score five wins reward in the form of a tarp.

With Rachelle sitting out to make up the numbers, Honifor prove to be no match for the united Berajilo tribe, and Berajilo pull off a convincing victory to win the reward.

Back at camp, Berajilo cover their shelter with their brand new tarp, with Edwina remarking that it’ll come in handy “whenever God decides to take a leak.” Most of the tribe then go fishing or hunting for extra firewood. Later on Kristin, still aiming to solidify her relationship with Jordan, takes a break from collecting firewood and goes up to him to tell him how much she enjoyed their yoga session together the day before. She confesses that she would like to make a “Broadway alliance” with him, despite the fact that only one of them has actually ever been on Broadway. Jordan is open to the idea, and considers Kristin a little sister, albeit one who won’t stop asking him if he can get her a role in Wicked. They begin to talk strategy and realise that they’ll have better odds if they increase their numbers, so discuss bringing in mutual friend Hallie. “After all,” Kristin says, “threesomes have more fun.” In a confessional, Jordan says that most of the tribe assume that the three of them are already aligned anyway, what them being among the youngest and having shared interests, so they might as well make it a reality sooner rather than later.

Over at Honifor, the tribe is mostly occupied with fishing and hunting for food, as several of them have already expressed a distaste for Callum’s patented half-cooked rice sandwich (with rice instead of bread). While this task keeps most of them busy, Theresa confesses that bonds alone are not enough, and she needs a way of ensuring her safety given what she perceives to be a precarious position. As the majority of her tribemates are down by the shore, she takes the opportunity to rush into the jungle to look for a hidden immunity idol. After ten minutes or so of shaking random trees to and fro, a piece of paper falls out from the top of a tree well away from Honifor beach, to Theresa’s delight. “Well that was easy,” she smirks as she opens the piece of paper, revealing that she has found a clue to a hidden immunity idol. As she puts the clue in her pocket, she sees Chris walking towards her in the distance. She calls him over and, deciding that honesty is the best policy following their earlier conversation and subsequent handshake, shares the idol clue with him, and they agree to let Chris hold onto it. In a confessional, Chris punches the air with delight that he’s not even a week into the game and he already has a clue to the idol, but calms down to point out that it’s crucial for he and Theresa to “play this thing right… if we find it at all, that is.”

MB. · 21-09-2017, 11:10 AM

Episode 2 – "Threesomes Have More Fun"
Part 3

Day 6
The following morning, the tribes gather once again for their latest immunity challenge:

One person from each tribe must swim out to a platform, climb to the top, smash a tile, and retrieve a key. Then the next person goes. Once all five keys are collected, one person must use those keys to open a box and retrieve a ball. The remaining two tribe members must use that ball to break five tiles. The first tribe to break all five tiles wins immunity.

With Edwina sitting out, Kenton, Kristin and Jordan lead the tribe to another victory, with tile-smashers Steadman and Justin bringing home the win. As Berajilo celebrate their second consecutive immunity, Judge Judy tells a disappointed Honifor that she’ll be seeing them at Tribal Council tonight.

“Thank god for that idol clue!” Theresa laughs in a confessional as Honifor return to their beach, facing another Tribal Council. She says that while it was not her original intention to share the clue with Chris, it is in fact a strong move as it will form an almost unbreakable bond between the two. However, she also says that she is “no fool”, and knows that in order to survive she’ll have to do more than make one friend. Exploring her options, she approaches Kyle, who is engaging in some shirtless wood chopping by the fire. She explains that she views Kyle as the kingpin of the current alliance, and that it would be highly beneficial for her game if she were able to get into his back pocket. Theresa explains her worries regarding her position in the game to Kyle, and he says that he understands why she is panicking. He tells her that if he hears anyone discussing writing down her name, he’ll be the first to let her know. In a confessional, Kyle says that he’s grown to view Theresa as a mother figure recently, “although given the number of… let’s say wild thoughts I’ve had about Theresa, maybe my mother isn’t the best comparison.”

During Theresa and Kyle’s conversation, Aubin and Alicia sit to one side, boiling water. Aubin notices their flirty body language and wonders if something more than the usual ‘save me’ plea is going on. He talks to Alicia about this, and she agrees that Theresa could pull Kyle away from their alliance. Fearing that Theresa is making connections faster than anyone else, Aubin goes to talk with Callum (who has now completed his shell replica of the Millennium Falcon, and has moved onto building the TARDIS out of sand) in order to explore his options, following their earlier conversation. Immediately, Callum fears for his life in the game and apologises to Aubin for his poor performance in the challenge, as he and Takondwa were the two tile-smashers. Aubin confesses that someone like Callum could be used an easy number going forward, although his tendency to run his mouth could cause problems later down the line. In turn, Callum confesses that he is wary of Aubin, and wonders if him suddenly making an effort to talk to him is an attempt to lull him into a false sense of security before the vote.

By now, Theresa has offered to help Kyle with chopping wood, with Chris standing by to collect additional wood if necessary. Kyle has noticed that Aubin has been speaking to Callum for a while, and tells Theresa that he thinks he’s been acting strangely. “Not the kind of thing a loyal person does, huh?” Kyle asks, aiming to gauge Theresa’s thoughts. Seeing a potential crack in the alliance, she immediately suggests voting out Aubin for being a flipper. Kyle, mid-chop, says he’ll think about it. “After all,” he says in a confessional. “Alliances are like jelly at this point. We’re still waiting for them to set.” Chris, who has been witness to this conversation, tells in a separate confessional of how nervous it made him, explaining that he has been loyal to Aubin ever since their “lawyer handshake” on day two, and wants to work with him above anyone else – including Theresa. Therefore, he considers it beneficial to his game to vote out somebody like Callum, who he has been unable to crack, and believes that using a potential idol on Aubin would help build trust going forward. Telling the tribe that he would go and collect more wood, Chris rushes into the jungle and takes the clue out of his pocket, desperate to have some control over the vote amongst the unfolding madness. He finds the location of the idol on a map and begins to dig frantically.

The castaways gather around the camp fire as the sun begins to set. Takondwa whispers to Aubin if, as they had all seemingly silently agreed following the immunity challenge loss, Callum was the easy vote tonight. He nods, and she relaxes, asking him to “rub grandma’s foot for her.” Meanwhile, Theresa goes looking for Chris, who has been missing for several hours. “It’s odd,” she says in a confessional just before Tribal Council. “He was supposed to be looking for firewood. Surely he can’t be hunting for the idol? If we’re all voting for Callum, why would Chris need the idol? Trust me, if that boy’s taken my idol, I’m going to give him a right good spanking.”

Chris returns at the last minute as the castaways collect their torches and make their way to Tribal Council. Theresa glares at his pockets and then into his guilty eyes. Chris looks away. In a confessional, Kyle says that there are currently plans all over the place, leading to “one confused Honifor”, and that making the wrong decision tonight could lead to catastrophic consequences for the tribe later down the line.

MB. · 21-09-2017, 11:22 AM

Episode 2 – "Threesomes Have More Fun"
Part 4

Tribal Council, Night 6
At Tribal Council, Judge Judy sits the castaways down and immediately begins her line of questioning. She turns to Alicia and talks to her about the challenge, asking if there were any weak links and, “as a personal trainer”, whether the decision that she’s making tonight will help to build a stronger tribe. Alicia confesses that yes, some members of the tribe are weaker than others, as the camera cuts to Callum and Takondwa. However, she follows this up by saying that, in the words of Lisa Whelchel, this is just a fact of life, and challenge performance is only one thing that they must take into consideration when casting their vote. Judy then asks Takondwa what the mood was like at camp this afternoon. She replies that from where she was sitting (by the fire, with her feet up), the afternoon was a peaceful one, and there was no “crazy scrambling.” However, Theresa shakes her head, and says that there are some things that Takondwa is better off not knowing. Judy then turns to Chris and begins asking a question about whether or not idols have been discussed, but Callum, who has been wringing his hands for the last ten minutes, cuts in and shouts “I’m voting for Takondwa again!”, leading to a stunned silence. As Callum curls up in the foetal position, Judy says that the tribe had better get to the vote, before anyone accidentally blabs the nuclear launch codes.

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Kyle (vote not shown): “If this backfires, I won’t just have egg on my face. I’ll be the whole damn omelette.”

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Judge Judy collects and tallies the votes. Before reading them, she asks if anyone has a hidden immunity idol, as if so, now would be the time to play it. After a brief pause, Chris stands up, and Theresa glares at him once again. He walks over to Judy and asks for the idol to be played on Aubin. Aubin sits up, confused and surprised. Judy confirms that any votes cast for Aubin will not count, as Chris sits back down, shaking a perplexed Aubin's hand as he does so. She then reads the votes…

“First vote… Callum…”

“Second vote… Takondwa…”

“Third vote… Callum…”

“Fourth vote… Callum…”

Callum nods in acceptance of his fate.

“Second person voted out of Survivor: Judge Island… Callum.”

“Callum, that’s four, that’s enough,” Judy says as Callum goes to collect his torch, awkwardly shaking the hand of every member of the tribe as he does so. Once his torch is snuffed, he mimes “call me” to Alicia and leaves the Tribal Council area quietly. Judy reminds the remaining six Honifors that they may have been united in their votes tonight, but now that their numbers are dwindling, the cracks will almost definitely begin to show soon. She then bids them goodnight as they leave the Tribal Council area.

The votes in full:

Spoiler:

MB. · 21-09-2017, 11:20 AM

Time to reveal the unlucky second eliminee...

MB. · 21-09-2017, 03:15 PM

Episode 3 – "The Rice Thief of Judge Island"
Part 1

Night 6
Despite two consecutive visits to Tribal Council, Honifor return to camp in high spirits, although they all agree that they will miss Callum and his many quirks, offering to leave the Millennium Falcon that he constructed out of shells in its place as a permanent memorial. Reflecting on the night’s events, Chris confesses that he doesn’t regret playing his idol for Aubin, even though it was clear by the time of Tribal Council that Callum was going home. He says that he views staying true to himself and his gut instincts as the best way to play the game, and he’ll risk whatever he has to do so – especially as he is playing first and foremost for his childhood sweetheart girlfriend Stephanie, for whom he would like to buy “the fanciest engagement ring in town” if he wins. “The only problem is damage control with Theresa,” he laughs, remembering that in order to make the move that he did, he “sort of stole her idol”.

The tribes, as they currently stand:

Spoiler:

Day 7
The next morning at Berajilo, Kristin and Hallie go for a walk in the jungle, during which Kristin aims to tell Hallie about the “threesome alliance” that she is proposing with Jordan. However, Hallie soon loses control over her bladder, and rushes off into a bush to relieve herself. While she waits for Hallie to finish, Kristin leans against a tree. All of a sudden, the tree gives way and falls to the ground, luckily just missing her. As she observes the fallen tree, she realises that it is not in fact a tree at all, but is actually a nifty little structure made out of papier-mâché. She pokes at the bark, which is really just several layers of paper painted brown, and feels a shape underneath. She tears through the paper and, to her surprise, finds a hidden immunity idol. She squeals in excitement but soon regains her composure, and tucks the idol into her waistband as a clueless Hallie emerges from the bush. In a confessional, Kristin says that letting Hallie in on the threesome alliance will have to wait, as she currently has more important, idol-shaped things on her mind.

Back at Honifor, Aubin, Chris and Kyle attempt to go fishing, but fail to catch anything substantial due to their lack of equipment. When Kyle leaves to find the tribe’s spear, Chris explains to Aubin why he played his idol on him at the previous night’s Tribal Council. Aubin is grateful, and says that he was only confused because he wasn’t aware that he was in any danger of leaving to begin with. When asked if he’d heard anyone mention his name, Chris mimes “Kyle”, but quickly ends the conversation when he sees Kyle returning with the spear. Chris and Aubin share a knowing wink and head their separate ways. Later, Theresa approaches Chris, saying in a confessional that she wanted to ensure that there was no bad blood regarding Chris’ use of the idol they had already agreed to share. For his part, Chris tells her not to worry, and agrees to unite his two separate alliances with Theresa and Aubin into one in future as to avoid confusion. When talk moves away from strategy, Theresa wonders aloud what her daughter would think how she was coping so far. “You have a daughter?” asks an interested Chris. “From one of my ex-husbands, yes,” she replies, opening up. “I forget which one.” On the subject of marriage, Chris in turn shares his story about hoping to propose to his girlfriend after the show, to which Theresa says with a smile, “go for it, kid.”

Kristin and Hallie return to Berajilo beach following their walk. Hallie goes for a dip in the sea, while Kristin goes to hide her newly-acquired idol in her bag. She is met in the shelter by Justin and Kenton, who have noticed that the two girls have been spending a lot of time together; something that the boys think they can use to their advantage. In a confessional, Kenton says that he and Justin have already formed a “bro-lliance” (he takes the time to explain that this is a cross between the word “bro” and the word “alliance”), and bringing in two “babes” to boost their numbers would give them a majority in the tribe, seeing as the others are so divided. Justin dissects the other four castaways, confessing that he doesn’t see any of them as threats, as they are either “oldies” (Edwina, Steadman) or “misfits” (Rachelle, Jordan). Kristin then gives a confessional saying that she has doubts over how quick the men were to including she and Hallie in their alliance, and that if she does commit to the foursome, it will create a conflict of interest with her and Hallie’s existing alliance with Jordan. Hallie, meanwhile, is in the sea, pretending to be a mermaid.

MB. · 21-09-2017, 03:55 PM

Episode 3 – "The Rice Thief of Judge Island"
Part 2

Day 8
The following day sees another reward challenge. Berajilo enter the challenge area first, where they are greeted by Judge Judy, followed by Honifor. “Berajilo, take a look at the new Honifor tribe,” Judy says, as Berajilo try to work out which of their rivals is missing. “Callum, voted out at the last Tribal Council.” They shrug. Judy then explains that today’s challenge is as follows:

Three players at a time (all of the same sex) start on opposing boat-shaped pontoons, connected by two beams, and must attempt to force all participating members of the other tribe into the water to score a point. First tribe to three wins reward, and has the choice of either fishing gear or comfort items.

Rachelle and Steadman are chosen to sit out of the challenge for Berajilo. Following a close-fought battle between the strongest members of each tribe, an ecstatic Honifor pull off their first challenge win. Without so much as a second thought, they pick the fishing gear reward, and dance out of the challenge carrying rods, bait and a net.

Honifor, on a high from their challenge win but also incredibly hungry from a lack of fish, get to work immediately. Theresa and Chris work the net as Aubin, Kyle and Alicia pull in fish after fish with their rods. Takondwa, meanwhile, has been excused from fishing duties due to her ankle injury, and is once again sat with her foot in the sea. In a confessional, she smiles that the technique is working. “This morning, I was able to walk around on it without any pain. Next thing you know, I’ll be tap dancing this time tomorrow. It’s a Hanukkah miracle and I'm not even Jewish!” After about two hours of hard work, the fisherpeople of Honifor have collected enough for a feast. They all sit around the fire and enjoy the various fishy delicacies of Judge Island, as cooked expertly by Chef Kyle. However, Aubin confesses that Chris’ earlier words are still ringing in his ears. “I do trust Kyle, but I trust Chris more, and when you hear from someone you trust so much that someone else has been plotting to get you out… it’s not a good feeling, I can tell you that much. I’ll be sleeping with one eye open tonight.”

Food is also the main topic of conversation over at Berajilo, but this time it’s the rice that has people talking. Steadman has noticed that a considerable portion of the tribe’s rice rations have gone missing since they last ate earlier in the day, and wonders if anyone is willing to own up to being the culprit. When he gets no response, he enlists the help of Justin and Rachelle to track down “the rice thief of Judge Island.” Steadman, taking his responsibilities very seriously, quizzes each of his tribemates individually, but Rachelle is quick to blame Edwina for the disappearance. “I bet it was her,” she says several times. “I don’t trust her.” Steadman shrugs and gets junior officer Justin to interview Edwina again, on the off-chance that Rachelle’s hunch is correct. “That bitch!” Edwina exclaims upon hearing of Rachelle’s accusation, before apologising to the viewers at home for her coarse language. “Of course it wasn’t me,” she continues, offended that Rachelle would say such a thing. “I’d never steal food from anybody here. That woman’s out to cause trouble, I tell you.” Justin thanks Edwina for her time and leaves the shelter to report back to Steadman. Amidst the chaos, Kenton sits with Hallie at the far side of the shelter, quietly telling her that their new alliance has very little to worry about when it comes to competition.

MB. · 21-09-2017, 04:20 PM

Episode 3 – "The Rice Thief of Judge Island"
Part 3

Day 9
A day later, and the tribes meet once again to compete in their next immunity challenge. Judge Judy takes back the immunity idol (a wooden bust in the shape of Judy’s bailiff, Officer Byrd) from Jordan, who quips that Berajilo will easily be able to win it back for a third time. Judy raises her eyebrow and explains how today's challenge will work:

One person from each tribe will be the caller. The rest of the tribe will be blindfolded and paired up. Using only verbal commands, the caller will direct their tribe mates to collect ten items scattered in the field. Once all ten items have been collected, the caller will direct one pair out to find a set of keys. Those keys will unlock a chest. The first tribe to get their chest and all ten items back to the start wins immunity.

Edwina and Hallie sit out for Berajilo, with Kyle and Steadman acting as callers for their respective tribes. Berajilo get off to an early lead, but Honifor come from behind to claim victory and, in the process, immunity for the first time. As Honifor go wild with excitement, Judy tells Berajilo that she’ll see them later in the evening for their first visit to Tribal Council.

“That was Edwina’s fault,” Rachelle announces loudly as soon as Berajilo return to camp, despite Edwina having sat out of the challenge and Rachelle at one point walking for five minutes in the wrong direction, away from her tribe’s caller. “She wasn’t being vocal enough in her support,” Rachelle insists, shifting the blame away from herself before anyone has had a chance to blame her in the first place. Edwina stands in shock as Rachelle retires to her corner of the shelter to meditate, with the rest of the tribe standing awkwardly in between the two, unsure of quite where the feud has come from. Justin, Kenton and Hallie go to sit on the beach to have a giggle, while Kristin and Jordan try to figure out what their plan is for tonight’s vote, eventually agreeing that the options are Edwina and Rachelle. “I’d love to try and get either Kenton or Justin out,” Jordan muses, “but we need them for challenges and I’m not sure we’ve got the numbers. I just wish they weren’t so cocky all the time, you know?” Kristin nods in agreement, although in a confessional she explains that she’s going to continue trying to play both sides for as long as she can.

Ever the mediator, Steadman addresses the now-gathered tribe to ask if anyone would be willing to have a conversation with Rachelle, in order to try and pick her brains. Nobody volunteers, so he decides to brave the task alone, knowing full well what happened the last time he tried to speak to her. He spots her meditating in the corner of the shelter, with her legs crossed and her eyes closed. He notices that she has something in her lap, and cautiously moves closer. “Please accept this offering, oh mighty one,” he hears Rachelle chant, and as she continues to speak he realises that she is sitting with a bag half full of rice. Eventually, Rachelle hears Steadman’s footsteps and opens her eyes, interrupting her monologue.

“What are you doing, Rachelle?” asks Steadman, speaking as if he is getting ready to flee the site at any moment. She responds by saying that she is making an offer of rice to Kirstie Alley, the Scientologist goddess of food and the harvest, in order to stay in the game. When asked how long she has been making these sacrifices, Rachelle explains that she has made one every day since the start of the game, but figured that she would need to make a larger offering now that she finds herself in danger, hence taking a larger proportion of the rice than usual. Steadman nods as if he has any idea what she’s talking about, and turns back around to tell his tribemates all about what he just heard. Instead, he walks over to the camp fire, says “yeah, Rachelle did it” and walks away again. In a confessional, he says that he decided that it’d be too much effort to try and convince the others of his story, especially as he didn’t them to see him as “the Berajilo loony. Well, the other Berajilo loony.”

As Tribal Council looms, the discovery of Rachelle as the rice thief, as well as her role in the failure of the challenge and general odd demeanour around camp, makes the vote a lot simpler for the castaways. Edwina confesses that as long as Rachelle doesn’t “cast some kind of voodoo spell” to ensure her survival, the result should be an obvious one. Jordan shares a nod with Kristin to confirm her loyalty to him, before she turns to Justin and Kenton, who are after the same thing. As the tribe prepares to leave, Rachelle remains in the shelter, and it takes Edwina – now confident in her survival after a brief moment of panic – to convince her to come out. “Look, I know things look hopeless,” Edwina says, sitting down beside her enemy. “And I'm not going to lie, they sort of are. But I know you think that people think you’re the crazy one. And you know what? There’s nothing wrong with crazy. Everyone thought I was crazy when I kept them up at night singing rock tunes. And if they want to call me crazy, I'm fine with that. I am just a little kooky after all. Look, nobody here wants to change who you are and nobody will. As long as you’ve been true to yourself, that’s all that matters. Now let's get this silly Tribal thing over with. Come on, I’ll help you up.” Rachelle reluctantly takes Edwina’s hand and joins the rest of the tribe in going to Tribal Council, but not before secretly taking the rest of her rice stash with her. “If I’m going out,” she says confidently in a confessional, “I’m going out in a blaze of rice and glory.”

MB. · 20-12-2017, 01:44 AM

Episode 4 – "Let Chaos Reign"
Part 1

Night 9
Berajilo return from their first Tribal Council, reflecting on how the experience couldn’t possibly have been any more eventful as they do so. As Steadman leads the tribe in a chorus of “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” to mark Rachelle’s long-awaited departure, Edwina receives a look-over from Survivor’s newest on-site medic, Dr. Phil, having just been dealt a heavy blow to the head and had rice thrown in her eyes. Although her head is a little sore and her eyes slightly red, Edwina is ruled to be fit enough to continue in the game, a decision which she may have felt more comfortable with had Dr. Phil had any professional medical training whatsoever. While the tribe attempts to return to normality, Justin says in a confessional that his work isn’t over yet. “Rachelle’s gone, the rice wars are over and our four-strong alliance has the majority over the…” (he takes several seconds searching for the most appropriate word) “…freaks, but you can’t ever get complacent in this game. Looking around, I see that everyone’s just about beginning to get comfortable again, so as far as I’m concerned, now’s the time to shake things up and take control of this whole thing. Strike while the iron’s hot and that. Let chaos reign, baby.” He grins an evil grin and tries, several times (to no avail), to wink at the camera.

The tribes, as they currently stand:

Spoiler:

Day 10
The next morning brings a beautiful sunny day to Honifor beach, and with that brings the perfect opportunity for Kyle to catch some more fish. Using the equipment that the tribe won in the previous reward challenge, he sets about trawling the bay for that night’s dinner. Takondwa spots him in the water and offers to help, hoping to exercise her newly-healed ankle, but Kyle declines, shouting back to shore that he prefers to work alone. After several hours in the ocean, he returns to the beach with a net brimming with all different kinds of large fish. “Is that a baby shark?” Theresa gasps as she examines the contents of his net. Kyle shrugs as Theresa runs over to the shelter, yelling about his impressive catch. Later, Kyle confesses that he doesn’t consider catching a shark as much of an achievement as the rest of his tribe does; “it’s not as if I went out to sea and came back with a zebra. Hey, at this point, I’m just happy staying in the background, quietly providing wherever I can. I’ve felt a bit of heat on me recently for being perceived as the leader of this alliance I’m in, so I think it’s best to take a step back for now and let my actions do the talking.” As the tribe relaxes around the fire and Kyle prepares lunch, Chris jokes that it feels like the “calm before the storm.”

It’s the same bright morning over at Berajilo, and all the tribemates (except Edwina, who is still nursing a sore head and a nasty case of rice-eye) are up at the crack of dawn. Kenton says that now the tribe no longer has to “babysit” Rachelle, they’re free to “chill out” and have fun. As he and Justin play a very #nohomo game of footsie using a log instead of a table, Hallie, Jordan and Kristin play hopscotch in the sand. When they realise they’ve left the fire unattended for over an hour, Jordan and Kristin ask Hallie to guard their makeshift hopscotch squares while they’re away. Quickly, Hallie gets bored with standing still and begins to use her foot to create a circle in the sand. At one point, her foot catches on something underneath the sand, and she checks to make sure that the coast is clear before using her hands to dig further. She then pulls out a tube, which she unravels and reads, using her indoor voice, to the camera: “this is a clue to a hidden immunity idol” (at this point, she squeals and jumps up and down four times on the spot). The note continues, reading, “walk ten paces to the east, then look up. On paper, this idol should be an easy find.” Hallie accepts the challenge and walks what she believes is ten paces to the east, before realising that she in fact walked ten minutes to the north. Rectifying her mistake, she returns to the spot of the clue and walks ten paces to the east, but to her surprise, finds nothing in its place when she looks up. “I can’t do this!” she cries as Jordan and Kristin return from fire-tending duties, and as they do so Hallie hastily tries to cover up the hole in the sand with her foot.

The afternoon passes, Edwina wakes up and the younger tribemates tire out, having played games all day. As they all top up their tans on the beach, Steadman analyses his fellow players from afar, saying in a confessional that he senses a tribe swap on the horizon, and “this is where the game steps up about five gears.” As a result, he hopes to get to work on forming a solid majority alliance in order to secure his place in the game no matter how the tribes are redistributed. “Up to this point, it’s been the young guns versus the oldies, but if any of us want to survive moving forward then things are going to have to change around here.” Meanwhile, Kristin heads towards the well to fill up her water canteen. On her way, she passes the spot where she, Jordan and Hallie were playing hopscotch earlier in the day, and notices a piece of paper lying half-buried in the sand. She picks it up and reads it aloud, discovering that it is a clue to a hidden immunity idol. “The thing is,” she smiles in a confessional, “I know where that idol is. It’s in my shorts.” Kristin pulls out the idol that she accidentally found when it fell out of a papier-mâché tree the other day, realising that the clue leads its finder to the now-fallen “tree”, and gives it a kiss. She then assumes that it was Hallie who found the idol clue, and says that if Hallie can’t be trusted not to secretly look for an idol when left alone for five minutes, she definitely can’t be trusted in the alliance she was planning to form between her and Jordan.

MB. · 20-12-2017, 01:50 AM

Episode 4 – "Let Chaos Reign"
Part 2

Day 11
The next day sees cloudier conditions, but nonetheless, the tribes are raring to compete in another reward challenge. Judge Judy greets Honifor on a pontoon in the middle of the ocean, as Berajilo row in. “Honifor, take a look at the new Berajilo tribe,” says Judy, as the other tribe notices that Rachelle was voted out at the last Tribal Council. “Rachelle, voted out at the last Tribal Council,” says Judy, in case they hadn’t already worked this out. Takondwa takes one look at Edwina and her puffy red eyes, and asks earnestly, “girl, have you been letting people poop on you?” (the tribe laughs, Edwina is highly offended). Judy then gets around to explaining how today’s challenge will work:

One tribe member at a time, the two tribes must move across a narrow beam and around the other tribe members. The person crossing can only touch one member at a time. If they touch two people at once or fall into the water, they must start all over. Once a member reaches the platform, the next person goes. The tribe who gets all their members across first wins reward in the form of a barbecue with beer and soft drinks.

Steadman, as the tallest man, volunteers to sit out of the challenge for Berajilo. The combination of Edwina’s limited eyesight, Hallie’s poor balance and Kenton’s large feet contributes to Berajilo’s loss and therefore Honifor’s second consecutive reward win, which they all celebrate by jumping into the ocean. Judy congratulates Honifor on their victory (while scolding them for splashing her with seawater) before turning to Berajilo and telling them that she has nothing for them.

Honifor excitedly run to the corner of their beach where a barbecue has been set up, complete with an ice box filled with beer and soft drinks. Takondwa goes straight for the beer, surprising her tribemates, leaving Kyle and Chris to enjoy whatever’s left. Over a selection of burgers, ribs and shrimp, the tribe toasts the great form they are currently enjoying in relation to challenge wins, although talk soon turns to the weather. “It was so nice yesterday. Look at it now,” Aubin says as the dark clouds form above them. “Then again,” Kyle interjects, “we’re on Survivor. We’re hardly going to let a little rain ruin our barbecue, y’know.” They share a strained laugh as Takondwa sips her third beer of the afternoon. Later, when alone together by the well, Aubin talks to Alicia about potentially voting out Kyle, in the event that the tribe loses the next immunity challenge. They agree that as he is the tribe’s primary provider, he most likely won’t consider the possibility of being targeted so early, paving the way for an easy blindside. The two shake on this and go their separate ways.

As Honifor enjoy their meal, Berajilo return to camp empty-handed, and spend much of the remainder of the day sitting around the fire, waiting for the rain to come. Eventually, Justin gets frustrated with the lack of activity, and refuses to let one challenge loss spoil his energy, considering how upbeat the tribe was the previous day. “Look, I’m no genius,” he confesses, “I know I’m no Alfred Einstone (sic). But if nobody does anything interesting around here then we’re all just gonna rot.” He then smiles that this is his chance to “get these suckers on edge.” His plan to liven things up consists of him taking Steadman’s shoes and placing them in Jordan’s bag, before placing Jordan’s bag in Edwina’s section of the shelter. He does this without raising suspicion, as his fellow tribemates are too busy pre-emptively protecting the camp’s fire from the rain by having two people hold the tarp several feet away at all times. However, when the majority of the tribe later returns to the shelter, Steadman notices that his shoes have disappeared. Rather than get angry at someone touching his property, he takes what he assumes to be an innocent prank on the chin, and makes it known to whoever the culprit is that he won’t spend his time looking for the lost shoes (“I’ve played the detective enough as it is this week”). That night, Edwina finds Jordan’s bag in her area of the shelter, and hands it back to him. Inside, Jordan finds Steadman’s shoes, and swiftly returns them to their owner. In a confessional, Steadman says that he believes that it was Jordan who took the shoes as they must have been in his bag for a reason, but reiterates that there are no hard feelings involved. He says that he doesn’t want to ruin any pre-existing relationships because he wants to keep Jordan, along with Edwina, on his side, and believes that Kristin and Kenton will go along with the three of them to make a majority alliance. In another confessional, Justin complains that his plan has seemingly backfired, as rather than cause distrust and disunity between the players who aren’t in his foursome alliance, it seems to have only strengthened their bond. “Oh well. Plan B it is...”