Minoris, Day 3
Taranza
"We just voted out Fiona, and all I can say is: Good riddance."
Majoris, Day 4
The tribe was gathered around the fire, with May cooking.
Joyce
"May has become the designated cook of the tribe. I didn't exactly expect a twelve-year-old to be the best cook here, but hey, I'm not complaining. Her food is amazing."
May finished cooking her fruit dish and handed it out.
As all of the tribe began eating, a conversation began.
Ruby asked, "who do you think they voted out last night?"
Lincoln said, "probably Roxanne. She's a friend of my sister, so I know how annoying she can be when you first meet her."
Elliot added, "plus I can't imagine she'd be good at challenges."
Joyce disagreed, "I don't know. I know Carla and she is not the kind of person you want to be stranded with for 39 days."
May wondered, "Fiona did struggle in the immunity challenge. Maybe they took her out."
Rick suggested, "or Stealy. Can never trust him."
Minoris, Day 4
Tensaided told the rest of the tribe, "we traded Fiona for a source of fire. I say that was a good deal."
The rest of the tribe nodded in agreement.
Taranza asked the tribe, "Fiona definitely voted for Tensaided. Tensaided and myself voted for Fiona. Who were the other votes?"
Carla spoke. "I voted for Stealy. I just don't trust him."
Stealy growled. "I wish I had voted for you instead of Roxanne."
Roxanne exclaimed, "ah ha. So you voted for me. I know I voted for Fiona, and I assume Coco did the same, which means Brawly was the other vote against me."
No one denied any part of this.
Stealy
"Carla is dangerous. She's stopping my thievery attempts, and now she openly admitted to voting for me. I need to get her gone."
Tensaided
"There were four votes against Fiona. The way I see it, that's a majority that I can work with. And thanks to Taranza, I know who to seek out."
Tensaided pulled Coco aside. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"
Coco awkwardly agreed. "Ok."
Tensaided explained, "I was thinking the four votes against Fiona could form an alliance. You, me, Taranza, and Roxanne."
Coco nonschalantly replied, "sure, whatever."
Coco
"I think this idea for an alliance is stupid and bound to fail, but Tensaided doesn't need to know that. I'll say whatever I need to for him to not vote me out."
Tensaided walked up to Taranza and Roxanne. "Hey. Doo you two want to form an alliance with me and Coco?"
Roxanne questioned, "the four votes against Fiona?"
"Yeah."
Taranza answered, "we'll think about it."
After Tensaided left, Taranza asked Roxanne, "what do you think we should do?"
Roxanne thought for a bit. "Go with him for now, and see whether it works out?"
"Good choice."
Taranza caught up to Tensaided. "We'll take you up on your offer. With one condition: we are all equal in the alliance. We don't want to be extra votes."
Tensaided shook Taranza's hand. "Deal."
Majoris, Day 5
Lincoln walked up to the treemail spot and found a note. "Treemail! We have treemail!"
Lincoln caught up with the tribe and handed Joyce the note.
Joyce read out loud. "You can't survive on your own, and need to get help. Send a signal, and help will arrive..."
Reward Challenge: Day 5
Lillith explained, "both tribes will have to build an SOS signal that can be seen from an overhead airplane. Jake over here is a trained pilot."
Jake continued, "I will fly over both camps, and whichever tribe has the clearest signal wins."
Lillith finished, "the winner will get this box full of supplies. Food, water, matches, blankets, and a spare machete. Tribes have five hours to build their signal."
Minoris, Day 5
Roxanne quickly gathered the tribe. "Okay, we need to build a strong signal. Since they're going to have an overhead view... What catches people's eye the best?"
Carla answered, "motion."
Taranza recapped, "so we need something that moves and can be seen from overhead."
Roxanne wondered, "what would be the most visible?"
Majoris, Day 5
Lincoln was telling a story to the rest of Majoris. "So we actually had to make our own SOS signal then, but it got washed away, so we ended up making our own raft to get off the island."
Rick interrupted, "great story. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a working SOS?"
Lucca raised her hand.
Ruby hopefully asked, "yes?"
Lucca explained, "we could make an explosion. We already have fire and I think this island has enough supplies to make a decently flammable device."
Elliot
"Lucca sure is smart. My idea was to take off our clothes and spell out SOS with them. Her idea's way better."
Lucca immediately started giving commands. "May! Search for any plants that have turned yellow. Those ones should catch fire easier. Joyce! Gather sticks. Those should make a decent enough casing. Rick!"
Rick cut Lucca off. "Hold it. You think that's how you make an explosive?"
Lucca replied, "I know it is. I've done this before."
Rick retorted, 'sure you have. Look, let me eduate you."
Lucca
"Of all the arrogant... Rick is like, 'oh hello time traveler inventer girl. Let me show you how to create a small explosion because you're clearly not smart enough to handle that.' Only in an annoying raspy voice."
Minoris, Day 5
Coco thought for a moment, "something colorful. Like maybe we could use... a flag."
"But we can't use our tribe flag," Brawly pointed out, "thhey probably know to ignore that."
Taranza recapped, "we need to set up a flag high enough for the plane to see but low enough that we can reach it. It needs to be colorful."
Roxanne jumped up. "We can use my luxury item. I brought a set of dyes. What's the biggest piece of fabric here?"
Stealy answered, "the tent! We can use our canopy!"
Roxanne replied, "that could work!"
Carla agreed. "Let's do it!"
Carla
"Normally I'm a bit of a solo player, but it really felt good to figure that plan out as a team. Now we have four and a half hours to paint a canopy and hang it up on a tree. We've got this down."
Majoris, Day 5
Lucca was muttering to herself. "Almost done."
Rick walked up. "Hey scientist girl. I made a much better explosive. Check it out."
Lucca argued back, "yeah, right. Listen. If you're not going to work with the team, at least don't mess up the efforts of those who actually contribute. Thanks."
Lucca and Rick continued fighting back and forth.
Lincoln
"Lucca and Rick have so much in common, so they're bound to get along, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. I live with ten sisters and have never seen a fight this bad."
Joyce
"Lucca and Rick seem to have it out for each other. I'm convinced that as soon as we go to tribal council, they're voting against each other."
Minoris, Day 5
Coco was holding the canopy down while Roxanne arefully painted "SOS" on it. After Roxanne had finished, Coco asked, "how do we get this high enough?"
Roxanne thought a minute. "If I could get to the top of that tree, I could probably climb to the top and hang it there. Wait, which of us is strongest? Physically, I mean."
Coco thought for a minute. "Brawly. Definitely Brawly."
Roxanne then went over to Brawly. "Hey Brawly. Throw me up to that tree."
"Huh?"
"So I can put up the signal."
Brawly reluctantly agreed. "Okay." He proceeded to throw Roxanne into the tree.
Afterwards, Carla realized, "how do we get the canopy to her?"
Stealy confidently replied, "I got this." He grabbed the canopy and stretched his arm to hand it to Roxanne.
"Thanks," Roxanne said as she tied the canopy to the tree, letting it wave as a flag.
Tensaided asked, "how are you going to get down?"
"Check this out," Roxanne said confidently as she ran across the lowest tree branch. "Cannonball!" She jumped into the ocean below. She then crawled out and said, 'I want to do that again!"
Roxanne
"That was so much fun!"
Brawly
"I take back everything I said about Roxanne not being helpful in challenges. She's going to be a valuable member of our team."
Majoris, Day 5
Lucca told Rick, "you're an insult to science!"
Rick retorted, "no that's you. Here's what I think about your dumb explosive." He threw Lucca's handmade bomb into the fire, causing a sizeable explosion. "Looks like we're going to have to use my superior one."
Lucca growled. "Fine. But if this loses us the challenge you are gone. You hear me! Gone!" She then stormed off.
May
"I'm going to have to side with Lucca on this one. That wasn't cool. If this does cost us the challenge, which it probably will, I won't hesitate to put Rick's name down."
Rick
"Lucca thinks she's the genius of the tribe, which, frankly, is laughable. She's barely older than my granddaughter. It's hard to believe that she's the third oldest in the tribe with how immature she is."
Lillith and Jake were flying in the plane. Lillith explained to the readers, "the five hours are up. It is time to look for the signals. First up, Majoris."
As they flew over the camp, they saw a tiny puff of black smoke.
Lillith asked, "was that it?"
Jake replied, "apparently. I have to say, if I didn't know where the camp was, that wouldn't catch my attention. For all an actual pilot would know, that could have been a flying bird."
Lillith said, "thank you, Jake. Now for Minoris."
Lillith and Jake flew over Minoris and saw a colorful flag flying from a tall tree.
Jake explained, "they really went above and beyond here. This is a clear signal that is bound to be noticed. It was especially clever to put the signal above the treeline."
Lillith asked, "so we have a clear winner?"
"Indeed."
Lillith told the readers, "well there you have it. Minoris wins reward."
Jake then dropped a cargo box onto the Minoris camp. The box floated down on a parachute.
The members of Minoris ran to the box.
Roxanne opened the box. "Snack packs, water bottles, a machete, matches, blankets... this is great!"
Minoris crowded around the box and took the supplies out of it.
Majoris, Day 5
Most of the tribe was trying to sleep, but Lucca and Rick continued bickering.
"You cost us the challenge!" Lucca shouted, "you'd better hope we win immunity because if not, goodbye."
Lucca
"I cannot wait to see that arrogant smirk wiped off Rick's face when he sees his name written out seven times."
Ruby
"I basically said to them, 'hey, why not settle your differences somewhere WHERE THERE AREN'T SIX PEOPLE TRYING TO SLEEP. Thanks, bye.'"
Minoris, Day 6
Roxanne and Taranza took a walk when Roxanne saw something. "Hey! Look at the box."
Taranza was confused. "What about the box?"
Roxanne said, "the bottom of the box looks crooked." She ran up to the box and pushed a corner on the bottom of the box. Another corner popped up.
"Ah ha. Fake bottom. I've seen this in prison paegents. They sneak supplies to their allies in jail with this method."
Taranza
"I know this is my first time visiting Earth, but it can't be normal for a six-year-old to watch shows like that. Can it?"
Roxanne pulled out the fake bottom. "There's a scroll." She handed the scroll to Taranza.
Taranza read the scroll, "congratulations on winning the reward challenge. This scroll is an extra part of the reward, as it contains a map to the location of a hidden immunity idol! Note that the map is unlabeled, so you have to figure it out by comparing the map to landmarks at camp. A hidden immunity idol can be played on any tribal council up to the final five, and it nullifies any votes cast against its player."
Roxanne jumped up. "I've seen this. In some seasons the reward challenges give clues to the idol."
Taranza said, "we should search for it..."
Carla shouted, "challenge! We have a challenge!"
Roxanne sighed. "Well that's inconvenient."
Immunity Challenge: Day 6
Lillith explained, "this is your obligitory 'gross food chalenge.' Simply put, the contestants will be paired off. Whoever eats one of these beetles first wins a point for their tribe. Whichever tribe reaches four points first wins."
The tribes arrived at the challenge site.
"Okay. The tribes have chosen what order to send their members in. First pair: Kirby for Majoris and Roxanne for Minoris."
Kirby immediately swallowed both beetles.
"Okay, you didn't have to eat Roxanne's too."
Roxanne replied, "hey, I'm not complaining."
Lillith said, "fair enough, next pair: Elliot and Carla."
Carla grabbed both bugs and ate them.
Lillith grew exasperated. "You guys need to stop doing that. Okay *sigh* one point each. Next: Lucca and Taranza."
Taranza ate both beetles.
"Oh come on!"
"What can I say," Taranza replied, "I'm their natural predator."
"Next up: Lincoln and Stealy."
Stealy grabbed both beetles and ran off, eating both of them.
"You each get ONE beetle!" Lillith yelled.
Lillith sighed. "three points Minoris, one point Majoris. Up next: Rick and Tensaided."
Both grabbed one beetle. Both chewed slowly in disgust. Finally, Tensaided won out.
"Minoris wins immunity! And Rick and Tensaided win the 'folow the rules' bonus points."
Majoris, Day 6
Lucca
"Rick has to go. It's as simple as that."
Rick
"I'm voting out Lucca. She is the most annoying person here."
Tribal Council
"Hello Majoris. I'll get staright to the point. Lincoln, what's the mood around camp?"
Lincoln answered, "it's been tense. It seems Lucca and Rick can't go two minutes without fighting."
Lillith asked, "Rick, do you agree."
Rick replied, "of course. Lucca is completely annoying. She doesn't appreciate the actual scientist."
Lucca snapped, "excuse me."
May rolled her eyes. "Not again."
Lillith asked, "Elliot. Why do you think you're here?"
Elliot responded, "because we lost the immunity challenge."
Lillith rolled her eyes. "Fair enough. Let's vote. Joyce, you're first."
Voting
Joyce
Ruby
Lucca
Lucca held up a ballot, which said "Rick is a dick."
She taunted, "go home."
Rick
Rick held up Lucca's name. "Goodbye, wannabe."
Kirby
Elliot
Lincoln
May
May held up Rick's name.
"You're the weakest link. We just don't like having you around."
"I'll go tally the votes."
After returning, Lillith said, "once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person will be asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. I'll read the votes."
"First vote: Rick."
"Lucca."
"Rick. That's two votes Rick, one vote Lucca."
"Fourth vote: Lincoln."
Lincoln and Lucca looked at each other in confusion. May stated, "huh?"
"Rick."
"Sixth vote, second person voted out: Rick. You need to bring me your torch."
Rick silently complied.
Lillith stated, "as for the rest of you, you can head back to camp."
Rick
"Damn it, Lucca. You just had to turn the tribe against me. Oh well, can't do anything now. I can't wait to face Lucca again in an all-star season, assuming she has the skills to qualify for one, of course."
The Tally
Rick (6): Elliot, Joyce, Lincoln, Lucca, May, Ruby
Lincoln (1): Kirby
Lucca (1): Rick
Next time:
Lucca goes on a witch hunt for the vote against Lincoln.
Lucca
"Someone cast a dummy vote, and I want to know who."
And Roxanne prepares a power play.
Roxanne
"This is the difference between first place and thirteenth. I only get one chance, and I'm going to make it count."
Rick may be good at a lot of things, but I'm sure you can agree that Survivor would not be one of them.
