Survivor EU: Tiny Island
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Survivor EU: Tiny Island
Welcome to the second edition of Survivor EU! In the great tradition of the Tour of Angleter, the Llanowar Stock Exchange, (in development) threads started by Reitzmag, and Duxburian summits, we will never know what happened to the contestants of the first edition of Survivor EU. We wish them the best, and yet we move on. Survivor EU: Tiny Island is here!
Tiny Island is a miniscule and believed-to-be uninhabited island off the coast of Belarum, near Czech Slavia. This remote and desolate island is one of the most inhospitable places in Europe, third only to Dromund Kaas and Twitter during European Commission elections. Tiny Island, and its elements, are just as mysterious as uncertain as to who really owns the island.
Tiny Island will become the new home for some of Europe’s 16 biggest ‘icons’ - various eccentric despots, anime people, and leaders who are subjected to the rage-posting of others on Discord - with the terms icon being used with the same loose liberty that the live econ sheet uses to calculated GDPs. It’s basically abstract subjectivity.
Now, who are these contestants? You didn't ask, but you're going to find out anyway!
These 16 contestants will start out on two divided tribes, the Little Tribe, wearing red, and the Small Tribe, wearing yellow. Eventually, the two tribes will merge and the competition will become an individual game.
Over the course of 39 days, these contestants will need to battle the elements and each other in order to survive. They will need to work together, as well as against each other, in order to forge a new society. The contestants will need to learn to adapt or they will risk being voted off their tribe. In the end, only one will remain to claim the one million Euro prize and title of Sole Survivor. 39 days, 16 contestants… one survivor!
<Survivor EU: Tiny Island Theme Song plays>
((OOC: Nothing in this thread is RP canon and it is completely simulated using BrantSteele.))
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Episode 1
Day 1 - The Marooning
Four helicopters fly overhead and drop off the contestants on the island below. One helicopter carries the men and non-binary person of the Little Tribe, Dragan, Jésus, Simon and Kristian. The second helicopter drops off the women, Albína, Eilidh, Irene and Mikaela.
The other helicopter drops off the women of the Small Tribe, Anastasia, Gisela, Lula and Ran. The final helicopter drops off their tribe's men, Artabanos, Edward, Jean-Claude and Vistek.
The contestants organise themselves by their tribe colours and they stand on their respective tribe mats, and stare each other down.
Each tribe is then confronted with an immediate twist. Each person from each tribe must openly vote for the tribemate that they consider the biggest liability.
The Little Tribe begins.
Albína votes for Kristian.
Dragan votes for Jésus.
Eilidh votes for Simon.
Irene votes for Dragan.
Jésus votes for Irene.So far: that's 1 vote Dragan, 1 vote Irene, 1 vote Jésus, 1 vote Kristian, and 1 vote Simon.
Kristian votes for Jésus.
Mikaela votes for Irene.
Simon votes for Jésus. (Are we shocked?)That's 3 votes Jésus, 2 votes Irene, 1 vote Dragan, 1 vote Kristian, and 1 vote Simon. The tribe decides that the biggest liability is Jésus.
Now the Small Tribe votes.
Anastasia votes for Gisela.
Artabanos votes for Edward.
Edward votes for Ran.
Gisela votes for Ran.So far: That's 2 votes Ran, 1 vote Edward, and 1 vote Gisela.
Jean-Claude votes for Edward.
Lula votes for Vistek.
Ran votes for Anastasia.
Vistek votes for Ran.That's 3 votes Ran, 2 votes Edward, 1 vote Anastasia, 1 vote Gisela, and 1 vote Vistek. The Small Tribe decides their biggest liability is Ran. (Never underestimate that Ran has power of God and Anime on her side... RRAHH!)
It is then revealed that Jésus and Ran will be taken to their respective tribe camps by helicopter, while the other contestants must make a 6 kilometer trek to their respective camps on foot. Unbenknowst to the others, Jésus and Ran will also be presented with an opportunity once they arrive at camp early, where they can either simply begin working on their tribe shelter, or they can look for a special hidden immunity idol, which they can use to negate votes at their first tribal council only. However, to search for the latter takes a lot of time, and they may end up searching up until their tribe mates arrive, without having started working on camp.
Jésus and Ran both use their time to search for the special hidden immunity idols, and they both manage to find them. Jésus and Ran will now both be immune at their very first tribal councils.
Day 1 - Small Tribe
The Small Tribe works on their shelter. Jean-Claude assembles some gadgets for the tribe so they can attempt to fish in the nearby sea, while the others build the shelter. Artabanos weaves some leaves together to make a mat to add some nice decor to their new home.
Day 1 - Little Tribe
The Little Tribe somehow manage to get a shelter built before the sun goes down. Jésus and Simon are not entirely pleased that the tribe insists that they sleep next to each other in the shelter.
Day 2 - Immunity Challenge
It is the day of the immunity challenge. The two tribes come together to compete.
On the Little Tribe, Irene declares that she has no intention of running, and that she won't tolerate being caught sweating by the cameras. Dragan brags that he he has highest IQ and biggest brain of anyone - possibly ever - and volunteers himself to do the puzzles with Irene. Albína, Eilidh, Mikaela, Jésus, Simon and Kristian agree that they will run and collect the bags containing the ladder pieces.
Gisela nominates herself to do the puzzles for the Small Tribe, and Edward quickly follows suit by volunteering himself to help his wife on the tasks. Anastasia, Artabanos, Jean-Claude, Lula, Ran and Vistek agree to do the running and collecting.
On go, Ran blasts pasts everyone and Naruto runs to grab the first set of ladder pieces. Ran also back handsprings and martial arts herself over the various other obstacles. Needless to say, Ran carries her tribe on the first portion of the challenge and demonstrates that she was not to be underestimated. The Small Tribe collects their ladder pieces first, but the Little Tribe is just behind them. They assemble the ladders and begin the last puzzle portion of the challenge, navigating the table maze.
Irene and Dragan try to catch-up on the puzzle maze, but their collective brain power (shockingly) leads to nowhere, and they quickly blame each other for making mistakes.
Gisela and Edward work as a good team, and Edward analyses the maze as if it was some random country trying to claim neutrality that had inadvertently done something to upset an obscure clause from a piece of legislation, and so Edward managed to nit-pick the precise areas that they needed to take the peg through. In time, Gisela and Edward finished the puzzle and claimed victory for the Small Tribe.
Day 2 - Little Tribe
Reeling from the loss, Irene spins out and gets upset. Albína tries to calm Irene, and suggests that that the girls should all do some yoga to help calm themselves. Irene quickly shoots this idea down and says she'd never 'go down like a dog' or 'spread her legs', and says that sounds like something the Anitax would do for attention. Irene and Albína then get into a fight over yoga.
Eilidh intervenes and manages to calm the situation down, giving an inspirational speech about how losing is the new winning, and coaching the tribe on how they can use mental gymnastics to cope with the situation like she's been while doing in exile, convincing herself that she's actually still Korojaunu of somewhere.
Meanwhile, Jésus slips away from camp to go to the bathroom, and he accidentally slips and falls into a ditch. Jésus manages to get himself out and limps back to camp. Simon insists that medical team needs to check Jésus out, and that he should maybe be removed from the game, for his own sake and health, of course. Simon is disappointed when the medical team says that Jésus is still fit to compete despite his swollen ankle. (Jésus never dies. #HeHasRisen)
Day 2 - Small Tribe
The Small Tribe celebrates their victory and decide to take things easy and slow at camp. Lula is impressed with Jean-Claude's inventions and gadgets that he's made for the tribe. When Jean-Claude explained that he he once invented a float that resembled a tank, Lula thought that was a genius idea and that she should learn a thing or two from him.
Day 3 - Tribal Council
At Tribal Council, Irene and Dragan Trympov bicker back and forth between who lost the challenge for their tribe. At the end of the conversation, Jésus reveals that he has immunity for the first tribal council and cannot be voted out.
It is then time to vote. Once everyone has voted, then the votes are counted.
First vote... Dragan
Second vote... Dragan
Third vote... Irene
Fourth vote... IreneSo far: That's 2 votes Dragan and 2 votes Irene. 4 votes left.
Fifth vote... Dragan
Sixth vote... DraganThat's 4 votes Dragan and 2 votes Irene. 2 votes left.
Seventh vote... The 1st person voted out of Survivor 2: Tiny Island... Dragan. That's 5 votes, that's enough.
Dragan's torch is snuffed and he walks away from tribal council, not without calling them all the biggest losers of the decade.
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Episode 2
Day 4 - Little Tribe
The Little Tribe decompresses the day after their tribal council. Irene is calm and is feeling much better now that she's no longer on the chopping block. Nobody knows who cast the other vote against Irene, including Mikaela, who forgot she even did that.
Day 4 - Small Tribe
The Small Tribe continue to relax and feel confident about themselves. Ran has immunity for the next tribal council, so she spends the day napping and conserves her energy for the next day's immunity challenge.
Day 5 - Immunity Challenge
It is the day of the immunity challenge. The two tribes come together to compete.
For the first round, it's the women. Albina, Irene and Mikaela for the Little Tribe, versus Anastasia, Gisela and Lula of the Small Tribe. Anastasia is the first to reach the ball in the centre of the beach, but Irene squarely punches her in the face and grabs the ball from her. Everyone looks on in shock as Irene then struts to her tribe's hoop, shoots, and scores a point.
One point Little Tribe.
Next up are the men. The remaining men of the Little Tribe compete against Edward, Jean Claude and Vistek. Despite his injured ankle, Jesus gets the ball first, and everyone chases him back to the Little Tribe's net. Simon slaps the ball out of Jesus' hands, despite being teammates, but luckily Kristian quickly collects the ball, shoots it, and scores.
Two points for the Little Tribe.
The women are up again. Albina, Eilidh and Mikaela compete for the Little Tribe (while Irene sits on a time out for her bad behaviour) against Gisela, Lula and Ran from the Small Tribe. Ran ran to the ball first, where Albina and Eilidh both try to grab her and wrestle the ball from her grip. Ran uses her karate skills and manages to flip both of the other women over just using her arms while holding the ball. Ran ran to her tribe's net and scores a point for the Small Tribe.
Two points for the Little Tribe, and one point for the Small Tribe.
The men of the Little Tribe face off against Artabanos, Edward and Jean-Claude. They all make it to the centre of the beach around the same time and engage in a large scrum to get the ball. In the chaos of the scrum, Simon kicks Jesus' sore ankle. Edward manages to get the ball, runs back to the his net, shoots, and misses. Kristian catches the ball in the rebound and makes a break for it to the other side. At the other side, Kristian shoots and scores.
With three points, the Little Tribe wins.
The Little Tribe also wins a fishing spear, some basic diving gear, and various other pieces of fishing equipment. As the Little Tribe begin to celebrate, a twist is revealed. The Little Tribe must send someone from the losing tribe to Exile Island, which is an even smaller and more mysterious island just off the coast of Tiny Island. There, the exiled individual must live alone for the night.
After some deliberation, the Little Tribe choose to exile Jean-Claude, and they give him a thunderous applause as he steps off his tribe mat.
However, that's not where the twist ends. Jean-Claude is then asked to pick someone from the winning tribe to join him. Jean-Claude picks Albina.
Day 5 - Exile Island
Jean-Claude admits to Albina that he mostly picked her to join him at Exile because he needed to ask her some questions about his Premiership predecessor, Sofie Cikarova of Czech Slavia. Jean-Claude explains that he had a special pack of Junckpens he used to use as Internal Affairs Commissioner, that he then gifted to Premier Walter Cocx at the end of his term, and then Sofie apparently threw those Junckpens out when she came into office as Premier. Albina explains that this is likely something Sofie would do, and admonishes Sofie for once throwing out one of her diet vegetable smoothies that she made for her.
At Exile Island, Jean-Claude is presented with two urns. One containing a clue to the hidden immunity idol back at camp, but also an opportunity to mutiny and switch to the other tribe, while the second urn contains nothing.
Jean-Claude picks one of the urns, and inside is an idol clue and his choice to possibly mutiny tribes. Jean-Claude decides he won't mutiny, but decides to share the immunity idol clue with Albina, since Albina was willing to criticise Sofie Cikarova.
The two have a long night at Exile Island. Jean-Claude spends the whole evening regaling about his commission campaigns, and asks Albina what gadgets he should invent for when he visits Czech Slavia next. Jean-Claude also talks about how much he loves to use the European Commission App, but that he's currently inundated with DMs from angry Reitzmen. As Jean-Claude talks all night, Albina barely manages to get any sleep. The next morning, the two return to their tribes.
Day 6 - Little Tribe
When Albina returns from Exile Island, Mikaela is shocked by how tired she looks, and insists that they should have a spa day on their tribe's beach. Mikaela gives Albina a sand scrub and the two makes plans to do some traveling once the competition is done. Albina shares the information that she collected from Jean-Claude to Mikaela.
Eilidh and Simon decide to bury the hatchet over the Copala City land lease. Eilidh remarks how cool it is that Icholasen is the first country to have a transgender head of government, while Reitzmag is the first country to have transracial citizens. They both feel proud of the progressive societies they come from.
Mikaela gathers Albina, Eilidh and Jesus together and without their input, decides that they should all form an alliance together. Everyone agrees, but it's not like Mikaela gave them any choice.
While the others keep themselves busy by chatting or having a spa day, Kristian goes fishing for the tribe using their new equipment and gathers food for them. Kristian exhausts themselves by then also cooking the food for everyone.
Day 6 - Small Tribe Tribe
Readying to go to tribal council tonight, a sense of anxiety and uneasiness consumes the tribe.
Artabanos calls Vistek out for ignoring the Dolls group chat that they have with Albina and Mikaela. Vistek defends himself by saying he can't keep up with Albina's daily 'inspirational' quotes that she sends every morning. Artabanos hits back by saying that Vistek doesn't respond to Artabanos' bowtie-of-the-day selfies he sends either. Vistek finally admits that he has the group chat on mute and he never wanted to be in it to begin with. Artabanos is shocked and disappointed.
Naturally, Edward goes ahead and starts hustling and whipping votes for the upcoming tribal council. Edward decides to target Lula, and tells people that Lula is the weakest link of the tribe, and that he doesn't care much for her authoritarian rule in Nofoaga, and says that he wished she cared for human rights as much as she did for turtle rights. Ran doesn't like this coming from Edward, and calls him out for being a fake defender of human rights, citing that he never championed for the rights of anime people during any of his years in Europolis. Edward claims that anime people rights are human rights just like everyone else, but Rans criticises him for not enshrining that in any law.
Day 6 - Tribal Council
At tribal council, it's discussed that it's pretty much an open secret that Edward is coming for Lula, and that Lula is now coming for Edward. Ran surprises everyone by presenting her special immunity idol that she found on day 1, keeping herself safe from the vote.
It is then time to vote. Once everyone has voted, then the votes are counted.
First vote... Edward
Second vote... Lula
Third vote... Edward
Fourth vote... EdwardSo far: That's 3 votes Edward and 1 vote Lula. 4 votes left.
Fifth vote... Lula
Sixth vote... LulaThat's 3 votes Edward and 3 votes Lula. 2 votes left.
Seventh vote... Edward
Eight vote... Lula
It is a tie. Everyone, excluding Edward and Lula, will re-vote. Once everyone has cast their second vote, then the votes will once again counted.
First vote... Edward
Second vote... Lula
Third vote... LulaSo far: That's 2 votes Lula and 1 vote Edward. 3 votes left.
Fourth vote... Edward
fifth vote... LulaSixth vote... the 2nd person voted out of Survivor 2: Tiny Island... Lula. That's 4 votes, and that's enough.
Lula's torch is snuffed and she turns to wave at her tribe, but also scornfully tells Edward that he'll be banned from ever holding a Nofoagese turtle ever again and promised that the Oceans Protection Act will be his next piece of legislation repealed by the European Council.
((Not Gisela trying to originally get her husband out, queen just wants a vacation from her man.))
