BottleItUp's Survivor Series



BottleItUp's Survivor is a game series hosted by BottleItUp. It is based on the U.S. reality TV show, Survivor. Depending on the season, players either create their own character, are assigned characters that have been pre-created, or are players from the U.S. TV show Survivor. They play as these castaways throughout the season. So far, there have been six seasons - Survivor: Italy, won by Rajanighanda Lakshminaryan, played by Estquer; Survivor II: Japan, won by Dustin Coulston, played by Sir Bitter; Survivor III: Morocco, won by Jerri Manthey, played by Lumina; Survivor IV: Chile, won by Bang Yu, played by Iron Muffin; Survivor V: Tuvalu, won by Kaci Tart, played by Aly; and Survivor VI: Costa Rica, won by Leo Clarke, played by eagle2ch. The seventh season, Survivor VII: Tanzania, is currently airing.

Format
So far, the series has followed two different formats in either season; however, the format used in Survivor II: Japan will be the one used in further seasons.

Tribes

 * You will start out playing on two tribes of eight castaways each. There may or may not be tribe swap(s) throughout the game, and, eventually, you will merge into one tribe and compete individually until the end of the game, where the final 2 or 3 will face a jury of the last few castaways voted out. The two tribes at the beginning of the game will be Sora and Ryuusui, Japanese for sky and running water respectively.
 * Each tribe will have four male and four female castaways on it. How these characters are picked from the pool of castaways will be revealed shortly after the cast is announced.
 * Each round will function a certain way; first, we will have the camp life portion of the round, where you have the option to search through your tribe's camp and replenish the needs of your character or possibly even find a hidden immunity idol. Then, we proceed to the reward challenge, where you will have a chance to win something to make your tribe's camp life better, once again replenishing their health. After this is the immunity challenge, where the two tribes will battle it out and the winners will be safe for another three days. Finally, the tribe that loses immunity will head to tribal council, where they will vote out a member of their tribe.

Camp Life

 * Each round will begin with camp life. But first, to understand the importance of the camp life portion, you must understand how the meters work.
 * Each castaway will have 3 meters: energy, hunger and morale. Each of these meters have a score out of 10, and at the beginning of the game, all three of your meters will start out at 6. These meters may seem worthless, but it is your challenge performance that they affect. The "baseline" meter rating is 5. For every point below 5 in each meter, you will lose a point or gain a minute on your time in the challenges. Conversely, for every point above 5 in each meter, you will gain a point or lose a minute off your time in the challenges. At the end of each round, all meters for every player go down by 2. When I post each round, I will edit the castaway thread to reflect the current state of the meters of your character. Meters will only be updated at the beginning of every round, BEFORE camp life happens and those scores will stick with you for every challenge that round.
 * During the camp life portion of the round, you must send me two things. First of all, you will have 3 options.
 * Search for food - everyone on your tribe will get +1 hunger from this action.
 * Rest - only you will get +2 energy.
 * Entertain - everyone on the tribe except for you will receive +2 morale.
 * Along with this, there will be a map of your tribe's camp. You must tell me which of the squares on the map [there will be coordinates to identify the squares by] you would like to visit. There will be one hidden immunity idol hidden at each tribe camp within one of the squares. However, you also have the opportunity to search in 2 squares rather than do anything camp life-related.
 * You will have 24 hours to send your action for this part of the round; if you miss the deadline, you won't get a strike, you just lose your opportunity to stay healthy. After this, we proceed to the reward challenge.

Reward Challenge

 * Because of the new addition of meters, reward will be extra important to this season if you want to keep your castaway's ever-deteriorating physical and mental health in check. There will be three types of reward challenges that will alternate every time we do a reward challenge: puzzles, quizzes and arcade games.
 * Each of you will have 24 hours to complete the challenge; after which time I will post results. If you do not complete the challenge, you will get a strike. The winning tribe will receive some sort of reward that helps one or more of their meters immensely; these will really prove to be crucial in the long haul of the game.

Immunity Challenge

 * When the reward challenge and results have been completed, we will move on to the most crucial part of any round: the immunity challenge. It is here where the tribes will fight for three more days in the game. The immunity challenges this season will be highly interactive, especially premerge when the privacy of the tribe beaches will play into the challenges.
 * Deadlines for tribal immunities will also be 24 hours. For interactive challenges, you will not receive a strike if you do not participate - I expect your tribe to deal with you appropriately. For timed PM challenges, however, you WILL receive a strike if you do not participate. The tribe who does better in the immunity challenge will receive an additional three days on the island; the losers will attend tribal council that night and vote someone out.

Tribal Council

 * The tribe that loses immunity must now head to tribal council and vote someone out. You can base your vote on whatever you like; however, you are expected to answer your questions at tribal council at your tribe's private beach fully and you are also expected to write your vote on the parchment I will provide you with.
 * After the 24 hour deadline, anyone who has not turned in a vote will receive a self vote and a strike. I will read the votes, and the person with the most votes will be eliminated from the game. At the next reward challenge, the other tribe will just be told who was voted out; not any details about what occurred at tribal council.

Hidden Immunity Idols

 * During the camp life portion of the round, you will be given a map of your tribe's camp. You may search one coordinate for the Hidden Immunity Idol.
 * There is one idol hidden at each camp.
 * If you would like a larger chance at finding the idol, you can give up your camp life action for the round in exchange for searching two coordinates.