Well aloha, Survivors! I’ve never been a fan of obvious eliminations, but if I survived Survivor X, I can weather one here, I suppose. Let’s dispense with the dramatics and just get it over with:
Vote One: Ryan Fossum (his own).
Vote Two: Ryan Fossum.
Vote Three: Ryan Fossum.
Vote Four: Ryan Fossum. “Well, I’m not gonna think about this one a lot.”
Vote Five: Ryan Fossum.
Vote Six: Ryan Fossum. “The nonsub.”
Vote Seven: Ryan Fossum. “No submission. No hesitation.”
Vote Eight: Ryan Fossum. “Because, well…silver bullets and Diabetes may weaken lycanthropes and Wilfred Brimley, but non-subs won’t.”
Vote Nine: Ryan Fossum. “I vote for Ryan Fossum because I want to vote for a former winner and the rules don’t allow me to vote for Brooks.”
First Elimination from Spookymilk Survivor XIII: Ryan Fossum
That’s two straight games where a Survivor winner has been the first one eliminated. However, Ryan offers insight: “just been working 80 hour weeks. I had no time. Didn’t realize when I said I’d do Survivor I’d be expected to take on another job. Give my regards.”
Just sayin’, though, we’ve had several people submit while in the hospital, doped up so much that they probably had the brainpower of someone who’d just worked eighty hours. But I kid the Ryan. He’s great.
The next challenge, an all-new one, is Choose Your Own Adventure (those who played the challenge of the same name in XI, it’s not the same).
Each team will write a complete Choose Your Own Adventure story. The first player will open the story with section 1, and at the end of that section will create a diverging path of two or more choices. That player can continue with part 2, but each person has a word limit of 150 across all sections (not counting the words in the choices, if that makes sense). I’d love to offer more, but judging this week was tough enough with so many of you.
I do ask that you move the story forward in order, so the first person’s choices should go to 2, 3 and 4, if there are three choices. This is for ease of judging, as each person, not section, will be scored. I also figure it will help you organize as a team.
If the person before you created two paths, you are under no obligation to write both, and you can leave one for the next person.. You can spend all your words on the same section, if you so desire. However, there must be at least three endings contained in the story, no matter where they’re located.
Each team will also get a 1-5 score on overall enjoyment as a unit. The story does not have to have the same spirit throughout each section, and it can diverge wildly from where it begins. I’m not looking for this to match up; I’m just looking for an overall experience. If your team fails to have three endings, this will be an automatic zero.
The team with the lowest average score will have to vote someone out. Of course, if anyone nonsubs, then this will trump everything and they’ll be on the hook.
I was scared to run this because of the coordination necessary, but the last time I ran a “rely on your teammates to write something” challenge, it was done in record time because nobody wanted to be the weenus who screwed it up. So, here’s hoping you defend this decision, Survivors.
They’re due Monday, June 17th at noon Central. These will take some time to judge so that accounts for the time of day, and I pushed it out one day longer than intended because Sunday is Father’s Day and this place is lousy with fathers. You should, of course, send in your own section as soon as it’s done, and not wait for the team. As will always be the case, in the unlikely event that everyone has submitted early, we’ll judge well before Monday.
Cheers, Survivors. If there are any questions about this fairly complex challenge, ask them here.
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June 11, 2013 at 11:33 pm
mbnovak
I am in midseason form!
Could you please explain the numbering a little more? Say Person A has choices 1 and 2 ending their section, then say Person B takes choice 1 and introduces two choices of their own… what should those choices be called? 3 and 4? And Person C takes choice 2 off of Person A, and they’d have choices 5 and 6? So you could end up on a path of 2, 6, etc.?
June 12, 2013 at 9:47 am
The Dread Pirate
Ban him.
June 12, 2013 at 2:11 pm
beezypoof
i’m with Novak. just want to make sure i understand everything, lest *I* be the a-hole to muck it all up.
June 12, 2013 at 2:43 pm
spookymilk
Treat the choices and the sections as page numbers. The first person writes section 1, and it ends with two choices. They’re not 1 and 2; they’re 2 and 3. If that person also writes section 2, he pays off the first section and either ends the story or writes another choice.
June 12, 2013 at 10:55 pm
mbnovak
For the sake of clarity, can we note the pages within our entries, and have those not count against the word count too? As we go about this, I think this might be easier for the judges, and that’s all I really care about.
June 12, 2013 at 11:07 pm
spookymilk
The section numbers absolutely should be noted. And no, they don’t count. What I need to know is how to read it, and what was written by whom (which will be obvious since each person must send me his or her own entry).
June 13, 2013 at 11:48 pm
daneekasghost
Weren’t these things always written in the second person? Is that a requirement?
June 14, 2013 at 10:09 am
christinapepper
Having read an inordinate number of these as a kid, I can say they were definitely always in second person. I’ll leave it to Spooky to decide if it’s a requirement.
June 14, 2013 at 10:45 am
spookymilk
I didn’t mention it, but if I’d thought to, I probably would have asked them to be in second person. If they’re already written and are not, I suppose I have no beef with that, but I’m having a hard time envisioning one written any other way.
June 14, 2013 at 9:39 am
christinapepper
What’s your adventure?
You’ve gotta choose!
Write your best
so your team won’t lose!
Survivor!
Survivor!
Yayyyyyyyy Survivor!
June 14, 2013 at 2:23 pm
spookymilk
I was dubious that you’d keep this up, but so far, so good.
June 15, 2013 at 2:26 pm
christinapepper
I take my role as cheerleader very seriously–even if you and I are the only ones aware of it.
June 17, 2013 at 5:16 pm
mybiggirlshoes
Yucky, you bastard of a challenge. You are definitely a bag of smelly dicks.
June 17, 2013 at 5:23 pm
nibbish
Well said