Episode 7 Format

Good evening and a very merry Christmas to you. I'm speaking to you direct from the BBC Studios, and I'm beyond thrilled to be back as the Head Righter after The BBC was kind prescient practical enough to remove Sir Attenborough and friends from our set. Apparently they instituted some absurd twist? But I'm hugely excited to have been given back control in time to direct tonight's amateur production of Peter Pan, performed by the recipients of this year's Plate's Non-Choice Award. This is not a pantomime. It is a traditional Christmas vignette. And also:



A lovely milestone I'm sure, whatever it means. For most of you, it will mean an assurance that you shall soon become not a sorry Sub-Actor, but an even sorrier Critic *shudder*, doomed to sit in judgement over our eventual Finalists.


Now before we go any further, I wish to praise our stellar Sex Designer for the single late night of hard work put into our new sets for this new production, without which we never would have been greenlit to return as your Crew for the remainder of this ORG. Under strict instructions to create three location settings which could perfectly fit on one theater's turntable, he produced these perfectly with no sizing issues... except for the small matter of having constructed each one in separate theaters. And alas, there's no time left to bring them all together before we begin, nor the budget to shepherd you all between them over the course of this Episode.

So... we're just going to split you all down the middle for the duration of the round. Hope that's okay? We weren't supposed to have any more Tribes by now, but the Flaw Runner found an actual Survivor episode where they celebrated the Merge by creating new 'Sides' for one Episode - and they even did this intentionally! So we're not quite that far off the mark, really


Thankfully, the Blue Planet team was kind enough to make you play an extra Challenge for no real reason. So we've been able to repourpose it for two important causes


First, we've used it to divide you into these two new Sides:





You won't be seeing each other again until next Episode, so wave and hug now. Quickly please. Then you can start PMing again - but only with the players on your new Side.

And oh yes! There's that second thing. We didn't actually mix up the call sheets, this time. To ensure we had equal numbers on both Sides, we allowed the last four players voted out to try their luck at a variation of that Challenge, for the opportunity to upgrade from Understudy to Actor, and

Vanessa as Camille LeClaire has returned to the Game!

It's exciting for them because that isn't something that just happens every other Episode, you know. And particularly exciting for us because they've agreed to a significant salary cut. (Which shall affect their acting and Game not at all, we can assure you!) So: welcome back Camille!





Now. We've promised the BBC hotshots a complete return to Survivor form. (Well except for the whole two Sides stuck in Worlds Apart thing.) And so we're going to perfectly follow Flaw Runner's instructions from that one Episode they half-caught while on the phone to their estranged daughter, and run a Challenge that splits your two new groups into two more groups. It isn't so confusing, you cowards, stop booing me!


Before you begin playing the Creative Design Challenge, you'll need to post in your Decisions thread and pick between the two Treasures below. This will decide what you are playing for, and whom you are competing against.

So for instance, if our 'new' 'Side' of six Crew members submitted Decisions in as follows:

• Option 1 chosen by: Composter, Head Righter
• Option 2 chosen by: Sex Designer, Special Defects, Boom Ops, Made Up Artist

Then we'd essentially be playing in two separate Challenge brackets: only the Composter and I would be in the running for the first Treasure. And the other four would be all be competing for the second Treasure. Oh, if only I'd been able to convince the Composter to choose differently, I might have been able to win my chosen Treasure by default!



I'll quickly sneak in some bad news here: both Sides will be attending Pirate Council, separately, at the end of the Episode. Where they'll each push one Actor off the plank, so to speak. If you're speaking literally. Those players will die. In the Game sense, so not literally. At least.


But there's good news too, see? Because take a look at the two Treasures you can win:




To reiterate: you cannot win both of these Treasures. And you must choose which one to play for, before you begin the Challenge. You are able to change your mind as many times as you like by updating your choice in your Decisions thread. But the instant you begin playing the Challenge, your most recent post deciding between B-b-belief and First Aid will be what counts.

You may discuss these Treasures and your potential choice freely among yourselves, both before and after playing the Challenge - just do not breathe a word about the Challenge itself until after the deadline, and of course be mindful that players may have good reason to lie to you about their choice, if it could persuade you to choose differently and thin out their competition Other than announcing the winners of each Treasure, the Crew will never reveal who chose which option.


In the event that all six players on your Side choose to play for just one of the Treasures, we'll grant the unchosen Treasure to whomever performed the worst on the Challenge (discounting any DNF or DNS funny business, of course).



The deadline to make that Decision, complete the Challenge, and submit your mandated Fun Task (see the Grow A Personality thread for details) is:

9:30pm AEDT Sunday, which is 10:30am Sunday GMT and 6:30am Sunday EDT.

After giving the Audience and the Sub-Actors an opportunity to judge your work, we'll return to announce your Side's results: who gets to evacuate and Exempted somebody from the voting pool, and who among the remaining five players is b-b-believed to be Immune.



Please leave a full Voting preference list this round, as you may not have much time to deliberate after the Challenge results are announced and the entire Pirate Council shall be automated non-live using those lists, and the First Aider's choice for whom get evacuated. In the event that the First Aider removes the B-B-Believer, the latter be able to transfer their Immunity to somebody else - so they'll need to leave a pre-selection for who that would be.

Once the Votes are in, we'll then tally them to reveal which of the five voting players receives the most Votes and will be eliminated from the Game. Of course, all of this will happen simultaneously on both Sides, meaning that this Episode will end with the first two players taking up residence in the Critics' Corner.

The Votes (and Decisions by the Treasure winners) will be due in 24 hours after the Challenge, at:

9:30pm AEDT Monday, which is 10:30am Monday GMT and 6:30am Monday EDT.




If you have any questions, don't ask them here because you should be unable to post in this sub-forum for as of now your Sides are completely and irrevocably separated until next Episode. Sorry?


The Actors are prepared, the stage is set, and the Actors are prepared, that stage is also set... Now please enjoy Peter Pan!