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The contestants from Tribe Depths are waiting in the ruins of an abandoned house. They climb through a gap left by a fallen wall and circle around the remains on the floor of what used to be the roof. "Do you think there’s anything useful left in here?" Nessa (elf) asked. "If it was useful, don’t you think who ever lived here would’ve taken it with them?" Ranzkin (gnome) asked? "Not if they died here," Christina (vampire) said. "I found a chair." William (werewolf) sat on a dusty wooden chair. It creaked and then snapped, dropping him to the floor. Jewel (cyclops) laughed and Paige (zombie) moaned. Nessa followed William outside near the front of the dwelling. "Who are you planning on voting for?" William looked up at the cloudy twilight. "The least helpful maybe. Ranzkin." "Dedrick won’t agree to that. She eased his burn. I was thinking about Christina." Nessa shivered. "She scares me." Dedrick (centaur) watched William and Nessa from the window. "I wonder what they’re talking about." "Probably who they’re going to vote for," Ranzkin said. She had the lava snake coiled around her middle like a belt. "We should team up and vote together. I don’t know that I’ll make many other friends in this bunch." "Who should we vote for?" "At first I thought William because he can infect us, but then I remembered so can Paige," Ranzkin said. Dedrick nodded. "And she smells really bad." Christina joined them. "Hey, guys. Half of us are voting for William and half for Nessa. If you’re in, you vote for Nessa." "The others agreed to this?" Christina nodded. "Look at them." She gestured toward the window. "An obvious alliance." They watched Nessa and William laughing outside when Talia, the imp who didn’t make the show, came through the brush. "Someone’s here," Dedrick called out, but he held back with Ranzkin before joining the group outside. "What do we do?" he whispered. "Let’s vote for Christina," she said. "I don’t like how she’s taking over. DIARY CONFESSION – RANZKIN THE GNOME "Did you see how Christina took charge? Paige and Jewel just went along with it. Yeah, I guess it’s smart, but the last thing I want is someone with two spaced-out lackeys who’ll do whatever she says. She almost has a majority vote with just them! I’ll never survive if she gets her way. "Dedrick and I have an alliance since I helped sooth his burn. I can’t believe he let the poor, frightened snake bite him. Centaurs! You’d think they’d be smarter about wildlife. Lucky for him it wasn’t poisonous. Just, you know, a fire starter! "I don’t think anyone is on to us yet, that we’re together, but we’ll definitely have to start spending time away from each other. Otherwise it’ll be obvious like Nessa and William."
BACK TO THE SHOW Outside, Talia handed out slips of paper for the contestants to mark their vote. Talia tallied the results, but none of the contestants knew who voted for whom. Jewel voted for Nessa. Ranzkin voted for Christina. Nessa voted for Christina. Dedrick voted for Christina. Christina voted for William. William voted for Ranzkin. Paige voted for William. Talia announced, "The two contestants who’ve been selected for the Sacrificial Altar are Christina and William." "What!" Christina glared at Ranzkin and Dedrick. "You still have a chance of being saved. Whoever wins the Immunity Challenge will be able to free one contestant from the altar, at which point a new vote will be cast for the replacement. "Somewhere in this house is a stairway leading into a dungeon. At the bottom of the dungeon is the Golden Immunity Ring. Whoever reaches this ring first wins the challenge. Proceed with care. This is a dangerous game with the possibility of death. The contest begins now." Christina pushed Nessa over as she sprang back into the house, ripping broken furniture and bits of construction material out of her way. "We have to get that ring," Ranzkin said to Dedrick. "Did you see how Christina looked at me?" "Ear, ear!" Paige called from a pile of debris up to her knees. Christina jumped the distance between them and disappeared near Paige. "Where’s William?" Nessa asked, looking around. "Must’ve already gone down," Jewel said. Nessa frowned. They followed Paige down the staircase into a stone chamber with two branches. Christina, Paige and Jewel took the right. Even hunched over, Jewel’s back rubbed the top of the tunnel. "I can’t see anything." Christina called from ahead. "Catch up when you can. I can’t wait for you. If it isn’t down this tunnel, I’ll need to fly back to beat the others." "Ooh an eye?" Paige asked. "Not really fly," Christina replied. "Just move really fast." She sprinted farther away, her footsteps leaving no sound on the stone. "I hear something up ahead," Jewel said. "Is ih Rissina?" Paige asked? Jewel turned her ear toward the noise. "Four legs." A beast sprang from the gloom, toppling a screaming Paige. Jewel smacked the creature off of Paige. "What is it," Jewel asked. As the animal rose and shook it’s large head and wide mouth. Saliva dripped off rows of sharp teeth. Two horns rose from its back. "Scavenger," Paige said, her bruised looking eyes widening. The monster lunged at Paige again and this time she turned and ran back toward the exit. Jewel’s face scrunched up. "Why’d it go after her?" She shrugged and continued after Christina. *** COMERCIAL BREAK This Informational Announcement is brought to you by Mothers for Monsters. Furies – Misunderstood creatures, or just plain evil. We’ve asked this question to many people of different origins to get a more rounded view. Here’s what they had to say: Dark Elf: They are a respectable enemy. Furies aren’t your average slave race. That’s why we have to kill them all. Dwarf: If the dark elves want to annihilate them, it makes me rethink my opinion. I don’t know how anyone can think they ain’t monsters though. Destructive and gleeful arsonists is what they are. Lumen: Though they are demons, they were created by magical means. That’s something. I say, let them live as long as it’s far away from civilization. Barbarian: Tough creatures. The best way to kill one is to stay agile, keep moving. Don’t be a target. Get close fast, stab them in the chest and get out just as fast. Their many arms are deadly if they get a good swing on you. Huh? What do you mean that isn’t the question? Sade: I’ve never heard of this fury thing. A red four-armed demon you say? Where can I hunt this creature? Misunderstood or evil? You decide. BACK TO THE SHOW Dedrick (centaur), Ranzkin (gnome) and Nessa (elf) took the left, Ranzkin in the lead. She convinced the lava snake to move away from her and bite itself to catch on fire. Ranzkin helped it roll, putting out the flame. Its bright red glow lit the path ahead. Nessa trailed behind feeling along the walls. "What are you doing?" Dedrick asked. "There might be a hidden passage." "Oh." Dedrick looked torn between keeping up with Ranzkin and staying near Nessa. "Go on ahead," Nessa said. "I’ll call if I find something." "Really?" Dedrick asked. "Yes, really. Anyone should get the ring before Christina. That’s the most important thing." Dedrick trotted forward, his hoof beats echoing in the corridor. He caught up to Ranzkin just as she disappeared into the floor screaming. "Ranzkin!" Dedrick skidded to a halt at the ledge of a hole. He peered over at the disheveled gnome trying to calm down an angry serpent. The snake lunged forward, striking something near Ranzkin and setting it ablaze. As the light grew, Dedrick saw that the pit was full of sharp wooden stakes jutting up from the ground. If he’d been the one to fall into the pit, he’d have surely died. "Are you okay?" Ranzkin backed away from the flames. "She’s calming down now. I’m fine. Go on without me. You must be the first to the ring." Dedrick backed up enough to get a running start and leapt over the pit. When Nessa arrived at the hole and saw Ranzkin below she called down, "Are you okay." "Yes, but I’m stuck. The walls are too smooth to climb." "I don’t have anything to get you out," Nessa said. "I know," Ranzkin replied. "Go find that ring before Christina." *** DIARY CONFESSION – WILLIAM THE WEREWOLF "I have to find the ring. Have to. I don’t like my chances next to a vampire. I’d rather not be on the altar at all, but I’d want anyone else next to me rather than a vampire. "I know Nessa didn’t vote for me, so at least two of the others must have. If I survive this thing, I’ve got to figure out who my enemies are. Maybe Ranzkin. She might know I’m not fond of her. Who else? Jewel? Probably Christina, that wretched bloodsucker. Seems like vampires and werewolves never get along. I’m sorry we’re on the same team." BACK TO THE SHOW William sprinted through tunnels in wolf form. He was three floors down when he found a narrow cylinder hole in the rock ground dropping at an angle into a lower level. It was the first one without a staircase or ladder. He slid through nose first, landing on his paws. After sniffing the air, he took off down a cave branch. Though the route was full of twists and turns, he never lost his sense of direction. He came to a place within a low tunnel where he stopped to smell along the wall. Pacing back and forth, he sniffed the bottom edge. William started digging. *** Unable to see, Dedrick trailed a hand along the wall to keep moving forward on the uneven ground. The cave widened, and he saw light up ahead. Moving faster now, he entered a vast chamber full of luminescent emerald flowers in the center. Above the blooms, little green women fluttered with sparkling wings. "If I pick a flower," Dedrick said, "then I’ll be able to find my way in the dark." The women laughed as he slowly approached the flowers. One flew close by his face and shook herself. He raised his hand to push her away, but she was already gone leaving a trail of dust in her wake. Dedrick coughed and took a few steps back. His legs wobbled and his eyes drooped. He lay down heavily, curling an arm underneath his head before starting to snore. *** Jewel (cyclops) crawled along the floor since the ceiling was very low. She breathed hard, reaching ahead in the dark and came to a narrow round hole in the rock. She thrust her arm in but couldn’t feel the exit. Twisting around, she shoved her feet and legs in the hole. It stuck at her hips. Pushing hard on the ceiling didn’t budge her. She tried to get back out but she was stuck tight. Hammering her fists on the floor shook the entire system and sent dust and pebbles flying, but the floor didn’t break and let her through. *** Christina (vampire) left the others behind early in the race. She moved with confidence, traversing the twisting cavern with little trouble. She heard something digging ahead and turned a corner away from the noise. Further in the dark, the cave walls grew damp. Torchlight danced along the wall at a corner and voices echoed softly from that direction. Christina took a big breath of air through her nose. She smiled as she jumped to the ceiling and clung to it. Climbing forward she rounded the corner and saw a wide cavern with several goblins playing dice. *** Nessa found a crack in the wall barely wide enough for her narrow body to squeeze through. Something glowed red in the distance. "Snake?" she whispered. Creeping forward along the rocky floor, Nessa kept to the wall. She came to a short ledge where she could see into a vast chamber full of glowing crystals. The ground shook and she heard something growling behind her. She turned to look as a monstrous four-armed beast with red skin sprinted in her direction. She stood to run, but the ground shook again knocking her down. A giant fist came raining from above Nessa’s head. She rolled out of the way just as another fist swung through the air, catching Nessa’s torso and sending her flying into the crystal room. She landed hard on one leg. She looked around desperately as the fury dropped into the crystal, sending shards flying. Nessa crawled deep beneath a ledge in the floor. The fury swiped at her and roared angrily. It couldn’t reach her. *** William dug a hole into a hidden chamber full of gold and jewels. His body contorted, bending in awkward shapes as he transformed back into human form. He ran a shaking hand through cork-brown hair and laughed. Walking carefully on naked feet among gleaming piles, he sorted through the treasure and gathered every ring he saw. *** Christina leaned against the wall, eyes closed, with dead goblins at her feet. She licked a drip of blood from her lower lip. More voices sounded in the distance and she followed them into a large hall full of spear toting goblins. In the back of the throng sat a large goblin on a rock structure. He wore a crown upon his head and a gold ring on a stunted finger. The goblins caught sight of her and quieted. "That," Christina said, "belongs to me." The goblins charged. She twisted, ducked and contorted into unnatural angles dodging the pointy ends of spears while darting through the crowd. Along the way, she yanked a spear from one of their grasps and began stabbing and biting at her attackers. A trail of dead lay in her wake as she stepped up to the stone chair. Grabbing the king goblin by the neck, she held up his squirming body until the ring rose to eye level. "Yep. That’s mine." She bit his hand and ripped it off with her mouth. Blood poured from the limp wrist as screaming voices behind her retreated out of the hall. Christina threw the goblin aside and pulled her prize off the fat finger. The ring gleamed in her bloody palm. *** Talia met Tribe Depths back at their campsite on the beach under the stars. Light flickered on her face from the fire as she spoke. "Christina, you have won the Immunity Challenge. Do you wish to invoke its power and remove either you or William from the altar?" "Yes. I remove myself." "Because Christina has removed herself from the altar, someone else must take her place." Talia handed out slips of paper for a second vote. Jewel voted for Nessa. Ranzkin voted for Paige. Nessa voted for Paige. Dedrick voted for Paige. Christina voted for Ranzkin. William voted for Ranzkin. Paige voted for Nessa. Talia announced, "Paige, you will replace Christina on the sacrificial altar. The viewers will vote between now and Friday morning at 8 AM Central Time. One of you will be a gift for the gods and will leave the island." Vote Contestant 1 to sacrifice William the Werewolf. Vote Contestant 2 to sacrifice Paige the Zombie. The player with the most votes will leave the island. Vote in right sidebar of this page. Comments Here |
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