Post by ayia on May 29, 2021 22:29:30 GMT
Welcome, everyone, to Survivor: The Apocalypse.
In a distant future, a war-torn Earth has been divided into various unstable regions. The leaders of these regions vie for more power and control, resorting to all-out war without second thought. As a citizen of one of these regions, simply living in this reality is a challenge. But you will do whatever it takes to survive.
This game of Survivor is the largest event Summer Circuit has to offer. If you’re either interested in gaining points for Summer Circuit or you’re just excited to play a game of Survivor, please consider applying! The game will start on June 26th and will be about a month and a half, so if you apply please be sure that you will be available the entire time. Activity is important in doing well in the game, so please make sure that you can commit.
If you are new to Survivor, here is a brief explanation that will help explain how it works:
The game starts with the players divided into 2 or more tribes of an equal player amount. You are only allowed to talk amongst your own tribe. These tribes compete in challenges to win immunity. The winning tribe(s) are safe, and the losing tribe(s) go to “Tribal Council”. At tribal council, the tribe must vote out one of their own people. The players have 24 hours to talk about who they are voting out, and privately submit a vote. The votes are then revealed without revealing who voted for who, and the player who gets the most votes is eliminated from the game.
There is likely to be a “swap” at some point, in which the players are randomly assigned to new tribes. You may or may not be placed on a new tribe with people from your old tribe.
Once the players whittle down to a small enough number, a “merge” occurs. At this point, all players are placed on the same tribe. When challenges occur, players compete for individual immunity instead of tribal immunity. This means that if you win a challenge, you are safe from being voted out, and everyone else is at risk. In the merge, everyone gets to vote for who goes home. All (or almost all) of the players voted out in the merge go to something called the jury. Once there are 2 or 3 players left in the game, those 2 or 3 players have to plead their case to the jury about why they should win. The jury then gets to vote for who they think is most worthy of being the Sole Survivor.
There is likely to be a “swap” at some point, in which the players are randomly assigned to new tribes. You may or may not be placed on a new tribe with people from your old tribe.
Once the players whittle down to a small enough number, a “merge” occurs. At this point, all players are placed on the same tribe. When challenges occur, players compete for individual immunity instead of tribal immunity. This means that if you win a challenge, you are safe from being voted out, and everyone else is at risk. In the merge, everyone gets to vote for who goes home. All (or almost all) of the players voted out in the merge go to something called the jury. Once there are 2 or 3 players left in the game, those 2 or 3 players have to plead their case to the jury about why they should win. The jury then gets to vote for who they think is most worthy of being the Sole Survivor.
Before signing up, be sure to read the rules:
1. Game Basics
-Don't seek help from people outside of the game. Do not talk to people about the game with people not on your current tribe.
-During the Day phases of the game there will be immunity challenges. Immunity challenges decide who is safe and who has to go to Tribal Council.
-During the Tribal Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost as a whole tribe. The tribe(s) that lose(s) in the immunity challenge will have to go to Tribal Council and vote someone out.
-During the Individual Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost by a single person. The winner of the immunity challenge cannot be voted upon, but (s)he will be able to vote.
-Idols and advantages, including but not limited to extra votes, may or may not be hidden in the game and may be rewarded to the first player(s) to find them.
-Idols or advantages may or may not be rehidden after being played.
2. Challenges
-Challenges are the tasks that players or tribes will compete in to win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council. The challenges themselves will all vary and will typically not be very similar to one another.
-At the start of the Day phase, the details of the challenge will be posted.
-During Tribal (Team) challenges, some players may have to sit out some of the challenges (usually to make even teams). Players cannot sit out during two consecutive challenges unless otherwise stated.
3. Tribal Council
-Tribal Council will occur at the Night phase after the Immunity Challenge. There will be a private vote to see who is eliminated from the game. Votes will take place in your confessional. Voting deadlines are typically 24 hours after the immunity challenge.
-Before you're allowed to vote, the hosts may post questions for you to publicly answer in your tribe's Tribal Council chat.
-The vote total will be revealed to the tribe at the end of the night, but the hosts will not announce who voted for who.
-If any hidden immunity idols are played, all the votes cast against the player who used their the HII will be negated. If a player chooses to play an idol, they cannot undo this action. Players cannot switch their idol target once they've used it on somebody.
-In case of an initial tie, there will be a re-vote where you can only vote for one of the people with the most votes. For example, if there are 3 votes for Player A, 3 votes for Player B, and 1 vote for Player C in a 7 man tribe, you may only vote for Player A or B during the re-vote. Additionally, the players with the most votes in the original vote will not be able to cast a new vote in the revote.
-In case of a second tie, the player who leaves will be determined by a random number generator. The players who tied for the most votes both times will be safe from this tiebreaker. In the previous example, players A and B would be safe, as would any player that has immunity or played an idol correctly.
-Players voted out (aka dead) cannot be communicated with following their removal from the game. There will be absolutely no communication between dead players and alive players regarding the game. This will change when the game reaches its conclusion, but until then, this rule will be strictly enforced.
-At a certain point, those voted out will form the Jury. The Jury is special in that they follow the game in order to vote for a winner at the end of the game.
4. Winning the Game
-The goal of the game is to reach the Final Tribal Council, which typically occurs with just two or three people left in the game. You cannot win the game unless you make it to the Final Tribal Council.
-At the Final Tribal Council, the remaining players in the game speak to the jury and try to convince the jury that they deserve to win the game.
-Each finalist is allowed to make an opening statement on why they deserve to win the game. Following opening statements, each Jury member is allowed to make either a statement or ask the finalists a question if they choose to. They may say or ask whatever they want. An open and public dialogue may occur, and back-and-forth conversations with many members is encouraged.
-When everyone is done speaking, the jury will vote privately on who wins the game. Whoever gets the most votes wins.
5. Discord Mechanics
-A typical phase will go like this: A host will post a challenge and the rules. The challenge will take place over the following day or two. The losing tribe will then go to tribal council where they will vote a person off. Some challenges may be a little different, but this is how a majority of them will go.
-The voting stage will start immediately after a challenge and end within 24 hours or when all votes on the tribe have been cast. Extensions will be rare, so don't expect them.
-Inactive players who fail to vote will place an unconditional and public vote for themselves.
-No impersonating other players. You will be punished if caught.
-There will be a designated discord sever for the game with private channels for the individual tribes. I will make chats for every 1 on 1 combination of players, but to have an alliance chat with 3 or more players you need to make a request in your confessional space. If it's time sensitive and the hosts aren't online, you may temporarily make a discord group outside of the server but you MUST invite the hosts to that. Once any alliance is formed, a new chat/channel has to be created if members are to be added.
6. PS! Mafia Rules
All Pokemon Showdown Mafia rules also apply here. Obviously, this also means Global PS rules also apply.
7. Information Sharing
For the sake of making it easier to actually play the game, you may not post either screenshots or logs of chats with other players. It doesn’t matter whether they are real logs or fake logs, or whether it’s one line or a hundred lines, you may not send them to other players. (Feel free to send them in your confessional though!)
8. Host Discretion
Rules are subject to change upon Host Discretion.
-Don't seek help from people outside of the game. Do not talk to people about the game with people not on your current tribe.
-During the Day phases of the game there will be immunity challenges. Immunity challenges decide who is safe and who has to go to Tribal Council.
-During the Tribal Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost as a whole tribe. The tribe(s) that lose(s) in the immunity challenge will have to go to Tribal Council and vote someone out.
-During the Individual Stage of the game, challenges will be won and lost by a single person. The winner of the immunity challenge cannot be voted upon, but (s)he will be able to vote.
-Idols and advantages, including but not limited to extra votes, may or may not be hidden in the game and may be rewarded to the first player(s) to find them.
-Idols or advantages may or may not be rehidden after being played.
2. Challenges
-Challenges are the tasks that players or tribes will compete in to win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council. The challenges themselves will all vary and will typically not be very similar to one another.
-At the start of the Day phase, the details of the challenge will be posted.
-During Tribal (Team) challenges, some players may have to sit out some of the challenges (usually to make even teams). Players cannot sit out during two consecutive challenges unless otherwise stated.
3. Tribal Council
-Tribal Council will occur at the Night phase after the Immunity Challenge. There will be a private vote to see who is eliminated from the game. Votes will take place in your confessional. Voting deadlines are typically 24 hours after the immunity challenge.
-Before you're allowed to vote, the hosts may post questions for you to publicly answer in your tribe's Tribal Council chat.
-The vote total will be revealed to the tribe at the end of the night, but the hosts will not announce who voted for who.
-If any hidden immunity idols are played, all the votes cast against the player who used their the HII will be negated. If a player chooses to play an idol, they cannot undo this action. Players cannot switch their idol target once they've used it on somebody.
-In case of an initial tie, there will be a re-vote where you can only vote for one of the people with the most votes. For example, if there are 3 votes for Player A, 3 votes for Player B, and 1 vote for Player C in a 7 man tribe, you may only vote for Player A or B during the re-vote. Additionally, the players with the most votes in the original vote will not be able to cast a new vote in the revote.
-In case of a second tie, the player who leaves will be determined by a random number generator. The players who tied for the most votes both times will be safe from this tiebreaker. In the previous example, players A and B would be safe, as would any player that has immunity or played an idol correctly.
-Players voted out (aka dead) cannot be communicated with following their removal from the game. There will be absolutely no communication between dead players and alive players regarding the game. This will change when the game reaches its conclusion, but until then, this rule will be strictly enforced.
-At a certain point, those voted out will form the Jury. The Jury is special in that they follow the game in order to vote for a winner at the end of the game.
4. Winning the Game
-The goal of the game is to reach the Final Tribal Council, which typically occurs with just two or three people left in the game. You cannot win the game unless you make it to the Final Tribal Council.
-At the Final Tribal Council, the remaining players in the game speak to the jury and try to convince the jury that they deserve to win the game.
-Each finalist is allowed to make an opening statement on why they deserve to win the game. Following opening statements, each Jury member is allowed to make either a statement or ask the finalists a question if they choose to. They may say or ask whatever they want. An open and public dialogue may occur, and back-and-forth conversations with many members is encouraged.
-When everyone is done speaking, the jury will vote privately on who wins the game. Whoever gets the most votes wins.
5. Discord Mechanics
-A typical phase will go like this: A host will post a challenge and the rules. The challenge will take place over the following day or two. The losing tribe will then go to tribal council where they will vote a person off. Some challenges may be a little different, but this is how a majority of them will go.
-The voting stage will start immediately after a challenge and end within 24 hours or when all votes on the tribe have been cast. Extensions will be rare, so don't expect them.
-Inactive players who fail to vote will place an unconditional and public vote for themselves.
-No impersonating other players. You will be punished if caught.
-There will be a designated discord sever for the game with private channels for the individual tribes. I will make chats for every 1 on 1 combination of players, but to have an alliance chat with 3 or more players you need to make a request in your confessional space. If it's time sensitive and the hosts aren't online, you may temporarily make a discord group outside of the server but you MUST invite the hosts to that. Once any alliance is formed, a new chat/channel has to be created if members are to be added.
6. PS! Mafia Rules
All Pokemon Showdown Mafia rules also apply here. Obviously, this also means Global PS rules also apply.
7. Information Sharing
For the sake of making it easier to actually play the game, you may not post either screenshots or logs of chats with other players. It doesn’t matter whether they are real logs or fake logs, or whether it’s one line or a hundred lines, you may not send them to other players. (Feel free to send them in your confessional though!)
8. Host Discretion
Rules are subject to change upon Host Discretion.
Additionally, this game will be anonymous. This means that people in the game will be using brand new discord accounts and playing in a private game server. The following guidelines therefore must be followed:
Under NO circumstances may a player directly confirm their identity or claim to be another’s identity. Revealing your own identity (whether it is found out or not) is grounds for an immediate removal from the game. The intent of the player in breaking this rule is inconsequential. Please do not talk about your life or identity to a player.
Talking in a way that self-identifies yourself is not illegal. However, using terms that would self-identify you is banned. If you don’t know what these could be, this is not the game for you. Referring to things that people could identify you by is also banned; for example, I couldn’t talk about how Maggie Rogers is my favorite artist in the whole wide world or how my favorite Pokémon are Tsareena and Torchic.
Referring to things that people could NOT identify you for is allowed so long as it’s generic enough. Most mainstream media belong in this category, unless you’re well known for being the only simp for that.
There are no loopholes for the above. Not talking about this means not talking about this. You can’t give a subtle nod or hint in any fashion. If you believe someone is breaking these rules, message a host; do not speak with the other player about it.
If you wish to fake a storyline for your character (talking about a fake real life, etc) that’s allowed. You should not be talking about your real life in any discernible details, but talking about waking up, going to school, whatever, is fine.
The default settings that you should be abiding on are **[age of your character] [gender of your character] [character location] EST TIME ZONE.** (If you don’t have a preconceived age/gender/character you can either avoid talking about this, or use your own as a default.) If you’re mentioning time, either default to what the EST time would be, or don’t mention it at all. As someone who doesn’t live in EST, I know this is a clear bias, but it’s best if a standard is established and that’s the best standard to set. You do not have to adjust your active hours in a way that you should be awake in.
Players will be allowed to choose their account name, character, as well as their (age appropriate) profile picture provided they do not reference any Pokemon Showdown users, inside jokes, etc.
Be careful when using external applications with other players, such as Google Sheets, as you severely risk exposing your identity in this way by having your real account attached to it. It is recommended to either create an anonymous account for Google Sheets to hide behind, or to find alternative methods for sharing info which will not expose your identity. Discord may display your playing status on both accounts, which would reveal who you are.
Talking in a way that self-identifies yourself is not illegal. However, using terms that would self-identify you is banned. If you don’t know what these could be, this is not the game for you. Referring to things that people could identify you by is also banned; for example, I couldn’t talk about how Maggie Rogers is my favorite artist in the whole wide world or how my favorite Pokémon are Tsareena and Torchic.
Referring to things that people could NOT identify you for is allowed so long as it’s generic enough. Most mainstream media belong in this category, unless you’re well known for being the only simp for that.
There are no loopholes for the above. Not talking about this means not talking about this. You can’t give a subtle nod or hint in any fashion. If you believe someone is breaking these rules, message a host; do not speak with the other player about it.
If you wish to fake a storyline for your character (talking about a fake real life, etc) that’s allowed. You should not be talking about your real life in any discernible details, but talking about waking up, going to school, whatever, is fine.
The default settings that you should be abiding on are **[age of your character] [gender of your character] [character location] EST TIME ZONE.** (If you don’t have a preconceived age/gender/character you can either avoid talking about this, or use your own as a default.) If you’re mentioning time, either default to what the EST time would be, or don’t mention it at all. As someone who doesn’t live in EST, I know this is a clear bias, but it’s best if a standard is established and that’s the best standard to set. You do not have to adjust your active hours in a way that you should be awake in.
Players will be allowed to choose their account name, character, as well as their (age appropriate) profile picture provided they do not reference any Pokemon Showdown users, inside jokes, etc.
Be careful when using external applications with other players, such as Google Sheets, as you severely risk exposing your identity in this way by having your real account attached to it. It is recommended to either create an anonymous account for Google Sheets to hide behind, or to find alternative methods for sharing info which will not expose your identity. Discord may display your playing status on both accounts, which would reveal who you are.
Now for signing up! What you need to do is simply fill out the application form and join the server!
Application Form: forms.gle/RHuLenFfFAT3SJ1Y6
Server Link: discord.gg/brBPeK92jH
Note that this is not first come first serve. If we get more players than we intend to have in the game, we will have to cut people. Applications will close on Tuesday, June 22nd at 11:59pm EST. The cast will be notified that they are cast on Thursday, June 24th, and the game will begin on Saturday, June 26th at 8 PM EST. See you then!
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