Story Post: [Challenge] [Extreme] Disaster in the bunker
This challenge is all about being the last remaining contestant in the Bunker, which is slowly filling up with water. An Evacuee is a contestant who is either Out, or has been made an Evacuee some other way by this challenge; Evacuees automatically become Outsiders when they become an Evacuee, rules permitting, or when a rule is added that allows a Challenge to make Contestants Outsiders; in order to “make another player an Evacuee”, you must make a GNDT comment to that effect (and change that player’s Status at the same time, if permitted). If an Evacuee ever becomes an Insider (for any reason), he ceases to be an Evacuee. This challenge ends when only one Contestant is not a Evacuee; that Contestant is the only Contestant who succeeds at this challenge (all others fail), and the Challenge Champion (and incidentally also wins the dynasty, due to being the only Contestant not to be an Outsider). Contestants who are not Evacuees are Remaining Contestants.
Each room of the Bunker has an Integrity value, initially 120. This value can be changed in the following ways:
- A Remaining Contestant can attempt to barricade the room he is in against the rising waters, with the same timing as a daily action. To do this, he must roll DICEX in the GNDT, where X is 2, plus 1 for every full 10 points of Looks that Contestant has (more attractive contestants tend to be fitter, and can also more easily persuade other contestants to help), add the number rolled to the room’s Integrity, add another 5 if he used Luck to adjust the result of that roll, add another 1 if all Remaining Contestants in that room are wearing the same colour of hat (because hat synergy makes work go faster), and make a post here specifying which room was barricaded, and the new value of its Integrity. A room can be barricaded any number of times, subject to the timing requirements of a daily action. If a Remaining Contestant makes a GNDT dice roll to barricade a room, but then does not make the comment to this post specifying the new values within 20 minutes, any player may make them an Evacuee (this is to ensure people keep the records up-to-date in a timely manner).
- An Evacuee can attempt to pump water out of any room (using the complicated miswired plumbing system), with the same timing as a daily action. This increases that room’s Integrity by 1, plus 1 for every 4 full points of Fame that Evacuee has (famous Evacuees can more easily recruit members of the camera crew to help man the pumps). Alternatively, instead of making this daily action by pumping water out of the room, they can pump water into a room, if for some reason they want to sabotage the bunker; this is done instead of pumping water out of a room, and decreases that room’s Integrity by the same amount it would otherwise have increased. To perform either of these actions, the Evacuee must post a comment to this post specifying that he does so, which room is affected, and the new value of that room’s Integrity.
Both of the daily action-timing actions above can be affected by the hyper rush from certain results of eating fruit.
A room’s Dryness is equal to its Integrity, minus the number of hours that this challenge has existed; its Capacity is equal to its Dryness divided by ten, rounded to the nearest integer but rounding multiples of 0.5 downwards (rather than the usual upwards). If the number of Remaining Contestants in a room is ever greater than its Capacity, Contestants in that room are in imminent risk of drowning; any Contestant (including the Host) may pull a Remaining Contestant in that room to safety, by making that Contestant an Evacuee. However, if at least one of the Remaining Contestants in that room has not been in it continuously for 24 hours (for the purposes of calculating this, being idle does not count as being in a room), then the Remaining Contestant who entered that room most recently must be chosen to pull to safety this way (as they couldn’t find as dry a spot as the others); if every Remaining Contestant in that room has been in it continuously for 24 hours, only the lowest-Fame Remaining Contestant in that room can be made an Evacuee in this way (because the producers want to keep famous people in there for as long as possible to boost the ratings); if more than one Remaining Contestant ties for lowest Fame, any of those involved in the tie can be chosen.
Incidentally, the Prize Fund has dropped to about $318,234; I’m not sure of the exact value. I suspect the cameramen were skimming some of it off the top while I wasn’t looking. Also, the Cessna is apparently part of it, apparently because we couldn’t easily fly a car out here so a plane had to do instead.
It’s been an especially high tide today; the hole surrounding the bunker is now full of seawater, and I don’t think the walls are going to hold up much longer. We’re going to have to evacuate the bunker; but to keep our ratings up, we want to leave famous contestants in there as long as possible. Pick the rooms you want to barricade yourselves in carefully; after all, most of the rooms have special rules of their own, and some may be more advantageous to you than others. Also, I would appreciate it if somebody would pull me to safety once the water in the Control Room gets too high for me to fit in there at the same time as all the Remaining Contestants in that room.
Rodlen:
Based on one interpretation of the challenge rules…
“in order to “make another player an Evacueeâ€, you must make a GNDT comment to that effect (and change that player’s Status at the same time, if permitted)”
Hee hee.