Survivor: Lights Camera Action

Survivor: Lights Camera Action [1] Year: 2023 ORG/LSG Format: Off-Site Forum Survivor Type: Anonymous Players: 21 Moderator(s): VashtaNeurotic, BipolarChemist, Gypyx, PrivateI LSG List Mod: Cephrir Winner(s): Snakes Runner-Up(s): Searl, Balki B Complex classification.

Survivor: Lights, Camera, Action was a complex, Anonymous Survivor game that took place between October 20, 2023 and December 13, 2023. Snakes, portraying Sidney Prescott, won the game against runner-ups Searl and Balki B in a 5-3-0 vote. Major twists of the game included a known premerge returnee twist and the implementation of twists through a Plot Twist Raffle.

Players

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Round Summaries

E0. #finalsevenrighthere

In Round 0, the 21 cast members were not yet sorted into tribes. Instead, they were provided access to 3 out of 9 total trailers, giving them access to 7-player group chats and to privately communicate with 12 other cast members. Different strategies were employed to handle this modified shipwreck twist. Overall, many players expressed wanting to stay under the radar or put in lower effort socially due to the twist. Trailer J had the most active public discussion hub, and Trailer D was noted for having active PMs.

Rapunzel and Groot stood out as being big social butterflies. Jim and Sidney appeared to make a positive impression on the cast without standing out as much. Some of the quietest players at this stage included Elle, Gromit, King Ghidorah, Po, Paprika and Rosemary. Most everyone else not mentioned made a more mixed impression on their castmates.

After 24 hours had passed, the Executive Producers announced the Pick Your Poison challenge that would determine how players would be sorted into tribes. Each tribe would have a different way of handling eliminations. The Drama tribe would have standard Tribal Councils. The Wild West Tribe would hold a sheriff election to become the sole decider of who to eliminate. The Post Apocalyptic tribe would compete in a Power Struggle with the winner becoming the sole decider of who is eliminated. Players had 3 options of challenges to compete in during the round to get their first choice of tribe. The cast could discuss with each other what challenges and tribes they would be interested in.

12 players opted for the language-based flash game over the puzzles or arcade game, meaning that 6th-12th place in that game got last pick for which tribe they'd be on. The first player to be sorted into each tribe (Elle, Po, and Paprika) also earned an Amulet advantage. One amulet could be exchanged for an extra vote, but multiple amulets were more powerful.

Miscellaneous Shenanigans

• Napoleon is a driving force behind Trailer J's active public discussion and gets quoted in the ep title for it.
• Po blatantly copy-pasting PMs as a joke is received controversially.
• Jo March is the sole player providing negative SPV of Rapunzel and predicts she will be a villain.
• Scott Pilgrim HATES Jo's letter-writing style. He has put off a couple of people by quoting his movie.
• Paprika and especially Alberto stand out as confessionalists that are critically analyzing their opponents.
• Frank G is sad that he can't be Mrs. Groot. (yes, there are two Franks.)

The First Swap

Ignoring Gromit's preferences (since Gromit had a submission issue), the first choices for tribes were split 10-5-5 in favour of Wild West. Some players' interest in WW seemed to be based on who might be there with them, not just the elim. mechanics.

• Drama [Standard tribe]: Mike, Jo, Worm, King G, & Paprika got their first pick. The first three of them managed this even though they got between 2nd and 4th to last in the challenge. Scott P. and Marty M's 5th and 6th place finishes in the Semantris language game were not enough to get them onto their first choice of Wild West, and so they too joined Drama. The majority of players from Trailers F/G/J all ended up at Drama; Mike was in all of these, so isn't meeting anyone new, and everyone else know at least three people going in. Mike & Worm may be in a good spot short-term here.
• Post-Apocalyptic [Power Struggle tribe]: Rapunzel wanted Wild West and Gromit had no choice, but everyone else (Frank N., Groot, Judge Doom, Po, and Rosemary) got their first pick here. Rosemary comes in only knowing Po, but this may be a good fresh start since she was inactive in the trailer phase. Most other tribe members come in knowing 3-4 people already. Rapunzel and Groot are a strong pair here.
• Wild West [Elect-a-Sheriff tribe]: Everyone here got their first tribe choice. The tribe is composed of Alberto, Birdie J, Elle, Frank G, Jim H, Napoleon, and Sidney. Frank G., however, came in feeling swap screwed. He was avoiding the Drama tribe because most of his connections were primarily interested in WW &/or PA. He ended up at WW only having shared a trailer with quiet Elle, as well as being the only person that a couple of tribemates were first meeting. 5 members of this tribe came from Trailer B (Jim's also not). Sidney may be a low key strong pair with Jim here. Alberto also seems in a good spot.

E1: Cute little puppy dog

While all players settled into their tribes, it was time to compete for individual immunity. All tribes would be having an elimination this round. For PA, the individual immunity challenge was combined with the power struggle. The immunity winners of the Music & Lyrics challenge were King G. for Drama, Elle for Wild West, and Frank N. for Post-Apocalyptic.

Drama

Overall, there's not much drama here. Mike, Jo and Worm seem to be at the top of the social pecking order and loosely be planning to work together. They all seem fairly bored, and multiple of them seemed interested in a side thing with King G. Jo spices things up by complaining about basically all of her tribemates in confessional. Paprika is very absent, to the point of missing the challenge and voting. This is disappointing to her closest connection here in Marty, who may now be on the bottom.

Post-Apocalyptic

The main social development appears to be that Rosemary has gotten in good with the Groot/Rapunzel power couple. Frank N. chooses to eliminate Gromit, seemingly as a consensus lower activity boot.

Wild West

This is where all the action's happening. Napoleon made waves by his manner of organizing a 4-person majority alliance with Birdie/Alberto/Sidney, while simultaneously talking to Jim about working with Sidney. While the others in the group of 4 seemed to think that Napoleon had good intentions to work with them, they were concerned that he might be a liability to work with due to his lack of subtlety, or sufficient checkins before taking action.

Frank impressed his tribemates with his PMing, but to an extent, many of them also found this threatening. He became frustrated by Napoleon seeming to ice him and Elle out, and his complaints of this seemed to contribute to players' uncertainty of working with Napoleon. A group of Alberto/Jim/Frank emerged too, though Alberto confesses feeling closest to Jim on this tribe, and maintains being somewhat wary of Frank. Though Alberto's preferred boot is Elle, he confesses he'd consider eliminating Birdie if it meant keeping the more colorful Napoleon.

Elle seemed in potential danger due to having been fairly quiet in the trailers, but won herself immunity. Despite her slower start, Elle increased her activity level as well as revealed her amulet to Frank and Jim to cement a budding connection with them. Elle was told that Birdie was upset that Elle wasn't a target option. Birdie seemed to prefer a Frank boot, but didn't seem convinced she should spend much social capital to get this outcome. Frank was told that Napoleon was pushing him. Napoleon was criticized in confessionals for being quieter during TC - but this was due to him being busy finding the idol! Ultimately though, Frank was almost unanimously voted sheriff (Napoleon voted for himself) and voted to eliminate Napoleon, who left with the idol.