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 (Po) and Balki B (Napoleon Dynamite) 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.

Plot Twist Raffle #1

At the same time as the votes/elimination choices were occurring, players had the opportunity to vote in the Plot Twist raffle. The most popular and winning option was the Meet Cute twist, which involved every player getting to pick someone on another tribe. If two people pick the same person, they'll get a permanent thread to communicate. Anyone not chosen by someone else will get to exchange a love letter with a player on another tribe.

The less popular options received four raffle votes each (compared to thirteen). They were: (1) I Think He Can Hear You, Ray - the best/worst performing tribe members at the next immunity challenge would win walkie talkies to use to communicate with players on another tribe; (2) Bounty Hunters - all players would choose a partner and bounty; if the bounty was eliminated at exactly during the 5th elimination round, then they would win private communication with another player for the rest of the game.

E2: Don't trust anyone

Immunity Challenge

Individual members of tribes worked on organizing cut up pieces of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie scene into the correct order. Drama was sent to tribal due to having the worst cumulative score - half of them didn't get the correct order and thus maxed out their time. Wild West got the best cumulative score due to everyone getting the correct order, but Po & Rosemary from Post-Apocalyptic put out the best times.

Plot Twist: Meet Cute

The only successful Meet Cutes were Rapunzel/Sidney, Doom/Worm, and Birdie/Mike. Sidney had wanted to keep their connection a secret, but Rapunzel immediately shared it with Groot and Rosemary. While they redoubled their efforts to confirm with each other the extent they wanted to keep other information private, all the consequences of this decision remain to be seen.

Doom shared with Worm the amulet speculation that he learned from Po, and Worm complained of an afk tribe. Birdie provided Mike quite a bit of advice about the tribal council.

Anyone who was not chosen by another player got the opportunity to send a letter to a player of their choice. King G sent a joke to Rapunzel with it during this round. Groot and Frank seem the most bothered by not having their love returned. Rapunzel is by far the most popular.

Player	Is Choosing	Is Chosen By	Result
Scott Pilgrim	Rapunzel	Elle Woods	-
Jo March	Rapunzel	Jim Hawkins	-
Worm	Judge Doom	Judge Doom	Meet-cute: Worm/Judge Doom
King Ghidorah	Rapunzel	-	Letter
Marty McFly	Judge Doom	-	Letter
Mike W	Birdie J	Birdie J	Meet-cute: Mike/Birdie
Elle	Scott	Po	-
Jim	Jo	-	Letter
Alberto	Groot	Rosemary	-
Sidney	Rapunzel	Rapunzel	Meet-cute: Sidney/Rapunzel
Birdie J	Mike	Mike, Frank N. Furter	Meet-cute: Mike/Birdie
Rapunzel	Sidney	Sidney, Scott, Frank G, King G, Jo	Meet-cute: Sidney/Rapunzel
Frank N. Furter	Birdie	-	Letter
Groot	Worm	Alberto	-
Judge Doom	Worm	Worm, Marty	Meet-cute: Worm/Judge Doom
Rosemary	Alberto	-	Letter
Po	Elle	-	Letter

Drama's TC

After last round's vote out on someone who didn't show up to TC, it was time to really test relationships. This Drama cast seemed not to overly trust each other or have much overlap on their opinions on one another. Some people arguably started overplaying and things got messy.

Marty seemed more concerned with getting into a solid majority and less concerned with who was in it. Jo learned that people seemed to have fairly differing preferences, though many players seemed reluctant to push anything too hard. King G emerged as a potential compromise boot option and was being pushed by Worm. Mike and Scott were interested in targeting each other, but the votes weren't necessarily there to take either out immediately. King G tried to find common ground with Worm. King G. went from being afraid to give names privately, to voting Mike publicly at one point.

Worm and Marty helped put together a potential voting bloc 4-some of Jo/Mike/Worm/Marty. Following Worm making the group chat and then almost immediately leaking it to Scott Pilgrim for leverage, things started to get messy. Scott was panicked about how to survive this vote and a future one. Jo wanted Scott out before King if this was to be a bloc because she didn't want him and Worm getting too close. When Worm pushed back on this, Jo was able to take advantage of the situation to gain momentum against Worm. Marty also disliked Worm seeming to protect Scott and helped push the Worm vote.

Worm mentioned being unnerved by how quiet it was in his meet cute thread. Mike was unhappy with the shift. Mike leaked the Worm vote and then joined Worm in voting for Jo. Worm claimed to have received an extra vote advantage from Groot. Scott felt strongarmed into voting Worm, not trusting anyone enough to go to rocks, and wasn't thrilled with what Worm was offering as an ally. Worm was voted out 4-2.

E3: It's so quiet

Challenge

The Casting Begins challenge was a cooperative take on Guess Who. Jo, Birdie J, and Groot stepped up as their tribes' respective cluegivers. Wild West performed well after practicing together and auditioning different cluegivers. They got 3/3 correct with 7 clues/questions. Elle was absent as a guesser due to unexpected illness and made a public apology to the tribe. Post-Apocalyptic played conservatively and got 3/3 with 18 clues/questions. Judge Doom expressed some frustration at not feeling listened to as a guesser. Drama lost the challenge because they got 1/3 correct, utilizing just 4 clues and questions. Mike appeared to be the primary player discouraging further clarification among the guesser team.

Plot Twists

Players voted on one of the three plot twists to take place in Round 4.

• Doppelgangers (10 raffle entries) - Players challenge/accept 1 on 1 matches and then compete in an individual challenge. Winners of the challenge are immune and can PM each other. Losers go to a joint TC.
• Split Timelines (6 raffle entries) - The challenge and tribal council are simultaneous. All tribes have a "normal" TC. However, only the player with the worst challenge result among the three players voted out will get eliminated.
• Money Never Sleeps (3 raffle entries) - Players are randomly split into 2 groups to compete in a creative challenge. Each group elects a leader. The losing leader elects two players to join them in the boardroom. The judge will eliminate the worst performing/least persuasive player, basing the elimination on reasoning pertaining to the challenge.

Winning Tribe Social Updates

On Wild West, Elle loses some social standing due to relative inactivity. She's characterized by Alberto as someone who may be most effective when her back is against the wall. Frank G. is reluctant to tell Sidney that his preferred vote would be Birdie J, and both of them confess to finding this interaction awkward. Frank G. confesses to finding it off-putting that Alberto wants to send shorter messages due to not being at tribal. Alberto remains in a strong position overall though. Birdie J seems to lose some social standing with Sidney (from WW) & Rapunzel (from PA) based on interactions Birdie had with Sidney about the Meet Cute plot twist. Jim confesses that he feels like he's flying effectively under the radar and disguising how close he is to everyone, and this appears to be an accurate perception.

On Post-Apocalyptic, players continue to confess that they are bored. Rosemary confesses that Po/Groot/Rosemary/Rapunzel are a 4-some. Rosemary tells us she trusts Po the most, but that she may want to eliminate him anyway due to being a challenge threat. Comically, Po jokes in confessional that he expects this from her. Meanwhile, Groot lets us know that Rosemary drunkenly offered him a f2, which Groot tells Rapunzel about. We learn from Judge Doom that his perception is that he and Rapunzel are the only ones actively communicating on the tribe.

Drama Tribe

Scott is an active confessionalist and lets us know that he had tough conversations with Marty and Jo after the TC, aiming to get to a point where they can more genuinely work together effectively on this tribe and beyond. Jo's left a little wary of Scott for the future, but is focused on eliminating Mike. King Ghidorah seems to be seen as trustworthy by tribemates; Marty has also improved his social position considerably from the start of last round. These 4 discuss which plot twist is most beneficial to them as a group.

The TC itself is quiet and both Mike and Scott are paranoid about it. Mike seems to remain on the outs due to having leaked the Worm vote and voting in the minority. Mike attempts to bring in Marty and Jo for a King Ghidorah vote. Jo eventually lets Mike know that Mike is being voted out. While Birdie J (Mike's meet cute partner) suggests faking an idol, she opts not to reveal the solution to the idol hunt or pass along her half idol she earned from being the second one to solve the idol hunt. Mike is eliminated 4-1.

E4: Scotty doesn't know

Challenge/Plot Twist

The most popular twist - Doppelgangers - won the raffle. As such, players began challenging each other and then competed in the "F is for Fake" 1v1 challenge (in which Vash underestimated people's knowledge of Pokemon). Players generally aimed to avoid challenging someone on their own tribe. The Drama tribe and the Wild West tribes discussed the possibility of all throwing the challenge; Elle proposed it for Wild West. Rapunzel also suggested to her meet-cute Sidney a possible coordinated PA/WW group throw.

However, only Drama really threw, thereby sending Rapunzel/Sidney/Frank N./Rosemary to the winners. Po defeated Elle, Jim defeated Alberto, Birdie J defeated Judge Doom, and Groot defeated Frank G. This left a 4-3-1 split on the Losers, though Elle has an amulet. The Winners were split 6-2 (Post-Apocalyptic majority over Wild West).

Losers

Happy Halloween! This was a hectic 24-hour tribal. With 3 of Drama getting DNF and Marty getting a suspiciously low score, the fact that Drama obviously did a coordinated throw became a hot topic for the entire game (even on Dagoba - where the voted out players are in discussion.) Team Drama began to feel out whether they could bring in Judge Doom to vote out Wild West, or if it might be more optimal to off the meet-cute of Worm, Judge Doom.

While the point of the coordinated Drama throw originally seemed to be to pick off another tribe, Jo and Marty from Drama seemed to catch on to the optics being bad and begin to consider other options more quickly. They connected with Frank G. and planned to work with Wild West. Their preferred target on Drama was King G, and Frank G. was on board with this. Meanwhile, Elle and Judge Doom seemed to hit it off. Scott was unpopular due to not fessing up about the throw, and was Elle and Doom's preferred target.

Perhaps partly due to Jo going AWOL toward the end of tribal for personal reasons, and due to Elle's willingness to play her item, she got her way in a blindside: Scott Pilgrim was voted out 5-2-2. King G & Scott had voted for Elle, and Jo/Marty voted for King G. This tribal may have created cracks within the former Wild West, with Frank G. being frustrated that Marty/Jo were left out, and with Alberto confessing that Frank G. seemed too quiet.

E5: Much love

Tribe Swap & "Handcuff" Twist

Each tribe ended up with 1 former Drama and 2 of each of the former WW/Post-Apoc. Many of the most most significant connections other than these former tribal lines seem to come from the Losers tribe, and the Losers have a majority on both Hallmark and Criterion. If these Losers connections are stable, it might spell trouble for Rosemary, Frank N., Rapunzel, and/or Jim.

Also during this round, Marty and Jim found two linked items hidden in the forum. This caused them to be hand-cuffed - they are not currently allowed to vote each other (unless the other is the only eligible person to vote) and may now privately communicate at any time.

Challenge & Rewards

Tribes competed by having individual tribe members work on identifying movie posters quickly and accurately. Players were told that challenge performance would lead to item rewards. However, they weren't advised that the worst-performing tribe members would win rewards. Sidney got an idol, Groot got an item that banks premerge votes to use later, and King Ghidorah got Safety without Power. Ghidorah shared his immediately to his whole tribe out of guilt for poor performance, but Groot and Sidney were more secretive.

Criterion Collection loses the challenge primarily due to Sidney's and Frank N's performances. Some players speculate Sidney may have thrown the challenge to protect Jim.

Disney

• According to Frank G., Frank G. and Groot may be in the middle of the tribe. Groot has formed a group chat with Frank and Birdie.
• Jo thinks Birdie might be the most useful ally for midgame of current tribe and seems to find Frank G. somewhat insincere. However, Frank G. seems the most invested non-Drama person in working with Jo and Birdie currently actively dislikes Jo. Due to Mike not mentioning that he swapped to voting for Jo during the Worm boot, Birdie is suspicious of Jo's retelling of what happened at Drama.
• Po's amulet advantage may be a reason he gets targeted at a 5-person tribal, because it would be very powerful at 4. He sent a letter to Rosemary trying to help her with finding items.

Hallmark

• Elle/Judge Doom come in as a visible strong pair from the Losers. Elle/Jim and Rapunzel/Doom were working together on their former tribes, but don't seem unbreakable. King G and Rapunzel are friendly due to King G's letter and challenge throw to keep her, but this connection is untested.
• Elle comes in putting a lot of effort into giving information to Rapunzel and shows her excitement to have swapped off WW where she felt on the outs. However, Rapunzel and her meetcute Sidney discuss that they are wary of the Elle/Doom pair and particularly Elle.
• King Ghidorah and Jim are just meeting, and King G is most comfortable targeting Jim.

Criterion

• Frank G. sent a letter to Sidney asking her to try to work with Marty, building upon groundwork from the Losers TC. This seems to make a difference to Alberto and to her. In turn, she asks for Frank G. to try to work with Birdie.
• Alberto prioritizes connecting with Rosemary this round, aiming to organize a 4-some with Rapunzel and Sidney. Alberto seems to recognize Sidney's and Rapunzel's closeness despite Sidney downplaying it, and ranks Rosemary above Sidney in terms of trust. Alberto also makes a good impression on Marty.
• Rosemary is concerned that she isn't in a position to spend social capital to protect Frank N. She sees Sidney and Alberto, and Marty to a lesser extent, as being useful allies to her going forward.
• Marty uses his letter to write to Jo, sharing the handcuff connection to Jim, information about the Frank-Sidney letter, and advising of intent to work with Alberto and by extension Wild West. He asks Jo to respond if she sees this as being problematic for her survival-and she doesn't respond.
• Frank N. is inactive for personal reasons and ends up as somewhat of a default boot. With 3 hours left, Rosemary lets him know of the situation. Frank N. doesn't seem to understand her perspective, and exchanges letters with Groot to complain about it and get advice. He is voted out 4-1, casting a vote for Alberto.

E6: He's lost a panda

Challenge

Tribe members had to pair up to work on defusing bombs and modules. Criterion were the most successful at this. Disney struggled the most as a group and had to go to TC.

Winning Tribes

Jim seems to be on the bottom on Hallmark. However, there's also some talk about Elle being a bit inconsistent with her game investment, and Elle herself even mentions feeling "2 beats behind" the others. Alberto seems to be everyone's #1 on Criterion. People are speculating about who might work together in a merge situation.

Disney Tribal Council

Jo's preferred target was Groot. Frank's was Po. Birdie's was Jo, with a caveat of more strongly not wanting Po to still have the amulet at 4. Groot's preference seemed to be Birdie. Per Jo, Birdie pitched a Frank G/Birdie/Jo voting bloc, and Jo wanted to swing it toward Groot over Po.

Groot pitched to Po that Groot would like to bank his vote, but that Po could try linking up with Jo and using Po's amulet to vote out Birdie (or Frank if they preferred.) Po was bothered that Groot didn't want to vote to help Po, and took this to mean that Groot didn't value him much. Although Groot claimed he'd later share a vote with Po to make up for it, Po ultimately viewed this as convenient for Groot short-term at Po's expense. Po decided that he may have the most leverage to get Groot voted out, and attempted to get Jo and Birdie on board with this.

Meanwhile, Frank was complaining that his tribemates were clowns just telling him what they thought he wanted to hear, rather than being honest. Groot floated a Jo vote to Birdie and Frank G. Birdie was put off by being out of the loop on what Groot's advantage was, and worked on getting Po to play the amulet. Frank learned about the Groot vote a bit later but decides to go along with it. Groot was blindsided 5-0.

E7: Hard Lessons

This was intended to be a non-elimination round with 3 phases. However, Frank G. medevaced due to personal circumstances, after starting a bit of drama with leaking information during the shipwreck phase.

Plot Twist Vote / Shipwreck

Voted out players at Dagoba also had the opportunity to participate in this raffle. Non-Dagoba players were shipwrecked while making plot twist votes.

The winning twist (with 10 entries) allowed voted out players to communicate with everyone, but non-Dagoba players to only communicate with voted out players. Everyone in the game competed in an individual challenge, and the top 2 performers would get to choose someone to return to the game.

One losing twist (with 7 entries) had the same communication restrictions as the winning twist. Only non-Dagoba players would compete in a challenge and the top performer would nominate a returnee. Dagoba would hold a TC to vote someone back in.

The other losing Democracy twist (3 entries) kept communication severed between Dagoga and non-Dagoba. Instead of a challenge, each group would have a TC to vote a player back in.

Challenge to Nominate Returnees

Po utilized graph theory to finish the challenge first. He selected Scott to return, due to finding him to be a predictable potential new ally and someone who had other enemies. Scott confesses that he lied to some people about having an advantage, but that he plans to fess up next round.

Jim placed second in the challenge. After some initial reservations, he selected Napoleon to return, in part due to Napoleon's promise to give an idol to the person that picks him.

All other Dagoba players became officially eliminated as prejurors, with their placement based on when they were originally voted out.

Tribe Draft

In addition to being immune for a round and getting an avatar glowup, our returnees had the opportunity to draft the two new premerge tribes. Rather than follow the snake draft format, Napoleon and Scott Pilgrim worked together to make their draft picks. Due to Scott having more information from having been in the game longer, Napoleon let Scott lead the conversation. Scott advocated that the pair try to meet some people that they hadn't before merge, and also to separate pairs. Scott also wanted King Ghidorah and Po on his tribe due to wanting to work with them.

Napoleon accepted Scott's advice about trying to focus on forming new connections and also promised to keep Scott's secrets. He embraced the choice the mods provided of the Horror vs Musicals tribe, choosing Musical, and entertained by publicly posting to ask for dance auditions.