User blog:CheeseBurgerGuy/TDCYOA Island Edition: Playing on the Edge (Not So Happy Campers Part 2)

Welcome to the second episode of this game. I'm sorry that it took so long to get this started, but I've offically learned I shouldn't try to have too many blogs going at once. For those of you hoping for a continuation of my Gwuncan AU, I'm planning on starting Action after this episode. I also decided to rename the episode since it isn't a direct lead in like the canon series. With that out of the way, let's get into the voting results from last time.

What Do You Think Contributed Most to Your Victory: Your Strong Friendships.

If you all didn't already guess, I'm offering a bonus stat point for winning team captainship. You all made basically all the right choices last episode to get it (there was only one other route). That means going forward that Hiero's new stats are the following:

Cleverness: 8

Constituion: 4

Charisma: 5

Hiero is statiscally pretty well off in the game. You also no longer have to worry about affinity penalties. Still not passing any incredible Charimsa checks though. Constiution is a little on the low side still, so maybe avoid the crazy stunts. Additionally, I'm not going to be handing stat points out like candy anymore. Your only garentted a single point the rest of the game and that's if you hit the merge legitametley. I've got secret acheivemnts hidden throughout the game. Basically, stats will be earned based on Hiero's performance. You can also lose points though, so be careful. Before I go on to the actual episode, I'm going to recap the teams and everyone's current affintiy with Hiero:

Screaming Gophers:

1. Hiero

2. Beth (83)

3. Owen (58)

4. Leshawna (59)

5. Eva (48)

6. Izzy (54)

7. Gwen (48)

8. Cody (58)

9. Trent (54)

10. Noah (48)

11. Harold (58)

Killer Bass:

1. Courtney (59)

2. Bridgette (50)

3. Duncan (38)

4. Tyler (33)

5. Lindsay (50)

6. Geoff (54)

7. DJ (50)

8. Heather (33)

9. Ezekiel (50)

10. Sadie (54)

11. Katie (54)

I'd say you guys generally have the better team in terms of composition, but votes when you do lose are going to be tough. Let's get this show on the road propper.

Roadblock 1
You wake up on your second day on the island to the distinctive smell of Owen. Even when your in a bunk on the opposite side of the room he can still be a little nasty sometimes. He's one of the main people responsible for getting you your position of team captain though, so if putting up with his gas is the price you have to pay, then so be it.

All in all, your feeling pretty confident about how everything went last night. While Noah was a little annoyed you took so long to fill your end of the bargain, everyone on the team seems appreciative.

After Justin left, Chef was generous and left out a nice welcome buffet. During this time you got to observe your intial team dynamic. While almost everyone seemed to get along well enough, it was pretty obvious that the team was already divided into two factions of five.

The first was Owen's group of misfits, which currently seemed to be made up of himself, Izzy, Eva, Noah, and Beth. The wannabe was seemed to intergrate herself into the group after Owen's insitance, though you know her actual loyalties are to you alone considering you got her away from Heather.

The second was Leshawna's, conisting of Gwen, Trent, Cody, and Harold. It's a little surprising Harold found himself on that side of the team allainces considering his fued with Leshawna (that you heard about from Beth), but there's probably more to the story than anybody else can figure out yet.

With you being the swing vote, your going to have to take a side if your team losses. Hopefully, that day won't be today.

Chris: Okay. Your first challenge is three-fold. Your first task is to jump off this 1,000-foot-high cliff into the lake.

Bridgette: Piece of cake.

Chris: If you look down, you will see two target areas. The wider area represents the part of the lake that we have stocked with psychotic *laughs* man-eating sharks. Inside that area is a safe zone. That's your target area, which, we're pretty sure is shark free.

Leshawna: Excuse me.

Chris: For each member of your team that jumps and actually survives, there will be a crate of supplies waiting below. Inside each crate are supplies that you'll need for the second part of the challenge... building a hot tub. The team with the best one gets to have a wicked hot-tub party tonight. The losers will be sending someone home. Let's see, Killer Bass, you're up first.

Bridgette: Oh, wow. So, who wants to go first?

Yeah, over my dead body.

Owen: Hey, don't sweat it, guys. I heard that these shows always make the interns do the stunt first to make sure it's survivable.

''This show has interns? I haven't seen a single one since I got here.''

Duncan: Ladies first.

Bridgette: Fine, I'll go. It's no big deal, just an insane cliff dive into a circle of angry sharks.

You've got to give credt where credit is due. Jumping first and making it look that easy is no small feat.

Tyler: She did it. Yeah! Yeah! I'm next. Cowabunga!

Your not sure if you want to laugh or groan when you see Tyler hit the side of the buoy. The guy might be a jerk, but he doesn't deserve that.

Geoff and Duncan follow after Tyler once everyone sees him re-emerge from the murky depths.

DJ: Unh-unh. No way, man. I'm not jumping.

Chris: Scared of heights?

DJ: Yeah, ever since I was a kid.

Chris: That's okay, big guy. Unfortunately, that also makes you a chicken. So you'll have to wear this for the rest of the day.

DJ: Aw, man. For real?

Chris: Bawk bawk bawk! That means the chicken path down is that-a-way. Next.

Your not going to lie, seeing DJ with a chicken hat on is kind of hilarious.

Katie and Saide kill your eardrums as they squeal the whole way down. Ezekiel, trying to improess the ladies it seems, fails horribly as he hits a jagged piece of the cliff, throwing him off course into the shark infested waters. Despite knowing Zeke has never even seeing the ocean before coming here, you think he's got to be the best swimmer in Canada with how fast he's got back to the boat. I guess it was either that or be shark food.

Courtney: Excuse me, Chris. I have a medical condition.

Chris: What condition?

Courtney: A condition that prevents me from jumping off cliffs.

Chris: You can chicken out if you want, but it might end up costing your team the win. And then they'll hate you.

Let's be honest, most of them probably already hate Courtney after the blindside of Justin.

Courtney: It's a calculated risk. I've see the other team, and I don't think nine of them will jump.

Chris: All right, here is your chicken hat. So let's tally up the results. Hold on. That's eight jumpers and two chickens. We're missing two.

Heather: I'm sorry, there's no way I'm doing this.

Beth: Why not?

Heather: Uh, hello, national TV., I'll get my hair wet.

Courtney: You're kidding, right?

Lindsay: If she's not doing it, I'm not doing it.

Courtney: But you got to do it. That would mean half our team is sitting out!

Heather: And I say we don't have to.

Lindsay: Yeah, its not like you can mak-

Courtney proceeds to push Lindsay off the cliff. Luckily the blonde landed in the safe zone but, man, that was a cheap move. This whole situation is ugly with a capital U, and both girls are making things worse for themselves. If you let this go on, both girls are going to self-destruct their games, but Courtney is an ally and Heather is Beth's 'friend'. Can you afford to lose either of them?

Are You Going to Side With Heather or Courtney? Heather Courtney Break it Up Stay Out of It