I Have to Do Detective Work, Ughhhhh

is the second episode of Survivor: Atlas Mountains.
==Story==
==Day Four==
===Maghreb===
After tribal, things are...very quiet. Each member of the tribe splits off and does their own thing, no one talking to each other. Gabe is frustrated at the state of things, but doesn’t believe there’s much he can do.
===Amizmiz===
At Amizmiz, most of the tribe is still riding the high of winning immunity, but are also determining the hierarchy of the tribe in case they slip from 2nd to 3rd in any of the upcoming challenges.
The Actives get together and talk about the subject a bit more.
* Billy: Brady just messaged me a whole four days after we started. Shows he really cares about an alliance amirite.
* Mitch: He asked me if we’re in the same tribe lmao
* Billy: Brady is the clear weak link here.
* Mitch: Definitely
* JoeyK: He's the first needs to go if we lose
* Billy: I'm confident I could keep Jermu on our side in a swap, Fat not so much. I could work with Fat sure, but he's a seasoned ORG player so he's probably pretty smart. And dangerous
* Mitch: Ok Brady and Fat have messaged me, I'm going to try to get them to trust me 100% and promise to vote with them etc etc. If you guys have Jermu I'm pretty sure I can get FatFam, Brady has to go. And also Fat told me its his first ORG Billy
* Billy: That sort of contradicts what he told me since he messaged me saying he was concerned about people on the Tribe having their first ORG. If it was his first org, I don't get why he'd bring that up.
* Mitch: Yeah... he said to me he spoke to Joey about it being both of their first ORGs. hmmm that worries me because if he is saying he doesn't like how inexperienced the tribe is he could swap, but tbh I can't imagine him doing that over that reason
* JoeyK: he would have to go after brady because brady does not do challanges. FatFam also said that Billy, Mitch, you and I are a strong 4
* Billy: Whatever happens, if anyone from our Tribe needs to make merge, it's us three.
* Mitch: 100%
===Reward Challenge===
The castaways all gather in the challenge area for their first reward challenge.
* Some castaway, probably: But wait, Nifty, this is an online reality game...what are we going to get as a reward for winning this challenge? We can’t eat over our computers! You can’t tempt us with food!!
* Nifty: Very fair point, concerned castaway! I’ll explain to you all what your reward is… 
(Lore Alert. If this doesn't interest you, then skip it.)
* Nifty: There is an Amazigh village that lies within a valley of the mountain range. This village was set up long ago and was self-sufficient, so rarely did people felt the need to leave the village and explore the mountains and beyond. A couple decades ago, however, the villagers started to wonder what was within the mountains and beyond. They got together and ended up deciding that they needed to send a group of people to explore and map the mountain ranges and nearby locations beyond the mountains. In the end, the village sent a lumberjack, a huntress, a farmer, a blacksmith, a librarian, and a wise man to go out into the mountains. Along their journey, they rested at a few different locations and put a flag down to help them remember where they've been. It is said that any mountain hiker who finds one of these rest areas with the flag would have good fortune for the rest of their journey.
* Nifty: This is The Hiker’s Trail. This part of the Atlas Mountains hiking range is believed to be where the six villagers traveled long ago. The tribe that wins first place will receive an advantage in the immunity challenge, and the two tribes that win reward will both have the opportunity to have ONE person from their tribe take a trip to The Hiker’s Trail.
* Some castaway, probably: “But Nifty, what’s on The Hiker’s Trail?”
* Nifty: Many things! There’s an Amazigh village out there that you could visit, many great sights to see, and unique people to interact with. Oh, and there are also advantages and disadvantages that can either help or hurt you in this game. This is the main twist of the season. I know some of you have been concerned about there being no announcement about idols in the game yet. Well, The Hiker’s Trail is where the idols are hidden, along with many other things that you could stumble across.
* Nifty: Today, your challenge will be Vector Runner Remix. This flash game is simple: control your little car to jump across platforms and collect floating dots to earn points! The two tribes with the most total points from all their members will win reward. Before we start, Amizmiz, Toubkal, each of you has one extra member you need to sit out.
Jermu sits out for Amizmiz, and Dark sits out for Toubkal.
The tribes get to competing in the reward challenge. With a lot at stake, the Amizmiz tribe works together extremely well to try and secure first place.
* Billy: This was the route I used - Feel free to try and emulate it or improve it as you see fit.
Toubkal works together too, but not quite as effectively.
* Miko: i got 11889 in challenge so yall try i guess xp
Maghreb, as expected, doesn’t communicate. Three of them also refuse to do anything to contribute to the group.
In the end, Amizmiz won first in the reward, giving them a 5% bonus in the next immunity challenge and the chance for one of them to go on The Hiker’s Trail. Toubkal comes in second, allowing them to also go. Maghreb turns up short.
Four people receive strikes for failing to participate in the challenge: Dim from Toubkal, and Duke, Killer, and Gabe from Maghreb. With that, the tribes head back to their camps to decide who to secretly send to The Hiker’s Trail the next morning.
Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix	Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix 	Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix
TribePlacement 	Tribe Members 	Sit-Out
1st: Amizmiz(47,723 Points) 	Billy, Brady, FatFam, JoeyK, Mitch	Jermu
2nd: Toubkal(44,016 Points) 	Blue, Bocetuda, Dim, Miko, Ryo 	Dark
3rd: Maghreb(15,186 Points) 	Duke, Gabe, Killer, Tristian, Zoe 	None
===Amizmiz===
* JoeyK: We won ! Yes!
* Jermu: Yeees! So do we now need to decide on who goes?
* JoeyK: I say we chose the person who got the 2nd best score because If we chose the strongest person then they might become to strong
* Jermu: Let's not just think about the scores. We could try to send someone we think is in the bottom so they can use the possible advantage to change things up.
* JoeyK: Well we don’t know who is in the bottom
* Jermu: I would say Dim just because he didn't submit. Or if he gets advantage and cannot change things he will go home with it/waste it because we don't want to give their team advantage.
* JoeyK: Trueeee that’s a good point. I vote dim what y’all think
* Mitch: I vote dim
* Brady: Sure I vote dim
* Mitch: Okay dim it is
===Toubkal===
The Toubkal tribe return to camp, and feelings of the results are mixed.
The conversation quickly turns to deciding who should be sent on the trail from the Amizmiz tribe.
* Miko: i think we should pick someoen whos more innac and who still kinda sucked on that challeng - _- i would of said brady
* Dark: Sure, Brady seems reasonable xD Whatever we do, I just wouldn't send the like top scorer unless they're a cool boi
* Miko: like to be honest we dont want a strong social person to get an advantage and brady might be a target if he does go so thats also good
* Ryo: i'm fine with brady!
==Day Five==
Early in the morning, Brady and Dim are woken up by production and taken to The Hiker’s Trail in a truck. When they arrive, the truck drives away, and each one is free to move around on their own as long as they don’t interact with one another.
===Hiker's Trail===
====Dim====
Dim starts by hiking straight up the mountain, going right while following a cliffside trail, then hiking further up the mountain. He comes across a shoe and excitedly picks it up, thinking it’s an advantage, but it turns out to be an ordinary shoe. He shrugs.
* Dim: eh i'll keep the shoe it could be useful
He finds and climbs a spiraling trail. They find a bench with a hiker sitting and talking to herself. Dim sits next to her and catches a break, drinking out of his canteen, but chooses not to interact with her. He continues further upwards until he reaches the edge of a large cliffside that allows him to see a lot of the trail he just navigated.
Dim is tired as he reaches this point, but sees a person sitting on the edge of the cliff admiring the view. They appear native and are wearing a strange necklace around their neck. Dim rushes up to the man, who stands and smiles as they see Dim approach.
* Local: Your buff around your neck...you are castaway, yes?
* Dim: yes
* Local: Aha! I may have something you like.
The local reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small note.
* Local: Not best at English speak, but can read good.
Dim reads over the note and sees that it’s a confirmation note about the hidden immunity idol, rules and everything. The local points the necklace he’s wearing.
* Local: I have idol, but I make deal first. Trade for idol.
* Dim: what do you want?
* Local: Souk in village is aska—tomorrow. Need something to sell. No trade, no idol!
The local tauntingly dangles the necklace in front of Dim. Dim thinks, then looks in his backpack and sees the shoe he found earlier. He shrugs, as it’s the only thing he has to bargain with, and hands the shoe to the local.
The local examines it, and the shoe turns out to be in tip-top shape and has little wear or tear to it. The local smiles, takes off the necklace and hands it and the note to Dim.
* Local: Good deal.
The local then heads back down the mountain. Dim examines the idol, then pockets it away and walks back to the truck to take him back to camp.
====Brady====
Brady goes in a different direction from Dim, following a ground trail to the right. He starts climbing up towards the high-altitude trails, but finds the trail blocked off by a construction crew. Brady walks up to a guy in a hardhat who’s on his lunch break.
* Worker: You a hiker?
* Brady: I’m a hiker
* Worker: Well, bad news for you, kid. Don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but an avalanche happened on this patch of trail for half a kilometer and ruined a lot of the path’s structure. We’re working on repairing it and it should be safe to travel on again in eleven days, give or take.
Discouraged, Brady backtracks and instead heads up towards the mid-altitude range. He starts getting tired and winded from the steep incline, but manages to find a walking stick on the way up and uses it to avoid exhausting himself.
He continues to travel as high as he can until he finds the mid-altitude summit. He can see a lot of the trail below him from here, but without anything like binoculars to assist him, he can’t make out any of the fine details. Suddenly, a female hiker from a higher summit calls down to him across a large valley between the peaks they stand on.
* Hiker: Hey, fellow hiker! Up here! Heyy! That buff around your neck...are you one of those castaway people? For the gameshow? I saw a bunch of trucks from the company's production and even caught sight of a few of 'em hiking on these trails.
* Brady: oh cool, have u seen an idol any where, im on survivor
* Hiker: Ohh, cool, I've seen a few seasons of that show! Um, well, I don't really know what idols are but I do know that I saw most of the places where these production people were placing things. Maybe those are the idols you were looking for? I marked them on my map here...I'd yell the instructions to you, but I don't think that will work too well. You'll have to come up here and visit me sometime so I can fill out your map for you! I will say that one of the spots I saw them placing stuff was on the lower end of that trail you're at. You know, how that trail splits at the middle and goes down? That's one of the places they went. You should seriously come up here and chat with me later, though, so I can fill out your map! Oh, but be careful! There's one part of the trail up here in the higher ends of the mountains that's really dangerous to climb without proper equipment! I know there's some Expert Hiker that mainly hikes up in these higher-end trails, too, but...well, I don't know where she is, exactly. If you found her, though, I'm sure you could ask her for some of her stuff! That'd make it easier to get to me.
* Brady: thank you person
* Hiker: No problem! Come and hang out with me sometime later if ya can!
Brady, realizing how close he is to the spot the hiker pointed out, looks at his watch and notices he doesn’t have much time left to get down there before he has to return to the truck. He runs down, trying to make time, but isn’t quite able to make the distance.
* Brady: screams
Brady heads back down to the truck, defeated, and finds Dim already sitting there patiently. They’re both driven back to camp before either tribe notices they’ve been missing.
===Amizmiz===
At camp, Brady doesn’t tell anyone about his trip as he assesses his position on the tribe.
Billy brings up his curiosity to The Actives.
* Billy: Did either of you get picked to go on the Hiker's Trail? I didn't but it might be good to figure out who got picked.
* JoeyK: Not me maybe they haven't done it yet
* Mitch: No not been told if I have been picked. I don't think they'd pick Fatfm, and if its not one of us three I think it's either Jermu because of sit out or Brady because he could have connections.
* JoeyK: I messaged Jermu not them. Mitch u message Brady to see if he got it.
* Mitch: Brady told me he didn't
* JoeyK: So someone is lying or the other tribe didn't do it yet
* Billy: Someone's definitely lying.
* JoeyK: That mean I have to do detective work, ughhhhh
* Billy: Think, they'd either give it to the sit out or the lowest scorer from our Tribe. Because they've got smart people over there, so they probably thought the same as us.
* Mitch: think we can rule out me Billy and Fatfam. Brady because he could have connections, Jermu because of sit out, and Joey lowest score
* JoeyK: Well I didn’t get anything, yet
* Mitch: No I believe you which means Brady or Jermu got it
* JoeyK: Main concern is Brady
* Billy: It all comes back to Brady
* Mitch: If and when we vote him out, we can split the vote. But then again it would make whoever we split the vote on not trust us.
* Billy: I think we should cross that bridge when we come to it.
The Actives stop talking about it for the time being, but all of them keep a close eye on Brady at camp throughout the day.
===Toubkal===
Ryo and Miko are sitting talking to each other by the campfire as Dark sits nearby in a cot, listening and staying quiet. At one point, Dark asks if someone can hand him his canteen from the shelter. Ryo looks over, says sure, then hands him the water. Dark takes it, smiles to himself, and has a drink as he relaxes.
A little later, Dim walks by.
* Dim: HEY GUYS! i’m back from my long hike
* Miko: does he mean irl hike or in game
* Dark: xD Idk, hoping he means game?
* Ryo: how was it?
* Dim: it was pretty cool
Ryo looks around, then asks Dim if they can talk in private. Dim says sure, and the two walk off. Miko and Dark look at each other and just shrug, carrying on their relaxation.
===Maghreb===
At Maghreb, everyone sulks around. Over half the tribe failed to participate in the last challenge, and no one is connecting with anyone.
Killer looks outwards and notices a truck coming up the trail to their camp. Everyone gathers around to see Nifty hop out and address the tribe.
* Nifty: Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't be doing this, but I am here to tell all of you to help motivate each other to stay active and participate in this game. To those of you who are active and participating on this tribe, I appreciate it a lot. But, you guys are a tribe, and if this many of you are inactive then you all need to participate more to get each other motivated to keep moving forward in this game. I would honestly hate to see even one of you strike out of the game this early on, let alone three of you. So, this is the only time I'll say this: Motivate each other, and I hope that I don't have to give any more strikes to you guys anytime soon.
* Zoe: Sorry about the challenge, I just forgot.
* Nifty: I hope to see you guys participate in this next challenge more than you did in the previous one.
* Killer: I do too
* Gabe: Yeah Guys, let´s do this!!! We can´t give up. There´s an Immunity Challenge coming up soon and we can´t afford to lose it
Seeing their spirits raised a little, Nifty left them to themselves. They were motivated and a little more talkative for a short time.
==Day Six==
===Immunity Challenge===
All three tribes gather at the challenge site for the second immunity challenge.
Nifty: Amizmiz, Toubkal, going to have to take those immunity statues back because it is back up for grabs. Today, the flash game you’ll be playing is called Mountain Maniac. In it, you’ll be playing as a very upset Lumberjack who feels the need to unleash his anger against society via destroying it with large boulders. Ya know, normal lumberjack stuff. Before we start, I need another two sit-outs--one from Amizmiz and another from Toubkal.
Brady sits for Amizmiz and Blue sits out for Toubkal. After that, the challenge begins and the tribes get to work.
At Amizmiz, the tribe is communicating and sharing information as usual.
* JoeyK: Ok so for the challenge we have our advantage of 5% so that’s helpful
* Jermu: I cannot open the game...When I go to the site the screen just stays black.
* JoeyK: Is it blocked?
* Jermu: Yea I have adblocker
* FatFam: I played it with an add blocker just fine
* JoeyK: I had to turn mine off maybe you do too
* Jermu: Okay it works after turning it off
* JoeyK: 100% percent granted we r the only tribe that has these problems lol
Toubkal communicates with each other as well, but Ryo is a bit too commanding at times.
* Ryo: @Toubkal can we post our scores here by tomorrow at noon? i wanna avoid tribal
* Dim: i got 174200 is that high enough
* Miko: yeah sure xd
* Ryo: okay, so Bocetuda and i have sent our scores, what about everyone else? Miko, Dim, Dark?
* Miko: 274875
* Ryo: did you submit it to nifty?
* Miko: ye - _-
The Maghreb tribe falls back into their usual struggle, but Gabe steps up to make sure everyone at least participates.
* Gabe: Guys, let´s make sure we did the challenge. I did it already, did someone else also do it?
* Zoe: Done
* Killer: I did it too
* Gabe: so we are 3/5 done
* Killer: how much do you get?
* Gabe: 195475 :D hope it´s a big amount
* Killer: 238850
* Gabe: damn I think we are going to do good on this one if everyone submits something
~Little Later~
* Gabe: guys you won’t believe I got 666325. i was playing for like 20min straight i prob got the highest score of all tribes
* Killer: hopefully we don't go to tribal agian
After a long battle, the challenge ends and Nifty declares the winners to be...Amizmiz in first, and Toubkal in second. Maghreb, despite an impressive attempt to recover, wasn’t able to win due to a factor of Tristian not participating and Zoe submitting a weak score.
The tribes all head back to their camps for the night.
Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix 	Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix 	Challenge 2: Vector Runner Remix
TribePlacement 	Tribe Members 	Sit-Out
1st: Amizmiz(1,482,153.75 Points)	Billy, FatFam, Jermu, JoeyK, Mitch	Brady
2nd: Toubkal(1,327,325 Points) 	Bocetuda, Dark, Dim, Miko, Ryo 	Blue
3rd: Maghreb(954,625 Points) 	Duke, Gabe, Killer, Tristian, Zoe 	None
===Amizmiz & Toubkal===
Amizmiz is in awe at how the challenge turned out.
* Billy: God damn, that one guy in the losing Tribe who got over 666K 0.0
* Jermu: I'm kinda shocked
* FatFam: My prediction is they'll vote him out
While everyone else is talking, Brady pulls aside JoeyK and tells him that he was the one who went on The Hiker’s Trail. JoeyK smiles and promises to keep it a secret, but has other plans with this information.
Over at Toubkal, success is celebrated, but there’s some resentment towards Amizmiz.
===Maghreb===
At Maghreb, the mood is understandably pessimistic as even with a better effort than before, it still wasn’t enough to win immunity.
Gabe: i wanna kill myself
Killer: fuck are we going to be Matsing from Philippines?
Gabe: i think so
Talk of who to vote out falls between Tristian and Zoe--Tristian for not submitting to the challenge and getting a strike, and Zoe for submitting such a low score that didn’t help them out at all in the challenge.
==Tribal Council==
The tribe walks in once again and takes their seats.
* Nifty: Welcome back to tribal council, Before we get to voting, I have a few questions to ask all of you. Duke, what do you think this tribe can do in order to recover from this early losing streak you guys are having?
* Duke: I mean its all about the effort. It shows how much effort u put into the game by getting a huge score or actually doing the challenge.
* Nifty: Gabe, you are now the only person on this tribe to have not gotten a strike so far. Everyone else on this tribe with you already has one strike for lack of participation. How do you feel about this?
* Gabe: I feel great, because it shows that I´m interested in continuing playing this game.
* Nifty: Tristian, you submitted for the reward challenge but failed to submit for the immunity challenge on time. Do you think not submitting for the immunity challenge will get you targeted, and do you think it's a fair reason for people to possibly target you?
* Tristian: I mean before the last immunity I actually participated in everything else
* Nifty: Zoe, you had an extremely low score in today's immunity challenge. Do you think this reflects your overall potential in future challenges?
* Zoe: I believe that I didn’t do my best, but I wasn’t the worst in the tribe, it wasn’t my strong point of. challenges. ( my computer failed to screenshot the higher score)
* Nifty: With that, it’s time to vote. Gabe, you’re up first.
Gabe walks up to the voting booth, writes a name, and shows his vote to the camera.
Killer walks up after him, then walks back. After that, Tristian gets up and talks to the camera while writing his vote.
Tristian walks back. Duke stands up, votes, then returns. Zoe is the last to vote as she steps up to the urn.
* Nifty: I have the votes. If anybody has a hidden immunity idol and you would like to play it, now would be the time to do so.
Nobody stands.
* Nifty: Very well then, I’ll read the votes.
First vote...Tristian.
Second vote...Zoe. That’s one vote each for Tristian and Zoe.
Third vote...Tristian.
Fourth vote…
...second person voted out of Survivor: Atlas Mountains, Tristian. 
* Nifty: Please bring me your torch.
Tristian brings up his torch.
* Nifty: Tristian, the tribe has spoken.
Nifty snuffs his torch.
* Nifty: It’s time for you to go.
Tristian shrugs then walks down the path leading away from tribal.
* Nifty: You have eliminated who you guys thought would be a hinderance in future challenges. Let’s see if it’ll help you dodge tribal council next time and finally win a challenge. Head on out, g’night.
===Votes===
Tribal Council 2:Maghreb	Tribal Council 2:Maghreb
VotedAgainst 	Voter
Tristian (4 votes) 	Duke, Gabe, Killer, Zoe
Zoe (1 vote) 	Tristian
VOTED OUT:Tristian 	VOTED OUT:Tristian
===Final Words===
==Trivia==
*Ryo had the most confessionals this episode with 4.