Rules

# One Surv1vor Rules & Guidelines

## Community Rules

•To be a member of the One Surv1vor community means to abide by its' rules. If you break a rule, you will be given a warning, and if you break the rule again or break any other rules, you will be temporarily banned. After a certain disclosed period of time, you will be given the opportunity to return to the community if you are considered to no longer a threat to the community's rules and guidelines. However, if you continue to break rules upon returning, you will then permanently banned from the community.

•Please treat other members of the community with respect. We will not tolerate any behavior that does not align with what the One Surv1vor community stands for. Any harmful speech such as threats, slurs, etc. will not be tolerated. We are all human-beings and there is no reason to try to harm someone in anyway for any reason.

•Respect one another's pronouns. It is important that if you are going to reference someone through pronouns that you use the correct pronouns for that individual. If you do not know somebody's pronouns, you can either ask the individual or look at their roles. Our server has a role-selection channel where you can select the pronoun role(s) that correspond to you.

•Do not discuss topics of an on-going season in other servers. It is likely that while you discuss a current season anywhere other than the established channels for discussion in the One Surv1vor server, someone in the game can view what you said, which would damage the integrity of the game.

•We do our best to maintain the official One Surv1vor wikia, and we do make sure that only trusted admins have the ability to edit it. However, if for any reason you do find a way to edit the wiki, please do not do so. It takes a lot of time and effort to run a wikia and it is disrespectful to tamper with someone's work.

•For any rules not listed, ask a host or admin for information. It is possible some rules can be subject to change or rules to be added.

## Game Rules

### Casting

•One Surv1vor uses an interview-style system to cast people to compete in a season. You are not allowed to discuss the contents of your interview or the interview itself with anyone outside of your interview channel. This is to secure a fair and orderly casting system.

•During your interview, you will be provided with a link to a website where you can make an avatar to represent yourself in the game. We do require you to make an avatar and only one using the provided link.

•There are **2** phases of the casting system. The first is the **Interviewing Phase**, this is the period of time in which we take in and collect interviews from applicants. Once the that phase concludes, we will enter the **Check-In Phase**, where once interviewing concludes, all interviewees will have to check-in once a host asks them to. All interviewees who do check-in will be eligible to be cast, and anyone who doesn't will be considered ineligible to be cast.

•You will be notified the day before the marooning if you are to compete in the season, and because of this it is important that you don't tell anyone that you've been casted. If you do tell anyone you were casted, you will be removed from the cast.

### Player Strikes & Punishments

•Once in the game, you are expected to follow all the game based rules, as well as still following the community rules. If you fail to abide by the rules. For the community-based rules, you will still face the punishment(s) that go along with them. However, for game-based rules, you will receive a strike and a punishment for the round or next round depending on when you broke the rule. The severity punishment will depend on the severity of the rule that is broken. It will be up to the hosts to determine a fitting and fair punishment.

•Once you have received **3 strikes**, you will be removed from the game.

### Personal Channels

•Once the game begins, you will be assigned **2** channels:
-Your **confessional**
-Your **submissions** channel

•Your confessional is meant to be used as a diary/journal style channel. This is where you tell the viewers about your game, your tribe-mates, etc. It is up to you to decide what you want to say in this channel, but remember that the viewers can see everything you say here. However, we make sure that all viewers are only trusted observers to minimize the risk of information leaks. Throughout the season you may receive confessional questions either from the hosts or the viewers. It is up to you to decide whether you want to answer them, but we highly recommend it. Other than the viewers and hosts/production, nobody else will have the ability to view your confessional.

•Your submissions channel is meant for you to do challenges that require you to perform them in there, submitting votes for tribal council, etc. If you wish, you can use it as a place to talk or whatever you like. However, it is important you use this channel and this channel only to submit things for the game. Nobody other than the hosts/production can view this channel.

### Challenges

•Each round, unless said otherwise, will include an immunity challenge. In some cases, there could be other challenges like reward challenges, advantage challenges, etc.

•You are expected to submit for every challenge that you are partaking in, as well as submitting/finishing it by the deadline. However, if you are unable to do so, you **must *tell the hosts you*** *abstain'*.

•You will most commonly be given **24 hours** to submit/complete the challenge. It is possible, depending on the challenge or situation, that a longer deadline or extension will be provided.

•For some challenges you will be allowed to submit more than once, but depending on the challenge format, you may only be able to submit once.

•It is likely that there will be a **Live Challenge**, which a time-poll will be provided and the most voted time will be the set time for the challenge.

•Another type of challenge is an**Endurance Challenge**, these type of challenges require you to compete in a challenge for a prolonged amount of time. In likely cases, you will be able to begin at your own time, but it is possible the use of a poll-vote will be used.

•Unless otherwise stated, you are not allowed to discuss on-going challenges with anyone.

•For tribal immunity challenges, the challenge will be competed between 2 or more different tribes. The winning tribe(s) will be immune and the losing tribe will go to tribal council. For individual immunity challenges, the challenge will competed between individual members of the tribe(s). The winning individual will be immune at the tribal council they attend.

•If a tribe wishes to give up immunity, they must announce so right after the results of the challenge are revealed. In that case, the next highest scoring tribe that didn't win would be immune and the tribe that gave up immunity would go to tribal council.

•If an individual wishes to give up immunity, they must announce so at tribal. (For more specifics, head to the **Tribal Council** section).

### Tribal Council

•The voting phase will begin directly after the results of the immunity challenges. Tribal council attendees will have **24 hours** from the beginning of the voting phase to the due time for votes. You are allowed to change your vote up until the voting deadline.

•In the event of a tie, everyone not involved in the tie will be given another **24 hours** to revote. If the vote ties a second time, all players in the tie will be safe and all those not will draw rocks. The player that draws the purple rock will be eliminated. If there is a tie at the final 4, the two players in the tie will go to a fire-making challenge, the winner is safe and the loser is eliminated.

•We ask that you use the parchment image provided to put a name on it. However, if you cannot edit it, you can ask a host to do so or help you to.

•The actual tribal council will take place right after the time for votes are due. At that time, the host and players will have a tribal council discussion, followed by the reading of the votes.

•If the individual with immunity wishes to give immunity up to another player, they must do so within the first **12 hours** of the voting phase.

•If a player wishes to use an advantage/immunity idol, they will have to either inform the hosts during the voting phase, or when the hosts asks if anyone wishes to use an advantage, right before they read the votes. Depending on the rules of the advantage, the way and time it can be played can differentiate.

•Once the votes are read, the decision is final. You will not be able to change your vote or "un-play" any advantage or idol once the votes begin to be read.

### Advantages

•Advantages, such as Immunity Idols, can be obtained in many ways. The main way is by finding it in or around your tribe's camp, it is sometimes possible to find it in other locations, like at challenges. You could also earn advantages whether it be from Auctions, challenges, etc. All in all, the way you are able to obtain an advantage depends on the format of the season itself, which the host will usually provide information about how to find them or earn them.

•The rules of an advantage can differ between the types of advantages and/or the season they are in. Most likely, you would receive a set of rules that correspond to the advantage you've gotten when you receive the advantage. The rules will tell you things such as, when and how to play it, it's ability, it's expiration time, etc.

### Exiting The Game

•There are a few ways you can exit the game. Those ways include: being voted out, being medically evacuated, quitting, etc.

•Once you are out of the game, you cannot re-enter the game unless stated otherwise.

•You are not allowed to communicate/interfere with the game once you are eliminated. Whether you are a juror or a pre-merger, you are not allowed to interfere with the game. Same goes for players still in the game, you are not allowed to try to communicate with eliminated players about the game.

•If you are eliminated during the jury phase, you will be required to stay as a juror. This is so that you can vote for a winner along with the other jurors at the end of the game.

•You are allowed to quit the game if you must, but we ask that you follow a few rules and guidelines as you do so. If you wish to quit, let the host(s) know beforehand and we will ask you a few questions and help you transition out of the game. If you quit during the jury phase, you will still be required to stay as a juror.

•You can be medically evacuated if you receive too many strikes or if you do not eat for a certain number of days (See *Survival System* for more details).

### Cheating

•This should be obvious, but you are not allowed to cheat. This includes things such as, submitting fake scores, using an alternate account in the server, sending screen shots, or any other ways to violate the rules and interfere with the integrity of the game.

•If you cheat, you will be removed from the game. Unlike the other rules that are more lenient, by cheating you are forfeiting your place in the game. As well, if you know of someone cheating and do not say anything, you will also be removed from the game.

•Depending on the situation or event, the guidelines of cheating can differ, but it will be made clear what you can and cannot do.

•If you are not sure if something you do or want to do is cheating, just ask the host(s) if it is allowed. More likely than not, if you feel something may be cheating, it probably is.

•**Here is a list of some ways of cheating:**
-Using a fake score for a submission
-Using an alternate account within the server or game
-cross tribe communication (we are more lenient with this one, you will first receive a warning)
-sending screen shots
-communicating with people that you are not supposed to

Overall, you should know what you can and cannot do based on these rules and common sense. Please follow these rules in order to maintain a fun and fair game.

## Game Format

•**Pre-Merge:** At the beginning of the game, castaways will be divided into “tribes”. In their tribes, castaways will compete in various challenges. The tribe that wins the immunity challenge each round, will be “immune” and will not have to go to tribal council. The tribe that does lose the immunity challenge each round, will have to go to tribal council and vote off a member of their tribe. This process will continue until the tribes merge to form one merged tribe.

•**Merge:** At the merge, all tribes will merge into one tribe. At this stage, all castaways compete in their own. Immunity challenges become Individual Immunity Challenges, meaning castaways compete in their own and one person will be immune. Everyone goes to tribal council and everyone votes, however nobody can vote for the person who won the individual immunity challenge. This process will continue until the final round.

•**Final Round:** At the final round, the remaining castaways will compete in one final immunity challenge. The winner of the immunity challenge will be immune from tribal council. However, everyone else who didn’t win immunity will have to compete in the fire making challenge.

•**Fire-Making Challenge:** At the fire making challenge in the final round, everyone but the person who won immunity will compete in a fire-making challenge. The last person to “make fire” will be eliminated from the game and become the final juror.

•**Final Tribal Council:** At final tribal council, the power shifts over to the jury. The finalists will give opening speeches explaining their games. Then, the jurors will have their opportunity to question the finalists in an open discussion. Once a juror feels content about who they think should win the game, they will then cast their vote for one of the finalists to win.

## Procedure

**The procedure for a season can vary depending on the format/twists that a specific season can uphold.**

Here is the standard **One Surv1vor** procedure:

•)**Days:** Each day begins at **5pm CST** and a new day starts every **24 hours**.The amount of days in a season can vary depending on multiple factors, such as: amount of players in a season, twists in a season, etc. The beginning of a new day is when events during a round will most often occur, such as: Immunity Challenges, Tribal Councils, etc.

•)**Immunity Challenge:** Each round begins with an immunity challenge. During the pre-merge phase, castaways will compete amongst their tribes. The winning tribe(s) is safe from tribal council, while the losing tribe(s) will have to go to tribal council to vote one of their members out of the game. During the merge phase, everyone competes individually. The winner of the immunity challenge will attend tribal council amongst the other castaways, however they cannot be voted against. For **standard challenges**, castaways will be given **24 hours** to complete the challenge. For **live challenges**, castaways will be alerted at least **24 hours beforehand** when a live challenge will occur.

•)**Tribal Council:** Each round ends with someone being voted out of the game. After the results of the immunity challenge, castaways attending tribal council will be alerted that they have **24 hours** to submit a vote against one of the other castaways attending tribal council amongst them. After the **24 hour** voting period, castaways will have to go to tribal council where a live discussion will be held. Once the discussion ends, a host will tally and read the votes. The person with the most valid votes will be voted out of the game.

## Survival System

**The survival system can vary depending on the season.**

•)**Channel Traveling:** During the game, castaways will have to use commands to move from channel to channel. Depending on the format of the channel traveling system in a season, the types of channels you can travel to can differ. Usually however, there is the tribe **camp**, **tribal council** and **fire pit**. Castaways will be given a set of instructions at the beginning of the game to successfully and effectively travel from channel to channel.

•)**Hunger:** From the beginning of the game, castaways will have a hunger meter out of 3, as such: **0/3**. It is up to the castaways to make sure they eat enough to sustain themselves. Depending on the season, the ways a castaway can eat can vary. However, if a castaway doesn’t eat in 3 full days and lets their hunger meter reach 0/3 for a full **24 hours**, they will be medically evacuated from the game.

•)**Fire-Making:** Each camp has a classified “fire pit”. The fire pit is where castaways can go to practice their fire making. To make a fire, a castaway must complete the fire making puzzle provided to them. However, there are **7 different levels** to fire making. Each castaway starts at level 1, and after making 5 fires using the level 1 fire making puzzle, a castaway can “level up” in their skill and move onto level 2 which has less pieces than level 1. This continues all the way until a castaway completes level 6, in which case they will have maximum skill in fire-making. *Fire-making is especially important since at the final round, any castaway who isn’t immune will have to compete in a fire-making challenge to stay in the game.*

## Alliances

**To make an alliance, castaways will have to make them themselves by using a command.**

•To create an alliance, castaways will have to use this command: **H!ORG Alliance**. However, they will have to input the names of the players they want to add to the alliance.

**For example:** If I wanted to make an alliance with someone named John and Jane, I would do this: **H!ORG Alliance Paul John Jane** My name is paul, so I put my name in the alliance and the other 2 members I want to add to the alliance.

•*Make sure to use the names they are going by during the season and not necessarily their username or nickname.*

•If you are not sure how to input your or their names, look at their roles. Each player has their own role that displays the name they are going by in the season. All you have to do is input the name exactly as you see it in their role, into the command.

•If you wish, you are allowed to name your alliance chat, just ping the host(s) with the name you want your alliance chat to have. Depending on the name chosen, the host(s) have the right to veto the name if they feel it violates rules or safety.