Days 1-3 (1st)

## Day 1

### Introduction

On Day 1 of the 1st Tournament, the original fourteen competitors began by being separated into two distinct teams at random. The Red Team consisted of Aryel, Blaike, Catherine, Dragon, Jade, Marcus, and Timothy. The Blue Team consisted of Brooke, Daniel, Jennifer, Kim, Lenobia, Marco, and Zillik. After the initial division of the players, both teams were sent away to their campsites.

### Blue Team

Upon arriving at their camp, the players on the Blue Team set immediately to work on building their shelter and fire, as well as figuring out how to find food. Sensing an opportunity to establish herself as a leader, Kim divided out roles for everyone else, assigning herself, Lenobia, Jennifer, and Brooke the task of building the shelter while Zillik went to collect water, Marco built traps to catch animals for food, and Daniel worked on the fire.

Lenobia proposed that the girls construct a lean-to type of shelter against the largest tree in their grove. Agreeing that it seemed like the easiest idea, the girls set to work on the shelter. As they worked, eager to seize control of her team, Kim proposed that the girls take advantage of their slight numbers advantage and form an alliance of four against the boys. This idea, however, was not met with the approval that Kim wanted. Brooke shot the idea down completely, given she already had a good feeling about working with Marco and didn't see a point in dividing the team by gender. Jennifer didn't respond at all, choosing just to give a few vague nods to show she was listening while she was actually focused on building the shelter. Lenobia was the only one to give Kim a solid response, acting cheerful and eager about forming an alliance with her to take out the boys first. In truth, however, Lenobia already didn't like Kim's bossiness and obvious drive to control everything, so she was actually giving her fake answers to placate her. Spurned a bit by how Brooke had responded, Kim took Lenobia at face-value and decided to refocus her energy on the shelter, while came together nicely.

Marco, meanwhile, had used sticks and extra rope to lay a few traps throughout the forest, in hopes of catching small animals for a source of food. Zillik spent nearly the entire first day on his own after collecting the water, choosing to avoid socializing with most of the team. He had already had more than enough of listening to Kim try to give out orders and Lenobia interjecting wherever she could. Daniel had somehow managed to make a fire on his own, which he hadn't done before and attributed entirely to luck. Regardless, things seemed to be going well for the Blue Team on their first day of living in the wilderness.

### Red Team

Like the Blue Team, the Red Team began their camp life by taking stock of the area and deciding exactly what to do about shelter, fire, and food. Unlike Kim on the Blue Team, no one on the Red Team stepped up to forcefully divide tasks between everyone. Instead, the group agreed to stay together and work as a unit on each task, in order to allow input from everyone. Blaike, having a great deal of skill at building, suggested that they use the abundance of mud near their river to build a hardened mud shelter. Given how daunting of a task this was, it managed to take up most of their first day. Once they finished with that, Timothy and Jade left to get water for everyone while Blaike began working to design some traps for food.

Timothy and Jade, while at the well came to an agreement. As young siblings, they promised to do their best to work together as privately as they could manage, and also to vote for one another to win if they got the chance to do so. Of course, Timothy didn't have nearly as much intention to uphold his end of the bargain as Jade did, given that his primary goal to win.

At the same time, Aryel had gone off with Blaike to lay the traps and managed to find some berry bushes, ensuring the Red Team would have plenty of food. Marcus, Dragon, and Catherine spent the evening at the camp, bonding while building the fire and making small improvements to the shelter. Dragon and Marcus, particularly, seemed to get along extremely well to begin with. With all of their tasks completed, the Red Team was off to a successful start after their first day.

## Day 2

### Challenge

The first Immunity Challenge came about on Day 2. Despite it being a very close challenge, the Red Team ultimately managed to win out over the Blue Team. This earned them bug netting and repellant to make camp life slightly more bearable, as well as Immunity from the vote.

### Blue Team

Back at camp, Kim was quick to point fingers and assign blame. Of course, she framed this as constructive criticism for those whom she believed struggled to keep up, namely Lenobia and Brooke. Neither of them took this well, but Lenobia was the most vocally upset by Kim's criticisms. After a very mild, but brief argument, Lenobia decided to leave camp and go for a walk to cool off. Kim, meanwhile, spent the evening pretending to make nice with the boys in an effort to win over their votes. Despite wanting the girls to work together, Brooke had spurned Kim and also done poorly in the challenge. That was all Kim needed to decide to target her first, but she knew she'd need to have a working relationship with the boys for that. Zillik largely ignored her, while Daniel and Marco only pretended to listen. However, everyone had agreed with Kim about the challenge, even if they hadn't voiced as such.

Marco excused himself from camp to check on his traps, needing a reason to get away from Kim and Lenobia. Even if Kim was right about the challenge, she was still obnoxious and bossy. Marco was thinking about all of this and debating if voting for Kim was a good idea as he checked his traps, but he also knew Kim had done the best during the challenge and voting her out so early could be a mistake. He discovered a few of his traps had caught various small animals and was happy to bring those back to camp for everyone to eat.

### Red Team

The Red Team spent the evening celebrating their victory. After setting up their bug netting, the Blaike and Timothy left camp to check her traps while Aryel left to collect berries. While they were out, Timothy noticed the back of Blaike's boot protruding slightly and stopped to ask her about it. Blaike paused before deciding to reveal the hidden compartment of her boot where she stored a picture of her family. Notably, Blaike had a younger sister who was also a demigod. Not realizing she had a sibling back home, Timothy began to ask Blaike about her and the two had the opportunity to bond over being an older sibling. A lot of demigods had siblings, of course, but not all of them also had demigod siblings from their mortal parent. Despite being initially wary of Timothy, Blaike warmed up to him a lot after that little trip out.

Back at camp, Marcus had gotten a little too vocal while hanging out with Dragon, Jade, and Catherine. His louder, more aggressive side had started to come out during their celebration. Dragon didn't seem to mind all that much, but Jade and Catherine were both extremely put off the behavior. Some of his comments about how Lenobia and Brooke had done in the challenge were misogynistic, and he didn't shy away from pointing out that Aryel hadn't done the best on their own team while she gone looking for berries. This eventually led to a confrontation between Jade and Marcus, while nearly turned physically violent. Dragon and Catherine stepped between them to mediate the fighting, and Dragon suggested that both of them go for a walk to cool off. Once they were gone, Dragon and Catherine exchanged concerns over the fighting and Marcus' behavior. After hearing Catherine's perspective on the issue, Dragon assured her that he'd chat with Marcus to get him to tone down the obnoxiousness, and that seemed to satisfy her. As godly siblings, they already had a decent relationship and seemed to be building on that.

### Between Team Camps

While out for their individual walks, Lenobia and Marcus happened to stumble upon each other in the forest. Given they were both needing space from their teammates, the two began to talk, and eventually Lenobia began to flirt. She realized that Marcus had valuable information about the opposing team and didn't strike her as all that bright. Marcus, of course, flirted back and readily chatted with Lenobia about everything going on back at the Red Team. After spending a long time together talking and flirting, the two eventually agreed to meet up again every few days if they could get away from camp. Once they had been gone for a few hours, the two decided to return to their camps before they were gone too long.

## Day 3

### Blue Team

Once everyone was up and moving, Kim got right to work organizing the vote. She had slept on the decision and woke up to her conclusion. Kim wanted Brooke gone. Brooke had spurned her offer for a girls alliance and then performed poorly in the challenge, so Kim saw no reason to keep her around. As everyone was waking up and splitting off, Lenobia was sleeping in a bit from her late-night visit with Marcus. This ruffled a few feathers and made her teammates feel as if she was lazy and entitled. Brooke had already decided that Lenobia had to be voted out. After all, Lenobia came across as manipulative, could tend to be confrontational, hadn't done well in the challenge, and now was sleeping in instead of helping around camp. It seemed like an obvious choice to her. Little did she know that Kim was actively doing her best to sway votes off of Lenobia and onto Brooke.

Kim started with Jennifer. The two had actually begun getting along, and Jennifer had been the most interested in actually working with Kim. Despite her relatively quiet personality, she was thinking about how to advance in the game, and Kim seemed like a strong ally. Kim suggested that the both of them work on Daniel, Zillik, Marco separately to try and bring the numbers together. So, Kim approached Daniel and offered to vote out Brooke, rather than Lenobia. Daniel admitted that he wasn't actually all that bothered by Lenobia, and privately, he sort of had a crush on her and didn't want to vote her out. So, going along with Kim and voting out Brooke to make sure Lenobia stayed suited him. Jennifer, meanwhile, had a much harder time working on Marco. He was much more irritated with Lenobia and felt she was less trustworthy than Brooke. Jennifer, trying to figure out how to sway Marco, finally told him that he had to vote with them because they would have the numbers. Kim, herself, Lenobia, and Daniel would all vote Brooke, and Marco shouldn't isolate himself. Of course, she didn't actually know that Lenobia and Daniel were on board, but she needed to sell Marco. Frustrated, Marco decided to talk to the boys and get back with her.

Marco approached Daniel and asked if he had been told about the Brooke plan. When Daniel explained that he had heard about it and was going along with it, Marco began pushing back for a vote against Lenobia. Put off by the idea, Daniel told Marco that he wasn't going to change his vote to Lenobia because there was no point. The girls were voting for Brooke, so they should too. Marco pushed by saying that all they needed to do was get Zillik and they would have the numbers. Still not wanting to let Lenobia go, Daniel asserted that he didn't want to change his vote, so Marco and Zillik voting to keep Brooke would be pointless. Marco relented, though he wasn't happy about it.

At the same time, Kim was filling Zillik in on the plan, who was hardly listening to her. She was loud and talked a lot, which Zillik didn't enjoy. When she finally finished explaining the plan, Zillik gave a nod of agreement and nothing else, then went out to get water as an excused to get away from her. Really, he didn't care who left. Zillik would have preferred it be Kim, just to get her to shut up and leave everyone alone for five seconds. However, he had serious doubts that it would be her, given that she was the one organizing votes. Since Zillik didn't care all that much and Brooke had blown the challenge, he didn't see any reason to object to her idea, but definitely wasn't going to agree to work with her.

By the time Lenobia woke up, the day was more than halfway over, and the vote was rapidly approached. Jennifer sat down with her and told her what had gone on over the morning and afternoon. Frustrated, Lenobia suggested they vote off Kim instead, as she was really sick of having her around. Jennifer calmly explained to Lenobia that it wouldn't happen. Kim was one of the strongest challenge competitors and everyone who didn't want to vote out Brooke currently wanted to vote out Lenobia. Bristling at this, Lenobia automatically assumed that it was Kim, given her vocal she had been about Lenobia and Brooke not doing well in the challenge. Not wanting to start drama, Jennifer didn't tell Lenobia who it was one way or the other. Finally, realizing she didn't have any other options right now because of how little time she had, Lenobia consented to voting out Brooke.

### Red Team

The morning of Day 3, Dragon woke Marcus and invited him out to the well to gather water and bring it back to the camp. This was partially done to actually get him up, since he otherwise was prone to sleeping in so far. Timothy decided to tag along with them, sensing an opportunity to discuss strategy with a few more players. After they left, Aryel expressed some discontent with Timothy to the other girls. She felt that no one on the team had started plotting yet, but got the sense that he was thinking several steps ahead, as a child of Athena was apt to do. Blaike heard Aryel out and did consider her points valid, as Timothy had given her that impression to. However, after their conversation the prior day, Blaike felt that she could trust Timothy for the time being. Catherine felt similarly to Aryel, but was less concerned with Timothy's plotting than Marcus being generally horrible to live. Jade jumped on the chance to agree with Catherine and just asked Aryel to keep an open mind about Timothy, essentially pushing that she felt she could keep him in line for the best interests of the team as a whole. Aryel wasn't convinced, but chose to drop the conversation.

Out at the well, Dragon began trying to persuade Marcus to tone down his overly aggressive, loud personality and try to fit into the group dynamic more. This agitated Marcus, as he didn't see anything wrong with his behavior and didn't want to be voted out for it. Dragon, calm as ever, let Marcus fume before reminding him that the peace of the team as a whole would be important in winning challenges. Finally, Timothy decided to speak up, suggesting that if Marcus wanted to ensure his safety from the vote that the three boys should team up. The girls outnumbered them and would realize it eventually, so they should form a trio and vote together. Dragon felt wary of this, as Timothy had also struck him as a schemer as well. He was also reluctant to be a part of an alliance that excluded Catherine. Marcus, on the other hand, just didn't like Timothy. The feeling was mutual, but Timothy reminded them both that the game required numbers, and it voting as a unit would ensure they all survived and could keep the team strong. The two eventually consented, agreeing to work with Timothy, but wanted to know how they would actually have the numbers with only three. Timothy promised them that he could pull in Blaike or Jade for one or two votes until the three of them were firmly in control. Again, Dragon felt apprehensive at Catherine's exclusion from the conversation, given he liked and wanted to work with her, but he agreed anyway.

### Vote

At the vote, Kim's plan to came fruition. Brooke voted against Lenobia, still under the assumption that she was fitting in the least and the least useful and was, therefore, the obvious choice. Unfortunately for Brooke, all six of her teammates voted against her, though some were more reluctant than others. Surprised, Brooke left the game, assuming Lenobia had somehow managed to manipulate enough of the guys to vote her out, given that seemed to be her specialty. Kim beamed, already under the assumption that she was in complete control of the Blue Team, while Marco seethed. He hadn't wanted to vote for Brooke, but felt he had no choice, and was already trying to figure out how to get rid of Lenobia next as the team returned to their camp.