Sunset Rodeo Ep. 8

***Sunset Rodeo Ep. 8*** is the eighth episode of *Survivor: Sunset Rodeo*.

**CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE MADE IT TO THE MERGE! SOON YOU WILL BE ADDED TO YOUR NEW CHAT!**

You may have noticed you don't have a Team name. That is because it is up to you create one...mostly. Each of you can suggest Team names but there are two rules. Jess and I get final say over the Team name and it must have 5 letters in it! The name will be announced tomorrow at 9PM EST!

***Survivor Auction*** - Welcome to your first “Reward Challenge” as a merged Team! Tomorrow you’ll all be taking a day at the **Wild West Auction House**! We have some items up for bidding that you can win! These exclusive items will be the only way to earn power, advantages, and other things for the rest of the game. So unlike the popular saying, you may want to spend all your money in the same place.

Starting at 7PM EST tomorrow we will open up bidding for an item. There are 8 items, 4 public and 4 covered items. Once an item is up for bid you’ll have 15 minutes before the auction on that item closes. To bid you’ll write in the auction chat “I bid $$$” and fill in your bid amount. The person who bids the most will earn that item! If we go 3 minutes without another bid the item will be sold to the most recent bidder, if no one bids the item is gone forever.

This auction will take place over text for 2 hours. it is not necessary to bid. You can also only bid the money you have. And as a special merge gift each player is being given $200!

***Food Chain*** - Welcome to your first Individual Immunity challenge as a merged Team! This one will be a fun wild time called **Food Chain**! This is a classic challenge from the hit show, The Genius. However, we have made some adaptations to fit our needs for this game.

Each of you will be assigned an animal that falls somewhere on the Food Chain. Every animal is either Higher Level or Lower Level. Higher level animals can attack a lower level animal and feed on them. Every animal has a “win condition” that, if met, allows the player to win the challenge. Win conditions are different for each animal; for example, surviving until the end could be a win condition, or helping another animal survive could be a win condition. This means that multiple people can win the challenge.

You will randomly be assigned an animal at the start of the challenge. We will call you each individually on discord, explain your role to you. Before the game begins, players may each choose one player and “peek” at what animal that player is.

The game consists of 4 rounds. When a round begins, players choose to move to one of river, field, or forest. Each habitat will have its own discord call that you will join. However, each animal has a “main” habitat; if the animal spends a round outside its main habitat, it must return to its main habitat in the next round. You do not have to move; you can choose to stay in your home habitat for all four rounds should you wish.

After moving, you may attack any animals in the same area. The following will happen:

* If the target is a lower level animal, the attack is successful and the target is eaten.
* If the target is a same or higher level animal, nothing will happen.

Each room will have their own host that will watch over and mitigate whatever happens. Attacks will made verbally in the call, once everyone has travelled, the round will begin and attacks will be accepted in order of when they speak up. When someone dies, it will be announced to all players; however, the attacker or how they died will not.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, no chat will be allowed outside of your calls. That means no DMs and no alliance chats. Any players that are found to have talked to each other during this challenge across habitat will be automatically sent to tribal council with a self-vote. You may only talk to those who are in your habitat.

At the end of four rounds, the game will end and we will determine who has met their win condition.

All animals and the food chain itself will be posted below.

**Winner (According To Finish):** Dan, Taylor, Nic, Josh, Ali & Jabari