The Marooning

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**The Marooning** is the season premiere of *Survivor: Palau* and first ever episode of *Survivor*.

## Story

### Day 1

Host Kodi Pierce begins the season by introducing the sixteen castaways to the beauties of the Palau islands and introduces them to the format of *Survivor*. He separates them into two groups of eight and then passing out two bags per group which contained their buffs, green for Angaur and orange for Peleliu. Afterwards he announced that they were to take any supplies they could onto their boats, only having three minutes to do so, to help them once they got to their camps. After each tribe had gotten their supples and Kodi called time, they got onto their boats and sailed off to their designated camps to start off the adventure of a life time with sixteen people, thirty-nine days and one Sole Survivor.

Once Angaur arrived at camp, everyone had begun to introduce themselves and get to know each other better, to then going on to working on the shelter. Derek immediately started to start up conversations about the game in attempt to obtain numbers early on while the women worked on the palm fronds, to which he gathered Demetrius, Freddie, and Neil. He brought up the plan for the men to stick together in order for them to maintain strength and honor towards one another and while they were unsure at first, Freddie and Neil agreed, however, Demetrius was unsure of this plan.

While that conversation was happening, the women had seen them chit-chatting for a quite a long time and had decided that they were going to look out for one another as being wary of what the men were scheming so early on. Annette took this opportunity to propose the idea of a women's alliance to Britney, Paige, and Raven, leading to them having their word to stick together.

Meanwhile, the Peleliu tribe had a more relaxed time at camp after arriving from just getting to know each other by talking about their families, interests and other topics. After about an hour of bonding, they had finally decided to get started on camp life as it was already starting to get late. Jarrett and Lamont felt like they were working on the shelter well together, to even go to promising to go far together.

When Jarrett and Lamont were working on the shelter, Diana and Veronica were cutting bamboo, which led to Veronica accidentally cutting her thumb. Diana called for help followed by July running to them along with the rest of the tribe stopping what they were doing to check out the situation. After medical had reached the camp and tended to her finger, she took some time to rest on the beach. This whole situation pissed off Jarrett and Lamont.

### Day 3

The tribes meet for their first Reward/Immunity Challenge. Kodi then revealed the challenge: Cell Block Sea. Each tribe would swim out to a large bamboo cage, climb up and over and then swim down to the seabed to untie a gate. Once the gate was released, they would drag a series of heavy fishing traps back to the shore. Then, one tribe member would use the pieces inside to solve a difficult rotating puzzle. The first tribe to finish would win Immunity. In addition, the tribe to finish first would also receive fire in the form of flint.

## Challenges

**Reward/Immunity Challenge:** *Cell Block Sea*
The tribes would race out into the ocean and climb over and into a bamboo cage. The tribe would then have to untie a door on the cage and drag a fish traps through the door and back to the beach. Once back onto the beach, they must retrieve puzzle pieces inside the fish traps. After that, one member from each tribe must assemble a rotating puzzle.
**Reward:** Flint
**Winner:** Angaur

## Tribal Council

* First Vote
* Revote