Sunset Rodeo Ep. 1

***Sunset Rodeo Ep. 1*** is the premiere episode of *Survivor: Sunset Rodeo*.

Welcome to Survivor: Sunset Rodeo, the third Survivor season in The Retirement Home ORG series. We have explored the past and uncovered secrets of the dinos, we have traveled to distant planets to endure the difficulties of space, and this time we will try to survive a sunset rodeo with mysteries, bandits, and outlaws. Let’s take a look at our cast.

As you can see, we have brought in four outlaws into the game. Nic, Sierra, Ari, and Ali are back to redeem themselves. They were taken out unlawfully last time, so don’t underestimate them. Even though they are outlaws, they are players just like the rest of you, trying to earn the title of Sole Survivor.

The game will be 39 days of challenges, tribals, twists, advantages, and social dynamics. Trust will be more important than ever this season because there wont be an easy way to prove yourself to your allies. This brings us to our first twist of the season.

## The Blinding Sunset

The Blinding Sunset is something pretty usual out here but it is something people new to these parts, like all of you, will have to navigate. Normally at Tribal Council we will have a discussion, you will vote, you can play advantages, and then we read the votes. However, the blinding sunset means you wont be able to see…..any of the votes. That’s right. We will still have Tribal Council as normal until it is time to read the votes. I will instead just begin naming each safe member of the Team and then will remove them from tribal council. The last person will be the person voted out of the game.

This twist will last through the entire game. In the event of a tie, we will reveal who the tie is between and revote. Advantages will still be played publicly, but whether or not they had any impact on the vote will be unknown.

## Sunset Rodeo Saloon

This season, your prizes in reward challenges will be money. Moolah. Cold hard cash. You know the stuff. What can you use this money for? *You can purchase items in the Sunset Rodeo Saloon!*

In the saloon, you’ll notice there are three tiers of items. They are:

* **Tier 1 - Objects (Cost: $400 each)**: Rope, matches, sheriff badge, dress, bandana, spurs, cowboy hat.
* **Tier 2 - Drinks (Cost: $500 each)**: Vodka, whiskey, tequila, beer, and white claw with lime
* **Tier 3 - Guns (Cost: $750 each):** Darlene the Pistol, Eddie the Shotgun, Bobo the Rifle (yes they have names)

At 11 PM EST on days when we vote, we will update the shop. Not every item will be available to purchase at once. It will be up to you to keep an eye on the shop to see what was purchased and what remained at the end of each restock.

Every time the shop updates, we will include three Tier 1 items, two Tier 2 items, and one Tier 3 item. Why do you want to purchase these items? Well, they’re idols of course! Or at least… they could be.

When we update the shop stock, we will also randomly pick one item per tier to become an idol for the round. All players will be informed which items are the idols that round. This means there will be three, and only three, potential idols in the game at once.

For example, here’s how this may look.

There is a vote at 9PM EST.
Immediately following, the idols for the round are selected. The dress, beer, and Eddie are the idols this round. Everyone is informed of this.
The shop updates at 11PM EST. It contains the rope, matches, dress, vodka, whiskey, and Darlene.
All items remain available for purchase until they are bought OR until 11 PM EST following the next vote. At that point, the shop will randomly update again and the idols for the round will switch.
A few things to note about the shop since we know you’ll have questions:

* You may pool money with other players to purchase items.
* Tier 1 items are good as idols up through the F7 vote, Tier 2 is good through F6, and Tier 3 is good through the F5 vote
* Each item only exists once. There is only one rope, one whiskey, etc. Once someone has purchased it, they have it until it expires, they give it to someone else, or they are voted out.
* When someone is voted out, their item goes back into the available items we MIGHT put in the shop. If you don’t see something in the shop for a long time…. we just might not have any available to sell.
* The shop will never contain items that are not these idols.

***Bandit Bids*** - Yeehaw and Howdy y’all! We are fixin to get ready for the first challenge of the season!  Since y’all are a bunch of outlaws and bandits we know you just robbed the bank a couple towns over. Don’t worry we wont snitch though. Instead we will play a little game called **BANDIT BIDS**! What you stole were the deeds to different pieces of land and treasure.

Here’s how it works:

* Each player must bid on at least 3 tiles out of the 24 that are located on this Monopoly Board and has $300 to spend. However, players do not have to spend all their money, whatever they do not use to bid in this challenge, they will keep.
* The 4 tiles at the corner are the tiles for individual items. Whoever bids the most on these tiles (if any) will NOT be announced. They will be notified in private.
* The remaining 20 colored tiles (spread across 8 color zones) are property tiles with values ranging from 150 to 370 points, to be won by the highest single bidder on each tile for their Team.
* Like the board game, there is a bonus if your Team bid on all tiles within the same color zone. If all properties from the same color set are claimed by members from the same Team, the total amount of points gained from those properties will double. For example: if all 3 pink properties were claimed by the same Team, the total points gained for that Team would be 1,500 points (240x2 + 250x2 + 260x2).

The Team with highest total final points will win immunity! Note that your individual bid decisions will NOT be revealed while total money spent by each Team in this challenge will be revealed. The winning Team for each property tile will be revealed without revealing the identity of the highest bidder of each tile.

Your bid submissions are due to your host chat by **Wednesday, December 30 @ 9PM EST**. Not submitting anything will result in a strike and a loss of your money.

**Winner (According To Finish):** Pearl