Hollow Bastion

***Hollow Bastion*** was the seventh Survivor Stings season. 16 castaways competed, a majority of whom were newbies. The theme of this season was based on *Kingdom Hearts* series.

## Production

This season was hosted by Raffy and Abbey. The blog is https://hollowbastionsurvivor.tumblr.com/

## Twists/Differences

* ***Mutiny***: Players were presented the option to mutiny from their original tribes at the final twelve. Ellie and Jessica N chose to mutiny from the Nobody to Heartless tribe. Colin mutinied from Heartless to Nobody.
* ***Invisible Round***: After playing a Blindfold, Jessica forced an invisible round where the winner of immunity and votes are not revealed.
* ***Legacy Advantage***: The winner of the Hero Challenge won a legacy advantage. This twist offered the owner a different advantage every round. *Read a detailed explanation here: Hollow Bastion Legacy Advantage*
* ***Darkness/Sapphire Idol***: This idol forces a tie between two players, leading to a revote between them. This forced a tie between Ellie and Dylan R; when Dylan idoled themself, Ellie was sent home.
* ***Safety Without Power***: The safety without power twist allows a player to leave tribal council, rendering them immune but also taking away their vote and knowledge.

## Season Overview

The season began with people being separated into the Nobody and Heartless tribe. During the first round, Emma made a chaotic first impression. She called out people in the tribe chat, gave false information about the idol hunt, and started like 5 alliances on Day One. All of this did not unnoticed. Her tribe immediately wanted her out, however this juxtaposed with Gizmo's inactivity. When Heartless lost the challenge, they had a dilemma with either getting rid of Emma or Gizmo. Especially considering that Emma had an idol and would idol Dylan out if she had the chance. Gizmo and Faye ended up quitting which saved them from this tribal council.

For the rest of the pre-merge, the Nobody tribe lost all the challenges. Josh, in a similar vain to Emma, but not quite as chaotic, was seen as powerful player that was already trying to snake. Everyone, except Jessica and John (the latter using a Safety Without Power Advantage because he felt unsafe since he was aligned with Josh), voted Josh out. Ellie, one of Josh's closest allies, betrayed him. This, subsequently, led to John being voted out the round after. Jessica was saved from this fate by a mutiny. Ellie and Jessica mutinied from Nobody because they felt unsafe, while Colin mutinied from Heartless because he wanted chaos. This led to Colin's downfall because the Nobodies lost another challenge, and he was booted for being the new guy. Nobodies were saved yet again by another quit from Emma after Daniel lost the Hero Challenge. Kevin won it, so he received an important Legacy Advantage.

In terms of powers, Christina has a Special Idol in the form of a Darkness Idol and a Vote Steal Advantage. Ellie had two idols (one given to them by Emma before she quit and one they found), Jessica has a Blindfold (given to by John before he was voted out), and Kevin had the Hollow Bastion Legacy Advantage. In the first round of merge, Jessica plays her Blindfold. This causes everyone to close ranks and for people to play by tribal lines. Unfortunately for Jessica, she was found to be playing the middle by the Heartless and was voted out by Christina's Vote Steal in close 6-4. Subsequently, Daniel was voted out for being the easiest target from Nobody since he did not socialize. After an intense Hands Up Tribal, Jordan was also voted out after making a plea to get Kevin out. In this tribal, Dylan did, in fact, flip, but Kevin played a saving Extra Vote (the legacy advantage) that prevented a tie.

At this point, it was Ellie, Kim, and Dylan vs. Kevin, Christina, Amy, and Adaora. During a Chain Reaction challenge, Adaora wised up to being on the bottom of the foursome. She decided, right then, to flip on the Heartless by informing Ellie and Dylan about their plans to get out Dylan. Adaora would also vote with them to take out Kevin, effectively blindsiding the OG Heartless. During the past 2 rounds, Ellie gives away both their idols to Dylan and Kim.

Next round, Christina plays the Darkness Idol to make the vote between Ellie and Dylan. Dylan plays the idol given to them by Ellie, while Ellie pleads for Kim to play the idol they gave him. Kim, realizing Ellie's threat as sociostrategic player, ultimately decides not to use it, committing an ultimate act of betrayal. Afterwards, Kim finds an Extra Vote and Christina finds a Vote Revealer. Kim plays an Extra Vote to tie the vote between Dylan and Christina (Dylan and Kim voted together). Amy and Adaora, the former not really realizing what's going on and the latter not wanting to be seen as more of a snack than she already was, decided to keep their votes the same. This ended in rocks between the two. Amy would get rocked out.

At F4, Kim wins Individual Immunity and Adaora attempts to keep her promise to Christina as to not lose her jury vote. Christina and Dylan go head-to-head in fire where Christina comes out the victor.

At FTC, Christina doesn't show up and doesn't answer her questions. Despite this, Kevin, feeling some sort of extreme loyalty to Christina, votes for her anyways. Between Kim and Adaora, the latter gives an impressive and detailed speech as well as concise answers the jury. As one of the more impressive FTC performances, Adaora is declared the winner by a 6-1 vote. Her game-changing move of flipping on Kevin enabled her win.