YesterORGs: The Black Plague

The Black Plague is the second season of YesterORGs. It was won by Tommy in a 5-1-0 vote against Itay and Matt. The seasons featured 3 returning players (Plumpkin, Tommy, Meuh) as captains.

To note: this season had 2 instances of a final 11 and of a final 10. Here is the terminology for these points in the game used on the wiki. "Pre-rejoin (final 10/final 11)" designates the one that occurred premerge, either before or during the rejoin. "Post-rejoin (final 10/final 11)" refers to the one that happened during or after the tribes merging, after the rejoin. Additionally, the wiki refers to the tribes formed as a result of players mutninying during the pre-rejoin final 11 tribal council as Aragon 4.0 and Tuscany 4.0, although these tribes are not considered to be separate from Aragon 3.0 and Tuscany 3.0 by the hosts.

## Format/Twists

**Infected idols:** Explained in the advantages section.

**Captains:** 3 players from season 1 were brought back, with one assigned to each of the starting tribes.

**Starting tribes:** The players were split into 3 tribes of 6, Aragon, Catalonia and Tuscany.

**Disbanding:** At the final 15, the tribe that lost the immunity challenge—after voting a player out—was disbanded and its players were split into the 2 other tribes. The tribe that got first in the immunity challenge got the first and the third pick for players from the losing tribe, while the tribe that got second got the second pick, and the unpicked player. Catalonia was disbanded through this and Aragon 2.0 and Tuscany 2.0 were formed.

**Swap:** At the final 12, Aragon 2.0 and Tuscany 3.0 were formed, through a swap. This swap was not traditional, however. 3 players from each of the post-swap tribes were put in each of the newly formed ones, leading to a 3-3 split.

**Infected tribe:** During the premerge, players voted out were sent to the infected tribe. Players on the infected tribe kept playing alongside the others, secretly; with the goal of returning to the game. At the final 13, the 5 members of the infected tribe participated in a purge challenge, where the 2 lowest placing members were officially eliminated from the game. At the initial final 11, the current 5 members of the infected tribe went to a tribal council where they voted out a player, who was eliminated from the game.

At the pre-rejoin final 10, the infected tribe was revealed to the non-infected players. It was also revealed here that the infected tribe was participating in challenges and that if they performed well in them, they'd gain points; which allowed them a better chance of getting players back into the game. The tribe ended up getting 10 points out of 18, which was enough for a single rejoin, at no expense of Aragon 3.0 and Tuscany 3.0, but they would compete in the rejoin challenge at a disadvantage. With the tribe now revealed, the challenge was announced. If the infected tribe finished last, they would simply send a player back in and neither of the other tribes would vote a player out. If the infected tribe finished second, they would send 2 players back in, and the tribe they beat would vote a player out. If the infected tribe finished first, both of the other tribes would vote a player out, and they would send 3 players back in.

The infected tribe ended up finishing first, and so they attended a tribal council where each player voted for 3 players, and the 3 players with the most votes would be sent back in. This vote ended up being a 4-3-3-3-2 vote, eliminating Nov and guaranteeing Winston would return. Because of the tie, the tribe (except Nov, who was eliminated) partook in a revote, where each player could vote for someone who received 3 votes. This lead to Plumpkin and Napalm getting 2 votes and Flaming getting none, eliminating the latter and allowing the former 2 to return alongside Winston. These players all joined the newly formed merge tribe. All 3 of the players rejoining also got allocated immunity at the subsequent tribal council.

**Merge:** At the post-rejoin final 11, the infected tribe, Aragon 3.0 and Tuscany 3.0 merged into the Valetudo tribe. Its members got to choose its name through a poll.

**Final 7 immunity challenge:** The final 7 immunity challenge could give a highly variable amount of players individual immunity. All players other than Plumpkin and Napalm ended up winning it, causing only 2 possible targets at tribal council. This challenge also had the possibility to give a player an advantage in the game, but nobody ended up getting it and it was never revealed what this advantage was.

## Advantages

Standard immunity idols were the only advantage available throughout this season.

**Infected idols:** During the pre-merge portion of the game, if a player were to successfully get saved by an idol, they would mutiny, going to another tribe. This caused Twgs and Meuh to go from Aragon 3.0 to Tuscany 4.0 at the pre-rejoin final 11, after a 4-2 vote. It is unknown what would have occurred regarding a correct infected idol play during the pre-swap portion of the game, since 3 tribes were in play.

**Disadvantages:** The post-merge idol hunting system could give disadvantages. This affected Meuh at the post-rejoin final 11, where she did not get to cast a vote. (this was never publicly revealed) This also affected Meuh at the final 10, where he lost access to the tribal council channel.

**Final 7 immunity challenge:** This challenge had the possibility to give a player an advantage in the game, but nobody ended up getting it—and it was never revealed what this advantage was.

## Episodes

*Episode 1* - Its Time to Go Hard in the Paint

*Episode 2* - Let the Paranoia Begin

*Episode 3* - A Hole is Never too Deep

*Episode 4* - In General, I'm Just Scared

*Episode 5* - Does that Make You Happy?

*Episode 6* - I Regret This Already

*Episode 7* - As the Winter hits its Harshest Point.

*Episode 8* - I’m on the Edge of my Seat

*Episode 9* - The King on his Way Up

*Episode 10* - Scrambling like an Egg, before I Get Folded Into an Omelet

*Episode 11* - My Paranoia is to the Max

*Episode 12* - Follow the Leader

*Episode 13* - But I just hit the Void.

*Episode 14* - A Little Bit of Excitement. A Little Bit of Anxiety.

*Episode 15* - I'm so Nervous.

*Season 2 reunion*