*It's late afternoon
on Day 3 in the game. The 18
remaining players are well-rested
after Day 1, in which they subjected
themselves to physical and mental
torture. They stand in front of the
pyramid-shaped Luxor hotel. All of a
sudden, Joseph comes sliding down the
side of the pyramid and lands right
in front of them.*
Joseph: Good afternoon players!
Welcome to Fear Factor Stunt #2 in
our game. This stunt is also very
easy. All it tests is your fear of
heights and your brain activity,
which may be difficult for some of
you. *Laughs in an Anderson
Cooper-style evil laugh.* This stunt
is simple. You will be attached to a
bungee at the top of the pyramid. The
pyramid has 4 corners because the
base is a square. At each corner is a
laptop computer. Each computer has a
riddle/trivia/puzzle on it. Some are
easy, others are difficult. But hey,
it's only 4, can't be THAT hard, can
it? *Cue evil laugh again.* As for
the point of the game, it's simple.
Solve the most riddles in the
quickest amount of time. I'm sure if
you get all 4 you shouldn't have to
worry about being eliminated, but you
never know. In any case, 3 of you
will be eliminated after this stunt.
You have 24 hours to complete this
stunt. At the end of the 24 hours,
you need to have sent to my e-mail
address your final answers to all 4
of them. In the case of a tie, the
person's e-mail who gets to me
quickest goes on to the next round.
But if someone has 3 correct and
someone else has only 2 correct, then
speed doesn't matter because the 3
correct beats the 2. That's pretty
easy right. Just get done with them
quickly and you win, right? There are
18 of you here now, but tomorrow at
this time, there will only be 15 of
you here. ON YOUR MARK, GET SET.....
GO!!!
*THE FOUR DREADED QUESTIONS OF
DOOM!!!!!*
1. Who won the first seasons of
Survivor, Big Brother, and The Mole?
(First names only)
2. How many letters are in the
alphabet?
3. A man wishes to go to a village.
On his way, he comes to a fork in the
road. He knows that one path leads to
the village. However, the other leads
to the headhunters who will kill him.
There's a house in the middle of the
fork in the road. In it, lives two
identical twins who are old ladies.
However, one of them ALWAYS tells the
truth, and the other one ALWAYS lies.
He is allowed to ask one question to
one of them. Whoever answers the door
is who he must ask the question to
and he has no idea whether it will be
the lying sister or the truthful
sister. What one question does he ask
to find out which path takes him to
the village?
4. Go to http://www.simeonmagic.com/gemstonegame/index.html. Play that
challenge. If you can defeat Simeon,
then he will give you a
"prize." Please give me the
correct title of the prize and you
will have gotten this question
correct.
There ya go! Four relatively simple
objectives. But will your fear strike
you and will you not be able to think
clearly? I guess we're about to find
out! ALL ANSWERS MUST BE SENT BY 4:00
P.M. CENTRAL TIME ON TUESDAY, MAY
6TH!!! GOOD LUCK!
*It's
late afternoon in Day 4 in the game.
The 18 remaining contestants are
gathered around Joseph in the
conference room at the Luxor Hotel in
Las Vegas. Some people are kicking
back, relaxing, thinking that they
have no worries at all about Stunt
#2, in which the contestants had to
climb up and down the pyramid-shaped
outside of the hotel and answer some
pretty tricky questions. Some,
however, have some worries as their
countenance is full of anxiety and
despair. Only 3 of them should really
be worried. Joseph enters and they
are about to find out.*
Joseph: Well, well, well.... It was a
very nice stunt. However, some of you
struggled. Let me recap the rules.
The main objective was to get all 4
questions correct. If you did this,
you remain in the game. The
tiebreaker was the time in which you
performed the stunt. In the case of a
tie, and only a tie, does the time
when you turned it in matter. And
now... for the resu....
*Loud music blares in the room and in
walks Joe Rogan, host of Fear
Factor.*
Joe: Hey Joey Joe, what's up my man?
Joseph: Ummm.. Mr. Rogan, what are
you doing here?
Joe: I heard you were doing some Fear
Factor stunts, and seeing how I am
Mr. Fear Factor himself, I felt I
should be here.
Joseph: We're doing very fine without
you actually, you can go off and
gamble or go see some showgirls or
whatever.
Joe: Hey, you're just a stupid online
gaming host, how can you tell me, Joe
ROGAN, what to do?
Joseph: Like this!
*Joseph takes a snake from under the
table and throws it at Joe Rogan, who
runs out of the room screaming like a
little girl.*
Joseph: Now, where was I? Oh yes, the
results. I will read them off in the
order in which they were done. From
the first, who did it the fastest, to
the last who did it the slowest.
Let's begin by going over the 4
correct answers. By the way, some of
you complained that there were trick
questions in this challenge. WELL
DUH! A simple 4 question challenge
isn't going to have questions with
obvious answers.
#1: The correct answers were:
Survivor - Richard, Big Brother -
Eddie, The Mole - Steven.
#2: The correct answer is 11.
"The Alphabet" = 11 letters
#3: Anything about asking the other
sister which way to go. Whether it
was "Ask which way the other
sister would say to go, then go the
opposite way" to "Ask which
was the other sister would not say is
the right way." I accepted
anything referring to asking what the
other sister would do.
#4: Simeon's Simple ESP Trick.
And now for the results (quickest to
slowest).....
1. Simone - Got 3 questions correct
(Missed #2)
2. Aaron - 4 correct
3. Louis - 4 correct
4. Chris - 1 correct (Missed #1, #2,
#4)
5. Gordo - 4 correct
6. Andrew - 3 correct (Missed #2)
7. Kyle - 4 correct
8. Dean - 3 correct (Missed #3)
9. Brian - 3 correct (Missed #2)
10. Fred - 4 correct
11. Darren - 3 correct (Missed #2)
12. Imogene - 4 correct
13. Devon - 4 correct
14. Michael - 3 correct (Missed #2)
15. Toby - 4 correct
16. Bob - 4 correct
17. Mary Jo - Did not attempt stunt
18. Paul - Did not attempt stunt
Joseph: And so that means, that
Mary Jo, Paul, and Chris have all
been eliminated from SBBTAMR 2
through Fear Factor Stunt #2!
Fear was definitely a factor for
them. And for you other 15, you have
found a way to go onto the next
round. But before we discuss that,
let's find out if our Murderer and
our Mole are still around, shall we?
Although they haven't left clues yet,
they are bound to very soon. But that
doesn't matter because none of you
have had any impact on who leaves
this game yet, except for how you do.
So, let's see what happens.
For the second time in as many
stunts, an original castmember from
Season One has left the game. Let's
see if she will follow Adam as just
another cast member.
*Joseph types
M-A-R-Y-J-O.
The screen turns.... GREEN! She is
not the murderer or mole.
Joseph types P-A-U-L.
The screen turns..... GREEN! He is
not the murderer or the mole.
Joseph types C-H-R-I-S.
The screen turns..... GREEN! He is
not the murderer or the mole.
Those
3 pick up their bags and leave the
game, remembering to stop off at
their own respective forum on their
way out and leave their final
statements.*
Joseph: Well, well, well! 4 days are
almost wasted, and our cast has
already seen a quarter of itself been
eliminated, and the murderer and the
mole are still here. I hate to
disappoint some of you, but FEAR
FACTOR IS NOW OFFICIALLY OVER!!!
Congratulations to all 15 of you on
making it past the first game mode.
There's a lot left however. For the
rules state that at the change of
every game mode, if the murderer
remains in the game, then a new kind
of Murder in Small Town X game begins
that was created by me. Here's the
way this is going to work. I'm about
to give you a simple challenge. You
will complete this challenge and then
I will rank all 15 of you according
to how you did in this challenge. The
top 7 of you will be safe and will
not be at risk to the killer's wrath.
However, the bottom 8 in the
challenge will be at risk to the
Killer, who will then simply choose
one person from those 8 people, and
they will be eliminated from the
game. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
Well, we're done with this, so it's
now time for the MURDERER'S
CHALLENGE!! This is a very simple
challenge. Since we're still here at
the Luxor Hotel, which is in the
shape of a Pyramid, we're gonna
simply play the Yahoo! Game Pyramids.
Just go to Yahoo.com and play the
game, Pyramids. You have 23 hours to
complete this challenge. (Until May
7th at 3:00 CST) Tomorrow, Day 5 (May
7), I'm going to go to Pyramids game
and look at each of your Yahoo
screennames and see how high each of
you scored on your high score. To let
me know which Yahoo! screenname you
will be playing under, simply send me
an e-mail telling me which one to
look under. Then, tomorrow, I will
check and see the high scores, then
rank you accordingly. It's as simple
as that. So, those are your
instructions. Congratulations on
making it past Fear Factor, and Good
Luck at Pyramids!
*The 15 remaining contestants race
off to begin the Murderer's Challenge
as Joseph sits and relaxes his
fingers after typing this e-mail.*
