Welcome to your main twist this season, here on Survivor: Skyros!
Known for its underground and shady business deals, this clandestine market has been around for ages selling anything from exotic animals, illegal firearms and even human body parts!
Fortunately for you all, you won't be caught up in anything illegal this season. However, you might just want to take a stroll through the Black Market to see the variety of items that can be purchased to either help your game... or hinder someone else's.
How this twist works, is that directly following this immunity challenge, the Black Market will become LIVE and a thread will be created. Inside this thread, you'll find a 20x20 numbered board along with a picture of seven resources that you could potentially find within the board. At the end of every immunity challenge, you will be able to guess at least one space on the board to search (you will be able to guess twice if your tribe ends up winning immunity/reward). If nobody has searched that particular space yet, you will get the resource that is hidden behind it. This resource will then become a part of your personal inventory.
So why do you want resources you ask? Think of them like currency in the game, because also inside this Black Market thread, you will find the Underground Shop. Inside this shop are a list of items/advantages, their descriptions and costs, along with how many can be purchased throughout the season. Of course the better items are going to be harder to get, as it will require scarcer resources to buy them. Whenever you've saved up enough resources in your inventory to buy an item, message your production chat on skype (preferred) or mail us on Tengaged to set up your transaction. Once purchased, the resources used to buy the item will no longer be in your possession, and the shop will be updated in the thread immediately. Note that it will not be revealed who bought an item from the shop; you will only see that an item is either SOLD OUT or that it went down by 1 in stock.
You are also able to trade or even just flat out give somebody resources if you desire, but ONLY if they are on your tribe. If you do decide to trade resources though, it MUST be consensual. Basically, don't try and trade with someone if you both haven't agreed to do so. The best way to make a trade is to either make a group mail with production and the other person involved, or make a dedicated skype chat with production for the trade.
If you are voted out with resources in your inventory, it is your job to will those resources to one or multiple people still left in the game. If you are voted out with an advantage that cannot be willed however, that advantage then becomes null and void.
So are you ready to make a deal? We'll look forward to doing business with you at The Black Market.
