players: Andrew, Brenna, Clint, John, Ben

“Hey, let’s move our Survivor-esque reality television show into the ancient Aztec-esque ruins, deep in the uncharted jungle! What could go wrong?!?”

Good question! Possible answers include:

- flying feathered fanged snake gods
- dark pits
- raging rapids
- death-trapped ziggurat labyrinths
- intimidating rope bridges
- falling rocks
- poison darts
- massive murderous jungle cats
- creepy lemurs

And coming in at number one on our list, multiple counts of ritual human sacrifice! The sun demands a mountain of hearts or it will not rise again!!!


We played _late_. Didn’t wrap up until 11:30 or so. We hadn't played Geiger Counter in quite a while, so I probably overdid it with all the chits and counters. Also we usually make 12 characters, but since we had five people I bumped that up to 15 which was probably a mistake. Twelve would have given us an uneven number per player (which I don’t think is really a problem) and would have given us fewer people to keep track of.

For our map, we only settled on it being an island a little after the fact, but if we had decided that earlier we could have started by drawing the whole coast outline. That makes it easier to think geographically, because everyone’s working in a framework instead of a blank page.

Tish, the steely-eyed host of the show, remains the unexpected conqueror of the story. She was clearly a survivor and kept her eye on the prize. Awkwardly, had we pushed that last scene a little farther and gotten her to give Clay the promotion he craved, the Menace would have had one less die and we might have avoided wiping out our heroes as they tried to save poor heartbroken Sarah from becoming a human sacrifice so she could rejoin her dead (jerk) husband.

And yes, I'm hooked on the idea of Tod losing it and running around in the jungle performing Aztec rituals after everyone else has left.

We also had the pretty unusual result of everyone dying at the same time. We didn't lose any survivors earlier, which meant no one passed survivor dice, which also messed up our odds.