42.03-It saddens me deeply

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Last time on the Smole, the contestants had to scale a rock-climbing wall and translate foreign words. 80/140 points were earned in the first mission. Dwight won the exemption for being the fastest rock-climber. Later, the contestants went fishing to determine their fates, and it was Jessica who was left without a fish to bring back to the Smole house. With Jessica gone, the house will be duller until the Moles get up to more mischief again. Who are the Moles?

Roger: "Why? Why Jessica of all contestants? I really felt a bond with her. I share the same name as her husband. I thought we were really clicking. It saddens me deeply to know that she is the first executed. I would be willing to go in her place. The only thing I can do now is to play harder and win this for her."

Penny: "Jessica is gone. That means that I have to share the room with one less contestant now. I never understood why contestants like her and Harriet chose to wear expensive, branded clothes and jewellery. We're going to a tropical island. Did they not get the memo?"

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Contestants have been knocked unconscious and brought to the military base, which used to be a concentration camp during war time. Here, they will try to torture each other.

They have been separated into three buildings. They are given a list of tortures that they can inflict to any other building:

1. Eat spicy food - 2 points
2. Eat bugs - 3 points
3. Drink urine - 5 points
4. Watch a scene from a horror movie - 10 points
5. Get tickled by a feather for five minutes - 12 points
6. Touch a boiling water flask - 15 points
7. Mystery box - 18 points
8. Play with a snake for one minute - 20 points
9. Listen to high-pitched screeching for three minutes - 25 points
10. Sit in electric chair - 30 points
11. Stay in room with laughing gas (nitrous oxide) for five minutes - 35 points
12. Be involved in a dangerous magic trick - 40 points
13. Swim in feces for one minute - 45 points
14. Stand in burning flames for five minutes - 50 points
15. Bathe in diluted hydrochloric acid - 55 points

 Each of them has randomly been assigned a number. In private, they will list the order in which they want to implement the torture as well as the building they want to inflict the torture on. The first torture that has not yet been used will be implemented. If the contestants in the chosen building can survive the torture, they earn the amount specified. 

The other contestants can observe the reaction of those receiving the torture. What is worth noting is that the Mole will not receive the torture but must act as though they did. A total of 360 points can be earned, if all tortures but the first two are completed.

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Alvin: "Ugh...what the fuck..."

Dwight: "A torture mission? Sounds interesting."

Rome: "Why the hell did they do that?"

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"The first torture: To stand in burning flames for 5 minutes."

"Building 2 will undergo this torture."

Charlene: "That's us!"

Roger: "That's right."

Irene: "What the hell? Why did they pick us?"

Duane: "I'll go first. It's just a bunch of flames."

Contestants in Building Two have to stand in burning flames for five minutes. If all five succeed, they earn 50 points. The contestants are sprayed with a thin layer of water to prevent death or long-term damage. However, for the Moles, the flames will only be an special effect.

This torture was proudly brought to you by Jamaica, who was to go first.

Jamaica: "Bathing in acid sounds dangerous and it's worth the most. I think it's the hardest to complete. It's pretty hot here so fire should be nothing to them, especially since it's night."

Duane: "Oh, that's it?"

Duane: "I expected more."

"You have to go into the fire."

Duane: "Oh."

Duane: "Fine. Whatever."

Duane: "I just need to endure for a few minutes."

Duane: "ARGH!"

Duane: "Bear with it."

Duane: "Almost there..."

"Time is up."

Duane: "Finally."

Alvin: "Here goes noth--OW!"

Alvin: "!@$#$!$@!$#"

Alvin: "HOT HOT HOT!"

Alvin: "I can't take it!"

Alvin: "Too hot!"

Alvin: "Sorry. I just couldn't do it."

Charlene: "Just close your eyes and not think about it..."

Charlene: "It's not working!"

Charlene: "That was horrific and permanently scarring."

Irene: "I don't know why I think I can do this."

Irene: "I just can't."

Irene: "Aaah!"

Roger: "Here I go."

Roger: "Will I fail?"

Roger: "Yes I will!"

Roger: "This is inhumane!"

Alvin: "Hurry up! I need to shower and wear some clothes."

Dwight: "That was disappointing. I could have done it."

Dexter: "That's why the only one to have succeeded was your brother."

Jamaica: "But we don't get money from this."

Rome: "I think it was too challenging, although I wonder why Dwight succeeded..."

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The next torture to be inflicted is the ninth one. Contestants must listen to a high-pitched screech for 3 minutes straight to succeed. However, for the Moles, they will not hear anything.

Rome: "This one sounds annoying enough. I think it's hard for the Moles to fake it and it's worth a fair amount so I'll go with the screech torture. And I pick Building Two to take it. They have the most contestants so I can see more reactions."

Duane: "Us again?"

Roger: "It appears so."

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Contestants are not able to hear beyond our super high-tech soundproof wall.

Charlene: "Just bear with it."

Duane: "No kick."

Charlene: "I did it! Did you succeed?"

Duane: "I guess we'll find out."

Irene: "Eek!"

Roger: "Just treat it as white noise..."

Irene: "It's so annoying."

Roger: "I should come up with the next campaign proposal while I'm here to distract myself."

Irene: "I can't take this any more!"

Irene: "My ear drums are going to perforate!"

Irene: "I forfeit."

Roger: "Done."

Alvin: "..."

Alvin: "Doo doo doo..."

Alvin: "Is it over? Oh I guess it is."

Penny: "We're so lucky we didn't get chosen."

Austin: "Alvin had absolutely no reaction. Roger actually seemed happy."

Harriet: "I'm sure there is some acting going along. But Irene failed twice."

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The next torture is by Dwight. Contestants must finish a cup of fresh urine to succeed. The Moles will be drinking lemon tea instead of urine.

Dwight: "It takes a lot of discipline or desperation to drink urine, especially if it's not your own. The Mole can easily refuse this especially since it's only worth 5 points. There are more contestants in Building Two so I pick that one."

Duane: "Why is it always us?"

Duane: "I want to know who chose this torture. It's the third least worthy and this is only the third one."

Duane: "Yuck. There. I drank it."

Roger: "What did I do to offend everyone?"

Roger: "Is it because I'm a politician?"

Roger: "I just need to hold my breath and pretend it's water."

Austin: "I can't believe it's come down to this again."

Austin: "Sigh."

Austin: "I remember when I had to drink my own pee to survive."

Austin: "I've done far worse things. Drinking pee is nothing to me."

Irene: "Hmm...which is less filled?"

Irene: "I need to do this. It's a simple task. It's quickly over."

Irene: "Gross. It smells like urine."

Irene: "Just chug it down in one shot."

Irene: "Blegh!"

Irene: "I need a lot of mints."

Charlene: "Lemon tea, lemon tea, lemon tea..."

Charlene: "I still have a bit left. Just drink it and I'm done."

Dwight: "Hmm, everyone succeeded. Not exactly the result I was expecting, but perhaps I was looking in the wrong place."

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Duane: "I'm actually very ticklish, so I would dread the tickling torture. So of course I'm going to pick it so that nobody else does."

Contestants in Building Three must remove their socks and shoes and subject themselves to tickling by a feather for 5 minutes. All three must succeed to earn the points. The Moles will not be tickled.

Harriet: "Hee hee!"

Harriet: "Please stop!"

Harriet: "It tickles!"

Penny: "It's so weird for a crew member to be crouching down low trying to tickle my foot."

Austin: "Hee hee..."

Austin: "Oh, stop it you."

Austin: "I don't think I should react so much."

Harriet: "I'm too ticklish. I don't see myself completing this torture. I'm leaving."

Austin: "I have to stop before I give myself away. Sorry."

Penny: "Oh, you stopped. That means time is up. Finally. Having calloused feet have its uses."

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Contestants must swim in poo for one minute for the next torture. If any of the Moles are selected, they would swim in chocolate instead.

Irene: "Swimming in poo is definitely something I'm never going to do and it's worth a lot so I'll pick that. Building Three has the least so the chances of success are the highest."

Penny: "Here goes nothing."

Penny: "I've been in worse. I'll just pretend it's mud."

Penny: "And that's one minute."

Charlene: "I can't believe only Penny even stepped close to the pool."

Roger: "Yes. My sentiments exactly."

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Dexter: "So I'm sixth? Hmm, then I'll go with the electric chair. Knee-jerk reactions like receiving a shock are something you can't fake, especially if they all receive the shock at the same time. It will be very hard to time, so I'll go with that."

Contestants will have to sit in an electric chair and endure a shock of unknown voltage. If they all successfully endure it, the points will be earned. The Moles' chairs will not receive an electric shock but they will be informed of when the shock will be administered.

Duane: "Any moment now."

Charlene: "I think the wait is more torturous."

Alvin: "Oof!"

Charlene: "Aah!"

Roger: "I felt something!"

Irene: "Ow!"

Duane: "That didn't even hurt that much."

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The next torture is to bathe in diluted hydrochloric acid. The Moles will bathe in pH-neutral water.

Chelsea: "It's worth the most, so why not?"

Penny: "Here goes nothing."

Penny: "I hope I don't regret this."

Penny: "I usually take quick showers so I think I'm done here."

Harriet: "I do not want perverted cameramen filming me bathe. I came to join a traitor-deducing show, not a porn flick."

Harriet: "Oh, it's so corrosive. My skin is melting."

Harriet: "I'm burning up. Or am I just flushing with embarrassment?"

Austin: "Let me test the water...seems fine."

Austin: "In I go."

Austin: "It's not as bad as I thought."

Austin: "My skin is itching."

Austin: "I just have to endure one bath. I can go shower again in the bunk later."

Austin: "This is actually kind of nice. I bathe at night, watching the stars..."

Jamaica: "Aw yeah..."

Chelsea: "Eek! Not what I wanted to see."

Chelsea: "I re--I mean, the one who chose this must regret his or her decision."

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The next torture is to stay in a room filled with laughing gas for 5 minutes. The Moles will stay in a room filled with normal air instead.

Penny: "I want the fifth one. If not, then the fourteenth, if not then the thirteenth. If all are taken, then I'll take the eleventh one. It's hard to control laughing and it's worth a decent amount. And I pick Building One to undergo this."

Dwight: "It's finally our turn. I'm kind of excited."

Chelsea: "You're weird."

Chelsea: "Just relax."

Chelsea: "Tee hee."

Chelsea: "No, I mustn't laugh."

Chelsea: "I can't help but smile."

Dexter: "It's only 5 minutes."

Dexter: "Must control..."

Dexter: "Stop it..."

Dexter: "Help...I can't stop.."

Dexter: "...laughing!"

Dwight: "..."

Harriet: "He is as still as a rock."

Austin: "He's the Mole!"

Jamaica: "This isn't a torture. This is heaven."

Jamaica: "It's very misty...haha..."

Jamaica: "Hahahahaha!"

Rome: "I can't let them see through me."

Rome: "No laughing."

Rome: "I have to slap myself in order to stop laughing."

Rome: "I must endure..."

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Austin: "Being involved in a dangerous magic trick sounds so vague but it is worth a lot. It makes it sound as though it's potentially fatal. I'm not willing to risk my life for that. I'll let Building Two handle it. Sorry!"

Contestants in Building Two must take part in a dangerous magic trick performed by an amateur magician. The Moles will be involved in a much safer magic trick involving a vanishing act.

Simon: "Come on up."

Simon: "Enter...the Box of Mystery."

Duane: "You know trying to oversell something and conning others is my forte, right?"

Simon: "And now, I shall insert a sword in."

Duane: "OW MOTHERFU--"

Simon: "Oops!"

Simon: "That didn't go well."

Simon: "You may come out now."

Duane: "Motherfucker."

Duane: "You poked me!"

Duane: "Lucky the sword was blunt. But it still hurt."

Simon: "Enter...the Box of Mystery!"

Charlene: "Isn't it just a box?"

Simon: "And now for my magic trick."

Charlene: "OW!"

Simon: "Not again."

Simon: "You may come out now."

Charlene: "That was hardly magical."

Charlene: "That hurt..."

Austin: "That looked like it hurt. Aren't you glad that we don't have to do this?"

Harriet: "His magic is a sham. It is as unpolished and as unsharpened as the blade he used."

Penny: "Pshaw. I don't believe in any of your words. And neither should the other three who chickened out of this."

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Roger: "I don't like horror movies. I want to get rid of that as soon as possible. I'll go with that."

Contestants will have to watch a scene from a horror movie. If they all succeed, they can earn points. Should the Moles be involved, they would be watching a scene from a comedy instead.

"Contestants from Building One are to participate."

Dwight: "All right! I love scary movies. This won't faze me."

Please excuse the random change of TVs.

Chelsea: "I can't bear to watch...but I have to if I want the points."

Rome: "It's not so bad..."

Rome: "Aah!"

Jamaica: "That's creepy man."

Dwight: "Meh."

Dexter: "Oh my god!"

Chelsea: "Eek! It's still there! Go away, go away!"

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This next torture involves contestant touching a boiling water flask for two seconds. For the Moles, the flask is at room temperature.

Charlene: "I want the first building to have to go through the burning flames because that sounds horrible. But I'm one of the last few to choose so I think someone will take it first. If not, I think they can do the hot water flask one. That seems easy enough to score points."

Dexter: "Just hold it for two seconds. I can't let go. Easy peasy."

Dexter: "Ow!"

Dexter: "Oof. I think that was 2 seconds."

Rome: "This is an easy one."

Rome: "Must resist showing any reaction..."

Dwight: "One..."

Dwight: "Two..."

Dwight: "That was mildly uncomfortable."

Dwight: "But it could hardly be considered torture."

Jamaica: "Here I go!"

Jamaica: "OW!"

Jamaica: "It's scalding hot!"

Jamaica: "My poor hand. I think I held it there for long enough."

Chelsea: "That's enough!"

Chelsea: "That was really hot."

Chelsea: "And this is why you don't touch hot things like kettles."

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Contestants must stick their hand into the mystery box which contains slugs, which they are unaware of, for 30 seconds continuously. The Moles' boxes will contain bouncy balls instead.

Harriet: "The magic trick intrigues me, as does the mystery box. I shall vote for the magic trick first, followed by the mystery box."

Contestants from Building One take part once again.

Dwight: "There's nothing to be afraid of."

Dwight: "It's surprisingly squishy."

Dexter: "Slowly, slowly...."

Dexter: "It feels uncomfortable."

Chelsea: "Ick. Why is it so slimy?"

Jamaica: "Yuck. It moves around."

Jamaica: "What am I touching again?"

Jamaica: "My hairs are standing."

Chelsea: "Ew."

Dwight: "Just a while longer."

Rome: "That was disgusting!"

Rome: "It smells horrible."

Rome: "Sorry, I just can't do it. The unknown is fearsome in that I can't prepare myself for it."

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Alvin: "I'm the last one. Damn it. I think I'll pick the urine one because that's easy to complete. If that's taken, then I'll go for the feather torture which is also easy. If that is also taken, I guess I'll go with eating bugs."

Contestants from Building Three must take part in the last torture, which is to eat a plate of bugs. The Moles will eat gummy worms instead.

Austin: "They're crawling on the floor."

Harriet: "I foresee that this torture will be a resounding success."

Penny: "Bugs are nutritious."

Penny: "Nom nom nom."

Harriet: "It's quite chewy."

Austin: "I think I feel it crawling up my throat."

Penny: "Aah..."

Harriet: "My mouth is empty."

Austin: "All clear. See?"

Austin: "I don't feel so good."

Austin: "Bleugh!"

With that disgusting finish, 7 tortures have been completed. 163/360 points have been earned and the pot has 243/500 points. Who were faking it the whole time?

A summary of which torture each contestant chose:

1. Jamaica - Torture #14
2. Rome - Torture #9
3. Dwight - Torture #3
4. Duane - Torture #5
5. Irene - Torture #13
6. Dexter - Torture #10
7. Chelsea - Torture #15
8. Penny - Torture #5/14/13/11
9. Austin - Torture #12
10. Roger - Torture #4
11. Charlene - Torture #14/6
12. Harriet - Torture #12/7
13. Alvin - Torture #3/5/2