The fifth survivor challenge was the "Make Paper Test." The participants of the test were the four remaining contestants - the printer, the designer, the IRO and the chairman's wife. The object of this contest was to create paper from materials on the eyeland. The winner was the person who created the first piece of paper - which was defined as something that could have three sentences written on it. The last person who created a piece of paper would fail the challenge and be kicked off the eyeland.

Iona Lott decided to use the eyeland clay as the basis to make her "paper." Ima Pleezer chose palm bark for hers. The designer, Art Deqeaux, decided to find out what the natives used to contain the contents of their "medicinal smoke" and used that as his choice for "paper." Jack D. Pryce chose to use the eyeland's sand to make his "paper."

The test produced no clear winner initially, as it took each person some time to make "paper." Ima pulled ahead by getting the natives involved and having them teach her how to boil palm bark, mesh it together and dry it in the sun. The result was a material that could be written on, and Ima won see see eyeland immunity points for producing the first "paper." Close behind Ima was Iona Lott who, after rolling out eyeland clay, adding an engraved flower pattern and baking it for hours, produced paper that could be written on. Art Deqeaux, after a "self awareness" discovery deep in the eyeland's interior vegetation, returned to the base camp with semi-dried, flat leafs that could barely be used as "paper." The printer representative, Jack D. Pryce, tried repeatedly to make paper out of sand - baking it, adding water to it, grinding it - and each attempt resulted in failure, and Jack D. Pryce was asked to leave the eyeland.

Read on to find out what each of our four remaining eyelanders had to say about this week's inhumane challenge...

"I don't know what happened. I figured this was an easy win for me because I deal with paper every day in my profession. I thought I had a definite advantage because most people don't know that real paper comes from sand. But this eyeland sand must be really bad quality or something.

"What a great time! I'm really going to miss my time on the eyeland. There were some very attractive women here, although I must admit it's been a while since I had to work so hard. The last time I had so much to do was last year at the Masters. I remember I was on the phone about half the day getting my project manager to handle some call backs."

Art Deqeaux

"Well, I was concerned about getting out of the eyeland interior. When I found the natives, they were in a cloud of 'medicinal smoke.' After I left them with my 'paper' I felt strange and disoriented - almost Andy Warhol-like. Fortunately, I ended up back here; I am not sure how that happened. I was surprised to hear that the printer, of all people, failed the Make Paper Test. That makes me question the numerous excuses and explanations I heard from him when we were on press together."

Ima Pleezer

"The negotiations I'd opened early on with natives certainly paid off. I was able to use rudimentary hand gestures to communicate with them. When I told them I needed to create a surface to write on, they were able to take me to a fibrous tree and show me how to extract 'paper' out of it. I am always sad to see anyone who loses in these competitions, but someone has to lose for someone to win. Besides, the more I spoke with Jack it seemed the less he actually knew about anything that he claimed to be very knowledgeable about."

Iona Lott

"I knew the properties of the eyeland clay would form a solid but porous material that could be written on. But I don't think that anyone would have thought I could have made something that would be regarded as art as well. I guess my true talents just came out. It's a shame about Jack, but the man just did not get it."


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