Hunted Elf

[Griselda Humbarger]

Inboth the civilian and celebrity series, the contestants, now regarded as Fugitives, voluntarily go on the run in mainland Great Britain and must avoid detection from the Hunters, a group of current and former police and intelligence officials for 25 days (28 in the first two series and 14 for the celebrity series). From series two, the contestants are escorted to a public area and given a head start before the Hunters begin their search and are given the names of their targets. Fugitives are given a debit card with a small amount of money provided by the production team, and a rucksack containing essential and personal items (though in series five, the fugitives began with only the clothes on their back and no head start). During their time on the run the Fugitives can use any existing connections, or ask members of the general public, to assist them in avoiding capture.

Whilst the Fugitives attempt to avoid using technology and thus detection, the Hunters use a vast array of different "powers of the state", such as closed circuit surveillance, phone records and number plate recognition to pinpoint their chosen target. If one (or more) Fugitives have become difficult to locate, the Hunters use social media to encourage members of the public to reveal any information, and post content specifically for a Fugitive to reveal their location without realising. Hunters may also be directly contacted by the public with any leads by telephone. Any member of the public with information leading to capture is compensated for their effort. Hunters additionally operate throughout the country through use of two-person ground teams that can deploy immediately under order of the Chief. The ground teams also perform reconnaissance at Fugitives' homes and attempt to goad family members or loved ones for information and/or may be observed to determine any irregularities in their daily routines.

In the final few days of the game, any Fugitives still on the run are given instructions for their 'extraction point' and a finite amount of time to get there. The Hunters are told of the last-known locations of the Fugitives and extend their efforts to figure out where the extraction is taking place. When a Fugitive successfully reaches the extraction point within the time-frame, they can no longer be caught by the Hunters and are deemed a Winner. Due to the nature of the show, there are two possible outcomes to the hunt: one or more Fugitives can reach the extraction point and win, or every Fugitive can be caught and the hunt prematurely ends (known as a "clean sweep").

Nine contestants were chosen and began in Manchester city centre. The River Dart in Devon served as the extraction point. From this series onwards, the number of days to avoid capture was reduced to 25.

Ten contestants were chosen and began at the Port of Liverpool. The roof of the Edgbaston Car Park, near the Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham served as the extraction point. This was the first time in any series that the Hunters won.

Ten contestants were chosen and began at A Bond Warehouse on Spike Island, Bristol. For this series, the Fugitives started with no supplies or prior knowledge of their starting point. Amlwch Port in Anglesey served as the extraction point.

Eleven contestants were chosen and began on the Isle of Wight. For this series, the fugitives started with only a change of clothes and a small amount of money. The island of Inchmurrin in Loch Lomond served as the extraction point.

A seventh series was broadcast in 2024, Twelve fugitives were chosen and began in central London. Stickle Tarn in the Lake District was the location of the extraction point. The series was filmed in June 2022.

A celebrity series was confirmed by Channel 4 in 2017 with their appearance fees donated to Stand up To Cancer. The rules for the celebrity edition remained the same as the Hunted series, but the celebrities are given fourteen days to evade capture.

Eight celebrities were chosen and began at Ham Polo Club in Richmond. In this series, the celebrities started with tracking devices attached to their ankles. Herstmonceux Castle served as the extraction point.[6]

Ten celebrities began at Shrewsbury Prison, with Nikesh Patel joining later due to testing positive for COVID-19. As in Season 4 of the Civilian Version, none of the competitors made it to safety, with Bobby Seagull being captured at the Extraction Point at Headcorn Aerodrome.

Each Fugitive is filmed by a dedicated cameraman, who follows them throughout their time on the run. While filming, the production team is split in two so that the team working with the Hunters are separate from the team working with the Fugitives, to provide a more realistic experience and prevent information leaking between them. Freedom of Information requests are submitted by the Hunters to find the location of state-owned CCTV cameras positioned throughout the British mainland. When real footage could not be obtained, producers' cameras capture footage that would have been available to the state, which is stored on a central database for the Hunters to access if requested.

The Telegraph review complimented the series, saying the "game show element was very effective, playing with our instinctive tendency to take the side of the pursued, and skilfully edited to keep the tension high".[10] The Daily Mirror's Adam Postan described the series as "the biggest TV joke of the year", pointing out that most of the surveillance powers were replicated by methods that were unexplained.[11]

In the Netherlands, the show is produced by Simpel Media and commissioned by AVROTROS under the same title Hunted, which premiered on 17 October 2016 on NPO 3.[18] In early 2021 Hunted VIPS premiered, in which Dutch celebrities are hunted. In early 2022 Hunted: Into The Wild premiered, in which participants are hunted in the wilds of another European country. In April 2024 Hunted: Into The Wild VIPS premiered, in which Dutch celebrities are hunted in the wilds.

In Italy, Celebrity Hunted is the first non-fiction Italian product of Amazon Prime Video, which commissioned it to Endemol Shine Group. Production started in 2019, and the first season was released in 2020. A second season was released in 2021.

An Australian version under the same title Hunted, was commissioned in 2021 for Network 10, began casting in July 2021 and premiered on 17 July 2022 after filming in early 2022, with former British chief hunter Ben Owens as Deputy Intelligence.[19][20][21]

The Hunted is a folk horror storytelling game for 3-5 players that blends together mechanics from Forged In The Dark, Powered By The Apocalypse, and Belonging Outside Belonging games to create a lean chimera of a game unlike anything you have ever played.

Players take on the role of a group of friends on an expedition who become cut off from civilisation as they are hunted by an unknown entity. As the game continues the players will tell their own stories about the thing hunting them, building up a unique legend that feeds directly back into the narrative. The more stories you tell the more your characters succeed and the longer they survive - but with each story the Hunter grows stronger and becomes more of a threat.

Unfortunately they've all been claimed, and I no longer provide community copies. I'm slowly adding free text only versions of all my releases and The Hunted will be coming up soon, so you'll be able to access it that way once it's ready.

I had an absolute blast with this game! My regular gaming group played it last night for the first time. This was my first time trying to GM a zero prep game, so I was a little intimidated by being so unprepared. But the game is built in such a way that we almost immediately settled in and were having a great time. At no point did I feel unprepared while actually playing.

Everything from character creation all the way through the finale was fantastic! We all agreed that we want to play again soon (though all of the players were so attached to their characters after just one session they hated to see them go).

What's more, I've had several other BoB and FitD games on my list to try. Our experience with this game (which draws on both of those systems) really sparked an interest in trying those by some of my players who were previously on the fence.

People, I'm not sure if this is new in Update 13 or if I'm just late to the party, but I just got hunted by an elite team of Grineer.

At first the screen flickered and I feared that I was dealing with Stalker, but then Lotus came in over the comms and was fighting static to send me a message: Abort mission, get to extraction, I'm being hunted.

Before I know it I'm running for my life from a mob of Grineer that send terrifying taunts and eventually they catch me, whereupon I lay on the ground as if bleeding out even though I was playing solo. They then attached some kind of device over me that projected a force field around my warframe before the mission was listed as "failed".

Upon exiting the mission I received a message in my inbox from the Lotus telling me that the device the grineer attached to me cripples my powers (my poor Loki...) and that I need to construct the blueprint attached to the message to remove the device.

Has anyone else experienced this yet?

That was the Grustrag 3. They are sent after you when you do 5 missions supporting the Corpus in invasions. The bolt the attach to your frame reduces the damage you deal against Grineer enemies, nothing else. It's only attached to the frame you were wearing at the time, so any other frames will be fine.

We call them the G3 which stands for Grustrag Three. They will hunt you down if you fight for the corpus in the invasion missions, but if you manage to kill all 3 of them, they might even drop some brakk parts.

While I'm unsure of the exact greeting customs of the factions, I'd imagine a salute would be more likely to be seen used by the militaristic Grineer. Corpus greetings likely have more to do with attempting to pick eachothers pockets whilst idly chatting about the latest in robotics.

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