A castaway's quick decision making must outlast the test of time when three castaways are sent on a journey. Then, castaways take a leap of faith in their second immunity challenge where they must trust their tribemates to beat out their competition.
I put her name down. Nobody is gonna be like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. And honestly mean it. I thought we were all gonna vote for Sai. However, I got got. I got got. But I didn't got - I didn't get as got got as Steph did.
I don't trust Mary. I don't think I'll ever trust Mary. I want her to think that I don't hold grudges, but I hold grudges. I am the one in control right now. My idol keeps me safe. My core four keeps me safe. And if we do go back to Tribal Council, Mary's head is on the chopping block.
Nobody's perfect. Even someone such as myself. See, you know what? We are born with our imperfections. There's no shame. We're busting out our body parts. We are just - we're family. We're family.
I got four nipples. Alright. They don't look like it because it got removed when I was, like, 12 years old. But, hey, you know what? Maybe that's why I like milk so much. I don't know. I'm not gonna say I wish I could milk myself or anything, but maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing.
A humble trait is just something that God gives you to knock you down, you know? So my right foot, she's okay. She's kinda cute. My left foot, jacked up.
Meeting someone on Survivor and knowing them for, like, three days is the equivalent to, like, three years of friendship. It really is. I mean, when you get deep and embarrassing very quickly, you just stick together so quickly. It's like glue.
The Lagi tribe is killing it right now. I think the thing that is making us a step above everyone else is we're not placing our individual goals over the team. We're all working together and all have this drive and this respect and loyalty to each other.
We were talking about the next challenges, and Eva basically said, well, you can sit out. Hey, Eva. That's not cool. Like, don't tell me what I can and can't do. Let me tell you what I can and can't do, and we go from there. This is a game where I need to think about self. So I'm gonna go looking for a firewood, and in the midst of that, I'm gonna look for some way to protect myself in this game. I've been hesitant to talk strategy because everyone's getting along so well. But have other people already had these conversations, and now they're solid? It makes me wonder, does anybody wanna work with me? My concern is I'm disposable. We're not gonna get rid of the muscle. That's Joe, Shauhin, and Eva. We're not gonna get rid of the brains. That's Thomas. That's Bianca. So now I'm like, where do I fall in here? How needed am I? So my goal right now is to make my place in the game more significant. Here we go, baby. Yeah. Like, what you talking about? Y’all ain't about to get rid of me yet. Not yet.
Inside this Beware Advantage, I found a puzzle lock, and I have this guide. And I have to figure out what the code is in order to get this open, to get the idol to stay safe in the game. Figure it out puzzles. Come on, Jeff. Let's do this. Let's figure this out. Over the last few days, I've seen signs on the trees of animals, a lizard, a bird, a dolphin, an octopus, a turtle, and I think a fish. And we wondered, what are these signs for? It has to mean something. This is what it means. This guide has the same animals as the signs on the trees. You have to match it up to the sign, and it will possibly show you a letter. But this process is not easy at all. I know, like, in general, we don't tell anybody that you have a Beware Advantage, but I know that I need help in order to complete whatever this is.
Right now, Star is on the outside of this tribe. And in classic Survivor fashion, look what I found. Awesome. Star trusts me enough to show me this, so that's great. But I immediately then thought I need to get somebody in the alliance, somebody else on the team over right here right now so they don't think I'm being deceitful.
Star's on the bottom. Star's lost her vote. Star wants my help to get her vote back and the advantage back. Well, that's kind of ideal because that gives me a ton of power. Star hands me the puzzle guide, and she is like, I'm gonna go distract people. I sprint around the island with the puzzle guide lining up the pictures of the animals, and those little cutouts make letters. Those letters, I'm assuming, will make a word that will open the puzzle log. But it's not easy to not just line it up, but, like, what part is it that makes a letter? It is not easy. I am positive I got some letters wrong. At this point, I'm like, I gotta slow down. I - I need more time to think about what I wanna do with this advantage. I can help her find the idol and not tell anybody. I can help her a little bit so that she thinks that I'm on her side, but not so much that she finds the idol, allowing for us to have the opportunity to vote her out or the opportunity to keep her. Or I can sabotage. Full blown sabotage. Just ruin her.
Right now, I'm gaining allies minute by minute. I already have Shauhin and Joe because I'm using this Beware Advantage to build trust. I'm using it to show, like, hey. I have a cookie. Do you want a cookie? Because I'll definitely give it to you. I've been wanting you to just open up to me.
Star found a Beware Advantage, and luckily, she spills everything! Everything just got flipped on its head. Now she has a lot of power, and now I have to make sure I stay on her good side.
When I hear that Star has a Beware Advantage, the first thing I think is, she doesn't have a vote at Tribal. It's easy breezy beautiful. Like, it's done and dusted. We'll play nice until we go to Tribal, but we're gonna, like, chop our head off instantly no problem.
I talked to Thomas, and he was like, just lose it, which is a level of gameplay that now scares me a little bit about Thomas. That is way too hard a gameplay. I'm not doing that. Not - not this early. Not when she also trusts me. It's not worth it. I would rather have her not sus of me and have her comfortable. That's the way better way to play this game. On top of that, obviously, you can't keep a secret on a tribe like this.
Everyone's reaction to Star telling everyone about having a Beware Advantage was pure panic. It was, what do we do? What do we do? What about this? What if this? Right now, Star wants Eva out. To me, it's the worst feeling on the planet because I also have an alliance with her. She says I'm her number one. The problem is everybody thinks I'm with them right now.
At some point, you're gonna have to make a decision. But Eva and what she told me, like, I'm not gonna let her go. I feel like I have a responsibility to her, so I'm gonna figure out a way to take her with me.
This is the worst scenario. She's the only person that I don't have a good connection with on this beach. Joe is my number one ally 100 percent. He is the person I trust most. So I am nervous, but I feel like Joe is going to make sure that I can stay in this game.
At this point, it feels like anything that could go wrong will go wrong. And it's - it's - this fly has been following me for three days. I'm not joking. I swear it's the same one. It's a mess. We don't know who to listen to, who's in charge, who's - who's running the show yet.
Mary is a easy vote out, but Sai has been playing this game since Day 1. She's been strategizing. She's been having conversations. She's very influential, and Sai's idol is not my idol, and that scares me. It's kinda crazy that we're thinking about losing already, but, also, our tribe is not the strongest. I'm anticipating losing a lot of members, so that's why I'm already thinking about all this. But, also, I'm a numbers guy. So if Sai doesn't play her idol, she goes home. If she does play her idol, then Mary goes home, but Sai's idol's gone, and it's an easy guys alliance. So to me, the math is mathing.
At Lagi, we have everything that you need to make camp life a little more tolerable. We have Wi-Fi, Probsty5G. Right? Password, Dig48. And not to mention, there's an outlet to plug in our electronics. We’re ready – for anything.
It's worst case scenario for Mary to be on this journey, but are my boys thinking about any of that? No. If everybody had rallied behind me when I freaking won and just been, like, Sai, yes. You go. They didn't do that. I know she knows she's on the bottom, and I know she knows what she's doing. I know she's thinking that if I don't get on this boat, I'll have nothing to protect me at the next Tribal Council. She's excited. She's excited because she is going to have something that we will not know about.
There's three different rows of numbered tiles, but they're all jumbled up. They're nowhere close in order, and you have to align them in order one through fifteen.
I got the top line one through five done like that. Now I'm stuck. But then I realized that if I get the second line right, the third line is kind of stuck where it is because the puzzles would just cycle in order. The sand timer's ticking down. My heart is beating. Some of the people that I work with are very big artists and songwriters, but this is the most pressure I've potentially felt in my life.
Oh my god. The game seems easy breezy. But it's so much pressure, all strategy just evaporated out the window. Panic set in, and my brain just went black.
I think having an advantage in Survivor is incredible, but my plan is to not tell a soul. The second someone else knows about your advantage, not only does it cause a target on your back, but you can't use it as well. Star is a perfect example of telling too many people about what you got. That's why it has to be kept secret. It has to be kept secret.
Our whole tribe exploded because Mitch went and did exactly what we thought he was gonna do. We thought he was gonna win, and we thought he was gonna be honest, and he did both of those. To see that happen for Mitch, I'm just, like, genuinely happy for my buddy.
I like Mitch, but I don't trust the guy because he's close with Charity. Nobody trusts Charity. So, yeah, I'm worried. I think everybody else on my alliance is worried because we don't want anybody outside of our four to have an advantage.
With a Block-a-Vote, Mitch and Charity have a whole lot of firepower in this game right now. That is a very scary thought. So we need to find this Beware Advantage because I know there's one out there. It has to be.
These symbols and these letters have been driving me crazy. And I think this Beware Advantage has to tie in to clues that we've already found. There's no other reason they could be there.
It is hard to find an advantage on Survivor, but the thrill of it is what I like so much. Like, I need the excitement, man. I need the blood. I need the action. I need to show the world how good I am.
With the puzzle lock is this clue. And surrounding this clue is all of the animals that we've found throughout camp. But here's the problem. There's still more work to do, and I'm not good at puzzles. Whereas my number one undercover ally, Kamilla, has a great strategic mind. So immediately I say, hey, Kamilla, you know, can you - can you figure this out for me?
Trust is so hard to find out here, and that was, like, an insane display of trust. Kyle trusting me to, like, solve it for him feels like a million dollars itself. This puzzle lock has six different rings that have all the letters of the alphabet. Wherever we found animals, we already found an I, an S, an L, an E, a T, and an N. So now my brain is just focused on unscrambling these six letters. What are all the different words I can make? I start scratching all of the potential combinations in my thigh. I play video games every single night. This is nothing to me. This is home, basically. Because I see the letters. We have an I and an S, so we can spell islet. But also, there's an extra N that we need to use. So if we try and shove that in, I get 'inlets', but 'inlets' doesn't work. My next option is 'silent'. And somehow my brain is like, you know what's similar to 'silent'? 'Listen'. That doesn't work either. So I start trying to end in E-S-T, -est, sub in the next vowel, which is I. And so I start ending in -ist, and I try and find a bunch of words that end in est. And eventually, I find it, E-N-L-I-S-T. Enlist.
When I hear that click, ah, the feeling of relief. Kamilla was able to finally open up this puzzle lock and get the job done and help me get my vote back. She's somebody that I wanna play this game with and I'm really excited about it. Finding a Hidden Immunity Idol on Survivor feels incredible. I never thought I would find one. It means security. It means I have power in this game, and I'm ready to use it.
It was hard to watch Cedrek not be able to pull through, but I believe in him. So voting out Cedrek, absolutely not an option. I wholeheartedly believe it's an easy vote tonight. It's all on Mary. She's a sitting duck. She doesn't have a vote. This is the time that counts.
I am absolutely putting blame on myself for losing the challenge. You know, my everyday life, I don't walk around with failures on television. However, Survivor makes you in a position where you may show those weaknesses. It may make you more vulnerable. But I think it's very clear that people know that regardless of how successful you are, we all have challenges. We all have weaknesses. And I certainly don't believe that I am perfect, and I hope nobody ever thought that I was. But after the past few days, there's no question this ain't perfect.
This Tribal will be where Kevin comes to play. This is the best time right now to take out Sai with her idol because Sai is probably the most dangerous player in this game besides me.
Right now, Justin and Cedrek are lockstep on the three guys alliance. With Sai gone, that just leaves me in the power position of the Vula tribe. And Mary is going to thank me and going to be on my side because I single handedly saved her.
I mean, my heart is just sinking because I know that Sai has it out for me. But also, because I don't have my vote and because I can't play my Shot in the Dark, I have no power tonight. And basically, my fate is in Kevin's hands. So unless something crazy happens, I'm going home tonight.
So this plan to vote out Sai has me troubled for several reasons. I am still loyal to her. You know, she reminds me of, like, one of my kids. She calls me dad or whatever it is because she tells me I’m dad all the time. I would just have a hard time breaking that loyalty. And I know that Kevin is working really hard to keep Mary in the game, but I don't trust her as much as Sai. So I need to figure out some way that keeps Sai in the game, gets Mary out of the game, and the guys are still strong.
I love that other people want me out of this game because I'm playing this game hard. But I also know I have an idol, so I have safety to see another day.
Cedrek explicitly told me to vote for Mary because he doesn't wanna blow up his spot with the boys. However, I wish I could vote for Kevin to shake him in his boots because I want him to know that I'm on to him.
On one hand, Kevin did prove his loyalty to us. He voted with us to take out Steph. But on the other hand, I do see Kev as a - as a player, and he's thinking not about Day 5 or Day 6. He's thinking about Day 26. Is that someone we wanna keep around long term?
I know what I'm doing with my idol at Tribal Council, so I know I'm coming back to the beach. It's just a matter of who's gonna come back to the beach with me. I hold grudges, and that's what makes me wanna vote Mary out. But voting out Kevin would be explosive. So tonight, you will see a lot of shock and a little bit of fear as well. I don't know if it's gonna be fun for them, but it's definitely gonna be fun for me.
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Challenges[]
Reward/Immunity Challenge:Looks That Keel One person from each tribe will race to the top of a tower to then leap into the ocean. They will swim to a platform and then pull themselves underwater by rope. This will release two buoys. Once that is accomplished, the rest of the participating tribe members jump off the platform in pairs. Working together with poles, they must transport the buoy over a balance beam. The entire tribe must be at the finish platform to initiate the last stage: shooting the buoys into a basket while tribe members retrieve misses in the water. Reward: Fishing kit Additional Stipulation: The losing tribe must forfeit their flint, though they can win it back if they win the next Immunity Challenge. Winners (in order of finish):Civa and Lagi
I think you can call that a blindside. I thought I was in control the entire game, but they outed me. I'm proud of the game I played. I played as hard as I could even though, you know, I hurt my shoulder on Day 1 in the first hour, I kept persevering, I kept trying. Obviously not the outcome that I wanted, but at least I tried my best. It was fun, but I just want some peace and quiet now.
