My Mom Is
Going to Kill Me!
September
27
Is a mutiny on the horizon?
Our yellow tribe, Zhan Hu, is now of the mindset that Dave may not be
the best leader after all. And to think that the leaders were the one
decision they finally made…other than voting out Chicken. They
definitely have to pull themselves together and fast.
Speaking of pulling together, Todd and Amanda are aligning at Fei Long.
They have decided that they will both play the game strategically from
the background but that they need someone to be their goon. Enter Aaron.
Aaron joins in the alliance aloof to his actual status and the first
Survivor alliance of 3 is born.
Back at Zhan Hu, Ashley who narrowly escaped an early exit is whining
about not eating. She accurately points out that they received flint at
tribal council but never attempted to make fire a full day later. Yeah,
that might be a little too lazy for Survivor.
Ashley’s problem however is that she vocalizes this and as a result won
the ire of the tribe. Maybe she can earn back some points at the reward
challenge.
Jeff will release 2 large wooden balls into a mud pit and 3 players from
each team will have to try to push either one of the balls through the
goal on the opponent’s side of the field. First team to 2 points will
win.
It’s a knock down drag out mud fight and heads are being turned and
clothes are being torn off. But all in all it is one sided as the balls
keep moving against Zhan Hu. Fei Long wins their second challenge in a
landslide.
As a result they receive fishing gear and also get the right to kidnap
one member of the opposing team. They choose Jaime and Jaime is given a
private wooden tube by Jeff Probst to read at Fei Long’s camp.
Jaime fins a private spot to read the tube and realizes that she has to
choose one member of Fei Long to whom she will give a clue to the
immunity idol.
After some deliberation and witnessing some fights between Jean-Robert
and Aaron, Jaime decides that she wants to give the idol to the member
of their tribe that she perceives as being the weakest. She catches
Leslie in private and gives her the clue. Leslie is overjoyed and
convinced that this is a gift from the lord.
Meanwhile, at Zhan Hu, Ashley is continuing to ruffle feathers as she is
hesitant to do work. She eventually gets up and pitches in, but her
oversensitive attitude is ticking people off. Realistically, she is
likely in big trouble unless Zhan Hu can pull together and win the
immunity challenge.
However, at Fei Long where everyone gets along, (except for Jean-Robert
and Aaron, much to the delight of Amanda and Todd, but much to the
disdain of Courtney), Immunity is already within grasp. Leslie who was
given the clue reads it and learns that the immunity idol is within
plain sight and because this will make the idol so easy to find… Leslie
decides to share the information with Todd! Todd is shocked that Leslie
gave him this information and thinks that she is an idiot. In fact, Todd
is hopeful that Leslie might get voted out leaving him as the only one
who knows the information about the immunity idol.
Todd will only get that chance for Leslie to leave however, if Fei Long
loses the immunity challenge.
Jaime returns to Zhan Hu and the game is on. For this immunity challenge
each team will pick six members to man a battering ram. They will then
have to batter through two wooden walls before inserting their ram into
a pole maze through which it can fit only way. Once the battering ram is
through they will ring a gong. First team to complete this will win
immunity.
Both teams run off to a strong start, but Fei Long gets through the
first wall first with Grave digger James leading the way. Zhan Hu
catches up, but at the second wall, Dave falters and Frosti has to take
over to help carry the weight of the team.
At this point, Fei Long is already through the second wall and working
on the maze. Jeff Probst motivates Zhan Hu to get moving and they
finally make it to the pole maze. With a little luck and Fei Long
hitting a dead end, Zhan Hu takes the lead.
Then because turnabout is fair play, Zhan Hu hits a dead end and Fei
Long reclaims the lead. This time Fei Long does not relent and with the
ring of a gong, Fei Long wins their third challenge in a row.
Zhan Hu will be heading to Tribal Council twice in a row and everyone
seems to be debating between Ashley and Dave, the taskmaster with whom
Ashley ahs the most conflict. Everyone seems to want some peace at camp
so we can be sure one of them is going, but which one?
At tribal, Jeff Probst runs everyone through some tribal therapy, but
Zhan Hu is having none of it. They don’t understand why they are losing
and seem more than ready to cut some dead weight. The votes are counted.
…And by a vote of 6-1, Ashley the tribe has spoken. Ashley in convinced
that in her exit, Dave hurt himself and that she will be seeing him out
of the game sooner rather than later. She calls him a tool and departs
until the reunion.
Zhan Hu is now two down and is really going to have to pull some magic
out to get back in the game. We’ll see if they can do it, …next week.
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