This Ain't Mario Party No More

A new game begins...

**This Ain't Mario Party No More** is the first episode of MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom.

## Story

### Luigi Tribe Marooning

Alex has noted that he feels unique on this tribe. He doesn't have a concrete plan on how to play at the moment.

Corn Corn kept us waiting for his confessional, but on Day 2 he finally introduced himself! Here comes the "Corn God" with his grand entrance. He introduced his strategy to "chill" pre-merge and then come out in merge to grab his victory. He feels really good about the Luigi tribe and believes they will demolish the Mario tribe.

Jax has been noted by a few other players like Sanin and Sully, for being social and someone they want to work with. He just hasn't updated confessionals much. Jax mentioned his strategy would be to be social and adaptive, get into the majority and just be likable in general. He really vibes with Kelly and Xander but noted Kelly as a social threat. He also disliked one word answers. He also noted Lijah and Jiv to be "unresponsive" to his messages. He is super pumped and apparently loves his tribe.

Jiv has introduced his strategy, for now he thinks it's best to build relationships and keep himself safe. Believing his social game could be a weakness he will be working on it a little more. He has noted that he needs more time to sus out where him and his tribemates stand, but said he likes everyone as of now.

Kelly has been really active and social in her tribe channel, bonding with people quickly. She is prioritizing to be friendly where she believes she is having a fun time talking to everyone in her tribe as of now. Kelly has chatted most extensively with Sanin and Sully at the moment. Her and Tre were sending Simpson GIFs to each other, she also noted that Corn Corn and Xander are sweet. She really clicked with Sully and finds him very relatable. She feels that Sanin is lovely and really wants to get to know Lijah as she got good vibes from him previously. What a social queen!

Lijah is enjoying Easter Saturday atm so he hasn't been the most active. He could be in deep trouble as most players in his tribe have noted him as "inactive" or "unresponsive to dms", putting him last in most of their trust rankings.

Sanin has introduced himself as a hero with villain traits. He wants to stay under the radar so people don't know his next move. So far he has vibed well with Kelly, Alex and Jax, whereas he hasn't talked to Lijah yet. He is wary of a potential Lijah and Tre duo due to both of them being from Australia. Sanin has made great bonds with Sully from the get go, sharing about pets and desserts. #teamcheescake anyone? He feels welcomed and not so isolated as a European. He just got to know Xander and feels that Xander is wonderful and genuine plus they both know each other's country well. He said he generally get good vibes from Sully , Jax and Kelly, noting Lijah as "not active" and convos being like "tumbleweed". He doesn't want to talk about tribal and believes they will not be there after the challenge but little does he know...

Sully introduced himself as being good at reading the room and sussing out people's in-game motives. He wants to take a more social than strategic approach this time around as compared to his previous org experiences. He wants to be seen weaker than he is, so that people will overlook him. He wants to play the game as each round goes on. He is having good vibes from Jax, but his two closest tribemates for now will be Kelly and Sanin. He noticed a possible Jiv and Xander duo in marooning, stating that they might have known each other from before. Sully feels fine as he has got 3 people he trusts who say they won't vote him to go.

Tre's opening strategy would be to outplay everyone pre-merge and outlast everyone post-merge. He wants to show his tribemates that he is willing to contribute and also wants to be social to get numbers on his side. Tre feels the best working with Jax, Sully, Kelly and Xander, hoping he can form an alliance with them.

Xander seems really excited about playing this game and has been conversing about Mario in the tribe channel. He noted Jiv and Evan being dangerous from past encounters, and also noted Kelly being very smart. He embraces the Luigi tribe and is very happy to be on team Luigi, as Luigi is his favourite character from the Mario games.

### Mario Tribe Marooning

Austria has been vibing, and particularly also created the first ever alliance chat of season with herself, Chelsea and Evan. Austria has noted Chelsea, Sbeve, Evan and Ila as top 4 in her trust rankings. She has Nub 5th in rankings, Connor in 6th for checking in with people, Shaun in 7th, Ellie in 8th for "disappearing" and Lukas last as she heard Lukas being suspicious about her.

Chelsea won the invite contest and is super pumped to be on this season. Her opening strategy is to be present and cheerful as inactivity is a curse. She gets weird vibes from Austria and is chatting a lot with Evan as well as Lukas. She has no idea how she got dragged into an alliance chat by Austria so early. Chelsea noted Austria and Evan were in the tribe VC together and wants to split the two up, while Evan also grew to distrust Austria. She currently has Austria at the bottom of her trust ranking.

Connor's strategy is to be present and then get into a good spot in the tribe. He is vibing with Lukas, Shaun, Evan and Chelsea most at the moment. He feels annoyed at Nub's ski story as "skiing in Western Australia totally makes sense". He wants to form a trio with Lukas and someone else. For now his number one seems to be Lukas, with Evan, Sbeve, Chelsea and Ila not far off. He also noted convos with Austria and Nub have been a little difficult and finds Ellie is not really visible in the tribe channel even though they had a small quick chat yesterday.

Ellie has been fairly invisible during marooning but showed up in tribal chat after a while and is getting to know people. They have been gradually warming up to others and is generally perceived as being someone with "good vibes".

Evan will be leaning a lot on his social game to be more favorable to people. He wants to get himself a "solid structure" to survive tribal councils. He finds Chelsea fun to talk to and was surprised he immediately got put into an alliance with her and Austria. He wants to vibe with people and not play dictator. Evan noted that time zone differences could make Nub an easy vote-off. Will that be the case? We might find out soon...

Ila hasn't been the most active, but is warming up in the tribe channel. Ila wants to be seen as someone who is always there for another person when they are feeling down or having a bad day. Aiming to form 2 ride or dies where she can tell the "full truth" to. She wants to play more strategically in the beginning, to make moves and not be afraid of messing up. Based on limited interactions, she quickly noted Chelsea, Evan and Nub to be threats but wants to work with them as well as Connor.

Lukas has been excited to be on the cast for S2! He wants to lie low and make moves from the shadows and use his "sweet smooth talking skills" to get what he wants. Lukas has been vibing around and feels best with Sbeve, Evan and Chelsea at the moment.

Nub feels chill and would like to talk and know his tribemates. However he also noticed them being inactive (which actually is just timezone things unfortunately). He also feels there are too many people in the tribe...

Sbeve has another approach of waiting for people to DM him first to gauge people's threat levels and activity levels. He feels Shaun and Lukas are the standouts at the moment, particularly Shaun being a threat, Chelsea and Lukas are also noted as social threats by him. He then felt thrown off by Chelsea when she only reacted to his messages but not replying. Apparently he claims that Shaun has the same feeling about Chelsea. Sbeve gets great vibes from Lukas, Shaun and Connor. He feels the need to improve relationships with Evan, Austria, Ila and Chelsea as he sees them sticking around for a bit and doesn't want to make enemies. However, he seems really concerned about people using emoji reactions...

Shaun started awkwardly with Lukas and feels that Lukas might be underestimating him. He feels that his tribe is dry and he currently wants to work with Sbeve the most. He noted Sbeve as someone he is close to, but also to watch out because Sbeve might be close to others as well. He voiced out concerns about not being able to bond well with certain tribemates as he finds it difficult to respond to one word answers. He wants to form alliances with Chelsea, Evan and Lukas, thinking Ellie and Austria are on the chopping block. He also threw out an idea of wanting to form an idol-hunt trio alliance.

As of now, things aren't looking great for Lijah as a few of his tribemates have marked him as "inactive". Will he be able to bounce back? The Mario tribe doesn't have a clear "bottom". However it has been noted that Austria has been confusing people lately. What will happen in Mario tribe?

### Double Tribal & Idol Hunt

The opening immunity challenge is on the way, with BOTH tribes, Mario and Luigi, going into tribal council and everyone competing for individual immunity against their own tribemates. At the same time, Minti opened the 3 different idol routes; Toad, Donkey Kong and Shy Guy, where all competitors on the same route will compete for the same idol.

DONKEY KONG: Alex, Ila, Xander
SHY GUY: Austria, Chelsea, Connor, Ellie, Jiv, Lukas, Nub, Sanin, Shaun
TOAD: Corn Corn, Evan, Jax, Kelly, Lijah, Sbeve, Sully, Tre,

As you can see, the majority of the Luigi tribe picked "Toad" whereas the majority of the Mario tribe picked "Shy Guy". This leaves the competition for the "Donkey Kong" road much less intense, with only Alex , Ila and Xander competing for the same idol. Who will be able to get the idol? Let's find out in the future!

Shaun got to work quickly and found the Shy Guy idol after some puzzle solving! As for the Toad route, most of the players who attempted are stuck at 3-4 out of 6 with Sbeve leading with 5/6. Sully from the Luigi tribe and Lukas from the Mario tribe won Individual immunity!

Just as we left off, Nub's name came up as a target of the trio ⁠Unknown and people are willing to vote him out as his relationships and ties haven't been strong. On the Luigi side... Unfortunately, holidays seemed to have got in the way with Lijah, he also realised that he could've met his dead end. Would anything else change?

### Mario Tribal

Austria has been confusing in her confessionals. On the standpoint of others, she has made a few bonds along the way with Nub, Ila and more but has also rubbed a few people the wrong way, with her name getting thrown around as a potential target of this tribal council. She was fully aware and agreed to vote Nub out.

Chelsea seemingly leaked the vote to Nub, who is the target on the vote and was really trying to push for an Austria vote. She feels threatened by the potential "Evan-Austria" connection and worked with Lukas to try and rally an Austria vote but to no avail. Furthermore, her actions have sparked questions about her, with other tribemates noting her as "chaotic", "shady" and "a threat".

Connor feels fine with either Austria or Nub going home this vote, also pointing out that Ellie has been rather inactive as well. He is keen on keeping the active players alive and feels safe for now.

Ellie has not been the most active but was shocked to hear Nub throw his name out. He had a chat with Evan where he notes that Evan have been giving him hints to work on social game which he would be trying to, this puts Evan the top of his trust rankings. He is 100% on board to vote Nub out, stating "he's done".

Evan has been situated in a good position, forming ties with many. He has gotten on a voice call with Ellie and thus felt close with him. He thinks Nub is completely unaware of his boot. He noted that Chelsea has been angsty to get rid of Austria whom he viewed as "easy number" for him. He thinks that in the event of another tribal, he will be keen in voting out Ila or Chelsea.

Ila hasn't been the most active as well but is aware of what's happening in the game. She trusts Chelsea and Lukas the most right now and was afraid that the Evan-Nub-Ellie voice call might change things. Fortunately for her, it didn't as Nub was still voted out.

Lukas trusts Connor, Chelsea and Sbeve the most. He has had a discussion with Chelsea to sway the vote to Austria but ultimately decided not to as it would expose himself and make the vote messy, hence the vote was back on Nub.

Nub felt himself or Ellie would be voted out due to time zones and inactivity. He did a lot of scrambling to keep himself alive, however, they never got traction and most tribemates felt the best to vote him out.

Sbeve was completely fine to vote Nub as they don't have a connection built, he also didn't see anyone fighting to keep Nub in. However, he soon realized that Chelsea have attempted to sway the votes around and noted her as being "shady" as well, added with the fact that Austria told him she has his back, he is set on voting Nub and wouldn't mind Chelsea going next.

Shaun noted Chelsea being her no.2 behind Sbeve, stating Ila and Connor are boring, and Austria and Nub giving him nothing. He is fine with either Austria or Nub going. He found himself in the trio alliance of Evan-Sbeve-him and was approached by Chelsea to form an alliance of Chelsea-him-Lukas which he finds cool with. He is going with the flow and will be voting Nub out.

### Luigi Tribal

Alex hasn't been the most active, but formed an alliance between himself, Sully, Jax, Jiv, Kelly, Sanin and Xander, which makes up 7/10 of the tribe. He hit it off with Jax today and feels to be in an ok position in the tribe.

Corn Corn has been getting in the loop of the vote, even agreed to be the decoy as noted by Sanin. He noted Tre playing very hard to gun for Lijah which is rubbing him the wrong way. He is fine with the Lijah vote because he feels, it's better Lijah than himself.

Jax, also part of the huge alliance, really "hit it off" with Alex and Sully, thinking Kelly will be a threat moving forward as well. He thinks Xander is lovely and would likely work with him, same for Sanin but without the lovely part. He is glad Lijah is the vote as they barely talked and wish Corn Corn will be next.

Jiv noted a very long voice call between Sully and Xander, so he feels sketchy about the two. Jiv is also part of the huge alliance. He figured his odds of getting the idol are slim due to the number of Mario tribe players opting for the same path. He decides to help Sanin with his idol hunt.

Kelly wants to go with the flow and not make any waves for now, she feels pity for Lijah but doesn't mind him going. She is part of the Toad route of the idol hunt and mentions how one part of it requires cooperation from the Mario tribe, being the need to count to 1000 with a tribemate of the opposing tribe, which she was left out of because both Mario tribe members have already counted to 1000 without her. However, Sully helped her with the idol hunt, even giving her the command of the part of the hunt she wasn't able to do and she appreciates the help a lot. She considered creating an alliance between herself, Corn Corn, Jax, Tre and Sully to help organize with the search in the marketplace for items required by toad, and also to work with people out of the majority alliance but she feels the reservations too, especially if it's about finding an idol, and decided not to. Sanin, Xander, Sully and herself were chilling in the voice call and discussed idol searches which was interesting to note that this group of 4 covers all 3 paths of the idol hunt. She took the opportunity to take down notes to see what she can get from it. There were also some conspiracy theories going on about a possible swap after this vote where she planned with Sanin on an emoji code. She definitely is in the best position with 2 very tight no.1 allies in Sully and Sanin.

Lijah has been relatively invisible this episode, nearing the bottom of everyone's trust rankings in the Luigi tribe due to lack of activity and hence voted out in a 9-1 vote.

Sanin has been thrilled about being in the majority and possibly finding an idol if he can work with people together. Sanin chose the "Shy Guy" path because he is a shy guy in life and likes to solve riddles. He makes a "Drama chart" to take down what is happening this round. He notes that Sully, Xander, Kelly, Jiv and himself are the "starts" of the show where they are the ones in a good position. He also noted that Jax, Tre and Alex are in the "close to defeated" category where they are in the loop but are exposed due to certain game actions, i.e Alex creating the alliance, Tre for pushing Lijah's name as well as Jax for "not keeping his mouth shut". Corn Corn is put under the "turned sonic" because he is out of loop, whereas Lijah gets "devoured by a giant piranha". He also had a VC with Kelly and discussed the future of their games, notably working with Sully and Xander as they are the safest to work with from their observations. He feels the need to get rid of Tre and Alex due to their willingness to make bold moves. Sanin feels very lucky to be able to work with Kelly, where they even planned on what to do for a potential swap which are emoji codes, coming up with emojis to represent "I am safe" "I'm in danger" and even "I love you"!

Sully finds this tribal relatively easier and already noted Lijah, Corn Corn and Tre as people he feels would be fine without. He won immunity this round and knows it's a double-edged sword as he can be both viewed as an asset to the team, as well as a threat in challenges. He chose the toad route as he thought it'll be the most simple and is working his way. He hopes Corn Corn will be able to pick things up as they had a decent voice-call session together. He hopes to work together with Jax, Kelly, maybe Corn Corn and Tre to find the idol.

Tre has been the one "driving the vote" as what his tribemates have pointed out. Unfortunately, that also exposed him, with a lack of close or strong ties, he seems to be on the chopping block next. For now, he trusts Xander the most.

Xander has received episode banners from Sanin! Xander has been in a great spot this round, with ties to basically everyone, without people noticing him being a possible threat. He feels it's a pity for Lijah to go but also thinks the Luigi tribe will have a upper hand in the next challenge.