Perfect Partners To Dance With A Devil

**Perfect Partners To Dance With A Devil** is the second episode of MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom.

## Story

As the tribes meet for the challenge, it has been revealed that not only do they have the challenge, but they also have to vote 3 of their own tribemates for the Summit.

### Pre-Tribal: Luigi Tribe

Alex felt great for the Lijah boot because it's partly his idea as well. He reveals he isn't the best at puzzles and hopes he isn't the cause of his team losing. He is currently in an alliance of 7 and feels the other 2 (Tre and Corn Corn) are easy votes. However he also had an idea to keep them around as ftc goats.

Corn Corn felt ok receiving one vote from Lijah, and feels everyone is in a stage of "chill-ness", being nice and social. He noted his poor puzzle skills and also exclaimed that Tre is sus. He proceeds to chill as a "corn god man".

Jax said he felt fine about the Lijah as he felt Lijah has been inactive. He shared that he is currently in an alliance of 7 and is in an ok spot but he would like to improve a bit more regarding his position in the tribe.

Jiv felt great about the Lijah vote as Lijah is who he connected the least with. He feels good about doing jigsaws as he has trained for them.

Kelly has a LOT going on. She first expressed worries over the challenge as she isn't the best at puzzles. She also shared her connection between Sanin and Sully where she views Sanin>Sully for now. Reason being, Sanin tells her everything he does, whereas Sully hasnt fully told her everything. Furthermore, Sully actually tried to test Kelly's loyalty by letting her get the correct market-place number that he successfully got the item from, just to see what she would tell him. Kelly misunderstood this as a "scam" that Sully wanted to let her test out the remaining numbers so he can get the item himself. Kelly has been positioned really well socially. However, she is trying to be cautious and play under the radar so she wouldn't catch anymore heat onto her, which is an accurate read as a few tribemates did note her awesome social skills and her potentially a social threat.

Sanin has been sitting pretty in a good spot in his tribe. He views Kelly as his #1 ally, also connecting well with Jiv, Sully and Xander. He had a voice call with Kellyand took some notes down. He noted that Sully is liked by everyone, but Kelly also told him about the Sully confusion with the market place which alarmed him to be careful about Sully. He wants to let Sully take charge for now.

Sully explained his strategy with the Kelly shenanigans which he felt he could trust Kelly, which actually caused a little distrust on Kelly's side. He feels pumped about the challenge and conflicted about the summit as he is unsure if attending or not is the best for him. He views Kelly and Sanin as his closest allies.

Tre was glad that he survived the first tribal and feels he really needs to start working more to stay safe next.

Xander is trying to figure out the Mario tribe's philosophy as he thought Ila and Ellie both did worse than Nub in the challenge. He hopes he won't have to face a tribal council soon and is confident about that.

### Pre-Tribal: Mario Tribe

Austria has been testing a lot of bot commands and being confusing lately. She did mention that she doesn't feel safe at all, worried about the 2 votes she received, as well as feeling not confident for the challenge.

Connor Connor felt totally unfazed in the first tribal, claiming Nub barely did anything around here. He feels somewhat confident going into the next challenge.

Ellie has really stepped up in this game, forming ties to people around in the tribe. He felt last tribal council was chaotic on the Mario tribe when it shouldn't have been so hard. He noted Connor as the first person to say his name, followed by Nub and Chelsea, making them targets to him. He wants to keep Austria in the game, thinking Austria is a non-threat. As much as Connor tried to work things with him, he noted that he is against Connor.

Evan has been suspicious of Sbeve finding the idol. He feels bad for Austria, thinking Austria has been too trusting of Chelsea. He feels that Austria is a potential easy vote, but also contemplated to make a bigger move.

Ila felt good about the first tribal. She is noting relationship issues between other tribemates and feels that she could sink in behind the scenes and play under the radar, but at the same time, doesn't want to be targeted for being irrelevant. She doesn't want to go into the summit for fear of the potential risks such as swapping into a new tribe.

Lukas wants to target Austria and Evan, thinking they are a duo. He wants to align with Chelsea, Shaun and Sbeve, and was glad they didn't do Austria last round as it would've complicated things a lot.

Sbeve feels sketchy about the Connor-Ellie-Sbeve alliance he got thrown into as Connor was gunning for Ellie at some points last tribal.

Shaun noted that he doesn't trust Ila or Evan. He doesn't want to see Chelsea go, and noted that she overplayed the first round. He wants to strategize a possible outcome of having Chelsea and Evan both going on the summit so that Austria is an easy vote for the potential tribal. He shared a lengthy VC with Ellie, noted that he threw Chelsea and Sbeve under the bus alot to Ellie, also revealing his idol in the same VC. Ellie revealed to him about Connor wanting an alliance of Connor-Ellie-Sbeve-Lukas and he wants to see if Sbeve will reveal to him this, just to see where Sbeve stands.

### Results & Summit

The Luigi tribe won Immunity, sending Mario to Tribal Council.
Kelly, Sanin and Sully have been selected by the Luigi tribe to attend the Summit.
Ellie, Lukas and Shaun have been selected by the Mario tribe to attend the Summit.

Ellie feels to be blamed for the challenge loss but notes that they will rebound from it. They find it insane to be able to go to the summit and will be taking full use of the opportunity to bond with Shaun, Lukas and the Luigi tribe members. On the summit, they did give insights to Sanin by telling him who the threats of the Mario tribe are but felt that Sanin wasn't giving much in return.

Kelly definitely spilling a lot in her confessionals atm. She feels nice to have won her duel and is thankful for Jiv to have shared a sudoku solver. She was chosen for the summit and bonded with everyone really well. She was also voted first in trust rankings and received an extra vote in return. Things are looking extremely good for Kelly at the moment.

Lukas feels a bit guilty for rushing his puzzles but is elated to be safe from tribal as he is heading to the summit. He wants to take this opportunity to bond w Luigi tribe for ties to prepare for a swap / merge and hopefully get that extra vote. He and Shaun schemed a "devious" plan to put Luigi members at the bottom 3 of the trust rankings in hopes of having one of them receiving the extra vote. However, the plan didn't work as Kelly got the extra vote.

Sanin felt that he didn't do quite well but was happy that his tribe won immunity. He is happy to be selected for summit but felt he didn't really get to know the Mario tribe members much due to time issues. Kelly did tell him that Austria is a dead man walking in the other tribe. He shared that if he does win, he would like to give the prize away to charity.

Shaun believed Austria and Ellie flopped way harder than him in the duel so he isn't worried about challenge performance. Like the rest, he feels the summit is an opportunity for him to gain allies, plus he feels great to be away from the Evan-Chelsea shenanigans. He feels very close to Ellie, Chelsea and Sbeve and bonded with Kelly the most out of the Luigi tribe. He hopes to get the extra vote but Kelly ends up getting it.

Sully hasn't spoken much, but he has rebounded from the incident last episode as Kelly and Sanin still trust him a lot. He is happy to have made the summit and is 2 for 2 in immunity challenges. A great start for him where he is enjoying the moment.

### Safety: Luigi Tribe

Alex felt that he did help to carry his tribe as they would've lost without him winning his duel. He feels bummed to not get selected for the summit and thinks there's a smaller group in control of the tribe. He hopes no one gets any advantages there.

Corn Corn wishes he could've said he carried the tribe in the challenge, but of course he didn't. He assumes the summit is where people would have fun in and hopes Kelly finds the advantage out of the 3 as she seems the most honest to him.

Jax felt that he killed the challenge and was very satisfied upon every improvement in the challenge, and won his duel by a huge margin. He felt it's a pity he didn't get selected to go into summit as he misses out in cross-tribal communication as well as potential advantage, but hopes his connection with Kelly will help him get info about the summit. He notes that he needs to buck up in his social game and would like to obtain an idol but he's just one item lacking at the moment. He hopes to go into a swap with an idol and a good spot in his original tribe.

Jiv felt like he was a massive help in his tribe to win the challenge. He is not too upset about not being able to go to the summit although he noted that there might be some form of advantage in it.

Tre is worried even when his tribe won, as he felt he didn't contribute much and forgot to vote for the summit. He fears being viewed as inactive. He doesn't know what's inside the summit and would want to know about it. He currently trusts Xander and Jax the most.

Xander felt really lucky with his 7 second slide as the algorithm lucky goddess' charms fell upon him and is glad there isn't tribal. He feels that there will be some sort of clue or advantage in the summit and hopes someone from his tribe gets it.

### Tribal: Mario Tribe

Austria has been doing commands and playing around in her cfs lately. From the looks of it, she thinks she is getting voted out due to the strike she received for not voting for the summit (that's not the case). She knows that it's her and attempted to get people on board to vote out Ila, specifically to Evan and Sbeve as she felt Ila pushed for her to go in the first tribal (again not the case, but Sbeve did instead). However, all attempts were to no avail as she was voted out.

Chelsea has had a rough couple of days and wasn't as active. She had spoke little in her confessionals but appears to be safe for now.

Connor felt like he was to be blamed for the challenge loss. He wasn't chosen for the summit and wasnt very concerned about it. He didn't expect Shaun to have received enough votes too. He doesn't feel alright about his spot in the tribe, fearing he is right at the bottom after Austria. Austria did approach him about an alliance between her, Chelsea and Evan in an attempt to throw Evan and Chelsea under the bus, as well as bringing up an Ila vote, but Connor didn't trust her claims and lied to her about agreeing to vote Ila.

Evan had a discussion with Ila and wanted Ila to take the bait to pull a fast move on Sbeve but Ila didn't fall for it. He then recollects and tried to correct his mindset. He feels that Austria knows she's going and he feels bad for her, but he isn't willing to put himself in a minority for her. He wants to target Sbeve or Chelsea next vote. Connor leaked to him about Austria leaking the alliance and hence felt that Austria should be voted out here.

Ila feels nervous. She hasn't said much and isn't in a great position tribe-wise but she has been staying low-key for now.

Sbeve didn't feel bad because he was one of the 3 to have won his duel in the tribe. He didn't want to go to the summit and told people not to vote for him as he didn't want to miss a tribal. There's a bit of distrust going on as Evan tried to test his loyalty using the market-place hunt and he didn't like that (something Sully did with Kelly earlier). He also knew the alliance of Evan-Chelsea-Austria which Evan hasn't revealed to him. Austria did approach him to vote out Ila and he does believe Austria wants to work with him. However, he thinks it's a little too late for Austria to have only approached him when she is in danger and hence voted out Austria.

## Challenge Information

### Challenge Details

**Immunity Challenge:** *Puzzle Tournament*

Three different types of puzzle are named, each puzzle having 3 levels of difficulty - easy, medium and hard. Players must win a majority of the difficulty levels to claim the point for that puzzle. Therefore, a tribe could theoretically win 4 out of 9 duels, but still win the challenge if they are strategic with which player they put on each task.

**Winning Tribe:** Luigi