Almost Begging To Stay

**Almost Begging To Stay** is the eleventh episode of *Survivor: Temple of Poena*.

## Summary

### Merge

***ZEUS***

***URANIA***

The final twelve players arrive at the beach as Jeff welcomes them. He tells them to drop their buffs because they are officially merged now!

***RHAMNOUSIA***

After the feast, they're heading to their new camp, Rhamnousia.

### Rhamnousia

Albany, Aurelia, Buddy, Duong, Gina, Hudson, Irene, Meredith, Nia, Olive, Skye and Xochitl all arrive at their new camp. They shortly introduce themselves to each other. Everyone seems to be super happy to have merged, especially Olive who felt like she could've been voted off last round.

Hudson walks towards Irene and Nia, who are talking about last vote. Hudson apologizes for voting against Yzaira. Nia says that it's fine, they just gotta make sure that Olive isn't going to take revenge on her. Hudson says that he will protect her obviously.

Aurelia and Albany reunite. Albany informs Aurelia about that they were placed on the minority. They couldn't protect Yzaira. So sadly enough, Olive stayed. Aurelia says that she thought she could've trusted Gina but instead she took out Anita. Albany feels like they need to use the rivalry between Olive and Gina to get into a better position in the game. Aurelia agrees, however, she would really want Gina out after her backstabbing.

Buddy, Skye, Gina, Nia and Duong all come together in the woods. While Buddy, Skye and Gina have agreed on working together, Duong feels a little pissed at them still. They took out his closest ally and that bothers him. Nia, who doesn't know about the situation, feels like they should be working together. Nia feels like she can get Hudson and Irene to work with them. Buddy and Skye say they're fine with whoever wants to work with them. Gina says that they got Xochitl probably too. Duong remains quiet.

While the group splits, Skye is walking towards Xochitl and asks her if she's in the alliance with them. Xochitl, who just finished an conversation with Aurelia, says that Skye shouldn't ask her questions that he knows the answer of already. Xochitl asks him if he's still in her alliance. Skye gets a little confused and says he is. Xochitl winks at leaves.

Meredith is working on the new shelter as Olive walks towards her. Olive tells Meredith that she really needs to get Albany and Aurelia on her side to make a move against the original Artemis members. Meredith says that Albany dislikes her but Olive doesn't listen, telling Meredith to just tell Albany and Aurelia to work with her. Olive then grabs the wood out of Meredith's hands and tells her to talk to them.

### Challenge

The twelve merged players arrive at the challenge, with Jeff welcoming them. Before explaining the challenge, he announces that the Temple of Poena twist still exists. However, it works diffrently. The person who performs the worst in the challenge, either getting eliminated first or placing last, will go to the Temple of Poena until the next challenge. That means that they will not return to camp, will go to tribal council and will join the others at camp again after the vote. That person stays at the Temple of Poena until the next challenge.

There are some big reactions.

Jeff explains the challenge. It's an endurance challenge. The person who drops as first will go to Temple of Poena while the last remaining person will win individual immunity. Survivors ready? GO!

Everyone holds onto the pole and seem to be really wanting to stick to it as long as possible. However, the person who first drops is Irene which means she has to go to the Temple of Poena. It takes some time before others drop but in the end it's Buddy who managed to stay on the pole the longest, causing him to win individual immunity.

While Irene is heading towards the temple of Poena, the others get back into the boat to return to their camp.

### Temple of Poena

Irene arrives at the Temple of Poena for the first time and looks around her. There's not much except for some statues and opened chests. She decides to just sit and look around as she has nothing else to do. There's no food, comfort or anything else.

Nothing much happens at Temple of Poena. The Greek god statues are laughing sometimes, to taunt Irene as she's still at the temple of punishments. Irene rolls her eyes and tries to get some sleep to make time pass faster.

### Rhamnousia

The other eleven players arrive back at camp. Hunter looks bummed and tells everyone he wanted to take Irene's place. He also lost focus once Irene got eliminated from the challenge, otherwise he would've probably won it. Gina rolls her eyes as she hears Hudson talking.

Hudson and Nia are walking in the woods as Hudson feels a bit off. He doesn't know what to say, knowing that Hudson will probably not vote with Nia. Nia asks Hudson if he's still with her in this game. Hudson says he is but he just doesn't know if he can work with the other Artemis players. Nia says that they're actually really cool. Hudson shrugs.

Aurelia and Xochitl are talking. Aurelia says she's super done with the backstabbing of Gina so she actually wants to take a shot at her. Xochitl answers that she'd be happy to finally try to vote against Buddy and Skye too. Aurelia says that she doesn't worry about them, at all, but she just wants Gina out. Xochitl shakes Aurelia's hand and tells her that she'll gladly help her into doing that.

While Olive is sitting with Meredith, kinda annoyed and sad that no one's talking to her, out of a sudden Aurelia, Xochitl and Hudson arrive and walk towards her. Olive seems surprised to have so many people sitting with her right now. Olive greets them in an very awkward way as Aurelia tells Olive that she'd be down to take a shot at Gina. Olive, who thought Aurelia was close with her, asks her if she's for real. Aurelia smiles and says that Gina has been very fake towards her the entire time. Xochitl and Hudson add that the Artemis tribe are becoming too strong and that their ringleader, Gina, should be taken out.

Everyone splits again as Albany is standing in the woods, looking towards Aurelia as she enters the woods. She greets them while Albany asks what she's thinking for the vote. Aurelia says that she already told Albany that she wants to vote off Gina. Albany, who wants to keep as much rivalries as possible, states that Gina would be very useful for them later in the game. Aurelia puts her hands on her hips and tells Albany that she's not gonna vote someone else rather than Gina.

Buddy, Skye, Gina, Duong and Nia are sitting in the new-build shelter, which is build off-screen, and they're talking about how much votes they got. Even though Skye has talked to Xochitl, he doesn't know if they could count her vote in. Gina, who has talked off-screen towards Albany, claims to have their vote. Nia decides to stay quiet about Hudson's vote while Duong seems a bit reserved.

### Tribal Council

Everyone, except for Irene, arrives at tribal council. Jeff asks Nia how it feels to have finally merged. Nia answers that she's feeling amazing. It's a milestone they have reached and now the real deal has started. Jeff then asks Buddy how he's feeling after winning immunity. Buddy answers that he was shocked he won it but he's just glad to be safe for the first merged tribal council. Jeff asks Albany if the target tonight is gonna be a clear vote or an blindside. Albany says that they have literally no idea what's gonna happen tonight. Finally, Jeff asks Gina how she thinks the vote will go. Gina answers that it's gonna be close. No matter what, it'll be very close.

The eleven players then vote. Jeff reads the votes as no idol gets played.

First vote...

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Gina

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Olive

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Gina

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Olive

*(Olive grins, expecting to receive the votes from the Artemis players)*

Two votes Olive, two votes Gina...

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Gina

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Gina

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Olive

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Olive

Four votes Olive, four votes Gina

*(Tension is starting to appear as some players are very nervous)*

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Gina

*(Gina sighs)*

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Olive

Five votes Olive, five votes Gina...

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One vote left...

*(Gina looks at Jeff while Olive has her eyes closed)*

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13th person voted out of Survivor: Temple of Poena and the 2nd member of the jury...

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Gina (6-5)

Gina looks slightly pissed off as she did not expect it to be 6-5 against her. She decides to grab her torch and gets it snuffed, looking at the remaining players. She says that she will make it difficult for some of them to win this game, winking towards Olive. Gina then leaves tribal council.