Season 1 Episode Recaps

Recaps for everything that happened in Trevivor Season 1: The Nine Realms!

## **Episode 1:** “The tribe is stoopid” - Shray

20 peasants are lined up one by one in front of the gods, they are seperated into tribes, and prepared for their suffering. **Adam, Aidan, Jack, Kristine, Logan, Saish, Sarah, Shannon, Shray, and Tyler** on the Midgard tribe. **Aby B, Bella, Colin, Dawson, Emily, Griff, Jmoney, Kamil, Mason, and Pyro** on the Nidavellir tribe.

Over on Nidavellir, the social games got going right off of the bat. **GRIFF** and **KAMIL** both began voice calling each other and bonding mere minutes into the game, **ABY B** was there too however appeared too shy to say very much for the duration of the voice call. While this was occurring, both **MASON** and **PYRO** began idol hunting (separately), leading to **PYRO** finding the Nidavellir idol just 47 minutes into the game. **PYRO** then joined the voice call a little late and began to form a good connection with the others in the call. Shortly after **PYRO** had to go, **MASON** discovered the idol had already been found, which was quickly followed by both **KAMIL** and **GRIFF** finding the initial idol clue and beginning their hunt. By this point **ABY B** had left the call and it was just the two of them. **MASON** rejoined the voice call and all three of them completed the idol puzzle and got nothing, but this served as a bonding experience and led to them forming The Norns alliance! However, **MASON** feels like he is on the bottom of this alliance, but has said he will stick with them for now. The three guys then discussed who they think could’ve gotten the idol between the beginning of the competition and the present, they are heavily suspicious of **JMONEY** due to him being online but not talking to too many people, they’re suspicious of **ABY B** slightly due to her being in voice call and not talking too much, and they also seem sus of **EMILY**, who’s been inactive, and **DAWSON**, who said he was on a plane flight. For some reason the guys never really considered the possibility of **PYRO** having it, and didn’t seem to remember that **COLIN** is even on their tribe, as he claimed to have just been “chilling” to start.

After **DAWSON** got back from his flight **GRIFF** quickly started thinking of including him in their alliance, **MASON** wasn’t too opposed to this, but **KAMIL** wasn’t quite sure yet. **BELLA** and **DAWSON** both joined the voice call and began to converse with the group, however **GRIFF** started rubbing some people the wrong way here, with some awkward comments such as asking each other their sexualities or talking about what base they’ve gotten to, using repeated analogies described as “cringe” by some of other players (and me ). This resulted in **KAMIL** not feeling too strong about **GRIFF**, as this coupled with his bossy gameplay attitude puts him in an awkward position. After both **KAMIL** and **MASON** left, **DAWSON** semi-jokingly declared the three left ( **BELLA** , **GRIFF** , and **DAWSON** ) as his “ideal final 3”. Meanwhile, **JMONEY** began to start reaching out and talking to some people, which redeemed him somewhat in the eyes of others, and pushed the ideal target of The Norns towards **EMILY** rather than him.

Meanwhile, over at Midgard, **TYLER** seems to be quite the character. He and **ADAM** bonded together pretty much immediately, however **TYLER** began ranting to him a **lot** about how he already doesn’t like **SHRAY** before he even got to talk to her. In a semi-political matter he doesn’t agree with the notion that all cops are bad, and gathers from **SHRAY**’s introduction that she probably believes in that? (not the most sensible logic I must say) **ADAM** puts up with this awkward conversation and forms a good bond with him. Speaking of **ADAM**, he appears to be quite the popular dude! He and **KRISTINE** formed a good kinship straight off the bat (continuing the connection they had in spec lounge pre-game), he connected with **SARAH** based on the fact that the two of them are both teachers, and he also connected with **LOGAN** for the same reason. ALSO HE FOUND THE IDOL!!!! So he’s in a really good spot right now. **ADAM** made **TYLER** aware of some of these bonds and the people he likes thus far, however **TYLER** did not seem keen on **SARAH** because he believes she’ll be a very untrustworthy person, as he feels she is saying the same stuff to everyone.

Meanwhile, **LOGAN** found a Safety Without Power advantage, with the catch that it must be used on someone else at tribal council. He quickly told **ADAM** and **TYLER** about this advantage however left out that twist, I’m honestly unsure as to whether this was intentional or if he missed that part. The ALLT-F4 alliance was later formed with **KRISTINE**, **TYLER**, **ADAM**, and **LOGAN**, however **KRISTINE** is suspicious of **TYLER** and **LOGAN**, as it was **ADAM** who told her about the SWP advantage and not **LOGAN** himself. **ADAM** and **KRISTINE** seem happy to work with ALLT-F4 for now, but **ADAM** has already talked in confs about going after **TYLER** around merge. Meanwhile, **TYLER** considers **ADAM** his #1, and has said that he feels he will be his “ride or die” in this game.

As for the rest of Midgard, **JACK** spent time searching for the idol only to find out it was already found, **KRISTINE** did the same and when asking **ADAM** about it he didn’t tell her he has the idol. Meanwhile, **SAISH** began to start bonding and forming connections with people, and recognized **TYLER** as the clear leader of the tribe. **SARAH** and **AIDAN** both bonded with **TYLER** as well, with **AIDAN** leading the charge on the creation of the Fantasy Footballers alliance with **TYLER** and **ADAM**. This has left **JACK**, **SHANNON** and **SHRAY** as the players somewhat on the outs socially in the tribe.

As for the first challenge, the castaways had to do play the very fun app **Wrassling**! Both tribes expressed massive frustration with this challenge, **BELLA** quickly got a high score of 55 for her tribe, and **GRIFF** took the charge on giving Nidavellir a ton of pointers and tips to help them. Over at Midgard, both **ADAM** and **SHANNON** got high scores of 82, **SHRAY** submitted a score of 1 on accident in confusion of whether or not the high score in the corner would count (it doesn’t), leading to her having to quickly make up for it with a score of 64. **KAMIL** got a huge score of 106 which MASSIVELY carried the average of Nidavellir, however with 1 minute left in the challenge Midgard still had the lead. But at the very last minute, **BELLA** submitted a score of 62, helping Nidavellir win immunity with a difference in average of 0.1 points!!!!!!

Over at Nidavellir, they all rejoiced together over their victory and the group of **MASON**, **GRIFF**, **KAMIL**, **DAWSON**, **BELLA**, and **PYRO** all bonded close to one another over the course of this. This lead to the creation of Enherji alliance, which leaves **JMONEY**, **EMILY**, **ABY B**, and **COLIN** on the strategic outs of the tribe. However, **JMONEY** and **MASON** bonded together quite a bit, and while **MASON** has a slight suspicion that **JMONEY** might have the idol, he still feels there’s a bond there.

On Midgard, **JACK** was **very** worried he’d be the one going home, as he got the lowest score in the previous challenge. However, due to **TYLER’S** personal issues with **SHRAY** and her personality, he chose to target her for this vote. **ADAM** and **TYLER** continue to form strong bonds throughout the tribe, as **SHANNON** feels strong with **ADAM**, **TYLER**, **LOGAN**, and **AIDAN** which results in the formation of the We Are Bad With Names alliance. Meanwhile **TYLER** and **ADAM** also form the Adam's Angels alliance with **SAISH** and **SARAH**. **JACK** also expressed to **ADAM** personally that he really wants to work with him, and that he’d be grateful if they saved him here. Because of this, and **TYLER’S** vendetta against **SHRAY**, **SHRAY** was the first person voted out of **Trevivor: The Nine Realms** in a 9-1 vote, with **JACK** receiving a vote on her way out. **SHRAY** had quite some words of anger as she left and departed from the tribe.(edited)

**ADAM** and **TYLER** seem to be in control of their tribe, with **JACK** being the only one not in an alliance right with them right now, will that be worrisome for their future? **GRIFF** seems to be controlling Nidavellir, however **PYRO** and **KAMIL** have made it clear they’re aware of this, will **ABY B**, **COLIN**, **JMONEY**, or **EMILY** manage to redeem themselves in the eyes of Nidavellir? Many exciting things await on the next episode of Trevivor!

## **Episode 2:** “You seem nice, but better you than me” - Colin

After some angry last words from the last tribal council left by **SHRAY**, the majority of the Midgard tribe was left quite angry and annoyed. **SAISH** seemed to be the only one who realized that **SHRAY’s** parting comments of “you’re all homophobic” was merely a joke. Meanwhile, **JACK** was left at the very bottom of the Midgard tribe and felt frightened, for if they had to go to tribal council he was the likely boot. Meanwhile, **TYLER** was gunning for **SAISH** as he was hoping to keep **JACK** around a little while longer, and he found it difficult to work with **SAISH** due to the time zone difference. But while **TYLER** saw **SAISH** and **SHANNON** as being on the bottom of the tribe, nearly everyone else was leaning towards **JACK** due to his poor performance in the first challenge and also wanting an easy vote coming up.

The next challenge was announced as **Hnefatafl**! In which the castaways must choose between shielding and attacking members of the other side. Over at Nidavellir, **GRIFF** led the charge on the planning, coming up with many ideas, meanwhile **ABY B** was begging to sit out due to her confusion with the challenge, although they ended up having **COLIN** sit out due to the fact that he was working during the challenge. **KAMIL** also proved to be helpful as he quickly realized a winning strategy could be to attack three players straight off of the bat, and then shield one and attack two. **MASON** seemed to not approve so much of this idea, however went along with it as to try and not stand out too much. Over on Midgard, **ADAM** came up with pretty much the same exact idea! During the challenge itself, **MASON** and **DAWSON** were both trying to get in Midgard ‘s heads by saying things such as “let’s attack adam and shannon” and other antics like using pancake bot to randomize who they’ll choose to go after, this annoyed Midgard a fair amount, and **TYLER** and **KRISTINE** in particular became pretty annoyed with Mason specifically. Due to a small misplay by Midgard while they were in the lead, Nidavellir ended up tying it resulting in the challenge needing to be reset! In the redo version, both tribes went with the exact same approaches, however this time Nidavellir misplayed a perfect opportunity they had to win the challenge, resulting in Midgard coming from behind and winning immunity!

Going into tribal council, Nidavellir ‘s minds were already quite set, as they knew that **EMILY** was the easiest vote, as she had been too busy to help in the challenge or talk too much to anyone in the past few days. When the challenge ended everyone except **EMILY** and **COLIN** was in tribe VC, and they stayed there to discuss the vote and all agreed on **EMILY**, continuing to chat with each other while quickly casting their votes. **COLIN** was worried he was the target due to not taking part in the challenge, and not being in the VC with everyone else, and though **MASON** assuaged him by letting him in on the plan, **COLIN** realized he was outside the majority of the tribe, something that could become quite important in the near future. When **EMILY** was able to come online, she knew right away that she was the boot, and didn’t bother trying to convince anyone to change their votes, throwing hers on **GRIFF** and wishing the rest of her tribe the best of luck in the game. That meant we had our second 9-1 vote (that took just **25 minutes**), and **EMILY** became the second person voted out of **Trevivor: The Nine Realms**. **JACK** is seemingly scurrying his way up from the bottom, **JMONEY** is solidifying himself more as part of Nidavellir, and **GRIFF** no longer appears to be the sole leader of Nidavellir, many things that **can** and **will** shake up in the future are to come in **Trevivor: The Nine Realms**!

## **Episode 3:** “I’m an Apache motherfucker so I’d draw a rock right now” - Tyler

Following a quick and straightforward **EMILY** boot, the contestants were excited to move onto the next challenge, when all of a sudden they were blindsided by a **Tribe Swap**! The twist behind the tribe swap was that in this schoolyard pick, once somebody had selected someone from the other tribe to join theirs, that person then had to select someone from their own original tribe that they didn’t want on their new tribe.

The three news tribes consisted of: **ABY B, DAWSON, KAMIL, KRISTINE, SAISH, AND SHANNON** on the Muspelheim tribe **ADAM, COLIN, GRIFF, JACK, PYRO, AND TYLER** on the Vanaheim tribe **AIDAN, BELLA, JMONEY, LOGAN, MASON AND SARAH** on the Jotunheim tribe.

Over on Muspelheim, **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** quickly kindled a close bond with one another, however **KAMIL** felt quite aware of this bond and initially felt quite weary of the two. Second into his time on the new tribe, **SAISH** formed the Kristine-Saish-Shannon alliance for the original Midgard members of this tribe. **SHANNON** appeared to want to stick to original tribe lines quite strictly, however **KRISTINE** feels in the middle of the two tribes, leaving space on who she could possibly work with. **KAMIL** and **KRISTINE** both converse with one another about the possibility of working together, however neither one seems to fully trust the other quite yet. **ABY B** appears to be on the complete social outs of her tribe.

Over at Jotunheim, **MASON** forms an OG Nidavellir alliance composed of his original tribemates ( **BELLA** and **JMONEY**), both **JMONEY** and **MASON** are very close and trust each other more than anybody else at this stage of the game. **LOGAN** and **JMONEY** bond quite a lot as well upon meeting eachother, and **LOGAN** notes how surprised he is at how mature **JMONEY** is for his age. Meanwhile, due to her being sick at the time **BELLA** did not get the opportunity to talk to many people on her tribe, meanwhile **AIDAN** and **LOGAN** appear to want to stick together moving forward, leaving **SARAH** on the complete outs socially on this tribe.

The most interesting tribe this cycle was by far Vanaheim, right out the gate **COLIN** jumped ship and expressed heavy interest in working with both **ADAM** and **TYLER** due to him feeling on the bottom of his original tribe, meanwhile **JACK** and **PYRO** were heavily connecting for the same reason, and **JACK** was leaning towards working with both **PYRO** and **GRIFF** more than he was towards **ADAM** and **TYLER**. The Sumerbrandr alliance forms due this new trio (**GRIFF, PYRO, and JACK**) , although The Vanaheim Midgardians containing **JACK**, **ADAM**, and **TYLER** also forms, leaving **JACK** in what appears to be quite a swing vote position.

Before we announced the next challenge, we had a surprise twist for the mortals this time! As one of them from each tribe had to sit out from the challenge in order to go to **Hel, the Norse Underworld** in which they’d be able to converse with the two other people there. For Muspelheim, **ABY B** was sat out due to the tribe just choosing to randomize who would go. For Jotunheim, **BELLA** was supposed to sit out, however **MASON** realized there may be an advantage on Hel, and “accidentally” pinged Gods with **JMONEY’S** name, sending him there instead to hopefully gain an advantage. For Vanaheim, **COLIN** wanted to sit out however **GRIFF** deeply pressured the tribe into letting **PYRO** sit out instead, unlike **MASON’S** endeavor though, **GRIFF** made it seem very suspicious to the rest of his tribe, painting a massive target on the two of their backs.

For the challenge this time the Mortals had to do a **24 Hour Scavenger Hunt!** This led to many chaotic moments in the arena. Most notable was Muspelheim getting into a very quick and easy victory over the rest due to **SAISH** and **SHANNON’s** massive efforts towards helping the tribe, both **KAMIL** and **KRISTINE** also put some good effort into the tribe’s challenge performance. After they had already won, **SHANNON** and **KAMIL** were pushing for the tribe to continue participating even after they won, this rubbed **MASON** and **LOGAN** heavily the wrong way simply due to it being quite blatant that Muspelheim was attempting to help Vanaheim catch up, as although Vanaheim was leading the charge at one point, however once **ADAM** had gone to bed the tribe had fallen **way** behind.(edited)

At several points in the challenge people were arguing over points, however **LOGAN** and **MASON** argued quite heavily with **GRIFF** in many instances during the arena, **TYLER** saw this as a good opportunity to throw **GRIFF** under the bus, and started up a fight with him for no reason other than to make it seem like he’ll vote for **GRIFF** at tribal, that way he could blindside **PYRO** instead. Both **ADAM** and **COLIN** approved of this idea, and they told **JACK** in private that the plan for tribal council should be **GRIFF**, assuming **PYRO** and **GRIFF** voted together, **TYLER’s** plan was to create a 3-2-1 at tribal council. As the fight occurred in the arena, many were convinced that **GRIFF** was on the outs of his tribe, as **TYLER** was ruthlessly arguing with him about how he offered no help to the tribe, a quite ironic statement considering **TYLER** scored only one or two points the whole scavenger hunt :hand\_over\_mouth: . This major tension very soon calmed down, and in a neck and neck down to the wire moment, **MASON** scored the final point for Jotunheim, sending Vanaheim to tribal council. Other unmentioned iconic moments from the scavenger hunt include **MASON** running a mile to his gas station to get an item (maskless lmao), **TYLER** faking a stick of gum by just posting an aluminum wrapper, **ADAM** getting the first 10 or so items within 5 seconds, **SAISH** breaking an egg without using a bowl, and many other great moments!

During the challenge, over on Hel **ABY B**, **JMONEY**, and **PYRO** all had to compete in a mini challenge against one another for a potential advantage. **JMONEY** ended up winning this challenge and gained himself a vote steal. After trying to bond a little bit with **ABY B**, both **JMONEY** and **PYRO** found it difficult to communicate with her, resulting in both **JMONEY** and **PYRO** bonding with one another much more. They both come up with a clever plan to tell everybody that **ABY B** got the advantage, **JMONEY** trusts **PYRO** so much here that he even tells her that the advantage was a vote steal, both of them promise to not tell anybody that **JMONEY** won this advantage.

Immediately as soon as **JMONEY** gets back to Jotunheim however, he tells **MASON** he won the vote steal, this forges a deep connection between the two and they trust each other more than they do anybody else left in the game. Due to **AIDAN**, **MASON**, **JMONEY**, and **LOGAN** all feeling a mutual bond with each other on their tribe, they decide to form Da Boys alliance, officially putting **BELLA** and **SARAH** on the outs of their tribe.

Over on Vanaheim, chaos ensued. Sons of Dr. Phil with **ADAM**, **TYLER**, and **GRIFF** was intending to continue on with their 3-2-1 plan, however **COLIN** was confused, and due to **TYLER** and **ADAM** telling him the plan was to vote for **PYRO**, **COLIN** ended up telling **JACK** this as he had assumed **JACK** was in on the plan. **JACK** immediately made **PYRO** and **GRIFF** aware of the fact. In order to attempt at cleaning up this mess, the Fire Four alliance was formed of **ADAM**, **JACK**, **TYLER**, and **COLIN**, in which **TYLER** threw **GRIFF** under the bus to them stating things such as “he’s voting for **COLIN** here and can’t be trusted”. **JACK** was still on the fence, and wanted to work with **PYRO** and **GRIFF**, which **TYLER** soon realized. So **TYLER** had formed the Animal Control alliance, in which he told **GRIFF** that **JACK** wanted to vote for him, this caused **GRIFF** to reveal to them how **JACK** had been spilling all the secrets to him and **PYRO**. This then made **TYLER** go back to **JACK** and told him that **GRIFF** had wanted to vote for him and had revealed that **JACK** was playing both sides. This drove a massive wedge between the two, and **GRIFF** and **JACK** wanted absolutely nothing to do with each other. When it was time for tribal, everything was still going good for a 3-2-1 for the Sons of Dr. Phil, however despite feeling what can only be described as mutual hatred towards **GRIFF**, **JACK** still went ahead and voted for **COLIN**, resulting in a 3-3 tie between **PYRO** and **COLIN** at tribal council.

It was looking like it would go straight to rocks, as **JACK** explained in tribal that he only felt secure with **PYRO** and nobody else. In order to attempt to skew the votes away from rocks, **PYRO** attempted to explain to **ADAM** and **TYLER** that her and **GRIFF** were NOT a duo, and in fact she wanted **GRIFF** gone down the line. This was of course, a lie that even **GRIFF** knew himself, however **ADAM** and **TYLER** kept their votes locked on **PYRO**. Once **GRIFF** got online, he was heavily pressured by both **ADAM** and **TYLER** into switching his vote, and due to a fear of a rock draw he obliged and turned on **PYRO** at the revote, resulting in her being sent home in a 3-1 vote and becoming the **third** person voted out of **Trevivor: The Nine Realms**. However, on her way out **PYRO** had come up with a lie that she had given an idol to **JACK** between the first vote and the revote at tribal council.

Will **PYRO**’s dying words somehow save **JACK**? Can **BELLA** or **SARAH** manage to avoid becoming voted off of Jotunheim ? And how exactly will things go down over at Muspelheim ? Many more exciting events await on the next episode of **Trevivor: The Nine Realms!**

## **Episode 4:** “I wanted to cheat, that’s why I brought it to your attention” - Saish

To preface, this episode is absolutely fucking hillarious. I’ll obviously get more into it below but I just have to say this is the most idiotic and immature one episode collapse a single person can accomplish in an ORG , so without further ado, let’s delve into the story of Saish’s childish rage quit.

Following those surprising final words by **PYRO**, **JACK** immediately went to **ADAM** to tell him that he had the idol, this caused a lot of shock in **TYLER** and **ADAM** however they decided to keep it under wraps between just the two of them, as they came up with a plan for next tribal council to get **GRIFF** and **COLIN** to vote for **JACK**, and then both of them (**ADAM and TYLER**) would throw two votes on **GRIFF** in case of an idol play. One massive gap in this plan however, is that **JACK** will likely vote for **GRIFF** at the next tribal, so **GRIFF** could very well be sent home due to **JACK**’s personal vendetta against him, which will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

Nothing happened on Jotunheim in this episode lol

Nothing happened on Muspelheim **PRIOR** to the challenge that is….

The challenge was announced to be the classic math game **Make 24** in which the contestants had to take a set of 4 numbers, and through using basic math and PEMDAS rules they would make it equal 24.

However…

**SAISH** did not give a fuck about this challenge whatsoever unfortunately, and he claimed publicly that the challenge should be changed because he was intending to cheat on it if it wasn’t. Once we disqualified him from the challenge he attempted to claim that it was just a joke, buttttt the disqualification would be final.

Due to **SAISH** being an immature child unable to take responsibility and punishment, he abruptly left the server, quitting the game.

## **Episode 5:** “This dumb motherfucker I don’t trust him one bit” - Colin

After a surprising quit, the mortals were forced to move on and continue with the game. For their challenge today, they had to do a lize puzzle gauntlet, in which each member of a tribe had to square up against members from the other two tribes in a specific type of puzzle. **BELLA** ended up sitting out of the challenge for Jotunheim. Facing off in the **Masyu** we had **KAMIL**, **JACK**, and **MASON**. **KAMIL** ended up scoring two points for Muspelheim, meanwhile **MASON** scored one point for Jotunheim.

In the **Slide** puzzle, we had **COLIN** scoring two points for Vanaheim, and **LOGAN** scored one point for jotunehim, leaving **ABY B** on the continued outs of Muspelheim which was only strengthened by the poor challenge performance On the **Nonogram**, **ADAM** scored two points for Vanaheim, meanwhile **AIDAN** scored one point for Jotunheim, leaving **SHANNON** with no points for Muspelheim For the **KenKen**, **DAWSON** scored two points for Muspelheim, and **GRIFF** scored one point for Vanaheim. Leaving **SARAH** with no points for Jotunheim

And that brings us to the hilarious **Logic** puzzle, in which **KRISTINE**, **TYLER**, and **JMONEY** all had to do quite the difficult puzzle. It ended up taking **KRISTINE** 3 ½ hours to complete the puzzle, meanwhile **TYLER** and **JMONEY** were nowhere close. **JMONEY** notoriously gave up in the puzzle, however was pretending that he was actively working on it the whole time which gained some respect in his tribe’s eyes . After 24 hours, **TYLER** was begging **KRISTINE** for clues and she ended up not giving him anything noteworthy enough in order to finish, as she did not want to paint a target on her back like that in front of everyone. Because of this, **KRISTINE** was the only to complete the puzzle and gained 2 points for Muspelheim.

The final scores were Muspelheim with 6 points, Vanaheim with 5 points, and Jotunheim with a measly 3 points, sending them to tribal council. Due to the camp still maintaining an awkward aura due to **SAISH’S** exit, nothing noteworthy occurred over at Muspelheim.

Meanwhile, over on Vanaheim, Sons of Dr. Phil were continually dominating the tribe and thinking up solutions to **JACK’S** idol, which they still were not aware was fake. **TYLER** and **GRIFF** personally bonded with one another in a voice call with **COLIN**, and **TYLER** grew more respect for **GRIFF** from this. Meanwhile **COLIN** was the exact opposite, **TYLER** ended up leaving the voice call first and **GRIFF** said he had to go shortly after, but told **COLIN** before he left that there’s a lot of trust between them. This spawned a HILARIOUS moment as the second **GRIFF** left the voice call **COLIN** had a hilarious monologue for the spectators, as he did a super villain like laugh and then begun to shortly scream about how he did not trust or like **GRIFF** whatsoever.

While I cannot recall the exact lines, they were along the lines of: *evil laugh* “This dumb motherfucker I don’t trust him one bit” “He’s trying to play me so hard I know it” “Little does he know, I’m a blubbering idiot who knows how to play this game”

This appears to leave **ADAM** in an unknown swing position between **COLIN** disliking **GRIFF**, and **TYLER** liking him. Meanwhile, **JACK’S** “idol” seems to be buying him much more time than he ever anticipated.

Meanwhile, over at Jotunheim, **BELLA** being sick as of late was concerning Da Boys, and while their initial target in mind was **SARAH**, after **SARAH** pushed heavily to form SLAM with **AIDAN**, **LOGAN**, and **MASON**, however they made **JMONEY** aware of this in an attempt to help him feel in the loop. However this made **JMONEY** quite nervous, especially because **SARAH** was very hard preaching for a **JMONEY** blindside. However, **MASON** stood up for **JMONEY** and saved his name from the chopping block, managing to convince **SARAH** to instead target **BELLA**, who was on the outs of the tribe.

Sadly, **BELLA** ended up getting voted out in a 5-1 vote, with her throwing a vote on **JMONEY** on her way out.

## **Episode 6 + 7:** “I was sad, having a sad pee” - Kristine

With five players eliminated, the game was shaken up yet again with another swap, this time based on trust rankings that each player did in their confessionals, ranking not just their own tribemates but everyone left in the game. Their rankings were averaged out, and the people ranked 2-8 on average score went to Niflheim, those ranked 9-15 went to Alfheim, and the #1 most trusted person went to Hel, where they would sit out the cycle and then join the tribe who lost the next challenge (and therefore lost a member). After the scores were tallied, it was **KRISTINE** who was #1 and sent to Hel. The “trusted” tribe was **TYLER**, **ADAM**, **AIDAN**, **MASON**, **LOGAN**, **DAWSON** AND **KAMIL**, and the “not trusted” tribe was **SHANNON**, **COLIN**, **SARAH**, **JMONEY**, **GRIFF**, **ABY B** AND **JACK**.

Over on Niflheim, things kicked into gear pretty quickly as a production slip-up meant that players were able to see part of the puzzle meant for **KRISTINE** in Hel, with **MASON** and **LOGAN** quickly pulling up the puzzle for the temporary idol and solving it. They were told that “what you see is nowhere to be found on your camp”, but for some reason, instead of suspecting that the idol was either in the hands of **KRISTINE** or someone on Alfheim, they began to suspect that **KAMIL** had the idol despite him being on the same camp, due to the fact that he was quiet at the beginning of the swap. This helped lead to the quick formation of the Anti-Griff-Federation, made up of the four original Midgard plus **MASON**, who had connected well with **LOGAN** and **AIDAN** over on Jotunheim. The whole tribe was confident that they’d win the upcoming challenge, but in the event that they lost, a plan to split the votes between **KAMIL** and **DAWSON** began to form.

Meanwhile, almost the exact same situation was unfolding on Alfheim. **GRIFF** quickly took charge, showing a surprisingly eagerness to work with **COLIN** and **JACK** considering all the drama that went down surrounding the **PYRO** vote just three days earlier. They (AKA **GRIFF**) quickly formulated a plan to bring in **JMONEY** and **SARAH** to split the vote between **ABY B** and **SHANNON**, in order to eliminate the advantage that everyone was still convinced **ABY B** held (**JMONEY** continued to be free of suspicion, as he and **MASON** have not yet shared the truth with anyone else). On both tribes it looked like the end result was going to be a split against the former Muspelheim members, and there wasn’t a ton of talk about what they would do if **KRISTINE** joined the tribe. Speaking of **KRISTINE**, she was able to figure out her puzzle while in Hel, winning a temporary idol good until F13, giving her two cycles to work with it. With no effect on the cycle, she was left hoping that none of her allies would get the boot.

The immunity challenge was another live one, as our mortals played a Norse God version of Guess Who! After a confusing first attempt that ended up in controversy due to conflicting online sources detailing the families and clans of different gods, a second round was played that resulted in Alfheim pulling out the upset and winning immunity, sending Niflheim to tribal council. The Anti-Griff-Federation quickly went into a VC with its members cycling in and out, and everyone agreed to stick to the split plan. Everyone was a little wary initially due to **KAMIL** and **DAWSON** not becoming active in strategy discussions until a little later, and **TYLER** was extremely paranoid due to neither of them talking to him, and this paranoia was revealed to be founded as **KAMIL** was pushing for **TYLER** to go. This led to the formation of the (at this point unnamed) MAD alliance of **KAMIL**, **DAWSON**, **MASON** and **AIDAN**, but while **MASON** and **AIDAN** acted like they were onboard, they never considered straying from their original plan. The reading of the votes was a bit awkward due to everyone being in camp VC during it for some reason, and the Anti-Griff-Federation plan went off without a hitch, eliminating **KAMIL** in a 3-2-2 vote, and (in the eyes of the victors) getting rid of an idol in the process. However, upon **KAMIL**’s exit. **TYLER** found it appropriate to gloat and scream in his face, claiming that “nobody should ever fucking come for me”.

**KRISTINE** now joined the tribe, creating an interesting mix as she’d been allied with all three of **ADAM**, **TYLER** and **LOGAN** back on Midgard, and was also tight with **DAWSON**. A couple Anti-Griff-Federation members were also active in trying to make **DAWSON** feel a little more integrated to try and keep him on their side come merge, with **MASON** laying out exactly what happened on the previous vote to him, and **ADAM** talking in confessionals about how he wants to work with both him and **KRISTINE** going forwards.

However, they didn’t have time to discuss this too much, as another challenge was quickly announced, and the two tribes had to put their drinking (and counting) hats on with 99 Bottles! This test of speed and team communication led to an absolute blowout, with Niflheim’s time of 3 minutes annihilating Alfheim’s time of 23 minutes. One wrinkle in the challenge is that **SHANNON**, for posting the most for her tribe, won individual immunity, throwing a bit of a wrench into **GRIFF’s** plan. Instead of switching it up too much, it was decided that the Vanaheim and Jotunheim coalition would just put all five votes on **ABY B**, with her and **SHANNON** believing that it was actually going to be a Muspelheim and Vanaheim split on **SARAH** and **JMONEY** Neither of the two former Muspelheim members questioned the plan, and the end result was a 5-2 elimination of **ABY B** , and for a second straight tribal most of those involved believed they had managed to flush an advantage. The queen of spec lounge did not seem overly distraught about her exit, wishing her tribemates well in a short message before returning to the great chat room in the sky.

## **Episode 8:** “A storm is brewing” - Adam

Following a straight forward **ABY B** voteoff, the contestants all awaited their next challenge only to see that they were merged! Their new tribe would be named Assgard, named by **DAWSON** . Right off of the bat the alliances are **very** scattered, **GRIFF** talks with **TYLER** and **ADAM** about needing to get rid of one of the Jotunheim, as that tribe is the most strongly together at this point. **GRIFF** suggests gunning for **MASON** however **TYLER** shuts this down as he knows **MASON** is working with him, however doesn’t tell **GRIFF** this. **TYLER** suggests targeting **SARAH** instead as he knows from **MASON** that she is easily the least connected from Jotunheim.

**ADAM** takes note of the many duos at this point in the game: **ADAM/TYLER,** **MASON/JMONEY,** **LOGAN/AIDAN,** **KRISTINE/DAWSON,** **GRIFF/COLIN** (this one not having such a strong attachment lmao).

Leaving **SHANNON**, **JACK**, and **SARAH** as the stragglers. Due to them having a connection with **JACK** from their time on Vanaheim, **ADAM** and **TYLER** decide the best target for this upcoming tribal would be **SHANNON**, as they’re less connected to her than **SARAH**, who tends to be more straightforward. However due to **GRIFF’s** relentless point of trying to break apart the Jotunheim, they settle for targeting **SARAH** instead. They hatch the plan to bring in **KRISTINE**, **DAWSON**, **COLIN** and **SHANNON** as their majority to vote out **SARAH**. Both **TYLER** and **ADAM** hope to make **SARAH**, **JACK**, and **SHANNON** the next few boots so that it would leave the two of them left with many options for allies further in the game. Meanwhile, **GRIFF** and them come up with the plan to also bring in **JACK** to vote **SARAH**, and then possibly throw some votes on **JACK** in case of an idol. To act on the plans formed by **GRIFF**, **TYLER**, and **ADAM**, Adam-Dawson-Griff-Kristine-Tyler is formed. Meanwhile, **MASON** is targeting **GRIFF** to the extreme mainly due to the negative connotations formed of **GRIFF** throughout the premerge, alongside **MASON** believing that **GRIFF** would be an easy boot that everyone would agree on.

In the middle of all the chaotic strategy in this episode, we had quite the entertaining idol hunt! Initially, **MASON** was the first one to find the idol clue in Trevmail, however after struggling with the clue for hours he resorted to telling **TYLER** about it, seeking help. This ended up not working out so well for **MASON** because **TYLER** ended up going straight to **ADAM** telling him about the clue, resulting in **ADAM** finding the idol on his first or second try and unscrambling the word WINPOWER. After a couple more steps, **ADAM** ended up finding the merge idol! However there was a twist, he had to give half of the idol to somebody else on the tribe, and these could either be used as separate half idols, or they can be played on the same person as a full idol! **ADAM** ended up giving **TYLER** the half, making these two easily the most powerful players in the game at the moment.

Meanwhile, **KRISTINE** lets **AIDAN** know of the Adam-Dawson-Griff-Kristine-Tyler alliance planning to get rid of **SARAH**, **AIDAN** ends up telling **MASON**, **LOGAN**, **JMONEY**, and **DAWSON** this info, **DAWSON** already knew of this alliance of course however still heard **AIDAN** out. **MASON** tries to heavily influence the group to target **GRIFF** here, and even runs to **TYLER** trying to convince him to target **GRIFF**, however it didn’t work as it seems **DAWSON**, **MASON**, and **LOGAN** all want **GRIFF** kept around as a shield at this point in the game. **DAWSON** suggests the idea of rather than voting **SARAH** out, they should bring her in as a number and make her aware of the fact that she was being targeted. **KRISTINE** ends up joining the conversation, and all six of them agree that **ADAM** is the biggest target in the game. However, **LOGAN** suggests the idea to vote out **SHANNON** here, as she’s more of a swing vote and an unknown identity compared to the rest. Everyone agrees, however **KRISTINE** is still keeping in mind heavily that **ADAM** needs to go soon. Before the beginning of the challenge, both **MASON** and **GRIFF** had quite the interesting encounter with one another over a voice call, as **GRIFF** was attempting to convince them to vote off **SARAH**, **KRISTINE** sat and listened to the conversation that occurred as both **MASON** and **GRIFF** ended up breaking into a MAJOR argument based around lies planted by **TYLER** about the events that occurred during the premerge, due to the negative connotation **MASON** has of **GRIFF**, they are both not hiding their mere dislike of one another, and want nothing to do with one another moving forward.(edited)

For the immunity challenge this episode the castaways had to play **greed**! With the twist that if they choose to take greed, aka individual immunity, they’d lose their vote at the Final 12 tribal council! At the challenge **JACK** took the first individual immunity, meanwhile **MASON** got the second one!

After the challenge, people were still split on whether or not the plan for the tribal should be to get rid of **SHANNON** or **SARAH**, however now that their plan to flush **JACK’s** idol is down the drain, they decided the best course of action would be to vote off **SHANNON** here. **AIDAN** and **LOGAN** appear to be in the middle of two large alliances, as they’re working with both **JMONEY**and **MASON**, but also **ADAM**, **KRISTINE**, and **TYLER** on the other side of things. **AIDAN** and **LOGAN** were pushing heavily for getting rid of **SARAH** sooner rather than later, however they ended up targeting **SHANNON** as it would’ve caused much less of a wave. In a 11-2 vote, **SHANNON** ended up being the eighth person voted out and our first juror, with **GRIFF** left on the wrong side of the votes.

## **Episode 9:** “If this goes south we’re all the next boots” - Aidan

After quite the seemingly straightforward **SHANNON** voteoff, **GRIFF** appeared to be on the complete outs of Assgard, being disliked by essentially everyone and was left on the wrong side of a 11-2 vote. However after tribal he approached **ADAM** and **TYLER** looking for options, and despite them wanting him out, they decided it’d be best to use **GRIFF** as a number for now.

In a conversation between these three, **GRIFF** tells **ADAM**, **TYLER**, and **COLIN** that their best shots at survival are to gun for the former members of Jotunheim, and that **JMONEY** would be an ideal target for this next tribal council due to the suspicion of a possible advantage he could’ve had from his exile trip at F18. After **GRIFF** leaves the call, **COLIN** seems very frustrated that **GRIFF** is taking such a bossy tone despite being left on the wrong side of an 11-2 vote, **TYLER** agrees however decides their best move would just be to please **GRIFF** in order to lower his guard and keep him loyal to them in the future. Meanwhile, **AIDAN**, **KRISTINE**, and **DAWSON** appear to take note of how much of a full fledged threat **ADAM** has grown to be, as **ADAM** was commanding the entire premerge and appeared to have everyone trust him to a degree. Because of this major target, they came up with the plan to blindside **ADAM** through utilizing the people at the bottom of the game in the moment, who were **JMONEY**, **MASON**, **SARAH**, and **JACK**. Two major alliances were formed dedicated to this vote out, Coleslaw (terrible name) featuring **AIDAN**, **DAWSON**, **JMONEY**, **KRISTINE**, **MASON**, and **SARAH**. And also peepee (amazing name) which featured the exact same except **LOGAN** was swapped with **SARAH**. Coleslaw was the only alliance that prepared for the **ADAM** blindside prior to the challenge however.

For the challenge this time the castaways had to endure some grueling rounds of **noitcaeR** in which we made them reverse MASSIVELY annoying phrases. In the final round, **GRIFF**, **ADAM**, and **LOGAN** were struggling on a particular phrase, and despite having a 3-1-0 lead (adam to griff to logan), **ADAM** helped **LOGAN** fix his phrase resulting in **LOGAN** scoring a point. This ended up not paying off for **ADAM** at all, as **LOGAN** ended up coming from behind and winning the challenge 4-3-3!!

Leading up to tribal, it appeared a set plan to blindside **ADAM** was ready. **JMONEY** told everyone about his steal a vote and **KRISTINE** told the alliance about her temporary idol. The plan would be for her to transfer the idol to **JMONEY**, and everyone would vote **JMONEY** whilst **JMONEY** would vote **ADAM**. However **KRISTINE** failed to realize that her idol expired LAST TRIBAL!!!! And would be of no effect here, it wasn’t until she transferred it to **JMONEY** and he took note of that fact. Because of this, there was slight last minute scrambling, and this forced **AIDAN** to have to convince **LOGAN** to vote out **ADAM**. While this was a choice that **LOGAN** felt was hard to do, he decided he would jump onboard with the plan. As an extra precaution since **JACK** and **MASON** had lost their votes due to their sacrifice in the F13 challenge, **JMONEY** stole **GRIFF’S** vote in tribal council. Everything was sailing perfectly smooth until **SARAH** had told **TYLER** of the plan to vote out **ADAM**. This led to EVEN MORE scrambling as now **ADAM** had become aware he’d be getting some votes, however some last minute reassurances from **KRISTINE**, **AIDAN**, and **LOGAN** kept the plan intact until the very last second. **ADAM** ended up getting blindsided in a 7-3 vote, leaving many shocked upon his exiting revelation that he had an idol, he however kept the secret of the half idol he was leaving as **TYLER** would be left with the other half.

## **Episode 10:** “They now have a semblance of power and a thirst for blood” - Griff

Following a surprising **ADAM** blindside, **TYLER** and **COLIN** were left pissed at the rest of the castaways, meanwhile **GRIFF** is left confused at the events that have transpired. Due to losing his vote at the last tribal council, **JACK** seems to be a free agent as neither side can really pin whether or not he was involved with the plan to blindside **ADAM**. In a voice call, **TYLER**, **COLIN**, and **GRIFF** all got in a heated argument about what the next move would be, **TYLER** seems to think they’re completely screwed, and doesn’t seem to be attempting whatsoever to hide his dislike of **GRIFF’s** attitude. **GRIFF** wants to bring **LOGAN** and **AIDAN** back to their side, however **TYLER** doesn’t seem to want much to do with those two at the moment. They consider the idea of working with **JACK** because of his idol, however they instead opt to target him because of it.

Initially, it appeared that a **GRIFF** vote out would be the most likely result, as many people including **MASON**, **LOGAN**, and **TYLER** especially wanted to get rid of **GRIFF** soon in particular. However, **SARAH** begins telling **AIDAN** about her plans for a **KRISTINE** blindside here, however due to **AIDAN’s** much closer connection with **KRISTINE** he makes her aware of this, causing them to now want to target **SARAH** as soon as possible. For the challenge today the castaways had to watch a **Norse Trivia Video** and in quite the landslide victory, **GRIFF** ended up winning this challenge. **JMONEY** ended up having an iconic score of 6/29, after guessing himself as the answer to more than half of the questions.

Since **GRIFF** now became immune, options seemed to be blown quite open at this point, **TYLER** was on the chopping block due to now being left exposed with **ADAM** gone, **JACK** was on the chopping block because now everyone in the game thought he had an idol, **SARAH** was on the chopping block because of her targeting **KRISTINE** out of the blue. However despite all these targets, **GRIFF** created the Colin-Dawson-Griff-Jack-Kristine-Tyler alliance in order to pit people against who he believed the biggest threat left in the game was, **LOGAN**. **GRIFF** pitched to this alliance that they’d need each other to succeed as they’re on the bottom, however **KRISTINE** told **GRIFF** that **SARAH** would be an easier target, despite this **GRIFF** still had his eyes set on **LOGAN** as he was a bigger long term threat.

Leading up to and during tribal had quite the interesting moments with **LOGAN** proclaiming in tribal council that he would play his idol, and even posted a fake picture of an idol in the tribal council chat as he had heard from **TYLER** and **KRISTINE** that his name was circling around. This lead to some slight scrambling from **GRIFF** who changed the target to **MASON**, as he was telling this to **KRISTINE** and **TYLER**, **MASON** ended up joining the voice call just to say “what’s this about blindsiding me?” and then leaving the call, causing even more paranoia to **GRIFF**. The funniest part of this all, was that **MASON** had NO IDEA that **GRIFF** was targeting him, and did this as a pure joke because he thought it’d be funny (and it really, really was). This ended up helping peepee ‘s plan to vote out **SARAH** go through much easier as **GRIFF** immediately assumed **SARAH** was the one who told **MASON**, considering she did the same thing with the last vote out. The plan then shifted towards splitting the votes between **SARAH** and **JACK**, with more on **JACK** due to the idol panic still existing. However as if this tribal period couldn’t get even more complex, as most of the votes were in **JACK** created the Jack Stans alliance of him, **DAWSON**, **GRIFF**, **KRISTINE**, **TYLER**, and **MASON** begging to stay. This was followed then by a public announcement by **JACK** in tribal in which he told EVERYONE that the idol was a lie made by **PYRO** on her way out. This left many shocked, and made the plans for this tribal even more clear to push all the votes on **SARAH**. **SARAH** ended up being voted out in a 9-1 vote, with **JACK** receiving **SARAH’s** vote on her way out.

## **Episode 11:** “I love this game, but also fuck this game” - Dawson

Following a straightforward **SARAH** vote off, the castaways seemed to be on the same page moving forward, and it seemed that this cycle would boil down to just a full **MASON** vs **GRIFF** showdown. As both were gunning for one another 100% at this point. For the challenge, the castaways had to do **Prisoner’s Dilemma** in which they’d have to choose between each other as to who they’d betray and who they’d ally within the context of the game. The person with the most points left would win, and **DAWSON** ended up winning this challenge with the humorous idea of betraying everyone.

Leading up to tribal, it seemed to be an across the board decision that everybody would get rid of **GRIFF**, with **GRIFF** thinking everyone would go after **MASON**. Meanwhile, **DAWSON** attempts to begin a rally against **JACK** as he believes making a move such as this would build his resume well. After going to **KRISTINE** and heavily pushing for this idea, he ended up coming short, as it did not benefit anyone to keep **GRIFF** in the game at this moment. In a 8-1-1 vote, **GRIFF** ended up being voted off, much to **MASON’s** delight. **JACK** received a vote from **DAWSON**, meanwhile **GRIFF** had voted for **MASON** on his way out.

## **Episode 12:** “Guys Jmoney has got this in the bag...maybe” - Jmoney

After another nearly unanimous vote-out, **DAWSON** was the one player left frustrated, as he was again unable to shake things up and get one of The Real Norse Gods foursome eliminated. He then abstained from the next challenge, Sacrifices, as everyone else immediately jumped into it. **COLIN** and **TYLER** declined the first sacrifice, putting them essentially on the same footing as **DAWSON**, with the other five players all accepting at least the first three. **JMONEY** and **MASON** were the only ones who went past four, meaning that they both lost their vote for the upcoming tribal AND they were not allowed to talk in DMs or alliance chats during that time as well. Not only that, but because they both accepted every sacrifice on the table, the gods were forced to take some time to formulate tiebreaker options, giving everyone else time to strategize.

Knowing that whoever lost immunity between **JMONEY** and **MASON** would be super vulnerable, **TYLER** and **COLIN** quickly formulated a plan to go after them at tribal, as it would potentially be easy to sell everyone else on going for them. When the tiebreaker was announced, it was **JMONEY** who accepted the massive sacrifice of going to exile not just for the F9 tribal council, but for the whole F8 cycle as well, winning immunity in this episode but leaving himself very vulnerable for the next. This also put his #1 ally, **MASON**, in quite a poor position as well, as he had no vote, no ability to speak privately with anyone, and was still eligible to be voted for. **MASON** quickly found himself regretting going as far as he did, and knew he was in massive danger. His only hope was that the others would vote out **JACK** instead, but given that he could only make his pleas in public chats, he would need support from those who could still speak more discreetly.

Unfortunately for him, that hope was not forthcoming, as he had multiple people gunning for him. **KRISTINE** and **AIDAN** wanted to break up the duo of **MASON** and **JMONEY**, with **KRISTINE** pointing out that **MASON** would take **JMONEY** to the end over any of them. **LOGAN** felt that **MASON** was someone who could pose a real danger to him as he saw him as someone liable to make a “big move” to shake things up, and in his confessionals **LOGAN** also talked about how he would like **DAWSON** to go next for the same reason, breaking up strong duos at consecutive tribal councils in the process. However, the seeds for the breakup of the to-this-point quite strong OG Midgard alliance started to be planting, as **TYLER** began to warm to the idea of going to the end with **DAWSON**, which **KRISTINE** was very happy with, and an **TYLER** began to think of a final four consisting of himself, **KRISTINE**, **COLIN** and **DAWSON**. Before the votes were read **TYLER** and **KRISTINE** chatted on VC for over five hours, something that **TYLER** pointed to as having brought them closer together, solidifying an endgame pact with each other.

The only person besides **MASON** left unhappy with how the vote proceeded was **JACK**, who did not want to vote out **MASON** due to seeing him as his closest ally at that point. **JACK** vented in his confessionals about how the last few votes had been “boring”, and he continued to be frustrated with his near-total lack of power in the game, unable to flip anyone against each other. In the end, he went with the majority due to not seeing any other choice, and **MASON** was voted out 5-2, with **COLIN** and **DAWSON** throwing votes on **JACK** in case of any advantage shenanigans.

## **Episode 13:** “Am I a social king or a major dumbass” - Logan

All alone on exile, **JMONEY** was shocked to see the news of **MASON’S** elimination posted in treemail, with his #1 ally gone to Valhalla. He was left unsure as to the reason, and knew that he was in danger at the upcoming tribal council himself, but could do nothing except sit in exile and hope that he wasn’t the one who ended up on the block. Back in Assgard, our mortals were rocked by another twist, as they were hit with Ragnarok, immediately locking all DMs and alliance chats. This was followed by another arena challenge, this time the bone-throwing fight Hnutukast. **AIDAN** and **LOGAN** could not participate due to sacrifices accepted the previous cycle. **KRISTINE** was the first one eliminated, with three others then going out at the same time, leaving **TYLER** as the decisive winner, and giving him immunity at the upcoming live tribal.

Entering tribal, **JMONEY** was an obvious target due to not being there. **LOGAN** then quickly played his SWP advantage (which was set to expire) on **KRISTINE**, giving her immunity but also causing her to leave tribal council, meaning she would not have a say in what went down. **KRISTINE** was left somewhat distraught by this move, as while she was happy to be safe, she shocked that it happened and felt **LOGAN** did it in order to facilitate a **DAWSON** vote, which she was not happy about at all. **JMONEY** then caused some further paranoia to those still at tribal by submitting his vote from exile. It was believed that his vote would be for **DAWSON**, as **TYLER** said in conf that he and **LOGAN** had been told by **MASON** in VC the previous cycle that **JMONEY** was most likely going to vote for **DAWSON**, but in fact **JMONEY** voted for **COLIN** due to the fact that he had to sign his name on the parchment, and so voted for someone he didn’t have much of a connection to in order to save in-game relationships should he survive.

**COLIN** was the first to openly bring up voting **JMONEY** as a preferred plan in order to not ruffle more feathers, with **JACK**, **AIDAN** and **DAWSON** saying they’d be fine with that, and **COLIN** quickly submitted his vote. However, things then started to shift with **LOGAN** bringing up **JACK** as either a target or a second on a split, which then led to **TYLER** revealing that he believed **JMONEY** had voted for **DAWSON**, and that **LOGAN** and **AIDAN** wanted to gun for him. **TYLER** told **DAWSON**, **COLIN** and **JACK** that they could make a big move here if they wanted to, and asked if they would like to vote for **LOGAN**. In his confessional, **TYLER** revealed that he felt **LOGAN** and **AIDAN** had been steering things, and he wanted to use this as an opportunity to not only get out a big threat, but do so right in front of the jury in a way that it could be seen as entirely “his” move. **DAWSON** came on board quickly due to trusting **TYLER** and being grateful that he shared that he was being targeted, and **COLIN** and **JACK** also submitted votes for **LOGAN**.

This did not end tribal, however, as **LOGAN** refused to submit a vote until he was sure he was gone, and **AIDAN** announced that he would be submitting his vote late no matter what due to being super busy with exams, and wanting to postpone the beginning of the next challenge in this fashion. He was then not too active the rest of the tribal, leaving **LOGAN** feeling a bit hopeless as his closest ally wasn’t able to fight alongside him as much as he’d like. **LOGAN** also regretted playing his SWP on **KRISTINE**, saying in conf that he now wished he’d played it on **COLIN**, not realizing that **TYLER** would flip on him at this moment. As things stretched on, **JACK** began to get cold feet about voting out **LOGAN**, due to the fact that **DAWSON** had voted for him at two tribals in a row. He tried to retract his vote, and after he found out he couldn’t he revealed that he could be persuaded to get on **LOGAN’S** side. New revelations continued as **COLIN** realized that he’d been left out of some crucial alliances, and he was told that the general perception of him from the other players was that he was, in his own words, “Tyler’s bitch”. This didn’t make him change his vote, but he said in his conf that this whole cycle had made him lose trust in **TYLER**, and felt that he now had to go soon.

After a lot of back and forth, **LOGAN** then began campaigning to get the vote back onto **JMONEY**, in an effort to stay alive and appease enough people to get the vote off of him. As the tribal stretched into the following morning, **AIDAN** submitted a vote for **JMONEY**, and after **DAWSON** came back online for a bit, he and **TYLER** decided to switch the vote to **JMONEY**, and this happened fast enough that both **JACK** and **COLIN** were not online during this decision, and therefore did not change their votes. **TYLER** decided that he was fine with backing off of his planned “big move” and voting for **JMONEY** instead of **LOGAN** that tribal, as he was worried about **DAWSON** roping in **JMONEY** to use against him, but with **LOGAN** still around he would hopefully serve as the target for everyone to go after. **LOGAN**, still not entirely convinced that he was going to survive when he finally submitted his vote, was left ecstatic that he made it to F7, while **JMONEY** was left rueing the fact that he went so far in the Sacrifices challenge. **KRISTINE**, confused as to why tribal council lasted so long, welcomed everybody back to camp, as they were given the rest of the day off.

## **Episode 14:** “Being the biggest goat is not fun” - Jack

The players had some time off before the F7 challenge, which allowed them to chill out a little bit and also catch up **KRISTINE** on everything, as she’d missed the entire tribal. There was so much to say that **COLIN** and **KRISTINE** even talked in DMs for the very first time (lol). Despite surviving, **LOGAN** knew that he was in major trouble, and that he needed to find a way to shake things up if he was to make it past another vote. The challenge was Touchy Subjects, potentially giving our mortals ammunition to go after each other with. Notable results: **KRISTINE** was voted the biggest threat, **JACK** was voted the biggest goat, and **LOGAN** was voted the most likely to be voted off at the next tribal. The challenge came down to the tiebreaker as both **COLIN** and **TYLER** scored ten out of a possible thirteen points, and it was **TYLER** who won the tiebreaker and therefore immunity. This was a big win for him, as he likely would have been targeted by **LOGAN** as well as possibly **AIDAN** and maybe even **COLIN** if he had lost. **KRISTINE** was a bit worried from being voted the biggest threat as well as biggest hero, and her paranoia was furthered when she got word that **LOGAN** was tossing her name out. This - combined with **AIDAN** apparently not talking to her much for a while - made her very worried that she was about to be voted out.

Luckily for her, both **DAWSON** and **TYLER** were fully on her side, and both **COLIN** and **JACK** preferred to vote out **LOGAN** over **KRISTINE**. **KRISTINE’S** original plan had actually been to go after **JACK**, due to fear that he could possibly have an idol and also due to seeing him as a wildcard, but the end result was a straightforward **LOGAN** vote. **AIDAN** also voted for **LOGAN**, making it unanimous, after re-pledging his allegiance to the majority and **KRISTINE** in particular. **LOGAN** knew he was gone, and as the last to vote dragged it out a little bit for fun, before playing a fake idol once again before the votes were read. His final words were a bit pointed, pointing out **TYLER** as the frontrunner in his eyes.

## **Episode 15:** “I’m not a Survivor fan and I’m not here to have fun” - Kristine

Entering final six, both **TYLER** and **KRISTINE** had their eyes on **JACK** as the next boot. **TYLER** wanted to keep **AIDAN** until F5 as a shield, and his recent challenge prowess plus the fact that he still held his half idol put him in a powerful position. **KRISTINE**, meanwhile, had **DAWSON**, **TYLER** and **AIDAN** all stating that she was their #1, and thus wanted to take out someone she did not have a bond with. However, **TYLER** began to reconsider wanting to sit next to **KRISTINE** at FTC, as he felt he’d be more likely to win if he sat next to **DAWSON** and **COLIN**. Meanwhile, **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** individually reaffirmed their goal of going to the end with the other, and **KRISTINE** became worried that **TYLER** would want to cut her at F4, due to him telling her that he wants **DAWSON** in the final three, and knowing that he’s been tight with **COLIN** for the majority of the game. **AIDAN**, in his confessional, stated that he felt he was completely screwed.

The challenge was a big one, a throwback that included noitcaeR, a logic puzzle, a mini scavenger hunt, individual 99 Bottles, and a slide puzzle. Heading into it, **KRISTINE** was quite pessimistic, not feeling much motivation to do it as she knew she’d lose. Meanwhile, **TYLER** was really hoping that one of the two of them would win, as it would allow them to direct the vote - against either **JACK** or **AIDAN** - much easier. In the challenge itself, **COLIN** dropped out in the first section, claiming a headache from the backwards writing, while **DAWSON** DQ’d at the final section, unable to figure out how to work the slide puzzle on mobile until after he’d skipped it. Of the four who finished, **TYLER** and **JACK** finished way back, at well over an hour, while **KRISTINE** perhaps unexpectedly clocked in at just under 43 minutes, around 15 ahead of **AIDAN**, to win her first individual immunity!

Entering tribal council, **DAWSON** quickly went to the Final 3 alliance to try and lock down a vote on **JACK**. However, the vote would not proceed that easily, as **AIDAN**, **COLIN** and **JACK** quickly came together with the knowledge that it was now or never for them, and that they needed to get **TYLER** out this vote otherwise he stood fantastic odds of making FTC, where he would be very difficult to beat. Knowing that they needed to somehow pull off a 3-2-1 or swing either **KRISTINE** or **DAWSON** for a 4-2, they decided to try and approach the two of them cautiously. While **DAWSON** made it clear he was not gonna flip, quickly submitting a vote for **JACK**, **AIDAN** came to the new trio with the news that he believed **KRISTINE** was on board. This turned out to not be true, as **KRISTINE** voted for **JACK**, with **AIDAN**, **COLIN** and **JACK** voting for **TYLER**. **DAWSON** became paranoid that he was actually on the block, **KRISTINE** was confused as to what exactly was happening, and **AIDAN**, **COLIN** and **JACK** all gave their word that they were ready to go to rocks for each other. **TYLER**, offline until he was the last to vote, became worried that he was getting flipped on, but because his half idol would be useless if it was 5-1 or 4-2, he decided to save it for F5 and hope for the best, submitting his vote for **JACK** and making it 3-3.

When the votes were revealed, everyone quickly clarified who they voted for, and those who had voted for **TYLER** began to try and convince **KRISTINE** to flip her vote. **COLIN** immediately locked in his revote, and made it very clear he was going to rocks. **DAWSON** tried to convince **AIDAN** to flip, and stated that he would stick with his original vote as he would be screwed if he didn’t. As a hail mary, **AIDAN** declared to **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** that he would go to the end with them if they flipped on **TYLER**, and that he had lied to **COLIN** and **JACK** when he said he was F3 with them. **KRISTINE** was torn, unsure of whether **AIDAN** would stick with her if she flipped to vote out **TYLER**, and upset at the knowledge that either way she had to go against someone she’d been allied with basically the entire game. After a lot of back and forth, with **AIDAN** pleading with them to flip and **TYLER** warning that if he went the two of them were next, **KRISTINE** stated that she would only flip if **DAWSON** did as well. **DAWSON** ended up deciding that the best move for him would be to flip, as it would guarantee he would survive this tribal 100%. **KRISTINE** ended up keeping her vote on **JACK** as she did not want to betray her friend, and in a 3-1 revote **TYLER** became the eighth member of our jury.

## **Episode 16:** “I like you, but I don’t trust you” - Dawson

After probably the most monumental tribal council of the season, we were left with a clearly divided final five. On one side, **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** were determined to make it to the end together, their bond that began way before the game began too strong to consider breaking now. On the other side, **COLIN** and **JACK** had formed perhaps the most unlikely duo in the game, making an FTC pact at F6 that they were equally determined to follow through with. **AIDAN** was left in the middle, teaming up with **COLIN** and **JACK** for the F6 vote, but also convincing **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** to flip on **TYLER** with the promise that he was actually in for F3 with them.

The challenge was season trivia, and after everyone got off to a bit of a slow start this quickly turned into a two-person battle between **KRISTINE** and **JACK**, with both of them scoring more individually than the other three combined. It went down to nearly the last question, but in the end **JACK** pulled out a crucial immunity win, and with **AIDAN** making it clear in confs that he wanted to side with **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON**, it seemed like **COLIN** would go home in a simple 3-2 vote.

However, that was not to be. Despite turning on **TYLER** at the last vote, and the fact that all three of them submitted votes relatively quickly for **COLIN**, **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** were both quite worried that **AIDAN** was playing them. Meanwhile, the trio of **COLIN**, **JACK** and **AIDAN** were very slow in deciding on a target for the vote, as fear of an idol (with none having been played all season) meant a back-and-forth debate as to which of their opponents was the best choice to stick votes on. This stretched into the following morning, and eventually they landed on **DAWSON**. **JACK** duly submitted his vote, but then the game was flipped again.

All the time since the end of the challenge had given **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** more time to stew over the possibility of **AIDAN** turning on them, and **DAWSON** decided to take matters into his own hands, approaching **JACK** and **COLIN** about flipping on **AIDAN**. While this did not have a ton of effect at first, his conversation with **COLIN** soon before the end of tribal was quite impactful. He laid out how **AIDAN** had all the power, and that he would be happy to work together to vote him out now. He left **COLIN** convinced that **AIDAN** was fully playing both sides, and **COLIN** went to **JACK** with the news that **AIDAN** was probably betraying them, stating that **DAWSON** had told him info he wouldn’t have known unless **AIDAN** told him. This sold **JACK**, and **COLIN** was happy to go with a plan that not only took himself out of the crosshairs, but also took out one of the two people he saw as his biggest threats. The plan was put in motion so swiftly that **KRISTINE** was not told it was happening until the votes were locked, with **DAWSON** and **JACK** quickly switching their votes right before **COLIN** submitted. This meant that **AIDAN** was voted off 3-2, somewhat ironically ending up in 5th, the position that he had said he would get at the previous tribal if **TYLER** wasn’t voted out.

While this late switch was being put in place, **COLIN** made it clear to **DAWSON** that he wanted **KRISTINE** gone at F4 due to her being a big threat. **DAWSON** made it clear in his conf that he wasn’t going to let that happen if he could help it, setting up a clear 2 vs 2 confrontation at the final vote before FTC.

## **Episode 17:** “I’m tempted to pee into a cup right now” - Kristine

Following a massively game turning blindside, it appeared that we are now left with a 2v2 confrontation between **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** against **JACK** and **COLIN**. For their FINAL immunity challenge, the castaways had to face off in an endurance challenge to be the **Final Mortal Standing**. Both **COLIN** and **DAWSON** found themselves losing this challenge very quick into the challenge, both at the mere 4 minute mark. Meanwhile, **JACK** and **KRISTINE** had a MASSIVE face off lasting more than 5 hours. **JACK** knew that he needed to defeat **KRISTINE** here as she was the biggest threat left, and the most respected in the jury’s eyes out of the final 4. During the challenge, **JACK** created the Colin-Dawson-Jack alliance in which the guys all discussed that they needed to defeat **KRISTINE** here, however **DAWSON**’s hesitant behavior towards this made it clear to **COLIN** and **JACK** that regardless of the immunity challenge outcome, it was going to be a 2-2 tie at tribal council. **DAWSON** told **KRISTINE** of the alliance geared to getting rid of her, and this motivated her to eventually defeat **JACK** in the endurance challenge, guaranteeing **KRISTINE** a spot in the final three!

Leading up to tribal council, **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** both intended on voting out **JACK**, who after being the biggest underdog the entire game could have had a real good shot at the final tribal council. Both **KRISTINE** and **DAWSON** were very excited that they had seemingly accomplished their goal of making it to final tribal council with one another, however **COLIN** hadn’t intended on cutting off **JACK** here, as they had made a promise to one another that they’d at the very least force a fire making challenge for one another. So, at tribal council we ended up with a tied 2-2 vote between **DAWSON** and **JACK**, leading them into a fire making challenge! **KRISTINE** was quite enraged with **COLIN’s** move, meanwhile **DAWSON** was absolutely frightened for the challenge. However, **DAWSON** ended up defeating **JACK** in the fire making challenge! Making **JACK**, the underdog favorite to win, the tenth and final member of our jury.

The power now shifts from Assgard to Valhalla , ten people they each had a hand in voting out, now have the power to vote for a winner. Next up is FTC! Let’s see how our final three of **COLIN**, **DAWSON**, and **KRISTINE** fares against one another.

## **Finale:** “Why doesn’t anyone wanna ask us fun stuff?” - Dawson

Heading into our final tribal council, the jury seemed heavily favored towards **KRISTINE** as she was the most social of the final three. During FTC, some opinions shifted as **DAWSON** managed to prove himself to not just be **KRISTINE’s** blind follower throughout the game, and **COLIN** managed to show the jury that he did make some moves that impacted the game. However, **KRISTINE**’s massive threat level throughout the game and her ability to still make Final Tribal Council regardless of it was enough to gain the jury’s respect and gain her the victory!!!! At our reunion show, **AIDAN** was deemed the player of the game and **JACK** got the fan favorite award.