Our Survivor Lives Are Literally On The Line

It's all or nothing for Hufflepuff...

**Our Survivor Lives Are Literally On The Line** is the fifth episode of MintORGs Season 1: Hogwarts.

## Story

After their times in Flitwick, Sprout and Trelawney, the players were swapped back into their original Houses, with a triple tribal council looming. Only one House would win immunity, with each other house voting someone out.

### Gryffindor

**Hayleigh** had a weird feeling that the Hufflepuff pair of Duolingo and Laura would somehow pull through and win the immunity against all odds. She only really trusts Kyle, and thinks that Jamal and Rips were pushing her name, with Nikki also voting her. She’s working with Kyle and Wei to get Jamal out, which puts them at a 3-3 stalemate. Fortunately, Wei managed to flip Rips, forcing Nikki to vote in the majority, with Jamal being voted out.

**Jamal** was feeling nervous about the challenge, and felt like him and Hayleigh did really badly in the challenge. Ironically, Hayleigh is fully blaming Jamal for their challenge performance, saying he was useless. He went into tribal feeling confident, but ultimately, he was voted out.

**Kyle** was feeling good, wanting to continue his good challenge momentum. At tribal, Kyle noticed Jamal was the early name for the vote, but he actually started thinking he might want Hayleigh out due to her alliances that don’t include him, which is REALLY interesting, because Hayleigh was saying she ONLY trusts Kyle ! In the end, it was actually Wei that wasn’t vibing so well with Jamal, so Kyle agreed to change the vote. Once again, Hayleigh escapes by the skin of her teeth! As a result of all this, Kyle and Hayleigh became closer, having an open discussion about their concerns and plans for the rest of the game.

Another rough round for **Nikki**, who was struggling with some IRL issues. They were very impressed with Hufflepuff's score in the challenge. Nikki is becoming concerned about how much time they’re spending playing ORGs, which we totally understand and respect. Nikki says they only really trust Kyle, which is exactly what Hayleigh said. In the end, Nikki was left with little choice but to vote Jamal, as their ally Rips had been flipped, and they didn’t want to vote in the minority or risk getting rocked out.

**Rips** was very tired this round, finding himself not caring too much about challenge results and expecting to end up at tribal. He trusts Nikki most, and Hayleigh least. In the end, he was flipped by Wei, meaning him and Nikki also voted out Jamal.

**Wei** is realising he’s really not participated in challenges, saying that all he’s done so far is contribute a little bit to Nick’s flag on Trelawney. He’s trying to stay under the radar, and it seems to be working. He trusts Kyle most, which seems to be the case for half the Gryffindor players at this point. Having a strong distrust for Jamal, Wei was the one to make sure the numbers landed on Jamal, saying he “isn’t getting away this time”.

### Hufflepuff

DRAMATIC scenes over at Hufflepuff as they ended up faced with a two person tribal council firemaking duel if they fail to win the challenge. Duolingo and Laura know what must be done - win.

**Duolingo** is well aware that his life in the game is on the line, and he’s determined for the other Houses to finally vote one of their own out. He says his bond with Laura is ‘inseparable’, determined to make sure the number of Hufflepuff players left doesn’t go from 2 to 1.

**Laura** is aware it’s make or break right now in this challenge, and the two Hufflepuff players joined their voice chat to complete the task together. You could FEEL the tension in there, with both players utterly determined to win the challenge.

After completing the challenge, the two Hufflepuffs took the time to chat strategy, and Duolingo revealed to Laura that he has the Nagini horcrux. They try to guess more horcrux commands, but to no avail. As the results were read, Duolingo sat on his own in the VC, and was then joined by several spectators, as well as Hosts Bob and Minti, who heard his worry turn to delight and joy as Hufflepuff were announced as the winners!

This was a crucial win for Hufflepuff, and this episode definitely strengthened an already strong bond between the pair...

### Ravenclaw

**Imke** hates the twist of swapping back to Houses, because she’s in alliances with different people from Trelawney as well as Ravenclaw, and now she needs to decide who to stick with. She told Nick that she’d stick with him, but Tomato is her rookie buddy. They’re the top two of her trust ranking, with Nicole in last.

**Jace** provided a **video confessional** this episode. He noted that Tomato and Nick both expressed interest in voting out Nicole. For Imke, this is great news, because she was worried her allies wouldn’t be on the same page! Jace doesn’t seem to be too aware of the fact that a lot of the other players on Ravenclaw don’t trust him very much.

**Nick** believes the challenge couldn’t have been better for Ravenclaw, feeling really confident going into it. Tomato shared with Nick the clue from Flitwick. After losing the challenge, Nick tried to convince everyone to vote for Nicole, because he isn’t allied with her and she doesn’t benefit his game. With Wes’s permission, Nick and Tomato both told Nicole that Wes was the vote to keep her calm.

**Nicole** was happy to be back with the 'claws, and thinks they’re a smart and hardworking bunch. Unfortunately, her happiness was quickly ended. She believed she liked everyone on the tribe, but in the end she was voted out unanimously. Tomato was top of her trust ranking, with Imke bottom.

**Tomato** did NOT feel confident this challenge, and decided to improve his social game with Nick by sharing the clue with him. He felt really bad about losing the challenge though, believing it was his fault once again. But he stepped right back into game mode, hoping to make up for what he lacks physically with his social prowess. Imke is still his top ally, with Nicole bottom on his trust ranking - and he wants to vote Nicole as she is the least active.

**Wes** was approached by Nick who told them that Imke and Tomato were on board with voting Nicole. Wes agreed to it, noting that it sounds like Nick, Tomato and Imke have a group chat together. Wes felt as though it was between them and Nicole, so they voted Nicole.

### Slytherin

**Andy** is amused at the idea of Hufflepuff potentially losing the challenge and being down to 1 player. Top of his trust ranking is Riley, and bottom is Meredith. He’s trying to play a passive game to avoid having to constantly be in a power-hungry spot, like he thinks Riley currently is.

**Freeze** finds out that Riley wants Kieran gone. This works nicely for him, because it keeps the Sprout players and 'Minti alliance' intact. He believes Kieran is trying to plant seeds against Riley. Andy is top of his trust ranking, with Kieran bottom. The vote seemed like it was going to be on Riley for a moment, but then it flipped back to Kieran.

**Kieran** told Freeze she would’ve voted for him if he didn’t apologise for what he said in the Great Hall, and thinks his energy is ‘off’. Vinny leaked to Kieran that Riley was targeting her, so she got to scrambling with Andy and Freeze, even campaigning to Riley! Ultimately it wasn’t enough, and she was sadly voted out.

**Meredith** has Vinny top of her trust ranking, and Riley bottom. Riley was the one to throw out Kieran’s name first, so Meredith told Kieran his name was thrown out by Riley.

**Riley** has definitely decided Andy is his number one. He’s the brain, and Andy is the brawn. Having a bad feeling about the vote, despite Vinny being bottom of his trust ranking, he pushes for Kieran to be voted out.

**Vinny** was feeling good about the challenge, and was confident about how them and Meredith did. After ending up at tribal, they took that back. They decided to start hunting for an idol, trying loads of commands. They started trying common things from the Harry Potter series, and then realised they could try ‘daddy voldy’s horcruxes’. They stumbled across ?nagini but unfortunately it had been taken (by Duolingo, unknown to Vinny). They tried several commands to find the other horcruxes, eventually stumbling across the Slytherin horcrux, ?the-locket. They solved the morse code and then completed the puzzle, claiming the horcrux for themselves. With all the fun and games of idol hunting... Vinny forgot to vote!

## Tribal Council

### Gryffindor

 Hayleigh (1 vote)
 Jamal (5 votes)
 VOTED OUT:Jamal

### Ravenclaw

 Nicole (5 votes)
 Wes (1 vote)
 VOTED OUT:Nicole

### Slytherin

 Kieran (4 votes)
 Riley (1 vote)
 Vinny (1 vote)
 VOTED OUT:Kieran

## Trivia

* If Hufflepuff had attended Tribal Council, they would've had to complete a firemaking challenge, due to there only being two people on the tribe at the time - **Duolingo** and **Laura**.