Goober

**Goober** was the Most Robbed Juror of Mythvivor: Nile River Valley and the Player of the Season and Runner-Up in Mythvivor: Valhalla - Second Chances.

## Nile River Valley

Goober began Nile River Valley on the Khepri tribe, where he formed a close duo with Jack. While they had a first easy vote on Bradley who was inactive, Jack and Goober soon blindsided Skylar at the next tribal council, siding with Fox and leaving Gabriel out of the vote.

At merge, Goober pitched the name of Khnum to the merged tribe tribe, and developed a lot of strong connections. He found himself in the majority Carbonado alliance with his former tribemate Jack, along with Coffee and Luna from Atum as well as Chiruvi and Tyler from Horus.

Despite getting an early disadvantage in the Auction which meant that he was only able to speak in emojis for the first tribal, he voted with the majority for Aqua. Goober won individual immunity from the Crossword Puzzle challenge, and his alliance targeted Zap, the Phoenix Rock returnee.

However, Goober's game ended when the alliance chose to target Beetnorf over Fox. Lukas, concerned that former Khepri was becoming too strong, chose to activate the Crook and Flail with Beetnorf. Beetnorf and Lukas chose to target Goober as the least likely former Khepri that they would expect (and would play an idol on). As a result, with only 2 votes to his name, Goober was idoled out of the game.

### Voting History

 1  Lukas and Beetnorf played the Crook and Flail on Beetnorf, which negated all votes against him.

### Episode Title Credits

* "I Don't Wanna Be the One to Set the Bomb Off"
* "Y'all Are Gonna Kumbaya Yourselves into a Ditch on the Side of the Interstate"

## Valhalla

In Mythvivor: Valhalla, Goober started out as one of only 3 former players from Nile River Valley. He started on the Haugbui tribe where he quickly bonded with Norah, another idoled out player from Mythvivor: Takachiho. Together, they found the Haugbui camp idol, starting off their road to redemption on a great foot.

Goober and Norah soon swapped over to the Verdande tribe with Licity, where they also bonded with Pengu and Moonool. During their one loss on this tribe, they voted out Sybil who they saw as a future social threat. When Verdande was faced with the Kingmaker swap, the tribe opted for "communism" where they openly chose who would go to each tribe. Goober would be separated from Norah and join the Baldur tribe which would be attending tribal.

On Baldur, Goober felt that his relationship with his Nile River Valley ally, Jack was strained. In addition, Pengu, who had gotten cold feet about how Verdande approached the swap challenge, also had begun throwing his former tribemates under the bus. Goober won the individual immunity challenge, Doodle Cricket and the tribe chose to boot former Nile River Valley player, Skylar. However, during this time, Goober had begun throwing Jack under the bus to Thomas.

The players were then forced into the Boat Tour twist, where Goober joined the Vasa boat with Anna, Moonool, and Norah. He teamed up with Norah for the challenge and they won, escaping the Sunk tribal council and returning to their respective camps. However, Jack, who Goober had wanted out, was the casualty at this joint tribal council anyways. Upon losing the next challenge, Goober voted out Licity who had asked to be voted out, but had received a stray vote from Pengu, who had wanted to cause chaos for his former Verdande tribemates.

Once the tribes merged, Goober reunited with Norah and was brought into the Sinister Six alliance which also included Moonool, Anna, Peanut, and Thomas. Goober, Norah, and Moonool also formed the Minesweeper alliance, where they found the hidden immunity idol hidden at the Einherjar camp. As a result, he gave Norah his first immunity idol that they found at the Haugbui camp, so that each of them would have one. First, they eliminated Verdande's rogue member, Pengu. Following that, they were a huge driver behind many of the votes.

However, Goober often found himself torn between doing what was best for himself and doing what was best for his duo with Norah. He often found himself in the swing position between the two sides, each being better for one of these goals. Many players discussed the possibility of bringing Goober to Final Tribal Council to the end with them as they were unaware of the threat he posed. In the end, Goober often chose what was best for his duo with Norah as it was very important for him to make Final Tribal Council with her. At the final 5 tribal council, Norah and Goober played their immunity idols, securing their safety. When Norah won the Final Immunity Challenge, Goober suggested to Dennis that they should vote out Thicc together and act like it was their plan all along. This secured his own safety.

At Final Tribal Council, both him and Norah had very strong performances. It was a very tight race as the jury very conflicted between the two. However, in the end, Goober fell just short of winning and lost in a 5-4-1 vote to his ride or die, Norah.

### Episode Title Credits

* "I Can Afford to Be a Little Dangerous"

## Trivia

* Jack/JTS and Goober share Runner-Up, Player of the Season, and Parker's Favorite Award. They were on the same two seasons (Nile River Valley and Valhalla).
* Goober received the same amount of votes against in both of his seasons (2).
* The only other two Nile River Valley returnees in Mythvivor: Valhalla were on the same starting tribe (Khepri) as Jack/JTS (Goober and Skylar).
* Goober was the only former Nile River Valley player to make merge in Mythvivor: Valhalla.