Plaus

**Plaus** (Plaus#9816) placed 14th in Season 4 & 10th in Season 5.

A quiet player, Plaus started off fairly well respected on the Jaina Tribe. His generally pleasant social game saw him added as the fourth to the dominant Banana Bandits alliance, consisting of Giuli, Ben, and Chloe. Additionally, he found the Jaina Hidden Immunity Idol to help boost his social game with a fallback After the tribe swap, these four players found themselves all on the ill fated Nu Apolo Tribe, which would attend every Tribal Council it was eligible to go to. After the obvious vote of Dexter, Plaus began to sense that the other three may see him as the next to go due to their not-so-secret hour-long VC’s and friendships. He crafted a devious plan to tell Giuli to her face that he was playing his idol and voting for her to break up the Banana Bandits, particularly due to Giuli mismanaging their target for the round by ghosting him. When he let slip he “had a little surprise” for them, Giuli began attempting to capitalize upon her social game, and she and Ben were able to get Plaus to target Chloe instead in case of an idol play. Suddenly feeling as though he was not in trouble anymore, Plaus decided not to play his idol and was regretfully blindsided in a 3-1 vote.

Coming into Season 5, Plaus had two goals on Kisiti: Don’t get voted out with an idol in his pocket, and try to build a solid foundation instead of floating. The latter was semi-successful, as after being reunited with Tayy and Bel in a swap, Plaus was able to have a core alliance with some agency in the game. While still playing a passive pre-merge, Plaus was much more present this season and was passive with intent. He also had consistently good reads, particularly Anthony as running the game and knew getting the numbers against him would be hard. At the merge, Plaus was the first to voice his intent to flip on the OG Kisiti tribe as he knew he did not have a particularly good standing with them and would rather combine his and Bel’s presumed allies. While successfully flipping the vote against Dex, Plaus would find himself permanently relegated to the minority after Tayy was blindsided the following round. The rest of the game saw him as aloof and almost goat-like, but behind closed doors Plaus’ strategic mind was working overtime. When he found the Maqe Hidden Immunity Idol, Plaus was determined to let it go to use this time, though some paranoia saw him thinking he needed to play it each round even when he was not in danger. At the surprise de-merge double elimination, Plaus was the obvious target of his new tribe when Anthony, Izzy, and Azzy all agreed he was an easy vote. Embarrassingly, in the EXACT same fashion of Season 4, Plaus began the round by promising he would use his idol as he knew he was going to go home without it. However, as the round went on, his tribemates were able to reassure him that his target Lucas would be the vote, so he started to waver. Suddenly not wanting Anthony out for some reason, Plaus was then determined to idol out Lucas, who was on the bottom of the tribe, because he didn’t talk much to him. Unbeknownst to Plaus, Lucas was the only one on the tribe not content with him going home. In the end, history repeated itself though and Plaus did not play his idol, being blindsided in a 4-1 vote with yet another souvenir. He is the only player in Aurora Survivor History to be voted out with an idol in their pocket on multiple seasons.