Some Little Sacrifice

**Some Little Sacrifice** is the sixth episode of Survivor: Taiwan

The episode title was said by Natalie in her voting confessional for Vay, talking about how hopefully voting her out as a sacrifice can gain the trust of Kate and her alliance.

## Story

### Kinmen

After a chaotic tribal, Tony is annoyed that Natalie stole her vote, Benny is frustrated that Natalie tricked her, and Jon is surprised that Natalie had the Steal-a-Vote advantage all along. Natalie gets to work on damage control. She starts with Jon, who immediately understands why she didn't come forward about having the advantage. She then goes to Tony. He is a little reluctant to talk at first, but Natalie manages to make him realise that she didn't mean anything personal when playing the advantage against him, and it was strictly game. Finally, she talks to Benny, who is less forgiving. Benny shuts Natalie down, saying that there was no need for her to trick him the way she did. Natalie shrugs, and says she did what was best for her game. Alyssa is the only person Natalie doesn't need to talk to. The two share a laugh about how far they have come, as they used to hate each other.

### The Merge

As the Kinmen tribe walk in and reveal that Ciera has been voted out, Kate is very disappointed. She says in a confessional that Natalie is scary, and she doesn't understand why they didn't just vote her out, and instead went for Ciera, who was sweet.

Jeff then announces that after 16 days as tribes, they have reached the individual portion of the game. They all celebrate and drop their buffs. Jeff hands them all new, green ones. They remaining castaways have now merged into one tribe.

**MERGED TRIBE**

### Merged Tribe

As the ten newly merged castaways walk into the old Matsu camp, they are greeted with a massive feast. Piles of food are lined up along a large table. They all rush over and begin to dig in. Over the food the tribe get to know each other and are filled in on past votes. Kate half-jokingly suggests the name the tribe "The Frogs" as they're wearing green buffs. Benny loves this idea and pushes hard to name the tribe The Frogs. Everybody laughs and agrees to make that their new name. As people finish the feast, Alyssa grabs a serviette to wipe her hands. However, she notices a small scroll hidden inside. She rushes off to be alone and realises she's found an idol clue. After half an hour of searching, she finds the idol tucked into a tree. She squeals, ecstatic to have found her second idol. Natalie and Kate go for a walk and chat, they're both strong players and have been strong in challenges. Kate is unsure if she should trust Natalie. The original Matsu alliance (Natalie, Jon, Hayden) meet up, along with Alyssa. They all agree to stick together, which leaves Hayden in an awkward position as he has new allies with Kate, Audrey, and Avery. Benny and Kate reunite, as well as Tony. The only person not involved in conservations is Vay. She realises that even though she's on a new tribe, she's yet again an outsider.

### Challenge

Today the castaways are playing **When It Rains, It Pours**. The castaways will be tied to a bucket of water by their wrists, therefore must hold their arms up above their heads. If a castaway's arm drops, the bucket of water will fall on the castaway, eliminating them from the challenge.

Vay is the first eliminated, followed by Avery and Tony. The three of them are eliminated almost instantly. Next out is Hayden, and then Audrey. After a little while longer, Benny drops out. The final four all give their best effort, but Jon accidentally slips, eliminating himself. The three women remaining all stay in the challenge for a long time, before Alyssa drops. It's Natalie vs Kate, but in the end Kate just manages to outlast Natalie, who drops after a couple more minutes.

### The Frogs

Everybody congratulates Kate on winning the first immunity challenge before going off to strategize. The afternoon is very chaotic, with many plans and names being thrown around. The tribe can either vote for the easy vote, Vay. She doesn't have any strong relationships and is would be a safe person to target. Natalie's alliance with Alyssa and Jon talk to Tony. He doesn't know where to vote and wonders if he should join their alliance. They assure him they have Hayden on their side and could have the majority. The gorlz alliance plus Hayden and Benny suspect that Tony has flipped and wonder if blindsiding him may be the best idea, as they blindsided Joel so he is no longer loyal to them and is a wildcard. Alyssa talks to Natalie, wondering if blindsiding Kate's alliance is a good idea. Natalie says it may be, as Kate is a good player. Voting out Avery or Audrey would weaken her. Alternately, they could vote alongside the opposite alliance for a while to gain their trust before making a move on them. A similar conversation happens amongst the other alliance. Kate wonders if voting for Natalie while they have the chance could be beneficial. Hayden is scared, as he doesn't want to betray Natalie. Audrey also thinks that they may have to make her think they're good, before blindsiding her as she's a good player and may see it coming. Natalie, Jon, and Alyssa are worried about Benny, as they didn't vote with them at the tribal Ciera was voted out. With Hayden and Vay's vote, they could potentially make a move. As the evening draws to a close, nobody really knows what's going to happen. There have been plans to vote for Vay, Natalie, Avery, Audrey, Benny, and Tony, so nobody knows what's going to happen.

### Tribal Council

**THE FROGS**

**THE JURY**

Alyssa-Mae, Audrey, Avery, Benny, Hayden, Jon, Kate, Natalie, Tony, and Vay all walk into the tribal council area, followed by the members of the jury. The discussion begins talking about the merge. Nobody knows where the alliances are. There may be new connections formed, or old friends may have fallen out over the swap, so relationships are unclear at the moment. The conversation then shifts to the vote, and how nobody knows where the votes are going. Everybody agrees that it's been chaotic, and mostly everybody's name has been brought up at least once. It then comes time to vote. Once everybody has done so, Jeff asks if anybody would like to play a hidden immunity idol. Nobody does, so he reads the votes.

First vote...

**BENNY.**

Benny raises an eyebrow.

**VAY.**

Vay shakes her head.

**VAY.**

Vay sighs, and begins packing her belongings.

**VAY.**

**VAY.**

**VAY.**

The sixth person voted out of Survivor: Taiwan, and the second member of the jury...

**VAY.**

Vay sighs. This doesn't come as a surprise to her, but she's disappointed as she feels like she didn't live up to her potential. Everybody apologises, and Vay wishes them all good luck. After being on the bottom for the whole game, Jeff finally snuffs her torch.

### Advantage Tracker

 Hidden Immunity Idol(Kinmen)
 Hidden Immunity Idol(The Frogs)

### Final Words

"I saw this coming from a mile away. *(sighs)* I thought I maybe had a chance, since it's merge, you know. Maybe the game would have been shaken up a little? How wrong I was. Oh well! It was getting kinda boring being the outsider constantly anyways. It just sucks that people took the easy way out, rather than making a big move tonight."

*-Vay Melcrow, 10th Place*