I Don't Wanna Be the One to Set the Bomb Off

**I Don't Wanna Be the One to Set the Bomb Off** was the seventh episode of Mythvivor: Nile River Valley.

## Story

The eleven remaining castaways returned to their respective tribes, hoping for a merge at last, when an announcement came telling them they would merge, *however* someone would return from Phoenix Rock. While seven pre-mergers were eligible to return, it came down to Crystal, Volo and Zap, with Zap narrowly earning her place back in the competition! As an option, she was offered safety without power and earned it, giving her immunity at tribal council in exchange for remaining at camp and missing out on tribal council in the process. Interestingly, the twelve castaways who made merge were divided fairly evenly:
 From Atum: Aqua, Coffee, Lukas and Luna
 From Horus: Beetnorf, Chiruvi, Tyler and Zap
 From Khepri: Fox, Gabriel, Goober and Jack/JTS
 Aqua, Tyler and Gabriel were on the bottoms of their respective tribes, relieved to catch a break at the merge, while Goober was thankful to be able to talk to new castmates.

> *This game has me battered and bruised and we aren't even halfway. I am exhausted.* - Tyler
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> *Okay so Luna and I have been talking and he said his tribe wasn’t too active. And I was thinking “yay maybe we can work together” but then I was like “wait what if Atum is doing the same thing Khepri is doing and is pretending to be working together.* - Gabriel
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> *This is such a breath of fresh air oh my god. I have coffee, I have Luna, I have Norf, I have Gian. People who will talk to me! Hallelujah!... It’s interesting, I think there’s a really tangled web of relationships in this cast and all of us just happened to make it to merge together so now we have to figure out how to navigate that.* - Goober
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Things were up in the air, with nobody really knowing what would happen or who would be targeted first. Gabriel caught Tyler in a lie about liking *Desperate Housewives*, which soured Gabriel on him. That evening, an idol was buried and the castaways quickly set to work trying to find it.

> *Come on Kevin give us more of an idol clue with that desert mail post* - Zap
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While it was a close race between Goober and Lukas for the idol, Lukas was able to complete the hunt half an hour before Goober, giving him the merge idol! The next morning, the castaways awoke to their merge challenge, an auction!

> *I get Norf wants to work with Goober and everything but the fuck kinda conversation is this?* - Zap
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At tribal council, a few potential targets floated around, with the first cross-tribe coalitions forming, comprised of Chiruvi, Coffee, Goober and Luna. Coffee also sniffed out how close Tyler was to Lukas and their trio with Chiruvi.

> *Actually Chiruvi told me Tyler talked at tribal about the Horvivor group and Lukas told me he was bonding a lot with Tyler and he’s not in said group. I don’t want to target someone based on that, but I don’t want people playing that way either... And so far those 3 are seemingly sharing info far more with each other than they are with others.* - Coffee
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While these four set to work using their connections to determine the target for the vote, Aqua and Coffee had a spat. Aqua asked Coffee about a decision Beetnorf had made to share information and Coffee broke it down curtly, upsetting Aqua.

> *She said she was really grumpy this morning. I don't care, she was really rude in that convo. Acting like I don't know anything about the game and shit.* - Aqua
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> *Now of course Aqua could have an idol but I do too so he can suck it... Like his quote is very much so throwing me under the bus lmao. Don’t get me wrong I snapped at him but like he’s acting like he didn’t do anything wrong either.* - Coffee
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This spilled over into tribal council.

> *So I'd just like to announce that the Atum tribe are all a bunch of snakes Actually let me not blame the entire Atum tribe. Coffee specifically.* - Aqua
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> *Look if anyone wants an explanation I’ll give it. I’m not gonna fight you in tribal.* - Coffee
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The spat continued for a while in tribal council, which painted an easy target on Aqua's back, while Chiruvi became a contingency plan.

> *All that BS this morning happened while I was asleep. I woke up, got a rough idea of what happened and now I'm gunning for Aqua.* - Jack
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> *I was probably going home before the Aqua outburst.* - Chiruvi
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> *HELP I CAUSED ALL THE COFFEE AND AQUA DRAMA ON ACCIDENT* - Gabriel
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> *I guess if Horus doesn't want to do Chiruvi, now that Atum is fighting there are two extra targets anyway so we're covered as long as aqua and coffee are fighting we get to hide on the sidelines.* - Goober
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Ultimately, the vote was nearly unanimous as Aqua was voted out 9-2-1 at tribal council.

### Player of the Episode

Luna for engendering trust with his original allies, while also pulling in others into alliances giving him a lot of leverage going into the merge.

## Challenges

**Phoenix Rock Return Challenge:** The Gauntlet

**Individual Immunity:** Auction

* Individual Immunity - Gabriel
* Emoji Disadvantage - Goober
* Golden Crook (half-idol) - Zap
* Golden Flail (half-idol) - Lukas
* Winged Sun (challenge disadvantage) - Tyler
* Self-Vote - Beetnorf
* Gif Disadvantage Curse - Luna (used on Zap)

## Tribal Council

 Chiruvi

 1  Beetnorf received a self-vote against him at the auction.

## Trivia

* Aqua made merge, but did not make jury.