If U Can't Handle The Heat, Stay Out Of The Kitchen

**If U Can't Handle The Heat, Stay Out Of The Kitchen** is the fifth episode of MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom.

## Story

This round, Princess Minti turned into Princess "Moo-nti", to reflect the Moo Moo Meadows challenge. The players also had to go through a series of challenges, divided into teams, for the challenge. In the end, even with a DNS from one team on the Luigi tribe, they still won the entire challenge, sending the Mario tribe into tribal council. Again.

### Luigi

Alex was rather invisible this round, also didn't attempt the challenge with Corn Corn so both of them received a strike.

Corn Corn wishes the best for whatever Sully has been going through and stated that he is always here if needed. He felt bad for not being able to organize a time with Alex for the challenge and was relieved his tribe won as he would also feel guilty if his tribe lost. He also received a strike.

Jax has been rather quiet like his "partner-in-crime" Alex. However, he did manage to get the word around that Sbeve might have acquired the "Toad idol", when it was him.

Jiv hated the challenge (understandable). He also noted that Kelly casually revealed how Xander told her that he was going to tell both Kelly & Jiv that he will be leaving school early. However Xander didn't approach him with this, which sparked a bit of question mark on Jiv's part. He didn't want to go to tribal, he also thinks Lukas will use his steal-a-vote. Lastly, he noted that Alex has not replied to his messages for a week and hence will be at the bottom of his trust rankings.

Kelly has been delivering in her confessionals as usual. To cut it short, she expressed her interests with working with 2 people of that Mario tribe (Lukas, Chelsea). She was also baffled at Alex and Corn Corn not even attempting the challenge as they couldn't organize a time for it. She won, but she didn't feel happy about it, as she was more worried about what may happen at the Mario tribe. She had another VC with Sanin where he sang her songs and everything. She is definitely having the time to bond with her tribemates.

Sanin shared his song lists in confessionals, also sharing about Bosnian culture and music. He then asked a question seriously, "how do people who are born in 29 February celebrate their birthdays". He ends off this episode by sharing about "Art of war" (孙子兵法）which he read.

Sully absolutely crushed the challenge this round. He also finally found all the toad items which he then found out that had been taken. He hates toad, claiming toad is an "annoying ass diaper wearing biatch". He was also told by Jax that Sbeve could've gotten the idol (info from Evan).

Xander had a rather quiet episode. He had to do his "SAT's" and fortunately he "survived" as he claimed. He then shared about cute Mario and Luigi soft toys and is basically enjoying his time out here.

### Mario

On the Mario tribe, all hell broke loose:

Chelsea did not feel safe about tribal council. She wants to target Evan and Shaun but knows she doesn't have the numbers and Lukas is likely getting the votes. She was told by Shaun that Lukas pissed Ellie and Sbeve off and they said he was "mean" so they wanted to vote for him. She took this opportunity to do some shit-stirring as she immediately relayed the info back to Lukas which caused a scene to happen in tribal. She didn't want to be told what to do or who to vote, hence she voted Shaun at the vote.

Ellie has been much more subdued this time around, with Lukas being the main target. He also continued to get more wary of Shaun, claiming that Shaun is untrustworthy, as Shaun leaked his words to Lukas, which was revealed by Lukas in an attempt to save himself. He also told people that he was "uncomfortable" with Lukas as Lukas was being mean, and the word spread around, causing a huge scene made at tribal council.

Evan nearly had a face reveal with Sbeve and was thankful he didn't pick-up the accidental call, which made Andrew jealous. He watched the whole confrontation happen. Lukas approached him with a potential Sbeve vote which sounded tempting to him but he didn't want to take the risk and hence, voted for Lukas. At the end, he also found out about Shaun leaking the alliance, which causes distrusts between them, he states that Shaun needs to earn his and Sbeve's trust back.

Ila was a potential swing vote here and she would've been on board with Lukas & Chelsea had they talked more and had Chelsea not throw her name as a potential vote last round. She voted Lukas with the rest and seemingly climbed into a much better position than she started off in the tribe.

Lukas had a tough episode. He was targeted with very little room to wiggle and essentially backed into a corner, mainly due to his confrontations with Sbeve and Ellie after the previous tribal. In an attempt to save himself, he called out Ellie in tribal council, and made known to Evan and Sbeve that Shaun leaked their alliance. In a last ditch attempt, he tried to sway the vote to Sbeve or Shaun (Shaun ultimately), even using his "steal-a-vote" advantage previously acquired on the summit. However, despite all efforts, only Chelsea stayed true to him, and he was voted out in a majority.

Sbeve was targeting Lukas from the start and is glad that most people are thinking the same. He was a little paranoid about Lukas's steal-a-vote which was true as his vote got stolen. However he wasn't the target and was alive to see another day. He also grew weary of Shaun after Lukas revealed about Shaun's leak on the alliance between "Evan-Sbeve-Shaun".

Shaun didn't have the best episode, with things he said or spilled eventually coming back to haunt him. (Boo is watching you). He also slipped up the Lukas vote to Chelsea despite promising Ellie not to, which caused a chain reaction that made Lukas have a blow-up in tribal, ultimately also causing a negative effect on his own game. With him getting targeted by Lukas, he chose not to play his idol with trust on his allies which worked. However, trust has also been damaged to an extent after his leaks were discovered. Will he be able to repair them? Or will the ghosts of his past haunt him? (Remember, Boo is always watching).

## Trivia

Ironically, after having named this episode in his first appearance in MintORGs, Lukas went on to quit Season 5.