If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop

**If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop** is the sixth episode of MintORGs Season 2: Mushroom Kingdom.

## Story

For the challenge, the 2 tribes had to split themselves into 2 teams of 6, 3 maze-creators and 3 maze-solvers. However Ila decided to pull out due to personal life reasons, which means, the challenge and the tribal council are both cancelled. This resulted in a combined and extended episode 6, separated into parts 1 and 2, with the Merge dividing both parts.

**Part 1**

**Luigi**

Alex apologised for being rather inactive and busy in life, which we all understand and it's not a big deal, life always does come first.

Corn Corn said, "indeed it's Episode 6", "I know it's Episode 6 and that episode 6 exists".

Jax mentioned the need to hide the fact that he has the idol. He saw an opportunity when Evan told him he felt that Sbeve had the idol and intends to keep keeping the idol a secret to prevent getting targeted by the others. He also hopes that since weekends are coming, he will have more free time to socialise with people and strengthen bonds.

Jiv was invisible until Ila left and felt it had been rather uneventful lately. He also expressed his best wishes for Ila.

Kelly felt sorry for Lukas leaving, stating that she liked Lukas a lot. To add further, she has a plan to flush idols and anticipate possible split votes and more moves during the merge phase.

Sanin also felt sorry for Lukas and had a better idea of the Mario tribe, giving us a pretty lengthy analysis on his part. He noted that Ellie is not as innocent as they seem, rather also pretty "Carolyn-like". He notes that the Mario tribe is full of game villains to which Kelly also agreed. He threw an olive branch to Chelsea during the previous challenge, but wouldn't hesitate to throw her under the bus if she pulls the trigger on the Luigi tribe.

Sully was INV.

Xander anticipates a swap or merge coming, so he wanted to further his relationships with his close allies of Kelly, Sanin & Sully, to which he proposes a 4p alliance, without the knowledge that the other 3 people already have one without him...

**Mario**

Chelsea felt grumpy and sad after the last vote. She wants to avenge Lukas. However, she does not feel good and fully expects the Mario tribe to throw the challenge just to vote her out, throwing a dig at Ellie's daily "Hiiii" message at the same time. However, Ila walking out of the game seemingly preserved her yet another round. What will she do next?

Ellie called Shaun a "dumbass", that he doesn't think before he speaks or does something. This made them feel cautious when approaching Shaun with information, but they also noted that it would be easy to throw him under the bus. They also do not trust Chelsea at all.

Evan felt that Chelsea is an easy vote and would vote her out if they lost the challenge, saying she is "following Lukas's footsteps". However, Ila decided to walk, he expressed his best wishes for her to stay safe.

Ila unfortunately had to walk out of the game due to life reasons we shall not disclose without her permissions. We wish her the best of luck in life because life > game and life ≠ game.

Sbeve kind of hoped he would've flipped on Shaun to get him out but he was fine with Lukas leaving. He thinks the last vote showed him that Evan, Ellie and Ila are all very trustworthy people. He also found it hilarious that Chelsea started to beef with Evan in the newly opened "Peach's-Castle".

Shaun felt horrible last episode, and felt that he had lost trust with Evan, Sbeve &Ellie. He mend things up with Chelsea and hoped to target and split up the possible Evan-Ila pair (it didn't ever exist though...).

**Part 2: Merge**

The remaining 13 players are now merged into one tribe, THE LUMA TRIBE.

Alex didn't receive anything from the auction. He then also forgot to vote, resulting in a strike-out, when the vote initially was not on him.

Chelsea spread her money on the bids and received the opportunity to hit on the "? Block" in which she received an extra- vote good until the F6. She had been kind of busy but updated us on her side of the game. She got into an alliance with Kelly, Sully & Sanin three people she appreciated a lot coming into the merge. On the contrary, she lost respect for Evan as she feels his words implied "Chelsea, we need you as a number, not as a person", to which she didn't feel respected. Upon hearing Evan's plan to vote for one of the power trio, Chelsea proceeded to snitch on him. She built close relationships with Kelly and both of them think Evan and Shaun have the idols (half-right). Hence, they voted for Ellie this vote in case of an idol play. (edited)

Corn Corn placed his bid for "Bullet-Bill" which will be revealed at the end of this tribal council. He felt that no one wanted to say a name which irked him to which he feels as though he needs to "take things into his own hands". He approached Ellie and told him that he would be open to work with the Mario tribe members. He wants to play both sides and eventually voted for Alex which just so happened that Alex struck out of the game.

Ellie's past ghost has finally caught up to him as his messiness was exposed by Sully to Evan on wanting to get rid of Evan. Furthermore, he was associated to Evan as well, which led to people wanting to target him to weaken Evan. He attempted to change the vote but it didn't work out as it should. Luckily for him, Alex struck out, which canceled tribal council and more than likely saved his ass.

Evan went all in on bidding immunity and got it as he was the only to bid on immunity. He wants to work with Kelly and get on her good side as he feels that she is nice. He iniitally wanted to get rid of either Chelsea or a former Luigi tribe member. However, he was then told that Luigi wants to Pagong Mario and afterwards approached by Sully that Ellie, Shaun and Sbeve threw him under the bus. This led to him agreeing to vote Ellie out of spite.

Jax has been through a lot lately and we wish him the best in dealing with life in general. He did mention wanting to stay under the radar a bit and then do some villainous moves, maybe also using his idol to take out someone who is a big threat.

Jiv didn't feel good about losing his vote, and was paranoid that his name was in the mix due to Ellie, he thought. He admitted to be the Luigi leak (to cfs only ofc) and was even more paranoid afterwards as he feels his game will get blown up if Evan doesn't keep his mouth shut.

Kelly was absolutely in a great spot this round, with everyone wanting to work with her one way or another. She had many many options and decided to stay "Luigi strong" whilst roping in Chelsea, with the "cute" alliance. She was also dragged into an alliance by Corn Corn. At the end, she helped make sure the votes headed towards Ellie, although an Alex struck-out prevented that...

Sanin took a backseat and some time off discord , in contrary to most of his tribemates. His social ties definitely kept him out of the block and he is sitting pretty in a solid position.

Sbeve felt that the vote is absolutely on him! He felt Alex going sucked but will much rather Alex leaving than himself getting voted out.

Shaun received the hint that this season's FTC is a F3. Other than that not much else in the auction. He initially schemed with Ellie to get rid of Corn Corn and felt strong about the summit alliance. However, Evan leaked to him info from Jiv that the pagong was still happening which then led him to throw out and push an Alex vote in hopes of keeping the Mario's alive. Coincidentally, even when Alex didn't get the most votes, he struck out and got what he wanted.

Sully has been gradually showing his mastermind tendencies more and more lately . Even though he didn't say much besides wanting to target Ellie and how Ellie is a potential threat, he showed it as other players like Evan mentioned how he was in the action and did manage to convince some like Evan to vote for Ellie, by exposing stuff Ellie said during summit long ago.... However, he is also gradually exposing himself as people like Xander pointed out. He also had a good hunch about it, and was abit paranoid as he wasn't voted.

Xander once again has been chill, under the radar, and going pretty unnoticed whilst staying in a decent spot. Oh yea he went unnoticed due to a disadvantage he had received in the auction where he could only type in emojis and is prohibited to type words or speak in vc's the whole round. He was still aware of what's going on and eventually felt that Ellie and Sully are the ones getting votes (it was Ellie and Alex). However, one thing to note, his allies are starting to see his social game and fear that he might be "butter-flying" a little too much.

## Trivia

* *If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop* is the first episode of MintORGs to feature a Quit, with Ila leaving the game on Day X.
* *If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop* is the first episode of MintORGs to feature a Strikeout, with Alex striking out of the game on Day X.
* *If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop* is the first episode of MintORGs to feature both a Quit and a Strikeout in the same episode.
* *If This Works I'm A Villain But If I Go Home I'm A Flop* is the first episode of MintORGs to have both a tribal challenge and individual challenge.