Survivor One World - April 18/12

Night 25 in Camp Tikiano. Jay has been sent over to the jury, a victim of the belief that cute girls that he likes wouldn't lie. Troy knows he is next unless he can work some magic. In front of the other women he asks Christine why she voted with the women when she could be one of the next targets. This puts the women on the defensive and there are heated "words". The exchange ends with Troy saying he is PO'd and that he is determined to win every challenge from this point on. The next morning Troy tells the women that people have been sent home who deserve to still be in the game. Maybe so, says Chelsea. But that is the game. She tells him to take a lesson from Jonas and take it like a man. Privately Troy tells us that the women are behaving just like they do in real life. They get their house and everything they need, then decide they don't need the man any more. Sure. That happens a lot. Tree mail arrives suggesting that they will spend cash in clever ways and their hunger will be done. They each get a "wallet" containing 500.00. At the reward "auction" Dimples is resplendent in (WTF!?) black. The first item up for auction is three donuts and an iced coffee. Chelsea picks this up for 160.00. Various items go on the block, including a shower purchased by Kim for $40.00. Dimples then produces a sheaf of letters from home. Without hesitation Alicia spends her entire 500.00 to purchase her letter from her dad. She reads it out loud and has the entire group in tears. Dimples opens the offer up to other survivors but few have all of their 500.00 left. Tarzan takes the deal but Troy is holding out for something that is going to help him survive (and it ain't food). His chance comes when a letter promising an "advantage" come up for sale. He bids against Christine who, in spite of urging from the other women refuses to go over 460.00 (apparently thinking that extra 40.00 is going to buy her some sort of goody). Not surprisingly Troy has no such concern and walks away with a leg up in the upcoming immunity challenge. Back at camp Troy reads the note which tells him he will automatically move to the second stage in the immunity challenge. He decides that his security would be further enhanced if he could find a hidden idol somewhere around camp. The girls see him looking and decide that they should look too. Amidst all this heavy traffic in the jungle, Troy fakes finding the idol by rolling up a piece of cloth and putting it in his pocket when he knows Kim is watching. Stage one of the immunity challenge involves untangling a length of knotted rope to retrieve a ring. This is the part that Troy gets to sit out. The first three of the other Survivors to retrieve the ring will move on to the second stage. Tarzan, Kim and Christina move on. In the next stage they must stand on platforms, bounce coconuts off a trampoline and try to knock out a total of three targets. Tarzan and Troy finish first and move on the the final stage. Here they must use a slingshot to lob coconuts at at board made up of 9 squares. The first to knock out three squares in a row wins immunity. Tarzan keeps it close but Troy is desperate and angry. He eventually wins immunity. On winning he throws out a lot of trash talk, causing Tarzan to take him aside back at camp and suggest he should be a more noble winner. So Troy is safe but has not made any new friends. He lobbies to get rid of Kim by trying to convince Leif, Tarzan, Christine and Alicia that they should vote with him and use the opportunity to get rid of some of the strong women. Alicia considers the offer, knowing that it makes sense. At Tribal Council there is another shoulting match, this time between Troy and Sabrina. Troy again urges the outsiders to vote for Kim. But when Dimples tabulates the votes, Leif is the one leaving along with the much taller Rick from our pool. So the women have stayed true to the girl alliance, the remaining men are in great peril and Kim, at least for the moment, seems to be in the driver's seat. Stay tuned next week to see if the women can hold it together to take out the rest of the men. Until next week, Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Pat (aka (Kat if we are bidding in multiples of 20, what comes after 20? Edorsson )