SURVIVOR - Palau

DAY 7 - That Lightbulb Moment

KATE'S POINT OF VIEW:

Queen Kate strikes! Bow down peasants! I don't think I have ever been so happy! Dorothy going has given me strength and a new found motivation to win this game, because this shows I am capable of pulling off moves like this and manipulating people to get ahead.

I'm so glad Erika and Harrison got on board! Hopefully this is a sustainable alliance because this tribe is a wreck. No one has an alliance, everyone has a parter. I have Leon, then there is Ricki and Bennett and Harrison with Erika.

The way I see it, Ricki needs to go next, because when Ricki goes, Bennett will come scrambling to Leon, and Leon is with me. That will increase my numbers.

Now the game is on, and I am so ready!

RICKI'S POINT OF VIEW:

Well crap! Obviously Erika and Harrison flipped, or Bennett isn't with me anymore.

I feel like Bennett and I have disconnected a little. At the beginning of the game, when there was no strategy need and we could all just talk openly, we both really got along then. I was curious by him because he was so young, yet so mature. But now I think we are both playing the game very differently. He wants to impress everyone and not step on any toes, whereas I don't about what people think about me, I just got to get to the end.

At the merge, ties with Bennett might have to be cut, but right now he has all I got, so I have to keep him close

But loosing Dorothy is potentially something that could ruin my game. I have to be really careful.

Arriving back at camp, I didn't speak to anyone. I stripped into comfortable sleeping clothes and laid in the shelter. Harrison did a whole "we are still a unified tribe" speech.

Starting tomorrow I will have to start being nice to these people if I want to stay. Because right now I am on the top of Kate's hitlist. So if I am extra nice to Erika and Harrison, maybe they will flip back. I can only hope. I just have to stick it out to the merge, that is when I can start play for real.

HARRISON'S POINT OF VIEW:

I wasn't going to vote for Dorothy at Tribal Council, I had my mind set on voting Kate. It wasn't until Dorothy got up and said that she doesn't value trust, that I knew she was using us. That made me mad so I wrote down her name. Basically, she buried her own grave, I just gave her the push to fall in.

Looking back, it's probably a good thing I voted for Dorothy. She created an uneasy riff in the tribe. She was very malicious and very, you could say, scary. She just made Erika a bit rattled, which made me uneasy. But we have got rid of the two biggest egos on this tribe now, Dorothy and Conor. So hopefully the tribe is more easy-going and relaxed

Back at camp, I give my "we are still a unified tribe" speech. Because I think we are. Going to Tribal Council as tribe and getting through it together is something we should all be commended for. Ricki wasn't really interested. Quite frankly I don't care, she is very bratty and very selfish, so I don't want her listening to my speech anyway.

I feel like the side of the tribe I sided with is the Hero side of this tribe. The nice guys, and I like the nice guys better. Good will always pervail.

Erika and I stay up a little longer then the rest of the sitting around the fire, keeping it lasting.

"I'm glad we made that move tonight" I say to her quiet, as the rest are sleeping

She whispers back, "So am I. Really glad. We made the right desicion."

"We did" I say as I bring my knees up to my chest and rest my head on them. I'm extremely tired and fatigued, but I just cannot sleep. But the feeling of closed eyes is enough to relax me for now.

DAY 7

MALAKAL TRIBE:

MORA'S POINT OF VIEW:

I am so grateful that there has been no rain since that horrible day. Everyday since then has been absolutely beautiful and boiling, even too boiling sometimes. You can never be happy with weather, can you, really.

I think I am in an excellent position in this game. No one has really been strategising because we haven't needed to. Except me. I have been talking to Lindsay heaps. I am obviously the best player in this tribe, I feel like I am playing the game the hardest thus far.

There are a lot idiots in this tribe, and I believe I can play them all.

I woke up the first this morning, mainly because I couldn't sleep last night, it was to muggy. Every part of me is sweating. I plan on going for a sun bake and a swim, but I decide I should go get the tree mail. I don't know, there might be something in it. There is usually a message in there when we have challenges.

I grab my water and chuck on my shoes, as I take down the path. I heard some people chatting the shelter, so people must be awake. I reach the basket that is made out of bamboo that is our tree mail box. I take off the lid and see a scroll.

"Challenge time!" I yell, so everyone could hear me

As I yank it out and untie the knot, keeping the scroll together. As I open it I realise it isn't a challenge clue at all, in fact it is a hidden immunity idol clue.

Don't look high, or down below
What you want is far more low.
Looking the answer to this clue
Under the high, big and blue.

I read it confused, absolutely dumbfound. But then I realise, crap! I just announced to everyone there was a clue about a challenge. They're gonna be asking for the clue, what do I do! I shove the clue down my shirt and head back to camp.

"What does the challenge clue say?" Jonathan asks, unknowing there was no challenge clue at all

"Ah, I didn't open it and assumed it was a challenge clue. It just said 'this is day 7' and had some ancient Palau poem on it" I lie

"Oh, really? Where is it?" Jonathan asks again

"I don't know, I chucked it away because I didn't think it was important" I say as I walk over to my bag and store my water canister inside.

"What if it was important, I mean, why would the best giving it to us?" Jonathan asks, third time.

"It didn't look like anything, literally, it was just some stupid piece of paper that was reminding us it was day 7" I answer, with a big sigh to show I am sick of being interigated.

"But we don't know. Why didn't you confer with the tribe before throwing it away?" Jonathan interigates

"What is this, twenty questions! It was a stingy piece of nothing, leave it be" I snap, almost shouting. Everyone is now of what could be called a dispute between Jonathan and I. Which is good for me, because everyone will see him harassing me.

With a clue and sympathy on my shoulders, I feel confident with my position in this game.

JONATHAN'S POINT OF VIEW:

It was extremely obvious that the clue Mora threw away was a clue, but because she isn't the brightest candle, she probably though that the clue was an 'ancient Palau poem' because thats the kind of person she is.

So I grab Kyle, who is probably the person I trust the most at the current time, and take him to the Treemail area.

"We have to check this area for where Mora chucked the scroll. I think it is an Immunity Idol clue" I say quickly and quiety.

He nods and we begin scavenging. We search for about twenty minutes, behind every bush and palm tree. Under every rock. But it is no where to be seen

"Dude, what if she is smarter then she looks and took it" Kyle says as if it was obvious this entire time.

Then a lightbulb flicks on in my head.