Time To Manifest My Own Fucking Destiny

 is the sixth episode of.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Temptations. Castaways were given seven deadly temptations. For each temptation they took, they earned a point. The castaway taking the most temptations detrimental to their game would win immunity.

Winner: Jack & Alex.

Kidnapping & Menengai
The winning castaway had their vote tallied. The castaway receiving the majority of votes would join their camp, skipping tribal council in the process, and would be responsible for selecting three members of their tribe for a rock draw. The castaway drawing the black rock would then face off against the kidnapped in a duel across the Menengai Crater.

Menengai
As a result of winning the duel, Trent chose Prey Item #4 and earned an Exile Pass that would allow him to skip a tribal council of his choosing. Nicole chose Predator Item #4 and earned Rock Immunity which would make her automatically immune if she ever drew rocks.

Voting Confessionals
"kikuyu"

- Gerda, I’m so sorry for doing this to you. I don’t have anything else to add that I haven’t already said in my parchment. I just hope you’re not too upset.

"kikuyu"

- again when it comes down to it i need to do what's best for my game! obviously STAYING in the game is included in that list of things. I'm pretty confident Nora and Will are with me so bye ❤ I was conflicted until you threw my name out but with a black pearl and Nora/Will as good allies I don't see another option.

"kikuyu"

- Thank you for everything. Sorry for this. Blame me but also wish me luck 💗

"kikuyu"

- Worst. Tribal. Ever!! And if I’m blindsided I won’t even be mad, whoever went tonight it was gonna suck

"kikuyu"

- You are like water calming down my heart. But it is blood that i have to go with.

"kikuyu"

- dark pearl throwing it

"kikuyu"

- You have made my life HELL from Day 1. Forget you. Go HOME. GOODBYE!

Final Words
"kikuyu"

- Well.. here is a lesson that when people you love in the game go awfully quiet they are about to vote you out. I tried, I really did but in the end it was all a lie. I guess I still trust people too easly.

Voting Confessionals
"torrobo"

- If it's me then it's me but I huddled hard and misted a lot of people to get this vote done. Playing both sides is hard and if this succeeds and my names off the table with a big threat going home then I'm golden. Sorry you had to take the fall but your just to big a threat man. Hope you understand at the end of the day and I'm not the one out. But we will see bro

"torrobo"

- This is a very risky move but hey I don't want to go home but if I will still end up going home then it has been a great pleasure playing with you all I just need to do what I need to do.

Chris you have been nice but I know you will play as a threat. Once again I stand by not letting a sole survivor win again so no one can still change my mind but hopefully at merge my perception would change.

"torrobo"

- Hey Chris second vote for you. Wish me luck if I made it at merge but if you survive congratulations and a job well done. Jack was the one who supposed to be voted out so since he is immuned you are the option today your connections are too scary so sorry man.

"torrobo"

- You tried to play the playa

"torrobo"

- IDFK if this is gonna work or why you were targeting me but whatever YOLO

"torrobo"

- Clay Jensen voice: A good friend once said to me, I can love you and still let you go. So, Ashlee .. I love you .. And I let you go.

Revote Voting Confessionals
"torrobo"

- IIIIIISNT IT LOVELY, ALL ALONE? HEART MADE OF GLASS MY MIND OF STONE.. TEAR ME TO PIECES, SKIN AND BONE .. HELLO, WELCOME HOME!

"torrobo"

- Sorry but I trusted you and throwing me out is just hurtful 😞

"torrobo"

- You're amazing but you shoudn't have leaked Chris was getting targetted and that it was all Jino's idea.

Final Words
"torrobo"

- I came, I played, I fucked up. That's about it. I let Jino and his extra vote push me into throwing my game into Natalia's hand which was never a good idea and I should've stuck with my little group and trusted they would keep me but what can you do! Probs missed out on merge by the smallest margin but we will deal. I hope Chris gets over being butt hurt and we can call this a fun time.

Episode Summary
After a relatively straightforward tribal council, the castaways returned to camp where Will cracked the code for the first stage of the idol, then rapidly sped through the next three trials. As a result, he found the Kikuyu hidden immunity idol and informed his trio of Nicole and Nora. The three of them then contemplated who would be the next to fall victim in the event of a tribal council and diverged on the plan, with Nicole leaning towards voting Gerda and Will and Nora leaning towards voting Alex. Meanwhile at Torrobo, Chris, feeling uneasy due to the power dynamics on the tribe, decided to clue Jack in on the fact that he was the last person informed of the Cassandra vote on Torrobo 2.0 because his old tribe labeled him the worst prey. As a result, Jack pledged allegiance to the Predators on his tribe and swore vengeance on the prey.

At the immunity challenge, the castaways were informed that they would be competing for individual immunity as both tribes would attend tribal council. The immunity challenge was then revealed to be an individual temptations challenge wherein castaways would have to way their short-term interests against their long-term game. All thirteen castaways accepted an idol ban, a manga makeover, and an anger translator. At the fourth trial, Chris, Cali, Natalia, and Gerda dropped rather than forfeit the next immunity. At the fifth trial, Evan, Ashlee, and Nora dropped rather than cast an auto-vote. Within the six castaways accepting auto-votes, Jino and Trent voted for Jack; Jack voted for Gerda; Will voted for Cali; Nicole voted for Evan; and Alex voted for Jino. At the sixth trial, Jino dropped rather than accept a dark pearl, which meant Jack would win individual immunity for Torrobo. At the final temptation, Nicole, Will, and Trent dropped rather than leak their last convessional, which meant Alex would win individual immunity for Kikuyu. Jack then decided to kidnap Trent and Alex decided to kidnap Cali. Cali selected Alex, Nicole, and Gerda then promptly lost to Nicole in the race. Trent meanwhile selected Chris, Evan, and Natalia then beat Chris in the race. Nicole earned rock immunity and Trent won an exile pass.

Following Jack’s immunity win on Torrobo, the tribe consensus was panic as the planned unanimous vote went awry. With Cali being kidnapped, the CCBD majority was effectively undermined and gave the outsiders in Chris and Evan an opportunity to shake up the game. Given the auto-vote that Jino cast for Jack, they concocted a plan to attempt to flip Jack to their side under the assumption that Ashlee was voting with them for a 4-2 on Jino. Jack was highly receptive to this given that it would protect him at the upcoming merge vote. Meanwhile, Ashlee, Natalia, and Jino resolved on voting Chris.

Meanwhile on Kikuyu, the kidnapping of Trent and Alex’s immunity forced the core group of Gerda, Nicole, Will, and Nora to turn on each other. Due to the strong bond forged between Will and Nora during all three swaps, they were soon positioned in a spot of power to decide between Nicole and Gerda. After weighing out their options, they felt that Gerda’s loyalty was less valuable than Nicole’s loyalty, agency, and potential connection to the Prey faction and resolved on eliminating Gerda. In order to create unity and pull in a number, they also formed an alliance with Alex to get him on board with their plan.

With hours until tribal on Torrobo, Ashlee grew paranoid that her spot in the middle could spell the end for her longevity in the game and decided to leak her alliance’s plan to Chris under the pretense that Jino enacted the plan to target him rather than her, effectively pinning the Predators against him. However, Chris informed Natalia of this in an attempt to pull her in, causing Natalia to question Ashlee’s antics. Now armed with knowledge of Ashlee’s connections across the board, Natalia leaked Ashlee’s involvement in the plan to oust Chris to Chris and Evan, and effectively moved the target off of Jino and onto her.

As tribal loomed on Kikuyu, Gerda enacted her own plan to oust Nicole from the tribe, but each of her individual communications and attempts to rally vote were relayed back to Nicole. As tribal approached, the only legitimate concern was that Gerda could have a concealed idol, but this did not evolve into any thrown votes. At tribal council, the tribe unanimously voted Gerda out, with Gerda and a dark pearl voting for Nicole, and a dark pearl voting for Will. As a result, after 96 straight days of gameplay, Gerda’s torch was snuffed.

As the votes were about to be read on Torrobo, Jino, expecting a deadlock between Ashlee, Natalia, and himself, and Chris, Evan, and Jack cast his vote steal on Jack to shift the numbers from a 3-3 vote to a 4-2 vote. However, with Natalia having formally flipped, the result was a 3-3 tie between Chris and Ashlee. Before the revote, Chris attempted to call out Ashlee for turning her back on him after promising her loyalty and appearing to be a sincere ally through her personalized voice messages. Ashlee rebutted that backstabbing was the nature of the game, but her argument failed to gain enough traction to change minds. With Ashlee’s attempt to scapegoat Jino now exposed, he joined Natalia and Evan in voting Ashlee out 3-0 on the revote.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Jack’s quote.