I Can Live Rent Free In Their Mouths

 is the seventh episode of.

Merge
At the beginning of the episode, the castaways were informed about a Merge. The castaways were all added to the merge chat together where they came up with the name "Njano" for the merge tribe name. The castaways that made the merge are as follows.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: Survivor Terminology. In an endurance chat, castaways were given a definition of a term at randomized time intervals. If they provided the term within a minute, they scored a point. The castaway with the most points would win immunity and a one in ten shot at the title of Sole Survivor.

Winner: Cali.

Voting Confessionals
"njano"

- This isn't going to work and if it does then I'm sorry I'm voting you out over someone (Alex) who isn't trying to be here or talk to anyone and someone (Jack) who basically is being strung along and doing nothing and someone (Jino) who is just a lunatic

"njano"

- Hate to have to do this but i'm glad we've mended how ret ended between us and I genuinely have liked talking to you ater barely getting a chance the last time. I tried to get you the votes but people weren't budging on this one so I have no choice but to fall back on my long term safety - goodbye my friend.

"njano"

- you or me my friend, a tale as old as time

"njano"

- congrats and Enjoy your new job of clothing retail !

"njano"

- I heard u wanted me out, honestly you deadass have an idol but like, w/e....

"njano"

- this isn't straregic. it's strictly personal.

"njano"

- not he's pressed at my vote dsfsdfgsdfdsaf OOP

"njano"

- Jack strategically this is the right thing to do I have a sense of Sinai alliance and it may help for future events so sorry bruh but we talk the least.

"njano"

- Just didn't want to vote for a close friend :(

"njano"

- thanks luv

"njano"

- That stinging sensation you're feeling in your eyes? That's the Dark Pearl Destruction. Get off my island.

"njano"

- i have no idea what i'm doing but hopefully it's not me tonight. i'm so sorry alex this is just the only name i heard ):

"njano"

- DiE YoU KiRiTo sUpPoRtInG SlAvE XoXo (I JoKe i lOvE N SuPpOrT YoU AnD ThIs vOtE WaS BeFoRe i mEt yOuR ClOwEvAn sElF)

"njano"

- #TemptationVote

Final Words
"njano"

- i’m not gonna lie my feelings are pretty hurt with some of you, i feel like it was actually really disrespectful to vote me out over someone who has been legitimately inactive especially when i dont really understand what i did to warrant being targeted round after round.

nora, you can’t trust your alliance. you should know that by now.

nicole i really am disappointed in you and i expected better, even if you couldn’t vote this round.

alex lol.

Episode Summary
After the double tribal council, both tribes arrived to a shocking revelation at the next immunity challenge: because the entirety of the Kikuyu tribe had to forcibly abstain in accordance to the mandates set forth in the previous challenge, they would forfeit and attend tribal council immediately. Luckily for the exhausted castaways, this was shortly revealed to be a ruse and it was announced that the tribes had merged.

Within hours of this reunion, castaways began analyzing the dynamic of the game and how to navigate what was bound to be a tumultuous merge vote. Cali, Trent, Natalia, and Jino quickly reunited and identified that after her flip, Nicole had effectively forfeited their loyalty in some capacity. In order to gain a majority, they privately contemplated on who they could rope in - Cali posited that Alex could be brought in as a free number while Jino felt that Chris and Evan were definitively with them after he voted for the former at the previous tribal council.

Meanwhile, Nora, Nicole, and Will continued to remain in their trio and expected Alex, Jack, Chris, and Evan to join them for a majority. When looking at the other alliance, they identified Natalia as the ringleader but felt Trent was the shadiest due to how he had trashed them to Torrobo 3.0. Despite being instructed not to, Nora also leaked Will’s idol to Evan, causing the latter to doubt the longevity of the Predator faction beyond the first few merge votes.

Amidst the settling dynamic, Evan and Chris identified that they shared a spot in the middle due to having strong ties to both factions. As a result, they contemplated the prospect of feigning conflicting interests to conceal their partnership and retain a flow of information from multiple social groups in the game. Meanwhile, Jack and Alex were identified as floaters due to their lack of social connections. As the first night as a merged tribe came to a close, Chris was unceremoniously stabbed by Trent with a strike knife to prove that the item did in fact exist.

The next day, the castaways attended an auction with eleven covered items. Unbeknownst to them, six of these items were blank and the remaining five were leftovers from the Menengai Crater, with two being useless due to expiring at the outset of the merge. At the end of the day, Jack received a vote reveal, Natalia received a double vote, and Nora received a score swap.

After the auction, another advantage became the center of attention as the castaways completed the bridge for the Njano idol and began on social, strategic, and eventually physical tasks. Evan, Nora, Chris, Nicole, and Jino emerged as the frontrunners in this hunt, but it was Nicole who earned the hidden immunity idol. Despite protest from Nicole, Nora then told Chris that Nicole was the furthest along in the endurance task, which prompted the latter to lie and say she started it later than she actually did. Knowing one of the two of them was lying and now in possession of an idol, Chris created a confrontation chat wherein both continued to deny holding it. Due to Nora’s outbursts over being accused by her allies, Nicole appeared rational and honest, which led Chris to believe Nora had the idol. After more castaways compared notes, Nicole was exposed as the snake in that situation. As a result of the ongoing fight and blow ups, Nicole vowed to set herself free of Nora at some point in the game.

At the immunity challenge, Chris, Cali, and Natalia were the only castaways eligible to compete due to temptation-imposed restrictions. In an extensive Survivor terminology endurance challenge, Cali emerged the victor and claimed her first individual immunity after over 120 days of playing the series.

After the results, the castaways quickly began to scramble. Due to the two votes pooled between Jino’s auto-vote, Trent’s auto-vote, and the dark pearl (which would be cancelled by a light pearl), Trent decided it was best to target Jack for an easy near unanimous vote and the remainder of CCBD agreed. Under the assumption that Evan was with them due to swapped allegiances and that Chris would remain with them, this direction appeared to lock an easy six votes down that would take majority due to Nicole auto-voting Evan and Alex auto-voting Jino. Cali, however, dissented and argued that Chris had no vested interest in the group and that they should not rely on him.

Unfortunately for the CCBD alliance, Cali’s intuition proved correct as Chris and Evan then continued to play both sides of the vote. They quickly concocted a plan to leak information to the CCBD alliance while telling Nicole, Nora, and Will that they were going to play into the other side’s assumption that they would vote with them as a cover story for if any information that could circle back to them. Nora quickly took the lead within the alliance and stated they should vote for Trent due to his lack of trustworthiness on the final swapped tribe then. Nora, Nicole, and Will then informed Jack that the other side was targeting him to pull him in as a number. Shortly thereafter, Chris and Evan leaked this back to their faction to cement the sides.

Accordingly, the vote settled down between Jack and Trent with Nora, Will, Jack, and a dark pearl set to vote for Trent while Jino, Trent, Cali, and Natalia were set to vote for Jack. With a 4-4-1-1-1 split, the fate of the two prey rested in the hands of the predators. With Chris appearing to be the public swing due to Evan’s longevity with both groups, Evan then decided to try to side with Trent and eliminate Jack due to the latter’s lack of reliability or communication. After being tipped off to campaign to Nora, Trent attempted to do so by striking a deal that he would tell her who told him he was a target if she voted with him, which only further frustrated her and cemented her desire to target him. Amidst the strategizing, Jino then came to the shocking realization that Jack was his voice crush from the burn book challenge.

With Nora and Will now hellbent on eliminating Trent, Chris and Evan felt that ostracizing them over Natalia was the wrong call and locked down as votes for Trent. In an attempt to preserve ties with the CCBD faction, Evan considered leaking the vote to Natalia and shifting agency to Chris, but realized this would cause a double vote play and a 5-5-1-1-1 tie that would force his hand as the sole decider of the vote. Accordingly, the duo decided to keep Natalia in the dark until the last minute. At tribal council, Nora, Will, Jack, and a dark pearl were joined by Evan and Chris and Trent was ousted from the tribe in a 6-4-1-1-1 vote.

Trivia

 * The episode was named after Natalia’s quote.