User blog:Survivor321/Survivor: Nicaragua blog episode 2: "Over the Edge"

Last time on Survivor, two tribes were formed. The old Espada, and the young La Flor. At Espada, Marty stepped up as the leader, albeit an incompetent one, while Dan proved himself to be weak and feeble. At La Flor, Fabio became an annoyance at camp with his over-the-top antics. Sash was seen as shady and manipulative when he tried to make an alliance with Chase, Shannon and Brenda. At the immunity challenge, Espada had an early lead, but Dan's incompetence lead to their loss. At tribal council, Dan and Marty were on the hotseat for their weakness and incompetant leadership. But in the end, it was Dan who got the boot. 19 are left, who will be voted out tonight.

EPISODE

Back at Espada, things are tense after tribal council. Marty and Tyrone are arguing over the vote. While things heated up between the two men, Jimmy T. made a secret alliance with Holly, Jane, Wendy and Yve, who he felt would be easy to manipulate. However, Jane stated she didn't believe Jimmy T. too much and only followed his lead to avoid being targetted. Later that day, Yve and Jane went on a hunt for food. They tried to look for birds and other animals to capture, but the only thing they could find were bugs. Desparate for food, Yve and Jane both ate several of them. Wendy annoyed everyone at camp with her horrid singing. Yve and Jane returned to camp with several bugs, but nearly everybody on the tribe felt greatly sick after eating them, especially Jimmy J who vomitted several times.

Over at La Flor, things seemed to be going well for the tribe. Everyone was working hard and pitching in, except for Shannon, who lazed around in the hammock. The tribe was annoyed with his laziness. Benry made an alliance with Fabio, Sash, and Shannon, with whom the former wasn't bothered by his laziness. Kelly B. was picked on by NaOnka, who mocked her for her crippled leg. Kelly B was greatly disgusted by NaOnka's cruelty towards her. NaOnka continued to bully others around camp, including Alina. Kelly S and Alina found a small mudpit in the jungle and relaxed in it. They both decided to make a F2 alliance together. They both collected coconuts for the tribe, which everybody enjoyed greatly. Fabio greedily took extra coconut juice, earning the ire of Alina, who felt it was unfair that one could be so greedy. Chase decided to catch fish for the tribe, but came back with only 1 small one.

Back at Espada, Jill attempted to start the fire, but to no avail. Marty desperately tried to gain the approval of his tribe by collecting firewood, but this ended up annoying everyone even more. The normally meek Jimmy J. was especially annoyed by this and started to despise Marty greatly.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE

Both tribe were instructed to come to a steep cliffside. Each tribe would jump into the river and touch a tribe colored crate, which they would swim with through the aggressive rapid and onto the beach with. The first tribe to accomplish this would win immunity, a large supply of a plethora of fresh fruit, and a clue to the hidden immunity idol. The order for each tribe was Chase, Brenda, Kelly S., Sash, NaOnka, Fabio, Alina, Shannon, Kelly B. and Benry for La Flor and Marty, Jill, Tyrone, Holly, Jimmy T., Yve, Jimmy J., Jane,  and Wendy for Espada. La Flor had the lead for most of the time until Benry had trouble staying afloat, which gave the lead and ultimately the win for Espada.

AFTER THE CHALLENGE

Back at Espada, the estatic Marty went on a frolick search for the Hidden Immunity Idol, furthering distrust from his tribe. Holly went to spy on Marty and saw him obtain the hidden immunity idol. In order to avoid potential danger from the idol, Marty promised Holly an alliance, causing her to jump ship to his side. Tyrone, Jimmy J. and Jimmy T grew extrmelely suspicious of Holly and Marty.

Over at La Flor, the tribe felt heartbroken by their loss. Most people wanted to eliminate Shannon, who had not been putting much effort in around camp. However, learning from experience from Russell, Shannon went on a quest for the idol, knowing he would be in danger of elimination. He succeeded in finding the idol and excitedly told his alliance about this. He stated that he would annoy everyone around camp and would dogpile the votes onto him and vote for NaOnka, who he detested, eliminating her. He told his alliance to deliberately vote for him to avoid any trouble. At Tribal Council, NaOnka and Shannon were in the hotseat. NaOnka was lambasted not only by Kelly B., who she had mocked for her handicap, but also by Chase, Alina, Benry and Shannon, who felt NaOnka was far too controlling and bullying. NaOnka then singled out Shannon for his poor work ethic around camp. They got into a heated arguement, calling each other various offensive names. Shannon's plan came into fruition and he used his idol, sending NaOnka home 1-0.

Eliminated Dan- 20th place NaOnka- 19th place

Next time on Survivor: Two contestants have a fiery encounter, while another one starts to provide for their tribe. And will a tough challenge and difficult weather shake things up? Find out next time on Survivor.