A Family Rooted Together

 is the third episode of Survivor: Lithuania.

Day 7
The hunt for the idol begins on both tribes, and weird guesses are aplenty.

Catnip talks about and shows off some Lithuanian castles. You know, from sand castles to real ones.

Reward challenge is building the precise tower castles - Towerz.io. Nemo forgets this is ‘only’ a reward challenge and goes gungho, discovering this challenge to be his Ryan’s 2048 and getting the best score among the two teams. However, even if Nemo had scored 0, Ąžuolas would have won the challenge with their remaining score.

Their first idol clue:

The command is a two word phrase in Lithuanian (without spaces), and is referring to a group of people, related to your tribe.

Despite the clue, Nemo keeps guessing certain Lithuanian places, instead of researching related groups of people. Or guessing it in English, when the clue says the phrase is in Lithuanian. Meanwhile, Keanu speculates that James’ black vote is for him.

Day 8
The self-proclaimed queen of the Lithuanian season introduces the players to some of the Lithuanian royalty history and tells about some of its members. The players are presented with a creative challenge - A Royal Dynasty. The challenge is to come up with their own tribe’s royal family, where all the tribe members have to be present. Each tribemate will have to have a title, the whole royal tribe - a backstory of at least 150 words, a family poem of two four-lined stanzas, and a visual addition of creativity with their royal crown.

In order for us to have the Royal Choice contender, the tribes are also asked to choose their royal family monarch. They don’t know yet what that entails. Ąžuolas chooses Anubis, Rūta chooses Piper as their respective head monarchs.

In Ąžuolas, all the participating tribemates are active in providing input and ideas for the challenge. Bubs draws not only the required crown (even though Neb was initially assigned to do it), but also complimentary individual portraits for all their royal family members.

On the Rūta tribe, things are quite different - indeed, the tribe fails to make any headway until thirteen hours in. Piper takes the reins of the challenge, with Tayson and Pendant being creative consultants in the brainstorm session. Pendant focuses and wants to base their story on the true Jagiellonian dynasty in Lithuania. Piper decides one of them should die in the story and her choice for that role is… herself. Piper does the poem, most of the backstory, and Kam creates the flag.

Piper has a weird dream about an entire tribe swapping overnight and the challenge judgment is in new tribes. Piper’s tribe has fewer points, but still wins the challenge. Unfortunately, the judges disagreed. The judges for this challenge were 703 alumni Conch, Joey and Josephine. Very glad and thankful to see they were eager to lend a helping hand. Ąžuolas wins the challenge with the score of 66-30, sending Rūta to tribal council once again.

Day 9
As the head monarch of the losing tribe, Piper was presented with the Royal Choice. In the chosen urn she found Baltic Amber - playing this during a tribal council, Piper would be able to steal another player’s vote and use it herself. Pendant is desperate for a swap.

Initial voting intention was either Tayson or Piper, but the remaining Rūta highly respects Piper’s input and effort for the challenge. Tayson goes home unanimously. He casts his black vote for Pendant, because that’s what the randomiser chose.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Towerz.io

In this challenge, castaways were required to stack blocks into towers, with the final score being how tall the tower was before collapse. The tribe with the highest cumulative score would win reward, in the form of an idol clue.

Winners:

Immunity Challenge: A Royal Dynasty

In this extensive creative challenge, both tribes were asked to nominate a monarch and then create a family poem, a backstory and a royal crown for their tribes, painting themselves as a royal family. Three judges were brought in, with the highest scoring tribe overall winning Immunity.

Winners:

Voting Confessionals
"ruta"

- tayson! i was pushing for you to go last tribal council, however people had other ideas, so you were saved. i never really connected to you, however the final nail in your coffin was your slight inactivity, especially in this last challenge. sorry, and see ya in the other side

Final Words
"ruta"

- well it didn’t come off as a surprise to me especially with the way most of you treat me for the last few days. I’m not rly mad, just a little bit disappointed that you guys didn’t say it straight to my face so that I could sleep peacefully. I don’t have anything else to tell cuz it’s kinda similar to what James said last tribal. Have fun ig <3.

Trivia

 * The episode title was provided by the entire Ąžuolas tribe, a phrase included in their poem.