I Should Be Annoyed, But I'm Not

 is the ninth episode of Survivor: Lithuania.

Day 28
After Anubis’s vote out, the former Ąžuolas members began to split apart. Matty expressed a desire to renege on Nemo and Ryan, fearing being overshadowed by both of them running the game. Frog, meanwhile, was annoyed at being misled again. And finally, Samb was happily enacting his punishment from the auction to speak as a boomer. Pretty amusing for us hosts to watch, I’ll say - but within the humour, Samb reiterated his intention to stay loyal with Nemo and Ryan.

The Immunity Challenge of the day was based around a topic loved by both Catnip and Isaac: Eurovision! This particular challenge proved to be highly important, as multiple people began to feel uneasy about their placements on the totem pole. Ultimately, Nemo won Immunity; he, Matty and Pendant all defeated the Mercenary, George.

Day 29
Day 29 proved to be perhaps the most chaotic day thus far. Three factions began to emerge: the triad of Nemo, Ryan and Samb, the duo of Pendant and Piper, and a final duo of Frog and Matty. However, things were not entirely what they seemed. Samb was pulled into an alliance with Frog and Matty, and was informed thusly that the target was being put on Ryan. It became apparent to Ryan that he was being seen as part of a ride or die duo with Nemo, when the reality was in fact Nemo and Samb. That, alongside the revelation of the pair having four advantages between them, made Ryan very suspicious of Samb.

Samb, still loyal to Nemo and Ryan, gave both the heads up about the plan to vote Ryan. Ultimately, this resulted in Ryan playing his Safety Without Power, ditching Tribal Council and causing pandemonium. The six remaining players went into overdrive messaging each other, and multiple revelations were made. Perhaps the biggest was to Matty, who learned the truth of Samb’s stable of advantages. Having thought that they were each other’s closest allies, it dawned on Matty that he was far lower on the totem pole than previously thought, especially as Pendant was aware as well.

Nemo, meanwhile, began to panic about Samb being the potential second target. After first asking him to burn through his Extra Vote and White Pearl (much to Samb’s hesitance), a compromise was made: Samb allowed Nemo to hold onto all three advantages for the Tribal. Finally, after initially considering a backup plan of Piper, Matty accepted that the damage to his social game would be too great to not renege on Frog, and vote them out. In a great case of Occam’s Razor, the simplest answer became the answer entirely - Frog was unanimously voted out, 5-1.

Challenges
Immunity Challenge: The Eurovision Screenshot Contest

In this challenge, the castaways were given a series of scrambled screenshots, each from a Lithuanian Eurovision performance from the past. The person who could unscramble these screenshots in the fastest time would win Immunity.

Winner: Nemo

Tribal Council
NOTE: Ryan played his Safety Without Power for this Tribal Council, renouncing his place in the vote in exchange for Immunity.

Voting Confessionals
"katzole"

- This vote has to be the hardest vote for me. I really wanted to change this game and I thought I was making strides to do that. Obviously with the things I have learned in the past 24 hours. I am wayyyy out of the loop. Time to save myself and go back to the drawing board.

Final Words
"katzole"

- How many of you heard the tragedy of Darth Plageuis the wise?

Trivia

 * The episode title is a quote from Frog, referencing the Anubis blindside.