Wait, That’s How the Parchment Looks Like?

 is the seventh episode of Survivor: Lithuania.

Day 21
As Lithuania and Poland merged into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the long awaited merge comes for our tribes as well.

The tribe, of course, needs to pick up their new name. Pendant simply suggests “not Rūta”, as we all at this point are feeling sad for them and their curse.

In the honour of one of our hosts, the merge tribe decides their name to be Katžolė, as that is the Lithuanian word for ‘catnip’. Isaac was hoping for Isaacisawesomeandcool, but seems our local host won that fight this time.

Nemo only now finds out how the voting parchment looks like (as a reminder, it’s a contour of Lithuania).

Evan, Pendant, and Piper get together into an OG Rūta alliance. The original Isaiah’s Draft alliance is recreated with the remaining three members (Nemo, Ryan, and Samb).

Day 22
Because the hosts intentionally forgot to give the players a merge feast right away, the cultural facts this day were about Lithuanian cuisine. Filled with pictures to make everyone hungry, of course. This was followed by a related reward challenge, which was a Sporcle quiz about the information from those cultural facts. The challenge is won by Samb.

As the winner of the reward, Samb gets an adjusted version of the Royal Choice. This time it’s two urns, and Samb’s chosen urn had a clue for the freshly baked merge hidden immunity idol. The clue was:

The command is a two word phrase in English that can be found in the announcements channel.

Samb shares his idol clue with Isaiah’s Draft alliance and together they are trying to figure out the command.

After several tries, Samb gets to the actual hidden immunity idol with the command ?statehoodday and successfully retrieves the idol himself. He does not yet tell it to this alliance though.

Day 23
As is common for the first merge challenge, players had to design a flag for their new tribe. However, it would have been boring to leave it just at that, so we had two individual immunities available. The players had a choice of designing either the best flag or the memiest worst flag. A winner in each category would be granted individual immunity.

Frog, Matty, and Ryan submitted for the worst tribe flag; Anubis, Nemo, and Samb submitted for the best one. Our dear alumni Shane and Gavin (thanks to them for their time!) in a blind judging decided that the immunity winners were Ryan and Samb.

Day 24
Nemo creates a majority alliance between him, Anubis, Matty, Ryan, and Samb - essentially all original Ąžuolas members, except for Frog. They agree to get an og Rūta out, thinking Piper may just strike out herself (she had 2 strikes at that point), and therefore is not a threat going forward. Pendant was having his birthday on the tribal day, so the majority did not want to be nasty to vote him out on the cake day. Frog was seen as a duo with Evan, partly due to prior org relationship, thus was used as a decoy vote, while main vote was Evan.

Evan, just barely surviving the last tribal council, is now voted out with a vote of 5-2-1-1-1 and thus another og Rūta member leaves. Definitely a funky merge vote.

The black vote twist ends with merge, therefore Evan will not have a voice from the grave.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Speed Quiz

In this reward challenge, the castaways were asked to compete in a Sporcle quiz regarding Lithuanian cuisine. The player with the shortest time would receive a reward, the contents of which weren't revealed publicly.

Winners: Samb

Immunity Challenge: Flag Making

In this challenge, the castaways were asked to make a flag for the new merged tribe. However, they were presented a choice; make either the best, or the worst flag. Two immunities were granted, one for each category.

Winners: Ryan and Samb

Voting Confessionals
"katzole"

- anubis! you haven’t been the most talkative, and i really don’t know who you are at all. it’s unfortunate, because i really wanna get rid of a big threat like nemo or ryan, but i need to save my own ass rn and set myself up better for the future

"katzole"

- Timing is everything in this game. And unfortunately, I just never got the right time to get to know you. Sorry mate. You are one hell of a gameplayer from surviving 6 tribals. But you won't get lucky on number 7.

"katzole"

- You got so screwed by the Ruta curse, and I really feel bad, but you're the person I'm least connected to, and by removing you, all of the strong connections we share, namely Frog and Pendant, will be more likely to work with me. I'm sorry, this is nothing personal.

"katzole"

- Sorry bud but you're the only one on this merge tribe I haven't met. Plus you've been to every tribal council so far and that's an underdog story I'd like to squash before it builds up.

"katzole"

- Sorry, Evan. I hope you enjoy the best summer road trip you can, and I wish nothing but the best for you. Perhaps I’ll stream Kali Uchis too

Final Words
"katzole"

- well, looks like you people finally decided to take me out after my 7th tribal in a row. honestly i don’t blame you guys because i would’ve wiped the floor with y’all for the rest of merge (jk). on a more real note, i’m kinda mad at some of you guys for barely trying at all to make a connection with me. i was a prime free agent for a lot of you guys, and yet barely anyone utilized me. oh, and another note for some of you guys. STOP BEING FAKE!!! i could see right through it, and hopefully everyone can realize that there is some hardcore liars still in there. that’s it from me though! I will be very excited to see more people join me in loser land, aka ponderosa

Trivia

 * Nemo and Pendant celebrated their birthdays this round.
 * The episode title was said by Nemo in the tribe chat after Pendant jokingly submitted a parchment for Isaac. Nemo, not having gone to tribal yet, had not seen the parchment before the joke.