Mental Rest Is A Luxury

Mental Rest Is a Luxury is the eleventh episode of Survivor: Finland.

Previously On Survivor...
The aftermath of Luna speaking too cutthroat resulting in Simon's alliance suspecting John, Kevin and Luna that they were plotting behind their back, while Andrew and Ashley tries to blend into Kevin and Luna's alliance once again, while the supposed majority decided to target Andrew, John, Kevin and Luna began to re-exam their options, while Simon, Tracy and Christine debate who to vote out next and whether to use the idol or not, as they decided to send one of their own to Exile Island, as John goes and approach Christine, hoping that she can join their alliance but Christine got mad when John suggested that she won't make far. In the reward challenge, Andrew, Kevin, Luna and Tracy won reward, sending Simon to Exile Island as Simon managed to find his second idol, while John continues working on Christine to get her to join his alliance by talking more and convincing him, at the reward, Andrew goes and convince Kevin and Luna to turn against Simon and Tracy by listing out Luna's straightforwards words last Tribal Council, which they start to be convinced. Andrew saved himself by winning immunity, back at camp, the cracking majority alliance decided to target Ashley. After Simon reveals his second idol, the alliance of three decides to use one idol for the night, sending Christine to learn who the other five are voting for, while John, Kevin and Luna officially decide to flip, however the five of them can't decide who to vote, as John struggles in whether to tell Christine the correct or the wrong target after attempting to work with her, ultimately the alliance decided to target Christine and John didn't tell Christine the truth, resulting in her being blindsided 5-3.

Jeff Probst: Christine, the tribe has spoken.

7 remain, who will be voted out tonight?

Challenges
Reward Challenge:

Reward:

Winner:

Immunity Challenge:

Winner:

Night 30
The camera shows the castaways returning from Tribal Council.

Luna: That was close...

Kevin: Tell me about it.

"esillie"

- Tonight, it was the battle to read minds between us all, and I finally decided that we are going to vote Christine, because in my opinion, Simon definitely won't use an idol to save Christine, regardless if she is going to be voted out or not, because she is just a new recruit, and it worked! Simon ends up playing the idol on himself, and Christine went out, though Simon and Tracy are still in the game, but with Christine gone, the three of us currently control the tribe with two alliances to back with.

Andrew: Thanks for sticking with us man.

Ashley: Yeah, thanks a lot, or I would be gone.

Luna ;Your welcome.

"esillie"

- Although I was told that I am safe, and Kevin and Luna both stated that I am safe, I was still a bit worried that they might pull off some fast moves to get rid of me, and thank god they stuck to their word, Andrew and I managed to live and see another day right now, and now, that is one heap we jumped across, 5 more to go.

Luna walks up to John, who is staring at the sea.

Luna ;You ok there man?

John: Me? Yeah, I'm fine.

"esillie"

- Gosh... that was tough, ultimately I decided that I had to cut Christine. When Kevin told me that we were going to target Christine, my heart sank, like really hard, because she is another person I want to work with apart from my alliance, but then, when it came to the decision of if I am telling her the truth, I chose not to, because she haven't showed me loyalty at all, by not voting against Andrew at 5 nights ago, and she still spends a lot of time with Simon and Christine, so I decided that (sighs) it is her time to go, sorry Christine.

Simon walks back, a bit grumpy.

Simon:(walking towards Kevin} Can you please tell me what happened?

Kevin: What?

Simon: I just want to know what the heck just happened at Tribal, just now.

Kevin:(sighs) Look, I am sorry about that, but I heard that you guys have been plotting behind our backs.

Luna: (speaking up) Yeah, and we heard that Christine joined you guys, so we need to do what we have to do, we are really sorry about that, and I honestly hope you won't be mad at us for that.

Simon: (grumpily shakes head) Nah... I am fine with that.

Luna: Sorry about that.

Simon shakes his head and he leaves.

"esillie"

- I am so pissed! I kinda knew they would seal the deal and they are going to vote against us, and I debated on who to play the idol on, Christine told me that they were voting me, so I played it on myself. Guess what? Surprise! I have no votes received at all and I end up wasting the idol, and Christine was voted off! Now, Christine is definitely telling me the truth, but then it looks like john lied to her as they don't want me to play the idol correctly! Damn!

Simon walks up to Tracy.

Tracy: What did they say?

Simon: They just said that they knew we were planning to vote them out so they decide to strike us first.

Tracy: Well, no surprise on that, honestly, we were planning to strike back next, but I never thought that they would vote out Christine!

Simon: Yeah! I still have one idol though.

Tracy: Yeah... lets wish for the best luck and work something out tomorrow.

Tracy shakes her head as the camera switches off.

Day 31
The camera switches on as the Esillie camp can be seen. Luna woke up first as she starts stroking the fire, then the castaways are seen waking up.

Luna:(to everyone) Morning guys!

Ashley:(responding) Morning.

Luna: Day 31 already, eh?

Andrew: Yeah, I can't believe this! We are literally almost end-game!

John: 9 more days and we can go home!

Kevin: Yeah, I can't believe how fast the time is!

"esillie"

- With Christine voted out, and it is proof that we will be fine, I can finally break a sense of relief, ever since I messed up, I feel guilty, now, I feel way better! In all's all, a game is still needed to be played, currently, now, we have two alliances of two, with Andrew and Ashley, Simon and Tracy, us three are still stuck in the middle, I don't know what alliance us guys should side with next, and honestly, I just wanna choose and ride it out for the next few days.

Luna: Anyway, I feel like having a good old chat today to be honest.

John: Yeah, and can you believe it? Family visit is coming up also!

Ashley: Yeah, John and I had a chat about it and honestly, I can't wait.

John: Who do you guys think will come?

Kevin: I guess my brother will be coming, he was the one who encouraged me to start my own shop.

Ashley: Cool!

Luna: My dad or mum will come is my guess, I got a lot of friends outside but family is still the most important.

Andrew: For me... I don't know, I doubt my ex-classmates will come, and my parents doesn't support me playing this game, if there is someone who will come, it will be my sister.

Luna: Your parents doesn't support you?

Andrew: Nah... we moved from Hong kong, and they didn't like people's (uses finger quotes) 'free-style' of life.

Ashley: I see... that's sad.

Kevin:(turning around) Simon, who do you think will come from your family?

Kevin turns around and saw Simon isn't there and never joined the conversation, Tracy isn't found also.

Kevin: Well... guess they don't want to talk with us right?

Luna: Gosh, why can't we just have a time where we are all together to have a talk like a bunch of friends?

John: Guess they aren't interested in that.

John shakes his head a bit.

"esillie"

- Today at camp, we are just chilling around and hanging out and have some talks of our family, and then... Simon and Tracy walked away as usual. Honestly, they really don't want to chat and chill out like we normal do, I know this is a brutal and cutthroat game, but I see the game as two parts, the fighting part, and the family and friendship part, and I like both parts, but oh well, guess those two only like the fighting part.

"esillie"

- Well, today at the morning, us guys were talking hiw we miss our family and we thought we are talking as a tribe, bu it turns out we aren't, as Simon and Tracy doesn't join the conversation at all like they usual don't, I know for sure I will be out next if I don't win immunity, and I need to convince them to stick with us, whatever it takes.

Andrew: Honestly, I like you guys so much, chilling out like now.

Luna: We enjoy the time to be with you guys too.

Andrew shoota an eyesight to Ashley, as she understood it.

Andrew:(speaking up,hesitating) Honestly, with Simon and Tracy isolating themselves in conversations, why don't we just vote them out next?

The music gets creepy as there was a dead silence.

Kevin: Well, that is a good option we have to consider, I promise.

Andrew: Ok, please consider that.

Ashley: Yeah, please think about that ok? I mean, it is obvious they don't want to be with us and talk with us and you guys too.

Kevin: Makes sense, anyway, mind if we have a talk?

Andrew and Ashley leaves, leaving the three members remaining.

Kevin: Uh... ok, what do you make sense of that?

John: I don't know... he is playing hard man.

Luna: I agree, but honestly, I also agree with what Andrew and Ashley said, like Simon and Tracy just won't talk to us, and they are a wreck in social style.

Kevin: I can agree with that, but if we are talking about strategic aspect, what should we do? I mean, now all the idols have already been tossed away and neither side has the idol, so which side do you believe is better strategically though.

Luna: Honestly, hard to tell at all, both pairs are a duel from the beginning of the game that it is hard.

John: They did?

Kevin: Andrew and Ashley must have allied at day 1 on Exile, while Simon and Tracy just kinda worked in the same alliance. Who do you guys think we should vote?

Luna: Isn't it too early to say that? Lets hear more from both alliances before we decide, shall we?

John nods.

Kevin: Yeah, lets see if Simon and Tracy want to talk to us for the day, then we decide which alliance we are going to side with.

"esillie"

- The game still isn't done, it is obvious the game isn't done yet, and still we have a ton more of decisions we need to make, now we survived the last Tribal and with Simon wasting his idol, we have two pairs, and I am stuck in the middle, it might look like the game is almost done, but end-game decisions are important, and now, I can't even figure who is the threatening pair between Andrew and Ashley, or Simon and Tracy, and I guess that will be solved like before, (laughs) 5 minutes before Tribal Council.

The camera switches to Andrew and Ashley.

Andrew; Did you think that worked?

Ashley: I don't know, I kinda hope that did work.

Andrew: Yeah, I kinda thought of it the moment they mentioned how anti-social Simon and Tracy are. So I decided to use this chance to propose a final 5 deal between us and them!

Ashley: And yeah, that is a good move if that works, but what if we side with them, and we do end up at the final 5? Then we will be out fourth or fifth! What then?

Andrew pauses as he doesn't have a good answer.

Andrew: Lets not go that far, because we haven't survived this round yet, and already thinking end-game is too far, I think? I mean, we pretty much fought hard just to get past the last vote, I think we should at least get past this vote first, working on Simon and Tracy for now isn't going to work.

Ashley: Yeah, I agree with you on this one, well, we have to just go step by step and lets hope we can sneak to the end.

Andrew: Yeah, that is what I an thinking, we screwed up at the early of the merge, that is what we are left, fighting non-stop.

"esillie"

- Survivor is more tough than I thought it would be, when I was still at Hong Kong, I watched the seasons on the internet, and I was like screaming 'Why don't you put your differences asides and work together?!' And the moment when I started playing, everything changed, and I finally get why they can't put their difference asides, with the pressure and the true emotional going real, I get why is hard for flips to happen or people to forget their rivalry, and... (sighs) it is crumbling me apart. Anyway, I am still here, and I won't give up.

Later, it features Simon and Tracy who went to take the woods and ignored the conversation.