It's Fun To Have Options

It's Fun To Have Options is the eighth episode of Survivor: Calamian Islands

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Muddy Waters The tribe will be divided into two teams of four via schoolyard-style picking. Tribe members must traverse a muddy obstacle course (a crawl through, an A-frame, and a rice pen) while retrieving bags with three balls. Once all bags are collected, all four members must shoot twelve balls into a fish trap propped like a basket. The first quartet to shoot all twelve balls into the fish trap basket wins the reward. Reward: A day at the Kayangan Lake (the cleanest lake in Asia) along with food. Winners: TBA

Immunity Challenge: Rope-A-Dope The castaways will be attached to a rope which is thread through three of obstacles, for which the castaways will have to climb under, over, or around. The first three castaways to finish will move on to the next round. The next round's challenge would be the same, but with a single obstacle three levels high. The first castaway to complete the obstacle will win. Winner: TBA

Previously On Survivor...
Previously on Survivor... Two tribes became one as they merged and the Magkasama tribe was born. The former Busuanga tribe quickly realised they were on the bottom and used the rift between Skye and Sherri to get the leg up ' I'm going to start that by seeing how Skye is feeling and if she wants to move forward with us'. At the immunity challenge, Ruth outlasted all the tribe members for the win 'Ruth wins immunity'. Back at camp, Malcapuya planned to vote out Brandon, confident they had the numbers 'Brandon is the face of the Busuanga tribe and so that makes him public enemy number one'. Meanwhile, Ruth continued to work on Skye 'Have you given any thought to taking Sherri out tonight?', and Brandon on Tabby 'I need to convince Tabby though that the best thing for her is to vote against Sherri', however Skye wasn't willing to commit 'it doesn't really seem like the best thing for me right now' and Busuanga went looking for help elsewhere 'If Skye is unwilling to work with us then the next best bet is Sherri'. At an unexpected tribal council, Tabby and Sherri flipped and Skye became the seventh person to leave the game 'Skye, the tribe has spoken'. Nine are left... who will be voted out tonight?

Night 21
The tribe is walking back, the Malcapuya members are confused and most just crawl into the shelter. Brandon, George, Gwen and Ruth, on the other hand, are ecstatic. They huddle in a group an earshot from the rest of the tribe.

Ruth (quietly): That was so good guys, we did it!

Gwen (whispering): I swear I couldn't breathe at the end there I was so scared.

As the Busuanga alliance continue to talk Jim and Sherri walk off to talk on the beach closer to the water.

Jim: So what's going on?

Sherri: Obviously... I flipped.

Jim: Yeah...

Sherri: In my opinion... doing damage control on Skye all the time would be too much of a hassle and she was going to flip eventually so I was just preventing future damage.

Jim: Yeah but-

Sherri (interrupting): Besides we still have the majority. It's five against four and we can just take them down one by one.

Jim: It's not as simple as that...

Sherri: It's not for them either though. Jim, just... trust me.

Jim sighs, exhausted.

Jim (frustrated): Ok... fine... but if you flip again, warn me.

Jim gets up and allows Sherri to sit on the beach and mull over her decision.

Day 22
As the night turns to day, Brandon and Tabby can be seen walking down the path towards tree mail.

Brandon: How'd you sleep.

Tabby: So good (laughs). Best sleep I've had since I got here.

Brandon: We did awesome last night, you definitely had them fooled.

Tabby (jokingly): Thanks. I dappled in the dramatic arts a little bit in high school.

The two laugh and continue to walk.

Brandon: In all seriousness though, I really like this partnership that we have. I think that we're both smart, we've both made enemies and we could both have a lot of fun playing the game together down the road.

Tabby: Oh definitely! I agree, for sure.

Brandon: So I was thinking, if we could stick together for the rest of the game I'd love to go to the end with you.

Tabby: No doubt. I think that we could play a fun mischievous, villainous sorta game in the future.

Brandon (smiling): Just the game I want to play. (Brandon holds out his hand to shake hers) to bringing chaos.

Tabby (grinning and shaking his hand): To bringing chaos.

The two laugh as they shake hands and pull tree mail out as they've now arrived.