Survivor: Ghost Island - Blog Party - March 7

Just a word of warning -- right now my area is having a severe winter storm. Trees, power poles and power lines are down all around me. If I disappear from posting, I have not died and there's no need to contact the authorities. It just would mean I've lost my power.

That said ...

Drop your buffs tonight? On the second/third episode? (Since it was basically two episodes in the season premiere and we lost two castaways.) Really? We're going to have to see how this all goes down!

Standing with our usual practice of reassigning pool folks who lost their hopes and dreams on the first night, Lifeguard Laurie reassigned those who had Gonzalez and Jacob because both of them went. My pool dude Jacob was getting on my nerves anyway! Laurie rocks like that. So, here's the blog pool update:

Malolo
         Brendan Shapiro - Martha Light, Rochelle
         Donathan Hurley - Becky, Terry is a Texan!
         James Lim - TS14Fan, Krysta Gibson
         Jenna Bowman - Brian, Judi Sweeney
         Laurel Johnson - PDX Granny, Donna in Fl
         Libby Vincek - tbc, jennifer, Laurie
         Michael Yerger - Sharon N., Tammy
         Stephanie Johnson - Brenda, Rbennie, Kristen from Ohio

Naviti
         Angela Perkins - monty924, Karen JC
         Bradley Kleihege - SueGee, Nana in the NW, Auntie Leigh
         Chelsea Townsend - David, Merrilee
         Chris Noble - Petals, Ed in Ohio, ChicMc
         Desiree Afuye - Bizarro22, Karen in California
         Domenick Abbate - Donna in Alabama, Janice
         Kellyn Bechtold - Glenn Allen, Margo, Delee
         Morgan Ricke - Nickelpeed, Cheryl in NC
         Sebastian Noel - Indiana Jane, Shannon, Jackie
         Wendell Holland - Skyriverblue, Jennasmom

Torchless
Stephanie Gonzalez
Jacob Derwin

Survivor fans ready? Eighteen are left. Who will be voted out tonight?

As they return, James is so relieved not to have been voted out. But he still feels bad about doing so horribly at the challenge.

It's right to Immunity? Drop your buffs! Switching tribes! Jeff passes out covered buffs. No challenge just yet -- they're off to their new (for some) camps.

Purple is Naviti, Orange is Malolo.

I'm not going to get this new tribes down live.

The original members of the tribes are pretty much equally split with the old. There is only about a one person advantage with the splits.

Sebastian, now Malolo, sees four old Naviti tribe members with him. Brendan isn't thrilled with the swap and think the other tribe members from Naviti whine too much. Domenick and his nemesis Chris are on the same tribe together still. Heh. Chris is telling everyone that Domenick has an idol and they need to get him out. That might not be the best thing to do!

Stunning scenery! Stephanie also thinks the Naviti people are whiners. Stephanie and Jenna run off looking for an idol. On the other tribe the Old Malolo Four go searching for an idol. Michael finds James's original China Immunity Idol that he went home with in his pocket, along with a second idol.  Now Michael has the chance to reverse the curse.

Libby and Morgan are bonding. Y'know ... it's really hard to keep up with who's whom after just the premiere show (although two hours) and now the tribe switching tonight! Gah. Of course, throw in there that I have trouble siting and my spine surgery is a week away ... GAH! 

Now it's time for the Immunity Challenge -- race through ramp walls, dig up a tall ladder, someone has to go up the ladder, unravel rope, use rope to pull up to platform. puzzle. Reward is a tarp. Again, Ghost Island in effect. 

Malolo wins Immunity rather easily. Oh, geez. They can't decide and now they want to draw rocks! Chris draws the white rock and will go to Ghost Island. There goes the chance for Domenick to get him out of the game. 

On Ghost Island, Chris hopes they will still get rid of Dom. He drew a break of a No Game Today urn. He breaks down and cries. At least he's doing that away from his tribe! 

Wendell and Angela talk. Angela wants Libby out. Now Wendell wants Angela out and new alignment with the former people. Now Dom is showing the fake idol and telling the others it's fake. And, of course, he's saying that's why Chris is after him. James is suspicious that Dom might have a real one. Now Morgan's name is being brought up as a target. These folks are all over the place.

Tribal Council time. This tribe is actually a four/four from their original tribes with Chris on Ghost Island. Jeff is asking his Probsting questions about the cohesiveness of the originals, ties and such.

The tally: No one plays an idol.

Libby, Angela, Angela, Angela, Morgan, Morgan, Morgan, Motgan

Morgan is voted out. What will she do with the Legacy Advantage? Wasn't she the one who had it? 

Ah, she's willing it to Domenick and she hopes it's not a curse.

My power remained on for this, yay!