Survivor Philippines (season 1) - The Game - Cycle 5: Days 13-15

Cycle 5: Days 13-15

• Reward Challenge: Each tribe will be composed of five swimmers and one puzzle solver. Each swimmer will grab a stick, swim out to a platform and use the stick to break a skull which contains a key. The key should be retrieved and brought back to shore before the next swimmer can begin. In case a swimmer cannot make it back to shore, a three-minute penalty will be imposed before the next swimmer enters the water. Once all six keys are retrieved, the puzzle solver would use them to open boxes containing pieces to a four-sided puzzle. The first puzzle solver to finish the puzzle wins the Reward for their tribe.
  • Reward: Two lechon de leche (roasted suckling pigs), complimented with dipping sauce, rice, and pitchers of water.
• Immunity Challenge: The members of each tribe, harnessed to one another, move around a circuit amid a rising tide, each carrying a bag weighing 10 pounds. The tribes chase each other until the tribe member in front tags the trailing member of the opposing tribe. At this point, the tagged tribe member passes his bag to a fellow tribe member still in play, and is put in a cage. The tribes are then repositioned for the next cycle. The first tribe to eliminate all members of the opposing tribe wins immunity.

Night of Day 12: Paolo revealed to Naak the purpose of Jarakay's presence in Tribal Council: Naak would stay at the Jarakay camp. When both tribes returned to Jarakay's camp, Marlon entertained the members of Naak, even as his tribemates slept. He also joined the members of Naak in sleeping outside the Jarakay shelter.

Day 13: Marlon continued his connection with Naak when he joined Cris, Zita, and Veronica in gathering food. Appropriately, on Cris's birthday, Naak won the Reward Challenge, with Jarakay's loss caused mainly by Marlon's inability to dive into deeper water to retrieve a key. While the members of Jarakay watched as those of Naak ate their reward, Rob made side comments that to Kiko sounded insensitive. Back at Jarakay, the tribe members had another meal of rice and snails. They then talked about what went wrong at the Reward Challenge, and later Charisse entertained her tribemates due to boredom. At Naak's new camp, Kiko reminded his tribemates to be more humble in their ways, which Rob did not take easily. They then proceeded in making their new shelter. Kiko later made up with Rob to prevent further hostilities. At night, Rob dried some pieces of dirty laundry over the open fire.

Day 14: In the Immunity Challenge, even with Zita and Kaye falling down repeatedly, Naak easily won over Jarakay. Back at the Jarakay camp, John and Jace figured that their recent losses can be attributed to their slowly weakening state. At Naak, just before nightfall, Kiko prepared the ponchos, anticipating rain. A sudden rainfall occurred, and JC and Kiko had to shield the fire. Meanwhile, Kaye caught a glimpse of a strange figure for approximately five seconds, which she described was of a fully clothed man.

Day 15: In Jarakay, while preparing a new bamboo stalk to cook rice in, Marlon cut his finger with a machete, going to the water source to wash his wound. At Naak, work on the shelter's roof continued as the rain continued pouring. Insect bites and rashes also began to plague both tribes. Back in Naak, Kiko, Rob, and JC talked about their post-merge plans in the game and the current flaws in Jarakay's state of affairs. In Jarakay, there was talk that Nikki would be next due to her lack of contributions to the tribe. There was also concern for the further deterioration of John's health due to the lack of food. In Tribal Council, while most did not like Nikki to stay longer, health won over merit as John was voted out 5-1.