Greetings, final 9.  You've had to fight through seven other contestants to get through this point, and you're finally rewarded!  Drop your buffs, because we're merging!

For a celebration, no challenge is posted, but a merge feast is below you.  An item in the merge feast contains a clue to the new hidden immunity idol.  If you guess the right food, you get the clue.   The first individual immunity challenge will be at 4 PM EST.

I'm going to seriously start bothering you guys to send confessionals, it's been improving, but the same few people keep sending them, and we want the clearest possible picture form all your angles to write out a storyline.  So, if you haven't already, start cranking those out.

Anyway, congratulations, and as a last piece of business, in the tribal council thread we'll be deciding the new tribe name, so you can get going on that.

As always, if you have a question, be sure to PM me or post below.