Board Thread:Survivor 31: Byzantium/@comment-34920341-20180418210922/@comment-31762786-20180418215908

So tell us Nicole. How did you get yourself into this swing vote spot did you just get her by coincidence? How much thought did you put into votes to get you into the spots you were? Was the social game just hard for you? Who were your allies and who did you want out I want see what strat game you had. Right now I see someone who got to a swing vote by pure coincidence so people had to depend on you when you had a good phy game and no strat.

My main allies that I trusted were you and Pris, after you left I went and made an alliance with the brains/brawns because I was angry about them blindsiding me and voting you out like that which was true. I told the brains that I was still pretending to side with the beauties and the brains didn't really have a reason to tell the beauties that I decided to "side" with them. So I was good, I sort of had a panic attack when Sam said "The first thing nicole said in an alliance chat was keep luca safe" Because it somewhat exposed me for playing both sides but no one really seemed to take notice so I kept recieving info from both sides. When I got the idol clue from you I shared it with Augusto Luca and Pris over time. I shared it with Augusto and Luca because I wanted to seem like I was still with them and was actively looking for the idol with them because that was the only way to keep the beauties safe. I shared it with Pris because she was my closest ally and I figured she was close to getting the idol anyways. In F6 I wanted Andre out because he had won a lot of immunties and I had a feeling he was going to challenge beast himself to the end which did end up happening. Also since he/Augusto/Hannah were like on a side in my eyes it was also keeping majority on the line. Ideally I wanted me/pris/tyler to live and have majority over Augusto/Hannah but that didn't end up happening. I thought I was really dead then but then Andre decided not to target the person that was gunning hard for him last round and target Hannah with Augusto instead? Questionable decision but it benefited me so I just went with it. Then in the final 4 I ended up voting out my closet ally Pris even though I really wanted to go to the end with her because I felt like she would've gotten all of the jury votes thinking about it because had a really great game.

I did actually think about my votes except for the Andre vote in the Claire blindside and my strike self vote for obvious reasons. Sam was voted out because he played a very dangerous game, I wanted to side with the brains without my relationship with Pris being exposed because she was the only one who had told me about the Sam vote since then. Augusto then came in and told me so I was set for that. I was all good with Charlie until he threw my name and I was told by like almost everyone which proves that I had a better standing with everyone compared to him, so naturally I voted him for trying to go behind my back and target me. I knew I wanted Luca out the next tribal after Andre won immunity because he was the one I thought was the biggest threat. I voted him before anyone brought up his name and went to sleep so worst case was 3-3-1 and every other case was him out. The next tribal Andre didn't win immunity which I thought was great so I tried to get him out, he told me that he was gunning for Tyler so I told Tyler and Pris and they were down to vote him. Hannah and Augusto were like completely with Andre though because of Andre's relationship with Augusto. So the plan was to force rocks, Pris was down and I was down because I was immune so i couldn't be rocked out. During the revote I instantly voted Andre because Pris didn't say that she was going go flip to Tyler. Then Hannah started saying that I was lying when I told her which made me really uncomfortable and kinda made her a target for the next tribal. Pris ended up flipping and I almost had a heart attack but everything went well anyways because the next tribal Augusto and Andre decided Hannah that was loyal to them was a massive threat so they voted her out over like me or Pris. I was down because she made me uncomfortable before so she went. Then the next vote I already explained above.

Social game was slightly hard because of timezones and school and I wasn't really the type of person to start convos with people anyways which is my fault since i'm just like that.