I'm A Blindside Waiting to Happen/Confessionals

Day 17
"wanani"

- "I get that I’ve been really lazy with making confessionals but I haven’t really felt the need to say much in a while that I haven’t been accomplishing in VL confessionals

I feel really bad for voting out Andrea but I wasn’t sure of how much she truly trusted me. I’m nervous for the future because on her way out she said good things about me when I was talking about voting her out all day..... my social game is too strong

I love Dani to death but at the moment I think she is my biggest obstacle. Although after today I’d argue that it’s Nathan. Also I didn’t think about this beforehand but the way Linus and Zach were interacting on our post where nobody answered questions reminded me of their friendship...

I feel the need to protect Vivor at all costs for the moment and he will be one of my biggest betrayals, if it comes to that of course. I kind of believe I will need to bring a former winner to the end with me in order to have a shot at winning. Depends how much I can outplay him in the next stage of the game which determines if that’s the correct play or not. I think he trusts me the most, I think Rob/Tobi trust me a lot. I think Drew trusts me a lot

And that scares me to death. How can I still be likable when I’ve tried to tone it down to survive??? Ugh I feel like I’m a blindside waiting to happen and I need some more shields..."

"moya"

- "Last night, it wasn't as fun as it first appeared to. When we decided to raid the other tribe's tribal and answer their questions for them I was just thinking the boot would be some trivial person I didn't really care for, but instead it was Andrea. And whilst Andrea going home makes a lot of sense in that she was a big social threat but very weak at challenges, it feels odd when the merge is around the corner. But then again, I am looking at the people in that tribe, and I am realising that Augusto, Dani and Tobi were in an alliance in the original Wanani, and then there is Nathan who Dani protected, and then there's Drew who was probably allied to Nathan in the OG Moya. I am quickly realising that in the other tribe Dani has A LOT of cards to play with, and the odd person out is Grace.

I didn't tell that word for word to Zach, but instead I paraphrased my concerns into the OG Wananis that were allied, since they are people that don't really fit into either of our plans but they seemingly could easily have the numbers in their favour since with the OG Ouani is ""fractured"" due to Zach wanting to target Vivor and Aromal being a bit of an inactive. This might be messy to pull off, but I am starting to think that at least getting some out of the Rob/Augusto/Tobi threesome before I try and pull off the Vivor vs Linus war of attrition because it would for one, limit the unknown variables in my game, and for two, weaken Dani's individual gameplay since she could easily control things in the merge since I right now don't have that ability, with Andrea is gone, Grace probably going home next, and Vivor probably getting murdered by pretty much everybody and their mother come tribal. Like Dani might not even realise it but she's the heart of the spider's web and I want to snip some threads to destabilise her ASAP, everybody but Aromal and Vivor (and maybe Grace?) has some sort of connection with her, and I don't want to underestimate her, because she's very capable of realising that I have the capacities of trying to switch things up and she could send me home just for that.

https://imgur.com/a/hAHJhTs

No yeah, Dani is mildly terrifying, she really is THAT spider with a vast network. I know I can get Zach to see this, but I am scared that Linus will probably have her loyalties to her instead of me and Zach because they were friends beforehand. I need to use the grace period before the merge as long as I can and figure out how to right things back into my favour."

"moya"

- "I don't remember when I last submitted a confessional tbh so I'm gonna start from swap #2. So we swap again, and it works out decently well for me again because I'm with 4 of my og tribe and 3 of my new swap tribe. But things started heating up soon after. I told Zach about Alex telling me he didn't trust him, and Zach says he wants to blindside Alex. Meanwhile Alex says he was unimpressed with Zach's messenger soccer score, and asks me if I want to form an alliance with him, Rob, and Mihai.

So if I'm reading the game right it's basically Zach/Linus vs Alex/Mihai/Rob, with me and Joan in the middle. I really wanna go with the former two, but Joan is just sketchy af and I don't want him ratting out my plan to Alex.

Also when Alex approached me about the alliance he said ""Ouani 2.0 was allegedly playing like pussies and just handing Dani everything "", and according to Linus Dani isn't the biggest fan of Alex so if we merge soon (please lets merge next round), I think those two could be potential shields to navigate behind.

Honestly with Vivor, Linus, and Joan I'd be really surprised if we don't win this challenge, so with all the tensions here I'm just praying for a free pass to the merge."

"moya"

- Day 17. It has been so long since I gave a confessional because, well, I was drunk for 3 days and then had hangover, so I just had to recover 😬 I cannot believe I am actually here after the Lex vote, but I think that my social game kinda helped me stay. I was pretty close with lex and he didnt wanted to vote me out which led to him coming up with dani’s name, which saved me. Thanks, Lex, I owe you, bud. This new tribe feels amazing and for once I feel like having a strong alliance. Rob was my guy in this game from the start and we are still solid, but when I came to this tribe he told me he got close to Alex and Aromal and they an alliance of our 4 has been suggested. I actually talked with both alex and Aro and it seems that us 4 are gonna stick together for a while. On the other hand, I think zach, joan and linus expect me to stick with them since we were in the same tribe before this swap, but I dont trust Joan and Linus is sneeaky af, so I dont wanna work with them.

"moya"

- This is also the best tribe ever because we have alex, linus and joan who are such challenge beasts and I feel that so close to the merge, that can only hurt them if we lose a challenge, so I feel ok with sucking at the challenge we are having now because it would make a lot more sense to take out a challenge beast considering how close the merge is. I still hope we gonna win and that the other tribe sends Dani home because she was about to vote me out and I am done with her, she is playing everyone and I can see right through her lies. Also, wtf, how am I not in the same tribe with Grace yet :(

"moya"

- "So I actually have done really good at the challenge, enough to be slightly behind Vivor and a third of Linus' insane score. I feel like we've got this challenge, and I am sort of ready to get bitchslapped by the results in case Grace or Drew randomly pull out a 15 Million score that beats out me, Vivor and Linus together. I hope that is not a case but I know how people can pop off when they feel cornered and it's close to the merge.

Despite not having been a social ace the past few days because I've had my shit going on, I think that I have still some sway in this tribe and would be relatively safe from being targeted token of my alliances with Vivor, Zach and Linus, and the fact that I can't see Mihai voting me out either just yet. I feel that I've also maintained a good enough ongoing conversation with Rob, and Aro might still view me as a Ouani-bud. The potential blindside of Vivor concerns me, it would destabilise the start of the merge since from what I've seen a narrative emerge on how Vivor is goingt o be blasted in the merge, and that will make me really nervous because he is the only target people have in mind, so as a result I've talked to Linus and Zach about potentially taking out threats outside our circles of influence such as the Wananis that were originally alligned with Dani, and I feel that as long as they are able to see that this is not an attack against Dani herself but rather us preventing any pre-existing alliance structures from getting in the way of our domination. Augusto doing a mediocre job at social gameplay during the previous swap has seemingly helped me, because Linus did bring that up, and I think that Linus being the logical guy he is, will see the danger of too many question marks in this game.

I am saving up a good logical thought process for Linus and Zach in case we go to tribal as to why we shouldn't vote out Vivor: a seven person tribe, Vivor can potentially have Rob and Aro as numbers, since he HAAAAAAAAAAAAAS the hidden immunity idol he could play it and we wouldn't be able to split votes at all, so it might be best to vote out Aro or Rob, preferably Rob if possible. It's a bit cold blooded, but I need to make sure that now that we've had the real first blood with Andrea, that I am playing with the merge in mind, and any alliance that didn't have me in it is a threat to me and my game."

Day 18
"moya"

- Pretty much every vote thus far has been unanimous. The two exceptions are when Pory was in the minority (but now he is gone) and Nathan who self-voted. I need a split vote to happen before this merge. As of now, no one is trying to make enemies. Come the merge, that is a scary thought because sides have not been drawn and everyone is being buddy buddy with everyone. This is the game I wanted to play, very social and flexible with alliances, but it seems that everyone is trying to do the same. I am just going to create duos with people like Grace, Zach, Alex, Augusto, Tobi, Dani, Mihai, Drew. Holy crap that’s a lot, but I have undersold my relationships to a lot of people. I need to keep these relationships very lowkey because if people find out that there are multiple people who trust me and have shared information with me, then I am in trouble. However, right now I need to have these people as sources of information and “allies” who might protect my name if it’s thrown out.

"wanani"

- Okay so I'm gonna keep this one pretty short. But I've found myself in yet another 3 person alliance lmfao. Love Grace and Dani to bits and ill never turn down a chance for more protection. Unfortunately because the other tribe is stacked we got clobbered again in the challenge and it now seems that tobi who has few connections is getting the kibosh. I am starting to get more worried by Drew and his connection to Augusto though and I feel like if I survive into next round I'm gonna get put in a very difficult swing position. But we shall see.

"wanani"

- "This week seems... so weird to me. Everyone is so quiet... it scares me so much :(

As of rn, the vote it Tobi, but i just.. DONT wanna do it :( i love tobi so so much and id rather vote our Augusto now than wait until he wins this whole game UGGHH. Tobi is so fucking robbed..

But my mind isnt just settled on voting tobi bc everyones being rly shady to and around me it feels like. I feel like i might be voted out this round over smth that i dont even know, or maybe people are just being quiet this round.

update - irs a bit later. Everyone is confident that they’re voting Tobi and im crying... maybe i just have false hope and im leaving! who knows. ! "