Shane Revenge Tour 2K20/Confessionals

Day 17
"rubicante"

- Okay so this game is sucking right now! We have a live challenge in two hours and it might be make or break for me! This little tribe of four is very strong but honestly I don't know if I can survive a tribal with them. I don't even want to vote any of them out so this would suck, like, a lot. Hopefully we win though and the crisis will be avoided!

"malacoda"

- I'm being chucked into the fire this time, go me!

Only Connect is soon, and I feel nervous, but not exactly anxious about losing. It's whatever, I've got FIVE alliance chats now and I don't think they wanna turn on me at all! Obviously I'd rather just skip tribal altogether so hopefully we pull out the win, but who knows just how difficult this will be...

Zach, Sam, Brian and Hesh are my main boys right now. They have been this whole time, and I want to run to the end with them. Let's see if I get that far and look back at this confessional and laugh. Future Liam, you better have made the right choice!

"malacoda"

- As predicted, Liz went home 10-1. This is the sixth unanimous vote in a row, and I bet the hosts are pretty furious. Meh, not my problem - y'all wanted me in the game, and y'all are gonna get a clean sweep!

Brian and I effectively lock in our loyalties to each other by telling each other secrets: Brian leaked to Tommy that he was being targeted to try and get Lex out, and I have the garnets of both Aaron A. and Lora. It's a bit of mutual assured destruction - if the news about my garnet wealth goes out, I rat Brian out as a snake. We'd both be stupid to ruin this majority, in my opinion. We are literally in a golden chair.

The next challenge is the ill fated Only Connect and my dumbass chose to participate, completely forgetting that I had a rehearsal at 1pm, the same time that we moved the challenge to. While I don't think I'll be targeted if we lose, I'd rather not test those waters. I just need to get past this tribal and the next one to beat my placement from Tokelau. And considering how well my game has gone thus far, it'd suck to be blindsided this early.

"malacoda"

- To make this sweet and short I’m in complete control. Grey thinks that’s Liz vote was good for them. It dug their grave. We have the 5 person alliance of Sam Zach Liam lex and I within it Zach and I have a 3 person alliance with all, however our true final three is Sam Zach and I. Circled in that we have the 6 of Brian Chloe Isaac Zach Liam and I, this will help us take out the reds and the 4 new Grey. Isiiah is also in a theee way with me and Zach for coverage and I have a three way with Zach And Chloe. I also have a 4 one with Brian Chloe and Isaac. Brian, Chloe, Isaac all think they’re closest with me. Aaron would go next, it’s a shame he’s done nothing wrong, but I don’t need him and Idk where his head is truly at. I know he says he’s with lex zach and I, but we’ll see. I’m pretty covered everywhere. This might be the best game I’ve ever played.

"malacoda"

- My strategy this season has been the opposite of my strategy last season. Last season I was at the top of my alliances, beasting comps, planning blindsides, etc. This time I'm kinda going with the flow and just focusing on my relationships. I've gotten very close to almost everyone, which is weird because I'm not in any major alliances. My strategy right now is to basically be everyone's best friend, while also pulling a Sandra, "as long as it's not me". If we win immunity, I'm going to do my best to convince AJ and Joey to vote out Andrew. I like the drama he causes, but I need Lexi to stay. I feel super close with her, and us being at the merge together would be great for my game. If we lose immunity, I have no idea what will happen. The dynamics are so weird. I might try to put the target on Aaron since I talk to him the least out of everyone, but who knows. Either way, I am going to continue laying low and making myself seem like a non-threat, while also being as social as possible. Idk if I can win this season with a Sandra type strategy, but I'm going to try my best.

"rubicante"

- Holy fucking shit. That challenge win is probably my proudest ORG moment in the 8 years I've played these games. We were down eight fucking points going into the third round and we pulled off the biggest fucking upset imaginable. I am so fu\king proud of AJ, Lexi, Andrew, and myself. The four of us were left out of everyones big plan to go 11-4 against us and we won both immunity challenges. The merge has got to be next and deals are gonna be made. Hopefully we can continue riding this high we're on.

"rubicante"

- I've been able to dodge tribal for 5 episodes in a row now, and it feels so great! I'm normally never on challenge dominant tribes but it seems like I'm just very lucky this game. I'm so grateful to have these 3 other amazing people with me.

"rubicante"

- I'm honestly fucking cackling at the pettiness of the Malacoda tribe who are so up in arms about losing to us again that they're bursting at the seams. First Brian throws several tantrums at us being all like 'NO NO YOUR TIME IS UP YOU DONT GET TO TRY EXPLAIN' (even when Toby asked us to) while we were losing, then the second we overtook him he starts whining on and on for minutes after certain points were played. Just some fun irony. Then, to top it all off, Liam blocks us for beating him. We didn't even do shit like we did not gloat at all about winning this time and he blocks us. Fair enough being upset at losing since he's been to so many tribal councils, but bro, that's not our fault? Get better at challenges? You put us in the shitty spot where we have to just win win win in order to not get blasted out of here. You don't get to be mad at us for winning when you gave us absolutely no other avenues to play right now. I know emotions have been high in this game, but in no situation is that justification to take it out on us. Either way, I'm not losing sleep over it, and I'm instead just happy about us winning and the fact that the four of us are still riding solid together. Joe is the fucken homie and I love him and his detestable sense of humour, Lexi is still an impossibly-likeable shining star in the tribe, and even Andrew has gone a one eighty for me and is so much fun to talk to. These are my people, this is my family, and I'm going to stick by them through thick and thin while we're a tribe.

"rubicante"

- I got Liz's two garnets which was a shock. Not that it came to our tribe per se, but that it came to me and not Lexi. I really thought she would've given it to Lexi since I never really spoke to her on our old tribe and I assumed Lexi did, but I guess I was wrong on that. I love that she was pissed enough at Aaron that she chose not to give them to him though. Either way, I promptly gave one to Andrew and one to Lexi, so I've now given one to each person on my tribe and don't look like I'm playing favourites anymore. If it comes back to bite me at whatever they're going to be used for, then oh well, I'm still standing by my decision to use them for social capital rather than anything at a later stage.

Day 18
"malacoda"

- https://youtu.be/CQaFZU2Ark4

"malacoda"

- this fucking sucks bruh, like i know i lied to liz and aaron before the mutiny to get them to come over to red 3.0 because our core wanted ppl expendable to vote off in the case that we lost so we can keep majority. but fuck i didnt think we'd actually like KEEP LOSING. which means our expendable tribe ppl's now gotta get the boot and i hate it cuz liz was such a sweetheart and didnt deserve that. and aaron is such a cool straight up dude that i fuck with hard even after the shane boot. but in the long term for my butterdog core alliance we need aaron gone here because we gotta keep brian/chloe/isaac happy for whenever we do merge so we can use them to have power over the grey 3.0 since after that one world scandal they should be at each other's throats and that's exactly what me, hesh and zach want. we want our grey 3 to feel happy and that they're in control so hopefully we use them to get rid of aj/andrew/joe/lexi then turn the tables with butterdog to truly run this game. that's why aaron has to go here, even tho i feel he's being genuine, in the long run it's what needs to be done to keep the heat off us so we can take control of this game down the road. grey want aaron gone and we need isaiah around since me and zach have been buttering him up because he was on the bottom of grey 2.0 to give us another number. im so sorry aaron you literally dont deserve this but for my game, and my core alliance's game, it's what needs to be done so we can run this fucking volcano

"rubicante"

- At this point I have nothing to lose so I'm going to try get Lex out. As far as I can tell, there's not a whole lot of people who want to work with me, and I'm such a glowing neon target that I could so easily and readily be picked off at any moment, so if that's the situation I'm going to be in, I might as well just say fuck it and go for broke here in targeting a fellow big name. I don't like the demeanour that Lex has had towards me recently anyway, so I kill two birds with one stone in taking out a vocally abraisive player that could run things strategically but also that is going to be a pain in the ass to try work with later. Win win, I'm probably dying anyway, so fuck it card paid liam or whatever the cease the day shit is.

"malacoda"

- Well, I just fucked us big time. Malacoda lost 16-12 and my dumb ass could be considered directly responsible. I volunteered to be one of the four to play, completely forgetting about my rehearsal at 1pm my time, directly coinciding with the rescheduled challenge time. We were essentially a man down, and we got pipped. Shit.

I'm assuming the target is Aaron, but discussions are honestly pretty quiet, which worries me a touch. Interestingly, Aaron is not going down without a fight - he's in quite a few people's PMs, with the revelation that he's in a power sextet with Hesh, Zach, Liam, Sam and Lex. That... makes a LOT of sense. Aaron and Liz were probably fed the idea that myself and the other Rubicantes would be picked off, and Aaron was likely in for a shock when Liz became the target instead. Either way, Brian and I are somewhat wary. Do we believe Aaron's statements, or do we take them as the dying words of a desperate man? To be on the safe side, we plan on firming up our relations with Isaiah as another person on our side.

What doesn't help matters is the fact that Aaron and Liam decide to throw all caution to the wind and have some argy-bargy in the tribal chat, directly in front of everyone. Liam's beginning to seriously concern me, and I don't mean in a game sense. His demeanor recently has been aggressive, paranoid and half-hearted; if you want an example, he very nearly quit the game after shouting ""YOU HATE ME YOU HATE ME YOU HATE ME"" at Aaron during the argument. A part of me thinks it'd be better to vote him out for his own well-being. But alas, hopefully tonight is a clean Aaron vote.

Merge next round? Probably not. These hosts aren't THAT predictable.