Board Thread:Survivor 24: Caracol/@comment-29261560-20170607034857/@comment-27018217-20170607044339

Wow girl, I fucking love you. I thought you were gonna tear me apart during your speech, but this is actually really sweet. To be honest, I didn't realize how much you wanted to help me during your tribal, so I guess I didn't read everyone as correctly as I thought. Anyways, your questions.

1. The parchement was more of a moment of anger and warning to the rest of the players in the game. It had been two rounds in a row I had been lied to about the vote, I was feeling like I wasn't going to be able to get anything done, and I was just frustrated. So that round, after a couple days to calm down, we had already formulated the plan to vote you out, and Anna had told me that you guys (Forrest, Luis, Christine and her) and formed a plan to split the votes between Roodman and I. So when you finally got back to me, and said you hadn't been around, I felt angry, because from what I heard, you had been talking with the others earlier that day after I had asked you what the plan was, I just sort of snapped. The anger came back and even though I know in this game you have to lie and shit, I was getting sick of it. From my point of view, both you and Forrest were bullshitting me (when you weren't, I think Forrest was since he voted me), and I just wanted to let it out a bit. The parchement was my way of saying "Don't fuck with me, I'm not as stupid as you guys are treating me", because I actually was feeling somewhat like I was being treated like I was stupid: like I wouldn't catch onto the plans or how alliegiances fell or how things were at some point. Stupid I know. Now knowing that you hadn't really lied to me and were trying to protect me makes me feel even worse about that parchement.

As for why we couldn't work together, once we hit the merge I talked to you like it was normal. But also, Anna was telling me I had to be weary of you, because of your relationship with Forrest. So, I became a bit weary because I was concerned you'd relay stuff I said to you back to Forrest. Then the Zach vote happened, and you voted with the other side. That made me scared, because I thought there might be an alliance I wasn't a part of, so that was a bigger turn off. From what I was getting from Anna, it seemed you and Forrest were a duo. I could have tried and worked with you guys, but I felt like that would have just been setting myself up for third place, third wheel, third at everything, I didn't want that to be the kind of alliance I wanted. As much as this may suck, the big turn off WAS your relationship to Forrest. Just that you were so close to him made me always worried about what I could tell you because you may relay it back to him, how we'd work together because you guys could over power what I wanted and that you'd pick him over me on anything. From my point of view, you may have wanted to work with me, but only if you could work with Forrest as well, and I couldn't do that because I wanted Forrest gone.

2. So basically we were talking about getting you out during Thiru's tribal. That's where the original idea came up. You were strong comp wise, socially wise, strategically wise, you were a solid winner in the making. Also, in taking you out, it would leave Forrest weaker. As I said, I planted the seeds with Lori to get her to flip to our side, but Luis' case was interesting. Luis had actually expressed interest in turning on you two, afraid of you guys as a duo. All I had to do was keep pushing that idea, I kept emphasizing that you two would pick each other over him, that you were a strong player, really all I did was keep pursuading him that it was the best course of action to take you out. I can't really explain the full details it just sort of happened. He and I kept talking about the game and soon we were formulating a plan (even though I already had one with Anna, Roodman and Lori) to get out you! It just naturally worked itself out.

Now for fun questions

1. So I haven't watch a ton of Survivor but I'll try my best here. I'll go with my game for Caracol would have to be close to Monica Culpepper, in that I had some struggles of course, as people wanted to keep me on the outs, but I worked with my allies, won immunities when I needed to, and I was optomistic enough that I kept fighting to get here. I don't know if that's a good comparison, I've only seen the two latest seasons and I don't really think any games on those seasons are very close to mine.

2. Oh damn, my favorite part would have to be the Roast Challenge, because of the creative ways we bashed one another, and I absolutely LOVED seeing Luis pop off on everyone! It was hilarious and he absolutely deserved that win!

Thanks for the speech Christine, I hope that cleared some stuff up about your blindside and why I made that parchement. You really are sweet, I'm sorry with how things worked out between us and I hope we talk after this game!