The Tribal That Changed the Game/Confessionals

Day 21
"moya"

- "Dani went home, I am honestly heartbroken, if anybody was going to end her whole career it was me. Now I am out for blood. With our ""Baby Mommy"" being voted out I think that the ""Baby Daddies"" Linus and Zach will have all sorts of reasons to distrust NuNuWanani and potentially I'll be able to get the likes of Augusto and Nathan to go under fire after they remained mostly outside the radar thanks to the very person they just voted out. I am honestly freaked out at how many connections remain in this game, but I feel that I am doing a job (not good or bad, just a job, the quality of it remains unseen for now) out of trying to paint a paranoid picture out of the other tribe.

Vivor is honestly giving me bad vibes, I think he is far too attached to Grace despite how little she cared for him in the original tribe (she is a damn cold blooded serial killer, I can sense it) and I think that if he gets any ideas about I having the idol I could be in deep shit, because the guy keeps on bringing it up ALL THE FUCKING TIME. If he keeps moping about it I swear I will make a point out of idolling him out with the very idol that I stole for him just to teach him a lesson. Guy is clearly a bit too much for me right now, but that might be because I am nervous at the thought that we might merge and I go home early, but last time it was because I fucked up because I tried to go hard early merge, so... am I doing that again? I don't know. I at least have an alliance, Mihai for sure has my back and I feel that Linus and Zach also have my back, hell, even Vivor might have it but his crackhead obsession over the idol might cause him to try and murder me in the middle of the night.

I might be getting too bored and paranoid from not getting any action lately in the game, which is making me want to ensure things are normal, so I need to cool down before I make myself a target come merge AGAIN. I need to lay low, like a rat, and let other people end each other for me. All votes I've been in have been group decisions, and the trend has continued in the last three tribals but the people that have gone home at face value aren't those who you'd be expect to go home, so in that aspect I am under-experienced in this All-Stars season, I haven't had a real taste of plotting. I am trying to talk to people and nudge them the way I want them to think, a NuMoya strong mentality is just what I need to get Augusto and Nathan out, who I'm not too happy about still being in the game over Andrea and Dani, both of whom despite their flaws actually had something going when I was in a tribe with them. Rob seems to be eager about a NuMoya strong mentality, and Vivor seems to want Nathan and Augusto to go home with very few nudges from my side. He seems to want to rekindle with Drew and Grace, which I am not opposed to, but like those two are big threats... I know Grace could probably reorder Vivor's whole mind in no time because dumbass really seems to think she got his back. Mihai seems to have my back no matter what, and both Linus and Zach will probably want to avenge Dani too. Aro also exists, I hope he is doing good in life because I don't know jackshit about him in this game other than he really had fun watching Stranger Things season 3, which I also enjoyed, so the taste jumped out. The gameplay though... yikes. I am relaying the information between players to see if I can stitch together some sort of Frankestein monster of sorts with everybody other than me really saying what I wanted to say. Also, people do love being brought gossip, it makes them feel important. But yeah yikes, I just hope I'm not overdoing it rip. This feels like I went in a whooooooooooole lot of circles, but yeah, deal with it Fitz, you are probably the only person reading this.

Rip if we aren't even merging now because I'll have stirred the shit cauldron for no apparent good."

"ralfiki"

- We merged and I finally got to talk with Grace. I am disappointed, she is nothing I thought she would be. All this wait for nothing...

"ralfiki"

- "henlo it merge time yay! lets backtrack first

So we get some whacko ass early ass 3am ass results from tribal seeing that THE Dani Pero was voted out. as much as I love Dani, I was actually kinda relieved because I knew that she was going to be a late game worry for me with how connected she was, so her boot made me smash that sad thumbs up reacc, and then we merge the next day.

Once we hit merge, the camp has had a weird vibe. And I dont like it. Theres strong talks of keeping tribal lines in play, but Joan/Alex/Rob dont wanna kill Grace obv, cause Grace is close with Vivor. That dude has hella power in this game and I really dont like it. They wanna set up splits until Nathan, Drew and Augusto are out, but like, I dont like that man. Not one bit. Nathan and I are close, Drew is a potential ally, and Alex and probably Rob are running around with idols out here.

I Want Alex Vivor Out Of This Game

Joan is infaturated with the guy, and Mihai is gonna go wherever Joan does. Grace is with him. Rob is with him. That could potentially leave room for a 6vs5 majority (Drew, Aro, Augusto, Linus, Nathan and I) but like, I dont want that close of lines when the other side has the upper hand with idols! Its just insane to me that Joan still wants Alex to stay - hes nothing but bad for the dudes game. Hes got an idol, is up there for the best physical player this season, is an og Ouani who has the most og members, and has pull with multiple people. Its times like this where my forced partnership with Joan really gets on my nerves. Hes not playing ideally for himself, he wants to go to the end with bigger names and players than him. If the dudes smart, he takes, like, Aro and Mihai to the end, but hes out here throwing Aros name around like crazy

Idk. Whatever shakes down I know im safe for at least a vote or two, but its too late into my second chance to be playing passively and voting people out whom i dont agree should be voted out. It might be time for me to make a move and get the ball rolling my way. i just cant stand by and let vivor and joan tank my own game and my own setup because joan cant play ideally and vivor is for some reason well liked in this cast (i cant talk to the dude personally, we dont gel well at all and hes very sneaky)

We'll see how this challenge goes and how the rest of this round is gonna shake down, but its very worrying and im hella nervous about the future."

"ralfiki"

- "WHEW okay so first um lemme just apologize for being shitty TV, when I take on more than I should in the org world, confessionals are first to go, and honestly I’m not that active w them on a good game, but y’all deserve better so fuck.

You DID choose a good time to ask for my thoughts though because as of like half an hour ago, life got a whole lot more fucked??? So Grace and my main bonding point on Swap #2 (aka Magenta Death Trap) was that merge would probably come down to pro vs anti-Vivor, both of us being on the pro side but not too many more joining us in that. It’s prob the largest reason Dani left, not just because she’d come into merge with the most connections, but bc we knew how she’d mobilize them. BUT Nathan just came to me and said he’d heard from Zach that Vivor was thinking of him as a target. Which FIRSTABLE, slow your roll matey, it’s the first 24 hours. But SECOND, I was not ready for merge to turn into a showdown of two of my closest allies to this point. Nathan, Grace, and Vivor are the ones I’d love to be able to run with for a little while, and Augusto as well, although he was never a huge part of decisions on second swap, he was just always the one we decided to keep lkjsdfglfd But if holding that together isn’t an option then Grace and I are gonna have to do some fast thinking I’m not fully prepared for. I feel like if I have to choose right now, I’d side with Nathan over Vivor, but I’m not sure yet if she would. A lot of it depends on who they bring with them, because if we stick with Nathan, we have Augusto, it sounds like he’s good with Zach, it holds the chance for the three Moya boys to come back together, and I don’t know what Vivor brings to the table yet aside from a really good shield, so we’ll have to find out.

Everyone else is everyone else, they bop back and forth from super positive to irrelevant to dangerous depending on the moment I’m thinking of them.

- Linus is a good good friend but I haven’t seen him in the game in two weeks and he’s been making his own deals, so we’ll have to see how well we can work together again now that we’re here. Odds on favorite to have the Moya idol, if there are idols fskljdg - Rob I thought we were building something decent on Swap #1 (aka Porygate Ground Zero) but then he didn’t tell me Pory was going. Like I already knew, and I tried giving him so many hints that I knew but he just kept saying Aro to me while saying Pory to Vivor. So he can say secret F2 as much as his lil heart desires, but until he’s willing to step up to the plate, I’m not gonna give a fuck - Aro is a sweetheart but I don’t think he’d still be here without that good immunity run, king of only going to tribal twice this season and having his name come up at both of them. - Zach I have nothing with yet but Nathan appears to so that might end up a thing, who knows. JPORG king - Mihai ANOTHER OLD GAY LIKE ME we stan an Eastern European doctor <3 imma try to make something happen there just because he seems sane, and he’s gotten minority votes like…….every time he’s gone to tribal skjfghlsdf which to ME is someone who needs an ally. I can still charm an old gay, right? - Joan/Haruki def talked with least, and Nathan and Grace both said he needed to die soon once we got to this point so I’m not putting down too many roots here, but if he turns out to be an angel or something, we’ll see. Maybe I throw my game away for him someday!!!

Right now that’s way too long a list of people I don’t have enough built with yet so that’s my work cut out for me (hopefully without making myself so big of a target that I get idol’d out again but whatever), but like so far I’ve survived being on the shitty self-cannibalizing starting tribe, a solo swap into a really bad numbers situation, and whatever the fuck emotional rollercoaster that was on Wanani 3. Maybe there’s more for me to deal with here.

Omg that was actually fun, maybe I do more of these down the line!!! Love that optimism jumping out!"

"ralfiki"

- "So I made merge, which if I am honest is such a big worry for me in returnee seasons, but this time around it felt sort of easy? I was definitely really lucky that there were enough duds that I got scot free in the tribals I went to, and then the beast of a tribe that was swapped Moya made me nearly feel like Cleopatra being carried into the merge whilst being fanned, not even a single droplet of sweat on my skin. Now it was time to socialise, and with an undertow seemingly spearheaded by Rob for a swapped Moya alliance presenting me with an easy option to keep my allies Mihai, Linus and Zach close by, I still had to socialise with everybody to keep my options open. It's kind of funny, because despite me wanting him to go so bad in the past three votes, Augusto has definitely been the player from the other tribe that has clinged to me the hardest, we do have chemistry. but him and Grace have given me disparaging accounts on the Dani boot, and then I heard even weirder second hand accounts about Dani's sendoff from players from my tribe, so overall it feels that the NuNuWananis pretty much backstabbed her and won't admit to it because they know how well liked Dani was.

An unsuspected player arose from midnowhere in Aro, who in my very short interaction with him brought up the Nathan and Vivor drama, and he twisted it to say that Nathan had only just unblocked Vivor, so I flat out told Vivor just so that he is pissed off at Aro and there is a bit of drama between original Ouanis, just so that we don't get targeted because Wanani and Moya managed to get themselves down to three members each and may dare to blame Ouani for it when we had nothing to do with it. There are also lesser paranoias such as potential cross tribal connections between Vivor and Grace, Linus and Drew, and so on, but I trust that people right now want to get by the first merge vote and that with such a lackluster voting record we've had all pre-merge nobody is gonna be bold and brazen in fear of being unanomously voted out.

I lastly have managed to succesfully name the tribe Ralfiki, in honour of Andrea's dog. Hopefully that cheers her up a tad despite going home three tribals ago, it also comes across as some neat PR for me, which helps out. It might've been a bit stupid because people might believe I am out for vengeance for the boots of Andrea and Dani, but they can shut it, in reality I just need pretexts to vote out those I want to go home. I hope I have things under control for now, people want to talk to me and I want to talk to them, and that's usually a good sign for things to come."

Day 22
"ralfiki"

- "AHHHH I SURVIVED TO THE FUCKING MERGE. I feel so accomplished with myself that I survived that rough ass premerge (seriously...7 tribals takes a fucking toll on your psyche when you’re a paranoid freak like moi). Immediately, I checked in with Zach and Linus and the amazing news is that they seem open to continue working together which is like absolutely refreshing to hear cause of the whole, merging in a 7-4 minority thing lmfao. But let me talk about the elephant in the room: Alexander Vivor. So I had Vivor blocked prior to this season starting but it’s interesting that as soon as we talked, that issue vaporized right away.

OR SO I FUCKING THOUGHT: While Vivor is being openly cool with me, I’m getting intel from Zach that he’s already throwing my name out as a target which like, c’mon man, not cool. So basically I’m going into a flash game (which if you haven’t noticed yet, I haven’t exactly had the best luck with) knowing that I have a target on my back. The plus side to knowing that Vivor is targeting me this early though is that it gives me a decent amount of time to rally my troops and gather some loyalty. And a good part of an 11 person merge is that you don’t even need to gather that much - 6 is the magic number, and time will tell if I hit that number in time."

"wanani"

- ANNIHILATION DAY 22

"ralfiki"

- "Hellooo I feel like I haven't submitted a confessional in forever. To be honest nothing really changed from the last time I sent one. It was still Zach/Linus vs Alex/Rob/Mihai till we merged. I think Rob was trying to get Linus to vote me in case of an idol, but that plan backfired since I knew about it right away.

So we merge and it feels fucking good. Not only do I avoid being a two time pre-merger but I've also beaten my Sumbawa placement. Thankfully the only ""new"" people I have to talk to are Nathan and Augusto. Nathan is a good friend, and I hosted Augusto when he won so he's not entirely a stranger. After all the initial excitement dies down Zach tells me that Joan wants me out, because I'm talking too much with the other tribe, when all I said to him was ""talking to these new people are scary"". Then Joan asks me where my head is at, and I went with the safest possible answer, which is that I wanted to stick Moya 3.0 strong. Then this apparently becomes an actual thing, because I start hearing from Rob and Mihai that they want to stick with Moya 3.0. Then Zach tells me that Joan wants Augusto out, and that Rob is mad at Augusto for voting out his allies Tobi and Dani. Plus Alex and Rob are close with Grace, so it seems that it'll be an 8 vs 3 situation.

So this gives me an idea. I want me, Zach, and Linus to flip to the 3 and blindside one of the potential idol holders (Alex, Rob, or Joan). Zach is initially hesitant about it but agrees that its a good plan, so we just need to talk to Linus.

But anyway as I was typing the last paragraph a lot changed, so I'll update you guys on new developments as soon as I get back from work."

"ralfiki"

- Day 2 of the merge was a little bit less talkative, mostly because I get overwhelmed by having to talk to so many people and it's a rather arduous task to keep up with so much small talk that amounts to nothing. I decided to fuck a little bit with Aro after he seemed really eager to have Vivor and Nathan take each other down and was disappointed after I told him that apparently those two had talked things out. What did I do to fuck with Aro? you wonder, well that is simple, I told Vivor who wasn't pleased about it. Vivor and Nathan are probably still eager to take each other out, but I threw in Aro in that mix because he's been too quiet all game long to suddenly stir the pot, and I don't like that. Who does he think he is to suddenly play the subtle game of manipulation despite an amicable façade? Me? I think not. I am uncertain on whether to spread word further about Aro's snitchrata behaviour, but I might contain it to Vivor for now and will only unveil the information in case I feel that I am not a big fan of the way things are going down at tribal to throw Aro under the school bus and hopefully run him over whilst the children scream. He is somebody I don't mind as a number, but at the same time he is going to be such a goat that people might see as "mine" due to his lacklustre social skills that I don't mind it if he has to go.

Day 23
"ralfiki"

- I feel like tribal could have been such a mess, but now it seems like Augusto is the target which makes me have mixed feelings. He disappointed me before, but now I am starting to trust him again a bit, I believe he doesnt really have anyone close here and he is feeling lost. I think that maybe the wanani bond we had could get us close again, which is why I wouldnt want him gone now. I think I am in a good spot as long as the double agent thing is not found out and the only people knowing about it are Rob and Alex. I feel like Rob has changed over the last days, he also mentioned voting Augusto out and how that would make us two the last Wanani left in the game and he gave me the vibe that he wants to be the last wanani left, so I think that he would take me out for that to happen. I still feel close to him, I just another face of him, one that is very much into this game and that scares me. I got closer to Drew, he is a really nice guy and we promised we would keep each other safe this round, and I hope I can trust him. I need to align myself with people I like and right now I like Zach, Drew, Rob, Alex and Augusto with some question marks. Grace remains the disappointment of my life in these games, I just cannot connect with her and I think that once she doesnt win immunity, she has to go. I would love to make an all underdogs alliance and take out big players like Grace, Alex, Joan, Nathan or Linus, but I dont think I can do it because of the way how everyone is connected right now. I wanna play, I wanna make moves even though it gets me out. I hope to survive this round, so I can see where everyone stands and then I can start to play!

"ralfiki"

- "Grace won immunity in a little bit of a blowout where I placed 5th overall despite thinking that my score was rather strong. I feel that people are going to start showing their real colours now in challenges trying to desperately win them, whilst others have clearly not even tried on the challenge, which is a bit of a shame. But anyways, with Grace safe I don't really have to worry about compromising my prior alliances with her, especially since Zach chose to revive our three person alliance from OG Ouani, only that Zach hadn't really thought that one through because we don't know what the hell to tell her because me and Zach are in the ACTUAL alliance dictating the vote.

The real alliance in the works is the Moya 7 which Rob has been sort of been trying to push through, which is a smart move from his part seeing that his previous allies have gotten blasted out of the game and that by being the man behind the alliance he might climb up the social hierarchy of a tribe he previous was rather unconnected in. Only thing was that in the formation of an alliance that will clearly crash and burn after this vote if not earlier, everybody was sketched out and communications was reduced to a game of Chinese whispers to a hilarious conclusion. So I learned from Linus who that learned from Rob who had learned from Aromal that Zach was apparently lukewarm or iffy on the alliance, so I had to do some digging and went straight up to Zach and told him that. Why? Because that's the second time in less than a day that Aromal couldn't stop himself from trying to stir the pot and I swear to god if he does that a third time he is going home. Three strikes, you're out. Turns out it was some sort of misunderstanding, and a pretty good test on how quickly things leak through the alliance's grapevine, which gives me hopes that if, in the words of Big Brother 21's Kat, these bitches are conspiring against me, I'll find out and be able to play the idol.

After that whole shenanigan got resolved, Rob began getting on my nerves because he didn't want to revive the old tribe chat and made excuses as to how it was deleted or what not, which I knew it wasn't. The guy, despite having spearheaded this whole alliance thing for at least a week, was not gonna actually seal the deal despite the fact we know this is Rob's-Moya-7-Because-He-Lost-Everybody-He-Ever-Held-Dear Alliance. I got annoyed in the end, people were away being productive members of society with jobs and shit so there wasn't that many people to talk to, so in the end I excused myself and went to sleep, using that as the reason as to why I was not gonna revive the chat.

I woke up a few hours ago to see that Aromal was the one to revive the chat, this guy seems to be everywhere nowadays, I guess that Aromal's corner is no more. Vivor threw out Augusto's name which came across as a bit of a shock because he had hinted to me that he still didn't mind Nathan going home. I also like Augusto the most out of the Wanani 4, maybe even more than Grace, I still really like her, it's just that she comes across as more cold-blooded than Augusto, but I guess I'm the one to talk. I don't mind Augusto going, but I'd honestly prefer Drew, who hasn't even messaged me for tribal yet, or Nathan with whom I've had rather dry talks. Augusto did tell me how things went down at NuNuWanani, even if there was a bit of bullshit mixed into his stories, much like Grace's, meanwhile Nathan and Drew have been like brand new buckets, zero leaks. I talked to Linus and Mihai individually after I saw they were awake, and we discussed tribal some more, I brought up that we needed to tell the Wanani 4 a decoy name and came up with Drew since that's the most believable name I could say since he is a big threat and hasn't been great at talking to me. In all honesty I wanted to say Aromal because he has been so messy lately and if the other four are already voting for him it might be easy for me and Vivor or Zach to just flip and get him out if he fucks up again.

Lastly, I am pretty sure that I have the idol at my fingertips if I succeed at surviving this tribal. It was a lot of bullshit luck and instinct, unlike the Ouani one which was 100% me playing the hell out of Vivor, but I still feel that I am due some credit since I actually only got the code due to skipping some numbers random.org gave me. For example, I skipped all numbers in the 20s since I already had one, I also skipped a 45 due to feeling that a number that was in a previous idol wouldn't reappear, I also got a bunch of number repeats from previous guesses, which forced me to randomise again until I got a my third and final number, which who would guess, together with the first number and the number from a previous guess, make out the whole idol combination. I am really freaking pumped and slightly disgusted at my luck to crack two idols in a game when I'm usually so bad at them, does this mean I actually might be able to become the Sole Survivor for once and all? I need to calm my dick. But yeah, now more than ever I sort of want to play this tribal in whatever scenario will guarantee that not a single person considers voting me out because I'd honestly be gutted if that were to happen."

"ralfiki"

- "Tribal is already looking to be hella messy. First off we have Joan who thinks that twisting everyone's words and making an alliance no one wants is a good plan. We have Zach who seems to have fucking tunnel vision with regsrds to Vivor and even though he made a 6 person alliance of myself, him, Aro, Linus, Drew, and Augusto, he doesn't seem to even be open to hearing our debates on why we should take out Joan instead. We have players like Mihai who, for some reason, at final 11, think it's good gameplay and not at all totally infuriating to pull the 'omg I'm like, so out of the loop, I haven't heard ANY name yet.' Like cut the shit dude. We're at the merge and it's time to stop being cutesy with it and it's time to show some assertion.

Long story short, this vote seems to be going a million ways yet no ways yet. Which is very fucking exciting considering I head to work in 2 hours. I feel like if I end up surviving I'm gonna come back to a tribe that's utterly on fire. And to that I say: let it fucking burn."

"ralfiki"

- "Confessional time I guess??? So going into this merge, I definitely built up the perception that I was not close to my former pinks after the Tobi vote. I wanted to make it seem like I would be willing to work with the Moyas knowing that we would be going into the merge with a strong majority. I did not think that Dani would be voted out, but that is not the worst thing for my game- I still have Augusto. Knowing that I had a relationship with Augusto and Grace, I wanted to downplay those bonds so I was not being perceived as a social threat this early on. For the past few rounds I have been a vocal advocate for Moya strong, and people have been picking up on that which is great. It gives the Moya members a level of comfort that I will not flip on them if it came to that. I had no intention of being Moya strong at this merge. Joan has been twisting words of myself, Mihai, Aro, etc. so he cannot be trusted. I was very for getting Joan out this round, but it needed to be done intelligently due to the fear of an idol, so I got to work. Alex and Nathan were painted as a rivalry, so they needed to rekindle and make sure that they were on the same page. Ultimately, they concluded that Joan was stirring the pot and he needed to go. This plan really did not come into action until last night / this morning. The group of 4- myself, Mihai, Aro, and Alex wanted to do Joan, but there were 2 things we needed to do. 1. Get fucking numbers. 2. Make Joan feel safe while excluding Linus and Zach. 1. Get fucking numbers It became clear that we needed to use the group of 4 that just survived that tribe. So after talking to Nathan a bit, he seemed to be ok with a Joan vote this round. Last night, I clued Augusto in on everything, especially on how we needed to act to everyone else. He needed to act like I did not tell him anything so we were not painted as a duo and other people felt comfortable with him. That is when I approached Drew about the vote. He asked me who the vote from Moya will land on, and I simply told him ""I cannot say."" This was to give him the impression that we were voting him so that he would feel uncomfortable at the vote, and he would be more likely to vote for anyone else. This is when I mentioned that we might vote Joan and that I heard it from Nathan. I told him to check with Nathan, Augusto, and Grace to see what they think. I know that Augusto will be honest with me, so it would be confirmation to me if Drew was willing to vote Joan- which he told Augusto he is. This is also great because we now have Drew and Alex telling Augusto the vote, not me. So they do not think that we are close. The 8 of myself, Alex, Aro, Augusto, Drew, Grace, Mihai, and Nathan all seem to be on board to both blindside Joan and not spill just in case of an idol. 2. Make Joan feel safe while excluding Linus and Zach MoYa StRonG!!! I wanted to make sure someone else bumped the chat to give Joan some confidence that it was not just me being an advocate for this group. It would seem like more people were on board, so he would be less likely to play an idol. I dont care who they said they were voting for cause it wouldn't matter. I did clue Augusto in that he will be getting some votes, but assured him that he (and his idol) are safe. We are using Drew at the decoy to the decoy??? If that makes sense, it does in my mind so it makes sense. I do feel confident this vote will go in my favor, but I will need to do some damage control with Linus and Zach about the vote; however, I think they might be more mad at Alex than myself. I can say that it was started by Alex and Nathan if it comes to it because that is the narrative that I have been playing. My strategy has been to be gaining information from everyone, but not revealing what I know. I have calculated conversations with everyone to give them security that I am with them, expose the need to know information, and ultimately get what I want. I need to be cautious down the line because this may catch up to me, but I do trust Mihai and Augusto enough to let me know if they hear my name. Moving forward, I want to find this idol. Grace gave me 1 number and I want to snag it so I can make some more waves in this game! So here's my 5th? confessional of the season- I swear I am playing, and I hope you enjoyed! "

"ralfiki"

- "alright yall this round is the biggest clusterfuck of bad gameplay ive seen in a long time and i am so tired of it

lets start at the beginning

So grace wins immunity (gg congrats!) which is fine cause she was never a target, shits all good! Im like okay, i can put my plan of killing vivor into motion! the Moya 4 think Aro, Linus and I are with them, the three of us + Nathan, Drew and Augusto all can just yeet him out, no problem! But of course, its not that simple. Wrenches get thrown into play.

Alex, Rob and Mihai have this great plan. A marvelous splendor where they manipulate and masterfully execute Joan from this game. At first im like okay whatver, joan votes augusto, those 3 do joan, us 6 do vivor, grace...probably does joan? thats fine! But then, ppl start playing for vivor and not for themselves.

Augus, Nathan and Drew decide ""we wanna kill joan""

Nathan votes for joan then dips out to work

I dont like that.

i start racking the numbers in my head and realize that if drew and augusto arent willing to vote for vivor, joans fucked.

So, I use my intuition, and I make one last hail mary.

I go to Joan and just tell him everything. All the dynamics, all the votes, everything. And man oh man, if there wasnt an angel watching above or some other religious bullshit, because Joan headass confirmed what I had thought was a strong possibility since day one

Joan has the mf idol

and Joan is gonna use the mf idol

so now shits gonna be great! I get to strengthen my bond with Joan, an idol is gone, Vivor is gonna be gone, I can prob get away with not being the one to tip off joan if i play my cards right, i still have aro linus and nathan (and prolly side shit with minorities like rob and possibly mihai), and since i did all the legwork, waited for the info to come to me, struck while the iron is hot and capitalized as best as possible for me, i can claim this gamechanging move as THE tribal that changed the game and set the tone for the merge onward at FTC if I can make it, which is a HUGE resume booster. Sure, I'm gonna be a target now, and sure, I might lose the trust of like, Drew or Augusto, but I really dont see a way this doesnt work out for me overall. Rob has the wanani idol (prolly), the Ouani one is gone now, Linus has the Moya idol and I do believe him when he says hed use it for Aro or I, and I am now in complete control of not only my own game, but the tone of at least the next tribal or two. This is what I came back for. To prove that given the right tools and wiggle room to play, I can make this game my bitch and show that I really can be a force to be reckoned with. This is the me that nobody in 703 has been able to see yet, and its the me that I wish Hallasan gave me the opportunity to show. This is why the social game is SO. IMPORTANT. If i wasnt socially connected, I wouldnt have known about these idols, I wouldnt have known joan was getting targeted, etc. I personally dont even find info out myself much, but so many people tell me so much info that i can just hang back and let it come to me. Its the information sponge trick. Ive used it in pretty much every org ive been successful in. And man oh man is it paying off.

This is rly weird and out of character for me given i never rly gloat or have an ego but MAN am i just PUMPED for this one. Its gonna be incredible. Get ready for the fireworks, babycake. Its goin down.

Ill do a follow up after I either crash and burn hard this tc or end up emerging the king of the island after this vote. Will hopefully catch up later <3"