Post by Hope Driskill on Jan 19, 2015 19:21:32 GMT
Tribe swap, again. Seriously?! This is the fourth tribe I've been on in five rounds. I don't think I've had to deal with this in a game before. It's making the game very tough to keep up with, a lot of plans are put in place, trust built with certain people, then suddenly, it's back to square one. I'm back on Malaga, this time with Alec, Brenda, Cao Boi, Cochran, Elyse and Jefra.
John ended up being voted out unanimously at the last tribal council. He got a pretty raw deal with the previous swap, when Elyse used the Fog Horn to make him the outsider and easy vote off. Jaclyn could've passed her idol to him, but chose not to. He was told to vote Pete, I'm sure cause they didn't care if he was idolled out. I liked John just fine, but him leaving is probably good for my game. He was a threat and I don't think fully trusted me anyway.
Jaclyn/Alec were the two captains who picked the tribes, having to alternate between members of the previous tribe, for who they picked. Jaclyn told me that she wanted to pick me, but Alec chose me as his first pick. That sucked, cause Jaclyn's a close ally. At the same time, Alec's someone I really like too and I've been dying to be on a tribe with him forever. The fact that I was his first pick made me feel confident I could get something going with him.
Morgan's the only player I haven't been on a tribe with the entire game. That sucks so much, cause she's pretty much the person I'm working closest with at the moment. I have a final three locked down of Hope/Morgan/Elyse which is what I'm planning on sticking to. It'll be amaze, cause nobody would see that coming! I think we could easily control the merge, cause together, our connections are pretty widespread.
Obviously, Elyse and I instantly reconnected. We only had one round together before, but I knew she was a locked ally on this tribe. I also have an alliance with Brenda, Morgan told me she likes me and there's talk about bringing her in as a fourth to the Hope/Morgan/Elyse alliance. Nothing's too set in stone with her yet, but I'm wanting to work on her more.
Then there's Alec, who like I said, I don't have any sort of alliance with, but I genuinely like talking to him. He kind of seems like a threat though, but I figure he'll always be an easy vote out, cause Morgan/Elyse would be on board and I think anyone from my original Malaga tribe seems him that way too. He could be a good distraction! I want to align with him cause I like him just fine, but I'm not really sure where he'd fit into my game.
My original tribemates are me, Jefra and Cochran, who I've actually been on a tribe with this entire game, through all these swaps. I was in an alliance with Jefra/Bobby/John, but that's kind of fallen flat now that John's out of the game. Jefra's not really around all that much either, and whenever I get separated from Bobby, we don't seem to be able to maintain regular contact. So I think that alliance is pretty much done for.
Cochran was the only person on original Malaga I never had an alliance with, I knew he felt like an outsider after Vytas left, so I'd always been worried he'd flip. Jaclyn and I talked at length about not trusting him and wanted to get him eliminated as soon as possible before he stirs up trouble. We had him set up to leave on the last tribe, but this last swap saved him, ugh.
Cao was an outsider on his original tribe, like Cochran was on ours. He's got a lot of resentment to how he was treated by them, being left outside of the Coach boot. He made it clear he wanted to vote with me, Cochran and Jefra and we'd have a 4-3 majority. That didn't really sit well with me, cause Brenda/Elyse are my two closest allies over here, and I don't want to vote against them at all.
Cao really wanted Alec gone, and Jefra/Cochran seemed on board too. My plan was to flip to Alec/Brenda/Elyse and vote out Cochran, but Cochran beat me to the punch. Apparently, he's made a group chat with those three, saying he wants to vote with them and vote out Jefra. Morgan/Elyse both came straight to me about this, filled me in on everything and copy/pasted the conversation.
Apparently, Cochran said that Cao flipped to us here and spilled about our group chat, and was saying that me/Jaclyn/Courtney/Jefra are aligned just cause we're blonde females so that's why Jefra needs to go. Like, what?! That's not even my main alliance, shut up. Not to mention, Jaclyn/Courtney aren't with Jefra anyway. Plus they had some fall out in round two when Vytas left, which apparently wasn't that important cause I only vaguely remember it. I hate when players like him complain about being left on the outs, the reason you were on the outs is cause you suck! Deal with it, learn from it.
So yeah I'm kind of pissed that Cochran got to Alec/Brenda/Elyse before me, cause now it made it impossible to get him out this round. They planned to throw the challenge, which I was going to anyway, to save Morgan. I'm just insisting to Morgan/Elyse that we could use Jaclyn/Courtney as numbers at the merge, but I'm fine to vote them out, which is true. I just hope they don't doubt me after what Cochran says, but I think they trust me.
Pretty much, I just had to start playing dumb, and act like I had no idea what was going on. I said to Cochran that I'm not sure if I want to vote out Alec cause I like him, maybe we could make a move and flip to position ourselves better. I said a lot of stuff like how I felt we were both at the bottom of original Malaga, and I felt we were both in trouble if we had to vote someone out after Vytas, to try and see where his head was at.
He seemed open to it, so I thought he might spill to me that he was flipping, but instead he ended up saying it was too early and we need to vote out Alec this time. Ugh, fucking liar! Just when I thought I could maybe work with him, he wants to leave me in the dark and flip alone. So Alec came to me after we lost and Cao was immune, he asked if I'd be willing to vote Cochran/Jefra, and I said I would, cause there's no way I was voting him out.
We started talking about our preferences between the two, I told him I thought Cochran seemed like he was willing to flip too, but then he didn't want to go along with it and wanted to vote with Cao/Jefra. Then like, ten seconds later, Cochran messaged me saying that maybe we should side with Alec/Brenda/Elyse! Like lol, it was so obvious Alec told him what I said.
I feel like messaging these people asking them if they think I'm stupid, I think people like Alec see me as someone who everyone likes, but isn't playing the game that hard. I think I've woven a strong web of alliances all over the map, and as long as I don't get caught playing too many sides, I could be in a strong position come the merge.
Alec obviously was wanting to boot Jefra and trying to be subtle about it, cause Cochran's the first one who jumped at the chance to save him. He made a group chat with me/him/Brenda/Elyse to discuss the vote. Elyse and I were laughing about how many group chats there are on this tribe! Me/Jefra/Cao/Cochran, me/Brenda/Elyse/Alec, Cochran/Brenda/Elyse/Alec, it's so funny having to pretend we have no idea about the ones we're not in.
Morgan wanted me to find out Jaclyn's thoughts on her and everything, so I approached her and casually brought it up. Jaclyn said she likes Morgan and would want her in with us, but doesn't think she'd be up for it. The two of them ended up talking and brought up the idea of bring the girls together for a Hope/Morgan/Jaclyn/Courtney/Elyse/Brenda final six. We agreed that'd be hot!
I found out from Morgan that the latest Treasure Trove prize is to save someone from being voted off, apparently it's already been claimed. I feel like all these prizes are going to make the game complicated at the merge. I think most people are wanting to keep the vote this round top secret, so that the items don't come into play and everything runs smoothly.
The bottle twist scares me, I don't see how it could be anything good. The fact that Jaclyn's coming to tribal council as the immunity winner, makes me think that she'll somehow be involved in this twist. I feel I have her locked by my side, so that can only plus. I think a lot of people see her as a threat, especially with her idol and insane challenge time.
Elyse and I are concerned about how close Alec/Cochran are. We feel Alec has Cochran in his back pocket and together they could try and rally votes against us at the merge, whereas I could keep Jefra in line more easily, and she has no connection to Alec. So we were talking about switching it up and booting Cochran instead.
Morgan feels the same, but it could be messy and too much trouble to convince Alec/Brenda to vote Cochran at this point, when he already expressed willingness to help them, plus we'd then have to explain to Jefra/Cao that Cochran was flipping in the first place, so that's why we need to target him. Instead we just agreed that Cochran would make a good merge boot, and we'd stick to the plan to boot Jefra.
Jefra should be leaving 5-2. Cao will be the only one voting with her, for Alec. Jaclyn has the idol, plus she's coming to our tribal. I'm thinking of filling her in on what's going to happen, shortly before the votes are read, cause I don't want her being confused when the votes are read. I don't think she'd play the idol on Jefra anyway, she didn't give it to John after all. I'm just going to pin the blame on Cochran flipping and me joining in, which will be an easy sell.
