John K Is Sexy

[John Kenney]

I used to have a pic of john k in a suit up there but I got sick of it already tbh.

I'll be posting my confessionals in this thread...not gonna do that one thread each round crap.

So Jefra is giving me some CYS: AS flashbacks, Jeff...

[John Kenney]

Round 1

This is going to be pretty rambly, mostly because I don't have huge reads on people but some stuff has happened. So, let's talk about Jefra.



I know her...oh, I know her so well. Haha. We have a somewhat complicated relationship outside of game where I'm not sure if she loves me or hates me. She claims she loves me but...meeh, I have not treated her well in games. I'm gonna try to change that in this game. That said, she doesn't know who I am in this game yet. I might end up telling her, I might not! I'll surely let you know.

But yeah, Jefra LOVES John K. I think it's because we're both good looking people (lbr, John K is the best looking guy on this tribe, so I don't blame her). She told me that she thought I was the one that got the treasure trove because the person she chose had "good looking" as their personality traits. Which is kind of funny, because I'm totally not vain enough in real life to choose that as a personality trait. But yeah, Jefra likes me, she wants to sleep next to me in the shelter, blah blah. I think I'm in good with her.

Next up...



Shii Ann is a good friend of mine outside of game. Apparently she signed up using her real AIM, which is good, because I recognized her right away. I want to work with her, but she's been very...anti-social? I don't know. I heard from Jefra that Shii is hard to talk to, and even when I talk to her I get one word responses. Which sucks, because I'd like to stick with her for once in these games. I even told her that Jef was saying that she was anti-social and all I got was an "ohh." Like, HELLO, that is your wake up call! Get your head in the game. >_<

Next up...



I like Cochran a lot! We have a pretty funny dynamic going. He's playing up a nerdy persona (which might be how he is in real life? I'm not sure lol), and I'm really playing up a bro persona. He told me I'm the one he connects with most, I said same...and that might be true tbh? I'm not sure. I do like him a lot, but it's too early to tell who I connect with and who I don't.

ANYWAY, I logged back on late at night and Cochran told me I'm in an alliance of...

+ +  + +

Which is OK with me? I like Jefra and Cochran, obviously. Bobdawg and Vytas both seem cool, but they're both the people I've talked to the least on this tribe. Now, I can change that pretty easily, but still...meh. I'm a bit upset that Shii Ann isn't in it. :/ but I'm gonna try to save her as long as I can until a swap hits then we can work together hopefully.

That said, it's awesome that I was put into an alliance without even trying. #SocialGod

Next up...

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I'm putting them together because in my mind they are LITERALLY the same person. They have like all the same opinions, the same personality. It's fucking freaky. I was talking to them both at the same time, and at some points they'd ask me literally the same questions. There will be points where I'll just confuse them for each other in the future, I bet.

Who haven't I mentioned...

Oh, Courtney. She's OK I guess.

On the other tribe, Morgan and Sandra have both talked to me. I'm always suspicious of people that talk cross tribe, even if this is a "one world" season. But I'm pretty sure they're talking to everyone if they're talking to me.

Anyway, that's all, just wanted to keep you guys updated. <3 I'm out.

[John Kenney]

Ugh ok. So I'm annoyed that we lost...not really anyone's fault but our own and occasionally proboards.

So, let's talk about the vote...

Our alliance of five thought it'd be an easy vote for Shii Ann. Which sucks for me, because I really like Shii, and Shii really likes me. I really wanted to keep her safe so I told her to fight and do whatever she could to survive.

So, she did...

And she got Courtney and Jaclyn to pretty much start campaigning to save her and vote out Vytas. One of my alliance members. Now, the thing is, I feel a lot more loyalty to Shii Ann than I do to Vytas. I have BARELY spoken to Vytas. He has not been on at all. Shii Ann I've obviously spoken with a lot more. So even though he is in my alliance, I'm not particularly interested in saving him. Likewise, I'm not interested in having a divided tribe this early. It's fucking stupid, and hurts my game.

So now, I'm pretty much taking a neutral stance in this vote. Which is HARD because we're an active tribe and everyone wants to feel out everyone else's opinions. So it's difficult to just sit back and say nothing! Gah. But if I take a stance one way or another, it will hurt my game.

I wish we won. <.<

[John Kenney]

Round 2

So, the Shii Ann vote went off more or less without a hitch. At first, Courtney and Jaclyn were really pushing for Vytas to go. But then Jefra came on and her and Cochran flipped Hope into voting Shii. From there, Jaclyn and Courtney followed. I'm going to miss Shii in this game, because I like her a lot as a friend and I know she would have always been in my court. But for now, I think she just didn't fit in the puzzle that is this tribe, so she had to go. Sorry girl.

So, I was added into a new alliance yesterday. It consists of...

+  + +

We're the "cool kids" (alliance name courtesy of Jefra), and I'm hoping we're going to be the core four that sort of run this tribe. Before this group, I was sort of afraid that the tribe was going to be boys vs girls based on how Jaclyn and Court were acting (and to be fair, I was previously in an alliance of all the guys, so...whoever came up with that alliance is brilliant by the way). So, this alliance is nice because it should break any guys vs girls mold. Plus, I like everyone in it. And TRUST everyone in it, mostly. Hope I wouldn't be surprised if she had deals with Jaclyn or Court...but I very much trust Jefra and Bob Dawg. 


So, I should be sitting pretty. I have this alliance and the five man alliance to fall back on as well. Theoretically, that means we should be voting out Jac or Court in the next two rounds...but I STILL do not like Vytas. He's not here, and he's more or less useless. I'm thinking take him out either next round or the round after that. Taking out Court would probably be easy, too. She's outspoken and probably wouldn't stick with me in a swap.


But I dunno. Right now, I'm just trying to be chill and not make waves. I'm in an awesome position, the worst I can do is jeopardize it by making the wrong moves. 


EDIT: Also, a lot of people on the other tribe have started messaging me since my antics in the group chat during these last couple days. Lots of of them to say I did a nice job during the challenge. I very rarely let the convos go on for more than a minute, because I don't want to really be talking to everyone in the game. Being a social player puts a target on your back eventually, but being a social whore puts a target on your back immediately (Morgan).

[John Kenney]

Courtney Yates

John deere, what's shakin'

John Kenney

not much not much! what's going on with you courtney

2 mins ago

Courtney Yates

not much now, earlier I decided not to do my permit test because I got no sleep last night, decided to drop a class I don't need for the upcoming semester and got shampoo/conditioner and hung out with a friend in the dorm, currently waiting for my mom to show up so I have an alibi for not crossing campus in the cold to hand with another friend

so yeah


So, that's Courtney's life story for the day...

[John Kenney]

So context: Brenda said Bob Dawg looked like shit in the big group chat. Bob dawg called her racist and I egged the issue on because I'm in a bad mood. I then got this message

Brenda Lowe
Why did you guys say i was being racist?

John Kenney
It was a joke >.< we don't really think you're being racist lol
sorry :/

Brenda Lowe's icon
Well that was super offensive to me

I've literally never rolled my eyes harder. Like, you can call my tribemates shit, but then if we talk trash back...um...it's suddenly fucking offensive and I can't say it? No thanks.

The other tribe literally cannot take a joke, despite being able to deal enough trash talk to fill a landfill.

Anyway, we're going to tribal. Fuck my life.

[John Kenney]

What a crazy day. Vytas is going home, which I'm perfectly OK with. A lot happened today, let's start from the beginning.

First, we lost. Boo hoo. I caused some ruckus in the group chat and called Brenda racist. She didn't like it. Whatever. At that point, we were all talking about the vote and as per usual, no one wanted to commit. The obvious choice at this point seemed to be Courtney, based on the original alliance of five. She messed up in the challenge and she was outside of the alliance. Everyone seems really non-committal though. Jefra especially doesn't seem to really care which person goes.

But I got to thinking that, tbh, Vytas is fucking useless. And I don't like him. He's bland and boring. I haven't really made any connections with him like I have with everyone else on our tribe. So I fly it by bob dawg that maybe it'd be best to vote out Vytas. And he's OK with it, but he just wants to make sure Cochran would be OK with it. Fine by me. We need to keep Cochran comfortable because he's in our court.

Flash forward to later in the night and...



Shane is causing a lot of drama in the group chat. Apparently he's been revealing people's alliances in Loa Seki, and then he spilled it all into the group chat for us to see. Our tribe egged him on and joked around with him, but at the time, I was more or less assuming it was a joke. That Loa Seki was trying to mess with us in order to maybe get us to reveal some information.

At that point, talk about our vote kind of died away. The next day (aka today), I get a message from Courtney asking about the vote. Naturally, I say Vytas, because obviously I'm not going to tell her that I'm considering voting for her. Then, she says that "with me" and that she'll do whatever I do. UGH.

OK. so, now I'm in a new group with Court...

+

Fun fact: EVERYONE on my tribe has now officially told me I'm one of the people they trust most. It's a great position to be in, but I honestly wonder what I do to deserve it. Am I in some sort of power position and I just don't realize? It's not necessarily a good thing, because now I'm going to have to get rid of one of these people that trusts me the most. Which means I'm going to have to play a lot more carefully.

I don't want this to put a target on my back though. I'm trying to act like I'm pretty stupid and just a pretty face, and for the most part, I think it's working. Whenever people bring up strategic plans, I usually obtusely miss key parts of them that they then have to re-explain to me. I mention a lot that I didn't do well in school and don't do so hot in college (not true btw, lol). I think some people see what I'm doing, but others don't, like Bob Dawg. I'll get to that later.

OK, where was I?

OK, so then I start talking to Bob Dawg, and he asks me if I'd be OK with Courtney going. In my head, I'm thinking that we just talked about Vytas going yesterday, but I tell him it's OK for Courtney to go. But then Jefra comes on and says in her typical broken-english way that it's not OK and that Vytas is bad at challenges and whatnot. Before this, she didn't really care which one went...but now she did? Interesting.

Moving on, I'm like, OK, we can vote vytas, but Cochran should still feel comfortable....and that's where it all goes downhill.



Cochran gets on and hears that Jefra wanted Vytas out. And instead of letting me reason it with him or smooth it over, he starts panicking right away. Basically, Cochran thinks there's a girls alliance and they're all trying to pull the wool over our eyes with this vote. While POSSIBLE, I don't really think it's likely. I'm in an alliance with two girls, and all the girls in general are friendly with me and have told me they trust me. Could they just be putting crap in my ears? Maybe. 


He went to Jefra to try to get her to flip her vote, and Jefra wasn't having it. They both got pissed at each other -- cochran because Jefra was being "stubborn," and Jefra because Cochran couldn't accept the plan and go along with Vytas being voted out. Cochran then more or less committed game suicide by telling Vytas that he was going home tonight.




While it's normally a good idea to tell someone they're going home to curry favor, it's not a good idea if it's going to be incredibly obvious that you're the one who dropped the plan. And Vytas made it incredibly obvious he was going home when he went to EVERYONE on the tribe and campaigned to stay. And since everyone more or less knew Cochran wasn't happy with the vote, it didn't take a genius to figure out who told. So Cochran associated himself with the outcast and is probably going to become the outcast himself. Oh well. 


Oh, I bet you thought this confessional was over? IT'S NOT. THERE'S MORE!! And it involves Cao Boi.




While this all was happening, I got a very interesting message from Cao Boi. He told me that Shane almost made him quit the game, but he was going to stick with it and stay in. I was like...k cool lol. I've never really talked to Cao Boi before, and I wasn't really interested in doing so now. But, I decided to tell Bob Dawg about this, and apparently Cao was talking to him too. Bob Dawg had the (honestly pretty good) plan to tell him we were on the outs to try to squeeze some more info. Bob Dawg told him there's a woman's alliance and that we were in danger.


Bob Dawg also told him that I'm "not the sharpest tool in the shed." Score!


Anyway, Cao brought this up to me, and said that he wanted to form a new alliance. It contained...


+ + + + +

Can you say, guys alliance? Lol. I'm sick of everything being about boys vs girls, but that's besides the point. This will be really useful in case of a swap (which will probably end up happening) so I'm totally down for it. Even though I've never talked to Coach or Pete.


Anyway, that's enough talking for now. I'm out.

[John Kenney]

Round 3

Notes from Shane's blow up:

- Alec/morgan
- Coach/cao
- Alec/shane/morg
- Alec is in the “two majority alliances” with shane


Really all it's showing me is that alec is a gamer and probably should be taken out asap. 

[John Kenney]

Elyse is such a humorless soul and I feel sorry for her.

Also she has awful Survivor opinions.

But yeah I dread the day I have to interact with her and I hope it never comes.

[John Kenney]

So some people think this is going to be a swap. I personally doubt it, but it'd be nice I guess? I have too many connections over here.

[John Kenney]

Oh lol at my previous confessionals.

So I just stepped up to do the challenge for my new tribe. I have no idea how to use photoshop. Or do anything with graphics. At all.

WHAT AM I DOING

[John Kenney]

I am so fucking pissed off at my tribe. I understand that graphics challenge is code for "Let one person do all the work while the rest of us get a free 24 to watch Glee." Believe me, I've been on the other side of that coin as well multiple times. But because I'm a god damn team player, I decided to step up and do the challenge because the rest of my tribe wouldn't. Their excuse being that they don't know how to use photoshop and all that bullshit.

Well, guess what folks. I've spent the entire day looking up tutorials just to learn how to do the most basic fucking things in this goddamn program. Just so my tribe would have a fucking chance in this challenge and actually submit something.

But, oh, our lovely host Jeff has a portion of this challenge where we will have to participate and get supplies. Which I think is pretty clever, it allows the rest of tribe to participate even if they don't necessarily have the graphics skills to do so.

Except the rest of my fucking tribe can't even do that. We didn't get any supplies at two points (docking us four points immediately)...and then Elyse and Pete didn't pick any up (again, docking us four points). IT's fucking ridiculous. Now we have to beat them by five points to win, which isn't happening lol.

I'm honestly royally pissed at Elyse. She was online last night, and IMed me on AIM and talked in the group chat. Yet she didn't pick up her item. Like GIRL. You are on a NEW TRIBE. Where the old tribes are split 4-4. Guess what, you fuckwit. YOU WANT TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION. She is honestly one of the most dimwitted, knuckle headed, retarded people I've ever seen in these games.

Normally, I would say vote out Pete over her, because Pete isn't even here. But it's clear that people want to start going head first into the strategic game already. Cao Boi and Coach want us to vote out Jefra, which...lol. No thanks. And Cochran wants to vote out Jefra in the near future. Voting out Jefra is bad because she at least does her fucking part in challenges, unlike some other people. But...whatever. I know Elyse has connections over on Loa Seki from Shane's outburst. SO, if people don't want to play as a team and want to start playing ball, fine. Let's play ball.

[John Kenney]

So we won. um, that's surprising, tbh. But cool.

I really do not feel comfortable in the WIT alliance (the alliance with cao and coach). Pete got added to it earlier today and...bleh. Cao and Coach do not see me as much more than a pawn. It was pretty obvious.




They were more or less assuming Malaga was gonna go to tribal (suck on that, assholes), And then Cao was telling me how it'd be "easy to vote out Jefra" on my side. Which, is TRUE yeah that'd be fucking easy. But it's pretty obvious that Cao Boi is not considering my game play at all, and considering what'd be good for his game. Because if we voted out Jefra, it would be easy for Hope to flip over to sandra/elyse/brenda and fuck us over. Like, are they retarded? Because I'm not.

I said I was going to target Elyse instead, and he immediately said "No don't do that." I found that interesting. Ostenstibly, targeting Elyse should be a move that's beneficial for every member of the alliance. It takes out the Loa Seki majority that Cao's against, and it takes out the Loa Seki group that Cochran and I are up against. So, this makes me think that he has some sort of connection with Elyse. His excuse was that Elyse "is easier to convince." ?




Anyway, yeah, I really don't like him. I feel like he's trying to use me as a gain to his own ends, and I'm not down for that at all. Cochran thankfully agrees with me like 100%. I'm starting to like Cochran a lot more again, and I'm starting to think that I really need to keep him around. I"m gonna try to smooth things over with him and Jefra so that we can be a powerful group of four on this tribe and steamroll the competition.




Bobdawg, on the other hand, is really starting to sketch me out. I sent him a really long message about how WIT was sketching me out and he just...ignored me. Which is really bad, because he might have sent it to Coach and Cao. Then later on, I sent him a message saying good luck tonight, and I just got a "Thanks!"

Ruh roh.

I try not to get paranoid in these games. I describe myself as anti-paranoid, most of the time. I'm not paranoid unless I'm given an explicit reason to be (such as, like, when I hear someone's targeting my closest ally ). But when Bob Dawg suddenly stops talking to me and is acting very cordial with me...I mean it's not necessarily a bad sign. But...

Oh well. I'm safe for this vote. And in general I think I'm safe on this tribe for a few votes. That's ALL I need to worry about for now. Thinking long term is only going to give me anxiety, haha.

[John Kenney]

Round 4

Eh. Hasn't been too much of a bumpy ride so far. Things have been changing around me left and right, but I think AT THE MOMENT I am in a good spot. That could all change very soon.



Coach went on the other side. Bye. Don't really care for him, in this game at least. Outside of game I think he's an awesome, swell guy, but in this game he wasn't really part of my plan. Plus, I think he and Cao just made a wreck of what should've been an easy vote. I'm so shocked that Shane stayed and if my powers of intuition aren't failing me, it's because Coach and Cao targeted Alec and then they had a hissyfit when they couldn't get him out of the game.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Swaps are generally not the best time to make big moves. Especially against power players on your original tribe. Because that puts the minority tribe (my Malagians) in a power position. And, tbh I'm happy they came out unscathed.

However, this means the cross tribal alliance has lost a lot of power. I don't really consider it a force to be reckoned with, and I'm not going to let Cao's wishes have any bearings on my actions. Pete, otoh, is someone I am going to sweep up and keep in my back pocket, to use against Malaga Loa Seki.



Let's talk about the god damn fog horn.



At the treasure trove, the fog horn was claimed. It allows whoever has it to basically re-swap the tribes, and worse, the person who has it gets to pick who switches tribes. Which would be great...if I had it. Or if I knew who had it. But I don't. And I'm pretty sure Brenda does. She's had three tries at the Treasure Trove now, and I bet her and Elyse were able to narrow it down to enough guesses where they could somewhat reasonably figure it out.

Now if they don't have it? Great. Then I don't have to worry about my game plans getting fucked up.

If not, then...my game could be changing again very soon.

Unluckily for me, my lover Jefra asked Brenda if she had the fog horn. Which, obviously Brenda said no. But if they do have that fog horn, it just tipped them off that we suspect they have it.

(Tangent, Brenda said she only went for the fog horn and guessed Willard. Who is honestly an awesome guess for this, since he's the only person voted off pre-merge from Koror. So I wouldn't be surprised if she got it. At all.)

So, here we go. I'm hoping that the tribes aren't going to swap right now. If they do, then...that sucks, and I can't really plan for it. If they don't swap this round, then I'm strongly considering throwing this challenge and voting off Brenda. wish me luck.

[John Kenney]

OH HOW THE GAME HAS CHANGD

I'll get back to you all tomorrow.