Confessional

[Alec Christy]

Hello all you PW’s and peeps reading this post game, this is Alec here. Now, obviously when I win this game you’ll want to know exactly how the process happened - who is the man behind the legend? Yes, yes, all will be told here. My complex stratagems, my delicate social game, my incredible challenge aptitude - the diaries of a meat collector are a sacred thing indeed, after all.

Okay, in all seriousness I’m pretty excited to play. I know that there’s no set way to win this game, regardless of past games, and I know I have to be on my toes constantly – I‘m probably not the smartest person here, my preconceived notions tossed aside, haha. If I do manage to pull out a win, huzzah, go me, but I’m realistic about my chances. I’d say I have a solid 5.55% of winning this game. (Having said that, I love these games, I think they’re a ton of fun, so when and if I leave the game, I hope it’s something of a classy exit, and I hope I don’t have any hard feelings or whatever.

So, onto the impressions I’ve gathered so far.

Of my tribemates, I’ve managed to talk to everyone except Sandra and Pete. As for the other tribe, I managed to chat with Cochran, Vytas, and Jefra. So here’s what I’m thinking so far:

Coach: I like Coach, he comes off as really down to earth and chill. We had a fun, jokey conversation. He’d probably be a threat down the road, because he’s in the sweet spot of being a returning player who’s not threatening due to how his game ended up (see: Parvati, Cochran) but I’d be down to bro down with Coach.

Morgan: I like Morgan, and I do get a sense of authenticity to her. We just made small talk for the most part, talked about life and TV shows and shiz. She seems like she’d be a good social gamer, but notthe biggest strategist – an ideal partner.

Elyse: Elyse was really chill, and I feel like I have a pretty solid connection with her. She’s gonna be active and someone I can talk to, which definitely means a lot in these early stages of this game.

Brenda: She seems earnest, and I get the sense that she’s putting up a bit of a façade when she talks to me – she’s willing to off handedly mention she was in the Final 5 in her first game and got someone to flip, for example. Having said that, I do get the impression that she’s naïve, or at least rusty since she hasn’t played in two years, and I think if I keep talking with her I’ll stay in her good graces and she can be a number for me. For all I know she’s hoodwinking me though, haha.

Cao Boi: Holy crap talking with this guy is the equivalent of watching paint dry. Getting him to say something is like pulling teeth – I hate having to carry conversations. He seems like a nice guy, and like he’s gonna be active, but still. How he got Cao Boi of all people is beyond me.

Shane: Kinda like Brenda, he seems earnest, although also someone I can shoot the shit with moreso, given that we have ore similaraties in our temperaments. I think I can et him on my side, hopefully.

Cochran: Cochran mentioned this as his third ORG off the bat, and while I think he meant for it to be a strategic ploy to let my guards down or whatever, it seems to be the truth, unless he’s an awesome actor. He’s a bit naïve about how ORG’s work, and since we get along well enough he could be a mole for the other side or something. I like the guy, at any rate, and since I like the actual Cochran too, that’s pretty cool.

Vytas: I got the sense from Vytas when he was talking to me that he was just making his round – it means he shrewd, in a way. That I saw through it may indicate the others do too, anyway. I don’t trust him, but I’ll continue chatting if he wants to, because there’s no harm in that.

Jefra: The odd thing that this is the second semi-European Jefra I’ve seen in my limited ORG experience. She doesn’t speak very well, but she seems earnest enough – I think she’s the tyhpe that really goes for the loyalty thing, so if we swap or something and I end up with her, I think I could manage with her.

That’s it from me, so far. I’ll try to update sometime soon after I talk to some more people, but I figured I’d get something in since I have some hours of talking under my belt, and I’m gonna be offline for a bit, haha. Hope you guys enjoy the confessional, and I don’t get too gamebotty or whatever, haha.

Also JT, if you’re Todd I’m Austin, and you should totes hit me up, man. I’d love to chat sometime.

[Alec Christy]

So, apparently I’m in a five person alliance I wasn’t told about. Shane apparently wants me, Morgan, Elyse, and Brenda to form a majority. I was told of this by Morgan, not Shane, lol. This’ll be fun, haha.

Right now, I’m not sure how to feel about this. I’m doing what I usually do, making people laugh, or at least Morgan haha, and it’s seemingly gotten me somewhat high in the pecking order. But Shane, at least from the impression I get from him, isn’t going to be a player calling shots. Coach is a smart guy, especially if he’s JT’s brother, which I’ll get to in a second, and him not being involved in this alliance worries me. Cao Boi’s also active, and I don’t want to step on his toes, boringness aside. To be completely honest, I think it’s good at this moment, just to set up a majority for the time being at least.
Morgan’s my number one, I like her quite a bit and more importantly, she likes me, but it’s still early, and that’ll most likely change as time goes on, haha. At any rate, I want her with me, with whatever the alliance ends up being.

Also, a little irritated I’ve managed to figure out both Coach, because of his offhand brother comment, and Shi Ann, because Steve decided it’d be a good idea to make a non-alias AIM, alias’. I’m gonna do what I can to not let it affect this game, but it does tell me that at the very least, I’m playing with two very good players. Thankfully Shii’s on the other tribe, so I have very little reason to work with her at the moment or even down the line, and Coach is someone I wanted to work with regardless.

So for now, if this alliance does end up happening, I’ll ride It out for a bit. Going full throttle with a Day 1 alliance isn’t necessarily the best idea. And I’m sure there’ll e more developments to come in these next few days, say stay tuned for the next confessional, haha.

Side note, I left AIM on while I slept, and I got messages from Pete and Sandra in that timeframe. So no easy fodder quite yet, and I looked like I ignored them. Awesome.

[JT]

Hey man it would be great to talk to you again!!

[Nadiya]

Austin from Warriors Austin???

[Alec Christy]

Haha, yup. The best Austin there ever was.

[Alec Christy]

So, some interesting developments, as I was so sure would happen, haha.

Coach came up to me with an alliance offer. Said he wanted me in a fivesome he was making, and given that it's a majority offer, I obviously accepted. What's interesting was that, of the three people already in the allince groupchat, there was Shane, who was supposedly starting his own alliance. At any rate, Morgan joined shortly afterwards, and the alliance SMACCO was born.

Right now I'm not sure which alliance takes precedence. I don't have any particular preference to be completely honest, although I think I'd be more likely to get further with the unnamed group. Having said that, I'm not sure where Shane's head is at, which one he actually wants to happen, so until he gives me a decisive answer imma just gonna go with the flow.

If he's just trying to keep his options open, good for him. Me and Morgan discussed doing pretty much the same thing, and if we keep both sides think we're with them, if we swap or whatever, we should have loyal numbers.

[Alec Christy]

So, somehow I ended up in a core three alliance with Morgan, which I get because we mad close, and Shane, who I haven't talked to overly much. At least, that's what Shane wants, and I'll humor him. I'm sure Morgan will be down with it when I hash it out with her tommorrow, but it feels kinda odd. I don't expect this to last too long, but who knows.

As it stands, the three are gonna play both sides, keep both fivesome's happy and all that jazz, make a groupchat for the Brenda/Elyse one, yada yada. It's like an onion, and hopefully a successful one; core three, with an layer of five, within a layer of seven.

The challenge went about as well as could be expected. I think I trash talked the other tribe too much, particularly Jefra but whatever, she was being a brat about it. Courtney also seemed a bit petulant and eager to hop on the Alec hate train, lol. But the only person I particularly care about on that side is Cochran, and he was amused by it, so it's not too bad. I've certainly put myself on their radar, for better or worse. I'll try to temper any ill will I may have in private chats.

I like how I've developed into an Alec in this game, without even really trying. Yeah, I'm goofy, but because I'm goofy as Alec, I think a lot of peeps think its more funny than it'd normally be, haha. I'm fine with it, although I'll do a bit to move any idiot impressions into goofball impressions in one on one chats, haha.

Accrording to Cochran their only inactive is Shii, which seems odd for Steve but whatevs. One less worry on my mind. I'd prefer to see Jefra go, especially after aggravating her lol, but it is what it is.

Again, feel a little uneasy with Shane in a close alliance, but I'm keeping an eye on him. I'll change things up if I need to, but if I'm reading things right, I should be in a good spot right now.

[Alec Christy]

OK, so the Shane and the Beam Team groupchat (me, Morgan, Shane, Elyse, and Brenda) is a go, and I’ve hashed out the whole onion plan with Morgan, and she’s down for it. I’ll make that groupchat when they’re both on, to prevent any awkward two person conversations, lol. She seems a lot more confident with Shane than I am, and I’ll trust her judgment for now. I’m keeping an eye out on him for the time being, though.

Side note, the first conversation our alliance chat had, while Shane ever so conveniently wasn’t online, was about hot dudes and dick sizes. Great, thanks man. Thanks a billion, three gals and a meat collector talking about this shiz. It was fun, kinda like chatting with my girl friends in real life, but I’m a little slow on the uptake with these matters, haha.

In other news, I’ve talked to John K and Hope on the other side. Just building up some social bonds on the other side, not being social enough with the other side has killed me before, in a multitude of ways haha. I rather like Cochran on the other side, and I hope if we swap or something, I can make something happen with him, that’d be pretty rad.

Based on what Morgan was telling me, I’m rather well liked by our tribe, and that was the impression I was getting to begin with. While that’s awesome for the time being, if and when I make the merge, I’ll need bigger targets, cause likable guys have a hard time making it through that mid-merge slump. Kinda why I wanna keep Shane and Coach around, tbh.

Anyway, just a small update for now, but I hope the PW’s appreciate some reading material in these early days, haha.

[Alec Christy]

Wish I could’ve given you an update sooner on what went down last night, but I’m sure someone else has already informed you, haha. Anyway, here’s what went down from my perspective.

In the early afternoon, around four if I remember correctly, we were starting to get worried about sit outs, because no one had jumped up to do so yet, and we didn’t want one of our better challenge competitors to have to hop out if we didn’t answer in time. We discussed it, no one wanted to sit out, so I decided, OK, we’ll set up a check in, either on a thread on the board, or in the AIM group, at 9:00, and anyone that doesn’t show up will just let be put into a random.org list. Everyone there was done to do it, diffusing responsibility and all that jazz, and I was actually a little worried this could bite me in the ass if I was stepping on peeps toes - but no, oh no no no, that would’ve, y’know, at least made some logical sense.

Instead, what happened was, at around 8:30 Cao goes into the groupchat and is like “OK, let’s decide the sit out now. Hey where’s Shane oh well guess its him.” Half of us weren’t there at the time, myself included, and you wanna know what happened at the pre-arranged time we set up? SHANE SHOWED UP. And he was all like “wtf” and Cao was like “lol sorry Pete’s gonna be gone during the first three hours of the challenge but we had to ignore everything we already said to sit you out sorry dude” For fuck’s sake man!

So here comes challenge time. Now I’ll admit, having taken a sort of leadership role, I probably should’ve been on at the very start of the challenge, but man, I just wanted some sleep, haha. I set my alarm for 8:55, saw the sitout had already been decided, slept til 9:55, and was on AIM by 10:03. In the, mind you THREE MINUTES, the challenge had started, Cao had already began dictating how we should proceed, what order, all that jazz, even though everyone was still trying to fully understand the rules and whatnot. I hope on AIM and go “wassup” and immediately I’m told to go the challenge, despite having absolute no clue what’s going on.

So yeah, things kinda snowballed from there, people got super frustrated with Cao and to an extent Coach, who was supporting him through all this nonsense. And me Shane and Morgan are freaking out in our groupchat (Harry, Ron, and Hermoine – don’t know if I mentioned Shane made this) because in the seemingly likely event that we lose, Elyse and Brenda are gonna want Cao’s head on a plate. Our playing both sides lasted, what, a round and a half? Ugh.

Anyone, we’ve come up with some counter-measure to at least mitigate the damage. If there’s no way we can stop people from wanting to vote Cao, then we’ll start planting whispers in Coach’s ears about Cao throwing him under the bus for the challenge, and hope he takes the bait. Another option is to throw the vote on Pete, poor guy, saying we know that Cao is typically good at these challenges, and was still holding his part up admirably during this go ‘round. At any rate, we don’t want our plans to be sunk so quickly, especially cause it will be KNOWN that we outright lied in a groupchat.

Cao man, we’re gonna do what we can to save you, but couldn’t you have at least, y’know, not used a minigun when you thought to the whole “shoot yourself in the foot” thing? Even I’m irritated with you right now, and I WANT you to survive this round, haha. Hey, maybe we somehow won immunity?

...yeah, it's a bit of a pipe dream.

[Alec Christy]

So that was nerve wracking as hell. When John said "security log" I was like did some idiot cheat? Then when someone clarified that it was tracker of modified and DELETED post, I had a total "holycrapnonono" moment. I double checked the rules, and sure enough, apparently you couldn't delete posts. I'd deleted a double post as I was diving down, because the computer I've been using is shitty and does stuff like that, and that cost our team a point.

I was already running damage control, and told Morgan, Brenda, and Shane before the results went up about my screw up, and each side the alliance was real, I'm fine. I was still terrified about some of the others, and whether they'd turn on me.

Then come the results, and not only was I not the only one to fuck upon either side, Courtney screwed up. TWICE. And so we win, and I probably earned a bit more trust with my compatriots by coming to them with that information before the results.

Also, Cao Boi gets to stay, and my plans for the immidiate future AREN'T collosally screwed up. Everything turne dup Alec this round, it seems, haha.

Not many other updates at this point. Hoping Jefra goes, because she still irritates me and she's not good in challenges. Been talking with Hope more, she's fun to chat with and build bonds with on the other side. Talked to Courtney too, made some progress with her, but there's a good chance she goes this round. Not much else to report, just been bonding as much as I can.

But seriously, John really scared me for a bit there. Really played up the ominous host role, haha.

[Alec Christy]

Shane destroyed my game on a whim.

Since he's gonna go on a trip to Japan, and inactive, he decided it'd be fun to blow up every alliance he was in. Which, is every alliance I'm in. Me and Morgan are outed for playing the middle, and now we have a bunch of pissed off people.

Brenda's willing to forgive so far, and we're gonna try and build a new alliance. Ideally, Elyse won't be pisssed, and we can grab a fifth in Sandra or Pete.

Even the other tribe feels sorry for us right now. Seriously, for Christ's sake Shane.

Ugh, I'll talk more tomorrow, when more than just Morg and Brenda are on, and I have more to say.

[Alec Christy]

OK, so hopefully this’ll be a bit of a massive update. I’ve been putting it off a little, cause its cause me headaches to think about the situation, but here we go.

So after Shane had his moment, I immediately started doing damage control. Morgan and I are tight, as always, so I just confirmed with her that I was gonna start smoothing some stuff over before getting to work. Brenda was the only one on that night, so I talked to her quite a bit. Her reaction was actually kinda odd – she was worried her game was tanked, of all things. Maybe she thought she’d be picked off if she didn’t have a solid alliance around her, maybe she’s wanting me to underestimate her right now, but I don’t really have a choice regardless – I like Brenda, and I need to work with her. She’s down, so we’re good.

Yesterday I started talking to Elyse, and she seemed to understand. What she revealed was actually surprising – Shane had told her about the other alliance, and she was gonna keep an eye on me and Morgan done the line to see if we told heer about it, kinda as a test of loyalty. At any rate, she’s down to form a new fivesome.

Finally, I managed to get a hold of Sandra last night. I doubt she trusts me in any significant capacity, but her and Brenda seem to have a good repoire. She seemed down to go, because she doesn’t want to remain on the outs. Hopefully we’ll be able to make the groupchat of the new five sometime today, get things rolling with a hopefully solid alliance after all this mess.

Cao messaged me last night, apparently recovered from his desire to quit, and talked about how we should’ve talked to him about what people were finding offensive, that he was giving off one of his precious night off’s for us, and that he has a lot of heart. To an extent, I was touched, because it seemed like he was just trying to hash something out in a way you would in the real world. However, at the same time, and this is the same issue we had before, he did it in a way that made me feel like I was being talked down to, like I was being lectured, and I don’t think he understands why things were progressing at the rate they were. Me having a talk with someone about rubbing people the wrong way, in the early days when everyone’s desperately looking for a target, just can’t work –I was gonna try and save him through other means. Cao’s obviously a nice person, but I’m not sure if he’s made for ORG’s.

I also talked with Coach yesterday, around noon. He fed me a bunch of bullshit, at least from my view of things, talking about how he was telling Shane he was targeting me, but he and MORGAN were in actuality down to vote Shane. It’s like, dude, you choose the wrong person to try and make it appear like you were being completely honest with me. Especially cause Shane showed me a conversation he had last night, around 7, where he was talking about getting me out because I’m too smart and don’t come off that way.

Finally, there was Shane. I’m still irritated by his explosion, and he thinks he understands it was a dick move, what with him later that night trying to find a way to delete his posts, which mind you is impossible Having said that, Shane is too damn likable for me to stay mad at him. Maybe it’s because we really relate, being around the same age, both Patrons, both students, etc. Maybe its because, if everything is actually going on track, Coach and Cao are the only ones who are gonna be ultimately screwed by this. Regardless, he’s wormed my way back into my good graces, although he’s probably permanently in my exasperated graces, haha.

I’ve been talking quite a bit of strategy with him. He leaves on the thirteenth, which means he’ll be around for the third vote for sure, and if we sit him out the fourth challenge, he’ll definitely be able to bootlist someone out. Part of me just wants to vote him at the first opportunity, because we know he’s gonna go inactive. But there’s people targeting me, or at least saying that they are, and I can’t settle for the easy vote.

If we go to tribal, and God knows if we’re throwing or not at this point because I sure as hell don’t, Coach or Cao is a goner. I actually wanted to keep Coach around semi long-term, because I do like the guy, but this situation erased that possibility. I always have difficulty voting off people I like, and I didn’t imagine I’d be forced to do so this early, but I’m gonna do what I have to do. Even if its been historically shown that that’s difficult for me, haha. So, if we do go to tribal, odds are Coach goes out, at this point.

[Alec Christy]

OK, so some stuff happened. Y’know, like a MOTHERFUCKING TRIBE SWAP RIGHT AFTER I GOT THE MAJORITY BACK ON THE TRIBE! IN ROUND THREE!

OK, so I may be a teensy bit angry. Just a bit.


We’d formed a new groupchat, Alec’s Angels, (I tried to veto the name, just saying, cause I remember how this went down for Keith’s Angels) which consisted of myself, Brenda, Morgan, Elyse, and Sandra. And while there’s not much we can do with that right now, given that we were divided on either half of the tribe split, Sandra is still talking game to me, explaining that Cao is being shady talking to her, implying he has ties with Old Malaga, etc. So getting Sandra on my side was still useful, even if we can’t use her vote as it stands.


After a lot of thought, we’re going to do what we can to throw this challenge. How, you ask? Quite simple: Shane is gonna grab every useless item he can, so the picture will make no sense. I’m gonna do it sporadically, but Shane’s going out anyway, so he doesn’t care if he fucks shit up, haha. At any rate, we want this challenge to go the other tribe’s way (we being me, Shane, and Morgan) so we can use Malaga to boot Coach while we still have Shane’s vote.


Side note, been talking to Jaclyn quite a bit. Rad girl, we click pretty well, at least for my perspective. (Hard cut to Jaclyn talking about how much she hates Alec.) She’s down to boot Coach, and I’m working on Bobdawg too. We need all the old Malaga votes we can get, but if we solidfy these two we should be good - hopefully we can also get Courtney and maybe even Cao.


Anyway, my friend used to do this in her confessional, and I liked it at the time, so I’m gonna try and find Alec confessional pictures to put at the top, at least for a few posts, haha.

[Alec Christy]

This vote is fucking chaos.

Morgan’s feelings about the vote completely manifested, and she’s not down to blindside him. She wants a Malaga out. You know, because me and Shane are ignoring her input and all that jazz, evidently, we can’t just blindside Coach this round.

She has legitimate points, but I’m trying to cultivate a relationship with Jax, because I get the sense that she wants to work together long-term. At the very least, her Malaga ties are kinda rusty. At any rate, Morgan’s rationale is solid, because there’s a chance that if we blindside Coach the other three Malaga’s will use Cao to flip on us, but it runs the risk of pissing off two tribemates against us since we already told them it was Coach, and with Coach and Cao already against us, I’m doing what I can to avoid that. It’s not fucking Morgan’s name on the chopping block.

So I wasn’t sure what to do. Can I trust Jax with this information to figure out a way past Morgan’s stubbornness? Eventually, I decided it’s go big or go home, and with Coach telling people my name, I need him out. So I made up a lie about Court and Bobdawg not talking to Morgan, hence her hesitance to side with Malaga over Coach, and talked it out with Jaclyn to get her trust. Got some valuable info out of this, although whether its lies or not is debatable: apparently Cochran was trying to form an all guys thing on Malaga, and apparently for both votes Jax was just told who to vote four hours before the deadline.

Then, Coach decides to waltz online, and everyone starts talking to him. Jax sends me a sample of their conversation, and he’s still trying to use the goddamn Malaga’s against us – oh, actually not us, ME. ALEC. And to further bury him, he’s saying idk to me at the same time he’s telling Jax he wants me out.

So in response to this, and knowing he’s voting me, I tell Morgan how about me or Shane keep our vote on Coach with the Malagas – if he really wants to vote with us, it’ll be 4-4, revote Bobdawg is gone. (Which I had to push for, btw, even though he’s much less active than Jax or Court.) If he is voting me, and the Malagas are being honest, it’ll be 4-3-1 or 4-2-2 if Cao’s still with him. But nope, that’s too complex, let’s be honest and tell them the vote’s Bob. MORGAN, YOU, OF ALL PEOPLE, THINK THAT”S OVERLY COMPLEX? REALLY?

I need to talk to Shane. Morgan’s gonna be irritated after this vote most likely, but Jax, and as I’m writing this Courtney just told me the same thing, Coach is voting Alec. If he goes home on the first vote, I have my proof. If not, I hope Shane will be OK with me pinning my vote on him, since he’s leaving and all.

I hate this vote, and I hate that to save my ass, I need to lie to my allies. It’s so friggen’ chaotic, and this is just what I know. Who knows what others are trying to plot behind the scenes. I just don’t wanna go out, I’m so confused right now, haha. This tribe is a clusterfuck.

[Alec Christy]

(For getting 7th place, its really hard to find Alec pictures.)

So, this entire round was a clusterfuck. I'll do what I can to recap it.

As I said before, the plan from the start was to blindside Coach this round, but Morgan wasn't down for that. So counter-measures started popping up. At first, we thought OK, we'll do a 3-3-2 split and when Morgan sees that she's been lied to by Cao and Coach, she'll flip on the re-vote. I wasn't in love with the plan, because it would burn the trust of three people on the tribe, but it felt like our only option for a time.

Eventually, however, I decided I wanted Coach out no matter what. So I was still going with the plan, when Bobdawg show'd hesitance, because I'd been floating his name previously to defuse suspicion from the Coach blindside - didn't want Cao or Coach turning the tables on me if word got out that Coach was going. So, being the genius that I was, I offered him a F3 deal, which ended up being me, him, and Jax. I am so smart. Even more surprising than that stupid move, however, was that he was down for it, and after some quick info sharing I’ll talk about later, was on board to boot Coach.

By the way, can we talk about how I had to convince someone to vote someone to save their OWN hide? God, these people.

I wasn't voting for Bobdawg right after that, since, y'know, it'd out me as a completely untrustworthy player. Trust is pivotal for Survivor, so yeah, that was a no no, haha. So I flipped my vote back onto Coach. I didn't want to go against Morgan, because not only do I want to work with her, i'm not sure how it'd affect Alec's Angels on the other side. It was kind've like, go with Morgan and pray to be reunited with my allies to actually survive, or hope to God I can make something work with the others. So I went to Shane with a plan for him to tell Morgan point blank that he was voting Coach no matter what, which would justify my vote. I felt really guilty about that plan, but then Shane did the unthinkable, and we didn’t have to do it.

He convinced Morgan to vote Coach. #ShaneForAllStars

All of a sudden, the hard choice before me was gone, and Coach left the game 6-2. From what I've gathered from Morgan, Cao confronting her and saying what me and Shane knew all along, that he wasn't voting Bob, pissed her off and made her flip. I'm not sure if she had some plan on the side or not, but she was really pissed at him for ruining the plan, which in all actuality wasn't going to work anyway. Not gonna tell her that one though, haha.

So now, since Shane's going inactive, we have two fodder votes, him and Cao. Bobdawg wants Shane out next, Morgan wants Cao, but I'm gonna try and finesse this. We have an uneasy alliance of five right now, and Shane sort've, but it can self-destruct in a varied number of ways.

Side note, I totes bonded with Jaclyn through this whole endeavor, as one of the only people I could trust with certain information, and who was on as long as me and sympathized with my frustrations. I also bonded with Bobdawg in a sense, since we each revealed pivotal information (me that i was once in an alliance with Cao and Coach, him that he felt on the outs since everyone jumped to protect Courtney after he mentioned her) to each other. I trust Bobdawg to an extent, but I also know that he's a smart guy who has a good gut, and I'm not entirely sure how he'll factor into my larger plans.

For now, this tribe has achieved a sort of homeostasis. Can I keep it going? Who knows, haha.