Hey Misty! I’m actually really glad you brought this topic up so that I can give everyone a little insight into how Chelsea and I are two very different people.

In my opening statement, I talked about the Chase vote. After he sent you to exile without consulting the rest of the tribe, I knew that you had to have been his best ally in the game and the fact that he was willing to go rogue just to help out his ally scared me a lot because who knows what else he could do when the merge came. I knew that taking out a big player like him that early in the game could both help and harm my game. I knew that when the merge came, if the Chonos members found out that I was the instigator behind Chase’s departure, they would be gunning after me for revenge. You guys can argue that you’re able to remove your personal feelings from your actual gameplay, but look at the evidence. Fran legitimately stated above that she “would be lying if [she] said there weren't personal motivations involved in it.” I’m not lumping you (Misty) in with Fran and Ciera, but I knew in my gut that if you all found out I was the main reason Chase left, you would take it personal and would not trust me. Now how this all actually fits into your statement above. Due to my aggressiveness in the Chase boot on NuOronar, I ended up being the one Chase and Matt both targeted and voted for. Because of this, I knew that moving forward, I would need to dial it back a lot more with my aggressive gameplay or I would be targeted come the merge for being a threat. This is where Chelsea came into play. A lot of you are aware that Chelsea is a very outspoken person and isn’t afraid to just outright confront you about what she’s thinking. She directly interrogated Hali if she was going to rocks and if Hali was voting her. Fran even said “Gotta love Chelsea and her straight up asking tendencies <3” which shows Chelsea is definitely not the reserved type. Because of Chelsea’s more outward personality, I knew that she would be the perfect cover for me and my gameplay. By aligning myself with a bigger personality and keeping her close, I was able to make the strategic decisions I thought would work to my benefit and then let Chelsea go out and be the main aggressor in fulfilling those decisions while I sat back and only chimed in after Chelsea had already initiated the plans. That way, if the plans ever ended up backfiring on us, people would see Chelsea as the mastermind behind it all merely because she was the more assertive of the two of us and therefore, would want to go after her first which would allow me more time to disassociate myself from Chelsea and hopefully wiggle my way into another alliance or plan before people even realized I was having a huge hand in the decision making behind the scenes. Basically, I deflected the target off of myself onto Chelsea once the merge got going because I needed that extra insurance to keep me safe if everything went downhill. I knew I couldn’t afford to be seen as a forceful and aggressive player and so after I realized I was still being seen as a target at the beginning of the merge (shown through the 4 votes I received at the 2nd tribal of the merge), I quickly moved back into the shadows and let Chelsea carry out the “dirty work” if you will.

This situation is actually very much like Fran and Hali’s actually. However, I believe it helped more in my case because in Fran’s case, her and Hali were on separate sides of the alliance spectrum whereas in my case, Chelsea and I were working together. This not only allowed me to have her as a shield to keep me safe, but I was able to confer with Chelsea and actually implement plans through her which helped me to get the things I wanted accomplished actually accomplished whereas Fran was not able to filter in her plans through Hali because they were not working together and therefore, Fran was still public target #1 on the Chonos alliance.

I believe you should vote for me because of the reasons I outlined in my opening statement and because I showed to you that I was not just a goat with no brains. I actually am glad you saw me as a follower because that was the persona I wanted to play out for the beginning of the merge and because you believed I was a follower, it proves that it was a successful plan. Overall, it was nice to be able to get to know you in the short time we did play together. Thanks for reading and I hope it is enough information to show the differentiation between mine and Chelsea’s games as well as show that I was not just floating along to the end being a follower.