Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii your happy giraffe here. Happy. Yes, happy :D That's been a while... and while I'm still very frustrated with people in this game, there are actually two things to be very happy about.
Like, in general I'm just sucking because while my allies go out, I don't do any effort to reach out to people I'm not aligned with. I've never talked to Erinn at all, and I don't communicate with Shane/Kim/Katie anymore. I just can't be bothered and while I know I can never win the game if I play like this, this has kind of become my playing style and I'm not going to change it. In the mean time I'm social enough with Dave and Sierra, who I enjoy having conversations with... and who I would give my life for in this game, so there's that. Communication with Becky is just hard. Communication with David is very awkward.
Anyway, on to the positive news. Aras is gone!!!!!!! The guy that I hated. The guy who stabbed me in the back. The guy who hated me and sent me to pre-jury and who then sort of tried to be nice and left me completely in the dark again. The guy who I thought was absolutely worthless and would be dragged to the end. I was very worried about the latter especially, like he has been so worthless that it would suck if his face is at the final tribal and the vote would be fucking easy and there'd be nothing to choose. Rather than dragging him to the end though, they VOTED HIM OUT. I was like so shocked, I've never been THAT shocked and surprised in a tribal council. Not even in my own first and only ever blindside that happened recently. I can honestly say that I was more blindsided by this vote. I'm guessing that David thought Aras was too close to Sierra (he had mentioned this before)... while in fact that wasn't the case at all lol. He just did what they ordered him to do and had no connection with Sierra. Lol. Awesome guys, you just voted one of your own out. Not my problem.
Then some other good news is that I got the right clue to TWO idols today. I did some research for Dave and found him the gyrothingy for the third idol, but it was gone already. Then with help of Sierra I narrowed down the list of possible answers for the second idol. I guessed my top choice and IT WAS FUCKING RIGHT AND THE IDOL WAS STILL THERE!! So I have an idol now and omg that's just so stressful and annoying LOL but I'll take it and try to use it in my and Dave's advantage. I guess I will lose it immediately this round if the other side wins the triple vote because then they will split the vote and I'll be forced to play it... but ok.
I told Dave that i found it immediately. I don't even care whether he would have done the same for me, but I really want to use it to benefit us BOTH so I told him. I trust him a 100% now. As for Sierra and Becky, we're going to kind of mislead them :x Like, I just told Becky to guess the clue that leads to the idol that i just found. She will see that it's gone and that information might spread. BUT it won't be us who found it because we asked her to guess it. It should be THEM. So Erinn/Kim should get worried about David/Shane having it and vice-versa once it leaks.
I would say that's about the first devious/villainous thing I've done this game, and it's not even that bad. We're misleading our own allies but it'd be too easy for them to just throw us under the bus or to expect me to play it on them as well. I'm not sure if I want that... well let's see how it goes.
Dun dun dun hiiiii... Not really as planned, but I am immune this round. It could help or hurt (in the long term), but we will see. Right now I don't really have a clue what to think or do at all. At least we have almost 48 hours, which is actually annoying as fuck LOL but ok we will see ha.
Fact is we are in a 5-4 minority and there would be an opportunity to make it 4-4 but it is hard. First of all they seem to have much better prizes and one or two idols. Apparently Sierra only got a key which fits on a chest that Erinn got. Uhm that is not very useful. Secondly, we aren't the tightest of groups... like Sierra can spazz because of the smallest thing and she kind of freaked out that I took immunity - which I had to take if I wanted anything at all. Then Becky is kind of flaky... so yeah.
Dave's been trying to work David, but I'm not sure. David is so close to Shane that it would be hard to get him on our side. Dave even offered David a Final 3 between Dave/David/myself and I would be a 100% down with that. I just doubt David would.
I think we should probably vote Kim because she has the triple vote. I don't know if there's any way we can pull that off though.
I kind of want to give my idol to Dave so he can save himself, but I'm afraid that it would be wasted... like what if he's not even the target. It wouldn't be that big of a deal really if it's wasted, but like IDK, I'm thinking it could be helpful next round as well maybe. So I haven't said anything to Dave yet because I don't want to get his hopes up. I'd be devastated to see him go though and want him to make it to the end. He deserves this so much... so maybe I'll give it to him and say like, either play it on yourself or give it back to me before the voting deadline. Ugh IDK what to do :/
They split, or we hope they split, or we're gonna make it more likely they split. Dave is pretending he's willing to vote Sierra. They have 7 votes (or 8 if David has a double). So now they will throw 3 or 4 votes on Sierra. Then they will throw 4 on Dave, not 3, but definitely 4. So the plan is we nullify a vote, and vote together for Kim (or someone else but I think Kim), and then I play my idol on Dave. The girls don't know that I have the idol though, so they're gonna see that we withheld information from them but OK that's our own fault.
The only problem is Becky though, who is considering to flip for real. That would be super fucking stupid as we've just seen what happened to Aras when he was seen as in the middle. If she agrees to vote Sierra, then they will split between Sierra and Dave/Becky and we'd only have 3 votes so Sierra goes or Becky might even go... so if she flips we're dead fishes.
Like long story short: if we lose someone this round, it's 5-3. If we hold on to the idol this round, the best we can get is 4-3 and then we're still picked off one by one. So we HAVE to take our chance this round and play the idol. I am convinced of that. Even if we waste it, it was worth a shot. If we lose someone, we'll be sitting ducks... so better take that shot now and go all or nothing. If I were completely selfish then I could keep it and immunity whore myself through the next couple of rounds + play the idol whenever I'm not immune, but I don't want that. If we're not gonna go to the end, then I at least want Dave to outlast me because he is more connected.
So it's pretty much set in stone that Dave is gonna have an idol played on him tonight, whether he feels confident or not lol.
Ok I just talked to Becky and she's 100% on board. She was also 100% playing both sides, but they offered her 6th place which is extremely lame. She wants to vote Katie because she would kill her if she sees that Becky lied to her. So we are going to vote Katie now (I hope... Dave and Sierra will have to be on board).
