Havoc in This Little Kingdom/Confessionals

Day 10
"vatanchu"

- I am counting on a odd/even tribe swap or a 1-7 8-14 (or 9-15) with the temple being under 8 or 15 tbh although id kinda like to go to the temple - but I also want to be able to play the next challenge as it is the weekend here.

"vatanchu"

- please god reunite me with sonia/aj

"vatanchu"

- Our next immunity challenge wasn’t a Flash game (unfortunately, because I probably could’ve done well with it). The hosts gave us an audio file that had three segments of overlaid Ancient Voices variations, and we had to identify the six seasons present in each of the three segments. I was able to find three or four just from listening to it and picking out some parts that stood out (like at the end of the last segment, the end of the Survivor: China theme was rather obvious), but after that I was totally stumped. Everything just sounded too similar to everything else, which made the challenge rather impossible. Mel and Scott both got advantages from the Temple that let us get one answer for a segment of our choice, which helped a bit. In the end, we had around 6 or 7 identified, and just guessed for the rest. And we ended up losing, 9-7. Oh well, it was pretty close, and at least they struggled too.

Our first tribal though! How exciting. Of course, the obvious target was Katherine, but there was also the possibility of getting Mel out, for the reasons I stated in Confessional 7. (For a refresher, Katherine will strike out soon, so instead of wasting a tribal on her, we would vote Mel out so that we could get out a threat now.) Everyone in WAISA (and Mel in the tribe chat, lol) was set on Katherine, so neither Linus or I wanted to bring up the Mel plan, because it would’ve been a bit out of place, and we weren’t sure how everyone would respond to it.

Well, that didn’t matter, because Felix brought it up anyway! He still has a big grudge against Mel, so I guess it makes sense that he would bring it up. A massive, intense conversation ensued in WAISA, debating whether or not to get rid of Mel or Katherine. To cut to the chase, in the end we all decided to vote Katherine, for a number of factors:

1) Scott. He had already submitted his vote as soon as the tribal post came up, assuming we were all on board with going Katherine. Thus, all 5 of the remaining members of WAISA would’ve had to have agreed to vote Mel for her to even go, which is rather risky, since one person can flip or refuse to vote that way, resulting in a 5-4 vote for Katherine.

2) Numbers. We were trying to guess at what point we would swap, because we knew it would be coming up soon. The prevailing opinion was that we were swapping at 14 into two tribes of 7, which is what usually happens. In that case, if we voted Katherine out, we would be up 8-7, then either tied 7-7 or up 8-6 depending on the results of IC4, both of which are rather optimal scenarios. If we voted Mel out, and Katherine left the next week on strikes, then it would be 7-7 prior to the immunity challenge, and if we lost, it would be 7-6 Aguateca, so we wouldn’t have the numbers anymore come a Koah Rong-style swap at 13. Mel is a potential (unlikely, but potential) ally if we swap, so we didn’t want to get rid of her in case she would be helpful.

3) Hesitation. I don’t think anyone besides Felix, including myself, was really so strongly on board with the idea to get out Mel. I thought it would be a decent idea, but too risky, and would shake the game up too much this early on. We weren’t going to go through with a plan that not everyone was 100% okay with.

Anyway, in the end, Katherine left 9-0. (Of course, a self-vote, lol.) I’m glad she did though, because she was rather annoying to have to work around, and now we would only have to sit out one person and not be at a disadvantage in challenges.

But no! The hosts don’t like it when we’re all settled. Surprise, a swap at 15! Literally, no one expected this. I thought there could be a swap into 3 tribes of 5 at 15, but I discounted that idea, and that’s not even how this swap is. We’re swapping into 2 tribes of 7, with one person sent to the Temple that would join the losing tribe after their tribal. Basically, the Kaoh Rong swap, but two people earlier. I’m really nervous about this, because I just have that gut feeling I’m gonna get swapfucked. If I get stuck on a tribe with four Aguateca girls, I’m gonna flip. I’m not here to get 15th because of a swap, so I better be in the majority wherever I end up (hopefully Vatanchu, so I still have the idol clues).

"vatanchu"

- About time I'm out of this shithole, this tribe was idiotic. I'm looking forward to playing with new people and hopefully punting the fuck out of Tucker and Mel, they've been major pains in my ass so yeah let them fuck off forever. Other than that, did I mention I really hate Tucker? He's fucking stupid and full of shit. Erm what more..... oh yeah the idol, I think Tucker has it, he seemed convinced Mel didn't have it and I thought that was fishy, god I'm allied with people dragging me down this isnt cool guys

Day 11
"vatanchu"

- It's time for a quick poll! Should Felix fuck Tucker over just for the sake of it or try and keep this majority which would be boring???

"vatanchu"

- This couldn't be a better time to get Felix to leave.

"vatanchu"

- The swap could have been better but it could of been much worse we already have a plan set and lets just say it's gonna be a blast

"none"

- So, I got send to the Temple of Toj which is good because I wasn't here for 24 hours and it didn't matter because there's nobody to talk to. I have chosen to help my future tribe because in both tribes, the Aguatecas are the minority, so I will be a target when I will reenter the game. To reduce this target on my back, I've chosen the advantage to make me seem more helpful than the other two Aguatecas and to obviously win the challenge. Omg I'm such a gamebot

"aguateca"

- I hate this tribe swap! I felt like I was in a decent position before we all got new buffs. My old buff was fine thank you very much. It had a bit of blood and dirt on it, but it got the job done. Now that Aguateca has new members, we’re outnumbered 4-3. If the old Vatanchu members stick together, as I assume they will, I’m screwed. Not only that, but my alliance of Christine and Claire is gone to the other tribe leaving me completely and utterly alone. So far Anna told me that she wants to stick with me and I somewhat know Scott already, so that could help me out. If I’m not approached soon for some sort of alliance, I’m gonna have to do something. I’ve already been thinking of telling the former Vatanchu members that I was on the outs of the old Aguateca or that there was an all girls alliance. The fact that only men have been voted out would definitely help my case. I’ll say ANYTHING to stay in this game just a bit longer.

"aguateca"

- This tribe swap worked out REALLY well for me. Not only does my former tribe already have majority here, however I've quickly started building a bond with Michael, and from the little I've seen of Anna at Toj, she seems like a really nice and strong competitor.

"aguateca"

- I had a talk with John and apparently the old Vatanchu tribe suspected that there was an all girls alliance because the girls initially outnumbered the guys 5-4 and the first two boots were guys. I'm jumping on this train though and adding fuel to their suspicions so that if we do go to tribal council, everyone goes after Anna and Lexi before me.

"aguateca"

- Hallelujah! Praise God! Mary wants to flip on the old Vatanchu! Apparently Mary didn’t feel very close with her old tribe and now she wants to work with Anna, Lexi and I. She could be playing us, but I don’t see any good reason for her to do that at the moment unless John, Scott and Mel told her to do that to keep us from potentially playing an idol if we go to tribal council. I’m probably just reaching though. At least now I’m a few ranks above the bottom.

"vatanchu"

- I've never been much of a jewelry girl but this works out fine!

Day 12
"aguateca"

- This immunity challenge win is really bittersweet for me. On one hand, I’m still in the game and don’t have to go to tribal council to reveal my cards. On the other hand, Claire is probably screwed for flopping in the immunity challenge. She was one of my closest allies and I don’t know how she’ll get out of this mess. She’s down 4-3 and will probably be seen as their weakest link. I’ve just gotta have faith that her and Christine can find a crack and exploit it.

"aguateca"

- just realized that mary & lexi know eachother in real life like fucking bff's from their pictures and i'm not sure how i feel about it..... i've been in games on EM with my best friends and people always split us up so i'm not sure if they think they're not gonna be split up???????????? maybe its time to start dropping hints that they are a duo

"aguateca"

- I honestly don’t think these swap results could’ve been worse. Vatanchu 2.0 is so nice, with four WAISA members and three Aguatecas, but I’m with Scott, Mel, Mary, Anna, Lexi, and Michael on Aguateca 2.0. (Tbh though, I’m not sure if I wanted to have to deal with more Felix vs. Tucker drama.) Mel and Mary I don’t talk to that much, and they can soooo easily go with Anna and Lexi and have a four-person all-girls majority alliance. Also, Lexi and Mary are apparently friends in real life, at least according to Lexi’s Facebook pictures, so I don’t know how they got casted together, but they’re gonna stick together to the end no matter what. Anyway, I felt pretty screwed over by this, at least until Mel approached me with the idea for a four-person Vatanchu 1.0 alliance (between me, her, Scott, and Mary). I honestly didn’t think this was going to happen, because again I hadn’t talked to Mary or Mel that much, but apparently it did! This alliance is called the Frat Party, and I hope it’ll keep me safe for at least a little bit. At least, we had to win IC4, especially so that Marie (who was exiled) wouldn’t join our tribe if we lost.

The fourth immunity challenge was a puzzle, thank god. Jigsaw Planet puzzles are the best, and I’m pretty damn good with them. The puzzle was of the season’s logo, so it was rather easy to piece together quickly. After trying around ten or so times, my best time was 4 minutes and 37 seconds, which I submitted. And thankfully, we won! Claire didn’t submit on their tribe, so she got a pretty harsh penalty, which let us pull into the lead! Not to brag or anything, but I had the best time out of everyone, soooo~

Anyway, throughout the challenge, I talked to Anna and Michael, both of whom seemed really nice! Anna actually grew up only a few towns over from me, and Michael and I talked a bunch about school and actually strategized a bit too. He told me about how Aguateca’s all-girls alliance (my hunch was correct!) and so I definitely feel like I could work with him. At the very least, I’m hoping both of them like me enough to want to keep me!

Mel approached me after the challenge was over about an alliance proposition--me, her, Scott, and Michael. She also felt like Anna, Lexi, and Mary were going to team up (Anna and Lexi because of their all-girls alliance connection, and Lexi and Mary because they knew each other in real life), so she wanted to make a 4-person alliance to counter them, since she said she had no interest in making a new all-girls alliance. Honestly, this is pretty great! The three people who I trust the most on this new tribe in an alliance with me! I’m really hoping that this alliance works out, because if so, and we can get out one of the girls in our next tribal, that would be amazing. Also, Mel mentioned how she always felt like she could trust me, and questioned me about if I thought she was going to flip after the swap. I said I didn’t think she would (even though I kinda thought she would), but also mentioned that Felix had some sort of grudge against her and totally thought she would flip. She said to me that Felix was trying to do that because he told her that he didn’t trust WAISA and felt like he was on the bottom of it (probably because we didn’t agree with some of his more emotionally-charged and illogical opinions on stuff), and wanted to align with her. She disagreed, and now wanted to get her out so that she wouldn’t tell anyone about what happened. Whether this is true or not, I don’t know, but it seems like Felix, as I thought, isn’t really that trustworthy.

"aguateca"

- OK so lets get to some dirt shall we

My old tribe:

Linus - we are playing a different org together, which makes our ""alliance"" a bit more volatile. We had an understanding from day 1 but he screwed that up by conveniently forgetting to tell me about the ""gayboys alliance""

Felix: the dobber - he came to me because he felt like he was at the bottom of the heap in the ""GBA"" <<<< nickname for above alliance I manipulated him into telling me all about the alliance, and when he realised he had - he panicked and went running to Linus

John: The leader of the pack. He and Scott are the Alpha males of the tribe and they called all the shots

Scott: The second in command - wannabe leader. Definately a power struggle going on between these two

John and scott refused to discuss game with anyone who was not male. So it wasn't hard to cause havoc in this little kingdom

Tucker: third in line to the throne - he was playing both sides. He tried to wring information out of me - but he didnt realise that I already knew about the alliance. Through all his white lies I think he was just trying to make sure he was safe no matter what

Joanne: Now she is funny - blatantly playing both sides - talking to everyone - I think she thought I was naieve enough not to be doing the same thing lol. I dropped a few porkies to see how fast tucker would run back to me with them that was funny tbh

Mary: dark horse, or just very busy irl and really has no clue what is going on

tribe swap: interesting results tbh - 4/3 on both sides

tbh it has given me a chance to actually talk to scott and john and they told me a few juicy tidbits

Felix tried to get them all to flip and vote me out instead of katherine - telling them that I would flip as soon as we swapped. Apparently felix is ""paranoid and annoying"" to say the least and most of the GBA are glad to see the back of him

Poor felix. (does that sound sincere?)

Anyway, so far John and Scott are happy with our ""new"" arrangement, as is Mary - who - lets face it - is barely active anyway

I think we have the less intense players from the other tribe, but I am yet to speak to two of them.

"vatanchu"

- So a lot of shit happened in the past few days.

Firstly, probably the most important thing of all swap, me and Sonia are finally on the same tribe. We can both sway each of each other's sides of the vote and prevent each other from leaving.

Secondly, she FOUND THE IDOL TODAY after I told her the clues yesterday and I couldn't be more happy because I know that'll come in handy very soon. Third, FELIX IS GETTING ON THE OT'S NERVES. I'm so happy, they're definitely going to want to vote him out next and I need him to go I can't deal with him much longer he's so fucking dumb.

Fourth, I made a f2 deal with Linus so I can get a handle on his vote and make him choose a side since most of the time he seems pretty shifty/dodgy about picking a side or having an opinion on votes sometimes, so I feel like if I f2 him then I'll be able to sway him in some situations.

Fifth, Grant's gonna go out today only because Marie is coming back in and I don't want to deal with a 4-3 split and maybe sonia having to use her idol. Sixth, Linus literally found Sonia on EM I'm fucking screaming. He might find annajane too because both sonia/aj's usernames are the same on wikia as they are on EM so that may become an issue later on for them, but my username is different so he'll have no idea who I am.

Finally, I have no idea where polish bitch is, and as unfortunate as it is for me to say this, her timezone is becoming a real barrier for us to strategize. I really wanted to f2 her this game, and I might just f2 both linus and polish bitch, but Linus would be a better shot for that probably because I think people would consider him more threatening than me in most cases.

I have to be really careful in the next few days not to fuck up anything, but I'm in a good position for now, and I hope I can keep it that way.

"vatanchu"

- I'm lucky person that I'm in a tribe with three boys from the alliance who I "trusted" the most. I haven't a lot of occasions to talk with Scott and I don't like the way John deals with people (BIG TREAT BIG TREAT TO ELIMINATE AS FAST AS IT IS POSSIBLE). And I'm tired of Mel and her annoying behavior. New guys in the tribe... I'm sure that in next some days I make them my best "allies" and make them think that they can trust me (NO ONE SHOULD EVER TRUST ME, I'M EVIL). Planty of work for me in next days and fuck... I need more time for evrything... Maybe do you have a time charger to borrow? :)

"vatanchu"

- My instinct is screaming: YOU COULD BE VOTED OUT TONIGHT. Everything seems too simple. I hate situations like that. Nobody is worried about the tribal council and they don't talk with me about that only some of them told be about Grant. Maybe it's time zones issue but I'm scared tonight. I wish I won't be blindsided tonight but I don't have the facking idol. WAIT. I have one chance to try to get it. I would try... I'm going to pick a random name of survivor player again. :)

"vatanchu"

- I talked to Linus, Tucker and Felix and my favourite way I told them how I trust them and also hope that no one betray our alliance at the moment. But I can't know if they have noticed that I told them the same things... It would be funny and it could be a reason why they would want to make a blindside on me tonight. BUT maybe I have a paranoia and everything is in the control. Breathe. I don't like that Grant would be voted out but I haven't time to have influence on this situation. Grant is a good guy, I like him. I would prefer to vote out one of the girls but it's too late. Absences suck. I will be really disappointed if it is my last confessional in this season. But sometimes you can't do nothing about the situation.

"vatanchu"

- I'm also suspicuous tonight. If they have an idol, they HAVE TO use it right now. They would be stupid don't doing this. It's a perfect moment to change their situation (Aguateca pre-swap) and have the majority after tonight. So I only hope that they vote out Felix (like someone told me) or someone else than me. At least I wasn't active last days and I don't look like a potential treat.

"vatanchu"

- Alright! So the tribe swap actually turned out better than I thought it would! I’m ecstatic to still be with Claire. I wish Michael was here because Grant’s pretty quiet but it looks like he’ll be leaving this tribal so I guess that was a blessing in disguise. Anyway, I really like the new people here so far. I absolutely adore Tucker, I think he’s hilarious and pretty easy to talk to which is great. Linus is pretty sweet and same with Joanna but I haven’t been able to talk to her too much yet. Felix is a little bit of a wild card because he wanted to know my exact plan for tribal before results even came out and I was just...whew! But this is definitely an interesting group and it looks like there’ll be a few cracks me and Claire (and hopefully Marie) can sneak into! But it looks like we’re in a good spot for now so I’m pretty excited!