I'm Scared As Hell/Confessionals

Day 25
"nyuchi"

- louise is my hunter and i'm loving life bc she won't do anything about it since we're tight. ❤ next portion of the game is going to be weird. without dovile to blow up alliances, i think a majority will form and i either need to wiggle myself into it or try to dismantle it. vincent has talked about a coalition of myself, drew, jack, roisin and i'm kinda here for it? i'd want louise to advance too. honestly - my one on ones with people are becoming more and more developed so i might try to get something started myself.

i'm starting to see the real contenders this season and i want to start making moves against them. it's just a matter of when and how. now that dovile is gone, i'm no longer tethered to her game and i feel significantly more free. i know matthias/hals/becky are still a trio and that needs to be addressed, but i really worked my bond to becky this round so i hope i might be able to pull them into some sort of plans. drew is my bet to win this and something needs to happen about that and his lil idol too. i hope i'm here long enough to do something about all of that.

overall, my social game is really pulling me and while i'm not setting targets, each really works for the direction of my game so i am here for it! i just need to keep making myself essential to people's games and hope they inform me of things i shouldn't know.

e.g. louise has been pushing for matthias to go. both jack and becky want each other OUT. hals and vincent are becoming tense. drew has idol. drew/vince/jack want to ride the middle. etc. there are other unspoken little secrets but it's late and i'm exhausted. i think all of this can really be used if i'm ever targeted and have to hype tf up. i'm so hyped. there are seven tribals until FTC and i might have a chance?? i don't think my name was out there once this round, but then again i wouldn't know. idk. i'm really trying to play ""clueless number"" in my 1 on 1s. ❤

"nyuchi"

- So even though I still voted with the majority, I got a vote. It's dangerous to pursue it, so I won't go and grill people on it. I'll just say it's my punishment for my messy gameplay that round

"nyuchi"

- I am not the best graph maker but you get the jist..

This chart help me find out my goat, Roisin which I will gladly keep her around till f3! I have a good amount of allies and over the weekend I will be working really hard to get their trust, Becky and Hals are my main 2 girls but Jack, Jake and Drew are cool too. Drew is a sharp player so he's first to go from the allies list hopefully..If I had to make my own boot order it would be Vincent then Louise then Drew or Jack..

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"nyuchi"

- So my team in the reward challenge happens to be my ideal final three, that's pretty cool. I'm not going to form a final three alliance until Drew is out, though. I don't know what Roisin would do if Jake or I created one, since she and I are also in an F3 with Drew.

Day 26
"nyuchi"

- ok so here we go kids, i feel like im a pretty good position at the moment i'm aligned quite strongly with roisin, jake, jack and hals and someeeeeeeewhat with drew but honestly if i could have my own way i'd have him out next. he's playing the middle like an absolute mad man and it's INCREDIBLE TO WATCH but he can go like yesterday, on the other hand i also really want to get rid of vincent because he seems like the obvious goat at the moment and i don't want anyone to have an easy path to the end that's my job fatties

"nyuchi"

- becky and matthias atm are like non entities at the moment which means i should really start to look at them as threats because they appear v unassuming

"nyuchi"

- Me: That vote on me was probably a throwaway vote to make me nervous, like that other one was. As long as I don't go on a witch hunt everything should be fine. Drew: Someone could have been anticipating an idol play so they wanted to make sure that you could go home over Becky. Me: ...why do you have to make me so paranoid 😢

"nyuchi"

- This game is becoming very interesting. Right now it's looking like there are just a bunch of duos and trios around, with no majority alliance. That way, all nine of us are really influencing the game. There are no goats being cultivated by a majority alliance. Everyone has been an influence on the game, and it's going to be a wild ride to the end.

Day 27
"nyuchi"

- This is crazy 😮 when i got the 3rd clue a few days ago i told every1 "i guessed Fei Long, it's not that" basix so i cld reserve 1 more guess 4 me in the future, and now 2 days l8r i guessed it and that was the idol 😀 ❤ 😛 on top of my immunity win 2day, things rly cldn't get any better!!! I'm so excited, 4 the first time in this game i feel like i cld achieve something big 🙂 xx

"nyuchi"

- honestly dovile was wild and needed to go, but at least she kept life interesting. who else will expose alliances, lie about advantages, misplay idols, and spontaneously create chats an hour before votes are due? 😥

"nyuchi"

- So I'm being targeted by Matthias for my lack of connections. Fun fact: earlier today I was telling my brother that my strategy revolved around not creating a majority alliance and he just laughed at me. So maybe I won't tell him this

"nyuchi"

- If this vote heads in the direction it seems to be at the moment, I'll be unapologetic in taking credit for orchestrating another boot. Ya bitch is building a roster x

"nyuchi"

- now that i'm home from a weekend away, let's get some strategic analysis in:

final 9 and 6-7 tribals away from a winner. it's low key insane and people's games are starting to emerge:

ROISIN: a lot more aware than what she lets on. it seems like she was isolated for a majority of the premerge and is now the go-to free number, resulting in her both getting a good amount of information and often ending up in the middle. i know she is aligned with drew and vincent, and is at least close with louise. we've expressed interest in looking out for each other, so as far as i'm concerned, we're good for a few rounds. might have the nyuchi idol. v UTR.

DREW: current winner pick. he has an astounding social game and ends up in the middle of votes, which is solid strategically. if he manages to get a decent enough following who won't question the threat he poses, he can make it to the end and win. i'm currently trying to plant seeds against him, because he is playing the ""everyone's best friend"" game which is equally dangerous. i think he might be cognizant that i'm aware of this and i could see him doing something about that soon. i've caught him in a lie or two and it might be easiest to idol him out, especially considering he does have the hwadze and potentially nyuchi idols, so even if i could get people to overlook their own agendas and gun for him, it might be irrelevant.

VINCENT: his social game isn't the best, but his og hwadze connections are carrying him pretty far and he does have a strategic mindset. because of that, it's really easy to get information from him and i would love to go far with him bc my social isn't the best either, so it'd be nice to see that bond ride out. unfortunately, he is the easy route for some so he might go sooner than i'd like.

JACK: we were really tight premerge and have both been swings in the merge. as far as i'm concerned, we're in really similar positions. eventually the challenge threat he poses could make him dangerous, and to pretend like he didn't show he was amazing at this on zambezi 2.0 is irrational.

HALS: vincent dubbed her the most likely of the trio to survive and it's SO true. her social game is THERE. she could easily go far based on that alone and i'm not really opposed to it so long she doesn't reach FTC because she'd win on the merit of her likability alone. i'd vote for her.

LOUISE: love her. we're tight simply because of our trio with dovile. i know a target might emerge on her soon but i would love to go to the end with her if possible. i can definitely see her being drawn to the trio which isn't great, but also a link to them if i wanted to work with them.

BECKY: confuses me. she's explicitly lied to or tried to manipulate me on more than one occasion now and only professes loyalty when she needs me strategically i think. i feel like she definitely sees me as a number, which is great for me tbh. she is a threat, but i think people are more than aware of that, so it's not my concern entirely. love her on a personal level, just on a game level i've always gotten mixed signals from her.

MATTHIAS: my target. great social connections, but enough people are susp of him that it wouldn't be too hard to gun for him i don't think. idk. we're v far apart in the context of this game, so idk where his head at or what he is doing.

OVERALL: time to hype tf up. i've definitely had a say in the last two outcomes, and that's great, but i don't think it's the level of gameplay i want to achieve yet. my two real agenda items with this vote are weaken drew and weaken the trio.

i'm going to see what i can do to save vincent from the four locked votes against him, but idk yet. i need him here, but it's not looking great. i think both drew and i want him here, but are afraid to put ourselves out there to make it happen, so we'll see. tbh i really need drew out soon so i can go from playing ""clueless number"" to taking charge and doing something, but by the same measure - we're not really opposed and there are a lot of votes to make that happen, so this round might just not be the one to take that shot. first thing is obv to let ideas cement and move from there.

my best route is probably turning things around, saving vincent, and getting one of the trio (ideally matthias) out 5-4 or with one of drew's idols, then turning the situation on drew and exposing his spot in the middle. but it's all a matter of pulling that off without overplaying. just because one can make a big move doesn't mean they should. xoxo.

also i love how i say all of this as if i'm not some sort of 8th place flop like who tf do i think i am making these assessments but eh it's my insight and that is what i have to work with.

"nyuchi"

- Matthias is acting ridiculous. First off its blatantly obvious that he's voting me. Second off, my story to him is that I'm asking random people to vote with me, and they all said yes. I thought he was going to see through that, but he just thinks I have an idol and he doesn't want to vote me. Confidence is underrated.

"nyuchi"

- So actually that last confessional from me is wrong. Matthias knows that I am actually not getting people against Jack. But it's good because he doesn't think that he's in trouble, so the blindside will be even sweeter than it already was.

"nyuchi"

- This is not happening, this is not happening, there is no way this is happening. There is not a chance in hell that we're actually pulling this off and blindsiding Matthias. Something will go wrong, we won't have Jake or Roisin on our side, or Matthias will have an idol, for all I know this is my last confessional. But I've been trying to build up this groundwork from nothing for so long in this game, to build to a point where connections I've made can be used to create something larger. And it's semi-possible we're reaching that point now. It's gonna be such a breakneck pace from this point forward, I've done whatever possible to avoid the spotlight until I was ready to start showing why I deserve to win the season. Theoretically only five more tribal councils after this, I've been actively shown saving Becky, now Vincent and Jack if all goes well, I've built up such a good connection with Jake, I've tried maintaining SOMETHING with Hals and Louise and Roisin. And without winning a single challenge yet, which is usually how I get the biggest target on me. I'm scared as hell of it all falling apart, but I honestly think this is one of the better games I've played in a long long time.

"nyuchi"

- this tribal is v nerve wrecking.. idk. i have enough people to blindside drew but what if he uses 2 idols.. all votes for on me but I think vincent is going for jack over me? which is rlly cool.. I want drew gone so bad tho he is flip flopper.. this is a perfect plan by me and hals

"nyuchi"

- if this goes correctly this has the potential to be he heist of the century blindsiding drew who potentially has two idols? Dick is HARD

"nyuchi"

- it seems like the votes are on matthias and i am doing the most to see my target go this round tbh. it seems like open season has worked in a rotation of 3-4 tribals, so this might be my last chance at an advantage. i wouldn't throw away my position to accomplish it, but it works well within the framework of the round.

i'm also officially sitting in what could be my first stable alliance since my trio with louise and dovile. i like our five, and while vincent and i are at FTC-levels of proximity, idk that i could necessarily work it to my advantage at five, so for now, it's important to ride this out for the next round or two, but to also set up a failsafe for turning people against my alliance.

and by doing the most to see matthias go, i primarily mean: - low key accidentally making a F3 and talking about future rounds with him so he'd feel safe - playing dumb with becky and hals - and obv. strategizing with my five and playing into the whole vince v. jack idea.

i love how much more drew is doing though. i hope it'll add sting for those blindsided, especially since he just admitted he fake threw louise and i could use that. as far as i'm concerned, my relationships are more intact than ever and that trio will ideally be v weak after this round. i high key love this round.

i've been playing a lot more UTR than what i like to, so ideally i can hype tf up with two advantages under my belt. idk yet. at some point, i need to kinda step out of my shell of obscurity and really start working. either 7 or 8 will be that time.

my only legit concern fr this round is roisin leaking the plan to louise, which would result in an idol play and perhaps pity vote flip onto me from matthias, becky, and hals. kinda nervous. this is no small move.

"nyuchi"

- I finally feel like this is my round if all goes right 😮 I think I’m the only 1 in the two sides of the tribe’s chats cos I’m in 1 alliance chat with hals Becky Louise (and Matt) and then another with drew Vincent jack and Jake. This means I’ll be the main perpetrator come next round but at least when I look back at my game in final tribal council this will clearly be a pivotal moment which I controlled! Xx