I Will Go Hulk On His Butt/Confessionals

Day 4
"askja"

- Okay, so James got disqualified. And he had told me that Nuno was talking to him about it, but I decided to leave that to him and the hosts. And now, you know what sucks? If Trace and Eden are really together, then I lost my only chance to survive. James may have just screwed me over, leaving me with Trace and Eden. But this challenge is a writing challenge. Thank God I excel in writing. So, we need to win this challenge. Because, I won't give up! Never give up!

"sulur"

- Well just like that three more people are gone. Alex's elimination doesn't effect me all since I never talked to him but I'm kind of disappointed that Ivan is gone because I think I really could have worked with him if we were on the same tribe. And then there's James...all I'm going to say is he had it coming. Moving on, I'm now focusing completely on our next challenge and trying to make sure we keep winning, there won't be no Tabanan 2.0 here.

"sulur"

- Ivan gone? According to plan. Alex gone? I'd been hoping for a tie, but I didn't really have any insight onto that tribe. Disappointed to see the kid go, he's a good player but never been particularly lucky. James disqualified? I was never politically allied with him but I'm pissed that he's gone. The guy was a huge scapegoat and a walking beacon; the longer he stayed in the game, the more negativity would be directed towards him. He was someone other people could band against, and now that we don't have that easy vote around any more, it's going to cause some adjustments to strategy.

"hekla"

- Well, I survived. I honestly didn't think this would happen, until about 3:35 PM on the day of tribal (and the deadline was 5 AM), I was sure to go. Julia didn't really want anything to do with me, it's very apparent because she's far more friendly now for very little reason other than that she was approached by Liam around this time to keep me around. She's friendly to those she thinks will be around in the next 24 hours, and I didn't fit the bill (at the time :3). I feel like I've been friendly enough to Liam that Liam feels a close bond here. He actually flat-out told me, that if he didn't feel a close bond and a friendship from me, he'd have voted for me very soon after TC was posted and wouldn't look back. Only through my bond w/him as well as Ivan's poor social gameplay could I possibly have survived a tribe that was 3-1 against me with me almost certainly going home in 24th (as of a few days ago). I will definitely remember this; I almost got voted off on Day 3 by Liam & Julia. I'm walking on eggshells as it is, and I have to do so even more because I can't sh*ttalk Ivan anymore for social points. Today, I need even more social prowess and finesse just to get by another day. I'll be giving every single available second on the challenge today because I NEED this. Liam's in a spot where he has to choose between me and Julia, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he picks Julia to go with him over myself if we go to tribal again. I'm going to be working my ass off socially, and working my ass off even harder in the challenges. Every single fuck I can give for others' concerns, I will, though after last episode I feel like I'm starting to run out of fucks to give w/Liam & Julia but I only have to deal w/them for a while longer. Just a while longer to deceive and then I'll probably betray them if I've got other options :3 Because I'm always a flagrant target of both of them, and I've got to convince them to save me just this once. I don't like allies like that, where I've got to convince them to keep their word. I've got to focus on convincing my enemies to keep me, not my "friends," then I don't have any time for anything else. I've got my bros Jake, Mitchell and TJ on the other tribes, they're my true allies far above the whole Liam/Julia/me Hekla grouping (and yes, it has been discussed for a threesome Hekla alliance after the next swap). If I need them, then I'll be great keeping them tho ^_^ nothing wrong with holding on to social ties, you never know when you'll need them. I want to be friendly to all, talk at length to few and trust no one. I'm here to play a game well and make friends, friendly social interactions lead to both of those objectives being completed successfully so that's what I'm going to do. I'm not out of the boiling water just yet, I have a lot ahead of me on the Hekla tribe and other tribes to accomplish. But surviving this vote where I had no chance of doing was a meaningful first step that I didn't think I would be able to take.

"laki"

- Well Perry did stay, just not in a way I expected. James apparently photoshopped his Squishy Bird score. So he was rightfully disqualified. Baula would of gotten third if the hosts knew earlier that James cheated,so Perry and Issac got off the hook. It must be so awkward at their camp right now, knowing who is safe and who is on the chopping block not by speculation but by actual evidence. If they lose again, unless something changes, it will be an animal cage fight between a platypus and a frog.

So we get an immunity challenge, and I am excited! Storytelling! This is where I am going to do well for once. I already came up with an amazing idea for a supernatural story! Tyler has already written the first chapter, which I must say is well done. Never knew Tyler was quite the writer. Szymon is currently writing the second chapter, and I will write the trippy dream known as chapter 3. Ometepe volunteered quickly to not do the challenge, he claims he is a terrible writer. I don't see it as any form of sabotage, so I think Laki will win immunity once again.

"askja"

- Well, that was a shocker. I had absolutely no idea that James was going to do that. Granted, I didn't expect him to talk strategy with me but still, I can't believe it. But, Askja has to move on and focus on winning the next immunity challenge(s). I really don't want to go to tribal starting now. I think I'm in a pretty good position, but keeping myself 100% safe is the ultimate goal.

As far as I'm concerned, I think that if we were to go to tribal, Eden would vote Jake and Jake would vote Eden. That's a great position to be in, but it's also a bad one, mostly because I'm a nice person and I don't want to ruin someone else's hopes. At this point, I don't know who I'd vote for if I had to vote. I feel like Eden and I are friends outside the game, but he also happens to be friends with a lot of other people on the other tribes. Jake on the other hand only has me as an ally. I don't foresee him backstabbing me or making alliances with other people any time soon. Either way I survive, but I don't know. It's a hard decision because I really do like both of these guys.

So, plan A is to win, plan B to strategize. And plan A is sounding pretty damn good at this point.

"baula"

- I cannot believe that they did not try to take me out at tribal council. I don't know if what TJ is saying about Perry wanting me out is true but as long as I make sure Perry keeps thinking TJ is against him then I got no worries. I'm in control here, naturally.

"esjan"

- Well, I survived the first tribal of Esjan! Hopefully it remains as the only tribal of Esjan. Fun fact: I was the only one the not get a vote from our tribal. How good am I playing this game? This proved I have the social part down. I proved my physical worth in the first challenge. Strategically, I failed. We voted off Alex because of his bombing of the challenge, but Nathan and I have come to realize Zane can't be trusted by his vote to Nathan. Zane came up with this bullshit that Alex was going off and being out there, when I know he can't be trusted.

I'm coming to take charge of this challenge. I love writing and I have a great imagination. This would be a cakewalk, but Zane is nowhere to be found. ._. I swear if he loses the challenge for us I will go Hulk on his butt.

Nathan and I have made a Final 2 deal, which, once again, I will keep but if I hear votes going towards him I will halfheartedly care. This is only going to happen merge/jury stage because I need as many votes as possible.

This challenge is so fun though. XD Writing off James's death made me chuckle.

"sulur"

- I'm an English major, so I think we stand a good shot at this. If we crap out in this challenge... I'm going to blame it all on them and turn them against each other. Either way it's a win-win for me!

"askja"

- I honestly do feel like we've got this challenge in the bag. I'm not Hemingway, but I can hold my ground when it comes to writing. I won the writing challenge in Madagascar, and I know I can do it here too. I just have to make sure that I'm not only watching myself, but also my tribemates. I'm starting to get a bit nervous about a possible tribal situation. At this point, I'm going balls to the walls with creating a bond both with Eden and Jake. I think that if it came down to it, Jake would be the smarter person for me to stick with. I do have a tighter bond with Eden at the moment, but Jake is less of a threat to me because he is disliked by many on the other tribes. It'd be hard to vote Eden out this early, but it might be necessary to try to put a larger target up for me. I don't know what I would do, but the pros and cons of each are so plentiful that I am going to have a rough choice ahead of me if I have to decide.

"hekla"

- Ugh, I haven't been on that much recently :/ but I think I'll be the swing vote if my tribe loses immunity which we better not because I think are story is hawt so far and everyone on this tribe is super cool ^_^

"esjan"

- Our horror story is amazing. We got two incredible chapters of good storyline. The only bad part is Zane. Mikey & I have been waiting for Zane all day to finish our story. He's Inactive. If he doesn't get on soon, we'll have to boot him off. He'll be the next pig and I'll gladly continue to be the butcher slaying him. Bye Bye Zane. Unless you get the story finished, you're going home. Zane will have to say oink if he can't get us a good Chapter 3. We have an incredible story, it's just we wait so long for him. Our tribe is struggling. Mikey & I do good in challenges, Alex ruined the first challenge for us, Zane seems like he might ruin this one for us. Zane better hope we win the challenge.

"sulur"

- Well an interesting day it's become. As we came to the challenge. I noticed that the tribe with, Isaac, Perry, Ted and TJ was still at 4 strong after going to tribal council. However, the tribe of, Eden, Jake and Trace lost James. It was announced that James was disqualified because he cheated in the last immunity challenge. LOL! What a fool! When you cheat, you pay the price. It would have been nice to see either, Isaac, Perry or Ted go out. But I'd rather not have a cheater play in this game. Thank goodness he was caught early enough before he did some damage to the game. I give my praise to the hosts for excellent detective work! Great job you guys!

Any way our immunity challenge is to write a horror story. I know nothing about horrors. I don't enjoy writing or being creative when it comes to things I am not familiar with. My tribe mates, Jino, Mitchell and Steve had a lot of inspiration and creativity. So I just decided to sit this one out. Good one for me to miss. This isn't a school report, I don't need to be writing about stuff. Only one tribe loses out of six. I think we will be fine for now. We have a great team. The motto is to win win win!

"baula"

- Well looks like my plan fell apart. Seems like Perry got Ted on his side and I have Isaac on mine. The line has been drawn in the sand and it’s two against two. Ted and Perry tried to work me over and get me to vote out Isaac but that would mean I would be giving control of my game to a threat (Ted) and a wildcard (Perry). That’s not something I’m comfortable with so Isaac and I are voting for Perry. Ted and Perry are voting Isaac and it’s going to come down to a tie-breaker challenge. Unfortunately Isaac doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of faith in himself against Perry. Perry does have a bit of a reputation of being clutch in individual challenges so looks like I might be in some trouble. Just as we got ready for the tie-breaker between Perry and Isaac, the hosts called for it to stop. Apparently James of the Askja tribe was caught cheating during the Immunity Challenge. He was disqualified and that means the Baula tribe’s Tribal Council is over. No one gets voted out, so both Isaac and Perry are safe. While this is good news, it also leaves me in an odd situation. I did just vote against Ted and Perry. I don’t think I am very high on their list of favorite people at the moment. I’m really going to have to think about how I’m going to handle this. I feel like I do have Isaac on my side right now, but he’s playing his own game and I won’t put it past him to go with Perry and Ted to vote my butt out. I got my work cut out for me. Time to get workin’. IT’S GAME ON!!!

"laki"

- So lately i haven't been that much active around, but my hard and costant work before managed me a quite good position and i have people coming to me with informations about their tribe. Anyway, I'm really disappointed in our tribe at one person - in this case Jordan. I mean we have a writing challenge and only one person in our tribe doesn't have English like native language, which is me but he still decided to sit down. For me that's kinda lazy and assholish. And i don't appreciate that, so as soon as we would lose im really willing to vote for Jordan BUT, yeah, there is always a big BUT. I really trust Tyler, but i woudnt feel comfortable in a tribe with two people from Turkey, so at this moment its really too hard to predict what's gonna happen in our tribe.

"askja"

- Aw c'mon! We were a little late, so what? Sigh. I think even though all three of us forgot or were late, we can win the tiebreaker. Trace is an actor in his life, so to have him writing a drama just seems right. I'm glad I waited for him. If we lose though, I've talked with Trace. He says he'll keep me over Eden, but I'm still not sure. I'm not even sure if it's paranoia or what. But, I'm not going to go to Eden, because then I look shady. I told Trace too, if he saved me and didn't vote me off, I'd repay him, and I am 100% with that. Whether it's by giving him a clue, saving him, or throwing a challenge to save his behind, I will pay him back. Trust me, I'm not a shady guy, I am a man of my word right now. I'm going to try and stick to my word. And anyway, now comes in Ian. Me and Ian are close pals, I can really trust him when the tribes are swapped or dissolved. But Ian suggests that I show a fake Idol to Eden and Trace. Well sir, we haven't received clues. Like, how am I going to show them an Idol if nothing has been said about one? Sigh. But, the Idol did look so real, like I was stunned. I'll admit, it looked amazing. Could I give someone it for future use? Of course I can. But not now. But, that'll be a handy tool to use. Obviously I won't give it to Trace, because I need to repay him with something he can use, but it's a good tool to have. So, if I can survive this cycle, I'll be in business. Next cycle is tribal swap. Then, the To Be Decided alliance (me, Mitchell, TJ, and George) can finally actually start our alliance. Plus, I have Szymon, Ian, Julia, Isaac and Jino as side allies. They're basically those allies where it's just to earn more votes, like you don't create a big alliance with them. But, they're still nice to have. However, my priorities lie with To Be Decided, so unless a big power shift happens or the alliance is voted off, that's who I want to play with. I hope we go far, as I really like this group. Am I afraid to cut them loose? No. But only if it means I have to save myself and that's 100% the only way. So, if I survive this cycle, then the game really heats up. And believe me, it's gonna get hot in here!

"askja"

- Just to be clear, me not entering was not my fault. I was the first one to write on the google doc, and I assumed that someone would just send the entire doc once we were finished with the whole story. But apparently we all were supposed to send in our own parts, so mine was missing. I'm not really upset it wasn't counted, I'm just annoyed because I worked really hard on it and it was really good. But even though that happened, this drama tie breaker fits my style much better. I wrote something in my drama class a few years ago that I think I can draw some influence from. Plus everyone always calls me dramatic so I guess I'll have a leg up. I really need to win this just to ensure that I can save myself. I told Jake today that I would vote out Eden if we lost. I don't know if I'll stick to that, but if I don't who gives a fuck. It's premerge. I would just feel really bad about lying to Jake. Alright, I'm gonna switch from writing this to writing that story. Good luck to me!

"laki"

- So with my brilliant idea for the story, Tyler, Szymon, and I each wrote a chapter. We all finished our work by at least 7 hours of the deadline, each chapter was well written and creative, so everything felt right. We worked hard as a group, besides Ometepe lol, and created an excellent story worthy of immunity.

I later find out Jake didn't send his chapter in on time for Askja. That was such a great feeling, it was like 'YES WE WON IMMUNITY'! Everything was rainbows and unicorns from there.

UNTIL it was revealed SZYMON didn't turn in his chapter on time! The unicorn's horn was cut off and it stabbed the rainbow. The red layer of the rainbow is actually blood. When I heard about this, I was wondering how it was even possible. I mean, he finished his chapter before I EVEN STARTED MY CHAPTER, AND I MADE THE DEADLINE BY 7 AND A HALF HOURS! It was just simply a frustrating moment, like how could he fuck this up? Then I remembered he was originally on Kieta.

I did consider for a few minutes he might of threw the challenge, but I decided I didn't want to be the next Bartley. Szymon said it was because he thought we were supposed to turn it in as a group, and... that is a pretty decent explanation. I am still pissed, but it is a decent explanation.

So we tied with Askja for last, and have to compete in a duel. We didn't know what the duel would be, so Tyler was our guy. Luckily, it is writing a Drama story, and he is a great writer himself. And according to Jake, Trace knows a lot about Drama, being an actor and all, so I hope Tyler pulls it out.

And I miss Alex.

"laki"

- We had a story challenge and the top 5 teams would move into the top 20 while the 6th team would got to tribal and vote someone out. So Baula, Hekla, Sulur & Esjan won and are 100% safe.

Everybody in Askja submitted after the deadline and Szymon submitted after the deadline as well leaving us versus them in a tiebreaker. I talked to Ian and we both were sort of thinking what if maybe Szymon was trying to throw the challenge just like Jordan tried to do the last one? NOT ON MY BLACK ASS WATCH BITCH.

So I decided to do the tiebreaker challenge for us and Askja chose Trace and we had to write a drama story. I sort of mixed like a slasher flick sort of story but it had plenty of drama in it regardless. I'm hoping we can win and if not that I can convince Szymon to flip on Jordan and we can vote him out.

None of the three of us trust him but the thing that's stopping him is him thinking me and Ian having a Turkey alliance (which we do of course) but I need him to think otherwise.

Do I trust Szymon? Yes I do actually but I'm not too sure if he trusts me and that's where the problem lies.

Hopefully everything works out and we will be able to get Jordan out. But honestly I prefer not to lose. Also Liam made a fake idol and the Guardians of Salvation wanna be the final four.

I don't mind going that far with Ian but I think Mitchell and Liam are way too big of threats to take that far.

I was also on Skype earlier with George, Perry, Ted and Zane (along with Alf & Nuno). I talked strategy with them some but it was just really laughing and clowning as we always do.

FYI: Ted has the voice of a phone sex operator & Skype confuses the whole ass fuck outta Zane lmfao #TheConfusionIsReal. And Perry & George are totally awesome as usual lol so yeah that's it. Hopefully we won't go to tribal otherwise I'll probably be writing like 6 more confessionals after this lmao

"sulur"

- Súlur, by some stroke of fate, is now one of only two tribes to have not lost a member, and is the only tribe that has yet to visit Tribal Council at all. That's amazing but could function two-sided; I haven't had to publicly declare loyalties and turn on allies, which is great, but maybe some people will start seeing the Súlur four as potentially dangerous to their game. We'll see what happens, and by that I mean talk to you after Ometepe's been voted out.

"hekla"

- Ivan is gone and I'm extrememly happy with it. He was the biggest threat to me in controlling this tribe. Now I know both Julia and George will follow me with what I do. That sets us up perfectly for a switch that could happen and I have them by my side. And I'm fine since George is extrememly close with me and we'll vote out Julia if we lose. Either way, I feel safe for the next elimination.

-Well for the first time this season, Hekla has won immunity! This is perfect for my plan, now I don't have to cut Julia and with the expected tribe dissolve/switch coming up, I have an extra ally that can help me get to the merge. The only problem I possibly see is that if Tyler loses the tiebreaker and one of the members of my alliance goes home. Hopefully that won't happen.

Day 5
"laki"

- We lost immunity. It is very demoralizing. I worked so hard on my chapter and creating the plot and story of EVERY ONES chapter, and just to lose after that is a smack in the face. Even worse, I am getting a vote from Ometepe.

Its funny about Ometepe, we both lied to each other with the same lie: we would vote for Tyler. We both went up to each other, eager to throw each other off our tracks, and now we are voting for each other. Its a strange game on the Laki tribe. Even stranger is that the person who cost us the challenge, Szymon, is the swing vote. Tyler and I are voting for Ometepe, Ometepe is voting for me, so it comes down to him. He and I are friends so i think he will vote Ometepe.

"hekla"

- Even though my tribe is safe, I still feel nervous about the upcoming vote. Laki is going and we have to members of my alliance there. Ometepe is targetting Ian so it could be bad news for them and my alliance. Hoopefully all goes well.

"sulur"

- OK so another day off because we won immunity! I really do like this little tribe I'm on. I had a short conversation with Steve today, just to get to know him. He seems like a nice guy.

Well that's it! I love having days off in this game. It never happened for me in Anarchy. Just gotta re-focus for the next challenge.