Driving The Bus/Confessionals

Day 14
"palmira"

- that was so hard ugh. And I know it's just gonna get harder from here on out. I can't let friendships control me.

"lucena"

- Felix no :( I actually liked him, even if I didn't have a solid alliance with him. It's sad to see him go. If he didn't mutiny he probably would have made merge, or at least right before it if we sucked at challenges and had to boot him last. On an unrelated note, for a such a "twisty" season, there have been a surprisingly small amount of twists.

"lucena"

- AZER IS DEAD. Ding dong! The wicked witch is dead!

"palmira"

- Somehow someway Felix left 6-1-1. I was actually paranoid all day that I was going to be 5-3'ed. I am absolutely shocked that the others didn't go for the knockout punch at an obvious trio in this game. I'm guessing they either they don't know yet or they're planning to strike later - but regardless, this game is going on fantastically and I will fully anticipate a swap with 3 tribes at this round of 15. If not? NEXT CHALLENGE MUST BE WON. Interestingly enough there was also a throwaway vote on Michelle. Which is a bit random. Did Scott or Jordan throw away their vote? That'll be a nice case to investigate. Also I'll miss Felix a bit. He's definitely been the most rational and non-BITTER of the Azerbaijan prejury boots. WHICH I MAY ADD HAVE ALL BEEN BOOTED UNANIMOUSLY. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

"palmira"

- (Said in the voice of Baymax of course) Oh no.

"palmira"

- ......NO SERIOUSLY WHO WOULD VOTE MICHELLE. I'm in the clear, it's definitely not Nick or Yannick, Felix and Lucas gunned for each other hard. It's probably JORDAN. The dude "accidentally" voted Nick and may have just wanted to throw his vote away not to hurt Felix's feelings, idfk cause I'm pretty sure that's why he voted Nick instead of Kaeden too that one round to play both sides. THIS VOTE WTF WHO DID THAT

"lucena"

- i might cry idk whats happening

"none"

- WOW. WOWWWW. I'm gonna make this really fucking simple. I'm gunning for that top score. Anyone should know now that they need to freeze the puzzle, arrange the pieces, and preplan where everything goes and hope they're quick-twitch enough to win it. AT LEAST THEY SHOULD. But yeah. I've had experience with jigsaw puzzle before.. top spot would be great, immunity would be nice, and if I'm vulnerable? That IDOL is C O M I N G O U T

"none"

- Thank GOD its a puzzle. I'm actually so glad because i'm pretty good at puzzles. My concern rn is being in the top 3, and I think I can do that

"none"

- i feel physically sick over this fucking twist. i am on the fucking verge of throwing up because i just fucking realized how fucking fucked i am in this game and i husdfjgkbfjhkbredfijku

"none"

- im so stressed out omg. like of all the challenges to go home in this would be the worst. I have to submit tonight because I wont be home before the submissions are due which means that me staying in this game could potentially depend on tonight. I NEED this i feel.

"none"

- So right now I'm trying to win immunity, OBVIOUSLY, but I'm also trying to get everyone who was in on the Will vote (Grace, Nick, Evan, Dani, Boo, Trent, Scott, Yannick, and Bryce) to get back together. Surprisingly none of us have been eliminated yet. I'm in the middle of the Youtubers and the KND and I'm trying subtly to get both sides to trust each other. I don't need to pick a side till' the merge, thanks. Who would have known the first boot Will alliance would have a major factor in this game for this long? Not me, but glad I got the ball rolling and set myself up very well in this game.

"none"

- Survivor Retribution Confessional 5 Grace

"none"

- boom shakafuckthis

"none"

- I just know that the first place winner will be screwed and I know that puzzles aren't my strong suit, so I'm ok with not winning immunity. I am in the process of putting deals in place to solidify my position. If there's any targets to my main alliance, I'll be on the bottom of the food chain. If all else fails, forcing Scott to use that fake idol and engineering a hilarious blindside because of it is always a viable option.

"none"

- It seems like everybody is just trusting me at the moment, and I love it! I must have a thing for getting people to throw challenges for me because Nick tried to throw the last challenge to us. I believe we would have won regardless of his help, but I realized he is telling everything he tells me to Bryce as well. I can’t trust the guy. He’s sneaky, and I think he totally thinks he has me fooled or something. Jordan gave me the next part of the idol clue to help save me, and it looks like all the post mutiny Lucenas like me too! I don’t know if I have really spoken to Lucas at all, but I feel like I’m on good terms with everybody unless my former Palmira tribemates discover the mad shit I talked about them threatening me to try to save myself while on Lucena. Now I just need to find that idol and survive whatever is happening right now in this so far tribeless state!!!

"none"

- So I just finished the puzzle and I'm about to head off to sleep, confessional time. I got 14:37 on the puzzle, apparently no one's smart enough to print screen, analyze, make a move, pause, and repeat. Even with this BLATANT advantage I'm still horrendous enough at puzzles to have my time in range of others performing manually. I really want this immunity, no doubt about that. No one really knows the stakes or the method at which tribal will occur so I'm once again focusing on keeping myself as a friendly and viable option to others rather than diving into strategy and targets and such. For example I got Yannick to tell Zach that I'm not mad to him and I also got him to act as if Yannick is controlling me to Zach, so hopefully the only player I've feuded with publicly can back the FUCK off this round. Aside from that I talked things up with Trent who's cool, and I'll see who approaches me tomorrow. As for who I would want to vote? I really don't know. Zach is an obvious target, but Ethan and Yannick believe he can be used as a one round buffer. Jordan has been kinda shady to me - I think he's been a focal point behind two stray votes so far. Boo and Michelle are social gamers who I can see just floating along peacefully to the end. Taylor's one of the two remaining Day 1 Nick voters and has demonstrated to be a capable strategist. It's tricky, but for now I'm just gonna try to get immunity and have things come to me again. I trust that I have enough connections that should I not win immunity, I have a Plan B in keeping a target off of my back. AND IF I AM A TARGET? PLAN C, THAT IDOL IS COMING OUT AND ITS NO HOLDS BARRED. My game's going to be a lot like my 703 all star Skye Islands game in just keeping UTR and a focal point of my alliances until I'm forced to break things open - at which I know I have the physical prowess and idol in my pocket to pass some rounds by. Down the line in the merge though, I definitely plan on making PLENTY of side deals behind my groups' back with Yannick to give myself some damn good insurance policies moving forward. Call us CHILLTOWN. So yeah g'night pray for me tomorrow and the day after and even the day after that because I have 3 exams lined up like death row - yeah right when the game is getting good, fuckin' WONDERFUL

"none"

- Alright, I'm still here - good. Just as I was expecting one more round before a tribe swap - we get fucking anarchy - again. What the hell is this bullshit. No one has messaged me, which I'm used to, but nobody's online expect for Felix (lol). I think I'm safe even if I don't win the challenges (I hate puzzles) the palm trees will most likely want Zach gone, and Lucena will most likely want somebody from Palmira gone (at least I'll make sure they do). I don't really have a target set, so my plan at the moment is to play both sides without being cought so I don't get screwed by the tribe swap that will most likely happen next.

"none"

- So at the last tribal, Felix ended up going home. That's a shame cause he was a nice guy and I wanted to work with him but it's also a blessing in disguise since he was very good at challenges. I'm starting to realize that if I even manage to make merge that it will be very dangerous. Moves will need to be made and will be. This twist is very nerve wrecking. I know I'm not going to win immunity so I'm hoping I get onto a tribe with people that won't target me and that I can work with. These next few tribals will be very critical.

"none"

- I attempted the challenge again after blasting through an exam in 30 minutes (it was my easiest exam tho so yeah) and got 12:40. That'll probaaaably be the last time I'll do it, but for now I'm going to lie and say I'm around 15-16 minutes before saying "I'll attempt this one last time" right before the deadline. I need classic misdirection here to make people think some false times are ones to beat. So hopefully 12:40 is the mark, I'll see if I can attempt it another time or not

"none"

- I just realized that I might be the only person left that vote Nick at the first tribal council! That's so weird to think. It makes me a little uneasy now. What if there is some huge plan just to eliminate the Nick voters!? Well I guess this is in honor of them. The last outsider!

"none"

- Also, I forgot to add that Palmira thinks I mutined because I was an outsider. Let them think that.

Day 15
"lucena"

- my new strategy is to try to seduce yannick.

"none"

- So I got an idol clue... how helpful. During anarchy I found out from Evan he has the Palmira idol, so the clue is useless to me. It would have been better if someone I wasn't aligned with won immunity so they could find my fake idol, but alas, it was not destined to be. Honestly I'm just gonna wait to see who's booted and go on whichever tribe has more of my allies. As much as I wanna be with Grace, not sure if I can trust the Scott's and Jordan's of the world she seems to be so tight with.

"lucena"

- I'm going to bed soon, so I just did some quick talking around - I'd say right now my closest allies are Trent, Yannick and Michelle. Trent and Danielle might be a power couple, that's what's assumed and what Trent is afraid of. I mean whatever - I go to Trent - ask him if hes cool with Danielle - he says yes - I go to Yannick - ask him about the vote (I had Taylor in mind, since he was on the outs on the original Palmira) and who does Yannick want out? Taylor! Bingo.

"lucena"

- Okay, so this tribe swap is actually pretty good for me as long as I don't get caught in the middle here. For this vote, I'm sticking with Evan/Yannick and when we were put on the tribe together, we immediately discussed who to vote out. PROBLEM IS, they wanted to get out TAYLOR, who is someone I feel like I can persuade into a final 3 with Nick right now since we have talked a TON to him. I am probably going to tell him EVERYTHING that has happened in this game that he has no idea about, just so I can secure his vote for at least now. Anyways, they wanted out TAYLOR and I was NOT having it, so I basically outlined a plan to keep him safe, and probably going to be the biggest blindside yet. Basically, Trent and Dani think that they are with us and we are golden, but I actually want to take this opportunity to go after TRENT. Trent is probably the person on Lucena I talked to the MOST, but he has talked to EVERYONE and is the glue to the opposing alliance that we are halfway with right now (the 9 person group who originally flipped the vote onto Will.) With this being done, we would probably have to throw the following Immunity Challenge to get Dani out because she would hold this grudge against us as I know those two are very tight. This swap probably just set up a beautiful blindside that would send everyone into chaos, and I'm the one driving the bus right now.

"palmira"

- When I first saw my new tribe not gonna lie I started to panic because everyone from YouTube is on the opposite tribe from me. But I can survive this and I will survive this. I have a strong relationship with Scott that I'm definitely going to exploit during this swap. I've also been talking to Boo and he wants to form an alliance of me him Scott and Grace which I am definitely down for considering they're all people who saved my ass the first anarchy vote. So hopefully this can be an easy vote and the 4 of us can just stick together and I can eventually make it to a merge.

"lucena"

- After a handful of (mostly) unanimous votes, the game's about to heat up REAL quick. Immunity's always good to have, Ethan told me his score beforehand and he seemed like the one to beat, luckily I slid in at 3rd and now I will have already surpassed 9 people in this game after this round. These are really only baby step in terms of my overall game progression and development, as really the only thing that matters now is getting to Day 39 - anything else would be a dissapointment. What's more important is my mind, is that I need to play a more aggressive game. While I have already blatantly lied to and misdirected 3 players I've booted, yeah cool blah blah blah, all their voteouts were unanimous. Now is the time where I play the role of double agent, sharpen the knife, close my eyes, cross my fingers..... and shank as many people as I possibly can. Welcome to ARMAGEDDON.

"lucena"

- So here's the plan. I have Yannick and Bryce locked up, no doubt. Yannick has played with Danielle before in 703 Tokelau, and Trent is by association a tight pair with Danielle, which brings Trent in with Yannick. Having Trent talk to me as well means only one thing, make a four with myself Trent Danielle and Yannick. I've already planted that seed and it only took a whopping 5 seconds for it to grow into something beautiful. Trent's down, as is Danielle, as she said ""it was as if you read my mind"". So that group will be mobilized. I let the two know Bryce is cool too as some insurance policy or additional vote.

Ideally that leaves Lucas and Taylor on the outs. However, I have no reason to vote out any of these two, who I believe would be either loyal to me or my closest allies, over a tight duo that I know for a fact would link up with Grace at a merge. Bryce and Taylor have thankfully grown close, and Yannick and Lucas have bonded. So as things stand now, I plan on blindsiding Trent to not only eliminate the stronger half of a dynamic duo, but this would also take away someone that could be useful for the other side. So if all goes right, Yannick brings Lucas in, Bryce brings Taylor in, I make Danielle and Trent feel as safe as possible by forming a 4 with us and Yannick, and then tomorrow evening, we go for the kill. This definitely isn't a vote I'll enjoy casting from a personal standpoint because I honestly like Trent more than any of the bitter prejurors, but this is a golden opportunity I can't pass up, and also the last chance I'll probably get on this ORG to make some moves I never got to the first time.

"palmira"

- So in a span of a couple of hours, I went from 0 strategy talk in the game to the head of a 4 person block with Scott. That sreams blindside to me but I'm optimistic enough to take it as it is at the moment. Hopefully it's just my paranoia talking.

"palmira"

- this is my favorite alliance I've ever been a part of okay that's a lie but it's fucking up there im laughing so hard

"lucena"

- Ok so evan shared his clues with us and if theyre real i might have figured it out??? idk im confused because there aren't any edits on the pages that would indicate that an idol is hidden somewhere so i think it might be guessing people at this point?? idk michelle is the 25th person on the ballot and that's down the middle and to the left. 1+25 is 26, season 26 is java. Alex is also the first person on the ballot so that shows another connection to java if im not going crazy (which is highly likely). its not sheryl (5th place/5th boot from jember), so right now im looking into the 5th place from jember which would be loxias, or 5th boot from java, which would be seth. If it's not either of those two i have no clue what the idol could be again

"lucena"

- So like we swapped and stuff and I discovered I was right to think it was odd that all the Nick voters but me were gone. That’s because apparently there was an alliance involving Bryce, Nick, Dani, Ethan, Evan, Grace, Scott, Trent, Yannick, and Boo that controlled both tribes with Jordan involved but on the outs. So that group that flipped decided to stay together for the most part. Things have been pretty easy for them thus far. Now Bryce wants to change things up. He told me all of this and then told me Evan and Ethan both have hidden immunity idols! If that’s true… then dammit because they’re already huge immunity threats. So anyway I can refer back to something I said earlier with my situation involving Bryce, and it’s this… Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, well, screw you and I’m a dumbass! He has assured me he wants to work with me this time having a final 3 with me and Nick that can easily flip flop to the end. The ONLY reason I believe him at this point is because it would make no sense whatsoever to come to me with this information if he didn’t want to vote with me! Now, he may have just to make sure I vote with old Palmira and not Lucena. I told him Trent was considering getting me and the 3 Lucenas together to take out Yannick. I did so just to make sure he sticks with me. If he think they’re going after him then maybe he will for sure stick with me if he wasn’t before. Trent ended telling me it appears it’s between me and Lucas for the vote tonight. He’s making me feel SO SO SO bad. He’s saying he is trying to get me to stay because he really likes me, and he’ll tell me I’m going if I am because he doesn’t want me to be blindsided. I wish I could tell him he’s about to be voted out, but it would screw me. I still need to slide under-the-radar until I can get a solid footing. But I guess you can’t let emotions get in the way of the game, and that’s kind of what Trent is doing. He thinks I’m acting sad and feels bad for me. I’m just hoping this works and I stay. I could take matters into my own hands and tell Dani and Trent what is happening, but I think it would just screw me even more. Also, Evan gave some of us the final clues to the idol, and it was so different than what Jordan gave me!!! Hahaha Jordan, I know you did not just give me the wrong clue! I better slap somebody upside the head! Oh… eww… I sound like somebody’s grandparent or something. Anyway, either part of the clue was missing or Jordan for some reason made up part of the clue. Well, if this is my last confessional… I tried. I really did. I swear, but these peeps decided to go boring and predictable yet again as they have all season. It’s been a boring season so far, and I really do believe Bryce is ready to mix things up because last time he failed to do so and got mad about it at the end. This is your chance, Bryce! Do NOT F it up!!! So I hope I will live to write another confessional, but if not, Bryce is an asshole for randomly lying for no other reason to lie and is a poor man’s Russel Hantz that shall not be a worthy winner…. WHEW…. Anyway That’s only if he’s lying again, and I go home! Ta ta! MUAH!

"lucena"

- I'm happy not to be in a tribe with Boo - I'm not sure if he's actually playing, or not.

"palmira"

- so update: grace is down with going nick for the vote without questions asked. just literally agreed with it. weird but got take the risk. if this screws up, either this would be my last confessional or ethan will chose this tribe and save me from the dark. *deep sigh

"lucena"

- I'm a LITTLE worried about this vote, but I told Taylor EVERYTHING except for the youtube premade and I think it will be enough to sway him to vote out Trent. Taylor told me Trent was planing a blindside for Yannick, then asked if he should tell Yannick and I said no, but he told Yannick anyway so now I have to act like I don't know he did that. I feel like he could be trying to make me think Yannick is the target and vote me out, but maybe I'm just PARANOID. Taylor hasn't lied to me yet, so *fingers crossed*

"lucena"

- so lucas should be leaving? I worry that yannick and evan might try to flip something and get taylor on their side which would be IDIOTIC for him to do because he's being targeted by them. if so it could be me leaving but I hopefully will end up staying and i'm not being lied to. i hate being so paranoid ugh

"lucena"

- Austin Williams And with a YouTube pre game we were even more doomed (~: Like · Reply · 19 hrs -- Yeah I was minding my own business until I saw this garbage in the Socotra VL, and I may as well comment about it here since it doesn't concern any of the hosts here. Fuck this bitter kid, really. From this comment and other shit he posted he is legitimately convinced that he was voted out because there was another premade solely out to get him. Yeah okay numbnuts let's ignore the fact that you were in an even MORE obvious one or that you tried to play both sides by reeling in me/Bryce and Scott/Jordan in two different groups, then tried to deflect it and play it off at the 11th hour with your fucking neck on the line. So fuck off Austin and try to take things like Felix when you're voted out - in stride and with an open heart, instead of being a butthurt twat that just blocks or unfriends everything and anything that takes him out in a game. I honestly can't tell what's worse between his bitterness or your hypocrisy, but maybe if Austin actually wants to SUCCEED in an ORG for once he should try not joining them with 4-5 representatives of the same exact people from his same exact season and align with them the for the SAME EXACT REASONS. Yeah. That felt good letting it out. I'm so glad I punked that kid 8-1, and I take even greater joy that MY name was the one he wrote down.

"palmira"

- Okay so we went through a switch. I was worried at first but once I saw who was on my tribe, I was relieved. I made a connection with Scott early on so I'm really glad we finally get to work together. An alliance of myself, Scott, Grace, and Nick has been formed to be the majority on this tribe. We also had a great tea session yesterday that has actually been the highlight of this game for me so far. It was legit so funny and I think it only helped us bond more. We decided to target Zach. I have mixed emotions on targeting him. I have deals with him and Michelle but I also kind of threw them both under the bus which is one of the factors why they are being targeted now. A blindside could end up happening but I'm hoping that this new alliance pulls through and Zach goes home.

"lucena"

- i was feeling really lost in the game and then i saw this. i feel fine now https://i.gyazo.com/82c8cb2020ebe63ffdcaf16cccf605fb.png

"palmira"

- Survivor Retribution Confessional 6 Grace

"lucena"

- I have extreme idol paranoia - I was really afraid that Felix could have had the idol last time, and now I am really scarred that Taylor has the idol. There's really no proof for that - I'm just paranoid. He did come to talk to me - basically said that everyone voted etc. I'll most likely cast a throw-away vote again, but this time I have no idea who would be the right person to vote for.

"lucena"

- RED ALERT RED ALERT LUCAS WANTS TO CAST A THROW AWAY VOTE!!! This is scary like why would he try to throw away a vote that makes it sound like the vote might tie yikes But like why would the vote tie??? It should be unanimous Ugh now im really stressed out like the odds of him having an idol are super low, Lucas, why would you do that ugh

"palmira"

- I'M SCREWED AF. *cries under the rock and raises fist at boo and all those who are weak and dumb.