The More Muddle, the Better/Confessionals

Day 7
"vatanchu"

- im sick and tired and over this whole boys vs girls shit. Bunch of lying a******. Do they really think I'm that stupid. Oh and if joanne thinks sucking up to everone and then telling other people what they said is a good strategy she needs to realise that other people have noticed. "Runs off to vomit behind a tree"

"vatanchu"

- So, last time I was talking about how Felix and Tucker had their massive fight, and how I wanted Felix out soon if he doesn’t want to stay loyal to us. Well, apparently Tucker apologized to Felix, and they’re all made up now. Tucker, after discussing getting him out previously with me, now says that he has no intention of getting him out soon, because he’ll be a number for us. I don’t feel the same way. Felix literally said that he’ll ditch us if he needs to, so I really don’t trust him now. If I can’t get anyone on board to get him out though, then that’s a huge problem. Of course, Katherine will leave the first tribal we go to, because she’s more useless than a dead cat, but after that, I don’t know. It’s between Mel and Felix. Probably going to be Mel (of course, assuming nothing crazy happens between now and then) though. I don’t know. I’m just frustrated with Felix and his gameplay.

Anyway, our second reward challenge was Mayan Bubbles, a Mayan-themed version of that game where you shoot the little colored bubbles to make groups of three or more to clear the board. I started playing it, and I ended up doing really well, since after a while the board doesn’t spit out any new rows of bubbles, so you just keep clearing the board, which gives you a 100,000 point bonus every time. After I got more than 4 million, I started thinking that I should intentionally submit a lower score, to try and be more UTR about everything, and not come off as some massive challenge threat. Instead though, since we have 9 people compared to Aguateca’s 7, we had to sit two people out, so guess who volunteered! Me! This works out well for me, because now (1) I get to play in the immunity challenge no matter what, (2) I don’t come off as a threat for submitting a high score, and (3) I don’t need to deal with what practically is a 24-hour endurance challenge. So I’m feeling good! I still hope we can win this to get the idol clue and pick who goes to the Temple, but even if we don’t win, it shouldn’t be too bad of a loss. I would love to just keep winning challenges though, and deprive Aguateca of their first win.

Speaking of the Temple, Linus and I were having a conversation about it. He suggested that, if someone in the alliance (which I assume referred to WAISA) is sent to the Temple, we take the Help Yourself urn, so in case it’s an idol clue or clue to an advantage or something, we can share it with the alliance and be a team or whatever. I’m fine with that, but I have two reasons why I’m hesitating to do that. First, I don’t know if I want to share it with all of WAISA, or with anyone at all, depending on what the urn contains. If it’s an idol clue, sure, I’ll share it, but if it’s some other advantage, I don’t know how I feel about revealing that to everyone. Second, I don’t know if it’s going to be as easy to conceal the fact that I took the Help Yourself urn as it would have been during the trivia challenge. I really don’t want Mel and Mary to start getting suspicious of me or anything. I doubt I’ll be sent to the Temple again anyway, because no one from Vatanchu is going to want to send me because I already went, so Aguateca will have to pick me. I guess we’ll see.

"vatanchu"

- So basically I went to bed early because tomorrow is my first day of university, and now I'm stuck awake in bed because I woke up at 2:30 and am no longer tired... There's the update on my life I just know all those viewers were desperately craving. Oh, and for something game related most of my team has no idea how the hell to play survivor and that's screwing me over because I'm a floater by nature. My gameplay is generally very reactive and is about capitalizing on other peoples moves when they want to make them whilst keeping blood off my hands and keeping good social connections, but when everybody is insane and can't keep their shit together that's gonna screw me over real fast, because my strategy works best when everybody is acting rational and making the best moves for themselves, as I can read that and adapt my hand into it also the best move for me.

"vatanchu"

- It is 1am so I apologise in advance for my rant who the fuck cast Katherine - OMFG she comes online but does absolutely NOTHING

"vatanchu"

- Y'all know how I feel about Felix, but never in my life have I come across in my 4-ish years of playing survivor someone as paranoid, inconsistent, and honestly downright STUPID as Mel is strategically. I cannot go 4 SENTENCES without getting bombarded with accusations of how I'm going to vote her out next and that I'm not holding her in my best interest and whatever the fuck. I need her to go eventually but I like talking to her and I feel like no one can really get a handle on her vote like I can. I'm just fearful of how EASILY she switches from extremes. She liked Joanna for 5 days but decided Sunday that she was over! Joanna is playing everyone, she says. She intrigues me in that she wants to target the two people who I perceive to be in the best shot to win this game, John and Joanna, but she targets them for like dumb paranoid reasons. She wants John to leave because he asked everyone if they had any opinions for the flag, she didn't give any, and he turned in the flag "without her permission". YOU HAD UR CHANCE TO SPEAK IS THAT A FUCKING JOKE THO???? I found out on Sunday that Felix dropped the ball hardcore and told her about what happened to John and the Temple of Toj before John posted it publicly so she determined that that's why there was an all male alliance. That's pretty perceptive but it doesn't like make up for the BULLSHIT she pulls out of thin air most of the time. It's concerning that some of her perceptions are pretty good when the majority of them do with non game related interactions. It's like she's looking, grasping for reasons not to trust people and it's impossible to work with someone like that, but I'm holding my tongue. I need her to vote Felix out if I want him to go!!

Day 8
"vatanchu"

- I am absolutely livid with these RC2 results. It’s laughable how bad we suddenly became at challenges. First, we’re already at a disadvantage because of Inactherine, so from the outset it’s a 7-on-6 challenge. Felix and Mary didn’t even submit for the challenge, knowing that we’re at a disadvantage already. So instead of trying to play it for at least a half hour and submitting, they opted to not tell anyone that they wouldn’t be able to play (besides the damn hosts) and just didn’t submit anything. If they couldn’t play, then they could tell us, and they could’ve sat out. But nooooo, can’t do that. Instead, let’s not submit and have our tribe lose by a few million points. Oh, and it’s even worse, because no one even broke 1.5 million points, and only one person (Scott) got more than a million! I played the game for 45 minutes for the hell of it and got over 4 million. Maybe they couldn’t clear the board or something fast enough to rack up the 100,000 point bonuses and lost before the game stopped putting out new rows, but you have twenty-four hours! It’s not like you have to submit the first score you get, you can keep trying over the 24-hour period and submit your best score! Anyway, we lost reward, and I’m livid.

As for the Temple twist, Aguateca chose to send Claire and Scott, which wasn’t bad. Claire then chose Mel, and Scott, for some reason, chose Anna? I don’t know what he was thinking with that, because (1) Anna and Claire are super close and there’s no reason for them two to be exiled together, and (2) she already went last week! I’m sure the Aguateca all-girls alliance didn’t tell the guys about what the Temple was all about, so why not pick a guy so that they have some power too? Whatever.

This morning, Linus and I were talking about an interesting scenario, the fact that Katherine is going to get three strikes very soon, and will strike out and get eliminated. Because of this, we don’t think that it’s such a great idea to get her out anymore, because if she’s going to leave eventually, why waste a tribal on her? Instead, we want to try and take out Mel in the next tribal we go to, because then we can take out an actual threat (and tbh an actual player) instead of just getting out Katherine. I don’t know how easy it’ll be to convince WAISA of this, but they’re going to be convinced whether they like it or not.

"vatanchu"

- I guess it's time to confess since I really haven't been doing that enough. As far as I understand it the core alliance of my tribe is Joanna, Scott, Tucker, Felix, John and myself, and within that the core group is supposed to be John, Tucker, Felix and me. It's always been hard to tell where Scott is at though, and in the past couple days Tucker and Felix have gotten into a couple big fights and that could seriously hurt out alliance. On top of that Mel is batshit insane when it comes to any sort of strategy. Shes going up to people and finding reasons to be mad at them, and then complaining that no one wants to align with her. She's basically what you would get if you mixed Abi Maria with Eliza Orlins and put them on a bunch of hallucinogenic drugs. The speculation is that there is a womens alliance on the other tribe. I don't know if thats true or no, but if it is there is a good chance Mel would flip as she seems to have found these bs nothing reasons to distrust all of us. If we lose John and I were considering trying to turn the vote on Mel, because sure, Katherine is inactive, but at least she wont be gaurentee'd number against us since she'll likely be medivac'd. The big wildcard is Joanna. I think Joanna is an incredible player, and she supposedly has Mary in her back pocket, so the key to our success will be keeping her with the alliance come swap time.

Day 9
"aguateca"

- YAAAS!!! We won our first challenge <3 now the other tribe is gonna vote someone out and I can't wait to see who it will be, feel the pain Vatanchu!

"vatanchu"

- umm lol I forgot what I was gonna say but it was good. %pm Friday mmy time? I guess we have to wait the whole 24 hours for katherine to self vote :-(

"vatanchu"

- tbh I am sick, and tired, and probably delusional from lack of food, but for all I know the "boys alliance: could vote me out. If so, well it was actually fun. I am plesantly surprised tbh. The time zone difference does make it hard for me to actually talk to anyone due to the fact that I am at work for 10 hours a day while everyone else is online and when I am actually free - the rest of the tribe are sleeping. Oh well. I did my best. Good luck to them if they do vote out an active player. I prefer to play with active and strong members on a tribe. But - then again - I am not a boy - and not in the "boys alliance". If I go - thanks for the challenge.

"vatanchu"

- Let it be known I am not okay with the plan to blindside Mel in favor of saving deadweight Katherine. Do I think its an amazing strategic move? Yes, I actually do. But, I think its a complete douche move to give Mel a lower ranking than someone who hasnt competed in a single challenge. Not to mention, with Felix coming up with this plan, he's making himself out as a big strategic thinker, so he's definitely trying to build a resume for FTC already, which I am not okay with.

"aguateca"

- So we have FINALLY won an immunity challenge after over a week of playing this game. I thought I was on the flop tribe, but we've proven we're not complete flops. I feel really good because I helped get us like half of our answers. Lexi has been a bit of a weak link on the tribe, but I think I'm pretty close with her and I don't want her gone just yet. I can't overplay it though. For now I'll wait until we lose another immunity challenge.

"vatanchu"

- So WAISA is discussing the possibility of a Mel blindside tonight. Sure, Katherine has been inactive, but Mel is batshit insane and finding ways I didn't think possible to make people not trust her come a swap. Now, Tucker reallllly doesn't want Mel to go, and it's hilarious because he is telling me "If we go along with this, who will Felix try to blindside next??", and Im cackling because I was the one who thought of the Mel blindside in the first place XD. I was just smart about how I did it so it couldn't get traced back to me. While I was talking to John about a possible girls alliance, I mentioned that Mel would be the most likely to flip to get him worried. John responded with a "It's too bad we can't vote her this week since we have an inactive", and I dropped a sublte "We could I guess, but it would be risky" thus making it look like I wasn't pushing for the idea. John, not realizing I was the one who steered the conversation on to voting Mel, told Felix, and now Felix is taking the goddamn heat of seeming shady lmaooo. I call it the "Proxy Strategy", as just like an internet network running through a bunch of servers to hide the original IP adress, I ran my plan through so many people that it would take some serious sleuth work to figure me out :D

"aguateca"

- FINALLY my good for little tribe one something. Hopefully we can pull it together now and get some more victories under our belts- except it's more likely I'll just be tribe swapped into oblivion next vote. Oh well.

"aguateca"

- We finally won and that makes me so happy mostly because I don't have to vote off any alliance member and we get more numbers I'm not really scared of getting voted off if we went back

"vatanchu"

- this is fucking dumb these dumb fucking fags are being little pussies grow a fucking pair, do something ffs

"vatanchu"

- Every day I love more Mel's paranoia. She is suspiciuous and irritates people especially Felix who really want her out of the game. And Mel divides our alliance and it's good for me that all boys woudn't work together. The more muddle, the better. But Mel suspects that I work with guys but she can't do anything about that. I want her stay in the game - she needs me and it's wonderful that boys don't talk with her often. It helps me to have the best position in the game and I have more capabilities to plot my own intigue. I'm happy. But I know what I should talk more with everyone... and in the shadow control the situation... or at least to know what happenes around.