Wait For the Right Time to Strike/Confessionals

Day 14
"vicino"

- I’m super sad to see Ant go. He’s someone I was looking forwar to connecting with when we got back together. But the game goes on.

I’m racking my brain trying to figure out what the death card means. It talks about change, so it could be anything.

I’m still trying to connect with my tribe socially.

"lontano"

- omg k i have no idea how i survived that!!! ugh my power. my mind.. it amazes me sometimes! anyways im hoping we dont lose again cause then it'll probably be me and im NOT here for that. anyways give me a cpp5 for my winner edit plz

"vicino"

- can't wait to be known as the inactive season that voted out every single person who gave a shit about the game.

"vicino"

- I have been very busy so I haven't made a confessional in a long time. Sorry about that!!

The tribe swap happened and new Vicino is Trey, Nat, Ashley, Chris and I. I love this tribe just as much as Old Vicino and Old Old Giovane. Trey, Nat and Ashley are all lovely people and Chris is fun to talk to so I hope we don't lose. I think my closest group will still be Aaron and Jason and I hope they survive their tribe and we can work together at the merge.

I have been quite inactive at the moment because I'm doing a lot of work to get into university, I hope it doesn't impact the game. The few talks I've had with Trey and Ashley have been very productive and enjoyable but if they both speak to each other a lot and not me then that will ostracise me. Real life has to come first though, obviously haha.

I'm trying hard to not have to write anything for this challenge. I suck at writing, it'll be so embarrassing haha. I want to feel like I've contributed somehow but I did well in the other challenges for the tribe. I don't think I stand out as a challenge threat and think that my inactivity could help me maybe. Socially I think I'm a threat and if I can temper that with not being online a lot then I suppose it's good haha.

"lontano"

- i'm about to lose my FUCKING mind. it's one hour until submissions are due for this challenge. we need to have three chapters each done by a different person. aaron and i wrote ours. we did all the work so far. and the other three on this tribe aren't even fucking responding or doing anything. like all three of you are too busy to do this? are you kidding me? if they end up ganging up on me at tribal because i'm the newcomer i'm gonna lose my mind. it especially sucks bc ant was the only one on this tribe that was from OG lontano, and he's gone now. like, fuck this. i'm pissed. i need to find an idol or else i might be in trouble. it's not fair for the person who did 60% of the work on this to get voted out for literally no fucking reason other than i was randomized and got thrown on exile.

"lontano"

- Well this absolutely sucks. It's not official that we lost yet but, let's be real here. It would take a literal MIRACLE for us to win Immunity. I think 3 people on the other tribe would literally have to keel over and die. The worst part about it is that I can feel myself losing control of my game a little bit. Jason and I were the first ones to let the tribe know what our reasons were for missing the challenge, and ours were just better reasons than Juliet's, so all eyes are on Juliet. Unfortunately, once Juliet's gone, I'm just another person on the tribe. I lose my advantage over them, in that I was the only one who actually had a connection with her. It's too risky to flip the vote onto someone else. The only course of action I could remotely see myself pursuing is getting Jason to vote off Aaron but even that's a huge longshot. My idol plan that I had to save Jordan on old Pesante won't work, someone could have the Lontano idol, and it could be Izzy for all I know. Plus, they'll probably just put the votes on me. So I think I'm gonna play it safe and vote off Juliet, and it's gonna be yet another unanimous vote. Sorry for making it boring!

Oh, and on a semi-related note, I told everyone I was throwing up all night, but that's not true. I DID have to study, but that's not gonna be a good enough excuse for these people, so I told them I was sick. Wow, I am so devious!!

Get me to another swap already, I love everyone on this tribe and if this trend keeps up I'm gonna lose all my allies!!!

"vicino"

- The swap has left me in a vulnerable spot. I’m with all brand new people. However, I’ve bonded really well with Nat and Declan. Hopefully, I’m able to use those bonds and survive until the next swap or merge. It seems like we have the strongest tribe for challenges too, so maybe we can just avoid tribal all together.

I can’t remember if I sent one of these after the swap or not.

"lontano"

- Yay the idol is mine! This eases my paranoia quite a bit. I now know that Juliet doesn't have it which is great. I'm so happy omg!

"vicino"

- We won again. So I get to continue building bonds. Nat and I have solidified our alliance. Ashley and I talk quite a bit, and he’s mentioned me, him, and Nat teaming up. That sounds like a great plan to me. I want Christian out of the game if we go to tribal.

I hope Aaron and Marty survive tribal because of our bonds on the first day. The more people in the game that I’ve played with the better.

Day 15
"lontano"

- So I think I secured my safety this round by working harder at the challenge than anyone else. Obviously Juliet, Jason, and Marty kind of screwed us over, but the latter two were busy/sick so I can't blame them. Right now, it seems like the vote is between Juliet and Jason. Both of them are making decent arguments to save themselves. I have been completely honest about possibly voting for them because I hate being blindsided (like a lot, I don't emotionally handle it well), so I'd like to avoid doing it if possible. Marty and I will probably be the deciding votes for who stays and who goes. It's nice to be in that kind of position of power. One of the arguments Juliet made for saving her was that Aaron and Jason seemed to have a tight bond from being in the same tribe for so long. Having that twosome intact could cause problems next time we go to tribal. Voting Jason out breaks that twosome, but he seems pretty loyal and he's at least more active in chat than Juliet is. Also, voting Jason out shifts the power to make Marty and I the solid twosome and force to be reckoned with, and I'm not sure if Juliet has considered that or not. I think she's under the impression that if we keep her, the three of us will form an alliance. And if we don't go to tribal again until merge, I certainly wouldn't mind doing that. However, she would 100% be at the bottom of that alliance. Aaron would be a bit of a wild card outside of it, who knows. Juliet could team up with him if she found we wanted to vote her out... and Aaron would probably react favorably to us saving his friend. Anyway, I haven't made a solid decision yet. I'm gonna sleep on it and Marty and I will talk more tomorrow. Whew, this was a long confession for a pre-final merge prejury vote, but hey, let's not think that these votes won't be important in the long run. I'll shut up now. :) Also if I could find this goddamn idol, that'd be great.

"pesante"

- So we win immunity again and that's a good thing and a bad thing. Good because I have zero chance of going home. Bad because I really want to play the game some. It's been slow for me. Too slow. I came here to cut dreams and make memes. I wanna play aggressively but I need to take my time and when the time is right, I'll blow up some stuff and walk away from the explosion. I think I'm in a good spot at the moment. People are talking to me and vise Versa. Just have to relax and wait for the right time to strike. It will come and be glorious.

"lontano"

- Wow, coming from the tribe of wisdom and self knowledge to the tribe of being brutally honest and overly paranoid is a pretty big switch, and I don’t like it at all. Izzy’s policy is literally tell everyone about every conversation you’ve ever had, Jason’s policy is submit votes immediately and freak out if you hear your name come up twice, and Aaron and Juliet’s policy is just sit and let everyone else do the dirty work for you. I guess I should evaluate my standing with each person, because I could literally send any one of them home:

Jason - I really trust him, and we both have idols. I’m keeping him in, but I don’t know if I want the idol to stay as well. He is SO PARANOID though, and when Izzy told him she was voting for him (God knows why she did that), he almost played his idol, and it would’ve been completely wasted! Now he’s going on this thing about how we don’t want to squander our chance at Main, but I don’t think Izzy of all people is going to be the cause of us messing up. Jason is STILL talking about playing his idol, and I can’t even figure out who he thinks is gonna flip! He needs to calm down if he wants to get to the end.

Aaron - idk, he’s there I guess?

Juliet - Kind of socially unaware, like going into the chat not even knowing we lost when you were partially the cause? Yikes.

Izzy - OKAY! You can’t tell everyone everything, and everytime I have a conversation with you, I can’t have someone else who wasn’t in the conversation spit back word for word what I just said to you. I literally said I wasn’t sure whether I would vote Juliet or Jason, and that I would sleep on it, and FIVE MINUTES LATER, Jason messages me freaking out because Izzy told him that she was voting for him and that I was sleeping on it. Like, what? I’m seriously considering voting her off because she’s just dangerous and a messy player overall. She’s not a threat at all, it’s just the fact that she’s so bold with the information shes given. She doesn’t want anyone to be blindsided because pre jury people get treated like shit(?) and she just seems mad that people called her messy on her voting parchment in Bang a Rang. Blindsides are part of the game, and they’re sad and cruel, but I would rather blindside someone else than get blindsided myself.

So Izzy is looking like the vote right now. Hopefully Jason holds on to his idol, but also hopefully he doesn’t go home, because he would literally be crushed, and he deserves better than 15th.

"vicino"

- OOOOOTAYY. I found the hidden immunity idol AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. What a time to be ALIVE! Right now I'm investing all of my time and energy into literally PRAYING that no one searches the same cell and realises that I have it. Once I'm in the clear I really don't think I'll tell anyone about it for the time being. I really want to trust Trey, he seems super down to Earth and we speak a bunch, but every single word he says just reminds me that he is playing the game hardcore you know? So it'll be interesting to see what happens! For now, gonna keep on keeping on. It really frustrates me that being an active person in this game automatically puts a target on your back. I don't mean in terms of "overplaying" or anything, I mean literally participating in conversations and challenges. I spoke to Trey and he thinks that Izzy is the easy vote for the new Lontano tribe tonight. I'm gonna quietly sit here and hope that she managed to find the Lontano idol because she does not deserve to leave when three people didn't even submit for that bloody challenge. I'm really done with that whole attitude. At this point I'd rather sit there in merge with 10 other people who might be bigger threats, but who CARE about the game and are willing to actually PLAY rather than the people who seem to be knocking out anyone who invests themselves. Joe please be my friend.