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Well idk how to line it up exactly with the days of the game because obviously it was pretty different in real time but I'll just recap! :D

Day 1 - I read the different wall posts and found out there was a 4-way alliance between Yaniv/Summer/Kaitlyn/DB and saw that Brody and Brian hadn't responded. Because DB had asked everyone to be in an alliance (including me) I took whatever chance I could get and said yes to that deal and eventually he offered me a place as the fifth in their already made alliance.

Day 2 - We had the reward challenge which we came second in which was cool! And then I spoke to Summer and Yaniv and established some relationships with them and then I tried to work my way further into the alliance.

Day 3 - We came 1st in immunity and the idol had been given out. It was apparent Kaitlyn had it from DB's actions on her wall/when talking about her/he told me :p

Day 4 - I started to let everyone know how suspicious DB was acting and they started to buy it. Kaitlyn's idol was confiscated because of DB and he was aligned with everyone. I kept talking to him, planning to vote out Brian with him, me, Brody and Kaitlyn.

Day 5 - Came first in the immunity again. The Manu alliance's focus shifted from Brody to DB as he got more suss and then the idol was re-distriobuted and I though DB had it.

Day 6 - DB officially became our number one target. I made F2 pacts with Yaniv and Summer. Still hadn't spoken to Kaitlyn yet.

Day 7 -  Came second in the immunity challenge which wasn't enough to keep us safe. We planned out the specifics of getting DB out: summer/brian/me vote DB yaniv/kaitlyn vote Brody just in case DB plays the idol and Brody and him vote together.

Day 8 - We voted out DB, Kaitlyn voted for DB too which didn't end up affecting the result.

Day 9 - Aftershock of 'Dear Manu' etc planned for next vote being Brody. Inducted Brian as the new 5th member of the alliance. Spoke to Kaitlyn for the first time.

Day 10 - Immunity challenge started, Brian had other commitments so we couldn't progress and Popoki pulled way ahead.

Day 11 - Popoki finished first and by the deadline we had come second. Noah was voted out and Ian told us he took the idol with him. I remembered that Ian never told us that when DB went out which meant the idol still had to be in play. I suspected Kaitlyn then Yaniv and then Summer.

Day 12 - We came second in the immunity challenge which meant we lost. Brian took his chances at getting the reward and did so which meant he got a double vote.

Day 13 - We voted out Brody, Brian voted for Kaitlyn and Brody for Brian.

Day 14 - Next target was Brian.

Day 15 - Honu won immunity and we and Popoki lost.

Day 16 - Without any discussion, votes were spread between Kaitlyn and Brian. I was the deciding vote and voted for Brian because he had been inactive and Kaitlyn was suspected by me of having the idol so I wanted to keep it for as long as possible.

Day 17 - The next challenge was announced and I spoke to Honu and tried to get them to throw the challenge because that way, Monu (Manu/Honu) would have reliable numbers when David34 was added in to run the merge. Cassie was meant to be voted out because she had some deals with Popoki but I still made an alliance with her for the merge. We did the fishing game which Kaitlyn got caught cheating in and Honu didn't lose as planned. I discussed with Ian in length about out 5000 point penalty which was applied wrongly :p We still lost. Yaniv admitted he had the idol.

Day 18 - Before voting for Kaitlyn, I wanted to talk to her about the idol, our alliance etc. and she tried to tell me she had the idol. I knew she didn't and then I called her out about it. It turned into a bit of a row, she said she had close bonds with Popoki (which at the time I though meant she was going to flip but really meant she could have pulled people over to us) after the heated discussion, I decided I would vote for her because I didn't trust her as much as I used to and I avoided splitting the tribe up by doing a pointless tie-breaker vote. Now we were at 3 people.

Day 19 - We spoke about merge etc started talking about plans and stuff and hoped that it would be me/yaniv/summer/gerard/tommy/cassie/david for the first vote and stuff like that

Day 20 - Cassie and Chris were ejected for being the same person :| now it was 5-5 and the redemption challenge was revealed. Best case scenario: Brian and Noah come back but worst case would be Kaitlyn and DB because they had gone out on bad terms. They did come back and had immunity for the first vote :/

Day 21 - We discussed who to vote for because we knew they had their idol so we wanted to choose carefully. We now planned on it being all of me/summer/yaniv/gerard/tommy/david/DB voting for Sam (but that changed to Alex) and playing the idol on me because that's what David said to do because he knew their plans. Then we thought that would be too obvious so we asked everyone to change to Zion. David had already voted Alex and I think DB spilled the beans on voting for Zion to them so they changed it up on their side. Tommy didn't know what to do and voted for Sam like we originally planned, gerard/summer/yaniv/me voted for Zion but he played his idol on himself and then by that time he and Alex had time to switch their votes from me to Yaniv :| so the idol for me worked, David and Tommy's votes went the wrong way, Zion cancelled his votes and Yaniv went home :'(

(im just going to switch to vote-by-vote type summaries now)

Day 23 - I had won immunity and Summer got voted out because the 4 Popokis, Kaitlyn and Tommy voted for him, David/Summer/DB and I voted for Alex and  Gerard got confused and voted for David. I convinced DB to come with us because I wanted to make it up to him and wanted a Manu F3. If Gerard had known what the plan was and Tommy stayed loyal it all would have worked in our favour.

Day 26 - I didn't win immunity but DB got the reward from the last challenge which was a Hidden Immunity Idol. Everyone voted for me except for Tommy who voted Gerard and then DB played his idol on me and all 8 votes against me were cancelled. I wanted DB to vote for Alex too but his idea was to vote for me so he could potentially blend back into Popoki. If he had voted with me against Alex, he would have gone home. In the re-vote between Gerard and Alex, Gerard went home in a landslide :( Then in a back-to-back Tribal Council, I should have gone home because Immunity went to David. I heard later that voting stuffed up and I was supposed to go home instead of DB but still, DB went home 5-3-1.

Day 29 - Now that there were 8 people left, I knew I had to win immunity and rally everyone against the ZAG alliance which was clearly dominating. I had nowhere to go so I outright told everyone I spoke to they would go home unless they stopped them from running the game. I guess Alex, Zion and Gerda got really good at brainwashing because everyone was convinced they would 'cross that bridge when they got to it'......... :( I had my last chance to save myself and did just that which set up perfect conditions for a rebellion: I planned it being me/Kaitlyn/Tommy/David/Sam against ZAG but of course no one trusted the evil one (me) but I was perfectly right. In consecutive Tribal Councils, I tried to keep winning immunity and did so and one by one every person I told wouldn't get past ZAG went home: David, Tommy, Kaitlyn and Sam. No surprises from me, onlu frustration.

Day 38 - Before the immunity challenge, I spoke to Gerda and she agreed that if I was to win again, she would vote against Alex to take him out. I got some false hope because my immunity streak came to an end :( I was convinced that the video would completely screw me over and it wasn't just that part that screwed me! I lost nearly everything and, surprise surprise, I went home and got 4th.

Hope that's ok! :p

Sole :D