The Privilege of Coming Back/Confessionals

"kanaloa"

- You are looking at, YOU GUESSED IT, THE SAVIOR OF THIS SEASON AND YES THAT WILL ALWAYS BE MY OPENING CONFESSIONAL.

Early thoughts? A little worried but .. yeah this is a workable cast. First thought is too run a train in challenges and establish connections, a lot of them at that and with people who they won't see coming

"pele"

- what the fuck am i doin here

"pele"

- I didn't know I signed up for Australian Survivor

"pele"

- Whew so were here. Cast litterally hours before the season starts and we are loving it. So far i love mitchell but i know he can be shady. I like Roisin and Audrey a lot just by convos and so far people seem nice. Im super worried about being outside of a giant premade cause i like know no one. So let's see what happens.

"kanaloa"

- So the season has begun and I’m really stoked!! I wanna play this almost identically to how I played Molise. I want to be relatively under-the-radar, but with a very strong social game that enables my strategic moves. It got me a win last time so hopefully it should do the same this time haha? I'm not coming in with huge expectations though, I have my win already. I guess I just wanna have fun this time haha.

So far, I’m happy with the bonds I’m making!! Claire is super sweet, I like John, I like Rob a lot too. On the heroes, those are the main people I really am enjoying to speak to. I also like David and can see potential working with him, he’s close to Elias and I would’ve loved to work more with Elias in Molise but it wasn’t in my best interests. Hopefully I can make it in my best interests to work with David!!

I’m a bit worried about Jordan being in the game. We were really really close allies in Molise and I cut him, he says he’s over it but in my jury answers in Molise, I pretty much said that I played the game without any loyalty. I doubt he intends on being my ally for that long, but I absolutely love Jordan (shoutout to Jordan when these confessionals come out <3) so I’m gonna take what he says at surface value and hope that he’s genuinely intending on working with me. I’ll just make sure to keep my eye on my secret pair haha.

I was worried that my perfect game would make me a threat but I really don’t think it has!! Maybe there’s stuff happening behind the scenes that I’m not aware of, but it doesn’t seem to be a big issue!! Hopefully tomorrow I can really meet the rest of the heroes and maybe a few more villains and build a basis of friendship with everybody!!

"kanaloa"

- Great! One world on the first day.. It's hard enough to catch up with your own tribe mates and now have to greet every single person in this game.. Alright whatever that, my first impression I'm kind of loving my own tribes for now, we all seems to have the same mindset and everyone seems nice. If it happens that there's tribal during this twist, I would really love if heroes stick together and I will try to put that into their ears.

"kanaloa"

- I’m baaaack~! Omg I’m so excited to be getting my second chance here, I already know this season is gonna be so much fun and I’m hoping I can do really well! Let’s just jump right into my tribe assessment (in alphabetical order):

(1) Alexandra: Haven’t talked to her too much yet, but she seems like a really sweet person!

(2) Ally: Love her!! I’ve been talking a lottt with her, we’re both from Long Island which also like strengthens that bond a bit haha. Also started talking some strategy with her which is great, that there’s already people I know I can trust out here.

(3) Claire: ugh her of all people? Jk lol, definitely going to work with her despite our joking love-hate relationship! I think we kind of both agree that we both need each other as allies, so I’m excited to work with her!

(4) David: We’ve been talking a bit and he seems really nice!

(5) Declan: Also been talking quite a bit with him, definitely want to talk more with him!

(6) Evan: Talked a lot with him too! I know I keep saying this about everyone but he’s definitely really nice lol.

(7) Lexi: She was instantly like, “Linus told me so much nice stuff about you!” I was like awww and we talked and she was really nice!

(8) Maya: Haven’t talked too much with her yet because of time zones and stuff, hoping to get to know her a little more since our conversation was a bit whatever lol.

(9) Rob: King!! Also from Long Island so instant connection there, and we talked a lot so really excited to work with him this season!

(10) Sora: Haven’t gotten to talk to him yet since he’s been busy, but he hosted me in Tikal so he’s definitely nice!

(11) Ting Ting: Also haven’t really gotten to talk to her that much yet so hopefully I’ll get the chance to do so soon.

Overall I’d say my top 3 people that I would want to work with would be Claire, Rob, and Ally! I feel like that would be a really good group, and I’m hoping I can get something to work out soon in case we go to tribal so that I can keep myself safe. Ally was talking a bit about how she could be seen as a threat because of her past game performances, so I am gonna pay attention to see if anyone says something to that effect, since I definitely don’t want to be lumped in which a big threat right out of the gate. But otherwise I do really wanna work with her! Besides them though, Lexi, Declan, Evan, and David seem like they would be trustworthy, so I think I could definitely strategize with all of them.

Danielle and Matthias from the Villains also messaged me and they were great to talk to! I’m just a little hesitant with this One World twist to talk to the Villains too much, since I was looking at the first HvV season, and the reason the first Hero voted out was voted out was because he was aligning with and strategizing with the Villains, so I just want to make sure my conversations with them don’t get misconstrued as me trying to work with them! They approached me first anyway so it’s not like I set out to make an alliance or anything.

In terms of twists, I definitely think that there’s gonna be some sort of swap, potentially right away like Molise’s fake starting tribes, or just a standard tribe swap or auxiliary tribe. Also expecting a double tribal or two at some point because of the massive cast, but I’m hoping there’s nothing too crazy that’ll ruin my game! I know there are idols out there too this season, but we haven’t heard anything about them, so I’m curious to see how we could get those. Getting one early on would definitely be super helpful, just in case I get seen as a threat or something from the start. But overall, I think I’m in a really good position, so I’m excited to get going with this game!

"kanaloa"

- OKAY so .. now that the storm's settled, it's time to delve into what's been up over here with the heroes so far. My early impression is that this is going to be a really kumbaya tribe early on until (or well, if) we go on a losing streak and have to start throwing heads, it seems like a pretty cohesive unit, everyone's similar/likable, soo when the agendas start to clash things WILL become difficult. That being said, I feel like I'll be able to find a strong foothold on this tribe on day one. I've talked to everyone BUT the Bali trio individually, YEAH THAT'S RIGHT, YALL PUT US W 3 BALI PEOPLE, WHO ARE MOST DEFINITELY GONNA ALIGN, but at this moment no one stands out to me as a distinct target or anything.

My strategy this season is .. yes ofc I have to play off people I'm cool with before hand, so I feel inclined to work with people like Claire Ally Sora etc .. but, for me to play only based off of preimposed relationships like I did the last time is 1) insulting to the players hosts and viewers but 2) a guarantee to submarine my game. That's why as of now, my mission is to find a sort of wild card/unknown to get in really close with and to gun it moving forward. As of now, John seems like a really good dude, I can definitely tell why he's a hero, so maybe he's an early candidate.

"kanaloa"

- Fml I'm back. So I was pretty hesitant to return in all honesty, just because ORGs lately have been such a drag and I really didn't wanna ruin what is (sort of) a good legacy. But I figured a lot of people would kill to be a 4 time player and I shouldn't let this opportunity squander away from me, so here I am, I'm ready to make this game my bitch, again. The privilege of coming back is that you get to learn and improve from your mistakes you made in the past, and since I'm the only 4 time player here I pretty much have the most experience in that department. I want to try and take the aspects of each of my past 3 games, the goods and the bads, and try and morph them into a superb alpha formed game from the ashes of the past three tries. THE ONLY PROBLEM, is as I said, I'm the only four time player. I stick out more than an 18 year old in a bar, and the rest of the cast are the bouncers trying to remove me. I feel like I have this giant bullseye on my back, so if I want to try and avoid that I need to try and just play down what I know and what I do for now. I'm telling everyone I have no idea who most of the people playing are but in all honesty I pretty much know everyone here lmao, trying to highlight me not doing so well in Archetypes too but not major. Strategy wise, I'm gonna just go off of my Greece way since that was my best outing, and say as long as it's not me I don't care who goes, and tbh I really don't! Right now my game is about self preservation, I came back because I wanted to play a steller wild last game, but I think the key right now to my longevity in this game is to just lay low, and bide my time. Let other people make the decisions and let them decide what happens, then at the merge when my time comes I'll hopefully be set up enough where I can do what I do best, and take this game by storm.

"kanaloa"

- Claire: who wants to see my cat XD heroes: radio silence Claire: *posts cat anyways*

"pele"

- My game usually peaks in the first 3 days when I'm a cute boi and people get to know me and like me and I think I'm doin ok !! I been chattin and gabbin and bein cute .... I'm a stan

"kanaloa"

- So I meant to do this yesterday but fell asleep. SO OMG I WAS CAST AS A RETURNEE FOR MAIN ORG WHAT. Okay, freaking out over making it aside- I really am pumped. After seeing everyone here with me, I feel a bit overwhelmed to be completely honest. To break it down, I've decided to do a huge cast assessment so be prepared. I'll start with Heroes first since those are my tribemates. -HEROES TRIBE CAST ASSESSMENT- -Alexandra- one of the people I've talked to the least on my tribe. She seems sweet, and omg the ballroom dancing she does looks AMAZING. She's also lived in a ton of places which is really interesting since I love traveling! -Ally- QUEEN. Omg so I played with Ally on Bang a Rang before, so seeing her here was such a sweet surprise! I played with her my first season where I was honestly such a mess. I flipped on her for such a stupid reason. But all that is behind us now, and I'm super excited to play with her again! - Claire- So I didn't know Claire before this game, but I absolutely ADORE her! We instant-bonded over her being Misha Collins in CBBUK. And now she's absolutely hilarious to talk to. Like, we go from hating each other to like being bffs to hitting on each other in like .3 seconds like what are we doing. If I were to have a show-mance this season Claire would be one of my top contenders for it! - David- David omg. So David was one of the hosts for my first ORG where I was such a mess. He's awesome and we live like pretty close together? Besides our connection with BaR, I don't really know much about him! I haven't been able to actually talk to him much, which is kinda unfortunate, but it's okay- we have some time! - Declan- One of the other people I didn't know before this game! He seems nice though! One of the first things he said to me was that he had talked to my boyfriend... thanks Linus. He also pointed out that I'm a comp beast... hahahahaha.... *sweeps under the rug*. We talked a bit about city vs country and about museums, but we haven't talked much overall. - Evan- Oh my god. Evan again. I also played with Evan in BaR. We were not exactly on the best of terms. We barely spoke the whole game and I kind of called him out for it at Final Tribal. He's super great at challenges, and I'm hoping we can actually work together this game cause he really does seem like an awesome guy! - John- I would just like to personally thank Linus for this one. John played with Linus in Tikal- which was like finding my way in there with a casual ""Omg Linus has said such good things about you!"". John genuinely seems like an awesome person, and probably one of the people I've spoken to the most on the Heroes tribe, so hopefully I can get an actual friendship and not just a ""Linus' girlfriend"" relationship. - Maya- Maya is probably the person I've talked to the least so far? I think it may be a timezone issue, which sucks because I hate when outside circumstances hinder a chance to really talk to someone! - Rob- We've talked a bit regarding my job and such! Not too much chatting, but definitely enough to where I feel if we go to Tribal we may be able to talk game! - Sora- WHAT. A. LEGEND. Literally I've heard so much about Sora. I'm so honored to be cast in the same game, let alone the same tribe, as such a legend! We talked a bit regarding how I was dating Linus and how Sora hosted Tikal, which Linus won! Woo for boyfriend being in the community longer than me. - Ting Ting- One of the other people that I've talked to the least. We talked a bit about prom, though I never went so I didn't have much I could honestly say, oops.

On second thought, it's 12:30am and I need to sleep before work, so I'll finish up the villains side of it tomorrow! <3

"pele"

- I need to calm down. I'm way too control freak for my tribe. I really really really need to tone it down. I wanted to play UTR. Who was I kidding?! Seriously though, I need to be more low-key asap. So far, I'm not feeling my position at all. I'm ok with 3-4 people on my tribe. But with a tribe of 12 that's not enough. That 24 one world shit is fucking me up. I find it really hard to manage a social game this time around. I have a lot of work to do I think.

"pele"

- Doing my part to not be UTR! I’m so excited to be here and be a part of the hero tribe. The challenge will be keeping the Bali babe group on the dl so no one starts picking us off. "kanaloa"

- So excited to be back on Main! I came incredibly close last time in Bali, and I want to prove here that I have what it takes to seal the deal :) I don't think I have a game reputation heading in but some people have said comments that make me wonder how exactly I am perceived at cast reveal

Here are my first impressions:

HEROES: - I like Evan, Ally and Sora a lot, all of them are fun to talk to and would likely work with me. For people with big reputations, they are great at being disarming in conversations. I just know they're bound to ally together and I fear I would have little wiggle room in an alliance with them - I love Alexandra and am eager to work with her, its just SO SO scary the amount of people who know we're a duo. Definitely need to be smart about it, she doesn't know anyone here so it leaves a lot of unknown - I also played with Ting Ting but don't feel as inclined to work with her from the start, she seems inactive and might be an easy early boot, which would lower the Bali threat level- LOVE her though - Maya and Claire seem really nice, could definitely see myself befriending them - Lexi and I are very different and I know she is playing very hard socially so I'm just trying to be conscious of where her loyalties end up- when I hosted her she was quick to jump from her allies which makes me nervous - Rob and John are incredibly cool people. I love talking to both of them. They seem eager to start playing this game so I hope to lock something down with them soon, just not sure how they feel about me - I LOVE DECLAN, I know he's just very likable in general and everyone probably feels close to him, but I honestly hope us two get especially chummy this season. He doesn't know many people prior so I feel like I could use my minimal connections to help him out

VILLAINS: - Will is one of my favorite people in the community, and he played a loyal game when I hosted him, so I'm not writing off a cross tribal alliance with him. Super awesome dude I hope he goes very very far - Tate and Mackie are people I have always thought were super cool but never got to befriend very closely, so I am excited they are on the cast and such - Audrey and I have gotten along really well so far! It feels like we've known each other a while, I like her a lot - I don't know Dovile or Estafana yet but they are wild from what I've heard - Danielle is such a cool person, I don't think she will feel obligated to work with me based on Bali or anything, but she'd definitely give me a fair shot- being on her good side is always a good thing in games and I love her a lot so I have high hopes - Nick is dope but haven't talked to him yet - Roisin was fun to watch in Kariba I hope she does well, don't know if we will work together but I like her! - Haven't talked to Jordan yet but if he worked with Elias in Molise then he must be awesome. - I know Marie likes all girl alliances and were on opposite sides so Im not sure what our chances of aligning are, she's awesome though! - Mitchell is great! Never even heard of his season or him before but we've been getting along well. Super funny guy

"pele"

- Such an amazing group of people, it’s seriously exciting to see this many accomplished players.

Everyone is totally overwhelmed right now, it’s just way way waaay too many people to communicate with at once. With my tribe, I really like Audrey and Mackie, and of course me and Tate are frenemies from our first season. I don’t know what to do with him yet.

I’m kind of worried about Marie. I’ve played with her twice, and literally any time she plays she starts an all girls alliance and ends up coming for the guys. And I know Danielle doesn’t trust me because of previous games.

I’ve got an open mind though. Alexandra and David are probably my faves right now, they’re literally just wholesome, lovely people.

"pele"

- I’m back for a third time and it better be the charm! I’ve already made it to Day 39 twice, I know I can make it again but this time I’m gonna win. I’m here to prove that I can be a good social, strategic and physical player and this time I’m not just aiming for the end, I’m aiming for the win. And I’m gonna get it. 😈

"pele"

- Hey guys, I can't believe that I'm here!! It's been a wild ride this weekend already. Having a one world twist has been super hard for me because there are so many people. I've been vibing really well with Mitchell, Tate and Jordan. I know it sounds meninist but I really seem to like them a lot. Going into this challenge, I really want to make sure that we win, I don't want to go to tribal right now. Here's to hoping that we fucking win!!

"kanaloa"

- Right now, I am completely playing a social game. Just like any returner season, past relationship play a current role. My goal is to align myself with people who do not have these strong of ties to other people in this game like Declan and John. I already have a good rapport with Sora, Ally and Evan, so if I can combine all the people I like to one 7+ person alliance for the first few votes, I should be sitting pretty.

"kanaloa"

- I finally got around to talking to Sora, and he’s really fun to talk to! He was actually one of my Tikal hosts so it’s kinda funny how that worked out, lol. I was also messaged by Nick, Estefana, and Marie from the Villains tribe; Nick’s also from Long Island so like instant connection there, Estefana was nice to talk to, and then Marie…yeah, lol. I mean I never really socialized with her much in Tikal, and I don’t know how I feel about working with her outright this season, but being on good terms with her will probably come in handy somewhere down the road so I won’t be mean or anything, of course. I’m still pretty hesitant about approaching the rest of the Villains, like it could be valuable for me to do so early on, but I’m just worried the rest of the Heroes will see it as scheming with the enemy, and I don’t really want that stigma attached to me. So I’ll just leave them be for now!

In terms of alliances, no groups have really popped up yet, but I have kinda started talking basic strategy (like what we thought of the tribe) with Claire, Rob, and Ally! So at least I have a few people I could rely on. Claire though, I feel like she seems a bit hesitant about working with me? A few times I kinda directly said stuff like, “At least now we can finally work together!” since we were always on opposite sides in Tikal, but she didn’t respond or really like acknowledge it at all. I don’t know, I definitely want to work with her in this game, but if she’s not going to be upfront about doing so with me, then I have to be weary around her and try to keep an eye out for whatever she might be doing. I’m really not going to bs around with her this season if she wants to play the aligned enemies game with me, like in Tikal when she’d tell me that she’s voting me out but still talk to me like we were the closest allies. It’s one or the other, and she’s going to have to choose.

In other news, we got our first challenge! I was really hoping it wasn’t going to be endurance and thank god it’s not! We had to split our tribe’s twelves players between three different stations: four each to play 2048, do a slide puzzle, and write a four-chapter story. Thankfully I was able to get my first choice of the slide puzzle, and I think I’m scoring pretty well! David said he was able to get really lucky with the starting position and got in the 110s, and my high score so far as of writing this is 137, so I’m hoping I can lower that a bit more to under two minutes, which will hopefully help our tribe snatch the win! I definitely don’t want to go to tribal, but I also just reeeeally want that first idol clue! I’m so curious as to how it’s going to work, and hopefully it’s something that will let me get it super quickly, lol. We shall see!

"kanaloa"

- update: im pretty sure alexandra thinks im sora bc she just randomly asked me what to do in philadelphia

"kanaloa"

- TASKED W THE CREATIVE SHORT STORY ISSSS 1) ting ting who still hasn't added me back yet 2) alexandra who mixed me up with sora 3) claire VAL who took the wrong medication and is about to PASS OUT and 4) YOURS TRULY.

This is a TRAINWRECK

"kanaloa"

- It's pretty overwhelming having to talk to 23 people, so far I've spoken at least once to everybody except Mackie and Danielle I think, although there's so many people that I could've missed someone haha.

I bonded a lot with David today and he's really chilled, I think he's gonna be what Elias and I should've been in Molise but ultimately never were because of circumstances out of our control, like original and swapped tribes. I can definitely see myself working with him long-term, maybe all the way to final tribal if I'm lucky!! We'll see haha.

Jordan is an absolute legend and it's so useful to have somebody I already know here. I feel like I can say whatever I want to him and I do really trust him. I cannot cut him again like I did in Molise, it was awful then and even though I stand by the move, I just can't see myself cutting him again. I'd love to go deep with him again, I really hope he's being truthful when he says it's water under the bridge. We just gel so well and work together perfectly, and I feel like that's heightened because of how stressful the past 48 hours have been in getting to know all these people!!

I've actually made quite a few bonds on the villains too. Nick, Roisin, Dovile and Will are all people I've spoken to and really like, plus Mitchell too but I've spoken to him a bit less. I'm finding myself in a bit of predicament because I really wanna go deep with so many people already haha, I need to be careful about who I make explicit alliances with because those are the ones that people get hurt by when they're cut. I feel like I have implicit alliances (i.e. close bonds that have a clear potential to become alliances) with David, Rob and maybe even John already, but nothing is explicit yet, and that's deliberate. I don't wanna be seen as the first to strategise, and I really don't wanna make an explicit alliance until it's necessary incase I ultimately have to vote somebody and cut that alliance if that makes sense haha.

Currently I'm not sure what would happen if our tribe went to tribal. I just have not had time to talk to everybody, I don't know anything about Ting Ting or Alexandra really, and my bonds with Maya, Sora and Lexi are minimal I think. I'd ultimately have to rely on David and Rob to get me through the tribal because those are the two I trust the most, but the problem is, if I like them the most, I'm pretty sure everybody else will like them the most too haha. It's a conundrum for sure, plus I'll probably be asleep when results actually come out so I'm not sure what to do about that.

It's just a big struggle at the moment. I'm really busy at the moment and have to meet 23 new people and, while I would take my time to form these bonds, I can't really because this early stage of bonding is almost entirely reliant on how many messages you send each other, not the actual content of those messages. It's quantity over quality so that you're familiarised with the other person, and I just don't really have the time to do with that 11 other people on my tribe let alone 23 in the whole game!!

But on a less whiny note and more strategic note, I'm beginning the employ the same strategies I did in Molise. I got around 70 seconds in the slide puzzle but realised that I did not wanna pop out as a huge challenge threat. Winning 4 immunities in Molise makes it obvious that I'm good at challenges but, if I consistently get 1st or 2nd place in pre-merge immunities, I'll be a huge target at the merge, especially because there's people here who have won 7 immunities in a season. So I found out what David got and deliberately got the same amount so that I'm at the top of the pack score wise and the tribe won't want to vote me out, but not top enough that it exposes my level of threatness (SIDE NOTE: it just took me 7 attempts to write ""threatness"" because autocorrect kept changing it to ""threatens"").

Woah this is an essay haha. I guess I should end it here :P, hopefully this confessional pleases Jace enough to give me a CP edit for this episode, hint hint, Jace!! ;).

"pele"

- i'm allied w mr jordan pines, i'm allied w dovile, and i've got an alliance w nick and marie that's about to form so !!!!!! i'm also on good terms w the rest of the tribe so i think i'm pretty good so far. i kinda am dominating the slide puzzle while the others doing it seem to be struggling so like hopefully them dumbass heroes also struggle and i can keep us low enough to score!!!! i don't wanna go to fuckin tribal early that shit is gon be a TRIP

but yeah i'm feeling good so far. i feel strategically secure and i'm doing my part to keep us immune too. i'm not going to be able to hide my challenge skills if i want to give our tribe the best physical chance of winning, and that's more important to me than looking like a challenge threat at the moment. being good at challenges is going to be an obstacle to overcome further down the line but hopefully they just won't be able to ever beat me fuerosdhofcl

"pele"

- I volunteered for the puzzle since nobody else wanted to be the fourth person. I’m definitely going to have the worst score on the tribe but I’m doing my best! Maybe it’ll make me less of a challenge threat later on.

"pele"

- I like everyone on my tribe, tho I’m flopping so bad on the flashgame, 😩 wouldn’t be shocked if we do lose and I go home, BUT I can always sway people on my side like always ;)

"pele"

- So first challenge is going well I think? Right now it seems i have the highest score on 2048 for my tribe which hopefully will give me enough challenge credit not to be first boot. I havent really talked game to most people yet, but I have made some strong social relationships that I hope will pan out int he future so that when alliances start forming people will put me in them. As of now I'm pretty happy with how things are going :)

"kanaloa"

- I’m Ally’s Allen and I’m here to make it clear, I know you love me baby. That’s why you brought me here, I was a bitch on season 34, I’m gonna win twice. Give me another challenge and I’ll give you what I like. I’m full of tricks baby, just like on Halloween, a room full of Jamais and it makes me wanna scream! I have to get this right, so you don’t waste my time. Not like my strategic game, I’m killing on this rhythm.

"kanaloa"

- I’m BEYOND grateful to be back and be apart of ORG history once again! Archetypes, don’t know her so I can’t wait to be the next Adam/Sandra of this ORG! With my recent loss in BAR, I’m sort of scared people will perceive me as a major physical threat as well as social threat because of how many people I hosted here but hey, gotta give it my all! Furthermore, I don’t want to rely on my physical game so I’m hoping to go for more of a social/strategic aspect.

"kanaloa"

- So this first challenge seems like the Heroes’ ideal situation. The boys on the slide puzzle are telling me how they’ve gotten really lucky on the puzzle piece arrangement and are getting ridiculous scores. So we definitely have that one in the bag. As for 2048, Lexi went above and beyond and got a 32k or something. That alone might be the tiebreaker for us getting the win but also, Sora and I gotten 27k and 21k respectively so that’s great. Nick mentioned how he’s stuck at 9k so I mean...I’m fairly positive we’re going to do great on that. I’m not sure about the story however...I was told by Claire/Evan that Ting Ting has work until like 30, minutes before the deadline so she basically bailed on them. This is actually perfect for me because Ting Ting is my ideal first target. I obviously would love to work with Alexandra and David, however having a 4 person Bali alliance on my tribe would be awful considering I’m closely grouped with a lot of people. I think sending Ting Ting home would be the perfect way of me stating “Hey, just because I hosted them, doesn’t mean I’ll automatically work with them.” Ting Ting isn’t a social person either as seen in Bali/Bora Bora either. I know I could go fry bigger fish in the see right now but it’s too early and this would set me up nicely in the future. However, if we’re stuck sending someone home, I began planting seeds in the possible David-John-Rob alliance cause they all told me they’re getting somewhat close with each other, which might be a problem for me down the road but I built good relationships with all three. Eh, I don’t know but for now, if we do hypothetically go home, I’m making the call to send Ting Ting home.

"kanaloa"

- I'm making another one of these now that I've talked to a majority of people I'd WANT to talk to, but I'll run through my initial opinions after talking to people/what I think of them. Like I said I already know a majority of the cast ""People don't think I know Survivor stuff, but I know Survivor stuff!"" I did my research on people I didn't follow or got info on so I'll just go through the list

Alexandra- She's nice, from the people on the tribe that I've talked to we've talked the least. From what I heard she also hasn't been the most active, and I had a total misread on her as well. I assumed she was this ultra threat from Bali who was socially and strategically amazing but Ally burst that bubble saying she wasn't at all so that's that. Ally- On that note, Ally is actually someone I haven't talked a lot with either. She hasn't been on cause she's been gone off this weekend so that's the pass. She said she doesn't hold Archetypes against me which is good, but also not good. She kinda pulled together this alliance of me her Rob and Evan, aka the YouTube people. So that's good for the first couple votes, but I've had better conversations with other people so I don't know if I'll necessarily be putting my eggs in that basket, I don't play games just based off of people I know outside the game ever and I'm not about to start now. We'll see where it goes but I'm not too keen on it at the moment, plus it's basic and boring lmao but on a positive note she's one of the people in this place that I actually love a lot hahaha Claire- Spoke to a bit, she's awesome! I think she's closer to Evan, but if I can get a good relationship with her going I'd like to go far with her. I know she can be sneaky but I know she can be loyal too, so I wanna try and stay on her loyal side and just go from there. David- Okay so while I was writing this I was talking to him and he's lucky because he's been better socially! Although that's also on me too lol, before I thought he was kinda zzz but it's getting better as the awkward first talks unfold so we'll see where it goes, cause he's one of the people I wanted to work with coming into this game. Declan- Declan is cool, he seems like a good dude whose easy to talk to, and that's always my go to like align with the most normal, but idk there's something about him if I'm being honest that I just can't put my finger on it yet but I just can't trust him long term. Rob likes him so I'll put my suspicions aside until I can come up with something concrete but, I've got my eyes on him. Evan- So I'm playing with Evan which is interesting, because he's so ssjfnsd I am the sole 4 time player so that's a big target, but association with Evan is a larger one. He has beef with a lot of people so that may be a problem. So just like Ally, I know him but I'm not just sticking with that. He's loyal to a fault so I'll use that, and I actually do like him, but he BETTER step shit up and make nice with people because I will not let it fuck me over. John- John coming back FINALLY. He was so amazing in Tikal when I hosted him and I'm happy he's on an all star season. He's so innocent too which makes me feel bad being the bad influence I am lmao. I wanna make sure he goes far because tbh he deserves it so he's someone I'll look to align with. Lexi- She's adorably nice. Lots of small talk, but nice! I think she's insanely social since she initiated a lot of conversations, especially with the villains too, so she could be someone good to get in good with. Maya- I love her!!! We've barely spoken LOL but I love her!!! Okay so I think I'm getting ahead of myself here but I'm starting to realize people will have a lot of other options here in this game and I want her to be mine. Jace and Szymon love her and I want to too, I'm gonna and make her my F2 and I'd take her there honestly because she was someone I loved to see in Last Stand. Rob- F2 Ting- I have not talked to her at all and apparently not a lot of other people have either lol she's gonna be first boot apparently if we lose so I'm more than okay with that, step up your game if we don't lose girl As for the villains, Audrey, Danielle, Dovile, Estefana, Jordan, Mackie, and Tate haven't said anything, and that's fine because even though this is one world I'm not initiating any convos with any villains unless I have to, I'll worry about it until I'm on a tribe with them. Will I've spoken to a bit and he's cool, Marie as well and she's amazing and I want to get to a tribe with her to work with her. Roisin and Mitchell I've spoken to quite a bit and I really like them both, and Nick is Nick lol. I don't think we're gonna lose so I'll check back in after the challenge.

"pele"

- So this is probably going to be long af but it's because I haven't written one yet so be prepared!!

Anyways, I'm EXTREMELYYYY pumped to be playing again and I absolutely LOOOOVEEEEE this cast it's such a breathe of fresh air honestly. My tribe has a lot of people who I don't really know, but that's how I like it. I don't need people knowing I'm a threat or how I played in the past, I need a clean slate for this game. On my tribe I would consider Marie to be my closest ally at the moment. I've hosted her multiple times before and I absolutely ADORE her. I also really want to play with her since I love the way she plays. I also really like Mackie because I've also hosted him twice and he's such a great player. He's voted me out before so I'm gonna be on my toes with him, but for now, I definitely do trust him. I really like talking to Mitch a lot too we're both from Queens New York so we have an instant connection. Me, Mitch and Marie actually formed an alliance because we're the only 3 timers on the villains so it would probably be best to watch eachother's backs because people could see us as threats for that. As for the rest of the tribe, I really enjoy talking to Danielle, Audrey, Dovile and Jordan. I feel like I can see myself working with them in the future. Roisin is cute but I'm not sure how she plays or what she was like on her original season BUT she is British and you know I love me some British girls. Tate and Will are the only two I'm like REALLY weary of honestly because I know they're really tight outside of the game so they're definitely working together. Estefana is cool too but I feel like she's barely been online.

As for the heroes I have a lot of friends over there plus this one world twist is great for that so I can talk to them. Sora is my best friend on the entire org and online in general so I'm READYYYY to finally play with him on the wikia for the first time. Rob is from Azer with me and I'm also extremely good friends with him outside the org so I'm ready to team up with him again. Ally and Evan are also both from YouTube like Sora and Rob so I think the 4 of them will be working together over there. I'm excited to play with all 4 of them honestly. I'm also REALLY excited to see Declan I was his loved one on Molise because he didn't really know anyone here since he's still kinda knew. He told me he doesn't really know anyone on the cast too well outside of me so I think he's gonna be really loyal to me.

That's all I can ramble on about for now since playing 2048 for like 6 hours straight has given me a massive headache and I didn't even get a decent score up until the last 10 minutes of the challenge so gg!! Hope we win this!

"pele"

- everyone on the Villains tribe is being TOO nice....... ohhhh we bout to see some true colors if we end in tribal tonight I feel like Nick lowkey is the evil Mitchell is THAT sassy bitch Jordan is the nicest of them all Roisin is that smart evil player so I wouldn’t mess with her yet Marie is quiet and a sneaky bitch Danielle is so quiet, and cute Will is that one person who is extra Audrey is very strategic Tate is lowkey chill Mackie is one I shouldn’t mess with Dovile, don’t really know her

"pele"

- I am incredibly nervous to go to the first tribal. I wasn't utr enough and the writing team performed poorly. I don't know if I have strong enough bounds with anyone to survive this. I'll need to work very hard to stay I think. Yay for being paranoid.

"pele"

- My bitchass is the target lmao

"pele"

- the heroes just murdered an entire family who divided these tribes

"kanaloa"

- We slaughtered them. Time to play some lady pump up jams and do the Macarena.

"pele"

- My bitchass is the target lmao

"kanaloa"

- Okay so it's after work now. We're waiting on results but I'm going to do my villians cast assessment! It may not be in alphabetical order because I'm not looking at it oops. - Audrey- Omg my villain from Mauritius! I never really saw Audrey as a villain necessarily, but I get it. I'm excited to play with her again because I had actually just been wondering where she had disappeared to! - Danielle- Omg Danielle is back again too. I played with Danielle on BAR, and we were on opposite alliances. She's super nice though and I'm super pumped to be playing with her again! We've already kinda crossed the ""Hey we're good, right?"" bridge- so no worries there! What a LEGEND though. - Dovile- Dovile is probably the person I talked to the least so far in the whole game? We have a pretty crazy time difference and my work schedule has made it hard to make time to connect! - Estefana- Omg I'm back with her. Now, I played with her on BBUK- but from that I can totally see her fitting the villain theme. So she had already asked me to work with her, despite us being on different tribes so I feel like it's a repeat of BBUK where she acted like she had no clue what was going on. - Jordan- THE JORDAN PINES?? Omg the things I have heard.. what a legend! He knows Linus so #InstantConnection! He's also a lifeguard, and I was a lifeguard for three years- so we have that in common as well! - Mackie- Mackie hosted me on.... I believe Mauritius? So it's interesting to be playing alongside him! He also thinks Linus is a ""great dude"" so I have that working for me as well! He used to be in sales, so he kinda understands my job more than most of the others- which is awesome because I have someone to rant to! - Marie- I hosted Marie in Twisted ORG, so seeing her here I was like ""ooh"". She played with Linus in Tikal, where he beat her so oops? I also thought she had made it to the end of an ORG recently and she had not *slaps forehead* I'm an idiot. - Roisin - Roisin seems so interesting! Like she lives in London- and literally works in the subways helping foil terrorist attacks! I fail to see how she is a villain, oops. We also connected over not being able to make mangas on our own and having to enlist help, we're both such a mess. - Tate - So I've known Tate for a while! We've been in a Skype group together and have the same group of friends! I also met Tate in person when I went to go meet Linus in Canada. Having Tate on this season is both a comfort and kinda scary. Comforting because it's like a familiar face... scary because I know he's a good player meanwhile i'm a mess soo eep. - Will- WILL. I LOVE WILL. So Will is one of the cohosts for HazDaz that I basically got gifted the responsibility of taking over. He's awesome though, kinda like my rock through all the waves. So seeing him on the cast was just like YES. I've never played with Will, and I've never seen how he played, but I'm hoping he likes me enough to where we can have an actual bond!

So there is my forever long cast assessment! Results are out now, so now I get to make another confessional about them oops. <3

"kanaloa"

- So the first challenge is over and done with! Basically the challenge had 3 parts, and 4 people did each part. I was happy to be put on the game part- because I absolutely love 2048 and with my work schedule I had plenty of time to play on my phone. I submitted a decent enough score, though I still felt bad since it was no where near my best score. It was alright though, since not only did my tribe win the 2048 portion, BUT WE WON ALL THE OTHER PARTS AS WELL. Like, damn we killed the villains, didn't we? Regardless, a lot of the scores were pretty close- so it's not like they went down without a fight! Now, the villains are going to tribal while the heroes are safe back in our little camp. However, with the One World twist, there's some stuff I want to see happen at this tribal, and a lot of stuff I DON'T want to see happen. I have a lot of people I would consider myself close to on the Villains tribe, and I'd like for them to all stay safe- people like: Will, Tate, Mackie, Danielle, and Estefana. Ideally- it would be Dovile that goes since that's who I've connected to the least over there- however Marie would be a good second option. I'm worried about Will, as he did poorly on the puzzle, and I consider him one of the people I most want to work with- so I'm just hoping he can make it through this tribal okay! <3

"pele"

- My bitchass is the target lmao

"kanaloa"

- We won the first immunity challenge yassss! We totally swept them 3-0, which is great because it just confirms what I thought about our tribe being challenge beasts. I’m really hoping this means that we’ll rake up a few more wins in the next challenges and won’t have to worry about tribal for a while. Though, I was actually talking to Ally about this before the results were posted, and she said that she had heard Ting Ting’s name thrown around since she hasn’t really been around much and also totally dropped the ball on her part (the story) of the challenge, so if we do happen to go to tribal I would have zeeero problem voting for her. Honestly don’t have any connection with her right now so it would hopefully just be an easy vote.

In addition to immunity we also all got an idol clue! But it kind of just caused a lot of problems for me, if anything. To find the idol, it seems like we have to complete a bunch of different trials, then we’ll have access to the idol or like maybe a direct clue as to where it’s located (the wording of our clue was a bit ambiguous about that). So I did the first trial which was pretty easy, just drawing a self-portrait of your mangatar. It was actually kind of fun, and mine turned out absolutely hideous haha, here’s a link so you guys can appreciate my absolutely stunning art. https://i.imgur.com/vZBTxH8.png

Anyway, I was off to the second trial, but it’s a bit of a tricky one. I’d have to hold a conversation in the One World chat for 10 minutes on the new Avengers movie that’s coming out soon; let me note that I’ve never seen any Avengers movies and don’t know anything about the franchise, lol. So right away that’s just really tough for me to do, just not really an expert on keeping conversation going especially trying to talk about something I know nothing about. So I was discussing this with Rob, kinda like thinking about what we could do (his topic was Brexit, btw, even more difficult), when we notice that Ally randomly brings up Avicii’s death, and after like 15 minutes Declan brings up Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. So basically it’s glaringly obvious that both of them are trying for the idol.

At this point, I just decide not to bother even trying for it anymore, for a few reasons. First, Ally and Declan are probably at this point a while ahead of me, so I don’t think there will be any room for me to play catch up at all. Second, it’s just soooo damn obvious that they’re trying for the idols, and I think everyone on the Heroes tribe who started doing the trials can realize that. I’m really not going to risk putting a massive target on my back by basically publicly stating to both the Heroes and the Villains that I’m idol hunting. Third, if there are going to be more social tasks like this after this one, they’re going to be even harder and even more obvious and I just do not want to make myself stand out like that. Rob’s already talking about how Ally is a threat now because she’s likely in first for the race for our idol, so it’s clear to me that finding this idol is not worth it. Giving up on that then, so oh well, no idols for me this season! :(

Another issue that this has directly caused me involves Mitchell from the Villains, who I’ve been talking to quite a bit actually. Anyway he asked me while we were talking what the idol clue was; he wanted me to say if it was guessing the name of a Survivor player or not. This put me in a huge dilemma, but I ended up saying I wouldn’t tell him at this moment. My main reason was because I’m still worried about the perception I could get for working with the Villains; if I give him info, he could go and tell his Villain allies that I said something, then that gets back to the Heroes, who think I’m shady for working with a Villain. But, now I feel like my relationship with Mitchell may have been soured a bit, since he might think I’m hesitant to work with him (which I am right now, but not down the line). Idk, it’s not been the best of nights for me! But hopefully it all works out, I can get myself into a good position on the tribe, possibly flush out the idol, and just level the playing field again.

"pele"

- Man I’m worried, tribal is here and I was terrible in Immunity. Everyone is decently active, nobody has anything to go off of so maybe it’ll be challenge performance. Honestly I’ve been busting my ass with my social game and I should be fine, but the stakes are so high there’s just no way to not feel nervous. I feel fucking NERVOUS, man.

I’d like for either Dovile, Marie, Nick, or Danielle to go, I think Dovile/Marie/Estefana are the most likely boots though.

Also right after the challenge Declan starts some weird conversation in the tribe chat. Ally comes and tells me that it’s actually part of a trial to get the idol, then Rob tells me the same thing. Interesting stuff, honestly I don’t want any part of public idol hunts like that. Totally messy. And also I trust Lexi and Declan a lot less for hiding that shit from me, I straight up asked Lexi why Declan was being weird and she blew it off, like I wasn’t going to find out as soon as villains get an idol clue.

"kanaloa"

- WE WON!!!! Thank god I was not ready for the tribal omg. If we were the one going I might be on the chopping block after seeing my performance on the challenges. Apparently, I've tried to talk little bit game with Alexandra, Lexi and Evan but they all react to it now the way I wanted it to be. They seems like wanting to work together but there's no solid words. So, that's definitely means something. Either they feel like it's too early or they already have deal with someone. Been wanting to talk about working together with Declan too cus he seems super nice but yeah time zones...

Tried to approach with some of the villains too but basically the conversation is like me being very curious blah blah blah and just being cool with them, nothing about games but definitely feeling the good vibes from Mitchell, Audrey, Danielle and Dovile. Me and Mitchell was like YASSS POLYNESIA REP DUO. we need to play together.

"pele"

- I made a little alliance with mitch and Jordan, tho I feel like I’m the target and is a reason why no one has told me a name, I’m going home tonight and I’m damn sure it’s because of my very low score on 2048.

"pele"

- Ugh we lost immunity it fucking sucks. Especially for me because I wasn’t here for like the first nine hours since tribal have been posted so I’m afraid my name came up, I hope not. I’ve tried my best during these first couple of days to build relationships with people from my tribe and the other tribe so I hope it helps me stay. Nick and I agreed on Day 1 to form an alliance because we already know each other I love him, and then we brought Mitchell into the mix because we’re the only three times players in our tribe. I think everyone’s playing safe right now and no one wants to throw names around but a name’s gonna come up at some point, and I hope it’s not mine! The heroes may have beaten us but the Villains won in the real HvV so I’m hoping it’s the same this time, especially when my last name’s Diaz-Twine!

"pele"

- So the target finally seems to set on Dovile. I like her but if that’s what everyone’s doing then I’m not gonna oppose it. I am scared though because I told Will I heard Dovile from Tate, then I realized I made a mistake because Will and Tate have to be close since they were the final 2 of Morocco, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Will tells Tate about it and Tate loses trust in me. I really don’t wanna be blindsided and first boot, I’m here to win and I’m hoping this mistake doesn’t cost me my game.

""kanaloa"

- I'm very happy we won immunity! The villains kind of dropped the ball because heroes were by no means putting up clean sweep material lol. Im hoping somebody I don't know like Dovile leaves, though I could see the benefit to my game if somebody big like Nick went Right now, I'm trying to secure Declan as my number 1; he is super fun to talk to and I like him a bunch. He is also socially threatening and less connected, which would keep the target off of me. We just need to convene, discuss who is giving us good vibes, then plant seeds for a hella good harvest.

If we go to tribal, Ting Ting is 99% leaving, which is sad since I love her, but it would ultimately lower the Bali threat level. I just know she would not fight to stay, and she's much more dispensable to me than Alexandra of course. Alexandra is always going to be one of my closest allies, but I am acting like that is not the case to literally everybody for now. We can NOT risk any shenanigans there.

I need to figure out what I want to do from here on out though. I am getting along with everyone and having a lot of fun learning about them, but the honeymoon phase will end soon and I need to make sure I'm in a good position when it does. I don't want to pursue the idol, because that would be insanely obvious and look selfish. The risk outweighs the reward.

My one worry right now is that I am talking too much to the Villains. I don't want to seem like I am ready to jump ship, cause I'm not, but I am also not trying to end up Boo Boo the Fool at a tribe swap.

"pele"

- Things seem better for me now. I have all the guys on my side I think. People want to vote out inactives. Let's hope it stays that way.

"kanaloa"

- I'm really trying to influence the villains tribal so that it benefits me, as far as I know I'm the only hero that is but that could of course be wrong. At the moment (from what I've heard), the targets are Dovile, Roisin, Estefana or Nick. The trouble is, I've really bonded with Dovile, Roisin and Nick, and I do not want either of them to go. Hopefully I can convince Nick and Roisin to work with Dovile and Estefana, and maybe bring in another couple like Marie and somebody else, and together they could blindside a threat from the villains tribe. That'd literally be perfect because it keeps in the weak villains (like Estefana), keeps in my potential alliances (Roisin, Dovile, Nick) and really solidifies the heroes as the stronger tribe. Hopefully I'm not sussed out doing this and it works, I honestly think Dovile will be eliminated but I can hope that my strategic manipulation will get her saved.

The idol clue system was supposed to be handled subtly like how Ally did it, I however was the least subtle ever haha. I just openly went for the idol because I could not be bothered to sit around and let Ally get the idol, not least because she tried to sabotage me haha. I actually think we bonded over it, I won't forget that sabotage though!! I also told everybody who asked what I was doing with the idol, there was no point in hiding it :P. I specifically asked Sora for help too and figured it would be a way to bond with him, I can really see myself working with him too. I was pretty forward with him but I think he was receptive to that haha.

The next idol trial is to be one of the lowest 6 scorers in the challenge. I will do it somehow haha, I just need to find a way to keep everybody alright with me openly throwing it. I'm kinda tempted to let David progress if I can dominate the challenge and make up for what he's lost, it'll make me look better but I'll know where the idol is too. As long as he's strong enough in challenges/trials to beat Ally, who I'm certain will be going for that idol too, then I'm good with that.

David is firmly my closest ally at the moment haha, we spoke about potential alliances and were on the same page. I think I'm quite well positioned at the moment, I have quite a few connections on both tribes and I've enjoyed the first few days of this game!!

"pele"

- i wanna keep dovile bc she gonna be my goat ! but dovile apparently hasn't talked at all to some people like audrey so like... i'm tryna feel out who would be down to save her and target will without makin it seem like IM tryna do that ufweisdkjnfd we gettin fuckt up 2nite

"pele"

- early on i'm good at gettin ppl to trust me and i'm pretty sure i'm in good w every single member of this tribe but that means tHEY ALL EXPECT ME TO SUPPORT THERMFIWEODHFIWED man this shit is hella messy and im just a cute lil egg boy :/ i think truly though that we're gonna walk out of this round w dovile gone and roisin my new closest ally.

jordan wants to induct her into our alliance w estefana, and i mentioned bringing her into my alliance w nick/marie, bc theoretically she gonna be alone after this. so roisin can see that our hands are in the same baskets, and she THINKS im supporting her to save dovile, so wow we're gonna be besties after all this. it's not a perfect life but it's what we got !

"pele"

- So it should be Dovile. She’s the least active on the tribe and she’s not a great social player so I think people are pretty okay with sacrificing her. I’d like to take out a better player first because she’s not really a threat to anyone, but I’m not making waves obviously.

Anyway, Roisin apparently is closer to Dovile than she let on, once she heard Doviles name she tells me she’d rather do Estefana. I’m like “nah, I don’t think it’s smart to start shifting the target so early”, and so she starts trying to turn it on to me. Of course Audrey, Mackie and Nick tell me right away, I let Estefana know that Roisin threw her name out there (and for good measure I lied and said that Dovile wanted her gone too), so that’s 5 votes against Dovile. Everyone else should be solid which would make it 10-2. Maybe I’m wrong and I’m in more trouble than I realize, but I don’t think so.

There are levels to this game and Roisin and Dovile aren’t on mine.

"pele"

- Somehow I ended up trying way too hard to make the vote on Doville instead of my boy Will. It's Day... 3. I thought I was good to go with Sandra's "as long as it's not me" mantra but that's bullshit. It's more "as long as everything goes my way and that the person I want out goes out". Why am I like this??? How can I change so I'm not becoming a target? I need to work on that a lot.

"pele"

- So finally this became a little bit crazier, Estefana and Will’s names got brought up as well because of their challenge performances, and now I feel like it’s a battle between Will/Tate and Dovile/Roisin. The battle of the seasons. Personally, I’d prefer Will to go because I feel like he’s a bigger threat and I feel like I could work better with Dovile going further, and duh of course I’d rather keep a woman! But if everyone’s voting Dovile then I’m not gonna oppose it and put a target on my back, just like Roisin is doing. I like her but she’s campaigning for Dovile even harder than Dovile herself! So I totally feel like she could be a target in future tribals. Nick came up with a plan to maybe blindside Estefana to keep the battle of the seasons going, and I feel like it’s a great plan but I don’t know if we’d have the numbers to pull it off.

"pele"

- so i feel very uneasy rn cos Dovile's name has come up out of nowhere and suddenly every1 thinks she's the vote? I don't understand how that's happened and who's controlled that to make it the case, but I will NOT vote Dovile again and have her go in 24th place. I feel like there's already a group of people dictating this game which I don't know about. I'm literally selflessly campaigning with every1 to vote out Will cos of his shocking challenge performance and obvs cos of my bond with Dovile. I hope I've got Mitchell on board with this plan, but honestly I'm getting very mixed messages from every1 so I don't have much hope. I pray that I can get enough ppl on board to save her!!

Aside from tribal, I've bonded the best with Jordan, Sora and Declan I think!! xx

"pele"

- Even though I would’ve preferred to keep Dovile, she’s dug herself in a big ass hole. She made lies up about Nick and Mitchell who are my two closest allies so she can go!

"pele"

- BOIIII so much shit has happened today and I have so much tea to spill. So I have my alliance with Mitch/Marie and I have two real strong bonds with Audrey/Mackie too at this point. So, I'm trying to get in the good graces of the rest of the tribe because my social connections always carry me real deep in games. Pretty much what's been going on is people have been discussing the vote and absolutely no one wanted to be the first person to throw a name out. Eventually, Dovile's name started coming up due to her lack of activity. Everyone seemed fine with this until Roisin started acting kind of aggressive saying it was dumb to get rid of her because she's not a threat. Roisin than started to try and rally up a group to vote Will which flopped because everyone is lying to her and saying they're voting with her when they're not. So at this point it's looking like Dovile will be leaving 10-2 with Roisin being the only one voting with her...Apparently Dovile made a chat with 8 people saying me, Will and Tate had an all guys alliance and that they need to get Will out this week. Ummm first of all WHY am I being grouped in with the straights and second of all we do NOT have an alliance....Dovile also told Estefana I was after her and than she came at me in PMs when I was never after Estefana. This girl is a hot ass mess and she needs to GO.

"kanaloa"

- LOL a lot to go over here but let me take a crack at it. So update Ally did indeed form that alliance and as expected Rob is also not feeling it too much. I mean I'll kind of be in it for right now because I would like to go far(ish) with Evan and Ally but I'm not gonna put all my eggs there. So Rob suggested we get something going with John and Declan, and he's putting that together as we speak. David is also potentially on board with that and talking to me a lot more and said he gets good vibes so that's all swell, I'm covered mostly everywhere which is just awesome. We also murdered the villains in the immunity challenge which was also hilarious, like they didn't even come anywhere near close besides my part awkwardly, but I pulled my weight there so a i feel good about myself! Lol along with that the idol clue thing came out and some really funny shit started to go down. So Ally out of nowhere immediately goes for it and blatantly starts doing the second task (having a conversation in the main chat) which was hilarious because everyone knew what she was doing after you saw the task, but even messier because she just went at it without telling us ?? but time was of the essence so i get it. But the really funny part was after that, Declan also went for it and told me how much he trusts me and wants to work with me, and wanted my help for it. These are the other options I was speaking of and I was totally on board to help. I was right about to come up with a story about how we need to help Declan but he immediately went at it. So I was subtly trying to help but then Ally butts in and tried changing the subject so obviously like 3 times. So then Declan goes a little angry and is like ""Lol Ally is really trying it? :) :) :)"" and starts messaging me about it. THEN ALLY MESSAGES ME TO HELP ME! So I'm simultaneously getting two messages from both of them trying to get me to help the other and I couldn't do anything because I was just laughing. ~I~ went myself after David obviously did it too, but was a bit more slick there. I think I did it really nonchalantly, I planted the seeds earlier in the day about hockey then brought it up later around the time of the game and took a picture with a beer and my roommates jersey and everything to sell I was really watching it. I think it worked and I moved on, it was such a wentworth getting the idol moment haha So i think I'm set up pretty good for right now, other than that Nick on the villains is pretty much telling me everything that goes on there which is great, so to end this on a high note I think I'm gonna be here for awhile and I'm really happy about it! So while we're talking about people in the game, I started to think long term and figured I may as well state potentially one of the most important people to my game. It's not a YouTube person or another big threat, it's actually not even someone I've talked a lot with so far but they are invaluable to me, and that person is Maya. Maya is someone who has literally 0(?) connections to anyone in this season as far as I'm concerned, which makes her a. an easy target or b. a possible great ally, and I'm taking the latter here. I find the most successful strategy is to have someone you can trust 100% and just go through the game with them, and to have a back up and your bases covered just in case and Maya is my covered base. Like I said I don't wanna ride it out with the youtubes but they all have extra people to go to, and while I have mine too Maya doesn't have a lot of people and is a good person to bring under my wing. A lot of people have talked about how they haven't spoken much with her which is even better for my game because that means I can get closer to her easier. So Ill get back to this once I feel her out a bit more, but right now she's where I'm gonna start in building long term connections.