Then Things Got Interesting

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Voting Confessionals
From Cali

Najim, super easy vote ;) Bye bye.

From Boo

I vote Najim

From Zane

Tonight I'm voting for Du.

Du, you're a great tribemate and even better person, and I genuinely like you. You've just landed on the wrong side of the numbers in a very social tribe. AJ and I are voting for you tonight so that, on the off chance that Najim plays an idol and the two of you decide not to vote for Tyler like you promised, we can force a tie between you and whoever you voted for in order to keep the #Swag Six intact. We have to cover all our bases, and if that means you have to go home in order to keep myself alive out here in Sardinia, then so be it. That being said, I really hope this vote doesn't matter and Najim goes home tonight. Good luck, my friend!

From AJ

"DU"

Confessional: Although you were not my first choice to vote out, your link to Najim is what has sunken your ship. And Boo and Zane want to split the votes in preparation for an Idol, so I guess your number is up. I doubt that you'll be going home, though.

From Tyler

Person I'm voting for: Najim

Confessional: I do think you're a nice person no matter what people say. But moving forward we need more team players and people who are actually going to participate. Sorry buddy.

From Wil/Yappy

Reason:

Looks like I'm not the only one that found you aggressive in the beginning. We never really talked either, and I take offense that I wasn't included into your "Global Alliance", no matter how short-lived/fake it was :c

Game talk though: you've been wronged by us once already, so we are pretty sure that you would flip on us in the future.

Confessionals
Survived the rock and the hard place. Now, I need to do some serious damage control with Najim and Du to make them feel comfortable. --AJ

The sheer amount of paranoia in Cagliari is reaching almost insufferable levels. Everybody is talking to talking, and this crucible of lies is heating the tensions. It's as if we're in a pressure cooker. On the plus side, it cemented a Final Two deal with Koopa. The Pokemon Trainers, within the Freakylicious Four. Although I have my Final Two alliance with Will, you have to always juggle options in order to get further in this game. And if the Freakylicious Four is the only one to ensure my safety, so be it. However, what I cannot stand is the idea of keeping Najim and Du around longer in order to blindside a member of the Swagliari Six. No, that's not going to happen. We need to be loyal to one another, and that sort of dissent is almost villainous. That's why I can't trust Tyler. --AJ

Zanna Boo and Cali both seem to have some popularity in the ORG community, and the former doesn't really talk strategy with me, which is an issue. I wouldn't win against either of them. Luckily, Koopa is tight with me, same as Yappy. The last time I checked, 3 is 1 more than 2. We'll see what happens. --AJ

Right now, Will Yappy and I have our Rock Bridge alliance. We need to mend some bonds with Najim and Du to ensure that Cagliari stays strong. However, if we have to do the Tribal again, those two are going next. They're the most likely to flip, after the Mohammed vote. But hopefully, we won't go the tribal at all. Cagliari will stay strong. I believe in us. --AJ

Najim barely shows up to the challenge, after Tyler, Zane, and I worked our butts off for it. Good riddance, you have to pull your own vote. And man, the Swagliari Six are pissed. I wouldn't be surprised if our next boot is a unanimous vote, let me tell you that much. --AJ

Me and Zane have managed to make the Global Alliance believe that Tyler was the person who came to us wanting us to vote out Mohammed. This works out great for us! They will target him and not be mad about us flipping. :)  --Boo

I'm so glad my tribe won our first immunity challenge! Hopefully we can keep winning them and stay away from tribal council. --Boo

Al going home really doesn't affect my gameplay. I don't even recall ever speaking to him. --Boo

Since we lost the challenge yesterday we have to go to tribal again. To ensure that me and all my allies are safe I came up with a great plan. Since I am playing both sides, I've convinced Najim and Du to vote Tyler. Me, Cali, William, and Koopa will vote Najim (our target). I've also managed to make sure that the very paranoid Tyler votes Najim as well. Just in case Najim and Du try to vote out me or someone from my alliance instead of voting Tyler, I've told Zane and AJ to vote Du. This plan manages to keep everyone in my alliance safe even if an Idol comes into play. ;)  --Boo

So, I was just about to go to Tyler with a Final two deal, but then, AJ starts telling me all this information about some "secret sassy alliance". Now, first of all, I was pretty pissed that Tyler didn't include me cause gurl, I'm the definition of Sassy. Second of all, Zane told them that me and him made some final 2 deal, but instead, their only going to let me get to the final 5. Now, do they honestly think that I'm just going to sit back and watch as they basically behead me. Um nu uh, sorry :). Now, I don't know what's going to happen when the merge comes, or if I'm actually still gonna be here. But when it does come, I can almost assure that #CraeCraeCali is going to have to make a very necessary cameo! <3 --Cali

Jenn woke me out of my sleep to tell me Joe has worked Arun (as she indicated her concerns for Arun in the past). It seems Joe is spreading crap around camp. I am a target and so is Ron. By working the reverse system – I convinved Arun that Joe was targeting him now. Ron put the Low Alliance back in line and I think we are 6 strong again. Jenn wants Arun out. I want Joe to go first. I am still 200% with Jenn and will die in this game to prove my word to her. Ron continues to be a great alliance member. I have told Jenn that Low End 6 will not turn on Arun and if I try the target falls onto me. I promised her Joe first and then we could consider Arun out. I will have time to see who is out there interested in reducing low end to 5 – since 6 cannot go to the end. Then Jenn becomes that 6th person to continue majority. I have spoken to Zane on the other side and we have made some agreements to protect us from the tribe swap should it happen. So I feel a little more comfortable should a tribe swap happen. Zane seems trustworthy and plays the game like me. --Trevor

Not much happening today except this very long challenge – props to Wes, Jenn and Hazim for really coming through. I was happy to lend some support where I could. I continue to see how the challenge shakes down over a two day period (24 hours). --Trevor

We won the challenge after some strong tribe effort. Try to find out why Arun thinks I switched sides. Jenn provided me details that both Wes and Arun think this. I need to investigate more because Arun and I were ok in the Low End 6 – need to find out where my trust was lost. I play to win – however, only lie when necessary to save my alliance. In this case with Arun I did nothing to him or behind his back. Wes seems like a great guy. Interested to see who is going in tribal. --Trevor

So I don't have much time to talk; I'm taking a breather while Cagliari is trying to catch up to Sassari in this damn Live Challenge. Gosh this thing's been a killer. I've kind of taken up the mantle of team leader, organizing who posts what and when. We got off to a bad start because we weren't prepared and not enough of the team was available, and so we've fallen behind by about 15 minutes. If we don't stay on top of everything from here on out, we'll be headed back to Tribal Council. While it should make for a simple vote to get rid of Najim, but I'd rather have the numbers advantage on Sassari going into the merge. --Zane

Today I asked the hosts a question, and out of nowhere Trevor (from Sassari) started chatting to me. I figured I might as well go for it, so I struck up a conversation. Before you know it, he says "I'll tell you something if you tell me something in return." I thought that was fair, so he starts telling me information about their tribe's inner workings! He names Joe T. as the person "stirring up shit" in Sassari and that Julia isn't really participating all that much. Returning the favor, I tell him that Najim is the one on our tribe who isn't pulling his weight and will probably be the next to go. The alliance structure is 6-2-1 on both tribes, with the 1 person so paranoid that they're likely to flip and cause trouble. We were amazed at how even the tribes truly are at this point in the game. Then things got interesting. Trevor says he's willing to make a deal with me and only me: should there be a swap, and one of us lands on the opposing tribe, the other person will be obligated to protect that person and/or their one most trusted ally from being eliminated. Considering both of us are members of the majority alliance on our respective tribes, and a swap would probably land one of us in a tight spot, I am pretty sure my accidental friendship with Trevor has essentially punched my ticket to the merge, along with the rest of the #Swag Six. He wanted me to tell him if my trusted ally was in trouble, but he didn't want to drop names just yet, which works to my advantage anyway. With that in mind, here's my strategy to accommodate this new arrangement: no matter who is in trouble during the inevitable swap, if any of the #Swag Six lands in hot water, I will tell Trevor that [insert alliance member's name here] is my trusted ally, and he'll keep him/her safe until the merge. I am unsure of Trevor's motivation behind making this deal with me, but I hope it has something to do with cracks forming within the Sassari majority alliance. If that's the case, then Trevor is looking for a bailout with a new group, and is hoping to find it here at Cagliari. He doesn't know that I've told the #Swag Six all about our deal, and that once we make it to the merge, we're gonna pull a Noah and seal the ark. No one's squeaking their way in and no one can leave until everyone else in this game is gone. Then the #Swag Six can walk on dry land once more and determine who will take the title of Sole Survivor with a good old-fashioned brawl to the finish line. We'll see once this awful immunity challenge is over. See you soon darlings! --Zane

The great thing about sharing the idol with AJ, is that I don't have to worry about the idol at all. AJ and I are in the most wonderful position, where we know what will exactly happen tomorrow. The rest of the Swag Six and Tyler will split the votes in case of that idol. AJ and I of course will run along with it and not mention anything. It's the dance we must do XD

I want to take this time to list the alliances I am in... 1) The Rock Bridge (To The Sky): AJ

2) #TooManyNames OG (Multiple name changes..): Zane

3) The #Swagliari Six Alliance (The Swag Six): AJ, Zane, Boo, Koopa, Cali

4) The Fab Five (Before we added Zane into the majority): AJ, Boo, Koopa, Cali

5) Sassy 3: AJ, Tyler

6) Sassy 4 (Tyler's attempt to gain the majority): AJ, Tyler, Zane

At this point, AJ is the only one I'm staying true to. -- Yap/Wil

Trivia

 * The title of this episode was said by Zane.