That Tiny Rift Will Divide Us/Confessionals

Day 23
"vicino"

- Sitting out is a move that could easily backfire. I am terrible at this challenge so I don't wanna play and get a shitty score, but I could be precieved as weak if I'm sitting out. I'm hoping we can just win so we don't have to worry about tribal.

"vicino"

- Izzy's gone, good riddance. She was not a good player and she didn't like me, so I'm glad she's gone. I really love my position in the game -- I have alliances with half the remaining contestants (and six will be enough to control the merge), I've flown under the radar, and my one enemy is out of the game. As of right now, my plan for next round, which I'm hoping is the merge, is to take Aaron and Jason and link up with Juliet, Trey, and Jordan. I don't care who comes along with us, as long as I can stick with that core. I consider myself the bridge between those groups, so when it comes time to turn on them, I can pick and choose who I want to go to the end with. Each person is useful in their own way, too. Aaron does nothing. Jason is loyal af. Juliet is the ultimate shield because she alienates people so easily. Trey is the ultimate shield because people know he's a great player. Jordan was my sounding board for ideas on OG Pesante. So I am very happy with my position in the game.

"vicino"

- My guts telling me that we're losing this one. As long as I'm smarter than Jean Robert, I'll survive.

"vicino"

- Morals suck in this game omg

Day 24
"vicino"

- I AM PRESSED. THIS IS IZZY TIMES 10. So I get back to find that we've lost the Immunity Challenge, that Ashley's brought Trey over from Pesante to vote at this Tribal, and that HARRISON AND I ARE THE TARGETS!!! Aaron told me that he had heard my name and Harrison's, then I talked to the Fanon Alliance (Jason and Aaron) and we decided to try and pull in Harrison and go for Ashley, who is sketchy af and doesn't talk to people. Then Jason apparently told Trey that I was voting for Ashley, not because Ashley is sketchy and not a team player (see auction), but because I don't trust Trey, I think Ashley and Trey are a pair, and I think Trey has an idol. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? I said nothing like that. Trey told me I couldn't tell anyone that he told me about that, but obviously I had to confront Jason about that, since he was supposedly spreading lies about me. Jason denies it... THEN TELLS TREY I TOLD HIM. lkfs;lkfjasdlkfjlksjglk;sj;lfdshl;fh;ls

OK, so I'm pressed at Jason and I confront him AGAIN, because now Trey blatantly doesn't trust me. Jason denies it, then revises, then TELLS ME HE'S PLAYING HIS IDOL BECAUSE HE'S FREAKING OUT. Jason, not a SINGLE person is saying your name. Please relax.

So now I'm scrambling, trying to get a majority... And then Trey says he hasn't heard my name once, not even from Ashley, who is supposedly his number one ally. So now I'm pissed at AARON, because he's either misrepresenting his conversation with Ashley, or he's misinformed. Trey could be lying, but I don't know why he would. If it was between Harrison and me, he'd save me, because we actually have, you know, a solid relationship. Harrison told me that Ashley had told him to vote for me because he didn't know me at all (AS IF I WASN'T LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE WHO MADE AN EFFORT IN THE ASHLEY/MARTY CONVERSATIONS FJDLSKFJLK;DJ). So clearly my name HAS been brought up, I just don't know to what degree I'm in danger. Do I need to use my idol? I don't know. Either way I want Ashley GONE. And I'm starting to lose patience with my allies. Sucks, but it's true. I swear, if I go home one vote short of Jury... Oof.

"pesante"

- FINALLY Vicino have go to tribal council premerge, no thanks to me who accidentally slept through the deadline and didn't get to submit my pretty decent score -- apparently not even a score of 0 contributing to our average was enough to make lose, so that's awesome. I'm mainly happy that some players have to play their cards over there - the two worst case scenarios for this vote would be Ashley or Harrison leaving.

Ashley plucked Trey over with this random advantage for tribal council, which means we may have conflicting interests at some point because I believe Trey staying will be horrible for my game as he has his hands in a lot of jars and may have felt a bit strongarmed by me over the past few votes. He also very well could have an idol. I don't like that - he's too powerful.

All I know is that my OG Giovane contingent of myself, Juliet and Ashley are likely making the merge together, and we all have connections throughout the game that we can likely use to our advantage by keeping eachothers names out of our alliance's mouths. If people knew we were a tight three we'd get targeted though, so it'll have to be very lowkey.

I can't see myself working with Trey and even Jerry super long term though. Jerry just has not been down to be proactive or do anything interesting with these votes because of "a bad experience on 703" and seems to get irritated if I try and bring up anything other than the down the line vote against the person on the outs. He also lowkey doesn't have much interesting to talk about when we talk. I think that tiny rift will divide us even more in the future, he probably views me as untrustworthy due to going for Trey so early. But I had so many legitimate reasons to that I still stand by. If you don't make the pre-emptive strike, you get struck, and I think Trey is bad news.

I honestly couldn't tell you how this impending merge is going to pan out. It seems like it could get a bit hectic and personal.

"vicino"

- So this may very well be my last confessional and the bad part is I have been kinda lazy with these but I will go ahead and just put it all out there as if it’s my final one. I honestly have felt like I have played such a good game so if I go home for such a dumb reason like a flop in my screenshot from a person who doesn’t even take the time to get to know anyone because he sits around and waits for the merge bc he has allegiances on the other side I am going to be pissed. I have put together such a good strategy and I can honestly be in the perfect position in the merge, but hopefully Ashley doesn’t pull out an idol I am almost positive though that my chances of going home are very large. I would say probably 40%. Others would say about 10% but I firmly believe Trey and Ashley know that Ashley is in trouble and are going to pull out an idol. I am so thankful to have played though! I made so many new friends and met so many new people that I honestly wouldn’t change this experience for anything. Nat, Jordan, Jerry, Jason, Declan, Izzy, Elias and hell even Marty I really like all of you guys and wish you all the best of luck!