I Want to Make Them Adore Me/Confessionals

Day 1
"aguateca"

- oh it is that time. Draw up another social relationships diagram on my whiteboard... NEW SEASON BABY!

"aguateca"

- Ahhh I don't know what to do should I pm people or will I look like i'm trying to strong I just wanna get to know people

"aguateca"

- I really like my tribe, I mean the part of the tribe that showed up, but I'm still really nervous. I don't know if people are making alliances right now, I didn't align with anyone, I only talked to Claire privately. I just don't want to start alliances because I don't want my tribe to see me as a threat, so I guess I'll wait for people to come to me.

"vatanchu"

- So I'm talking to John, Joanna, Linus, Mary, Mel, and Scott so far. I like Joanna and John the most, but I get a really good feel from Mel so far.

"aguateca"

- This is really weird I thought I would be bonding with the girls but I think the guys like me more Meh I always was a tom boy

"aguateca"

- I don't care what the challenge is as long as it's not like "Who's still standing" where I have to type a sentence at the 1 hour mark or I'm out I will be fine with anything

"vatanchu"

- What have I thought of the first day? Well, I can already tell I'm going to end up devoting an irrational amount of time to this game, and I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of fun playing it. I decided to try and talk with as many people on the tribe as I could and build enough initial relations to not only try to protect myself from being an early boot, but also feel out the competition. Tucker is a lot less formal than the rest of the tribe, but he's definitely one of the people I'm liking the most. I also quite enjoyed talking with Felix, who I feel provides practically the opposite skill set I do, and Joanna who is an extremely intelligent person! The one person I tried talking to who never responded was Linus, and I'm not sure if it's because he hasn't been online and is showing early signs of inactivity or perhaps he just didn't bother responding to me. Both options are giving me a bad initial impression of him. Overall, it's been quite fun so far and I am confident that I'll be able to make it far with this group of people. I'm certain that by day 5 these confessionals will get less formal and will probably just dissolve into me swearing viciously, but for now I'll be signing off with a smile.

"vatanchu"

- So this tribe seems pretty alright actually. Thoughts on everyone thus far: Linus is cringe embodied in the tribe chat, plus he talked about the bible in his bio, not a good look on anyone honestly. Mel and Joanna were asleep when I wasn't and awake when I was asleep. Scott and I barely talked so I don't have much of an opinion. Katherine and I are both from the Canadian East Coast so that was nice but we didn't chat much. Mary was nice and it's both of our first ORGs so hopefully that's a bond I can use if we go to tribal early. Tucker, I have a good feeling about. He's funny and smart, I think we could make a good team. John is great, not going to lie. He's relatively good-looking (at least for someone who hasn't gotten some for like 3 months), he's hilarious and we both like the exact same things: Latin Men, Survivor/BB, Kpop and Korean Gameshows. We made a final two about an hour into the game and I fully intend on making it happen. I guess I'm most worried about overplaying it now, I need to calm myself or I'm gonna get myself voted off Day 3. Hopefully we can win the challenge and I can calm it a bit. First boot isn't something I'm really trying to achieve here you know

"vatanchu"

- I told three or four people that they are the ones with whom I had the longest conversations and know them the best. Something common in my game. Felix, Linus and Tucker... it's so easy to chat with them. And Scott also has really good social skills. All of them are big treats and I want to make them adore me. Or maybe they are smartest and they will use me. Ha ha. Kidding. It would be absurd thought for people who know me. But I don't know why I always easiely talk with boys. And girls... I don't like them in game and it's hard to find another woman who can be person who I don't want eliminate fast.

"aguateca"

- So I've now talked to everyone and I like them all even if some seem a bit shady with a few fake answers but I can understand that on the first/2nd day

"aguateca"

- I've been so excited to begin this Tikal journey, it's not even funny. But as my luck would have it, I had work during the Cast Reveal and I missed those crucial formative early moments. Upon my tribe discovery, I was super elated to join the Aguateca tribe - plus don't I look good in green? BUT my worst fear came true - I had no messages from fellow tribe members! Did everyone already form an alliance? Am I the only left out? AM I GOING TO BE THE FIRST BOOT?! This was too much. However, after gathering my composure and calculating my strategy, I decided on the Survivor; Guatemala and Cambodia route - proposing voting blocs that can fluctuate among different people and alliances. I messaged all of my members - hoping someone would bite the bait - only one has so far and they are unsure. I've spent a LOT of time investing in this person so I hope it may come true. I probably should've held off on my voting bloc strategy with the others members BUT then again, this is Survivor and this is my only guaranteed chance to play - I need to make moves to ensure my safety. SO while I envision myself potentially being a first boot a la Australian Survivor's Bianca (first on her tribe, second overall) for "playing too hard," I believe I've made my best decision. I don't want to be an alliance just because we met on day one - I want to work with people I can "trust" and who I value. Keep your fingers crossed that Aguateca will bring back the voting blocs!

Day 2
"vatanchu"

- THIS. IS. SO. BAD. I KNOW ANDY FROM THE OTHER TRIBE AND WE'RE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD FRIENDS AND I TOLD LINUS I KNEW AN ANDY FROM TENGAGED AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT WAS HIM AND NOW I'M SURE HE FUCKING KNOWS.

"aguateca"

- Let's post in groups of 3 and that's it! Sorry but if you take things at face value like that you're be facing the hosts snuffing your torch

"vatanchu"

- So the first official alliance I've formed this season is with Joanna who is so super smart and I love her honesty and everything about her! Definitely worried that there's already a majority alliance I'm not a part of, but to be honest I'm sure it'll all be fine for me

"vatanchu"

- I hate this fucking challange. People tell that I always ivent totally crazy challenges but this one... more pictues the better. Is really bad one. I love you guys. I'm mad at you.

"vatanchu"

- The first day was incredibly hectic, with all the talking going on, but I got around to talking to pretty much everyone, so here’s a little tribe assessment: 1) Joanna’s a really sweet person! She messaged me right out of the gate so she was the first person I talked to. She said she played in a legit fanmade season, like in the woods and everything, which is really awesome! We made an alliance (or at least a pact to have each other’s backs) as well, which is great. 2) Tucker’s a cool guy too! He’s fun to talk to, we talked about school and anime and just whatever. I’m pretty sure the two of us are solid as well. 3) Mary and I talked about Christmas for like twenty minutes then the conversation kinda died, sooo I don’t know what’s up with her. I’ll have to talk to her again today or tomorrow. Seems nice though! 4) Mel and I also talked for only like two seconds, she lives in Australia so she was getting up to go to work when I was eating dinner. I’ll talk to her more again too soon. 5) Felix is basically me from Quebec. He thinks Victor is hot, watches The Genius (and loves Kim Kyungran), listens to kpop, like we were destined to be. Us two have an alliance, and right now I think he and Tucker are my main strategic partners. 6) Linus and I seem to be the only two people with ORG experience on the tribe, which is interesting because I wasn’t expecting *that* many newbies. He seems really cool though, so I think we might be able to work together in the future! 7) Scott and I didn’t have much of a conversation, we just talked a bit about Big Brother stuff, so no opinions on him yet. 8) Same with Katherine, she had to go to the store for something when I messaged her so we didn’t get a chance to talk really at all. As for alliances, I’m hoping for a 4-person alliance between me, Felix, Tucker, and someone else. Felix mentioned liking Mary, so perhaps her, but I don’t know how she would feel about an alliance of three guys and one girl (like, if she would be on the bottom of that totem pole, even though that’s not necessarily true). I don’t like 5-person alliances, because they feel too big and can easily collapse, and a 3-person alliance, while solid, can be too small to be totally effective on a 9-person tribe, so hopefully we can get something together to run the vote in case we lose the first immunity challenge. Speaking of the first immunity challenge, it’s (unfortunately) an endurance challenge, Trololol. As a tribe, we have to post images in our thread, and can only post after two other people have posted after us. My strategy was to just use random images, but then I realized I had a whole folder of pixelated playing cards, so I started going through that folder and uploading them in order. Their small file size was pretty helpful because it cut back on uploading times. After I run out of those, I’ll likely start going through other folders and just repeating the process. I’m hoping our tribe can pull out the win, I really don’t want to have to vote out the first player from the game (and risk getting voted out first myself) if we lose.

"aguateca"

- So, Cameron sent me a long message about voting blocs and we talked about it and he seems cool, he told me we were in an alliance for round 1. But the problem is that I asked Lexi if he sent her a long message too and he apparently did, so I don't think I can trust him.

"vatanchu"

- It's getting to the point where I'm feeling everyone out, and I've come to the conclusion that I like everyone on a very face value, superficial level, in that, I can talk game with pretty much anyone here, but I don't feel any sort of strong vibe from any of them which would indicate that I want to work the whole game with them. I'm pretty okay with voting out anyone in the game, at least on my tribe. I've been kinda planting seeds to John and Linus since I know they're working together and also working with Felix to just make an alliance so I can sway all three of their votes. I Felix/Linus come off as kinda shady to me. Felix straight up asked for my idol guess without asking me for an alliance at all. We weren't even talking about idols either; he's just thirsty for it I guess. And Linus seems like oddly comfortable to me. He's giving me all this advice and outing information that he shouldn't like saying he's in f4 in a different ORG happening at the same time as this one, and exposing that he's won 4 immunities in a row. He either really trusts me or is really stupid, and I can't figure out which one it is. I'm more or less instigating the creation of this alliance because I feel like these are the people that will have the most sway, but I'm going to try and get Felix or Linus out before merge hits. Felix seems really close to John, and I don't want that to either worsen my relationship with John or cause me to lose control of the votes. I'm still keeping up the identity that I'm new pretty well I think. I keep having to hold my tongue and not let the more malicious sides of my personality show, but I want to continue to be the one that everyone likes and has a good opinion of, at least for now. We're going to lose this challenge. We can't have more than 3 people online at the same time, so the gap between our score and the other team's is just going to grow, in my opinion. That's fine with me because I haven't said a word to Katherine, and I'd be pretty content if we got an opportunity to vote her out, and my activity in this challenge is painting me as ""necessary"" so even if we lose, I should be in good shape for the next few votes if I don't fuck up.

"aguateca"

- In the words of hollywood undead...MY LEGS ARE DANGLING OFF THE EDGE THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE IS MY ONLY FRIEND

"vatanchu"

- I know I basically laid the groundwork to make this alliance happen, but I REALLY REALLY REALLY don't want to be in it. I would much rather work with polish bitch long-term, but I don't want to have to work against these children.

"vatanchu"

- So the first official alliance I've formed this season is with Joanna who is so super smart and I love her honesty and everything about her! Definitely worried that there's already a majority alliance I'm not a part of, but to be honest I'm sure it'll all be fine for me

"vatanchu"

- I have talked with Scott. The same way like with John and Tucker I have suggested him how hmm... I havan't occasion to talk with other people and that I have the best contact with him. He was cute and has offered me an alliance. I coudn't disagree. Next I have asked him about the majority alliance and he wanted to know with whom also I have good contact. I have pointed John and he mentioned Tucker what was perfect solution for me. So I have suggested to talk with them and next ask them if they want to join someone else. We are going to establish the majority alliance. Using the occasion I have told him that John has good contact with everyone and it's nothing special about me and him (and it's true, forget the alliance). To make Scott sure that he could be my ally number one. But being honest... I don't belive in alliances in survivor. They are only the tools. Everyone here is my enemy. I want make them suffer all!

"vatanchu"

- John has suggested to join Felix to our alliance so I'm also really glad because I has talked a lot with him to and he could like me. I'm so excited. I want to make everyone of my boys sure that he is my best allie. : ) I know that they also have alliances but... I can't stop them. I only can plot my own intrigues too.

"vatanchu"

- I think that it could be true that a majority alliance haven't existed yet. But everything is possible in survivor so I need to be extra careful. Especially that I tell everyone about my survivor experience. I'm proud of it and I don't want to win at all costs. I hate people who need to pretend someone else to win a season. I grow out of stupid behavior. Survivor is for me something to enjoy. So I do it.

"vatanchu"

- I do the same all the time.I know it's boring for you but I have one more allie number one - Felix. He likes the idea that we have alliance in alliance and he told me about idol. ""Lindsey Ogle Malcolm Freberg Joaquin Souberbielle Monica Culpepper"" I shouldn't use this names so... I think that he is honest with be about that but... It's always a small chance that he has an idol.

"vatanchu"

- So, this is interesting. I'm in a couple of unofficial alliances already. One with John/Tucker/Joanna/Scott, another one with John/Linus/Tucker which is more official, and I wanted to have something with Mary as well. I think I'm in a good spot because I'm making sure that John is the one making the chats and talking to the most people while I act as his number two. I know he's really likeable and he's gotten me in good with a lot of people so that's good. I definately feel like if anyone wanted to vote me out, he would be made aware and if he were to get blindsided, I'd be able to turn something around afterwards because why would you take me out over him since really he's a much bigger threat. As for the first vote, I mean if we end up losing, I don't see anyone sticking their neck out to protect Katherine because she has done fuck all since the beginning of this game so unless she's been playing hardcore behind the scenes, she should probably be the very first boot when we lose.

"aguateca"

- Just had the biggest bonding moment with Lexi I adore her and love her to death I plan on making an alliance of her me and Annajane when the challenge is over

"vatanchu"

- Omg, I have four allies number one... If they would know... BUT people don't tell about things like that to the others so... It is going to be my little dirty secret. And the "Scott's" majority alliance is in the game... I told you that I don't know how to make a group chat ha ha. Four people to betray. I love it. <3

"vatanchu"

- Turns out, Tucker really thinks I'm a dumb cunt -__- He wanted me to suggest getting Linus into the 5 people alliance so that once it got down to it, Me/Him would be targetted by Joanna/Scott and Him/John would be the swing votes. But he's fucking retarded because me and Joanna are way closer than he thinks so that would never happen. So basically I told Joanna what happened and we came up with the idea to add Linus to the alliance, let Tucker think we're brainless idiots who'll do what he wants, while we work Mary and Scott on the side so that once Katherine and Mel go, we can blindside him. This is a lot of overplaying and I'm really not in the mood for it and I'm totally putting my ass in danger for this but Tucker pissed me off. Fucking tryhard trying to make everyone like him come a swap. I'd much rather fuck people over and then apologize and do damage control. Anyways, the entire afternoon has been a completely unneccessary headache because if we don't all vote out Katherine first chance we get, well we're stupid.

"vatanchu"

- Felix is a little bit mad at Tucker who want him to add to the alliance Linus. Felix also is so excited about our secret alliance. And he told me about planned alliance with me, him, John and Mary. We want to get closer to Mary to have more possibilities. I think he trust me and tell me a lot. He would be my true ally if only could believe that something like that exists in survivor. :) But I'll use him and maybe even let him stay close to me? I'm cruel. He would deserve for better ally ha ha. But he has me. And he will have some benefits from choosing me as an ally. I'm a human. Sometimes.

"aguateca"

- Okay so we're behind and it seems everyone is sleeping and I have to go to the dentist in the morning I DON'T KNOW WHAT HURTS WORSE THE TOOTH OR DEFEAT

"vatanchu"

- So in the past 24 hours, there's been a 4 person alliance that I'm in including Linus, Felix, and John called Masc4Masc.

Also today Scott created another 4 person alliance made up of me John, and Joanna. John keeps outing his closeness with Felix, especially today when he advocated to Scott to add Felix to this four person alliance. Suspect as fuck, right? So, from this, that would make 3 members of Masc4Masc in this new majority, so in order to avoid anyone pinning me as playing too hard or playing all sides of the game, I pushed the notion to pull Linus into Scott's alliance so that Masc4Masc still holds all of the power and so that Linus would continue to trust us despite not being invited into the alliance to begin with. That would make the most sense, right? What annoys me the most though is that it took such painstaking work to try to convince Felix this was the best course of action when he wasn't even originally part of Scott's core 4. He just wanted to play both sides, and this is so suspect to me. Like, if you can avoid lying to people, why would you reject that opportunity. He showed me how paranoid he can get about such extraneous, irrelevant information, like how close polish bitch is to Mary, and how scared he is as a player.

I'm not stupid, I know Scott and Joanna are close, but I think I would rather work with polish bitch/scott further into this game because they're not as shady to me. I get a better vibe from them overall. Nobody's going to think me and polish bitch are close at any point, but she still remains as my favorite person on my tribe.

John's in a really good position. I don't see him getting voted out before a tribe swap.

Linus is coming off too strong to people. He's making people think he's a strong competitor and I think he needs to watch what he says. He comes off as a bit too careless to me already, or apathetic as to what people think of him, threat-wise. I'm guessing he hasn't had to really worry about that too much in his other ORG game since he has won 4 immunity challenges in a row and hasn't had to deal with being an actual target for a long time.

I don't think anyone is being disloyal to me at the moment, but definite pairs are starting to emerge, and I think it'd be in my best interest to split some up sooner rather than later, but it's going to affect how people perceive me for the rest of the game. I kinda want to cut Felix first just for the sole reason that he's going to be too scared to make a move in the future, and he's talking to a lot of the same people I am.

"vatanchu"

- Why the fuck is Linus telling me that he made it to the end in an ORG? It's like he's begging me to vote him out.

"vatanchu"

- Yo I just shat on Felix so hard that my nipples are tingling. I went and approached Linus and told him that Felix didn't want him in the 6 person majority because he was scared of saving his own skin, and I don't think Linus will tell anyone because it wouldn't benefit him in any way if he told someone that I told him that, and I think I would have Linus' vote in the future to take Felix out so I'm excited. I just need to catch Felix doing some more random shit and maybe I can get him removed in the next couple of votes.

"aguateca"

- That was such a rush and it was painful and yet so much fun near the end dear god I really hope we win after all the hard work we put into this and if this is just the start of the season I can't wait for more

Day 3
"vatanchu"

- At least one of our tribe didn't even bother to participate but they came online multiple times during this challenge Loved the challenge BUT the time zone issue made it really frustrating for me because no one was online when I was available to actually participate so I am a bit delirious due to lack of sleep. lets hope I dont stumble into the fire and need medical attention! Oh well tbh that might not be such a bad thing after all ""stumbles off to find a quiet spot in the jungle to sleep""

"aguateca"

- Ugh, we lost the challenge and now we have to vote someone out and that sucks. Apparently, the vote is gonna be Andy cause he didn't talk to everyone. Well, he talked to me and he seemed nice but as long as it's not me, I don't care who the vote is.

"vatanchu"

- Okay, lots happened. I’ll go through everything regarding the immunity challenge, then talk about all the alliances and game stuff that happened during it. Alright, so our first immunity challenge. Posting images in a thread for 48 hours. Easy? Yeah, no, apparently not. Of course, posting the images themselves is easy as hell. The hard part is having to be glued to the challenge thread for 48 hours, refreshing it constantly to see if it’s my turn. I honestly was kind of surprised at how much of my time it ate up, since I really didn’t do anything productive at all for those 48 hours. Granted, I probably put a lot more time into this than I should’ve, considering that, as far as I know, I posted the most pictures overall in the threads (431, to be exact). Nevertheless, it was a pretty fun challenge. I’m glad it’s over, but it was fun. Initially, I was just using random pictures from online and on my computer, but I decided that the best strategy would be to use pictures that had some sort of order to them, so that I could easily keep track of which one I would have to post next and not risk posting the same picture twice. To keep track, I put all the images that I would be using in a folder, named them so they were put in order, and then, as I posted one, deleted it from the folder, so that I wouldn’t post it a second time. In the end, I ended up using playing cards, Gyul Hap squares, hot Korean guys, Scrabble tiles, and flag icons, mixed in at times with whatever stuff was on my phone or computer. The strategy worked out pretty well! I never double-posted and was easily able to keep track of what I had posted and what I hadn’t without needing to scroll through entire threads to make sure. The challenge was *incredibly* nerve wracking. We had a good lead in the very beginning that was quickly lost to Aguateca, then we got it back, then they took it back, etc. I lost track of how many times it went back and forth, it was crazy. Anyway, fast forward to this morning (8/31/16, the last day of the challenge), and we were ahead by around 100 posts. While we’re posting rather slowly because no one is online, Aguateca started to make a huge surge, taking back the lead by quite a bit by noon, but then slowly fell behind at around 1pm after a few more of our tribe members came online. We had a big lead for a while, but at around 2:30 (with 30 minutes left to go in the challenge), Aguateca started coming back *very* quickly. We now fell behind again, but by 3pm we were able to take a very slight lead. The next hour was perhaps the most intense hour of my life. For a large part of the final hour, we were tied, but by 3:30, Aguateca started to pull away with a lead, and it was looking rather futile for Vatanchu. At that point, I knew we were going to lose on the number of posts, but I did know that Aguateca had quite a few penalties, both from deleted posts and mistakes they didn’t catch, whereas we only had four deleted posts. After an hour of my heart feeling like it’s going to burst out of my chest and my stomach feeling like it’ll vomit itself, it was finally 4 o’clock, and the challenge was over. Thank god, I probably would’ve had a heart attack if it went any longer. Our rough estimate for how many posts each tribe had was 1729 for Aguateca and 1703 for us. We each filled up three threads and were well through our fourth, which is pretty crazy. Again, we knew they had the penalties to suffer from, but we didn’t know if they would have enough to put us into first. BUT THEY DID!! They ended up with 1714 correct posts, and us with 1695, but after they lost 31 points on penalties compared to our 8, we won 1687-1683! We won by four damn points! Holy crap, I can’t express how great of a feeling it was to read the results. Had we lost by such a small amount, I would’ve been livid (as I’m sure Aguateca is right now), because I just wasted 30-something hours of my life for nothing, but we didn’t lose! I’m incredibly happy we won the challenge, and I’m hoping that we can win a few more and go on a nice streak until an eventual swap. Ok, now alliances and game stuff! After talking with Tucker, Felix, and Linus a lot, and after discussing some game with them, we all kinda realized that we all liked and trusted each other in the game. Sooo, I proposed an alliance to Tucker about it, who said he would be on board (or something more along the lines of “it’s going to happen anyway, so why not”). Then I asked Felix, who said he would be on board, and did the same with Linus who said the same thing. So, that night I created the alliance, which, since our alliance is four (or three? I don’t know) LGBT guys, Tucker named Masc4Masc, which I think is just a perfect and hilarious name, haha. Anyway, this is my first alliance here, so I definitely want to stick with this 4. I think we’re a pretty good group and could definitely go far together, as long as don’t get swapfucked, lol. Tucker, Felix, and I also solidified a little alliance ourselves later, which I chose to call [Untitled], because we couldn’t think of anything to name it. It gets juicier from here. The next day, Joanna mentions that she and Scott were talking about starting their own alliance. Scott told her that he trusts Tucker the most, and Joanna said she trusts me the most, so she wanted to make an alliance between us four, which I was totally fine with. She then asked who I trusted the most besides those three, and I said Felix, and she said that we could probably start a 5-person alliance, between me, her, Felix, Scott, and Tucker. This is great and all, being in another solid group, but the problem with it lies in Linus. If we don’t mention the alliance to Linus, and he finds out about it (say he and Scott have a close duo, which I doubt anyway but still), then he can rat out Masc4Masc, and get Tucker, Felix, and I in trouble. If we do tell Linus about the alliance, then he can, again, flip over to Joanna and Scott and tell them about Masc4Masc, again landing Untitled in trouble. So, kind of a lose-lose scenario. That was, until Tucker suggested that we try to turn the 5-person alliance into a 6-person alliance with Linus and the original 5. Thus, we would have Masc4Masc as the majority sub-alliance of that, and Untitled would then be the majority sub-alliance of the majority sub-alliance. Allianception. I thought this was a good idea, because then Linus wouldn’t feel left out and we could (hopefully) control pre-swap Vatanchu, but Felix was pretty hesitant, for two main reasons. First, Tucker had suggested to me privately that Felix should ask Scott about including Linus, so that we could paint those two as the bottom of the alliance, where in actuality it would be Scott and Joanna. Felix, when Tucker suggested to him that he should ask Scott about Linus, kind of caught onto this, and later asked me if those were our intentions. To be honest, they were really Tucker’s intentions, because I just wanted to get Linus in so that nothing would blow up in our faces, but nevertheless I of course denied that completely and apologized if he saw it that way. Second, Felix was rather worried about Joanna and Mary, since Joanna had mentioned to him that she was close to Mary. I’m not exactly sure why this was a problem for him, but he mentioned it more than once, so I might as well include it here. Eventually, we convinced him that it would be a good idea. He brought the idea up to Joanna, who agreed it would be good to add him, and Linus, who was glad we were looking out for him. Tucker then tells Scott that he was thinking about this idea of adding a sixth person to the 5-person alliance (he didn’t mention that everyone else was basically on board already) so that we could set up split votes for idols and that it would be harder for people to flip, and he’s on board! Scott ends up going around to everyone privately asking if that was okay, which we all said it was, and voila, a 6-person alliance is born! This really works out well for us, since now we’re solid with two-thirds of the tribe, and won’t be going home hopefully anytime soon! As for who would go home, everyone I’ve talked to basically has their sights set on Katherine. She’s been inactive this entire game (despite reading the messages in the tribe chat?), and didn’t participate once in the challenge, which is annoying because, had we lost, her posting only a couple of times would’ve given us the win. It was basically a 9-on-8 challenge, so I’m still pretty shocked we won. I don’t know, she’s just not good for our tribe if she’s going to do nothing. So, I’m hoping that, if we do lose an immunity challenge and go to tribal, she’ll be the easy first boot from our tribe.

"aguateca"

- Everyone on the tribe right now seems nice, but that's obviously because no one wants to be voted out first. Right off the bat though I seemed to get along with Cameron and Claire really well, so I wanna keep them around. I've also worked with Christine in the past and she seemed really trustworthy then. (I seem to like people who's names starts with C) There's a lot of others I can see myself working with too. I don't know if there are any big alliances at the moment. I'm working with people one on one. Either there aren't and everyone is trying to get a read of the tribe like I am, or there's a big alliance that I'm not a part of and I'm totally screwed. So far Andy's name has been tossed around because people haven't talked to him as much and I'm fine with him going tbh. I've been telling him I'm just gonna play passively and go with the majority because it's only the beginning of the game. It's what I plan to do though. Survivor is a marathon; not a sprint... And all those other clichés.

"aguateca"

- I was just telling the guy he was leaving to make him feel better but dang I regret it Andy's running around like a chicken with his head cut off o-o

"aguateca"

- Tf when I thought I posted that in my confessional and not the tribe chat. But it could be a good thing I didn't because people are coming to me for information. I don't know if it's out of sympathy or if they want to work with me, but I'll take anything at this point

"aguateca"

- I'm so freaking shocked! Like, I was so nice to Andy and now he's targeting me! I don't understand what I did wrong tbh, I just hope he'll be the one going home and not me.

"aguateca"

- Whew! Ok so hi! My first confession...here we go. It’s only the first week and I’m already so stressed. So far I really like my tribe, they’re a bunch of good noodles. I absolutely love Claire and I feel like she could definitely be my ride or die in this game. She’s just so sweet and adorable. I adore Michael and Lexi as well. Everyone else has mainly been pretty quiet...Oh except for Cameron who literally sent me a whole entire story on what his strategy is going to be...Like, why??? He says he’s a free agent with no alliances and he literally wants to play using voting blocks like Cambodia and I’m just sitting here in shock...I don’t understand the logic behind that at all!? Like, if I know you’re not going to be loyal to me 100% you serve absolutely no purpose to me or my game...So I highkey want him to go sooner rather than later. He’s just way too blunt and I don’t know how to deal with that. But yeah, we lost the challenge unfortunately and now there’s a possibility I’m going home as a first boot...again. Well, that’s according to Andy at least. This guy has literally got me so paranoid cause I promised myself to never be a first boot ever again in my life and he just casually tells me my name is being thrown out...Ugh. But anyway, the plan should be Andy tonight. He’s super sweet but he’s got me and Claire super paranoid and I don’t need that in my life right now! So hopefully everything goes according to plan and we can win this next upcoming challenge.