Board Thread:Season 46 - Kariba/@comment-24603302-20180406222637/@comment-33060993-20180408142115

=Jake's Rites of PAssage= '''okay i’m a sentimental bitch so time for some essays oops. i’m terrible at being concise, so i tried to add a table of contents if you don’t feel like reading rites of passage: the novel. i’ll use capitalization though so that’s a weird vibe. and also sorry that these took so long to post - i've been doing shows all weekend and time and i are not getting along. overall, thank you all for an exceptional season and being a lovely kariba family xoxo''' =18th - Mack= '''I love the purple hair and even though it seems like you were relatively inact, queen of getting Matthias to vote Vincent instead of you, then self-voting. Technically that started a rivalry that lasted all the way until F6 so your impact sdfjk.''' =17th - Nic= '''Hey! We didn’t get to talk much because I think you fell victim to a p busy schedule, but I enjoyed our conversations and you’re a really kind person. I hope work has lightened up and it’s not so miserable for you anymore, because you deserve better.  =16th - Gloria'''= '''Ahhh I’m so sad we didn’t get to play together here, but got to meet on Venezuela. You have such a kind soul and make me smile and I wish you the best!!''' =15th - Augusto= '''Icon. Legend. Mess. ILYSM!! You were definitely one of, if not, my closest allies pre-swap and seeing you go was so tragic. I remain a proud member of the Pancho Fan Club and I really hope you’re not as discouraged by your elimination as you are by calculus. I think you fell victim to what was perhaps the most stellar social game I’ve seen. Everyone wanted to work with you, and as a result, the aims and aspirations of seven people became funneled through you and it came across as if you were trying to play twenty sides, which was kinda the case, but not to the extent that people believed and someone needs to say that!!! You are easily one of the most likable, iconic, and just astounding people I have come across in my few games and I really hope we get to play together again because you are such a motherfucking fave and a victim to your own legendary capabilities!! You better SLAY on Byzantium!!''' =14th - Kiley= '''We didn’t really talk too much or connect too well, but you seemed nice and you did get Jack an exile pass that eventually led to me getting an idol, so in a weird way I get to thank you for that. I hope all is well!!''' =13th - Ben= '''OMG I loved getting to know you this season!! I feel like we connected on a real level and just talked a lot about life, which was really refreshing from constant strategic convos. I adored your passion for music and your singing is sooo amazing like as someone who does theatre we definitely connected there, even if our first convo was a little tense because of my own musical confusions but we overcame that real quick. I loved how supportive you always were, especially with challenges, and I’m sorry you fell early victim to the titanic that was Zambezi 2.0, but I’m low key happy that I got an idol out of it since that bitch and I spent so much of the merge together.''' =12th - Elizabeth= '''I was so disappointed that our time together ended the way it did and you were such a victim to circumstance. Voting you was the epitome of separating strategic and personal, because you’re legit one of my closest friends across these games and I adore you to death. You even got me to use sc for a solid three days and that's just difficult. Regardless, remaining loyal to my allies and utilizing Jack’s OG Hwadze connections was just more essential to my game than keeping you in, and I’m so sorry our duo couldn’t reach the merge. We did get to WORK Iguazu Falls though!! A force to be reckoned with and a true queen ilysm. I would keep rambling but we’ve been through all of this in my Upolu ROP and all of it is still soo true!! Good luck with the new job fave xoxo!! ​​​​​ =11th - Dan'''= '''Your positivity always made me smile and the grace with which you left is so impressive and really resonated with me on a personal level. The ability to just be kind to, rather than spite, the people who took an experience away from you, is truly something hard to come across and you exemplified it. In our personal conversations, we connected really well, whether it was just talking about our life goals or your ICONIC flags. Like you are such a healer with the social work prospects and it’s just amazing because there aren’t a lot of them in the world and I really wish you luck and hope you enjoyed Queensland!! On a strategic level, that personal connection just never truly transitioned into a game one and the challenge threat you posed, coupled with the way your name fractured both OG and Swapped Hwadze compared to the alternate target, meant it was the best route for my game, but I’ve definitely missed just talking to you and hope we can catch up soon xoxo!!''' =10th - Dovile= '''You were one of my closest allies in the premerge, even if Elizabeth was coming to me almost every day and telling me how much you didn’t trust me lmfao. I’m so glad we grew close on swapped Zambezi and got to work closely together as hated Koror finalists. There was a significant amount of time where I felt like I could go to the end with you and I know you shared that sentiment, but as I said when you left, your game is so tenacious, bold, and dominating that I felt like by tethering myself to you in the way that I had, I could be limiting my own strategic prospects and my own chances to play. You were dubbed Hurricane Dovile by our tribe mates and the nickname is so true—you are such a force to be reckoned with and I love it. What I loved even more than seeing you single-handedly dominate almost every person who crossed you was our personal connection. I feel like a lot of people really only got to see the game side of you, but there’s another one and I feel lucky enough to have gotten to see the other you… we connected about similar personal circumstances, or our passions for cooking and theatre, and you were always so kind to me. Like legit talking to you always made me smile because you really are a sweetheart behind the tenacious game you play.''' =9th - Drew= '''I love you so freaking much. You were easily playing one of the best games and talking with you was always an immense pleasure. Between broadway musicals, sentimental conversations, and you being an iconic bridesmaid, I do really feel like I found a friend in you, especially that one time I was high key panicking and you were there for me. I know I tried to play it off later but legit thank you. You just always had this way of making me happy and seeing you unfriended me makes me so sad, but hopefully whatever is bothering you can be talked out at some point because I hold so much respect for you both as a person and a player. All of the sentiments I hold for Augusto remain so true for you - your social game is so stellar and people just gravitate to you in a way that is truly scary. Props to you for being sooo damn likable like I can’t even omfg. Your Hwadze idol definitely screwed you, because word spread v quick and within my experience, I had days of you telling me we would go to the end together and I was like “girl wyd” because you were withholding that and the idol radar from me, which ALMOST EXPOSED MY IDOL BTW so that was not cute!! But your elimination definitely lit a fire under my game, because it was the first time I was blindsided - so thank you for that. From the bottom of my heart, I hope you know the placement you got was nowhere near representative of the game you played, which was absolutely ahhh, so please be proud of it!!''' =8th - Becky / Jordan= '''Faveee! A fellow gleek and supportive friend I am so here for that!! Like tysm for being there for me when my own college search wasn’t going great with your own experience. I DESPISE that our games took such opposite directions when the merge hit because we vibed v well on Zambezi. Voting you was definitely the epitome of separating strategic and personal within this season and I hate that the last move you tried to make was saving me when in reality, the framework had been laid for you to go hours before you and Matthias reached out to me. Your majority was just v cracked I guess djskfjkh. All of that aside, I really loved getting to know you and I’m so proud to see everything worked out as well as it did on Ile-Saint Marie!!  =7th - Louise'''= '''QUEEN! LEGEND! STAR ILYSM!! My OG target and last fellow Zambezi!! On Day 1, I felt so strongly that we could go far together, enough so that I told you that you were my target and I feel like from there we really clicked in this game and did THAT. As time went on, you played an astonishing game, riding the middle like it’s Vincent (yes your showmance was a highlight). But in all seriousness - you were definitely one of my closest allies and I’m so sad that you went out the way you did. Truly robbed. Whatever we prayed to before results clearly was like “why are y’all doing this over orgs. there are people dying.” You were definitely the front-runner for a decent portion of the merge and I really hope we get the opportunity to buzz our way deep into the game some other time!!!  =6th - Matthias'''= '''Getting to know you this season was AN EXPERIENCE. We had such a shaky and weird strategic relationship that contrasted our strong personal one and it honestly ended so tragically when I finally decided not to snake you for once at F6, only to learn you were trying to return the favor and turn Jack against me. All of that aside, I loved our interactions and feel like we were really thrown against each other by circumstance when the merge started. Like seriously I adored you so much. You always had a way of making me laugh dsjkfk. Even that one time we lowkey threw hands in the tribe chat and I tried to be fierce I found it really hard to be upset with you because you’re just too iconic skjhfjhkfds. I think you are so intelligent and in tune with the game and you were NOT afraid to play hard, call a bitch out, and blow up their plans. Your mind & power. I’m shaken. On a personal level, I do feel like I owe you an apology for not really talking for you at all in the last forty eight hours; having snaked you at F11, F9, and F8 and hearing you were attempting to launch a plan against me was a clear indicator that our time together was over and I didn’t want to snake out / lie one more time unless it was absolutely necessary. I meant to say that before you left, but rehearsals and all. Sorry for even being a basic theatre nerd in my ROP :( I REALLY hope we get the opportunity to play another game together because I think we could have been excellent allies had we not ended up with such different relationship networks when merge hit. Can’t wait to talk soon!!!  =5th - Jack= I actually voted you out because I wanted to be the TRUE last Zambezi. When we met on swapped, I just knew we would go v far in the season together, especially when we bonded as well as we did, spending that entire night just trying to earn a few extra points for our titanic of a tribe. You might underestimate yourself and call yourself UTR, but you DOMINATED in challenges and navigated Swapped Zambezi as well as quite a few merge votes in such a formidable way. I believe wholeheartedly that you could have won the season and that’s why I did the most to win that challenge and cirie you :( I really appreciated our talk before you left, especially because it provided a lot of clarity on what direction is best for me to take going forward so for that, I really want to thank you. Also -- I kind of dropped the ball on your daily compliments (ik you hate me for saying this), so I guess my final one is you played a v excellent game and your fate matching Ms. Cirie’s is a testament to just how good you are. I wish you the best of luck with your studies at university and with your ability to finally sleep in past noon for the first time in a while.'''