Don't Play a Post-Merge Game Pre-Merge/Confessionals

Day 4
"najma"

- OMG I'm in an alliance with Whitney and Scott, I'm working with Aras, and I'm with Dalton! Hopefully I can hold onto the four of them if there's a swap or merge. And I hope this doesn't come back on me ten fold.

"zibaq"

- I think I've got the numbers. Right now, I feel like a polician, you know. I speak, I decide some pretty things, but I can go down if I made bullshit or if one person got a big info about me and wants me out. My leadership is like the wind.

"najma"

- At the end of this 3rd day I'm feeling great; I've made a strong alliance with Scott and Malik (the dream team trio alliance <3 <3 <3) and am getting on really well with everyone else. I'm so glad that the first tribal went according to plan with no surprises, and it's left our tribe feeling really positive about the future! Hopefully we'll do well in the reward challenge, as it would be great for our tribe's morale.

"najma"

- I like Malik, and I looove the prospects of the dream team alliance. That said everything that Malik says just sounds so manufactured and fake. He's too understanding and too nice and it all just seems very dishonest like he's clearly trying to stay on my good side. Contrast that to Whitney who's probably doing the same thing but just feels so much more genuine when she talks. I'm not quite sure what to do with that information yet, but it'll be interesting to see if other people find Malik fake and want him out. I'm committed to protecting him at this point.

"zibaq"

- Well we lost reward but whatever. Honestly the team seems to be getting along well but I'm not really making any connections. I've talked to will and roodman. But other than that idk if people are not talking strategy, or just not doing it with me. :/

"najma"

- PHEW THAT REWARD CHALLENGE OMG still in shock. I really like Scott right now, and Whitney is amazing. Kristen said she was trying, but she didn't submit..girl wyd. I'm honored that they suggested I be one of the three to go to the Bazaar. Honestly if we lose Immunity again, and Kristen doesn't help or get a good score, I want her out. No offense, but I feel she's weighing down the tribe. I want us to win challenges, not lose because of inactives or people that can barely be bothered to contribute. Idk we'll see.

"najma"

- Joey dug his own grave. That's all I can say about that. I'm interested to learn what his reasoning was for voting for Aras. Anyway, we received our reward challenge and I was really determined after messing up the jigsaw challenge so bad to redeem myself. The game Constellations was fun to play and I didn't do so bad at it. Out of my tribe of 7, I ranked 4th--so firmly in the middle. Everyone on Zibaq except for Constance scored higher than me though, so they're clearly not messing around (10th out of 14 overall). Fortunately, we squeezed out our first victory. Kristen got a strike and scored no points for our team--I find that unacceptable, but the good news is that Kristen is pushing to the forefront as the next castoff from our tribe. So that's good news for me. As far as allies are concerned, I'm closest with Aras, Dalton, and Scott with Malik and Whitney on the periphery. Kristen is the only wild card. She hasn't accepted my friend request. She hasn't messaged me. We had to send three players to the bazaar and I should have just kept my mouth shut, but because I'm an annoying leader type, I just HAD to put in my two cents and say that the three highest scorers in Constellations should go to the bazaar. Everyone agreed and we sent Whitney, Malik, and Scott.

Day 5
"zibaq"

- Constance is very discreet. I mean, she's an easy vote. And that's why I want to save her, because if my group of 4 didn't vote against her, we can have a 4-3-1 in Tribal Council and blindsided everybody !

"zibaq"

- ok my tribe is a bunch of fucking characters lemme get that one thing straight. I mean we got the genius alternate, romain, whose english is very sparse (an example of one of his high quality one-liners is: "you seems horny") and honestly i can get behind it.

"zibaq"

- Things are going good so far. But Trent keeps talking about alliance chat rules so like???? Not that I'm THAT worried but I'm not finna go home cause I don't speak fucking French.

"najma"

- So Whitney wants to keep Kristen as an ally and get rid of Aras. There are so many problems with this plan. The first is that Aras is better at immunity challenges than Kristen and we may face a minority. The second is that if Brett and Dalton aren't on board then we may lose their trust and have them flip in a swap or merge situation. The third is that if it is Malik me and Whitney voting together it reveals our alliance. I realize Aras might be a threat, but it's not time for that yet. Hold the phone, and don't play a post merge game pre-merge. I know we're excited to be here and excited to play, but we need to have patience before we start making hasty regrettable moves.

"zibaq"

- Good times at Zibaq, it's a pretty slow start which means that people are getting ancy because they don't have some alliance to hide behind. There's also the fact that none of us are inactive or that useless.

You've got Gevonte, he's acting like he's nervous but he's really just trying to nudge me into making an alliance of him and Ben. Unlikely.

Ben is letting his guard down with me a little bit too much, he's talking about hiding behind Romain and voting out Gevonte. I really do believe he's looking at me as his #1 right now, and by virtue of that he's my #1 too.

Romain is probably assuming he's the head of an alliance of Ben, Tate and I, but in reality he's getting meatshielded by each of us.

Zak is doing okay for himself, starting to probe for connections, I know he's not a dummy so I'm assuming he atleast had one close relationship at this point.

Tate's sitting it out, not too active. Being Mr. Nuetral.

Anna and Constance aren't really around.

I'm thinking Gevonte wouldn't the most likely the first person to go, just because he's a little bit eager and not very connected. I wouldn't be surprised at Constance, though. Anna and Zak are social enough to dodge the boot.

"najma"

- I love Whitney, but she is very adamant about wanting Aras to go next. Whereas me, I like Aras and I want him to stay. She doesn't trust him, and now I don't know what to think. So I hope we win so it doesn't happen. This sucks.

"najma"

- I think I'm about to be blinded by the D...during the challenge Scott showed how he looks and..omg now I feel kinda nervous around him. Not like I don't trust him, but idk. I'm going to try my damndest to get my head back in the game! I can't fuck up this main for a penis. 😂😂 I like him, but I need to get back into it before I lose my way lmao

"najma"

- The immunity challenge was released and poor Zibaq because I am a Selfie Scavenger Assassin. It's the only challenge I was particularly good at my previous season. I really enjoyed scooping up the majority of the points and photos early so that my tribe members could focus on getting less than 5 things each instead of an entire ocean of items. It was so beautiful how everyone from the tribe came together and collaborated on submitting 95% of a completed scavenger hunt. It's incredible. I told myself I wasn't going to be a leader on this tribe because it made me a target in my last game, but I'm SUPER neurotic and I really like to have things organized and orderly, so I couldn't help but try to keep everyone together and compliant with what was asked of us. Even Kristen delivered some points and I was very impressed with her participation. When the points came in, we DEMOLISHED them. Not only that, but the points I raked in alone would have been enough to beat them (I brought in 140+ points). I was really worried we might lose still and voting someone out would have been the hardest in my ORG history because I genuinely like everyone on this tribe. I feel very lucky to be with this group and I hope we can continue winning like this.

Day 6
"najma"

- YAAS we won immunity! Thanks to Brett going in for us! Now we can get a break from tribal. We can also take a break and relax and go over things, because I'm not sure about going for Aras. I like Aras. Kristen is determined sometimes but she waited until this challenge to really be in this. So idk because she's yet to talk to me. And Whitney apparently said she's all about sticking to the girls..now to think about it I think she needs to go before Whitney gets blinded by Kristen to work with all girls in the merge--oh HELL no..

"najma"

- My first confessional in a while, and a lot has happened. Me, Scott and Malik have a completely trustworthy alliance, and I genuinely believe that we can go to the end together! (sidenote: me and scott also have a final 2 pact). I also have strong links with Kristen as we're both women (women power...!) and think she would vote however I asked her to. Brett and Dalton I'm also friendly with, and would trust them should we merge/swap. Now onto Aras - I am telling you NOW that if we do not get Aras out IMMINENTLY he will be at that final tribal council. He is a STRONG social player and good at challenges. He thinks we're in an alliance, and asked me to confirm this yesterday - naturally I did, but immediately told my trio ("the dream team trio alliance <3 <3 <3") about it, as to not lose their trust. Everyone thinks the next time we go to tribal Kristen will be the easy vote out but I have other plans. I will persuade my trio to vote Aras, and Kristen, who will be vulnerable, I will tell to vote him otherwise she'll be going home. Therefore it will be a 4-3 vote against Aras, who will subsequently be going home! I legit don't want to make blindsiding a habit, just I feel like he's the loose cannon of the tribe, and I trust everyone else.

"zibaq"

- So the vote is set and I'm glad we could come to such a quick consensus. But it's sad when the person isn't really fighting. He could sway us into voting someone else if he wanted to but I guess its decided. Tragic

"najma"

- We won the comp so all is lit in morocco, I rlly hope the other tribe is severely split and someone annoying goes home :~) that's all i got for now fam

"zibaq"

- It’s disheartening tbh to beast that challenge (80 points!) and still lose by so much. I actually skipped school to take selfies with large bodies of water. If there’s a bright side, I think I’ve really established myself as a pillar of the Zibaq tribe, between my performance and my activity.

I don't know if Constance meant what he said, or if was just part of his appeal, but I feel like he gave us the emotional green light to vote him out tonight when he said he couldn't blame us if we went ahead and did it. We all were a little hung up on feeling sorry for him and his situation and I know I personally would have felt a little guilty to throw an early ORG loss on top of his problems.

I'm not just voting for Constance now because I'm a cop out. I'd probably have voted for him anyway; I just would have felt more hangdog without his preemptive forgiveness. Romain actually told our alliance straight up that he wants to blindside Gevonte for being a threat, on Day 6. Is that supposed to make me feel safe with you, Romain? Romain isn't even subtle. His profile pic is Tony for chrissakes.

What made it worse was that he quickly backtracked and said that we should keep Gevonte around and just drop Constance. So all he really did was demonstrate to his alliance that he’ll blindside anyone for a bag of peanuts, and that he changes his mind at the drop of a hat.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m no different. I’ll slit someone’s throat and drink from their jugular if I’m thirsty. But at least I know how to hide it.

"zibaq"

- Right now, I feel like I give informations to everyone. I feel like a head chef on a cook brigade, who says "OK, we'll do this, this, this" and my boys says "Yeah, that's good for the tribe". And I like this. Will and Roodman don't have experience and are loyal, and for Tate, he seems like he wanted an alliance very early in the game. So now, I can make whatever I want with Zak, Anna et Gev'. I'm the boss ? No, not now, I need to wait an other Tribal to prove my position in the tribe. But I'll become it.

"najma"

- I'm glad that we actually won immunity. If I didn't say already! Anyways, the closest I feel to at the moment is Scott. I know Dalton said he was trying to take time to get to know everyone else and he apologized, but come on man I haven't heard from you in two days. OOP Kristen literally just messaged me. I was about to say she hasn't talked to me yet but I guess now she has. Now I'm hoping Aras doesn't go anywhere. Scott and I I feel are getting closer honestly. He's a really cool and nice guy, but I again still wanna keep my guard up. He could be hella trying to charm me.

"zibaq"

- Well, I'd say Gevonte is my choice to send home because I know he's less predictable and he wants to do memorable shit, but nonetheless it's gonna be Constance tonight.

I feel like I was her most trusted tribe mate, but she just didn't communicate with other people. Gevonte got the ball rolling with the Constance vote, but really it was always going to happen unless I really tried to sway it, and it's just not subtle or smart for me to do that so early. The important thing is that after tonight, nobody feels like they're on the bottom. Going into the swap with no enemies and no suspicion. That's what I need to do.

"najma"

- No tribal council! What a concept. I made a tighter and more solid bond with Aras--we are calling it an alliance now. He feels good about Scott and Dalton like I do and he finds Malik and Kristen the most expendable. I'm cool with that, personally. Tomorrow the tribes will be even, 7-7, and I really hope we can keep this momentum going and just steamroll them off the map. :)

"zibaq"

- I talked to Constance. He seemed to believe that none of us were putting in the effort to understand the gravity of his struggle at the moment, and I wanted to demonstrate that he was wrong. I did my best to keep the conversation personal, and not strategic, but he didn’t leave me many ways out when he said, “If someone (AKA yours truly) gives me a chance, I can prove myself to be a capable and loyal tribe mate.” I knew I was walking a fine line. My reply was basically, “Look, I’d hate to see you go, but I don’t want to rock the boat. If you can find a good reason to target someone else, and the numbers to pull it off, then I’ll vote with you. Until then, I’m voting for you.” So Constance began to scramble, but he didn't get very far before he conceded his fate was sealed. He knew I didn't have high hopes for him from the start, but I don't think he knew I was rooting against him.

I also don’t think he knew how close he was to staying alive. Romain was probably 50/50 between targeting Constance and the Gevoot (Gevonte boot). Will actually would have wanted the Gevoot if it was up to him to decide for all of us. Tate prefered to target Constance, but says he could have been convinced otherwise. I think if I had endorsed the Gevoot, it’d have happened.

But I don't want to make it happen, not yet. The Gevoot would put Annabelle and Zak on the outs. We’d take out a potential threat, and made two pseudo-enemies.

Even if Anna and Zak wouldn’t be triggered by being left out of the loop, we’ll still be setting a precedent of Zibaqs blindsiding each other being socially acceptable. I’d much prefer we voted as a unit for all intents and purposes. If this tribe becomes a hive mind, I’m at my strongest.

I think that I am the strongest when this tribe has a lot of sociality, because my social game has been pretty damn good so far, pardon my ego. It’s hard to bridge a schism in the tribe with honeyed words and sweet nothings. Actions speak louder than words. So I’ll keep everything Kumbaya as long as I can, because once we crack, we’re not going back. Fortunately, arbitrating drama among friends and keeping everyone happy is a skill that I’ve had a lot of practice with.

Last thought: Will and I have grown thick as thieves. There’s a trust and chemistry aplenty between the two of us (But not in a homosexual way, that’s for sure). I think having one mind in two bodies is a huge advantage in Survivor. He and I will go deep.