Round 2: By The Hairs of My Chiny Chin Chin

[Jermaine]

Sooo, TC was a whirlwind of emotions!

Actually there was only one real emotion and that was NERVOUSNESS. I expected to receive votes from Jeffy and Brookie, but i was a little surprised to see Lexi be swayed that way. Granted, Lexi and I only spoke once one on one, it did show that she trusted Jeffy a lot. I'm glad my alliance just so happened to fall into the same caste because otherwise I could have been TOAST.

Some things did happen during the voting period though. Brookie ATTEMPTED to talk to me, so maybe she's not as cliquey as I thought she might be. Granted, we probably had the most SHALLOW conversation I've had in this game, at least the girl made an attempt. In the end she still did vote for me which is, meh, whatever. OH, but i did have to laugh at the fact that she said I was cocky on her parchment. Imma need her to have several seats because I wasn't the one TAUNTING Aaron during the IC results. I hope several people took note of how Brookie acted a damn fool when she thought she was going to win...or at least be safe. I took personal joy in seeing her not make it to the finish line :3 :3

The only other thing that was kind of odd during the vote was that Nax insisted that me, him, Ricky and Brenda talk about the vote away from Nicole, Fei and Greg. I don't know why we had to have a chat in private because if we are a a solid group, I think EVERYONE should be informed on how we vote. We might have built up some more trust among the 4 of us, but I need the 7 of us to fully trust and work together. By him doing that, I have this small suspicion that there's someone in our group he may think will leak our vote...maybe Nicole? I'm trying not to think about that decision too much but it keeps creeping back into my head. First vote and the paranoia has already got me *sigh*

The final TC happening, that really wasn't that big, but sorta just meh was Quanz coming to me telling me that my name was being thrown around. I couldn't understand, for the life of me, why he was so worried about my TC. I know he thinks that since we are returning players, we should have each others backs, but after him saying that me and Joe were big threats, my level of trust with that one is not very high. I immediately went to Ricky to see if he had been talking to him (which he had) and let him know that i didn't trust Quanz. This will probably come back to bite me in the ass, but so far Ricky hasn't given me any reason to doubt him. It does make me worry though because Quanz knows (well idk if he remembers) that I considered Ricky to be a big threat coming into this game. Will Quanz use this info? It all remains to be seen.

After TC i finally go to speak to Jedda. I LIKE him! Now i see why Ricky and Joe are fans of his. He told me he didnt understand why I received votes at TC. Idk if he was being sincere or polite, but if he was being sincere, then hopefully it means other people don't really view me as a threat. Its something. I just have to continue to build the relationship there.

Also talked to Zack who shared the same sentiment as Jedda about me receiving votes. He got one this round as well so we were kinda in the same boat. Anyways, I talked to him to find out how the vote went on his tribe and he told me that BK pretty much just threw Honey and Tabatha's name out there and people ran with Tabby....thats a bit odd, but i guess she wasn't all that social anyways? I'm still working on Zack as well, because i do need something outside of the magnificent 7 (apparently thats our alliance name?) that isn't Joe. I think Zack and I could work well together, so we'll see what I can make of that.

Holy cow, I guess i made up for not posting anything yesterday. 

Anyways, the challenge starts at 2pm for me...yay, I'll be at work until about 5pm so I'm ALREADY at a disadvantage *fart*

[Jermaine]

So I have to thank my lucky stars that the 2nd Immunity Challenge turned into a reward for rupees because I would have been wayyy on the bottom tier *sweat*

Once again, in keeping with the theme of this episode of barely being safe, Ricky suggested that we (me and him) not attempt the challenge at all so that we can land in the same caste and control the vote. Hmmm, I can't help but begin to be a little more suspicious of him. Is he using me as a human pawn that will always get part of the votes while we get rid of who he wants to get rid of?? I know its wayyy too early to be suspicious of my ally, but it's not crazy to put it out there.

Anyways, Aaron ended up quitting under suspect conditions. I tried to message him after he left our tribal chat but he completely ignored me. I guess I'll find out after the game is over, what exactly happened with him and why he chose to leave...or he may forever just be a mystery quitter. Hmmm, someone said he had an issue with something Brookie wrote on her vote and didn't like the way production handled it.

OH, speaking of Brookie, my new name for her is Cabbage Patch Kid. The only person I told this to is Greg though cause I have this sneaking suspicion that almost everything we say is leaked back to Brookie in some way or another. Someone is talking to that....person and my radar is beeping on Ricky. Anyways, she decided she would OUT the fact that Greg and Fei had met in person before. Nobody was shocked because most of us already knew. She then proceeded to say that since Bill had access to our journals, he was giving Greg info on what we were saying. *Shrug* I haven't said anything about trying to get Greg out since I actually like him, so I really don't care. I don't think they WOULD cheat, but even if they did, there is no reason for him to come for me...for now.

Joe, of course said he wished that we would've voted out Brookie. By all means, I don't care for her at all but gameplay wise, Jeffy was more of a threat....or so I was told. You know I must say....i played the first round SOOOO SLOPPY. I essentially let Ricky and Nax do the majority of talking for me and god knows WHAT the two of them said. I really did take a leap of faith by letting them control my fate that week.

So moving forward, I'm talking to EVERYONE myself. I can't do this fly under the radar shit because it's gonna end up fucking me over in the end. I've relied too heavily on a couple of my allies but now I gotta get off my ass and move around a lot more.

My biggest weakness in this game so far is that I actually sleep T__T