Round 3: Reroute bitch, REROUTE!!!

[Jermaine]

Okay so I am wayyyyyy behind on creating this thread, but I have a very good reason...sorta.

My keyboard completely gave out on me the other day because my O key is fucked up, so I had to go to wally world on a fucking SUNDAY and buy a USB keyboard. I should take a picture of the ghetto setup I have going on right now with a new keyboard on top of my laptop's keyboard. It's a HOT ASS MESS!!

Anyways, that's kind of off-topic but that is why you haven't gotten any new journals from me in the past few days.
I've struggled to even be able to chat on skype because of this foolishness :\

SOOOOOO, why have I titled this episode REROUTE?? It's because I need to completely redo my strategy in this game and start down a different path.

Initially what I was going to do was stick with this core 7 alliance, and then have Joe on the side help me take them out member by member. WELLLL, thats not going to work out so well because someone in our group has been leaking out info to other people who are not apart of this core group.

This suspicion all started when Brookie posted a picture in the tribe camp of Fei and Greg together in an attempt to let people know that they knew each other outside the game, thus leading people to assume they are auto aligned. Anyways, obviously neither of them are friends on FB with Brookie so one wonders how she came across that picture. Somebody obvious leaked it to her...but who?

I had a sneaking suspicion it was Ricky, but I have to be very careful who I say that to because I feel like a lot of people run to him with information.

So of course the first person I go to is Joe and this is how that conversation went

[9/20/2013 5:41:52 AM] Jermainey: >_<
[9/20/2013 5:42:00 AM] Jermainey: so who do you think
[9/20/2013 5:42:15 AM] Jermainey: is the one talking to Brookie
[9/20/2013 5:42:30 AM] Joe Purcell: What do you mean? From when she was all "someone is asking me: ..."?
[9/20/2013 5:42:34 AM] Jermainey: not that
[9/20/2013 5:42:49 AM] Jermainey: but linking her to pics of Fei of Greg
[9/20/2013 5:42:56 AM] Joe Purcell: Oh, IDK.
[9/20/2013 5:43:19 AM] Joe Purcell: Juice? That might explain why he randomly decided to call me fat and retarded in the Blood vs. Water thread, since I had a whole entry about what a cunt I thought Brookie was. Lol.
[9/20/2013 5:43:41 AM] Jermainey: talking about someone in the cast has been involved with Bill, etc
[9/20/2013 5:43:59 AM] Jermainey: really?
[9/20/2013 5:44:08 AM] Jermainey: are they friends?
[9/20/2013 5:44:15 AM] Joe Purcell: I have no idea who Brookie is friends with.
[9/20/2013 5:44:24 AM] Joe Purcell: Or why anyone would be friends with her.
[9/20/2013 5:44:50 AM] Jermainey: and then she briefly mentioned a "big" alliance -_-
[9/20/2013 5:45:04 AM] Joe Purcell: Yeah.
[9/20/2013 5:45:11 AM] Joe Purcell: And she mentioned Greg, me, you, and Fei working together.
[9/20/2013 5:45:24 AM] Jermainey: lol which is so random
[9/20/2013 5:45:27 AM] Joe Purcell: I know.
[9/20/2013 5:45:34 AM] Joe Purcell: She does seem to have access to a lot of information.
[9/20/2013 5:45:53 AM] Jermainey: i think there's a leak in the group

I was hoping that he would figure out that it was Ricky, but instead he says...Juice? *sigh* This is when my paranoia about Joe being linked to Ricky really kicks in. If he won't implicate Ricky in being the snitch in our group, he either is super clueless (which i know he's not) or he wants to make sure I don't try to target Ricky. I didn't push it any further and instead decided to act like I thought it was Nicole. Hopefully if he IS reporting back to Ricky, then he can tell him he threw me off his trail and that should keep me safe in their eyes for a little while longer.

So nowwwww I've decided to turn my attention to Fei as being my go to person

[Jermaine]

FUCKING PRO BOARDS!!!!! I wrote this long ass reply, and you mofos decide to crash on me?!?!?!?

UGGGH, FML!!

Anyways, I had a interesting conversation with Fei the other morning during the IC:

[9/21/2013 8:32:58 AM] Jermainey: i've had this sneaking suspicion
[9/21/2013 8:33:02 AM] Jermainey: that someone
[9/21/2013 8:33:11 AM] Jermainey: is leaking things to her
[9/21/2013 8:33:14 AM] elizabeth.fei: anyone in particular?
[9/21/2013 8:33:46 AM] Jermainey: maybe Nicole? idk
[9/21/2013 8:34:00 AM] elizabeth.fei: so
[9/21/2013 8:34:03 AM] Jermainey: i haven't really gotten to talk to Nicole
[9/21/2013 8:34:07 AM] elizabeth.fei: i was wondering about ricky
[9/21/2013 8:34:17 AM] Jermainey: or him
[9/21/2013 8:34:19 AM] elizabeth.fei: because right around the time that ricky added me on FB
[9/21/2013 8:34:29 AM] elizabeth.fei: brookie got into the basecamp
[9/21/2013 8:34:35 AM] elizabeth.fei: and started laying into greg and i
[9/21/2013 8:34:43 AM] Jermainey: yeah and when it started
[9/21/2013 8:34:50 AM] Jermainey: Ricky kind of....faded away
[9/21/2013 8:35:05 AM] Jermainey: he stopped talking
[9/21/2013 8:35:44 AM] elizabeth.fei: and idj
[9/21/2013 8:35:47 AM] elizabeth.fei: idk
[9/21/2013 8:36:08 AM] elizabeth.fei: i've had a sneaking suspicion that that seven has a core 4 i am not a part of
[9/21/2013 8:37:02 AM] Jermainey: who would that include?
[9/21/2013 8:37:15 AM] Jermainey: if there is, im not apart of it either
[9/21/2013 8:37:18 AM] elizabeth.fei: well
[9/21/2013 8:37:23 AM] elizabeth.fei: ricky/nax
[9/21/2013 8:37:32 AM] elizabeth.fei: nicole seems close with ricky
[9/21/2013 8:37:53 AM] Jermainey: do you think its odd that Nicole doesnt talk much in group chat?
[9/21/2013 8:38:04 AM] elizabeth.fei: nax went to brenda first about the seven
[9/21/2013 8:38:12 AM] elizabeth.fei: it could be
[9/21/2013 8:38:13 AM] Jermainey: hmmm
[9/21/2013 8:38:29 AM] elizabeth.fei: and im also thinking back to the chat thing that nax posted
[9/21/2013 8:38:32 AM] Jermainey: when we had to vote
[9/21/2013 8:38:46 AM] Jermainey: Nax made a seperate chat
[9/21/2013 8:38:50 AM] Jermainey: for just the 4 of us
[9/21/2013 8:38:58 AM] Jermainey: me, him, ricky and brenda
[9/21/2013 8:39:04 AM] elizabeth.fei: uh huh?
[9/21/2013 8:39:13 AM] Jermainey: i wanted to discuss it infront of everyone
[9/21/2013 8:39:33 AM] Jermainey: i mean if we're supposed to be this big alliance
[9/21/2013 8:39:40 AM] Jermainey: shouldnt everyone know whats going on
[9/21/2013 8:40:00 AM] elizabeth.fei: right
[9/21/2013 8:40:02 AM] elizabeth.fei: and like
[9/21/2013 8:40:21 AM] elizabeth.fei: i don't know that they would turn on us anytime soon
[9/21/2013 8:40:30 AM] elizabeth.fei: but i just feel like i am really on the bottom
[9/21/2013 8:40:50 AM] elizabeth.fei: and i think back to that pic that nax accidently posted
[9/21/2013 8:41:00 AM] Jermainey: the one for the puzzle?
[9/21/2013 8:41:00 AM] elizabeth.fei: and brenda was super high up
[9/21/2013 8:41:04 AM] elizabeth.fei: like he'd been talking to her
[9/21/2013 8:41:23 AM] Jermainey: oh yeah, they definitely have their private convos
[9/21/2013 8:41:56 AM] Jermainey: i feel like the only reasn i was brought in
[9/21/2013 8:42:04 AM] Jermainey: was because im going to be a pawn
[9/21/2013 8:42:16 AM] Jermainey: people will always vote for me
[9/21/2013 8:42:25 AM | Edited 8:42:36 AM] Jermainey: just cause of me being a returnee
[9/21/2013 8:42:26 AM] elizabeth.fei: i don't know
[9/21/2013 8:42:32 AM] elizabeth.fei: nax didn't realize you were a winner at first
[9/21/2013 8:42:43 AM] Jermainey: >_>
[9/21/2013 8:44:29 AM] Jermainey: does he not read instructions??
[9/21/2013 8:45:17 AM] elizabeth.fei: lol i seriously doubt it
[9/21/2013 8:46:24 AM] Jermainey: oh god
[9/21/2013 8:46:43 AM] Jermainey: well we already know
[9/21/2013 8:46:54 AM] Jermainey: Ricky gets around...to alot of people

I'm sort of glad to see that Fei feels like an outsider of the group because I honestly feel that way sometimes too. She at least realizes that something fishy has been going on with Ricky and is even open to an alliance with me, her, Greg and Joe. If we can cut Joe out of that, and replace him with someone else, that would be even greater. My biggest hurdle with her right now is that she REALLY wants to align with me and Joe, but I don't fully trust Joe right now. I want something more solid with her because with this FB pic "scandal" going on, she has had a lot of attention drawn on her and thats good because it keeps me out of the spotlight. Me, her AND Greg need to have a serious game chat sometime soon...maybe tonight if they're both around and willing. F3 deal maybe??? I won't get THAT ahead of myself but I can see myself going really far with the two of them.

I've also been working on building good relationships with other people in the game as well. Mainly Zack and to an extent, Jedda.

Zack has been a lot of fun getting to know and I think I can trust him to have my back. During the immunity challenge, Brookie tried to get him to attack me and he came directly to me and told me about it. That makes me feel like he trusts me a little bit. I may really need him when it comes time to vote out some of the magnificent 7 peeps. I don't know exactly who he has on his side in this game, but I'd love to work with him more.

Jedda is REALLY fun to talk to as well, and I can usually catch him in the morning when i first wake up since its night time for him there. I worry about Jedda though because I know he is friends with Ricky and I think he'd do what Ricky told him to do. But he's another nice option to have around to get rid of some people like Nicole or Nax when the time comes. The only thing i worry about with him is that he has his eyes set on getting rid of Greg. The picture posting scandal caused this and I can't really go to bat for Greg because I don't want attention drawn to me. Anyways, he's another good option to have around when the time comes.