|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 26, 2013 14:34:48 GMT -5
25.media.tumblr.com/598b914e6783a91cc35f5c592a206f9b/tumblr_mtqz43a7VS1qe4z3zo1_250.gif^^^^ How I'm feeling after that vote. Was I too harsh on Lexi by showing her a fake vote I made for Jedda? Was I too mean by constantly reassuring her she was safe, because I was nervous about the Amulet going to Jedda? I'd like to think not. Now the lines in the sand are a little more clear, with: Ricky, Nicole, Nax, Jedda on one side, possibly with Jermaine and possibly Brenda, but because of Brenda playing the Amulet on Woods, that's unlikely now... And definitely Animal, Woods, Joe, and I on the other side... Leaving Brookie, Quanz, and BK as the question marks, but I think Brookie and Quanz would help me out, BK not so sure about him. Things are looking up right now, but the only way I would like to go forward in this game this next round is with Immunity. People are thinking this is the last round of Caste System/Redemption Cove, and with the Caste System, I still may be put into a minority with the "Ricky and his minions" alliance, so Immunity is the only way to combat that for sure. SO NO MORE FKIN ART CHALLENGES OKAY SANDY?!?!?!?
|
|
|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 27, 2013 19:04:46 GMT -5
From Episode 4's confessional: "If I can help it though, Ricky will stick around, and just his minions will get picked off. Why? Because despite all of the information Lexi shared with his group, Ricky still said to them that he liked me. He obviously doesn't trust me right now, but if the vote works, I will let him know that it's not you I don't like, it's your followers I don't like. I guess I've had a change of heart with Ricky a bit. He can be trusted and a wicked gameplayer, and someone I would want to have protecting me, but he's just not with the right people yet. "So I've had my talk with Ricky and we've cleared a lot of air. I don't feel the best because I feel like I was getting a couple half-truths, but I still was able to get to the end result of each of us saying we want to start anew, forget about the actions in the past, and move forward. I'm willing to do that with him, but not his alliance, so when he says he'd like me to clear the air with Nicole, I am hesitant, because I feel like she is convinced that I'm against her, which is completely right. But also, I can't look aligned with everyone, because that's what sent Fei and Greg home, so I'm trying to learn from their mistake. I can't send home allies and have them blab to everyone that I was saying I was helping them. The only thing I regret when talking about Ricky was telling him that Brookie was the one telling me everything his group was planning, which definitely may hurt her trust in me, especially since I just sent her best friend packing basically because of her telling me all of Lexi's betrayal. I have not told Animal yet about this talk, and it may be the first thing I don't tell him, because while Animal is one vote, we're talking about a whole group of people that Ricky can influence to not vote me out. This is no way means that Animal is suddenly not my #1 if I had to pick someone, I still trust him a whole lot more than everyone else. I feel like this talk with Ricky will keep the target off of me from both sides of the game, and keep it on other people within each group. Ricky will just tell his side to not go after me, and I'm in good with a lot of people on what's called "my side" now. So, speaking of Nicole, talk about a blow-up. The sweet girl who I talked about Episode 1 is actually incredibly feisty and can have a mean streak in her. She attempted to throw me, Brenda, Animal, Woods, and Joe under the bus by saying we all have an alliance, and they all "lick Zack's ass" (vulgar much?). On the downside, it seems like people are putting Animal and I together as a pair, and that will not be good for if we make it to merge, people will want to break pairs up. However I saw a lot of upside to Nicole's blow-up. a) Learned who was on what side. Apparently BK (who came out of the blue LOL), Woods, and Animal were fighting back, saying Nicole has no backbone, is Ricky's bitch/goat (the shade was great, not gonna lie), and they were all basically defending what I've told some of them, meaning they are on my side currently. Ricky decided to try to put a seed of doubt in my mind with Animal, talking about a conversation he had with Jedda, where apparently Animal called me shady, and aligned with everyone, while I'm sitting here with literally *zero* alliances or chats LOL. (I may be not aligned with them, but I've buttered them up so much with my personal talks all the time.) Woods, while attacking Nicole/Ricky, actually agreed with Ricky that I'm shady and aligned with everyone, which is some weird way of saying "thanks for voting with me". b) It kept the target off of my back and on Nicole/Ricky, and BK/Woods/Animal since they were the ones actually arguing. Even if I was there and heard my name, I'd like to not be in the drama, so I probably would not have stooped to Nicole's level like some did. c) It pushed a lot of people towards me. While I may already have Animal, this argument brings in wild cards like BK, and Quanz (who Ricky guessed as a name in an alliance with me), and Brenda on my side. Guys, you don't want to push votes away from you by accusing them of stuff that isn't true, those are your swing votes! Ricky is a wrecking ball when he is drinking, he gets into a fight every drinking night it seems. d) I know who my next target is now, and that's Nicole, someone who has made it a mission to slander especially Animal and I's names in this game, and she has also been the only person to not attend a vote yet, making her an all-around challenge threat. If I've got something to say about it, Nicole will be going this round as of right now, despite how Ricky may feel about it. Hopefully I don't have to cast a vote for her though, and I can win Immunity. But with this challenge, I expect Nicole to pull out another good performance and have Immunity, since there's nothing I can do to hinder it. As always, thanks for reading!
|
|
|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 29, 2013 9:54:57 GMT -5
[8:56:38 AM] Sandy: General journal updates [8:56:41 AM] Sandy: - thoughts on last tc [8:56:44 AM] Sandy: - closest allies [8:56:49 AM | Edited 8:57:29 AM] Sandy: - ppl u dont trust and a threatened by [8:57:14 AM] Sandy: - opinions of everyone remaining in the game and where they fit into your plans going forward.
Sandy wants to know the T, so I'll give it to y'all.
I think the best way to do that is to do another ranking! And I like rankings anyways...
SO the order I trust everyone from greatest to least:
1. ANIMAL- The amount of people I trust fully is low compared to the first time I did a ranking. However Animal still stays at the highest spot. Sure, maybe recently he's said some things about me (I'm shady, I'm aligned with everyone), but it's about who you trust after hearing these things, and I think he just had to say that stuff since he was talking to Jedda, who isn't exactly on my side. If there's a way I can bring Animal to the Jury vote, I would do it. I wouldn't care about winning if I was against him, but there's no way at this point I would betray him, so he wouldn't be going out on my hand. 2. JOE- Sure, the whole winner thing makes me threatened by Joe, but right now we have the exact same goals, even with separating Ricky from his group, and I wouldn't betray someone who has the exact same goals as I right now with this many people. He would not be someone I would bring to the finals, because it was a great point for Sandra to make that she won her first time, and people brought her to end anyways. Ideally I would take Joe up to about 5th. 3. BROOKIE- Her selling out Lexi really surprised me, and has made me really trust Brookie, but since Lexi was voted out, she has talked about leaving the game, and I wasn't the best to her by telling Ricky that Brookie was the one to sell out your whole group. If Brookie and I can repair what's been done, she would be the other person I'd ideally want to take to the Jury vote, I don't feel like she talks to many people, and the people she doesn't talk to, like Woods, she bashes them in public. She'll probably have at least one more blow-up before she's voted out/makes finals, so Brookie can be, I don't like using the word, the perfect goat for me. 4. JERMAINE- He's up this high solely for the fact that we have a lot in common, and despite having not a lot of game talk, I don't think he would betray me right now, and I'd like him to make it a little into merge, but not too far, because he is good with both sides of the game, and therefore can get a lot of Jury votes with his likability. 5. WOODS- While he seems to have it out for me right now, I think a talk with him and Animal together to clear the air will solve all problems Woods has with me. He'll be someone difficult to manage, if every time he hears I'm talking about him he'll be hating me. Sorry I'm kind of good with both sides and they talk about you? I don't know how much I can spell it out for him. If you listen to everything everyone tells you, you'll trust no one pretty shortly. If Brookie decides to lay down and die, Woods would be my back-up for the goat I want to bring to Jury vote. 6. RICKY- What an enigma. While I have honest discussions with Ricky, I know I can't trust him fully until his group is out, and he knows that. I may not be able to stop it if people want to exterminate that whole group if Ricky doesn't stop trying to separate himself from Nax, Jedda, and Nicole. Ricky's role for me is to keep the other side off of voting for me. If he does that for me, I will do that for him. Once his side is gone I have to make a choice on whether to REALLY trust him, or cut him loose. He says we're cool, but I still see things where it seems like he is against me, even after our talk, so I don't believe everything he says fully still. Am I threatened by Ricky? No. I believe I've put too many holes in his ship, to a point where he'll have to jump on my ship to survive before his sinks. He does have the strategic sense to cause an uprising though, so he can't make it to the end or else I will probably not be there. 7. QUANZ- Still believe he's the kind of person who will get eaten up by a big character, he doesn't really have much strategic sense to him, and unfortunately, I'm gonna use the word sheep to describe him. I'd take him to about 7th-6th if I had my pick. 8. BRENDA- While I haven't talked to her recently, her want to separate from Ricky is cool. She would make it as long as Woods makes it if I had my pick. 9. BK- This is probably so shocking LOL. But the way he stood up for Animal and Woods in the argument with them and Ricky and Nicole shows that in some way, I can trust him right now. Since he probably won't last because of his inability to make a confessional during ALL the time he's online, he will probably be booted soon. #TripleEliminationRound 10. JEDDA- Still addicted to his accent haha, I could listen to that all day. I had to lie about voting him out instead of Lexi, and because of that, I doubt he trusts me, so I'll have to get rid of him rather soon to avoid him backstabbing me if I have to rely on him, which hopefully will never happen. If for some reason Animal was being with honest in his talk with Jedda, then I have to take him out soon so Animal can't turn on me for Jedda. 11. NICOLE- Ricky mentioned he's closer to Nicole as opposed to Nax, and that's why she's higher than Nax. I have to talk with her soon since I told Ricky I would about me not having any alliances with the people she thinks I have one with, but like I said in my previous post, she's #1 on my hitlist due to being a challenge threat, and slandering my name. If she really was posting for like 15 hours with Ricky last night, then this round, she's not an option, and I will have to find a different plan of action if I have to vote. 12. JEFFY- We have not talked. If he makes it back into the game, possibly Brookie and I can make some alliance with Jeffy, but as of right now, I do not trust him at all since Lexi is probably filling his head about not trusting me, when she did it to herself. 13. NAX- While we are Skype contacts, that's it as far as we go. Is my #2 person on my hitlist, despite not going after me at all in the 3rd immunity challenge, so he may be an option for a vote this round, but not if Ricky or Nicole have the Amulet. 14. LEXI- She put herself here. There's no way I would work with her if she came back from Redemption Cove. I may have done her dirty, but it was because of the actions she did to me that caused me to lie to her so much in that last day she was in the main game. At least I can trust Nax and Nicole to be against me, I had to stop her backstabbing before she had a chance to complete it and vote me out.
By the way, I thought 6.25 hours would be GREAT for this challenge, but I guess that's not the case, and people will be putting up numbers in the mid-10s. If they wanna spend THAT much time, and lose a whole night's sleep over this, you can have the Immunity. I couldn't spend that much time on it because of work (work kills me again in a challenge...). I basically am hoping for a 5th place at this point if I want Immunity.
Thanks for reading everyone!
|
|
|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 29, 2013 21:16:10 GMT -5
So I've ended up on a voting tribe with Woods, Brenda, Quanz, and Brookie. Again, another tough vote, as everyone I want out is safe again.
This vote will be much more difficult to stay blood-free in than the previous vote actually.
I told Animal the easiest plan would be to say we're voting off Brookie, and actually vote for Quanz since Brookie was already Amuleted by Ricky in a previous round, Brookie has a much higher chance of being Amuleted. Woods approached me right after saying that he agreed about that plan, and that Brenda was on board.
Cool.
But do I trust Woods fully this time around? Unfortunately there's a small bit of doubt with what he says now. The only way I could see me getting voted off is if Brenda, Quanz, and Woods all voted together against me but that just seems so unlikely to happen to me. Still writing it though so I can say I saw it coming if it happens LOL.
EDIT AFTER I WROTE THIS FIRST PART: Woods now wants to split between Quanz and Brookie, where Quanz and Woods vote for Brookie, and Brenda and I vote for Quanz, and Brookie probably votes Woods. I will probably clue in Brookie and just let her know to vote for Quanz and she'll be safe, so Brenda and Woods can't get rid of Brookie in a re-vote, because Brookie is more important than Quanz to me. I won't be so involved with the minority because that got me in trouble last time.
So if everything goes like I hear/want, it'll be 3 Quanz (Me/Brenda/Brookie) - 2 Brookie (Quanz/Woods), and Brookie might get the Amulet so it'll be 3-0 if not 3-2, Quanz going either way.
Fingers crossed that a blow-up doesn't happen again like last time...
|
|
|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 30, 2013 13:30:42 GMT -5
*Haven't had a bitchy post in a while so here's one for you...*
Woods was acting VERY fishy and VERY shady last night...
While he told me he was fine with splitting the votes between Brookie and Quanz, he would not disclose this information to Animal, and told Animal "sorry for what he was about to do".
Like what the fuck? This could've been SUCH an easy and painless vote, but here I am freaking out like usual.
You know that feeling that you know something bad is coming? I feel that way right now. Brenda and Woods (maybe even with Quanz?) can vote me off, and either vote me again in a tie to vote me out, or with Quanz can just vote me off right away. Why would he not tell Animal what's going on when the 3 of us have been in a very loose alliance (#AnimalHouse) since before the first vote?
I can understand Brenda voting for me since Woods probably told her to, and we don't talk at all basically.
But if Woods votes me off, I would deem him CRAZY. He brings me into #AnimalHouse because I'm a "social beast", then gets mad when because of my social ability, I talked to the other side of the game last TC about the vote because they were expecting me to vote with them, so basically he would vote me out for the reason he brought me into the alliance. I don't see any benefit of voting me out, unless he is with Ricky's group, like he was accusing me of the last TC. And then what did I do? VOTE WITH HIM. He says actions speak louder than words, but my actions thus far have never wavered from being loyal to him.
Then Woods asked Animal if he (Woods) can trust me. We have had the EXACT same goals the ENTIRE game. He would be so stupid to vote me out if he thinks I'm going to just jump over to Ricky's side when I'm trying to get Ricky to jump to my side to help US out.
Apparently they've already voted, so there is nothing I can do to stop this if it's happened. My only option right now is to go to Ricky, and offer him a favor of any kind for the Amulet this round. I may be acting desperate for nothing, but if Woods wouldn't have said anything to Animal (and then to me), I actually for once would've been completely worry-free this TC.
I just want to make Jury, I don't care if I get voted out at like 12th if that means Jury for me, so if this guy votes me out because of ONE conversation I had with Lexi, someone I voted out THE DAY AFTER might I add, I may blow up.
|
|
|
Post by ZackNT on Sept 30, 2013 20:06:15 GMT -5
Woods, I'm voting for you because if Quanz is telling me the truth, I found out about your plan to vote me out. "The Patriot Act" has been repealed. Up until the last hour of needing to vote, I was really gonna vote for Quanz. You almost had me fooled. Almost. But since you're gonna try to backstab me, I'll backstab you right back with a vote for you. If this works for you, you really are isolating yourself from a lot of people and your time should be coming soon. Good luck.
|
|