FINAL NOTE

[nax]

This is my rage quit final note.

Sandy, you threatened me to be your informer, and then you called me a liar when I said I hadn't known who was responsible. You don't trust me to keep the game fair, I have no business being here.

Anyway, I'm sorry to my alliance for bailing on them. Hopefully they'll do well without me.

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I removed a hostile paragraph. I don't think there's any need for us to heat this shit up. Just chiming back in to officially note that I'm not quitting afterall.

[nax]

Not so final.

What a day! I ragequit for about 20 minutes, then came back. Another 10 minutes later and we hear that Aaron quit for personal reasons, and 20 minutes after that, Honey was forced to quit for medical reasons. An actual, honest to gawds medevac.

Yeesh.

But I'm going to talk a little bit about where that leaves me in the game. With two more down, but WITHOUT a fight at Redemption Cove, Jeff is one step closer to leaving the game. Aside from Lexi, I wish I knew who else he was working with, so I could target people from his own crew. But I don't really know the answer to that, and Lexi isn't really a viable target, because I still hold out some hope of using her for a vote somewhere along the line.

We're down to 17 players, with only one at RC. If the next five challenges each send 2 people to RC, and each RC challenge results in two people not continuing in this game, by the time it's run its course and one boot returns, we'll be at F8.

And F8 is a tough round. The chance of a 4/4 split is high, if people are playing hard, and I expect that there will be some in that crowd who will be. I'll be one of them, for sure, and if our planning works out right, so will Ricky and Nicole. That means that we need to keep two people close and in the game until then. Jedda is a good choice, but from there we have our pick of (at this time) Lexi, Brenda and maybe Joe. I'm not inclined to let Joe last that long, but who knows, I may take enough of a shine to him to start trusting him a little. We'll have to see.

But I KNOW we need to boot Greg and Fei before then, too. They will NOT be with us at F8, unless they really want to risk Ricky and I being around at F7 - they'd have to seriously trust that they have the numbers among their secret alliance at that point to force things through at F7 not to try to make a move at F8.

And I'm considering trying to pick up some of the flotsam: Brian and Quanz are both excellent dupes. Jermainey is too sharp to be used as a dupe, but he could be made a member of a false F3 with me and Ricky. That might be enough temptation to hold him close until F5 (at which point we have nothing to worry about).

But that's all long-term. In the short term, we need to stick with the 7DS plan, and look for an opportunity to quietly vote either Fei or Greg out. I think it'll be pretty hard to find that opportunity with Animal, if his challenge skills remain up to their current standards. But of those three, one should fall in our lap at some point in the next couple of rounds.

Protect Jedda, Brenda and Lexi, and make sure they KNOW we're doing it. Those are our best shots at extra votes when we need them.