Episode #5: Confessional

[joe]

Holy shit! Round five! I can't believe I've made it this far. When I came into this game, I was pretty sure I was never going to make it past round one. I'm pretty satisfied.

I'm predicting that we have this one round left before we merge. I assume that when we get down to 11 (which is next round), the person at Redemption Cove will come back, and we'll be at 12 with nine jurors and a final three. Like last season (I think?). I could be wrong, but, it seems natural... and considering I'm never sure about where I stand with people in this game, I think I'd rather make the merge and jury sooner rather than later.

So yeah. Last round. Lexi is gone. 3-2. I still manage to get zero votes. I guess my social game isn't too bad. Then again, Woods' is kind of abysmal. He pretty much irritated Jedda and Lexi into voting for him, I think. He's really pissed off Ricky. I don't know what he's doing, but... I love it. I think I can successfully say that the focus is shifting way the fuck off of me, and on to other people. I've got members of both "sides" wanting to work with me. All I have to do is sit pretty and wait for these fuckers to vote one another out.

Also, sidenote: I think Animal and I have developed a flirtmance. It's cute and fun and shameless. Haha. It's not a big deal, just harmless fun since he lives in Florida. It's a nice way to keep me entertained in this mindfuck of a game.

[joe]

Also that was my 100th post!

And Sandy eff you, pointing out us voting Lexi out on her birthday. Haha.

[Sandy]

It's a wiki fact!

[joe]

This is just a practice post for the challenge.

Joe is Still Standing

[joe]

This is a second practice post for the challenge.

Joe is Still Standing

[joe]

Okay, I'm going to rant here, and it may come out as pointed at the hosts or whatever.

First of all, fuck this challenge. Heh. It was scheduled at precisely the wrong weekend for me. I know that we were given a lot of time, but unfortunately, this was the weekend that some friends I haven't seen in nine months were coming to visit me. Then I had to attend my roommate's going away party. Then I had to work today 9:30-5:00. My intention was to just come home and do what I could from now until the deadline. 2.5 hours could probably be pretty good, right? Chances are lots of these people would make posting errors.

Well, that doesn't matter, because a little over an hour into the challenge, when I went to submit a post, it took two whole fucking minutes to go through, and thusly, I am out of the challenge. If I am not last place, then some people have to seriously fucking suck.

Ugh this is annoying. All I can hope for is that some people give me the amulet or whatever and I'm safe, but, I don't know that I'm anyone's target anyway. I just really would rather not have dealt with any voting drama this round, but, shitty timing.

[joe]

Well, I can't say I'm surprised I'm on Shudra. I am, however, incredibly disappointed in knowing that if I had gone as long as I could have, I believe I'd have just edged out Quanz and landed on Vaisyha. Honestly, I think I'd be less of a target on that tribe, but who knows.

Here, I'm in a weird situation. I talk to neither BK nor Jedda. However, Jedda is apparently Ricky's lapdog, or something. So I think he'll vote for BK. I've been playing it like I'm loyal as all hell to Ricky, so, voting me out now probably won't do him any good. Then with BK, well, I'm sure he's talked with Jedda as much we have. I dunno. Strategically, Jedda going would be great, but it would be difficult to do that, especially since if Ricky got any wind of it, Jedda would get idol'd and my ass would be sent packing. And, even if it was successful, Ricky would be pissed at me for having done it. There's not really any way around it. I wish Ricky had no power. But, bitch has to keep on winning shit.

Anyway I was planning on writing more but I'm hungry so fuck this. :-)

[joe]

So, barring a blindside, it would seem that BK is voting for Jedda, and Jedda is voting for BK. I've been playing it with BK as though I am voting Jedda, and I've been playing it with Jedda and pretty much everyone else that I'd be voting for BK. However, I pretty much can do whatever I want with this vote.

There are pros and cons to voting and keeping either of these people. If I vote out BK, the pro is that... well, Ricky and co. will feel as though they can trust me more, for sure. Some others might be frustrated with me, but beyond Woods, no one has really pressured me to vote out Jedda. I'm shocked Woods hasn't tried harder, to be honest. Maybe he just assumes I will? Whatever. If I vote out Jedda, there are more cons than there are pros. Ricky and all of his gang will be super pissed with me, since I've told him and David that I would for sure vote out Jedda. Not to mention, many people basically think that BK is a useless sack of shit, and he's been carried this far long enough based on his weaknesses. So yeah. Keeping Jedda also poses a risk. I basically have a golden opportunity to weaken Ricky's legion of followers, so, it seems like a no-brainer to just vote him out right now when I have the control. However, that's not the game I'm trying to play. I've done a lot of work up to this point to be fairly off people's radars, and I knew going into this that that was how I would have to play. Social and UTR. Voting out Jedda suddenly puts me on many radars, and now I'm a big fat liar. I think I can still maintain my position in the middle ground by keeping Jedda. I just don't want people thinking I'm mindlessly following Ricky's orders. He could easily win if he made it to the end. He's been a huge target this whole time, yet he hasn't been in trouble. People hardly entertain the thought of voting him out.

Ricky has to go eventually. For sure. It will be a huge uphill battle to win this thing otherwise, especially with the jury that we're about to start building: Nicole, David, Brookie, Jedda... those four will probably give them his vote hands down. I'm not playing this to end up in third place or anything worse. I'm here to be a contender. Unfortunately, I have to play it quiet for now. Everyone seems to wanna work with me. I just have to weigh my options carefully.

[Sandy]

GO JOE GO!