Your Confessional

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The idol is hidden and I have no idea how it works, I probably wouldn't be able to spend all time going through old threads anyway, so I just put in our 7 person chat that we should all share clues because one of us 7 need to find it. Kind of true that one of 7 need it but ideally it is so that I can get clues from others, I wouldn't share any I get

The HII is important but it's not omnipotent, but it's who I got voted out last time so have to be aware of it. I also got voted out at the first vote of the merge last time so I really want to improve on my placement this time

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I did the challenge feel like I did very well, had like 30 per rnd for most of them and I even broke the chatzy at one point for spamming so that is a good sign........

meanwhile, ench created the 9 person chat with all the anti vets and we're all just having small talk and I am making sure I involve myself, but trying to be a little UTR for the beginning of the merge stage but also want my ear to the ground on everything... so I messaged Magnum, Ricardo, alex all individually, as well as the routine conversations I have with cole and ench... and then briq separately... Just want to make sure people believe I care abt them

I also messaged Jimmy because I'm in Minnesota seeing the Yankees and I know he's from here so engaging him with some small talk and hopefully he will find me pleasant and the vets won't target me too soon, even though we should have all the numbers

and we've been wanting to create a fake 7 person alliance of all Tongans and bermudans left so that Bry and Alex and ricardo even though he is in both, feel safe when the vets are gone, Briq has concerns over ricardo since he wanted to blindside briq, and I am concerned abt Alex having the idol so want to strike him before all the vets are gone and I floated it out there to a few people... I was saying I was a little weary to split the vote this time because Alex and Bryan can flip and screw us, but I think we have Bryan at least for sure, so even if we don't have alex we'll have 4-4-4... also was talking to briq because want to see where his head is always at, don't want to get blindsided by him again, I will be the one blindsiding him this time... but I was just seeing if he thinks we should be loyal to bryan and the mafia when we get down to 8 or stick to the new core 6 of me briq vova magnum cole ench and he's pretty much set on the core 6, or that is what he said.... the good thing is that he created that fake pm with Tongan Bermuda, kind of taking on a leader role and may appear kind of sneaky for doing it so hoping ppl realize that

and cole was saying that he's talking with Ashley who's trying to swing him and I told him keep playing double agent but make sure that they target someone besides me him ench so that we protect ourselves in case of an idol or something

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the plan is 5 votes on Ashley, 4 on Alaina, and hopefully wiping out her advantage... As long as nobody in the 9 flip we should be good and I think we will be. Everyone thinks that they're in a majority beyond the 9 and I am doing my job with messaging Bryan Alex and Ricardo individually each, the 3 we're worried abt and making sure they are good, have to keep building trust with them, me checking in with people is something that has been successful for me and I will continue to do.

Briq originaly wanted to vote 6 on Ashley and the 3 of Bryan Alex Ricardo on Alaina so in case any of the 3 flip we're good, would've made sense but ench brought up good point that what if Ashley has idol and Alaina has double vote, I think that is probably kind of unlikely but everyone agreed 5-4 was the way to go so I'm sticking with it. I brought up the idea that 3 strategy and 2 social vote Ashley and 3 sidelined and Alex vote Alaina just so it makes it easier. I was thinking it over because if some people flip we could lose the majority, but if ppl are flipping we could be screwed anyway, and I want to make sure that I am voting in the majority so at FTC I can say I voted for who went home every time, I'm 7 for 7 thus far

And Ench ran it by us abt posting that obnoxious answer in the tribal thread and I said yes because makes him look like a douche and paints a bigger target on his back than mine, I am just making sure the vets are not voting for me so I am safe in case of any flippers or idol play, so also making sure Cole continues to pin target on someone else

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lol ench and all the vets going at it, just like I wanted, what jim said abt him being like phillip and someone pulling his strings is not completely true but it's partly true, I do want to take him far because of his ability to piss people off, and his lack of a social game. He can come off as a leader because he throws out ideas and creates pm, however the person, me, that gets what they want and is involved in all of the message without creating them is who plays the better game if u ask me, but I will give ench credit because he's a smart guy and does think kind of strategically, and I think that he is a cool guy who I can see being friends with in real life, I like him... i just message ench and told him let them talk because don't want him rubbing alex and them the wrong way and them flipping, but pretty safe bet the vets are voting for ench now anyway

and briq brought up in the Tongan Bermudan pm that we should consider targeting ench soon, and I don't want to do that so I messaged him to see if he is serious and then cole to see what is up, and they said it's fake just to throw off Alex and them... I handled that well, went to briq so he thinks I trust him, and told cole and then ench so they know I have their back...

I am about to send it my vote for Ashley soon.

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Now ench messages in the group pm with 9 that ashley asked if she's going home what should he say and cole was like "yea just tell her" like an imbecile knowing full well what happened to Stan. I was not online but luckily briq told him not to and just say jimmy. I would've preferred him not saying though honestly, because she may just go with the opposite of what ench tells her

And ench put in our message with cole that ashley told him there's a mole in our alliance and it's not Alex Bryan or Ricardo and he found out it was cole who was playing the double agent so not a big deal but cole also said that he told her the tom briq ench alliance is running the game and I dont like having that target on my back.... Cole is sneaky and I don't trust him, my gut says not to, I hope he doesn't screw us this vote

I also asked cole who they are targeting. I asked him once before and he nvr responded, and he changed the subject fast to rap when ench was talking abt ashley saying cole was a mole, and then they were talking abt it for awhile. I don't like those two being that close it scares me I don't want to be 3rd

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yayyyyyyyyyy

deuces Alaina, went to 1 tribal and went home, not the greatest resume

the only problem was Ashley playing the idol so can't get too excited, but still glad because the majority stayed in tact, and one of the people we wanted gone went.

The only question is how'd Ashley get the idol? What she said abt a prince giving it to her makes it even more complicated, here is how I see the possibilites
-she found the merge idol, and just said that to create paranoia, that is what would work out best
-Alaina was gifted an idol at EI and gave it to Ashley
-The red idol was discovered by Alex and gave it to her this vote
-someone else found the merge idol and gave it to her from our 9, ricardo or someone

The reason why her being given the idol doesn't make sense is because why would someone give her the idol and not flip? Idk if that makes much sense to do unless it's just keeping his cover up another week, but not like we wouldn't known who gave it anyway

I feel like shes just trying to create paranoia but can't be too careful. I believe in the "Crucial 6" of me briq ench magnum cole vova, although cole would be last in trustworthiness in my book, and then I am starting to trust Bryan more, but Alex and Ricardo and possibly someone from the our 7 are playing both sides for some reason.

Now just have to make sure that one of our 9 wins immunity and then we can split the votes on Ashley and Jim, I don't want her staying another round, she needs to go finally and stop slipping through the cracks... But have to be careful with how we split them since there is a chance one of our 9 will flip, a flipper is more likely with each passing vote

but overall this vote went well and I can't complain too much, but guards staying up, now goin checking in with everyone individually to see where they are at

and Alaina on the jury kind of stinks because she's the one person I nvr spoke to in the game, but I may try interacting with her in other threads, and shouldn't be a huge deal should I get to FTC, talking to her made no sense for me, the vets were not getting fooled by me another time and would've made me look sus to the anti vets

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I also am trusting Briq more and more, I mean I always trusted him but want to strike him before he strikes me because it will happen eventually, but he's got a really strong knowledge and feel of the game and it's nice to talk to someone who can keep up with me strategically

and ricardo has been posting confessionals A LOT, I always look out for who's posting a ton because like what do they have to say? He worries me a bit but may not be anything

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not much brewing as far as I can tell, which may not be a good sign but probably just because a slow time in the game.

A few things that have happened,

we agree that splitting on ashley and jim is the play as long as neither of them win immunity, but I am a little worried abt Ricardo Bryan Alex so I think that if the Crucial 6 all vote for one guy and we can just spin it as the 3 strengths and 3 sideline vote together, that way we dont have to wrry abt flippers, even if they all flip we're good, but the problem is if they have an idol and give it to ashley then we're in trouble, we just have to hope nobody flips and if they do they don't have an idol, I see a lot of ppl looking around the archive threads and that worries me, briq was saying that we should do a 5-4 split but we'd have to see how that split will work, we'll see

and jim posting that screenshot of Ench assures there's a rat in our 9 making us worry even more, but obviously the person did not flip so hopefully they just thought what ench said was stupid and wanted to show people

Ench said that Ashley asked him who he's closest with and said that he told her me and briq from strategy, so that nobody expects the big 3 with cole, but may put a target on my back as a leader... I have not had any contact with Ash since the merge and don't know if I will. I already played the social game enough with her in the swap stages and I feel like reaching out to her is pointless now, they know I am not flipping I have fooled them enough already, and talking to her will just make me look suspicious

And Cole told me and ench that Bryan has messaged him saying he wants a f4 of him cole alex and ricardo, so I guess that good ole Bry isn't as close to the mafia as we though, not that we were close to him, however now I won't feel bad abt cutting him when we have to. This proves that him alex Ricardo are questionable and makes me wonder if we should do the Alex blindside one vote sooner

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Alright Alex won immunity so voting him is out of the question, now the question is how we split the vote on Ashley and Jim

Ricardo proposed that
Ench me, Briq, Bryan, and Ricardo for Ashley
Mags, Cole, Vova, and Alex for Jimmy

But Ricardo worries me so I've been messaging this to the Crucial 6

Honestly Ricardo worries me. I'm afraid they are trying to frame the split like that so they can switch and vote with them

And I think that we should really push in the Tongan Bermudan message that ench needs to go after Ashley so they feel safe with us and don't see a reason to flip.

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And Briq and ench are saying that Ashley has been contacting them so I've been asking them to keep me updated, apparently she wants her ench Jim and Briq to align which is so dumb of her because why would ench want to align with Jim now. But maybe it's a good sign she's approaching them and doesn't think she has the 3 floaters... I am just worried that she has not messaged me, I'd message her but I have to try to continue staying as close to UTR as I can... But I am Afraid she will target me but hopefully jims serious abt continuing to vote ench and I will be fine

I just feel like our crucial 6 has the majority right now and splitting ourselves up could be a mistake, yes the floaters can tell ashley were voting for her and she can play an idol or they can give her an idol, but that means they want to flip, and if they want to flip we're screwed if we split ourselves up anyway because they will just vote with Ashley and Jim and give them the majority... Basically if we do the 5-4 vote Ricardo proposed we put ourselves at risk of an idol and then flipping. This way with us 6 voting together we just put ourselves at risk of an idol

The other way is the 6 of us vote for Bryan Ricardo but I don't want to flip on Bryan yet and I will eventually need Ricardo to blindside Briq or vova . Plus not sure the crucial 6 will be down for that

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alright so I convinced the crucial 6 my plan to have all of us vote Ashley makes sense, but ultimately we just decide to have everyone that was supposed vote her, briq me ench bryan ricardo stick to vote her, and then add cole and magnum, only vova and alex will vote Jim, this means 7 votes for Ashley, 2 for Jim and 2 for whoever they vote for "x"

the big piece of news was briq telling me that Ashley proved to him she had the merge idol and said that dewie had the red idol, meaning any more idols getting played is extremely unlikely

so that is what I wanted to do this plan because now we rid ourselves of the risk of flippers, because even if the 3 floaters flip, the vote will still be 5 Ash, 5 "x" and 1 jim, we revote and ash goes home... so we don't have to wrry abt ppl flipping, the only way we get screwed is if Ashley plays an idol and the floaters swap...which is highly unlikely, if we voted for the 5-4 split, we were screwed if the floaters flipped, they wouldn't even need an idol, and yes if Ash or Jim had idol and played it we were fine if nobody flipped, but the chances are they will only play an idol if alex or someone has one and gives it to them, so we'd be screwed anyway, basically that way we had to worry abt the idol and flippers... this way only have to wrry abt one of the floaters giving ashley an idol and them flipping... i feel like this way is the safest

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yaaaaaaaasss

its finally been done, Ashley is gone, we showed her that she's not always in charge

Now the plan is the tactic I like to call "Fake Blindside- Blindside", basically we are going to make alex bryan ricardo think that there's a blindside on Ench when in reality there's a blindside on Alex as long as he doesn't win immunity.

We want to blindside Alex because this is our best chance to do so if he doesn't win. He's a challenge GOAT and has a strong social game, and I don't know how much I trust him especially since he has F4 plans with bryan and ricardo and cole, well they think they have cole

Jim's basically just here at this point, he's a DQ and a vote for ench each time, so no reason to get him out when we can make a bigger move, but jim need's to go after that because we don't want him floating around til the end.

Basically we've been talking in the Tongan Bermudan chat saying let's blindside Ench and he'll think it's Jim... when in reality the blindside is them thinking its Ench and us blindside Alex, I don't know if I will be at the auction but have to make sure that Alex doesn't get a really good advantage.

Ashley and them continue to complain but honestly they are being sore losers. You are getting outplayed in one forum game, deal with it. Why would we risk our games to help you? They act like we're the bad players and bad people for not helping their game when in reality we're just looking out for ourselves... the reason this big 9 person alliance is working is because, and I've made sure, everyone feels safe within the 9, and then within that, and then within that. For example, Alex believes he's safe in the 9, then safe in the Tongan Bermudan 7, then apparently in the 4 with ricardo bryan cole.... so he doesn't have a reason to flip and wouldn't expect a blindside. Another one, Cole feels safe within the 9, then within the crucial 6, then within the big 3... nobody has a reason to flip because everyone believes they are in a majority within a majority within a majority, it's all abt what majorities are going to finish on top here.

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I'd like the votes to go like this, Alex Bryan and Jim go the next 3 in whatever order it is. At F7 me cole ench and ricardo blinside briq... then f3 is me cole ench

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And Briq has not responded to me in a bit, but probably missed my message and I am just paranoid

And Ench is really paranoid as always, he wanted me to forward him the Tongan Bermudan Chat, I did, but really not necessary

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Alright dqd the challenge but did not really have much of a choice I'm on vacation and couldn't really get to a computer so it's whatever.

The plan is jimmy or Alex. There's some debate in the 6 but it looks like Alex is the choice. I mean who knows when he wont have immunity next he's a huge threat and this could be our only chance. But I really jimmy to go next I'm afraid he'll weasel his way further and people want to take out another threat like me but having that secret alliance with cole and Ench can help me sniff something out. That is why secret alliances work so well.... Anyway I'm just messaging Alex and Ricardo like everything is normal like always.... They and bry think the decision is between Jim and Ench and they're convinced it's Ench. So Alex thinks there's 2 more options before him hence the "fake blindside blindside"

Personally I feel pretty safe this vote there'd really have to be a huge elaborate blindside coming so hopefully that isn't the case

The big 3 chat was talking. And Ench and cole were saying how we could be f3 and be the greatest alliance ever. We really could be but I told them don't get cocky that is what screwed me last game. The key for me is I am not underestimating anyone this time. I told them I was messaging Briq to make a fake f3/4 with him because it worries me he has not tried to make a suballiance within the 6... I just told them to be upfront with them but the real reason I'm making it is because Briq is my last real threat at this point. I'm still kind of afraid he will blindside me eventually so if I can sure him up and make him think that I'm good with him and that we should stay together then I'm really in a good position

So here is what I messaged him
"Our Tongan mafia lost Bryan it looks like but I am still good to stick to me you vova f3 and we'd have to bring in a 4th for a majority. Either Ench so we have our 3 strategy guys make it all the way and he's not making friends on the jury lol or magnum who I really trust and like

I just feel like me and you especially need to stay together because people hav probably looked at us bigger players and threats and I feel like we're good shields for each other and when one of us goes the other one may go to. And while I do want to go to f3 with you just out of loyalty it's even more important because in past all star seasons of survivor it seems like the jury is always bitter because their egos are so big and I don't think this will be any different. I'd rather go to the end together because we're both good players who people will probably look at and be bitter with so id rather go with you then someone who has not pissed anyone off, you know what I mean?"

I feel like it's a convincing argument and partly true but I am set f3 with cole and Ench because nobody is voting for Ench and I can talk up my game better than cole

And Briq responded
"Ya I'm down with vova and mags but they would get a lot of bitter jury votes like ash alaina and jimmy. If we blindside alex this early he may not vote for us either. An easier path would be with E or cole tbh since the jury hates us 4 the most I think haha. Jury is unpredictable, remember james and cloudy voting for vova? lol

Yeah basically getting the most hated to the end would be the best thing to do. The jury is going to be dominated by jimmy,ashley,alaina,bryan,ricardo,alex. Thats 6 votes right there. They easily decide who can win this game if they want."

I'm a little surprised he's throw vova and mag under the bus I thought he was really close with them so worried me a bit but I'll see where this goes

He also wants jimmy out this time but the problem is we'd have to convince two alliances to do that. The crucial 6 and Tongan Bermuda. Bermuda especially seems set on jimmy so it wouldn't make sense to betray them this vote just to vote jimmy because then we can't blindside Alex next vote... Idk we'll see what happens

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I am completely shocked and blindsided by the results yesterday. I thought Alex was goin home but cole and magnum flipped on ench because they said they wanted jimmy home more... I told them we could've voted jimmy if they felt that strongly... I mean it really made no sense for them to flip... For magnum I kind of get it. He said ench was a ringleader and he didn't think he had his back .... But cole.... f*ck him man... I honestly trusted him and ench as much as I trusted anyone and for him to betray ench to protect Alex? Either he really is in good with them and was using us or he really is just a control freak and maniac. He's only like 16 or 17 so he's pretty immature and its part of the reason I nvr trusted him. I said this awhile ago. I'm not even giving him credit for gameplay on this because betraying two people you have been with since day 0 and have 33 pages of pm talk ... Just because you didn't get your way / flip to people who are playing A+ social games with no enemies is just stupid....... I'm not one to be a bitter jury if I end up on it... I proved it last time when I voted for briq even though he blindsided me, but Briqs move made sense, cole just guaranteed he won't win this game I will make sure of it... Smh shouldn't have even been an all star

But I can't flip out now. I wanted to just tell him f*ck off but I can't do that. Because with them leaving me briq and vova out were pretty much done in the eyes of Alex Bryan Ricardo they are goin to hate us. So I told cole and magnum I was not excited abt it but I understand it and we can move forward. Alex Bryan Ricardo jimmy won't work with us but we can still convince cole and magnum we can go on... I told them straight up they have a better chance with me briq ench who people hate then Alex Bryan Ricardo who nobody has a problem with... I hope they listen. Magnum says he literally doesn't talk to those 3 and I kind of believe him but I have no choice. We need them. It's just me briq and vova on our own. An unlikely trio given our Tongan games but they are all I can trust right now

And cole apologized to me and ench and ench said its just a game but I am not taking it that easy. I'm goin to avenge this game for ench, add him to the list with james and Stan

I have a bad feeling that cole and magnum are goin to stick with the 3 so I really have to win immunity or else I am possibly gone. But this challenge is a crapshoot anyway. I have to rely on my strategic game and social game like always. Find a way to get them back/use the black vote effectively

My game is changed a lot. I had my gameplan mapped out but it's time to rip that out and start fresh. I'm on a vote by vote basis now. I wanted to be the one who made the big move this time but I couldn't see this coming because it's a stupid big move... Whatever it's time to get back on my grind. I'm down but I'm not out. It's game time

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woooooooooohhh immunity lets gooo

Honestly have no idea how I won, complete guesses and did not want to piss people off. My strategy was just put the same answers for both questions so I help myself be in the majority but thought that was a pretty simple strategy but whatever, I will take the win

Pretty pleased with how I came out in the answers too. Nobody said I was a threat or a darkhorse or anything, I'm laying low and it's working, Briq and Cole look like bigger targets

The plan is Jimmy as far as I know, I suggested it in the new squad up chat with briq vova cole and magnum. I know Cole and Magnum wanted him gone last time so hopefully they are still down this time and we'll finish off the anti vets. The only problem is even if they vote with us and vote Jimmy we still won't know for sure if they're with us, because they can still go to Alex Bryan Ricardo the next vote and vote me or briq out...this week will either be Jimmy if they stick with us or Briq if they flip... I would've liked to make a bigger move this week given that I have immunity, I am safe so can take a little more of a risk, but I don't want to put myself in a bad position next time and briq in a bad position this time if it doesn't work out.......Hopefully Jimmy goes this week and then next week I can another IC, but if I don't hopefully people see briq as a bigger threat over me if we're in the minority... I can even flip on him next week and say I'll vote Briq if it saves me but I don't want to do that, I'd rather get him vova and like magnum/bryan/ricardo to make a big move on cole who's in a leader position all of a sudden.

I messaged Bryan back in our chat and said we're srry we didn't tell him last week what was happening but that we didn't want to tell him because we ddin't want him to lie to alex because we thought they were allies... and that this week we just want jimmy out... I handled it pretty well, had excuses for everything, and I seemed sincere

I said...

"Look Bryan we didn't want it to go down like that last vote with leaving you out there but we really just thought Alex was too big of a threat to keep going and we were getting the vibe and hearing you guys were tight and we didn't want to put you in a position where you'd have to lie to him. Obviously ench went home anyway but moving forward I know I, and I'm sure briq and vova Agree want to keep the mafia in tact.... I say everyone just takes the easy vote this time and votes jimmy off but I understand if you lost trust in us although that was not our intention"

and then when he said why we didn't respond til now I said

I completely understand your frustration and really we wanted to tell you but we didn't want u to have to lie to Alex or anybody because we know you are better than we are as like people lmao... As for not responding, that is on us but that was not intentional, I've been visiting family in Florida so my pm game has been weak anyway and I know briq said he's been busy with finals, and vova did message you, but I agree with you we should've made the time to do it. I'll own that, but we didn't not message you because we didn't want to talk to you til the vote or anything, I mean we knew there'd be another vote lol...I feel your pain but I don't want us to break Apart over this after two seasons together; I'm voting jimmy this time I can promise you that, I want the anti vets to finish off the vets and more importantly the mafia to stay together"

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not much else I can say, I don't want to burn my bridges with him if I need him next vote, I may message Ricardo too



overall though this Immunity win's nice because I am guaranteed 8th or better, meaning I will improve on my 9th place from last time, but I am in it to win it and I will

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alright now briq saying that he thinks he's goin, alex not responding and vova told him that people are voting for him. But briq said that magnum told him he'll use his vote cancel, that means even if cole flips, with the vote cancel and the black vote we can still send Jimmy home but we'll see

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and briq is gone

I have nvr in any of my seasons been in a position like this, a definite minority, it's a strange feeling, and sucks because this should've nvr happened, f*ck cole man

Vova told me he voted for briq because he knew we woudln't have the numbers, if he voted with us would've been 5-5 but would've lost on a revote.... Idk who else voted with us then, me briq ench and ? .... hvae to find out who so me and vova can work with them

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out I am next if all things go status quo, they'd vote me first over vova because he voted with them and i am a bigger threat than he is anyway, so no sense in trying to save myself over vova when it only gives me one more vote...I am not rolling over. I feel like briq kind of gave up in a way and that sucks because I know how good of a player he is. I didn't end up being the one who voted him out but I am glad that I did not, he's cool and I am glad I got to work with him all game


but anyway now's the time to make a big move. I'm in it to win it now I've got to play like it. I'm goin to figure out who voted with us, then we use that to make a big move on cole ideally but whoever really, but he's running the show, and if we get him out, the rest can fall our way

I am going to cause firworks I'm not going down easy, I may make a big speech in the game thread advocating Cole out and just putting paranoia in everyone else, but first I have to find out who i can rely on... I am going all out this IC also

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yasssssssss nate ily, I am getting up at 8 am tmrw and doing all day

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magnum said he voted for briq I said I get it I didn't trust him much either, maybe I can still sway him, but now I need to figure out who else voted for jimmy