Your Confessional

[Nate]

This is where you will post your confessionals throughout the season. Only you, the host, and moderators who are trusted by myself can see these up until the game has ended. Please make sure to post in here at least once a round detailing your thoughts, alliances, plans, etc.

[PG]

Well it's good to be back. Sucks that I missed out on All Stars, but it looks like that was a bloodbath.

It's kind of cool that my first season was Fans VS Favorites and I was a fan... and this time I'm coming back as a veteran against a bunch of newbies. Last time I tried to start a movement against the Favorites and that was probably my biggest downfall. This time I'm the one that all these fans are probably going to try a movement against, so I need to really watch how I play this time around.

I always say I'm going to try and stay under the radar, but I can never do it. It's just not me... I always feel like making big moves and that sort of stuff, but this time I'm hoping to just find one or two really loyal people and stick with them as long as I can and hopefully cut them loose before they realize I'm someone they need to get rid of.

Also hoping that once a swap comes I can get in good with the other returnees. I think it would be in our best interest to join together against the newbies. First impression is none of these new players seem threatening, but I am not about to underestimate them. I will consider everybody a threat until proven otherwise.

So yeah, I know I'm coming in with a huge target just because I'm a returning player. I feel like as long as I can survive my tribes first tribal council I should be in a good position. That first tribal council will tell me everything. Whether the new players just want to take me out because I'm a veteran, or if they're willing to work with me.

Let's just see how this goes. One things for certain... I need to switch up the way I played from last time. This is my second chance and I'm not going to waste it.

[PG]

So first challenge down, and in true PG style I was completely useless to my tribe haha. Totally thought I'd come home and be able to own the challenge for the tribe, but turns out it was over before I even got here. Oh well, hopefully they forget about that pretty quickly.

Paranoia is already at a high for me... but that's expected. I'm a pretty paranoid person to begin with when I play these games... and now it's like a million times worse since I have veteran status. I'm hoping these players just kind of ignore that... I mean if they knew anything about my season they'd know I'm definitely not a threat based on that.

I'm trying really hard to play down the strategy part right now. I don't want to play too hard, so I've only really been chatting with Josh trying to get an alliance going there. I honestly think if I can get one person on my side, he can get another person and bam... that's half the tribe right there, and little blood on my hand. If I let him do majority of the work then I could hide behind him for a little bit. Not that I necessarily like hiding behind others, but this early on in the game when there's already a target on my back I think it's a good way to go. And plus he has played in some Survivor game before and was apparently a good player over there... so I mean we kind of have a connection of being veterans in these type of games.

I'm trying to get in touch with David because we will connect over being Canadians. I know it sounds silly, but on a website dominated by you silly Americans (totally kidding!!!!) it's nice to have someone from your home country to chat with. And I mean that's just an automatic thing we have in common... so I'm hoping he starts getting active and chats with me, because I think he'd be a good person to get on my side.

Josh has been working on Brittany which I'm all for. She's new to the game, and she comes off a little dumb so far (not underestimating her, just a complete first impression), so she would be one that would be easily swayed to do what we want. I'm hoping he can put some work into her and get her not to vote our way. A voting block of 3 people sounds good, but a 4th person would be ideal because let's be a real... a swap is coming, and it's not going to be long before I end up in a sh*t position because as we all know, swaps end up with everybody losing their closest ally. That's why I can't rely too much on Josh. I need to make connections for myself because I'm like 99% sure we will be split up before the merge.

[PG]

And on my very first guess, I end up getting the hidden immunity idol. What luck I have! Honestly I wasn't even planning to really try for it because guessing between 1-75 just seems like a waste of time, but as soon as I got that cryptogram correct and was able to guess from 1-25 I figured I actually had a chance. And my first guess, lucky number 13 ended up being the idol!

Now I'm in the position of figuring out what to do with the idol. As of now I don't think I'm going to tell anybody I have it. I mean, I think I trust Josh but I haven't really talked to him that much so I'm not putting 100% trust in him. What I did do with him though is tell him the answer to the cryptogram and told him it would give us a better chance to get the idol on our side. So if I ever decide that I'm going to tell him about the idol I'll just pretend that I found it right before telling him. But yeah, for now it's definitely my secret.

I have this strange feeling that my tribe is going to try and take me out if we lose a challenge. It seems like they might be forming a newbie bond, and are looking at me as a threat. I'm hoping I'm not correct on this, but I'm definitely on full alert. Josh actually hasn't been messaging me much, just as much as he told me he wants to work with me, I don't really trust him right now.

My whole plan right now is to hopefully get myself to a swap and maybe make a bond with one of the other returning players. I think that could be a strong alliance, but not sure whether they have their own agenda already. For all I know they are trying to get the other returnees out as well.

For now I'll lay back... we haven't lost a challenge yet so I don't need to go to crazy with strategy. I'm just going to continue to have normal conversations with these people and hopefully get a better read on them.

[PG]

Everything in my head told me to keep the idol a secret, yet for some reason I told Josh that I had it. I wanted to secure his trust, but I know that I could have made a huge mistake doing that. It's still too early to know if he's actually going to be loyal to me or not, and to tell him a secret that could end up benefiting me if he screws me over could be very dangerous. I'm hoping he sees it as me trying to be loyal to him by telling him my secret.

He told me he has a lot of vevmo friends on the other tribe, so when we swap or merge he will tell them to keep me safe. Once again not sure how much I trust in that. I'm putting a lot of trust in this one guy, and I know basically nothing about him. But at the same time, it's not like I have that many options right now. I think I'm playing out the best move I possibly can and we will see how far that takes me.

Brittany also seems like she is going to be 100% loyal which is good. If they're both being truthful, I have half of my tribe on my side. I'm pretty sure we are about to swap tribes, but in case we lose before that swap happens I should be in a pretty decent position. I've also talked to some of the others on the tribe, so if I have Josh and Brittany all I need to do is make sure one other person wont vote for me. I really don't want to play that idol this soon in the game.

Seeing one of the returnees on a different tribe be voted off already makes me nervous. Hoping that he was just a really bad player or something and so they took him out, but realistically I think this newbies are threatened by having veterans in the game. So I'm just going to see how things go.

[PG]

So I don't think I've ever been apart of a power move this close to a vote cut off as I am right now...

Everything was set for Brittany to go 5-1... all because she's been inactive, but for me she's way more loyal than anybody else (other than Josh), and I know for a fact that SupremeHunty has said he doesn't trust me and wants me out soon....

So I log on and find a message from Brittany saying that David might be willing to change his vote to Hunty if Josh and I do it also. So I got Josh onboard, the two of us changed our vote... and we are trying so hard to convince David to do it to. Either way, worse comes to worse we will be at a 3-3 tie between Brittany and Hunty... and force David to either change his vote in a revote, or risk going to rocks (which I'm completely ok with lol).

I'm hoping he smartens the f*** up and changes his vote right now, because it honestly is a better move for his game too. Brittany knows she's about to go home... so if you save her, she owes you. It's that simple. And I'm promising loyalty to you if you do it. Just. Switch. Your. F******. Vote. Do. It.

More to come after tribal results

[PG]

Ok, time for a little bit more of an update on how the whole blindside went down I guess.

I pretty much accepted the fact that I was about to lose an ally in Brittany. I debated trying to make a move with her but she hadn't even logged in in over 24 hours, so I figured there was no point to try and do something and then have her self vote and screw me over. So Josh and I accepted the fact that we had to cut her loose and try and figure out how to survive from there (considering we both thought the other 3 on the tribe were super closely alligned).

Brittany then logs on and asks me how to vote. I tell her that everybody is voting against her, and that I would be willing to keep her if she thought she could get on of the three to switch over. But other than that, there's no point of me trying to keep her and still ending up in a tie situation.

So she goes to Epic and tells him that she wants to take out Hunty. Epic agrees to do it if Josh and I are willing to. Then it turned into a panic situation of needing Josh to get online before the votes were due (at this point we were looking at an hour until the votes needed to be in). Josh shows up, I tell him to change his vote and tell him I'm not 100% sure in Epic but worse come to worse we tie it up... and force Epic to switch his vote in a tie.

Epic then tells me he feels more comfortable taking Brittany out and keeping Hunty... then taking Hunty out next round with me and Josh (I kind of have a Canadian connection with Epic as stupid as that sounds lol). I tell him that's fine, and that he can keep Hunty... but I told him for the better of my game, I'm voting Hunty out (because Josh told me Hunty said he doesn't trust me and that he wants to get me out next round).

From that point on it was just a constant give Epic reasons why keeping Brittany makes sense for both his and my game. I told him that Brittany knows she's close to being gone... so if we save her she will owe us and be loyal to us. I also told him Hunty is way bigger of a threat and that Brittany will follow blindy with us. And then I gave him complete loyalty and told him if he proves himself and makes this move with me, I will 100% have his back for the rest of the game. Which I will try to honour, but at the end of the day I only have Josh and my best interest in mind.

He finally folded and said he'd vote Hunty... and Brittany, Josh and I were screaming with joy (shoutout to Bryan.... "I'M SCREAMING"). Still had a little bit of doubt, but like I said the worse that could happen was a tie. And then the votes are revealed... AND HUNTY IS GONE! Well, of course he has a second chance in the game, but for now I'll talk this victory.

So yeah, I mean I guess it wasn't totally my move to take credit for. Brittany set it up, and I locked it down pretty much. Either way, one tribal council in and we already have a blindside under my belt. Of course I know that could have easily been me getting blindsided.

I'm on full alert. I know a swap is coming, and I've been screwed my swaps so many times before. Right now I'm looking pretty with Josh, David, and Brittany all on my side... but you never know what could happen in this game. Knowing my luck the swap will end up with those 3 on the other tribe and me alone. Of course I still have my idol, but if that thing can save me to the merge and I get to the merge with my alliance of 4, and my idol... man, I think I could be in a really good spot to get to the end. Never going to feel 100% safe, but it's not looking too bad right now.

[PG]

First thought after the swap was "Yup, I knew it... the swap would screw me over".

What are the odds that out of 5 people, I'm the only one from my original tribe to stay on Quellon? All the rest of them end up going to the other tribe, leaving poor PG all alone. Sounds terrible right? Wrong.

I didn't think of it this way at first, but I'm pretty much the swing vote over here. There are 3 original Apiao members, and 3 original Yaldad members... and PG in the middle. It's like a fricken oreo. But now it's time to think which tribe is better for me to stick with.

On when hand, if I stick with Yaldad (like Josh wants me to do), I get to stick with Dscott who I know from previous games, and Josh will continue to trust me for keeping his friends in. On the downside to that, these are people that Josh knew before the game started. How do I put that aside and think that Josh is going to be more loyal to me than them? And also there's more members from the original Yaldad than there are from Apiao. If I keep the Yaldad members in, then when they merge they could outnumber the original Quellon members and take us out... not that I think that would happen due to Josh's loyalties with some of his old Vevmo friends... but it is still a risky move for me, not having much connections with these people.

On the other side, we have Apiao. I honestly like the players on Apiao a lot more than the ones on Yaldad. They seem a lot nicer, and a lot more willing to work with me. Christian seems like a nice guy, although I get the sense that he's a big player... Juderay seems like he doesn't know what he's doing lol. and Alex I have no clue. But I mean they seem weaker than the members of Yaldad, and I feel like if I were to go into the merge with them, I'd be in more of a position to beat them in challenges, and honestly just outsmart them... and plus Josh wont have his vevmo loyalties anymore... but what are the chances he will still want to work with me after that?

Yeah okay, this confessional turned more into a brain fart of just going through scenarios haha. But yeah... that's where my heads out. Now let's hope I'm actually the swing vote, and that these two tribes are not actually going to form together to get rid of me.

[PG]

So first thing Josh says to me while we are swapping... "Stick with Yaldad, they are trustworthy and I'm tight with them". Okay, yeah... well maybe if they actually tried to f****** talk to me I would. Literally, Dscott is the only one who has made any effort and it's a really weak effort at that. And then of course now that we have to go to tribal, the other two are coming up to me and being like "OH I just thought it'd be nice to introduce myself". Too little too late b*tch.

On old Quellon Josh was like my number 1 and I thought I'd ride it out until the end with him, but now I'm hearing some crazy s*** like he has a million different allies and he has sub alliances and sub sub alliances and all this. Dude's shady. And his allies are even shadier. You would think they would have tried to get to know me before the challenge and at least start to get me on their side... but no, they just think I'm going to go along with them because Josh told me too and Josh told them I'm trustworthy. Well, that's not going to fly with me. I'd rather go with the 3 people who have constantly been chatting up a storm with me, and actually been getting to know me from the start than to go with the 3 who have made no effort all because Josh told me to. I'm playing my own game, and to be honest, you guys did this to yourselves.

Once I decided to go with Apiao it was a matter of which of the Yaldad 3 to get rid of. Dscott seems like the smartest choice in my eyes, but Ty is just as much involved in the big alliances as he is and I think it would be a bigger blindside if we took Ty out. I mean really I couldn't care less. They're all shady.

Christian seems like a really nice and honest guy, but I can't tell if it's just to try and get me to vote with them. I want to think he's genuine but I don't know. I'm going to stick with him for now because he's made the most effort out of anybody to get to know me, and I'm going to honour that.

Like I said at tribal council though, I wouldn't put it past any of these guys to form a random alliance of 4 to take me out. Truth is, that would be the smartest move for them right now. I don't know if they're smart enough to do it, but I wont be surprised if I see my name come up in the vote read off. I have my idol and technically I should play it but I don't want to waste it this early. And if I end up going home because of it, so be it. I'd rather go home with the idol (and hopefully I get to keep it in the redemption island sort of thing) than to play it when I don't need it and look like an idiot.

I got screwed over last season because of a swap, and I'm fully expecting it to happen again this round. I'm hoping I've done enough to convince both sides I'm with them... and hopefully the Apiao tribe is as honest as I think they are. Ty... time for you to go.

[PG]

I feel like there is a good amount of catching up to do since my last confessional.

So basically, getting Ty out was a success. And to my surprise David and Linus actually took it gracefully. Josh I'm pretty sure no longer trusts me, even if I tried to explain it was a move against someone who never talked to me, not a move against him. Actually honestly, he might still trust me but I can't trust him because of the move I made if that makes sense. A part of me is always going to think that he took that move as a personal attack.

Right now Christian has kind of replaced Josh as my number one. He know's I have the idol (which is a bit scary... Josh knowing I have the idol is even more frightening though. That was a mistake). 

Before tribal Christian and I tried to convince David and Linus that we wanted to take Juaderay out in order to keep David from playing the idol (we assumed he had it). Of course that didn't end up working, and he played the idol anyways. Honestly I thought I was a goner this tribal council. I haven't had enough time for strategy talk this round because of work, so I definitely thought someone would take advantage of that and just get rid of me. Luckily I only got one vote, and I live to see another day.

I've been playing A LOT more dirty than I wanted to... but I feel like I've sort of been forced to given the role of swing vote from that first tribal council on the new Quellon. It forced me to pick a side, and lie to the other side. And I still have yet to know if I've totally ruined relationships that I had on the original Quellon (Josh and Brittany). I think I probably have, which is going to make the merge a lot more difficult than I originally thought it would be.

Right now this swap can either make or break my game. I did not see this coming at all, and had we stayed on the course of the two tribes we just had, I think I'd be guaranteed a spot in the merge. Now everything is once again up in the air and I have no clue what I'm going to do. I do not trust anyone, and that's going to be a huge problem for me. I'm hoping I can stick with Apiao people, but I don't even know if that's an option for me. This next round is going to be a very tough one... but so far everything has gone pretty well for me. Let's hope that continues. 

[PG]

Well... is anybody ready for another blindside?

Remember that confessional a few rounds ago about Josh being my closest ally? Well you probably don't considering you've probably had the same confessional from like 10 different people considering Josh is playing everybody like a fool. Turns out he's been telling several people the same exact thing he told me...

Luckily I was already wary of him because of the fact that I took out one of his biggest allies... well guess what? It's time to take out the top dog...

Josh still thinks I'm with him, and that me, him and RobAmber are going to take out Kubson. I was on board with that up until I found out he's everybody's best friend.

Now considering Ty may still be on Inferno Island, and he may come back into the game next round... if that happens, I have zero shot of winning this game. Josh has too many allies and that alliance is going to take me out. But, if I take Josh out this round I guarantee only one of them can possibly come back (if either). 

Alex is already on board with the plan to throw this challenge, and take Josh out. It has to be a 100% blindside though just in case RobAmber has an idol (which I highly doubt, but you never know). As soon as Kubson finds out Josh is targeting him I know he will go along with the plan. Plus we were working together after the first swap so I think he trusts me.

I know playing this hard is usually like a death sentence in the game... But I mean if I just sit around and let this huge alliance take control, I wont be going very far now will I? I'm hoping this blindside works and that Josh will get sent packing.

The only thing that worries me is Josh knows I have an idol... and I'm sure he's told people that I have an idol. And if he gets sent packing I highly doubt he will go out gracefully and just leave it a secret. I'm expecting that idol to be a known fact soon.

[PG]

I am playing with stupid people... straight up some of these people are just complete idiots.

I already started putting my plan into motion to get rid of Josh before we even lost the challenge. I told Alex to throw the challenge, and I told Kubson that he was Josh and Der's target. I also told both of them that Josh and Der are working very close together and they think they have me on their side.

Well we just lost the challenge, and guess what? Alex tells Der to vote off Josh. Are you an idiot? I straight up told you Josh and Der are working together and you tell the one person that has Josh's back to vote Josh off? You better hope that doesn't cost us this vote, because if Josh survives, all of us have zero chance once the merge hits.

Josh and Der still think I'm voting for Kubson... and I'm pretty sure they're telling Kubson and Alex to vote for me. I'm hoping Der doesn't have an idol, because if he does... that whole Alex being an idiot thing might have just cost us the possibility of the perfect blindside.

Dude, I'm actually so pissed off about that. You have to be a complete moron to do that. Do you want to lose this game? We already have 3 f****** votes, we don't even need Der. Just let him tell you who he wants you to vote off and agree to it. It's as simple as that.

Fingers crossed this all goes as planned, because if it doesn't there's a good chance I'm heading home with my idol in my pocket... because I'm not playing it yet.

[PG]

Haven't written a confessional in awhile, but honestly nothing has really happened to me in the last little bit...

The blindside of Josh want pretty much exactly as planned. Another notch under my belt that I will definitely take credit  for if I make it to that final tribal council. I've made a few big moves already so pretty much people are either going to love me or hate me... either way, I'm playing the game.

I was really hoping we wouldn't win that last immunity challenge so I could take out RobAmber and secure my spot at the merge... but I think the other tribe threw the challenge so they could take out Christian (who was a pretty big ally, so that was a bit of a hit... but I'm not overly worried). I honestly debated giving him my idol (would be like the JT giving Russell the idol at a challenge), and have him take out Dscott... but it's a good thing I didn't considering he pretty much went inactive and self voted apparently.

The Inferno Island challenge was scary. I was almost certain either Ty or Josh would get back in the game. Like I honestly didn't think of any other option. But hello, out of nowhere Joey is back. Never really talked to Joey, but we have that returnee bond and I mean if I can convince him that I want to take out the scrubs I can get him on my side. My only worry is somehow Dscott already has him.

Other than that, my alliance right now is Alex, Kubson, me, Epiccurus, and hopefully Joey... but even with that I can only hope to tie. I need to figure out something... Dscott cannot take control of this game, or else it's going to be a pretty boring end game.

[PG]

This vote is going to be such a f****** mess. There's so many people trying to find one common target, and two different alliances kind of going at it.

So many names have flown around. I know I'm on the chopping block for sure, and I've heard both Linus and Harmony's name. I'm trying to get Harmony on my side to take out Linus, because I know Linus is part of Dscott's alliance... and I'm trying hard to break that alliance apart even more than I already have... so far I've managed to get 3 votes in this game to go exactly as planned, and if I can do it on this crazy vote that would be perfect.

I'm debating playing my idol... I really don't want to because I think it could be a huge help later on... but I also don't want to go home with this thing in my pocket. I'm trying to get some people to fish for information for me and see just exactly how many people are voting for me. If I can get away with keeping it then I'll be a happy camper.

I'm also super paranoid that Linus might have an idol. I know Dscott already played the Yaldad idol, so the only one unaccounted for is the Apiao one (and possibly the merged one)... ahhhh makes me think even more that I should be playing my idol tonight.

I don't even know who is being truthful to me and who's lying. If everybody in this game is truthful then I 100% have the numbers to take out Linus. But of course a handful of them are probably lying straight to my face and are planning the blindside of PG. It's frustrating not to know true intentions of people, but that's the game I signed up for. Just going to have to go with my gut tonight and hope it plays out the way I want it to.

[PG]

Alex is literally the stupidest player ever

[PG]

Well that was a mess, and at the end of the day it didn't go as I planned... but hey, I'm still here and that's all I can ask for.

I'm in a really bad position right now... like... REALLY bad. Kubson is the only person that is working with me, and I'm pretty sure he would sell his soul to the other side if it means saving his butt... so basically I'm alone.

I mean in a way it sort of looks like I'm giving up. I haven't messaged anyone since that last tribal, and I'm trying trying to scramble and sway people to realize they're making a mistake. I'm just going to let them play their game, and I'm going to sit back and see if anyone wants to approach me... if not, then so be it.

I still have the idol, which is an advantage... even though everybody knows I have it at this point. I still have a few tricks up my sleeve with that idol, so if I don't win immunity you can be sure as hell I'm going to try and shake things up and get that alliance to crumble.

[DScott]

PG really weak effort wtf lol. I think we are both final 4, if you side with us lol.

[PG]

Aug 20, 2016 12:23:26 GMT -5 DScott said:

PG really weak effort wtf lol. I think we are both final 4, if you side with us lol.

Lol I'm glad you can go into a game like this and trust people so easily If you were in my shoes and knew there were a bunch of players from Vevmo working together then you'd be worried as well. Weak effort? Lol ok sure buds whatever you want to think.