Your Confessional

[Nate]

Please post your thoughts throughout your time in the game here. Posting at least once per round is not required, but strongly recommended. Not going to be able to give you credit for a good game if you don't tell me what's happening.

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[delta2178]

Well, its been an interesting first day playing Survivor through a website. As I am supposed to be writing a final essay for a philosophical ethics class, trying to figure out the website was a good procrastination tool. Unfortunately, many people weren't talking on the campsite thread. Of the few people that were talking I was able to chat with and get along with well. We have already talked about working together so hopefully when more people join in, our alliance will start to grow. Would really love to not be the first one out!

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Tribal went well according to plan, Jude got 6 votes (if I remember correctly), one from myself and the 5 other people that I brought the name up to. I'm not going to take too much credit because the guy hadn't logged on yet but maybe next time I'll float out another name and they'll listen again. What I've been thinking about is whether we should have voted out another actual player who was more of a direct threat to my game but right now it's about trying to win challenges. Hopefully we won't have to do tribal again

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Sucks to go back to tribal. Immunity was kinda a mess for us, dug a hole that was just impossible to get out of. The second after I sent in my route I noticed a route that was 3 points shorter than the one I chose and then when it turned out I lost by 3, I was a tad frustrated but oh well! At least my round wasn't the deciding factor. When it comes to the vote tonight the obvious target to everyone seems to be Joeker, his name has been bouncing around. He under performed at the challenge no doubt (how do you lose by 60? haha). BUT, when he got votes at the last tribal, I reached out to him right after and kinda took him under my wing. It seems to me that he would be a good, loyal number to keep around for my main alliance when there are two people, Mud and James, that I have not spoken to and, therefore, am weary of. One of the people in my main alliance, however, wants to get rid of him. Hopefully, I can be persuasive enough to keep Joecker around for at least one more run through but I am trying to not come off to pushy. It just seems like the right choice to keep a known quantity over a mystery at this point.

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its been pretty crazy since the last time I posted. One of the other people I am aligned with came to me and said that the two people that are in my main alliance are in another alliance with James and Jacob. This was upsetting to hear since I thought Dakota, Kristina and I were tight, especially since all of our loved ones are aligned on the other side. To see if this rumor had any value I floated out the name James and they were very hesitant to agree trying to have us vote other people even though we have reason to not vote out Mud or Joe while having no reason not to vote out James (unless they were secretly aligned with him). I am going to try to work with the other people on the tribe to get out James. This is risky because I'm sort of betraying one of my alliances and if James ends up staying I will probably be a main target. However, this is the last vote that there would be numbers to break up an alliance of James/Dakota/Kristina/Jacob (if that does exist) so I think it is a risk to take. I could be being played a fool rn, I don't even know, I guess we'll find out after the vote.

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So I think I did get played here a bit I think. Jacob private messaged me and said that he was approached by Jabbar/Sammy too. They wouldn't have approached him to vote James if they knew he was in an alliance with James. So I voted James but it's not too bad. When I tell Jacob that he is being played, I think I can get him to come with Kristina, Dakota, and I. If it's us four, we will hopefully be able to pull in Joe and keep the majority.

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Dec 23, 2016 14:57:20 GMT -5 delta2178 said:

So I think I did get played here a bit I think. Jacob private messaged me and said that he was approached by Jabbar/Sammy too. They wouldn't have approached him to vote James if they knew he was in an alliance with James. So I voted James but it's not too bad. When I tell Jacob that he is being played, I think I can get him to come with Kristina, Dakota, and I. If it's us four, we will hopefully be able to pull in Joe and keep the majority.

Nate says I can ask questions. Give me your take on the dynamics of this tribe.

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In terms of dynamics, its interesting. The other tribe is definitely influencing the way our tribe works. For example, Jonas (and Mud when he was in the game) were trying to influence Sammy and Jabbar into fighting against this "pre made alliance" of James, Dakota, Jacob, and Kristina who supposedly were an alliance since all of their "loved ones" have worked together in the past. I would prefer that we would just be able to play without the other tribe meddling in our affairs. The dynamics within our tribe alone is interesting. I have aligned myself with both Kristina and Dakota and Sammy and Jabbar and my relationships with both of those groups is decently strong even though the Mud vote was kinda messy. The person I am really tight with is Joe, the second tribal visit I was able to take his name of the chopping block and I think he is loyal to me. Joe and I are the middle men, I am not sure who we should align with going forward with the merge

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In terms of the James vote, I was away camping so I missed a couple days which wasn't a bad thing. I told people I was voting James if we lost an immunity challenge and was able to keep most of the blood off my hands as I wasn't around for the scrambling. I'm pretty happy James went home because that makes sure that the two sides need me for numbers and I think that we keep me afloat for a while. So far I think I'm playing a decently strong game, I have good relations with everyone on my tribe, so if we were to do a tribe switch before merge I would have some people to work with, and I have been in the majority on each of the three votes. I like where I am at.

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I wish we would stop going to tribal. I know I was a part of sending us to tribal due to underperforming at the challenge but it still sucks. Throughout this game I've been playing kind of a middle man role with small alliances everywhere but now it seems this is the tribal that is piting both of the sides against one another. I aligned with Kristina and Dakota on the first day but I've been working with Sammy and Jabbar recently. Kristina and Dakota are tight so I think it'd be smart to split them for a merge because I think they'd put one another and their loved ones before me while Sammy and Jabbar have no loved ones connections so we could be tight no matter what. Plus Kristina and Dakota are targeting Joe who is my closest bud out here. I talked Jabbar, Sammy, and Joe into voting Dakota instead of Kristina because I still want to work with Kristina and James B if we all make it to merge.

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Jesus, talk about a sore loser. I'm glad Dakota is gone. I knew his best interests never had me in the plan and after that outburst clearly I was right. I'm glad that we have the numbers in the new tribe and I look forward to hopefully not going to tribal soon!

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I'm very much over going to tribal. It's frustrating because I really thought we were going to win the original immunity challenge, we had a great strategy for it. Always going to tribal means my hands become bloodier and bloodier every cycle and I'm just going to have more enemies gunning for me. It also means we have to vote on a Vamana tribe member and not have the opportunity to try to get to know them, meaning we will probably be in the minority at the merge. We can't lose another one. Anyways...James B messaged me saying that Stan was trying to flip Jacob. It's annoying because I want to work with both of them but if they don't know that, they might do something stupid and vote Sammy and Jabbar, numbers we need. So I messaged them and asked to work closely together and Stan already agreed. I think this will allow me to have a sembelence of control over Stan and Jacob who can be wild cards and they know I'm serious about working with them.

[delta2178]

Well that didn't go as planned, I guess I have some scrambling to do, first time I wasn't on the right side of the vote. Will do a more in depth post later.

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Stan basically played me, it was really good game play by him! He said he did it over voting James out...people on this game need to get over things and stop holding grudges JESUS...apparently Kristina told him not to trust me which is hilarious because it was my loyalty to her that she is in this game. Oh well! Stan still wants to work with me and Sammy but now its like I'm being held hostage whereas before this I wanted to work with him because he and Tom were close. I said I would work with him because I pretty much need to. Even though the number are 3-3, if we were to vote three as a Kurma and they were to vote three as a Vamana and one of us were to go home, the two remaining Kurma are screwed. These Vamana people that are on our tribe now apparently hate the other vets so much and want the 6 of us (if we were to win out) to go to merge to beat the other vets. I would have been down to work with Stan but now he is basically forcing me to and his loathing attitude to the other vets makes it seem like there is no wiggle room to pull other people in. If I couldn't pull other people in, that means I'm on the bottom of these 3 Vamana. So as for now, I'll work with Stan but if I make it to merge and Joe or James are still there on the other side, I'd be inclined to maybe do something with them

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Man does it feel good to not go to tribal

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Joe and James still here, Kristina gone YES

[delta2178]

So that immunity was crazy...I'm not one to get their panties in a bunch over anything like that so I just sat back and observed while they all fought. I don't know what you say nate but I saw no problem with Mel changing the challenge because it just wasn't working. I put this in the chatzy after it calmed down but during the first part of the challenge everyone was typing at the same time so it lagged so no one could tell where the ball was and it was basically luck whenever Mel said stop. I was frustrated but down to keep playing because that was the challenge but welcomed the change because it actually worked, the challenge in the end was about trivia so it didn't change entirely. Oh well, it'll be interesting to see what happens next!

[delta2178]

Haven't posted in a while so I'll give my thoughts on the post merge environment and what I think it means for my game. So this entire game I've been messaging with James B, he seems like he's a cool kid and he has talked about us going final three for sure multiple times so I do trust him, and it has been nice finally be on the same tribe to work together. Before the merge, he wanted to work with myself, Sam, Jonas, and him. I was down, at this point it doesn't hurt to loosely align with people. However, today he messaged me and said that he actually didn't trust Jonas and wants to pull in David with the two of us. I have limited interactions with him but he's messaged me and seems decently nice. I just hope that he doesn't hold a grudge against me for voting Dakota out; people in this game seem to hold grudges for some reason. In terms of my plans aside from James, I have talked with Sammy. He approached me and said that we could essentially be a blood pair without being blood since we have worked together so long and that was nice of him. I feel like I can really trust him so its good to know I can rely on him. I have a similar relationship with Jacob, he really trusts me and I think he is a good kid, I would have no problem going farther with him and I think he is loyal to me. As I have previously stated, Joe is my guy so I am really excited to be able to work with him again. I think Joe will be loyal to me, although not as loyal to me as to Setsu. So when Setsu reached out to me, I made sure to send the message that I want to work with the both of them. Going back to Kurma 2.0, the 3 ex Vamana wanted to work as a unified 6 to take out the other tribe when it got to merge. When we merged, Stan meesaged me that he still had my back and I said that I had his in return. However, Stan and the other two are the only people in the game right now that have given me a reason not to trust them so it may be in my best interest to have them go home first and then work with the other 8. Things do not usually end up going that smooth but that would work for me at this point. Whether I have immunity going into this tribal or not, I don't think I am going home. I'll be honest, the way I have been able to make relationships with most people in this game, I haven't felt nervous at one tribal yet and while it's usually the cocky people who go home, I think I am playing well so far.

[delta2178]

That was a crazy lead up to the vote. Basically the thought process to voting Setsu was that she was trying to use half the tribe as puppets while not actually telling the people what was going on. I'm not trying to take complete credit for this because that would be a lie but If I had wanted Stan to go home, he would have gone home. Sam was going to vote with me, and if I argued hard enough, I'm sure James and David would have as well. I also kept Stan around because it gives me another cycle of gaining his trust. While Joe might be mad at me for voting his loved one, I think that as we are now, most people want to work with me at this point.

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Also, it's awesome that James is taking the heat here because it makes him seem more devious while taking the target off me as a threat for possibly another cycle