Stranded for Revenge

So after three idols being shown at the last tribal council and a major threat taken out of the game, do you think that the game is ready to get underway? What are you doing to try to ensure that you are there at Day 39 in front of a jury wanting to vote for you?

Game's been underway for a while bb.

Right now I'm trying to ensure I'm there at Day 39 in front of a jury that won't completely tear me apart on a personal level, not sitting next to people I can't stand.

tbc.

I just feel like I'm banging my head against a wall here.

I realized before that vote happened, after tribal started and once I knew that Brenda was going home, that this was going to be the first vote in my Stranded career, besides the one where I was voted out in Socotra, where the result was not gonna be what I wanted.

I remember in Socotra thinking how little fun Lindsey and LJ must be having. How just exhausting and frustrating it must be to not be able to take control of anything. And now it's like...I'm in that position and nobody even knows I'm in that position. It's weird.

I just feel...I don't know. A lot of things. Annoyed and frustrated and, since it's me, extremely anxious. And I'm sick and having a hard time keeping track of things I need to keep track of, and I can just feel this slipping out of my hands...and in a way the shittiest part is that it's not slipping towards me getting voted out, it's slipping towards me just being a goat. I'd rather get voted out than sit there at the end and get torn to shreds and made fun of and...it's one thing not to win, I'm still fine with not winning, but I'm just...scared of what it would look like if I go with Vytas. What he'd say about me, how he'd tear me down and take any sort of credit from me to build himself up. It'd be hard for me to take and I'm worried about it.

I want to go to the end with Cass and Ozzy. That's what I want right now. I think that'd be a fair fight and that they wouldn't be cruel to me.

It's just hard. I'm feeling shitty tonight and kind of hating myself for deciding to come back and play again. I think I shouldn't have. I just don't see a way that this ends well, on an emotional level. I think I'm stuck in this spiral and there's no way out of it at this point. I'm just trying to make choices I feel okay about. But I'm just...scared of the fall out. I don't know. It's never fun at night for me. That's why you get all the sad confessionals around this time.

Anyway I guess it's gonna be Mia tomorrow. I'll talk to Cass and see if we want to try to get Mia to blindside Vytas or just let her go home. It's risky as hell, but the good news is I could try to blindside Vytas every vote from here to the end and he'd still never think I had any thing to do with it because he thinks I'm so spineless that he can just not tell me people have idols and make a zillion plans without me and I will be fine with that.

Seriously, it's his own fault at this point for actually believing this could be okay with me. Come on.

Hello, if anyone is reading these confessionals...you're gonna want to keep an eye on me today. I don't know if this is going to work, but I am Doing Something. Are you happy, Poody? <3 Right at the same point I took control in Socotra. I told you to be patient...

I'm keeping an eye on your confeshes! Look forward to hearing what you come up with

Hi!

So here's what's going on right now.

In Vytas world it looks like this:

"we have cass/ozzy/rory on mia ; sarah/mia/lily on rory"

and me and him are implied on mia. he wanted to help plan to get rudy and yul on mia rather than rory, so I came up with the thing about Mia having Brenda's idol and I'm spreading that around now.

And now in Andrea world it looks like this:

Vytas/Rory on Mia
Sarah/Mia/Lily on Rory
Andrea/Cass/Ozzy/Yul/Rudy on Vytas

it REMAINS TO BE SEEN if i'm gonna be able to pull this off. But I can tell you one thing--I can attempt to pull it off, completely fail, have this all blow up in my face, and STILL convince Vytas I'm with him, if I have to. That's how little he expects I'm thinking.

And MAN, if I can pull this off? What a fuckin glorious display. Vytas would have no clue. I'd get credit for a huge move. And I'd cement myself in a great alliance of 5 where I'm not a target they'd easily agree on, I don't think.

This is what I want to do to this game. THIS is a position I would actually feel good about, from both a longevity standpoint and a I-can-live-with-myself standpoint. So hi, keep an eye on your girl Andrea, I'm trying to flip the script. And I think my odds aren't all that bad.

ozzy: i love it but let's tell rory!
rudy: i love it but let's tell mia

GUYS STOP nah i love 'em i'll make it work

What would be the consequences of voting out Vytas? What would the game look like without him if your plan succeeds?

It would mean I would stop being forced into scenarios I don't like, and it would put me in a power position but surrounded by people who are also playing hard and who I really trust. I think in a five of Rudy, Ozzy, Cass, Yul, and me, I have a decent shot of making it to the final 3 and a good case to win.

Playing with Vytas means playing with a bunch of people who aren't playing hard--I mean Lill's trying, but the girl is just ALWAYS out of the loop, despite the fact that people keep giving her idols, but hell, I'd vote for her in the end--while he leads me around like the sheep he thinks I am and then brings me to the end with one of his other goats and tears me down in front of everyone. SUPER FUN.

It's putting me in a position to play with the people I want to play with, AND it's way upping my stock as a player in this game. If I go out I don't want to go out like Wigles or Katie. I want to go out like Brenda.

So you think you'll be able to get to the end by making that 5 majority alliance and voting with them every vote to F5, then being a 3 within that 5?

That's the hope! I think it's about time for solid majority groups to be forming, and a 5 is a size that feels really doable. Trying to manage like a 7, there's always a clear "we're on the top, we're on the bottom." I don't think that kind of paranoia comes up as easily in a 5 because everyone has individual connections to each other. And if I go out fifth--hey, it's one place better than next time! At that pace I only need to come back four more times to win. That's better than Katie's record aaaah

(note, now that it's the merge, we're grilling everyone on their convictions. this always leads to better gameplay :) )

historically, the 5 person alliances that dominate a merge and hold together survive because everyone in that 5 believes they are a part of a 3 that will make the end - otherwise, why would the bottom two (or one?) stay with that alliance. given that, what f3 does everyone in that alliance believe they have locked down, and how are you sure that yours is the "real" one?

oh I'm sure that mine is the real one because I'm in both! Me, Ozzy, Cass, and me, Yul, and Rudy.

And of course I'm being facetious, there are more than 2 combinations of 3 available in a group of five, haha. But I think the three ones most people are seeing are probably the two I mentioned above and Ozzy/Yul/Rudy. I believe Cass is most loyal to me before the others, MAYBE after Ozzy but that's okay, and that Rudy is most loyal to me after Yul. And being everyone's second best friend is great for me!

And I love being grilled. I have been very lonely, having emotional breakdowns all by myself in my confessionals.

Not to interrupt Joaqs grilling... For fun, I've been having everyone do this to see where everyone falls and where they put themselves.

Could you rank who you think everyone perceives to be the most threatening to win from Most threatening to Least and include yourself.

yeah sure I love these. But I have a question. Is this a ranking of like...how this person does in a jury vote, if they make it to the finals, or am I taking into account how likely it is that they'll make the finals?

Andrea wrote:yeah sure I love these. But I have a question. Is this a ranking of like...how this person does in a jury vote, if they make it to the finals, or am I taking into account how likely it is that they'll make the finals?

Assuming everyone is in the final 10 and the jury is voting for the winner. Who do you think stands the best chance to win and the worst.

ooh okay...

1. gotta be Vytas, for pulling off the flashy Brenda move.
2. Lill, maybe? All them idol plays.
3. Ozzy? hasn't made enemies, is social with everyone, killing it at challenges
4. Rudy? I think he makes everyone feel like they're his bestie
5. mmmmmmme?
6. Cass? She's like me but she's not as active.
7. Sarah? Kind of the same thing and even less active.
8. Yul. Nice. Bland. Not movin' and shakin'.
9. Mia. Is pissing everyone off, lol. Sorry Mia <3
10. Rory is gonna have a hard time getting respect from a jury at this rate.

Now, obviously the boot order does not always reflect who is most threatening, but let's assume that logically it does. If say Vytas, Lill, Ozzy and Rudy are all gone, what is convincing the 5 people you mentioned who are less threatening than you to keep you around for the final 3?

Nothing at all, which is why that's not my planned boot order in the slightest.

i would like to memorialize that vytas just said this to me

6 PM EST on August 16th.

"it's funny, the people who were in on the vote yesterday are now out
except for the king "

can't make this shit up.