Round 5

[sarah]

Now if there was ever a challenge I was going to throw, it would be this one right here, cause this shit BLOWS.  I think we will probably end up winning, but this just sucks.

Anyways, I am glad and slightly surprised to see that old Vuku stuck together and voted out Brenda.  Maybe they all aren't that dumb.  Jamal said that Brenda was probably the person he was closest to, so LOL good, that will make him more reliant on me going forward.  We have been bonding a lot, and he is such a complete sarcastic asshole, EVEN MORE SO than Hayden and myself.  Like sometimes talking and "joking" with Jamal is actually too much for me cause he doesn't seem to know how to have a genuine conversation at any time, whereas Hayden and I are both able to flip that switch and read off of the other pretty well.  Nonetheless, Jamal will be an ally moving forward, Phoebe is meh, and I talked to Spencer maybe 2 super brief times and he is a complete gamebot from what I have been told, and I can see it.  Jamal acts like he was left out of votes on the other tribe and always on the bottom and this and that, but I am not falling for his pity party and giving him a free ride.  He can for sure hang onto my coattails for awhile cause I could use the number, but old Rara still have to be the first to go.  Pagong away Rara, Pagong away.

[sarah]

I hope we lose. I hate Spencer.

[sarah]

Look at Jefra, myself and Hayden still fucking carrying our tribe in challenges. So ridiculous.

I came into this game just hopping to make the merge cause I got pre-merge my two games before this, but this is NOT how I expected to be making it to the merge LOL. But I won't complain

[sarah]

I almost didn't come back online late last night after challenge results were posted, but boy oh boy am I glad that I did!!!!  Not only did the Big Old Vuku Energy (me, Hayden, Locky and Jefra) chat have a roast fest on Spencer that I loved, but I got all the tea from Jamal!!!!  Maybe I caught him at the most opportune time when he was drunk, or maybe my tactics really worked, but either way, I got what I needed out of him.

So earlier in the night we were talking a little game but I told him that I really couldn't tell him much at all right now because he could totally sink my game if we did lose.  So I promised that come merge I would open myself and my game up to him.  Well, I felt that I probably came across a little sketchy, so I reached out again later and apologized.  I then offered up small bits of info up here and there, nothing that was too revealing of my game or anything that he wouldn't find out on his own eventually anyways, all in the hopes that he would divulge some big secret to me or something.  I told him that the 4 of us og Vuku did have a group chat that Locky made (cause he told me that Spencer made one for him, Phoebe and Jamal), I told him that Grant had a thing out for Alicia on my old tribe, and I told him that Aubry had gotten to the idol but supposedly it wasn't there.

And that was all it took for him to tell me that he has the Raro idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  He said he had only told Brenda before, so I should be the only one to know.  I don't plan on telling anyone else about it right now, and I hope that Jamal doesn't either.  Cause if he tells Hayden that I already knew about it, then that looks really bad on me that I didn't go and tell Hayden.  But knowledge is power, and I am going to hold these cards tight to my chest for the time being.  Jamal says that he wants me to be his ride-or-die because he claims that the only time he ever won a game was with a ride-or-die.  I am a little hesitant though because I LOVE nothing more than to have a ride-or-die, but I ALWAYS am the one who gets screwed over by it in the end cause I am too trusting.  But anyways, I will go along with Jamal for now because we could make a really good team if we have each other's backs.  We can play the game on two different sides and while he can have info coming in from whatever Raro remain, I can have info coming in from the actual power players in the game from Vuku.  And I think we could do some crazy things with this idol and possible split vote plans that I can concoct down the line.  He claims that the idol will be "our" idol, but yeah right LOL.

However, Hayden really does think that Jamal has the idol more so than anyone.  So good for him, smart guy.  I have to play dumb though.  Cause in the end if I had to guess who has the Vuku idol, it would for sure be Hayden or possibly Jefra, Aubry or maybe Andrea.  And all of Big Old Vuku Energy compared notes and realized that Jamal is doing a very good job of worming his way into our good graces, and we can all see what kind of game he is playing.  And he is doing it SUPER well.  He isn't one to roll over and die, that's for sure.  And thinking way far ahead, can any of og Vuku really sit next to an og Raro at the end when they have the resume that they have attended almost every single TC?  I don't see a picture where I would want to sit with Jamal at the end, but we will see how the game plays out.  Maybe I would want to sit with like a Phoebe or Spencer though.  And also at the same time, the whole Jury will basically end up being og Vuku, so maybe they would want to vote for an og Vuku to win and not an og Raro if they make it all the way?  IDK but that is stuff for way way later to think about.

[sarah]

I do have to say good, actually VERY good move on Jamal's part for telling me about the idol. He honestly could have picked me or Hayden, kinda seeing that we are both likable and in power, so I am glad that I won him over first (to the best of my knowledge) and that he told me. I say this is a good move because while the idol could have potentially saved Jamal for one single round if he played it correctly, him now telling me about it in order to gain my trust and give me information that I can use to further my game, it instead gains him a powerful ally who could potentially save him for many more than one votes. And I think that a strong ally is way more beneficial than an idol in these games.