ROUND 3
Hey all! Here I am in round 3 with an idol and an ally! Oh that's right the idol is useless now, but I have another ally! I hada great talk with Sarah last night, and we built upon that today. She sarcastically shut me down which had me scared for a little bit, but then we hashed things out haha. We talked a little bit about the game and my main takeaway from her is that Aubry and Zach are close. I told her something Zach said to me about targeting Alicia. It was stemming from something Alicia said in the tribe chat when she called me Gayden. I didn't take offense to it but I can see why others might. Apparently Aubry had an issue with that and told that to zach. Zach told me that SOMEONE told him this and I gathered he was using it as a way to target Alicia.
Sarah told me that Aubry told her that she was upset with it, but its weird that Aubry didn't mention it at all to me. Oh well. But this confirmed what I had already suspected that Zach and Aubry are close. They may or may not have Andrea with them.
Sarah also told me that Grant basically out of the blue wanted to vote out Alicia.
GrantToday at 6:58 PM
Well anyway, I wanted to make an agreement of sorts
for the sake of the tribe and such
If we do ever go to tribal, off alicia first
I mean overall, it's pretty clear she's the least contributable
Like what a weird message. Grant probably thinks he contributing the most which is .... not right lol. He can't bother to message me first, respond to me, hold conversations. At least Alicia tries with that. I kinda glossed over it but Zach just messaged me today after 2 days of not doing it. I know he is closer to other people and doesn't really care about me. Apparently he hadn't talked to sarah in days either. I just don't get how some of these people are playing this game. A lot of ignoring, not responding, ghosting, I guess that's the new survivor! ANd it's not like I don't try, I've tried many times with little response OH WELL.
I need to talk to Jefra more, but we talked a little bit about working together if we end up on the same swapped tribe haha. Nothing more concrete than that, but just wanted to get that out there before she had to leave. Locky mentioned forming an alliance me, him, sarah, and Jefra, but I'm not sure if that's in the cards right now. Sarah is just lukewarm on Jefra which I can somewhat agree haha.
I tried to downplay mine and Locky's strategic connection with Sarah, saying we didn't really talk game and being a little apprehensive about forming a group. I want Sarah to think that I'm closer to her when Ii'm not and that she actually is closer to me. So there is about to be an alliance of me, Sarah, and Locky when all of us eventually get on at the same time.
Andrea is in a weird spot for me. On one hand I think she could be with Zach and Aubry. On the other hand, I think she does like me. She brought up having each other's back if we went to tribal again. I wish it was something more, but I'll take it!
If we had to go to tribal it would've been interesting. I would much rather Grant go than Alicia. She seems to be more on my side than Grant is, even if that's not a lot. She's a wildcard, but she's more likely to be my wildcard. I think Sarah has a good realtionship with her as well. I think the Grant, Aubry, and Zach camp would vote alicia. I think me, sarah, locky, alicia would vote for Grant, and then Jefra and Andrea are in the middle? I THINK that's right. I would have to play it off like it didn't matter to me who went while subtly hinting the closeness of aubry, grant , and zach making that a threesome. Who knows if it would work?
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Tiers
#1
Only one to know about my reward, and hopefully I'm the only one who knows about him. I think I can trust him about pretty much anything at this point.
#2
Almost at Locky level but we recently developed our strategic relationship. She's told me a lot and I think we can trust each other so far. Love her
#3
I think these two are pretty close at this moment for me. Jefra just disappears when things are gonna get good. Andrea is a little unknown for me.
#4
Someone I don;t want to see leave, but not a ton of strategic relationship
#5
Can tell these 3 are gonna be working against me sooner than later so I want to get the drop on them!!!!
That's pretty much how my most want to be swapped with rankings would go. I'd have jefra and possibily Alicia above Andrea. Honestly, I might want to be swapped with Grant so I can throw him under the bus and create a buffer vote!!!!
Right now, I feel better about my position in the game than last round. THere are a still a lot of unknown but I have enough knowns on my side to be protected. I know where the idol is, I know who is targetting who, I know what the alliances are gonna be, it's a good spot. Now I just gotta make sure I can do my best to keep that structure to make sure I'm not targeted. Maybe keep Alicia around as some sort of a shield. The thing I need to do this game is increase my visibility with the tribe. Make sure I don't just go under the radar. I don't think I'm accomplishing that at this point but its early! I think I'm about to be in the most powerful alliance of this tribe, so that works for me, I can always go up! Meanwhile I can work on people like Andrea, Jefra, Alicia, and too a lesser extent placate Grant, Aubry, and Zach and make them think I won't go after them. It shouldn't be that hard... right?
I was very paranoid and continuously thinking about this round to Locky and what to do with my idol that was expiring. At one point I thought, maybe I play it and play it off like its the tribe idol so any suspicion of Locky having it is out the window. I think that wouldn't really have damaged my position and would have been cool to be sneaky! Instead we won so now its essentially useless. I can however, use it as a decoy and possibly pass it to someone that its real. I mean it really is a REAL idol, just powerless. If i get in a sticky situation (s/o baylor) I can just threaten to use the idol and get out of it.
I'm happy with how I'm playing right now, I just wish some on the people on my tribe cared about the game more!
EDIT: I just wanted to say that I hate this picture of Zach so much
Really just wanna punch him in the face
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