Confessional

[malcolm]

"Wanna Bro Down?"

Let the games begin and so they do. I'm here and I'm ready to win. We all cluster to what I assume will be a tribe divide and announcement of the twist, but low and behold that's not exactly what it is. It's a challenge. I was like, ok, I can handle a challenge right now, let's do this, it should be fun, but then the stakes were revealed. The losers would be out of the game. YIKES! Don't want that to be me. I had no interest in going too hard at this challenge, I had one goal, to survive. I decided to rather waste my time posting a gajillion times, that I would casually chat with people as I worked on the challenge. It made it a lot more bearable, and not going ham on this first challenge when it wasn't completely necessary saved me from coming off as a threat. I mean what kind of idiot would go all out on this first challenge -- Allie. She may be cute, but after talking to her, I don't think there's much going on up there. Threat level negative.

I survived the challenge, placing last just before our ultimate losers Ozzy and Angie, who didn't even really attempt the thing. And then the captains for the returning players were selected. First, on the topic of these returning players, particularly the ones of my new tribe, one word to describe them....TEMPORARY. Based on how he's playing already I have no idea how Phillip has done so well in the past. He's already alienating people. Also I see exactly how Rob got his reputation last season, and why he placed so poorly. He is actually delusional. But more on that later.

So the tribes were picked, and even being last in the challenge, my social game put me as a number 4 pick. Not too shabby. Some things to watch out for though on my tribe, Rob picked Whitney first, and she was in the bottom tier of the challenge. RED FLAG. Definitely something going on with those two. Also, Sherea was picked last. OPPORTUNITY. When it comes a knockin, I'll be the one that answers. She's probably feeling vulnerable, and will not like Rob, so I want to work with her.

I haven't had the chance to talk to everyone on my tribe yet, though I have tried. There have been some highlights for me, the first being LJ. Me and LJ started chatting and I felt an immediate connection, a spark if I do say so myself. It was as though we were destined to meet. We hit it off like bacon and eggs, shootin the shit, making jokes, and I just flat out through it all out there. I said, man I really like you, wanna bro down? And like that, BOOM, bromance formed. LJ is my main amigo in this game and I hope to go deep with him. I also got to know Sherea, and within a short period of our talk she suggested we work together. I said yes immediately because Sherea is awesome. She has so much sass, but is also clearly a thinker. I think she was underestimated in the initial tribe divide because she's going to be a player in this game, and I want to be with her on the sunny side and not in her shade. 

And now the topic of Phillip. Oh Phillip, again how is this guy a two time winner? Classic Phillip starts approaching people to join "Stealth-R-Us" and of course when asked I'm going to say yes. Whoever doesn't this early is an idiot, though I guess that idiot in Phillips mind is Jeremiah. Apparently he asked Jeremiah to join, and Jeremiah was "hesistant" even though Jer says he said yes, so Phillip revoked his membership and left poor little Jer shaking in his boots, terrified that he's now on the outs of some alliance. The whole thing is so stupid, and Rob is even more stupid for being super nervous now about Phillip. Rob was approached and after the whole Jer thing, starting going crazy. He's scared that he's going to be associated with this big alliance and that we'll be targeted because of the Jer thing. My reaction to Rob bitching is who the fuck cares. It is so early in the game and Phillip has already played all his cards. He's a nut, nobody is considering SRU a serious alliance, except maybe Phillip, but nobody is going to tell Phillip that. Let's just let him think he has some control, when he really doesn't.

That leads me to my current alliance and the landscape of our tribe. We have the two returning players Rob and Phillip and our "captain" Whitney. 3 cooks in a kitchen that will no doubt be trying to take control. I want them each to think, once they try to take control, that they can, but in reality they'll be powerless. That is why myself, LJ and Sherea have formed our secret alliance. With such type A personalities on our tribe and another person who has as position of power, nobody will expect us "middle of the pack" players to be in control. If those three are the faces of our tribe, then we'll be safe. We want to bring in Jer as well, because he seems like a real sweet and loyal guy that we'll be able to trust. They key to this though will be to make sure nobody knows we're together to ensure that if we go to Tribal we'll have control over who leaves, and more than likely someone will be blindsided.

[malcolm]

"Playing Too Damn Hard"

Where to begin? This game has gotten so crazy lately, for very unnecessary reasons. I personally feel as though everyone is playing WAY too hard, to the point where their games are already being exposed and we haven't even merged yet. It's absolutely nuts, but there's so much to talk about since the last time I've had a confessional. I was in the process of moving from Halifax to Toronto, and was spending a lot of time with friends or packing and travelling, but now I'm here and I'm ready to turn up the dial on my game. The move helped me keep a low profile early in the game as others grew massive targets on their back, but I'm tired of sitting in the background. It's time for me to take control and really start running things.

I'm going to touch on some of the big moments that have happened since my last confessional, then go into more depth on my current position, and where I'm at with everyone in the game.

The Implosion of Rob

Rob's implosion started the minute he was a captain and felt he had any power on our tribe. He truly was an idiot. It all started with him taking exception to the Stealth R Us alliance, alliance being a very loose term for what it was, and Jeremiah not being a part of it. My reaction to that whole situation was, who the fuck cares, but Rob is stupid. Rob is actually just a stupid player, and this really came to light during the room decorating Immunity Challenge. I had sat out the previous the challenge, so I really wanted to contribute in this one, and I think I did. I was a main force in creating the theme and making the image presentable. I think I gained a lot of favour in this challenge, but damn Rob and Whitney lost a lot with me. A lot of what they did to "help" was just making a huge mess of things. With Rob trying to call the shots, just shut up and sit back. Again, he really is not the brightest and we were actually trying to get shit done, so I just wanted a muzzle on the guy.

Being who Rob is, I was not surprised that he got himself into trouble the next round. It should have been such an easy vote, and I blame myself not being there as a reason that everything went to shit so quickly. It would have been so easy to just vote out either Whitney who was super shady or Mikayla who just wasn't on much, but no, shit literally hit the fan, and by that I mean Phillip literally shit himself. I've never seen two people, who are returning players and should know better, just completely implode. Rob was worse than Phillip, but let's be real, Phillip was no better. Also the whole drama shit that round was stupid. With Whitney apparently making some fake message about Jeremiah wanting Rob out, to Rob exposing the Stealth R Us alliance to get Phillip out. Jeremiah has always been a bit squirrelly, so I knew he would be trying to get Phillip out this round, so I kind of expected him to do something abrasive, but then somehow the charge was switched to getting out Rob. Allie takes credit for it, but let's be real, Allie is not the brains behind any operation. To be honest, I really have no idea what exactly even went down here. If I have to give credit to anyone for reeling everything in, I guess I would give it to LJ, but really this round was such a shit show it could have been fucking Angie for all I know. 

Even though I was a little MIA this round, Phillip was on such a rampage that even I got some of his sassy wrath. Apparently he didn't like my response to my question about who are targets and saying I'd be targeting the biggest. Phillip has such an inflated ego that he immediately assumed he was the biggest target -___- I mean I get that he's won twice or something, but Phillip is very small fish in this game. With that being said though, I'm not sleeping on Phillip. I know he has it in him to pull out a win, but he's not in a great position in this game. I considered Rob a bigger threat at the moment because he's such a volatile player. There was no need to make a big move at this stage in the game. Making a big move for the sake of making a big move is stupid, and that's how Rob plays. You need to make smart moves, that's how you win this game. Maybe Rob's third try will be more successful, but I bet he'll fuck that one up too.

Tribe Switch

After we got rid of Rob, we had a twist that involved ranking our teammates that led to a tribe switch. Luckily I stayed on Napaco, which was awesome because I could talk about all of these confessional events with the same Napaco themed image. So the rankings this round were a little weird for me. I knew LJ would be at the top because he's kinda like Littlefinger from Game of Thrones. He has his hand in everyone's cookie jar. Everyone seems to love LJ and everyone also seems to think he's with them. Now I'm pretty sure I'm his number one because he's told me a lot of things about others, so I think I can trust him, but he's really setting himself up for a fall. More on LJ later. So myself and Sherea were number two and three. Sherea is hilarious and I think I got a lot of good fortune as a result of the room decor challenge so this didn't surprise me. What surprised me though was that Mikayla outranked Jeremiah. I guess it could be because Jeremiah was probably ranked last by Phillip and he may have ranked Mikayla first since I heard they were close, but it was still weird seeing her that high. Phillip and Whitney rounded out the bottom of the ranking which was not surprising given Phillip's blow up the round before and Whitney being shady. (Note -- writing this I actually forgot about Penner, so that shows why he ranked where he did)

So the big twist was that the top ranked players got to stay with their tribe, and as a result we got Yve, Brice and Allie. I was actually surprised to see Allie ranked so low. I knew from LJ that the major alliance there was Bob/Chicken/Morgan/Allie, so when she was so low I was actually shocked. I mean, I'm not super surprised, because talking to her is like talking to a robot. She's just so abrasive and straight to the point that its jarring and awkward. You can't have a full conversation with her. Anyways, I liked this group, I didn't think it was a bad bunch and I thought we could work well together on the challenge. But the challenge didn't even happen since Phillip took individual Immunity in the twist. I'm not surprised by this, after his meltdown Phillip was probably extremely sensitive and paranoid, especially given his low ranking. It worked out for us, no Tribal Council.

The downside of this though, is LJ going to the other camp. Honestly, I don't know what the deal is with LJ, but he is always so paranoid, and wants to control everything. He really just needs to calm down. Sometimes you've just got to let shit happen, and go from there. He's just making a really big target out of himself, and needs to cool down. He wants to be everyone's best friend and appears to be in an alliance with almost everyone, and that's only going to hurt him in the game. It's not a Final 8, it's a Final 3 or 2 that face the jury, and he's going to have to betray a lot of people as a result of all the deals he is making.

Whitney left this round, and I think LJ and Penner had a lot to do with this. From what has come to light now, apparently Penner/Bob/Chicken is an alliance, and they think LJ is in with them, enough to be sharing idol clues with him. And stupid LJ, tells them he has an idol. It's not really stupid for me, but it's very stupid for LJ. They probably think LJ is in their back pocket, but nope, and that's just going to hurt him later in the game. I won't bring that to his attention. Whitney leaving this early was a bad move. It was way too soon to start eating our own from old Napaco, but what's done is done. It's not catastrophic, I personally never liked or trusted Whitney, but it was not a smart move.


The Drama Queen

For the next challenge I sat out. It was really bad timing for me, I was in the process of moving and would be driving in a car for two days straight, so this round was terrible timing, and it was dumb how everything went to shit so fast, mostly as a result of Sibiu's Drama Queen Morgan. I like Morgan, she's one of the player's I enjoy talking to most, but she has no idea of her position in the game. She thinks she's Queen Bee, and I've played games with her previously, and I'm pretty shocked how unaware she is of what's going on. She's a good player, so this is not like her. Maybe it's the character, or maybe she knows something I don't but, only time will tell.

So we lose, and I'm like ok, I've talked to Brice but haven't talked to Yve, so this is an easy choice, Yve you're out. So I go to Morgan, and she's like no I'm voting for Mikayla, she needs to go, she's coming at me and she's going to take me out. What? Mikayla is such a nothing in this game. Sure I may be underestimating her and she could be a factor later on, but her fear of Mikayla is so stupid. So I try talking her out of it, I just tell her Mikayla is not leaving, there's no way and she's wasting her time targeting and just hurting her position in the eyes of myself, LJ and Sherea. So the four old Napaco start discussing how we'll handle this. We all know there is a Sibiu idol out there and Brice and Allie are the two most likely to potentially have it. LJ and I, however, know that Allie has this idol. We also know Allie is close with Morgan, and Brice/Yve were a pair on their old tribe on the outs. It would be fairly easy to force a tie, and since Morgan is being so dramatic and stubborn, we decide it will be easier to pull over Yve or Brice. Since I had talked to Morgan about targeting Yve, we decided we would switch to Brice, incase Morgan got Allie to use her idol.

The next morning, while I'm literally in a car, I go on AIM on my phone and start talking to Yve. Pretty much nobody has approached her and she wants to know what's up. I let her know that the names that have come up are Mikayla and Yve, and in the process of doing so I make it seem as though Allie and Morgan are the ones that brought this up. Yve already had a lot of resentment towards her old tribe since she was on the outs, so getting her to flip was really easy. Along with getting her to flip, I also told her LJ and I wanted a Final 3 alliance with her because nobody would see it coming. She ate that shit up. Will I go through with it though? Maybe. Yve is kind of like my Monica Culpepper, I think she'll do what I say and be loyal since I saved her.

By this point Brice is already gone, and this is when I really see that Morgan doesn't realize her place in the game. She approaches me and now wants to vote off Brice. As though she's doing me a favour by abandoning her vengeful quest against Mikayla, and switching her sights on Brice. Could I have told her that this decision was already made way before our conversation, sure I could have, but instead I was just like "Brice it is!" So when Brice left and Morgan started being her usual dramatic self, Yve called her out, and Morgan starts spewing off that she controlled the vote  and is the reason Yve is still around. She has no idea what happened and actually thinks she is the reason Brice left. So misguided.


Anyways, Morgan was not so pleased with me. Apparently Yve sent her a screengrab of the convo where I said Morgan wanted her out. First, stupid Yve. I just saved you and you're dogging me out to Morgan. I'm not going to confront her or even let her know I know about this, because I want her on my side. I want her in my back pocket as a loyal follower, but it was still so stupid. But Morgan was mad at me saying I threw her under the bus because her and Yve were close and now Yve hates her. Again, she shows she's so unaware of her spot in this game. Yve did not like Morgan. Yve told me herself that she tried to get Morgan out on two occasions and it was very easy to get her to go against Morgan. I didn't throw her under the bus, she was already there, I just took advantage of the opportunity to benefit my game, similar to what she did when she was insisting on targeting Mikayla. If she's going to make selfish decisions, you better believe I will too.


This round should have been so simple, but ended up being a complete shit show because people are so damn crazy.

[Host Brandon]

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