[Danni Boatwright]

Congrats on making the merge AND surviving your first tribal council on Matua!

Making the merge is a big deal in stranded. This is where you'll cement yourself as an all time great, or an all time goat. The choice is yours :) Enjoy your weekend and getting to know the rest of your cast that made this milestone with you! We'll be checking in periodically to ask you more questions as we think of them

1-Now that you're reunited with tribe mates who swapped onto the other tribe, what is your plan? Are you more loyal to OG tribal alliances, or have you made better connections post swap?

2-What kind of game are you looking to play here at merge? the social butterfly? the cool headed strategist? challenge beast? what do you think best suits your personality to make the end?

3- Merge councils are known for their unpredictability, huge moves and dramas, do you anticipate having to confront fellow tribe mates if your neck is on the line?

4-Are you having fun?

[Lauren]

Being reunited with everyone was great and there was a whole lot of convos happening last night but at this point I'm honestly not sure where I'm going to be most loyal. It looks like an alliance has emerged with all the women plus Randy and maybe Devens? I believe they added Matty to the groupchat after I went to bed last night too. I was originally hesitant about that just because I hadn't ever played with Randy or Devens before and it felt like I wasn't really given a say in the alliance, just kind of thrown in. They had brought up Matty and I was pushing for them to include him just because I feel more comfortable with him but they weren't going for it, I'm not sure what changed though. My issue is even if all the women stick together we'll eventually have to turn on each other. Only issue is the people that they'd want to be taking out first would be Ron, Charlie, Chris, Eric etc. and even though I don't like Eric the other three are people that I'd rather have in because I think I have a better chance of working with them. I just don't want to close off all my options and that'll have to involve some sort of alliance with the men.

To start the merge I'm looking to be the social butterfly. I just want to build a rapport with everyone and give them enough tidbits of information to get them to trust me. Ideally, if I manage to get on the guy's alliances good side I'll be able to get the information coming from them and coming from the women. I'm doing most of my strategizing behind the scenes for now, maybe give Michelle and Aurora input on what I'm thinking. If I'm going to make it to the end it's going to be because I was able to get people to trust me enough to keep me around. So long as the boot isn't detrimental to my game I don't really care who they take out so long as I'm in on it. I'm also starting to map out what the best group to flip on people with would be because I'm sure that'll come into play sooner rather than later.

If my neck is on the line I do anticipate having to confront other tribe mates. I don't like being the target and being kept out of things and if I realize that people are doing that I'm going to call them out, or at the very least rat them out to someone more aggressive. I'll still get what I wanted in terms of them losing rapport with the others, but it'll be someone else who takes the heat for it.

Also I am having so much fun lol. Last night was super chaotic but I loved it.

[Lauren]

So Eric approached me about voting Reem out which was coincidentally what I wanted but he was being annoying and not giving me numbers so I kinda went out and got them. Maybe, we'll see. Everything's either going to go extremely well and there's one less major threat to worry about or my game is basically over and I suck.

Also I almost lost it. I told the men ONE THING when I committed us to the vote. I said not to tell Charlie because he and Reem are close. And what do they freaking do? Run and tell Charlie. Supposedly he's on board so hopefully it'll work out but I was livid for a few minutes there. Also they're telling everyone that I'm organizing it so if this works I'm also going to have a target on my back but I'm banking on the men who are targets wanted to stay with our group of three. But Michelle's also being weird so who knows. This is not fun. I don't like it. This is very not "angelic little friend to everyone" and I just really really hope it works.