Stranded in Kuril Islands

Another night, another player out the door! The first man has left the game and things are heating up. It's only going to get harder from here

1-Were you surprised by the outcome of tonight's vote? why or why not?
2-Matty has officially joined Taraku. How does this impact your plans?
3-Gun to your head, who do you want off your tribe next
4-Now that a weekend has passed on these tribes, have you noticed any changes? who is cozying up with who?

I mean I wasn't too surprised with how tonight's vote went. It didn't feel like there were 1000 different plots floating around and everyone seemed pretty united. I was a little nervous going into tribal just that someone would pull a fast one but everything worked out splendidly. Now I'm back to not trusting any of these people. The whole challenge blowing thing was fun and all but I'm really not interested in doing that again. Especially since next vote I wouldn't be surprised at all if Reem tried to turn on the girls, or even if Michelle tried something. Also not going to lie I was banking on at least someone trying to do something against the plan so I could target them but everyone worked together surprisingly well which makes me more suspicious. Still salty people threw my name out.

Matty's cool, he seems to have cozied up to the girls a little bit, but all the guys have tbh. They definitely started to amp it up. I think most people are reining it in for the night but I'll do some assessing tomorrow and figure out where everyone's head is at.

Gun to my head I still want Reem gone. She's smart and she's cunning and she knows way too much now that we strategized together. And I'm sure she hasn't forgotten that I put a vote on her. It's way easier to manage people who don't know you tried to previously get them out. We'll have to see what sort of plotting I get up to after I log off tonight.

Oh! Side note: Ron came on and I was expecting him to throw some sort of scene but he didn't which was slightly disappointing I have to admit.

Lauren wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 10:02:48 pm Ron came on and I was expecting him to throw some sort of scene but he didn't which was slightly disappointing I have to admit.

*Lauren watching her IMs*

I'm incredibly pissed off at Gillian right now. Her losing her vote isn't even screwing with our plans too much so long as the men are still with us to vote Ron but now I feel like they're going to get ideas. And now that we only have 3 votes between the group of girls they could try something. So I am annoyed and it's also interfering with my scheming for the day.

Last night Matty messaged me saying he talked to Aurora while he was tribeless and learned that me, her, and Michelle were in cahoots and that he wants to work with us. He seemed eager about it but it's really suspicious and reminds me of something Aurora would do. So I mean, I guess it makes sense. My goal for today is to do some sleuthing on him to get a feel for where he actually is and if he's serious or just trying to play us.

And now for some reason Ron is saying he wants to work with me and Michelle? I don't get it. Do we just seem trustworthy? Or do they just assume we think we're on the bottom over what happened with Reem? I'm honestly so confused but I guess it's fine with me. Except now I have to sleuth on him too to figure out what the hell is going on.

Michelle was getting a little schemey this morning so I kept going over the benefits of a mixed gender alliance so now she's excited about that. Which is good because it's keeping her from being over the top paranoid. I do still want Ron out but since he's expressed an interest in working with us I think it's in my best interest to keep him around for another vote or two. Figure we get Marcus out now (sorry Marcus) then still have Ron as an easy vote. Then so long as nothing crazy is going on it might be possible to get the men on board to take out Reem as they'll want to even the numbers out a bit. Ron's sneaky but he's not as tight with the guys so I'm not overly worried about it being impossible to take him out in a merge. I feel like Reem on the other hand is going to be the one that turns on the women's alliance and I want to take her out before that.

Also I do like the idea of partnering with the men and just protecting the ones we want to work with until a merge however, we have to give them something. They're not just going to sit back and let the women take out all the men and if we really want them to work with us we have to give up a woman. I suppose it'll depend on how it looks like things are shaping up if we go to another tribal council past tonight (which hopefully we won't have to go to for once). Gillian could also be a good sacrifice but that only happens once another guy is gone and if they won't vote Reem. Michelle and Aurora are down the road problems.

Gillian is absolutely losing her mind and I'm trying to calm her and suggest maybe she log off for a bit and calm down but it's just aggravating her more. So I don't know what to do about that, Michelle was talking to her earlier but she's offline now so I think most of its on me unless Charlie or Marcus are stepping up right now.

Also everyone's been on an "I'm so excited to work with you! We're going to do so well!" type thing and every time I hear it I cringe a little more. It's probably because I'm so distrustful I don't get why other people think that seems anything other than extremely fake a see-through but I've been doing it back so no one gets suspicious of me. Sometimes I wonder if people genuinely don't see me as a miserable, untrusting person or if they just let it go for the sake of gameplay.

We finally won!!! I was getting worried, it was like trying to herd chickens for a little there. It felt like they were going to swing towards Ron which was not ideal for my game and I was working way too hard trying to get them to split the votes so Marcus would go instead. Both because I wanted him gone but also because I actually think there's a good chance Ron has the idol.

No one would insult each other to come up with the names for the challenge though it was like pulling teeth! I was sitting there like "come on guys get the anger out!". I had people for pretty much every one right off the bat but I didn't want to come off like that bitch who profiled everyone's negative traits so I kinda just sat it out and let everyone self nominate themselves. Which honestly probably worked out better since I had a bunch wrong and I just would have ended up insulting everyone.

And now I'm off to do something instead of going to tribal. Not going to lie it was a little anti-climatic winning