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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 24, 2014 1:59:37 GMT
 So like 10 minutes after I posted that confessional Erinn came up and talked to me trying to save herself. I guess she's not targeting me after all. She's going after Morgan or possibly Tracy and I told her if she could flip one person then I would flip and help her. Obviously none of those three is going to help her, so it's not like what I told her even matters anyways. Sorry Erinn, but I'm not going to go back on my word so late into the tribal council. I'm starting to learn that my paranoia is working overtime and I need to calm down and stop myself from overplaying. When I lock in with my group I just have to stay calm and trust the trustworthy people. Being too quick to pull the trigger worked well for me early on, but now that we're getting further into the game I have to start controlling myself. I can't just go popping off in every direction and still expect to make it far in this game. |
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 18:47:02 GMT
~EPISODE 7~
Okay doing all of my merge confessionals now because life has been a little cray-cray (Really every weekend is)
So last time we went to Tribal Council and voted out Erinn. I can't say I'm sad to see her go, but her leaving does lead me to worry about how much the people on Old Ahmick will trust me. We have formed a Final Five alliance, but if I flipped on our tribe so soon after the swap makes me seem super untrustworthy. That's why I've sort of been laying back for this early merge portion of the game. Now don't get me wrong I'm DEFINITELY scheming and dealing and making the moves, but I'm doing it behind the curtain so that people don't know I'm as manipulative as I really am. For me, staying under the radar could make the difference between being blindsided within the next couple of weeks or making it all the way to the endgame. My game is kind of hanging at a precipice, so all I can do is play my heart out and hope for the best.
Right after the merge, I basically solidified my two alliances. I have one alliance of the Old Ahmick Five, which is myself, Christa, Jefra, John, and Woo. On the other hand, I have a Fivesome Alliance with myself, Christa, Jefra, Eddie, and Tracy. I also started telling Eddie and Tracy that they are my final three. I'm not sure if they believe me, but I want them to. That way, there will be some ease in allowing Old Ahmick to have a majority. If they trust that I won't stick with my old tribe, then we're set. So basically coming into this vote, Tyson, Shawna, and Morgan are my three major targets. I have some sort of alliance with everyone else, so those three are the people who need to get lost so my game can hit its stride.
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 19:05:43 GMT
We get to the challenge, and it's one of those balance thingys where you just have to hold on as long as you can. I am really not a fan of these types of challenges because I have a life, not to sound conceited but I'm too beautiful to sit in my room all night posting in this game..
.. LOL just kidding I have no life. I probably could have won this challenge if I was trying really hard, but I honestly didn't want to win this one. I feel like a bit of a conspicuous threat as it is, and winning this challenge would have just solidified myself as public enemy #1. If my alliance goes south, I'd rather not be the person blindsided. I love Christa to death, but I want someone like her or Jefra to be the big blindside if a big one occurs. And the way to minimize chances of my own blindside is to seem as innocent and non-threatening as possible. So I held on for a short time, just over 2 hours or so. I figured that would put me in about 4th-5th place and I could still get the idol clue without being a major threat...
But I guess I overestimated the lazy asses in this game. Somehow I ended up in 3rd place, beating everyone else by an hour or more. Like I wasn't even TRYING that hard. How weak are the people in this game. Maybe I can take their lunch money much easier than I thought. I plan on stomping all over these bitches and eating their limbs for breakfast. Nothing better for a healthy diet that human flesh.. How else would be body look ~THIS~ great?
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 19:21:27 GMT
However, in spite of doing really well at the challenge, credit must be given to Eddie and Jefra. They lasted basically twice the amount of time I did and they nailed this challenge so hard it was like a frat house on a Friday night. Kudos to them for kicking so much ass. I haven't really been evaluating either of them as a major threat, but I guess I better start re-evaluating my train of thought. Both of these two are driven and here to play so I'm going to keep an extra special eye on them. If anybody's going to make a major power move to shake up the game, it'll be them. And the last thing my game needs is a shake up been I'm basically in a total power position.
So for the upcoming tribal, there's been a big question mark. In a large tribe like this, there has to be a decent amount of communication to make sure everyone votes as we need. If only a few people cast their votes astray, our plan would fall apart and everything would turn to shit. So the question became one thing: Should we vote out Tyson or Shawna? Christa and I talked about who to vote out and eliminated Morgan because we figured it would Eddie and Tracy too much. We want to make all our allies feel comfortable, at least for this first vote.
It came down to Shawna and Tyson, and I was really pushing for Shawna to go. Knowing Shawna from before this game, my gut instinct was just pushing me to boot Shawna. Maybe it's the fact that we used to dislike each other or I've seen her weasel her way to the end one too many times, but she HAD to go. If I pushed Shawna like a few days ago, Christa would have been like "BITCH NO". But in a brilliant stroke of luck for me, Shawna blindsided Christa in another game a couple days ago. Somehow the stars aligned for me here to have the perfect opportunity to strike against Shawna and take her out.
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Post by Whitney Duncan on Apr 27, 2014 19:32:07 GMT
In which game were you with Shawna?
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 19:36:47 GMT
Once it was decided that Shawna was getting booted, we had to figure out how to sell the Shawna vote without appearing as though Christa and I are an invincible couple. So what I did with all my allies was push the "Shawna and I are enemies" angle. It's somewhat true in that Shawna and I have HATED each other in the past, but that hatemance hasn't really been present in a long time. However, framing the vote in this way was good for me in two ways: 1) It made Shawna look bad so my friends/allies could come to my rescue and help me pawn her ass. 2) It makes me seem like less of a rational player and more of an emotional player. I don't want to appear as strategic as I'm really being because it would make me a target, and as I've said like a billion times my main strategy is keeping myself from becoming a big target in this game.
A second good thing about this Shawna vote is that Tyson is practically on his deathbed. He's missed two challenges and it looks like he's on his way out. If we vote out Shawna and then Tyson gets medically evacuated from the game, then we're already at the Final 8. It's kind of like a killing two birds with one stone, but it's more like throwing a stone at one bird and watching another bird stab itself in the throat.
This is the first tribal council where I'm not really that worried. I've been super paranoid for most of this game, but for this merge vote I've really felt nothing like that. Maybe I'm very trusting in my allies, but I think it's more likely that I don't see how a plan to get me or my allies out could have logically come together, so I think we're okay. I'll still be holding my breath though just in case lol.
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 19:37:09 GMT
In which game were you with Shawna? Just a bunch of FGC games from a couple years ago. Nothing recently. |
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Post by Whitney Duncan on Apr 27, 2014 19:41:12 GMT
Is Sausage Island a possiblilty?
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 20:39:05 GMT
Is Sausage Island a possiblilty? Someone recommended it to me and I've heard it's a great series, but I'm struggling to keep up with confessionals/challenges/strategy in this game as is, and I'd rather devote my whole self to one game than half-ass two games. |
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Post by Whitney Duncan on Apr 27, 2014 20:50:35 GMT
Ohh but I actually meant if you knew here from that game.  |
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 22:42:33 GMT
Ohh but I actually meant if you knew here from that game. Oh no this is only my second proboards game. Before that it was only fgc |
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Post by Whitney Duncan on Apr 27, 2014 23:00:02 GMT
Ohh. What is FCG if I may ask?
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 27, 2014 23:48:08 GMT
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Post by Chase Rice on Apr 28, 2014 1:50:47 GMT
~EPISODE 8~
(Just for future reference, is the Tyson removal it's own episode or will it be combined with the tribe re-separation/IC/Tribal?)
After the vote, Shawna said something about Jefra being on the outside of the Ahmick group and that she needs to watch her back. At the time, it seemed totally bizarre to me because Jefra's in a great spot in the game. Jefra, Christa, and I have free choice of our alliances and right now we seem to be in the swing vote positions. Clearly Shawna's just a bitter bitch who doesn't understand the games dynamics at all... Until I got back to camp and Christa immediately suggested that we boot Jefra and form a Final Five alliance of myself, Christa, John, Eddie, and Tracy. And I just looked at her like.. JOHN?!? I haven't talked seriously with John since the tribe swap like a billion years ago. I'm sure he's nice and all, but how can I personally trust a guy in an endgame alliance where I don't even know the guy. I get that Jefra is more than unreliable and seems to have a relationship with Morgan though, so getting rid of her seems like a good idea. Just not this early in the game.
But after talking it out with Christa it makes perfect sense and even puts me in a power position. If we blindsided Jefra at the next vote, then all of New Mukwa would still be intact and I would have my alliance with them as well at the other final five alliance. It would be no different from our original plans except for the fact that someone who's proven to be nuts and unreliable would leave and the milquetoast trustworthy guy would stay. Works for me! ^_^
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Post by Whitney Duncan on Apr 28, 2014 1:54:14 GMT
It's a Seperate Episode.  |
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