episode seven - "We run SC!"

[Sam]

<3 Chris. He's my boo. He's so much smarter than me too haha. He's in a better social position and keeps his mouth shut and has better ideas. <3 I'm so lucky to be aligned with him!


Sagar I don't really trust. It's hard to put a finger on it. I semi-confronted him about it before the vote. Because like he didn't come up to talk to me about the vote at all and I was like WTF? I thought we were aligned! Actually he did come up to me to talk yesterday but we didn't make a decision. So I figured he would IM me and we would decide together how to vote and stuff. But he didn't. So I gently brought it up and now he probably thinks I am pushy and paranoid, which I am, so I guess we are all well-informed now. <3


Dave I really like. The problem is he is really loyal and has tons of tribemates on his side. I don't think he will ever flip but maybe he can keep me safe for one round or two. Or give me information. Either way I like talking to him. I need to skype this bitch.


Adrian I like, and can see myself voting for him to win when I make jury. I was being really pushy and sneaky and strange (kind of) to him today in Skype and he handled it well. I'm impressed with his play.

Unfortunately this is his first Survivor game so I think I can point something shiny to him out in the distance as we're walking and then trip him. <3

Ryan is proving a harder nut to crack, but I'll get him eventually. I need to talk to him non-game about things he likes.

Jose I don't know anything about but ""apparently"" Mbochi made up like he is the one to flip so that Joe could tell us to vote Tomas and also be safe. So when Jose used an idol on Tomas, it would work out. Who knows if that is true or not. I enjoyed talking to him though today.

Tomas - I need to figure out this Tomas guy. he is clearly connected if he's part of all this grand planning with Jose. this is like a Renee/Kim/Jeb situation where they are all secretly conversing on facebook and I had to Encyclopedia Brown out their alliance. <3


Also I need to find out who voted for Renee.

[Sam]

this game is going toooooooo fast.


so let's talk about this vote in DETAIL. i also wanted to post convos but i figure y'all won't really read them anyway so take my word for it. <3


so last night i got home from working all day at 9pm and talked to a few people. I told Ryan that Adrian secretly hated him (lol), and I posted that I was using my idol. I don't remember what else I did but I was trying to WERK IT.

oh that reminds me I didn't even update the fallout from the last vote, and then the insanity from Sagar insta-winning randomly. oh well I have to move on.


So today I log on with a few objectives. I want to chit chat up new people. I want to best coordinate my vote, and my allies vote. I also want to decide if I really need to use my idol or not.


I talk to Chris and we catch up from last vote. We make lots of plans and stuff and share info about individual Mbochi, how to distance ourselves from each other, what our plan of attack should be, who we should vote, etc etc.

I chat up with Joe a little so that's good. I think I talked with Sagar and Dave? Ryan/Tomas don't answer me. Trying to spread little things like I don't talk to Sagar, i'm going to use my idol, we might vote 'random person X' etc.

So then I take a short break and come back on later.

I find that Renee has started a skype group with Chris Sagar and I. She "wants us to get back together" and thinks we should all vote as a block against Tomas.

I actually kind of believed it lol. At any rate, I didn't care because Renee was not my problem, 5 Mbochi, 4 with idols, was my problem. So I kind of went with it.

However third things tinged my spidey senses.

First, Renee was not all about genuinely getting our group of four to work together with an intensity that one would think one would have, if one was really invested and interested in the alliance. Us four were not intimately coordinating our vote, and most importantly, no one had come up to me to make sure I was voting a certain way. Something they surely would have done if they wanted to make sure things were working out for our group.

Second, Sagar wasn't talking to me about the vote at all. I mean who doesn't confirm who you are voting for with an alliance member before a vote? So that was MAJOR suspicious. Turns out it actually wasn't a problem but at the time I was worried.


Also third, I told Dave I was pretty sure I was voting for him. (which I really was at the time.) One I wanted to notify him if I was voting him out of kindness, and two I wanted him to get a little scared about playing his idol.

The most telling thing was his response, which took him 2 minutes to type and was very non-comittal. I feel like he was going to type out that he was going to vote for me too, then erased it. I don't know if that was true our not but I definitely got a "YOU ARE GETTING VOTES" vibe.

So all these three things made me definitely use my idol.

As for my vote, I didn't really want to vote for Tomas. I didn't see the point really. He didn't have an idol and wasn't a factor. But I also doubted I would ever get close enough to him to change his mind, and Chris wanted to, so I guess I didn't mind.

Plus Renee had already voted, and I wanted us to vote together in case there was a chance they split 3-3 and our four votes could overcome it. So I just voted Tomas.

Then I see the votes and AGAIN I am freaking floored lol.

[Sam]

like last vote, when Hash used his idol on Renee, and I didn't vote for Ryan, I figured I was screwed.

This round, when I scroll down and see SIX idol usages, one on TOMAS who we all voted, I again figured I was screwed. totally lol.


I can't believe SIX idols were played!

But then I realize Jose and Renee are the only ones vulnerable. And I'm kind of happy because I'm still thinking in my head that Mbochi must of voted Renee for safety.


Then I scroll down and see I got votes which makes me happy because then I made the right decision to use my idol.

Then I scroll down and see Chris getting votes.

At this point I'm pretty sure I'm totally screwed lol. If they are going 3-3 me and Chris, that means all votes are cancelled, and its a revote, which means I'm in major danger.


So I scroll down to the last vote which obviously isn't for Joe. And then at this point I sort of mentally figure out their plan: use all their idols, and get out me or Chris. (at this point I am not even realizing that Renee voted for them).


Then I scroll down to the end and it's....



Renee?


ahahahahahahaha BYE BITCH! <3 <3 <3

loves it. how is it that the only time I don't vote out Renee she goes??


At this point I am thinking that Sagar or Chris switched to Renee for safety. This turns out not to be true.

Then Sagar points out that all idols are gone, which makes me very happy.


Seriously this was like a BEST case scenario! ALL FOUR of their idols being used??? AMAZING!!!! I was figuring it would be lucky if Renee went and lucky if one or two of them used their idols. Using up FOUR idols is huge!!!!!!!

plus it means we have more time to flip one of them.

anyway now I'm sort of mentally figuring it out in my head.

it seems their plan was 3-3 Chris/Sam
with Renee joining up with them
and Renee trying to get us to all vote Tomas
so Joe could save Tomas with an idol

and they could vote me or Chris out in a revote.

BUT, and apparently,

one of them broke the plan

and voted for Renee instead.

Now I'm not sure if one of them actually broke the plan to vote out Renee, or accidentally voted Renee, or what. I don't think Renee, myself, Chris, or Sagar voted for Renee.


But then Ryan told me that he knew Renee was getting a vote. SURELY that was not part of their plan. There is no way their plan could have been to use up FOUR idols to get out RENEE. please tell me that was not their plan, or as a doctor I must recommend an intense mental evaluation.

Dave did tell me that he thought us four were really tight together.


If they seriously thought that Chris or I would use an idol on Renee...


when Hash got himself voted out for doing the same thing last round...

when we all tried to get her voted out the first TC...

and when Chris and I blatantly backstabbed her last round out of nowhere.... without being successful....

and you think I'm going to use my only idol on Renee when I could be voted out? lol.

though Ryan told me he also didn't know who voted Renee so he could be lying.

I seriously seriously seriously hope that was not their plan lol. Or they are suffering a huge deficit in information.

It is true that a lot of my tribemates tell me they just ignore questions by Mbochi and don't answer them, which I just thought was a lie but it could be true I guess.


possibly i could use this massive information deficit to my benefit by offering to be an information conduit to Dave/Adrian? something to think about.

my other plan was to have Dave block my name from coming up over there and I block his name from coming up in my group but the more I think about it the more I think that's not going to work.

Sagar and Chris are very very smart people though. So I'm happy to have them working with me. <3 [lol I just typed up "working for me." then erased it <3]

I told them we need to separate ourselves from each other to get someone to flip.

Which is true and what I want to do.

But that's what I always do in games and it never works.

So I think this time instead I'm going to try and flip.

I need to identify and execute when, how, and to whom to flip to.

Also I have the most iSurvivor points so I at least get my choice of prize. =) so that's exciting! that will have to come tomorrow though as we decide.

i'm tellin ya this game is going by too fast! y'all are lucky I have a day off tomorrow!

[Sam]

jeez louise. why is it that the other tribe is always a million more times organized than us? and they don't betray each other? and they seem to work together flawlessly despite not being on Skype all day??? (or maybe invisible)

this doesn't make any sense. they clearly coordinated very well.....

and Sagar lied, which was perhaps not unexpected. i'm just surprised Chris didn't use all 88 points on the express pass. i think it might have been because i told him I trusted Sagar in this challenge and in previous games I've gotten points by spreading them out lol. oops. -_-

chris doesn't have a chance really. =/ sagar doesn't either especially with this move. it just destroys our cohesiveness which was really the only thing we had going for us.

not seeing much of any options here at the moment.

[Sam]

well even though Chris is my main boo and my favorite person ever in this game (and in the last 3 games I've played)

at least I get to be in the final 7 with someone i'm not outwardly (and actually) aligned with! woo!

[Sam]

its sad for Chris but he's probably lucky to get out of this game and save himself some headaches lol.

i'm not actually mad at Sagar at all because I'm heartless when it comes to these games, none of it really matters at all lol. but I'm going to be up all night studying then morning clinic, nap, studying, night exam, morning lab, afternoon clinic, evening mafia, exhaustion. so i won't be around for tc or anything. so better to make it seem like i'm pissed off at sagar and let him think that for awhile and then i'll be back on saturday to finish up this shit show. <3