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Erik-- You and I have talked and were more or less on the same side from the beginning. I honestly thought you were a weak player and I thought I could predict and slightly control your moves. This prolly sounds extremely arrogant and maybe it is but that’s how I perceived you. BTW I don’t think I ever told you but when you posted that public confessional I told you I didn’t read it and just wanted to help you out. In reality that was all strategy. I knew it would build some trust with you and having it screen shot, I knew I could use it if needed at any point.

No, that's probably correct, but towards the later part of the game, you could see that my move-controlling wasn't as on a leash as you thought it was, with both the Mike boot and your own boot. And I had a hunch that you might have read it or something, but I didn't have any knowledge of what kind of player you were. But the bottom line is that you could have let it slide and watched someone that you didn't know crash and burn, but you decided to help me out (in my eyes), and that was good enough for me.

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So my question to you is, did that make you actually trust me? If so, did that factor into working with me and Zmanda for the Steven and Kim vote?

Yes, it did make me trust you a lot. For some reason, I never took into account that you could have made a screenshot of it, and there was no way that you had enough time to read it, so I was in good shape. It did play a part in getting to trust you more and it did play a hand in the next round with voting off Stephen/Kim, but I was going to try that move anyways, regardless if you were on the tribe or not. Had you been replaced by anyone outside of the Twisted alliance, I was going to go for it, unless that person wasn't around enough to talk strategy. Had you been replaced by Fabio or Eric or someone like that, I obviously would have stuck with the Twisted gang, but since I had a decent relationship with you already, along with Dolly and Zmanda, I figured I would go for it. To simply answer your question, I did trust you more after that, but I was going to go for that kind of move anyways if I could help it.