Alright so small update. Formal Episode 6 write up coming. Last round was a success. Dolly going was pretty awesome and I never talked to Kelly but she was one of the votes for Kim and Stephen so it's all good. We enter this round and it's time for the big reveal. Will two of my many allies return or two of my many enemies? As far as the actual game, there really was no question. Erik is the biggest target walking because he stabbed Kim, Stephen, Kamanda, and I in the back. He's a moron and he made one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. Of course though we have a round where he can win individual immunity and save himself. And of course it's endurance so the only way to beat him is to waste hours and hours of my life. Nevertheless, I have work at 7 AM on Thursday morning so I can start then and go until 3 AM since I don't have work the next day. That would be 20 hours and if Erik went more than that, so be it and he wins. But that was my plan.

So I start up at 7 and fuck up because internet sucks at work. So I start again at 8:15 and just say I'll go an extra hour. And I was going strong too. I even had to leave the office to go do something work related and just kept posting from my phone but at 4:15, I missed it by 3 seconds. I was pissed but there was nothing I could do. I tried to start a new one but I knew I couldn't beat Erik. I was just trying to keep him tense so I kept posting but then later on Yul talked to me. He realized that I was posting in two threads and asked why. So I told him that I had messed up but kept going in case I hadn't. He told me that Erik kept asking if I had stopped and he thought that if I went offline, Erik might stop. Of course it could've been a trick but there was nothing to lose by me stopping since I couldn't win anyway. He promised to beat Erik and I believed him because he knew he was going if Erik won immunity. So I went to bed, ready to wake up early and beat Erik if I had to. Didn't though since Yul won. I was very happy which just goes to show that Erik is such poison to this tribe that it could bring rivals like Yul and I together.

Even better news is that Kim and Ronnie get back in the game. Both are two of my top three allies who have left along with Stephen and I'm thrilled to have them both back. This really could not have gone better. Erik is going, I have Kim and Ronnie back, Kim is giving me immunity for the round....and I'm about to get an idol! Oh did I forget to mention that? Amanda have me her two candies before she left for vacation, Ronnie got two candies this round, he also already had one and got one from Jerri in exchange for immunity, and Kim got three in her pinata. Ronnie wanted it but I wasn't giving up another idol so here we go. Eric is about to have his own idol along with the one Mike has. I am thrilled. I honestly think I am in an awesome spot.

I have my alliance with Kamanda, Fabio, and Mike. Monica is tight with me and loyal to me because I'm one of her closest allies left. Yul and Zamanda rely on me because I'm their only real in to this tribe (though they think Mike is too). Kim and Ronnie are both super loyal allies who are now back. On top of that, I'm still close with Heather on the other tribe.

I have three goal this round with three different people. I need to get closer to Zamanda. I like her and I think she is loyal to the people she thinks she can trust. Yul will be gone soon but I don't think she will go right after him and I need to know she is an ally to me when he is gone. That's one blind spot covered. I need to solidfy what I have with Heather and graze the surface of game talk a bit more because that's half of that tribe over there covered (thanks to her allies) and my second blind spot. My final blind spot really just comes with whatever else could be lurking over there. I don't totally know the dynamics so I just want to have two solid ins. Sierra is incredibly smart and a great player, having made two FTCs in this series and having won one. If I can get her on my side, we can be in an amazing spot as two of the better players here imo. More importantly, it covers my third and final blind spot. If I can do this all which I've already started, I can be in an awesome spot going into the merge which has to be coming soon I would imagine.

Episode 7

This round began with Dolly going in a 5-1 vote because Erik is so desperate for something to happen at this point that he is willing to throw his vote away. I was nervous that Yul was trying to pull something but luckily Mike didn’t fall for it. And then the Los Muertos challenge is announced and finally my allies have a shot to come back. I was really hoping Kim, Stephen, Julie, Danni, or Ronnie would come back. I needed allies and that was my best shot at getting them. I also knew that I had to try to win for the people still in because someone needs to beat Erik. Fabio and Mike are wary of Yul going this early and I’m wary of pissing off Zamanda because she is still on our tribe. So I would love the easy boot of Erik and I’m the only one I trust to beat him.

I’m ready to wake up early on Thursday for work and when I do I’ll be able to start posting. I get to work at 7 and I don’t work on Friday so I should be able to go for a solid 20 hours or so before I pass out. I fuck up very early on at 8 so I just start again and I go very strongly all day. I get through all the way until 4 when I miss by a few seconds. With Erik and Yul still going, I know I won’t be able to win unless I wake up early again the next day. That’s what I resolve to do but I also decide that I’ll keep posting and even start a new thread, just to freak Erik out and put him on edge. Eventually Yul realizes what I’m doing and comes to talk to me. I explain how I messed up because it would be shadier to lie about it and we start brainstorming on how we can get Erik to lose. I really want Erik out and Yul knows that if Erik wins the challenge, he is screwed. So we come up with a plan. I’ll stop posting because Erik has apparently been a paranoid lunatic all day about when I would stop posting. Then he’ll hopefully be calm enough to stop earlier rather than later and Yul can pass him. Sure enough it happens! The next day, Yul confirms that he beat Erik. I would later find out that he tricked him by saying they would go to random.org but then just kept posting. This should just prove everything I’ve been saying all along about how stupid Erik is. He knows he needs immunity and then falls for something like that. How stupid.

Anyway, with that put to rest, I can watch to see who will be returning. It’s Kim and Ronnie! I’m thrilled. They were two of my top three allies (along with Stephen) who got eliminated. This couldn’t have worked out better! And not only that. They both get pinatas. And they both get to give immunity to someone. Kim gives me immunity because I asked her to since I don’t trust whatever Yul and Erik have up their sleeves. And they both give me the candy they get from their pinatas which allows me to get an idol. Wow. So the idiot who I want to vote out lost immunity on a dumb move, two of my closest allies return to the game, I get immunity for the round, and I get an idol. I’m truly on top of the world. That Imagine Dragons song is about me. Nothing can change this! Nothing can hit me!

So now let’s fast forward a bit. Our alliance already knows what has to happen. Fabio, Mike, Monica, and I quickly agree the vote is for Erik. He does some campaigning to certain members about voting for Zamanda because she is someone who has allies and will most certainly not vote with us. I quickly shut down any ideas Fabio is getting because while I understand all of this, we should still have numbers and there will be time to get rid of her but I don’t trust Erik at all. Anyone with a negative IQ is so stupid in these that they’re dangerous even if you can trust them which I can’t with him. So he has to go. Plus, Zamanda has been talking to me and even if she is a sociopathic liar who wants to feed my blood to wolves, she’s pretty cool. So easy vote for Erik.

Yul and Zamanda both talk to me at different points and I confirm it to them. Yul already knew based on the challenge and there’s no reason to lie. I had briefly thought about an idol because there were enough candies out there but I just didn’t see Erik having enough allies. So easy vote. And then Erik comes to me. Now, I’m ready to have a field day on him. He actually has the nerve to campaign to me for a vote. I tell him straight up that I can’t trust him after what he did and I tell him honestly how stupid is for doing it. He keeps begging and basically just leaves it to me to decide what I need to. Nothing changes, he’s going but at least there’s some closure there and finally get to confront him on it. That’s the end of a storyline. Right there, it’s all good and Erik is gone.

So at 8 I check tribal results and I get a weird knot in my stomach when I see the idol thing. I don’t recall that being there at either of the first two tribals but I just brush it off and reveal the bar. Of course, Erik plays an idol. And it’s real. And none of our votes for him count. And then I watch as all of the votes are turned up and we get to the first not Erik vote. Please don’t be for Kamanda, please don’t be for Kamanda, please don’t be for Kamanda. And it’s for Fabio. But I’m not relieved at all. Fabio is an awesome ally and friend. I check the next one and see Yul’s obnoxiously ridiculous parchment as if that was for Julie. Your own stupidity is the reason that Julie got voted out. It wasn’t Fabio’s fault for making a move to save himself. Yul is so dumb and that stupid parchment pissed me off even more. I love gloaty parchments but not when what’s on it is wrong. Whatever. So I say goodbye to a close ally, yet another one I’ve lost and the first one where I was at the tribal. All because of a cheap fucking idol I would find out was placed in his lap last minute. What a joke.

Normally, the episode would end here but I might as well cover what happened next because I see it as part of last round. I ultimately crack because I have no idea how he got an idol or anything so I talk to Ronnie and Mike. And both of them help me piece everything together. I also end up talking to Heather who up until has been a distant ally. I try to pick her for info (and she does give some) and ultimately overplay it and propose a huge alliance. I was flustered from the results and she ultimately freaks out to Mike about it. So he tells me and I calm it down. I basically log off for the night and get a fresh start the next day which is where our episode will end. But Fabio’s legacy doesn’t end there. And neither does Julie’s. And neither does anyone else who has been fucked over by Yul and his moronic allies stumbling ass backwards into a lucky twist or idol. This game continues on and they will be kept in one way or another. They will be motivation, people rooting us on, and the source of one very special item, vengeance.