Courtney is back and more ready than ever. I was robbed the last time I played on Epic 3, but I'm ready to take what should have been mine. This time around is gonna be a lot tougher with a cast as big as this and this little inactives, but I'm up for a challenge.

So let's talk about Escencia, our tribe is looking fine I must say. We have a really strong tribe and we all get along great. Half the tribe is people from Epic 3 so I'm hoping they have my back over the others. I've talked with everybody one on one except for Danni (again). I performed good on the first challenge so it shouldn't be me going first on my tribe, but I should start developing my relationships even further.

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ROUND 1

What the fuck is this shit? We had such a huge advantage coming into this challenge and we got last place. I don't want to make Julie, Eric and Ronnie feel responsible for the loss because I know that if I was participating I would have done a lot worse. So with the loss came all the scrambling. The first vote seems like an easy one, as much as I don't want to see him go John should be going.

Now, the second vote is when it gets trickier. Let me give you a summary of everything that happened:

1. Ronnie suggested Joe as a target to Yul, but he doesn't want to do it since he talks to him often (don't know why he would tell me this but ok).

2. I suggested Heather as a target to Yul and Julie. Yul told me that he would be down and he agreed with me about her being hard to talk to. Julie didn't say anything.

3. I started talking with Danni (finally) and she messaged me saying to watch what I was saying. Then she said that someone told Heather I was targetting her, and the only people I told were Yul and Julie. Which one of them was it? I have no idea, but I need to watch my back. I thought I trusted those two but I guess not. Also, I promised Danni I would have her back a 100% and I have every intention to keep it. She may have saved my ass this round, so I owe her. At this point the only person I trust on my tribe is Danni. Weird how things change.

4. Now came time to do damage control. I messaged both Yul and Julie asking them is they wanted to do someone else and telling them that Heather was just a suggestion. Yul told me that he and Jeremiah wanted to vote for Eric, but Ronnie didn't want to. Julie asked me if I would be willing to vote for Joe.

5. John sent me a message asking me if he was the target, and there's really no point in lying to him so I told him the truth. He said that he talked with other people and everyone lied to him (unless everyone has actually been lying to me). I'm gonna try to convince him to vote for who I tell him to vote for, after all there isn't much he could do and I'm the only one that was upfront with him, so hopefully he helps me this round.

Now, I'm trying to decide what to do, but first I need to figure out what the rest of the people are doing, which is gonna be really difficult since they keep changing the target every 5 seconds. I could be going tomorrow and there's not much I could do. Wish me luck.

So now it looks like the second vote it's gonna be for Eric or Joe. Yul doesn't want to work with the Epic 3 people because we would have a target right from the bat if we stick together. Bullshit. He just wants to keep his buddies Joe and Heather safe. After all, I'm 99% sure he was the one that ratted me out to Heather. So as it looks like now, Yul, Jeremiah, Heather, Joe and probably Sierra will be voting for Eric and me, Julie, Eric and Ronnie are gonna vote for Joe. Basically Danni is the swing vote, and I'm gonna make sure she votes for Joe with us. But the thing is, if she does vote with us it would be a 5-5 tie, and that's where John could help us.

I was upfront with John about the whole situation, so I'm praying that he votes for Joe just to help out a friend in need. I actually suggested to Julie that it wouldn't be such a bad idea if we kept John, but of course Danni, Eric and Ronnie would have to be on board. That way we would secure ourselves the numbers, but Julie thinks is too risky.

Now for the Red Rover thing, Yul told Julie that he heard Danni was gonne be red rovered, which couldn't suck more. I'm gonna see if I could maybe change that, but I don't want to seem too sketchy. Also, we need to make sure that whoever we red rover isn't working with Yul and company, because then we could be really screwed. So Amanda Z. and Evel Dick are out of the question. Supposedly Yul is campaigning for Dick to be red rovered, but that's not happening under my watch.

My opinions on the cast after talking a bit more:

Danni: Why did I not speak with Danni sooner. She's one of the sweetest people I've ever met on one of this games. We only started talking yesterday but I think we have something good going on. She's literally like my guardian angel and the one keeping me on check. She also revealed that there was an alliance that consisted of her, Yul, Sierra, Julie, Heather and Chef, but that she would be willing to vote for Chef. If it wasn't for her it could have been me biting the dust tonight. I told her I would have her back a 100% percent and I'm willing to keep my word even if it hurts my game. I really owe her a lot.

Julie: I do trust Julie and I know she haves my back, but she's keeping things from me. I'm obviously not gonna vote her out anytime soon, she's one of the few people I have on this tribe.

Yul: when you search the word shady on the dictionary you will find a picture of Yul. He has been playing way too hard way too fast. Ronnie suggested Chef as a target this round and he absolutely refused to vote for him. Then, I suggested Heather since she's a little hard to talk too, and he seemed to agree. A couple minutes later Danni messages me saying to watch what I was saying and because told me someone told Heather that I threw her name out. I only told Julie and Yul, and I'm willing to bet it was the latter. Plus he wants Eric gone because he doesn't want people to target the Epic 3 people for being a strong bunch. Yeah right. He even made a pros and cons list of keeping Chef and Eric. He listed a bunch of pros for keeping Chef and a bunch of cons to keeping Eric. I really thought I could trust him coming into this game but I guess I was wrong.

More to come soon.