Heartbreak: A visual story by "Survivor's Favourite Contestant" Joe Anglim








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Welcome to The Parlour.

First of all, I feel like I finally am Joe Anglim. 1 vs 20, and I pull out a victory when it comes down to it. The challenge was a lot of patience, organization, and practice. In my official trial I got really lucky and hit a hot streak on the zodiac symbols I missed on my first runthrough. This saved me a ton of time and allowed me to mess up that one :47 rooster twice and still get the win. 10% luck, 20% skill, 15%.... Fort Minor - Remember The Name.

So what this all boils down to is my reasoning for the selections I made, and the fallout from it thus far. I initially thought I'd be selecting three from each remaining tribe. Nope, dragons. This left me with Hunter automatically, which I cannot complain about. I've had good conversations with Hunter consistently throughout this game, and I genuinely like the guy. We've worked well together when it came down to the first Dragon's Challenge, and natural chemistry goes a Lóng way in a game like this. The first challenge solidified Ken/Liz/myself, so Hunter and I have had similar bonding experience.

I guess the big hulabaloo is that I didn't pick Liz or Ken. My closest allies.

Of course I wanted Liz and Ken on my tribe, but when I had an idea that I did the best on my tribe, I immediately went and talked to Liz, Ken, and Neal. I asked their opinions on what I should do if I were to receive the extra helpings. Neal and Kenny seemed okay with either, but Liz ultimately made my mind up -- she thought that splitting us up would be risky, but could pay off in the Lóng run. I agree. I

I trust Ken/Liz 100%. I don't think that time apart is going to cause our friendship to grow distant. I know that when it comes down to it, I can trust them.

This split pretty much hides the Challenge Kids/Triplet Twist/Whatever You Wanna Call It. I talked to both Ken and Liz and took into consideration what they wanted to create a majority on the opposing tribe to smoke the other people out of the water. Liz trusted Woo, Ken trusts and has bonded with Hope and Jaison -- and my initial thoughts were that the dragon twist was going to continue so that would essentially force the five to work together which is almost majority. I hope this to still be the case, Ken and Liz are social dynamos and I know that Woo really liked Ken pregame. I think they're going to do just fine and come merge if we meet up again tribal lines will be so new that we'd be able to control the game from the inside knowing what was going to happen on both sides. Neal doesn't know about Challenge Kids, but Neal really likes Liz and we had an alliance with him. Neal, Liz, Ken, myself. The four people I want to see in the final four. Two on opposing sides, four social characters, hopefully able to persuade people and control the game without either side knowing. This is all hypothetical, but whatever.

I believe that if I had put all of us on the same tribe, a very obvious majority would form and come merge the people who weren't seen as in the top of the rankings would flip and lead to my downfall. This is what happened in my first game, I didn't give enough people a chance and stuck to the people I liked the most.

For me personally, this gives me no excuses to stay passive.

I've been weary on Neal for a while, not entirely sure what to think about him. We always had stellar conversations, and strategically for what little we were able to talk we were on the same page. This swap definitely left Neal a little bit uneasy and paranoid, as we all were. I created a tribe that was 4 Anaira, 5 Mushu, 1 Long. Maybe it was out of paranoia due to the swap and the end of the dragon twist, maybe it was just the right time -- but Neal shared with me his idol. He's said that his philosophy is to use it when you need it. I think that's pretty obvious. I don't know if he'd use it on me, but he did say if necessary but he did say this is ours.

The selections that I made have made me feel pretty good initially. Natalie came to me thanking her from saving her from Long. Natalie was one of the connections that I was making pregame and we left off right where we started. Apparently Lóng was just pĺpăyä and a hellhole, thankfully I snagged only one Lóng person and it's someone who I'm somewhat close to.

Ozzy ran to me right away and continued right where he left off

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Broham You have my back? you're as good as gold with me man Okay great. I have your back joe <3

I think Ozzy likes me because he initially wanted to be Joe, but Curt and Rose were like "lol nope it's Stephen fam." Maybe he's just a big Joe fan? Maybe what he's saying is true and he really likes my positive upbeat attitude? Idk. If I hear he's saying it to multiple people though, he's an easy target. If he isn't, then he's an ally.

Rachel and I have began to talk, and we can hold a great conversation. I don't know how close Neal is with Rachel, but he said they did talk quite a bit. The only worry is old Mushu/Anaira tribal lines. I'm confident that we can swing Natalie over to our side to make it 5-5 at worst if it comes down to old tribe lines.

I'm hoping if we lose tomorrow, it's a Mushu that slips up so we have an excuse if worst case scenario old tribal lines remain. If not, I'm hoping that Neal and I can keep Jenna (I think Neal is close with Jenna, Liz also brought this up to me), bring in Rachel and Hunter, and the pick of Ozzy/Rita/Natalie since both of them seemingly have a lot of trust in me, but there's no justification for it whatsoever. This is all just rough notes, as the game progresses things will clear itself up.

I expect to be chastised by others for the decisions I made. I listened to my ally, took into consideration what they had to say, thought it was risky but decided to still do it anyways to hide any true solid alliance from being blown the fuck into the open. When people knew where my loyalties lay, they took everyone away from me and I had to keep fighting for my life until I could fight no more. This time I'm trying to be less blunt about who I want to go to the end with. Honestly it could go either way. This game boils down to a lot of luck, and if I got lucky we'll be able to reunite at merge with no radar on us, and be able to make a move to elevate us to the final 4 when the time is right. I was unaware of the dragons twist being ended unfortunately, but I know Woo liked Ken and Liz and Woo were dragon partners so I have faith Woo will help Liz and Ken settle into a favourable position.

As for me, I've kept this game interesting for myself. I decided not to settle for the safe route and challenge myself to continue to enhance my social game, get to know different people, and not let my cards be entirely known. It may not be a good decision, it may not be a bad decision, but it's my decision. I have a strong ally on this tribe, knowledge of an idol, and another challenge to pull my weight in coming up.

I'm having fun.