So my computer won't turn on anymore. It just makes this angry beeping sound when I push the power button. Think it's liquid damaged. Going to make it REALLY hard for Myve to win this thing if it doesn't get fixed.
Sorry for the lackluster confessional guys. I was pretty busy leading up to my vacation this weekend, and I also was without a charger until yesterday.
Ok, Just got back from Cleveland and went pretty much immediately to work.
So pretty much to sum up the last two rounds.....
Sangoma can go and suck on the biggest bag of flaccid Vongshtuckers (don't even TRY to look that word up) in the world. Call it poor sportsmanship, call it immature, call it Esther on a night when you're feeling lonely and need some naked cuddle time. Call it what you will, but SERIOUSLY, go die in a fire.
That being said. Last round literally made "0" sense.
Going into pre-tribal. My thought was "just keep your head down." "There are 15 people left in this game" "Why make yourself a target?" and I was content with that. The Monica flies out of the gate and targets Garrett. Which is like... how long did you wait for that? Then it seemed like it was going to be Moni Vs. Garrett. Then Sierra and Garrett get SUPER vague and shady with me. Sierra says "I respect however you want to vote" when I tell her I don't know what to do because no one would tell me anything. Garrett is super non-committal as well. But I have Stephen, Kim, and a handful of others saying it's still Garrett.
So GUESS how awesome I felt when I was the LONE vote for Garrett? When Monica pulls out an idol? And when Kim Powers goes home? Like WHAT the living hell. I suppose that is the trade off if you are the person trying to play safe. Apparently, Everyone (but me) had been told to vote for Sue, and then the sub group of Erik, Stephen, Sierra and Garret secretly voted for Kim Powers who was trying to get the vote switched to Monica, who had the hidden immunity idol. I apparently couldn't be trusted with any of the plans because I was perceived as being close to both Monica and Kim. Which is slightly accurate as I didn't want to see either leave.
The aftermath and explanation of the vote was pretty much having the above told to me, and the general idea of everyone I talked to was "we didn't need your vote." Well, OK! Let me go ahead and pledge allegiance to you guys... *imitates masturbation* I told all of them that I understood and that i wasn't mad, but that I hope they can trust me in the future with things. I guilted the HELL out of stephen for lying to me. I wasn't mad at all, but I WORKED that guilt on him. Saying how I felt like I was screwed and how close I had felt to him after we voted out FairPlay. He apologized profusely and has been telling me everything he knows (I think) ever since. So... that helps.
So, VERY annoyed that Stephen, Monica, Kim AND Sierra kept me in the dark. I pretty much had to BS Garrett and say "you were the only name I heard, and you and Sierra weren't talking to me, so I got scared." He seemed to buy it. The aftermath is that I feel people now really look at me as the chick without a clue as to what's going on. And to a certain extent that's the case. However, people are telling me stuff. And while I'm not critical to too many games right now, I'm fully aware of that fact and am aware where a lot of the Ymra/Marehemu tension is. So that's a thing.
Fast forward to the challenge that can seriously swallow a lighted dynamite stick with it's sphincter, we lost despite working my ASS off. I think it endeared me to my tribe as a work horse, combined with the fact that I'm not really caught up in any drama after Kim's blindside. Right now, I see myself as a lesser Sandra Diaz-Twine. I know about a lot of things going on. I'm sure I don't know everything, but for the time being, I'm not making waves, people seem to like me, and as things continue to be crazy, I'm just the one sitting down with her ears open. The bigger players will continue to try and make power moves, and making the target bigger on their backs. Who needs that with 15 people left in the game.
So we lost that damn challenge by three points. And as much as I HATED to lose, it was one of those situations where my tribe wasn't going to vote me out for ass-busting reasons. Which meant the worst case scenario would be the other tribe would vote for me sans Monica (if we were still tight).
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The early diagnosis was that Sue and Sierra were allegedly going to target each other. Which was KIND of ok with me. Sierra had proven she didn't trust me enough in the previous vote AND had executed the brilliant blindside of Kim. Sue was just someone I never talked to. I felt in the grand scheme of things, I wanted to keep the tribe I was on with more people on it, so since Sierra had it in her head that I was cool, calm, and collected from the previous round, I figured why get a power player destined to be taken out eventually by other "strong" players, why beat them to the punch? So in my mind it was Sue-central for the vote...
Then and decide they want to get a little shady. They're ultimately afraid that Sue might have the HII. Not knowing the dynamics of their tribe when it comes to challenges, I think to myself. Well, if she does I'd rather Sierra (or worse, myself) to not get idoled out if it came to that. I throw the out the possibility of voting for Vytas, and Sierra and Garrett are both like, "Yeah, but if he stays, we didn't know you guys were voting for him etc. etc. etc." and I'm like... REALLY, bitch? So the vote more and more seems like it's going to come down between Vytas and Sue. Which works out for me just fine. The idea is that the original Marehemu 3 are going to vote for Vytas. Thereby losing favor with him if he stays and keeping Sierra and Garrett safe socially. Which I don't mind, because I can just tell Vytas that they encouraged us to vote for him in lieu of Sue. So... win/win.
Then Rory one comes online about two hours before the vote is due and is like "you there?". Me being at work can't just reply at will. but this was about the gist of the conversation
Me : Yeah, sorry for the wait. I'm at work. What's up?
*15 minutes later*
Rory : You there?
*20 minutes later*
Me : Yeah, what's going on?
*10 minutes later*
Rory: You there?
OMFG, would you just tell me the hell you want to tell me? Keeping in mind, Monica has already told me that Rory tried to get her to vote Sierra. With like 2 hours left on the voting clock. Moni essentially tells me that we should stick to voting out Vytas. Which I'm like... uh... duh. Rory finally get's to typing about how "Sierra is the head of the snake, and she needs to go..." and "We only have 40 minutes..." And I'm just like... *eyemotherfuckingroll* You're trying to pull a coup this late in the vote? So I don't vote for Sierra, and the vote comes out 4 vs 4 vs 1. Thanks Rory. Then the jerk is like... "I had the votes to get rid of Sierra. I only needed you." No, no you didn't. You weren't even close, dude. Not by a long shot. Then to add insult to injury, I ask him who he had for votes.
He then tells me (despite me being his super tight alliance) that "I'd rather not say." You just have to laugh...
I was expecting Sierra and Garrett to come out of the woodwork and say "Oh yeah, you should switch your vote to Sue now" Which to a certain extant Garrett did. He was like "Oh, I'd rather Sue left." To which i mentally replied "Well, good for you. :)" I honestly saw more of a backlash for us voting Vytas out after the revote. Perhaps Sierra has more shame than to try and get us to switch. Or perhaps she really wasn't that close to Vytas and just wanted Sue out for allegedly targeting her. All i know is when a power player wants something, you do the opposite as much as possible without forcing your hand. Bonus points that he had the HII. So... sorry Vytas. Hope you enjoy the idol on your desk! Two birds/one stone.
Round 6
So we start the challenge with a lot of speculation about what happens post puzzle challenge. Which, by the way, "f@#k puzzles." Not bitter, just bad at them. Lex puts a lot of effort into posting the challenge results, which to me is cute because we all KNEW Caryn was going to kill that damn thing. Then Lex gives me an aneurism by announcing the new tribes. And I'm on a tribe with 3 of the original Y'mra S'bor tribe. Garrett (who is Mr. Fruit Loops at this point), and Austin. Austin and I haven't had to strategize together since we voted out FairPlay. No clue how he faired on the other tribe. But yeah, Yve is feeling the pressure. This is where the less than noble/interesting strategy of laying low thus far in the game will hopefully help me out if we go to Tribal Council. Because Austin, Rory, and Garrett will probably look at me as a vote for whoever they want out. And if that keeps me in the game for one more round towards the merge, I can hopefully go back under the radar for a round or two before I start getting bloody. But I'm WAY ahead of myself. I have to get there first. My luck with tribes kind of SUCKS.
Caryn wins the challenge and is pretty much told she will be joining whatever tribe loses the Immunity Challenge. Which puts me in like SUPER paranoid mode. Because if our side throws the competition, she joins us and there is a 4 vs 3 majority in favor of the original Y'mra S'bor tribe. #Yveinsurvivalistmode. My fears of the competition being thrown are only exacerbated when some of the moves being made by the tribe are just stupid. We encased their lion about an hour and a half AFTER we could have. I would say moves that we should make. And LITERALLY nothing would be said as either "good idea" or "we shouldn't do this because…" Just nothing to be said. I don't have a hot temper, but one way to REALLY piss me off is to is to ignore me. I nearly had an aneurism when I would make moves and show a picture and then the common phrase was "Yve's was better." or "We should have gone with Yve's" Rob at one point wanted to put a line above and below the Rhino, as opposed to saving our Elephant. Which would have done NOTHING. So… either he is a f@#king idiot, or he was trying to get us to throw the challenge. THANKFULLY, we were able to pull off a win. Caryn went to Tribe A and Yve is safe this round. As well as hopefully next round.
Tribe A Tribal Council
I thought for sure my original Marehemu's would stick together. Only to find out today that apparently Stephen and Monica are planning to vote for Katie…
*record scratch* What?
So, Katie is still my main ally in this game. But apparently whatever hand she had in the Kim Powers elimination is coming back to haunt her. Which, I had a feeling Katie had a bit of a sly side to her. So if she screwed something up or she played both sides, that's kind of on her. However, I'm still going to warn her about it. Because Katie has zero intention of getting rid of me any time soon, so I'm not really looking for her to leave right now.
Apparently it's
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The problem of course with this is that Moni and Stephen apparently are voting Katie. When I talked to her earlier, she seemed completely clueless. Sue confirmed that she doesn't have the man power to vote out Sierra. Something I now know I need to deal with sooner rather than later apparently.
So I need to warn Katie that she needs to get on with socializing and getting back on people's good sides. We'll see how that goes. But it seems like I'm going to have to abandon my "Let them kill themselves" strategy, put down my cocktail and start getting dirty.
Let it be known, that on March 15th, 2015, Katie Collins was voted out of Sausage Island : The Serengeti.
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So yesterday has worn off. And while my last post was dramatic, I'm more or less over the Katie situation. Stephen had every right to want to vote out Katie. It weakens another powerhouse in the game (the Marehemu 4) which he would have had to have been REALLY stupid to think didn't exist) That being said, Stephen is a CRAZY PERSON who is playing the game way too hard. He should have done that a few rounds down the road, because now he's alienated the people who originally kept him safe. Which Bravo to him if he doesn't need us anymore, but I would have tried a little harder to not seem so sketch about it. Call me crazy. Monica is the one I'm truly mystified with. Like whatEVER is going on in that girls head right now, I'm assuming it's liquor, or rocks, or the result of something her mother did while pregnant, because that was just a boneheaded move on her part. Katie had NO INTEREST in going after Monica. NONE. So let's just axe not only a member of your alliance, you've fucked the trust between myself and Austin. Then the day of the vote, you tell me "I'm at work, but I'll talk to you after the VOTE" notice it's after the vote, and not "after my shift ends," nor "while I'm on break" which shows me you knew what you were doing and would have reason to hide from telling me why before hand....
...punk bitch. Grow a spinal chord. Then with whatever stem cells you have left, grow a brain. After the Katie vote was revealed, she FINALLY responds to my IM to her with...
"idk -- sue was too obvious of a boot. and stephen convinced me.
about how the marehamu thing.
katie was so so so so close to sierra, too.
sierra told me they were alligned since like day 5 or something
i really wanted sierra out. so i tried to make that happen but i was at work so much that i just got an IM being like "it's katie." so idk"
"To obvious a boot"? It's too obvious to vote out the target, so let's vote our ally...? *taps nose* She's either playing multiple sides or a f@#king moron. Did you forget that Sue voted for you two rounds ago?
Sierra was LIVID about the Katie vote out. Which I found slightly amusing, because it happened at the hands of her new bestie and co-conspirator Stephen. She totally made reference to knowing this is what Stephen "always does". Which clued me in that they've played together. When I asked her to elaborate, she said she didn't think she was allowed to talk about it. Which... ok *eyeroll* Her big thing is that Stephen is a gamebot and a sociopathic one at that. We talked about how we have to look out for each other and at one point she was like "I'm glad you got to see the real Stephen before he did something like this to you." Yeah, getting me to be the lone vote Garrett 3 rounds ago didn't tip me off to that. Thanks for joining the rest of us at the party, bitch.
Talked to Erik yesterday. He's the other party that is screwed in this situation. Apparently when he threw out the notion of working together with Sue, she rejected it. And pretty much told Erik for his sake he hopes his tribe wins immunity.
Also talked to Caryn yesterday, she's actually really sweet. And she's screwed one way or another. Regardless of whether it's before me or after. No one in this game is dumb enough to let her get anywhere near the final IC. And even though it wasn't head to head, it was nice to feel a liiittle pride in knowing I "beat" Caryn in something as Kelley and I finished 2 minutes ahead of her.
Which brings us to the immunity challenge.
Kelley and I were on board for going first, and we knock it out of the park. Hit the last number in under 7 minutes. Which was pretty much an amazing time in my mind. Caryn told me she got about 9 minutes. And I kind of died in convo after that. Because I'm NOT giving that ho a chance to encourage/strategize a better time with the yackos on her tribe.
I go out to try and post our strategy to the tribe. Which Rob and Rory could not have been bother by less. They both. Their communication sucks. Rob can't be bothered with things like, umm... talking with people. And I thought Rory was playing an idiot. And to a point he is, but he is still an ignorant jerk that I totally have to hang onto. And with all the Drama going on with the original Sangoma and Marehemus right now, I'm sure those two, Caryn and Kelley will probably all sail to the final 8 at least. God, this cast is terrible. So Garrett and Austin go, and Rory is like "what strategy did you use?" Its like the guy could NOT care less about ONE thing I have to say. And I've had it.
At this point, the only person that either hasn't left me out of the loop on a vote, plain lied to me, or had me do ALL the work of communicating is Austin. So I'm pretty much making him my new #1 ally. Don't get me wrong, just because he hasn't done me wrong yet this game, doesn't mean he won't. I've just had it with playing nice with people who are shady/spineless with me when we're supposed to be allies. Shadiness has it's rightful place in this game. But don't take my sense of humor and good temperament (outside of my confessional) as license to do what you want and me just be ok with it. I'm not the one, bitch. I'm not the one.
So at this point, I've pretty much had it with most of these people being stupid. I'm having to feign interest feelings of camaraderie with people I'm sure outside of this game are lovely, but within it I'd rather swallow, digest and pass shards of broken glass.
Hmm... this is probably the most venomous DR I've ever written. Maybe I'm NOT fully over the Katie thing.
