Sooo..... Rory goes and I have every expectation to put ALL of my eggs in the basket of joining up with the girls and bringing Austin with me....
And then this f@#king auction happens. What better to complicate this already insane maneuver we're plotting than with a good old fashioned, HERE'S A CRAP TON OF THINGS THAT COULD ALL BE IDOLS FOR WHAT YOU KNOW!?! So for me, I'm just like..... damnit. We have one shot to do this right, or we're totally screwing ourselves. If we take the shot and fail. Austin and I will be sacrificed before Monica or Sue because.... well, they're terrible.
This whole waiting game on these items are like TERRIBLE. I thought we would have the first item off the table after like 2 hours. I wasn't expecting like 14 hours into the auction for things to start disappearing. From what I can tell, I actually don't WANT anything good. So I'm thinking the odds of the host putting an immunity idol in the same chest two seasons in a row seems unlikely. And I suck with photoshop, so I don't want to have to forge the inner contents of that damn chest. If I get an idol, then my target increases.
Caryn gets the decision of whether we get to knock out two people in the same round, or next round. My thought was SUCCESS! We could kick out two of the BelYvers, in one shot, making the two that survive more desperate to come with us the following round IF we decided to go that round. (God, I'm awful) So we'll see how the rest of these things go.
So at THIS point, it seems like if Austin and I keep pacifying the BelYvers, we should be in a VERY good place.
Until Erik apparently tries to recruit Caryn to vote out Austin..... Um.... Excuse me? More to come....
OMG, this round is going to be inSANE... And I'm really not feeling it.
First off, f@#k that auction. Jesus Christ. Bravo to the production staff to take something SO easy and making it SO hard. But yeah, f@#k that.
My original plan was to wait until the end of the immunity challenge and then go for trying to get the girls on board for voting together with Austin and myself. Then it turns out to be the auction, and I find myself going, "Crap" You don't want to offer an olive branch after (or even before the announcement of) potential mystery items. Because it seems SO insincere.
I keep going to war with Sue over that damn chest. And when i finally decide I don't want it, Sue has already dropped out of the bidding war. So, that's a thing.
At that point, I'm waiting for the chest to have nothing good inside. And then the battle for immunity ensues. My thought is, "hopefully, the chest goes last and i don't have to worry about giving money to anyone and seeming shady." The chest goes, and Kelley immediately asks me for my cash." This Golden Girls alliance is SO fresh, that I don't want to do anything crazy to alienate them. So I ignore Kelley until after the auction is closed. *BAD GAME MOVE YVE* Since then, I haven't really heard from ANYONE on that side but Sierra. I should have gone with my initial plan to tell the Golden Girls that I needed to give money to the BelYvers to save face. I was at work, we were slammed, and it just seemed like it was me overanalyzing, so I didn't do it.
Caryn wins immunity, which is like the most ironic and stupid things on the planet. She wasn't going anywhere this round anyway, so I didn't exactly mind except it would have been probably the target for the BelYvers. Which kind of makes things more terrifying, because apparently Erik is campaigning to send out Austin, my twinny in this game. So... Yeah, not today, Satan, not today. Erik told me he hasn't heard anything about the vote. Which is stupid, because I post what's up with the vote in the group chat and NO one says anything. Not an "obviously the vote is Sue or Monica." Nothing. So, CLEARLY they know something is up with Austin and myself. Which sucks, because until this f@#king auction I swear I thought we were doing ok with the stealth game. Apparently I got lazy with that. *ANOTHER BAD GAME MOVE, YVE *
I Get the chest, I don't know where the key is, so I decide hopefully one of the Golden Girls or Austin got it. And of course, who has it? Sierra. Long story short (because this is taking 10 years to write) She gives me the key. I get the immunity necklace. I tell Austin I want to try and make it seem like a bogus prize, but then he informs me like EVERYONE got a bogus prize. So it probably won't sail. I tell him I just want to play it and get rid of the damn thing, so I'm not made a target and blindsided for it. Then I talk to Sierra, and she seems to infer that my necklace is an immunity idol by the way it can be played. Me, finding this to be genius, roll with it like it's an idol. I pretty much tell her that I want to play it just to get rid of it, because of "a bad experience I had with an ally and an immunity idol" I feel REALLY bad lying to her, but she's a huge threat who I feel is playing me. LOVE YOU AS A PERSON SIERRA, BUT.... YEAH. She drops that she's worried about Austin, which makes sense. Then the more we talk, she opens up that she, Erik, and Garrett are like SUPER tight. Which I can only think ... Yes dear, I'm aware of that. The cast is aware of that. I think CUBA is aware of that. But then she said something very jarring in that she practically "controls" Erik and Garrett's votes. *tilts head to the side* REALLY QUEEN? And after hinting she doesn't trust Austin, I'm just like OHHHKAY, we're clearly not telling each other everything going on, but that's the nature of having conflicting allies I suppose.
Right now, I'm sitting on this necklace. And it's killing me on the inside because I decided I should risk not using the necklace this round because next round will be 2 eliminations that it can get me through unscathed to the final 6. And I'm pretty much banking that the hatred of Sue vs the BelYvers plus the fear of Austin's social game will get me through this vote. If not. Then dammit, I should have played it. I was in a decent position this round and it's the first time I've ever had something like this before. Hopefully the Golden Girls will hold up, ESPECIALLY if the vote turns to me being in trouble. We'll see. If I could still play the necklace now, I probably would. <3 We'll just have to wait and see i suppose. <3
My number one ally. I sincerely hope he's not playing me, but if he is, he's so got my vote to win, because everyone loves him. If this were my first game, I'd probably sacrifice myself to protect him. If I were only 5 years into playing I'd take him to the end even if I knew I had little chance of winning (Hey Sydney ;-) ). 10 years into the community, funny, bitter, jaded me says he'd be a tough cookie to beat. So i've made peace with the fact that I won't make the decision to betray him until I have to. So like, final 3 if I win immunity and he's still there with me will be when I worry about that. I'm still one loyal bitch, but over the years I've become a competitive loyal bitch. Effectively, there's a shot I'm leaving this round, so why agonize about a decision I may never have to make.
is like a jack rabbit on steroids. Super likable and fun. And you CAN'T beat her in ANYTHING. And as much as I love her as a person, and as heartless as it is, if I can get her and a BelYver out next round in the double TC, I'm going to do so. I DO believe she's double dealing (which at this stage in the game) who isn't. But I feel like it's in HER best interest to not go with the people who are already a 3rd of the vote. Hopefully she feels that way.
is like Dr. Who. No idea who he is. I say the whole "this is my first game" thing is totally an act and I don't buy it under ANY circumstances. He's also targetting my main ally. So he better REALLY hope he has the fire power to get rid of Austin (or myself).
and are both kind of just there this round. They're both giving the silent treatment in a way that I can't even begin to describe as crappy game play. Like I'm totally a loudmouth who probably has been caught now with her hand in the cookie jar, but like I'm still socially trying to play. They don't really seem to care. So if they make it to the end, good luck getting my vote.
is just adorable in the sense that she's so not a threat, she's actually a threat. Which makes no sense to me at all. He idea is that the Golden Girls + Austin will go to the final 5. Which is cute, because what happens then? Yve and Austin take on Sue and Caryn with her in the middle? Yeah, that's a slaughterhouse I'm going to walk into willingly...
Biggest presence in the game strategically out of everyone. Amazing gal, but HUGE threat. Our conversation pretty much solidified what I've been thinking for about two rounds now, and that is that she's the one binding the other side together as a group. I didn't pitch that to the other side yet, because I'm not sure how strongly I trust the GGs. We'll see what happens, but Sierra has got to be dealt with quick, fast, and in a hurry.
If she makes it to the end (which I totally see happening) I see her doing well. She's the ONLY person out of the people who don't seem to want to talk game with me at all (Monica, Sue, Caryn, Erik, Kelley) that i could excuse it. She's gotten votes at every TC she's been to but one. That's pretty impressive. So she's not in the greatest position to have anything she says thrown around. She's like the Amy Crews of Survivor. She'll either be axed right before the the final or she'll make it.
These girls are fierce, however, for a newly formed alliance, they're not that talkative. And it's very possible they're trying to feel Austin and I out, but I'm not going to feel comfortable even IF Austin and I are still here next round.
The BelYvers are totally a done thing... as in over. If there was ANY way to pick some of them up, I'd probably try to coax them into the Erik plan. But since they're being super secretive with me, no reason to throw off what I'm doing to vote with them.
