#markthechicken

Jay

Been a while since my last one. Idols have officially saved me and fucked me! I saved myself, RICHIE SAVED HIMSELF TWICE WTF. Im done with his shit. He's gonna win out and im so irritated. I like him, but i want him gone.

Sam

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Richie

i didnt want to vote out sam in that revote... i wanted to keep sam in so that there would be someone who could beat jay in the final 4 immunity challenge and what happened? nicole didnt even compete and jay won immunity!!!!

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i was at a fifth harmony concert on call competing in that final immunity challenge and JoJo had just performed iconic bops such as Leave (Get Out)  and Just A Little Too Late and i was like okay im going to put this on pause and give this competition a shot... i have a terrible memory so when it was that competition i knew i was fucked but i didnt flop as bad as i thought and it came down to a 3 way tie and bc i was on my phone at a concert with bad service i was like wow okay well this isnt going to happen RIP

so jay wins good for him whatever i know that im either getting voted out or going to a tie breaker challenge if im lucky lol..... after the last vote i went to nicole and was like "i voted you out before the revote, you voted me out an eye for an eye clean slate lets move on" and i didn't vote for her in the revote bc chris wouldnt vote out nicole so i knew sam was leaving and i just voted sam to maybe get nicole to not hate me lol... so after the challenge i went to nicole and was pleading my case basically saying everyone on jury hates me, just please give me a chance to try at the tie breaker i just want a chance lets vote out chris  :( :( :(    but in reality i'm voting out nicole with chris (or so i think lol) so i was hoping that there would be a 2-1-1 vote so i dont even have to do the tie breaker but i dont think thats going to happen and if chris finds out that i was throwing him under the bus to nicole that may have ruined my chance to have him vote with me... sooooo basicallyyyyyyyy i'm fucked and i just need to pray that my relationship with chris is strong enough that he'll vote for nicole with me so that i can battle against her in the tie breaker..... is this finally the end of the road for me??? probably!!!!!!

NICOLE VOLUNTEERS TO LEAVE

Richie

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AHHHHH final thrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! i was nervous that chris was going to vote me out but he stuck to his word and it came down to a tie between me and nicole and she said fuck it and i love her for that and ahhh i made it to final three!!!! but it's not over yet because surprise there's one more immunity challenge and someone else is going to get voted out and if i dont win this endurance comp that someone is going to be me FOR REAL this time there's no way to get myself out of this situation like i have been doing this is it for me so thats terrifying...

i am very impressed by chris...like he's going to the final 2 regardless of who wins and although it would have made sense for him to vote me out at final 4 bc of my "threat" status... voting with me secured my loyalty to him, and put himself in the BEST position possible where he got rid of nicole the jury goat and is now in a final 3 with me and jay who have been going after each other for like 3 weeks now so like chris is set and im mad and jealous that i'm not in his position it's really rude of him to be smart... honestly like i've never considered going against chris because i just really like him but honestly like... he's extremely likable, that move at f4 is a solid fucking play, and he's done well consistently in all aspects of this game where im like fuck he's actually a huge threat??? but honestly...... i feel like if i'm going to lose i'm going to lose regardless of who i'm sitting next to so i'd rather lose to chris than jay so if i win immunity there's a 99% chance that i'm going to vote out jay... but i mean none of this will matter if i lose that immunity and i hate that i put myself in a situation where i HAVE to win because thats like not a good place to be in especially when i'm no competition beast i've just gotten lucky so i'm scared and nervous and afraid and anxious and terrified that if i fuck up on this challenge all of my work in this game will be for nothing!!!!

i could try and talk my way out of it with jay before the challenge starts but like at this point he would be dumb af to listen to me and if he tells chris about me trying to talk to him it may make chris distrust me and put a fire under his ass to try in this challenge to vote me out for another move on his resumee..

Richie

so im sitting here watching this final immunity challenge (which i have my reasons for not doing but im not here to justify to myself) and im like... wait who am i rooting for????? because typically i would think i should be rooting for chris, me and him have been close friends and allies for ever and me and jay have been going against each other and jay has a better shot at winning in the end and the chance of jay taking me to the end is so slim..... but i kinda fucked up a bit????? in an effort to work on jay should he win the FIC i kinda went to jay and threw chris under the bus HARRRRRRDDDDDD COREEEE saying how like chris will win and how i was really considering cutting chris if i won final immunity and how both me and jay would lose sitting next to chris and like i popped OFF!

and i didnt really mean anything that i said.... i just wanted to plant that seed in jay's head should he win and now.... oh wait chris just won and im scared because all jay has to do is go to chris and send him the receipts of me RANTINGGGG about wanting chris out and i'm fucked so like.... idk what to do this could be the end of the road for me i should have waited until after the FIC to go to jay but i didnt want him to think i was making shit up out of desperation i wanted to plant the seed that i was coming to him preemtively to make it more realistic FUCK i hate myself im such a messy bitch adjfkajhdfkadf

Richie

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wow

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i'm really either getting voted out or making it to final 2 tonight and it's all up to chris??

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i've gone through my 5 stages of grief and i've reached acceptance...RIP

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Richie

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Richie

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so i fucked up! are we surprised? i'm not!

i set up a plan for me, nicole, gabby, sam to vote out jay and to convince jay and chris that me,jay,chris +nicole would vote out sam... so i took a swing at jay and https://embed.gyazo.com/8a37a77bbebe7c774b607e42f5f26ff7.gif

but i was half expecting to take a swing and a miss at jay because i knew he had the idol and he wasn't around today so i was like okay that sucks but i had 2 backup plans in place anyway... i thought depending on how i feel i can either play my idol on sam, discredit his game a bit, and secure loyalty from him and then no votes would be cast and we can revote and get out the goat nicole that people would take to the end over me OR i thought eh i'll just let this be the time that sam gets taken out so i dont have to do it later and its no blood on my hands  one less person i have to worry about especially when he's told me he is good at endurance comps when thats something i can't do.... when it came down to it i figured that i have been working with sam longer and thought that i had more trust in him in the long run despite the risks and when i saw jay had played his idol i played my idol on sam so that we could revote and get out nicole... another swing and

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gabby had literally JUST told me that they didn't vote in time and i told them that the votes havent been read yet and submit now and hopefully it will count and i knew it wasn't going to work but for some reason in the heat of the moment i just forgot about gabby and i would have never played my idol on sam if i thought gabby was going home because i wasnt even that strongly attached to the idea of sam staying like gabby was my homie and the fact that they went home because of my idol play and on their BIRTHDAY????

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so now gabby is gone... jay knows i went against him despite the fact that he and i have been in the My Name Is No alliance since original hanalei... i didnt tell chris anything about my jay plan before the vote so now he probably isn't going to trust me anymore, and everything is a mess... my dream final 3 was me, chris, gabby... i didnt want any of jay/sam/nicole close to the finals and yet those 3 are still here and my homie gabby is gone im exhausted... but you know what i'm not done just yet!!!

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the minute after that mess of a tribal i went to chris and explained everything to him, i told him that he hadn't responded to my PMs in 6 days (true btw!) so i thought he was mad at me and was drifting towards jay and jay has never talked to me 1 on 1 (true!) and i thought he would probably want to win his way to the end and take me out for the easiest road to victory (i do think that!) so i went against jay to get chris to come back to me and to get rid of someone i didn't trust and i thought was a threat and the reason i didn't include him in the plan was because i didn't think i could (all true!!) so i hope that smoothed things over with chris but i'm not expecting a miracle i probably wouldn't trust me after that... plus i just saved sam's life in the game (despite the fact that i told chris and jay we should vote for him and was basically playing with his life in the game without really caring if he left but he doesnt need to know that) and we have a common interest in wanting jay out so i feel like common enemy and i just proved i care about him hopefully that buys me a week of safety from him at least??...... and i went to nicole after the vote and told her that i played my idol on sam so that we could do a revote and go after chris and we have to stick together now because we BOTH betrayed jay by telling chris/jay that we were voting out sam and then going back on our word to vote out jay so hopefully that helps her believe that sticking with me is maybe not the worst idea right now??? im not even going to think about doing damage control with jay tonight even though i should but we'll have to see how that goes..

best case dream scenario: me or chris win this immunity, i play my idol on whatever person doesn't win and jay goes home, then the following week we take out sam and me/chris/nicole final 3

worst case scenario: jay wins this immunity, i play my idol on myself so i'm safe idc but then i'm in the final 4 with an assorted group of people i know isn't good for me and im fucked

most realistic scenarios: i survive next week no matter what bc of the idol, i lost f4 immunity and get cut regardless of who's with me OR i win f4 immunity and i lose in the jury vote because i have been M E S S Y ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Sam

A maze? A maze!

I'm pretty okay with mazes and puzzles, so I hope that my brain doesn't fail me *fingers crossed*

Richie

okay so things aren't going exactly how i had hoped but not everything can go perfectly in this game so i need to forget what i had planned and work with what i have in front of me...

jay won immunity which is the reason why i took the risky shot at him last week that had a 5% success rate because i knew taking a swing when i had the chance even if i missed was worth the risk than waiting too long to even take that swing... however in the process i may have created an underdog hero... i can see a narrative forming where "richie takes swing at alliance mate jay because he felt threatened, jay plays idol negating 4 votes and goes on to win immunity the following week when he needed it most and continues fighting his way to the end!"

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i like jay he was always nice the very few times we had any normal social interaction at the early stages of the game, but like we started the alliance of me/jay/chris very very early on so you would think that by working with someone for this long i should be able to have a first hand view of observing his strategic or like social game or... anything but theres really not much substance to his game below the surface that i have seen.. i mean i could be wrong he could be a strategic genius and a social icon to everyone but me but i just dont see it but for some reason everyone sees him as a big threat and because of that and the surface level perception of his game he stands a chance in this game and thats why i want him out but since thats not an option we go to plan ABCDEFG etc....

before gabby left i thought that i would want jay and sam out before going into the final 4.. but now that gabby is gone and jay is still here, sam moved up a place on my ladder and i feel like he could be useful in helping beat jay in an immunity so i don't really want sam gone especially since i feel like i've gotten closer to him after playing the idol on him & chris is the person that i genuinely want to go to the end with because i feel like i'll probably lose if i make it to the end anyway so i want the person who wins to be someone i would be okay with losing to and thats chris... so the only person left to vote out is nicole... but with chris and sam on opposite sides it would be hard to get them to team up to vote out nicole i think???

i think i may just tell chris and sam that i'm going to vote for nicole, play my idol for myself, and take a step back and what ever happens happens because the more i try and plan this out and dictate everyones moves and play puppet master the more likely things are going to get messy...

Sam

I HATE THIS GAME

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I'm literally caught between such a hard place right now.

Richie told me that he has another idol. So, we'd be able to vote out Nicole, which we wanted to do because she's just a placeholder for someone else at FTC. However, the rest of the tribe is targeting Richie due to his dominance in the challenges. So, there are like a few scenarios and sub-scenarios that I'm gonna outline:

1. I vote for Nicole

a. Richie plays his idol and the 4 guys head to the final four--it's a 2v2 battle, most likely a tiebreaker at next tribal

b. Richie doesn't have an idol and I go into the final four by myself (NOT IDEAL)

2. I vote for Richie

a. Richie plays his idol and now it's everyone against Richie, and I don't think he'll be able to trust me again

b. Richie goes home and the remaining four players kinda sit in the same spot.

It's just a lot to process like even minutes before votes are due! I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do at this point! Fuck me up SURVIVOR!

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Is self-voting ever considered strategic? I'm really considering it right now.

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Richie

am i the messiest bitch of all time? probably! who's excited to ignore this 10 page explanation of a timeline from the last 4 hours?? oh i bet yall aint ready to never read this watch out binches cuz heres some luke warm tea!

so in the afternoonish time i had gone to chris and gabby with the idea of voting out nicole and both were very okay with it and it seemed like we just needed to get jay on board and it would be an easy vote... but then jay says at 5:30 "let's vote luke, i feel like if anyone could change the game its him, ok i'm gonna vote now before i pass out" so i was like hmm... okay well thats not in my plan but maybe me/chris/gabby/luke/sam can still vote out nicole but of course its not that easy because not long later things went... crazy

I should preface this mess by first describing where my loyalties/ relationship strengths were at the start of the evening (well obviously i true loyalty is only with myself and thats really all i care about but if i were to actually trust people and want to go with people this is the order) chris>gabby>sam>luke>jay>nicole.. and now onto the 30 minute time frame where everything went wrong lmao

7:28 chris reacts to jay's announcement from our alliance chat that jay submitted his vote for luke and says: "what jay said about luke being the biggest competition is true though"

7:32 gabby reacts to me campaigning against nicole and says: "If I think about it maybe it's time to get Chris out, I always feel like him and Jay are good and it's obvious they have something like an alliance"

7:53  when asked about what he wants to do for the vote luke replies: "I'm thinking Sam maybe?"

so at this point im starting to freak out because all of the people that i'm separately aligned with are all talking about going after each other and i cant tell them all that i'm aligned with these people because its all just 1 on 1 relationships that i've built.. and i start to worry because if everyone is putting their votes on different people all it would take is a very small number of people to say "hey im gonna vote for richie bc he's won 3 immunities and idk whats going on" so im like okay i need to do something to try and incite a majority! and this is where i probably could have been.... smoother? smarter? more prepared??

with chris, i just agreed and said ill get back to it... with gabby, i tried to downplay the chris/jay relationship and propose that we use chris... and then with luke.... well luke was where i got kinda messy...

when luke told me he was thinking sam i thought okay i can use the fact that his name has been brought up by jay as a reason to get luke to vote for nicole with me so that hes just doing whatever it takes to save himself and since jay was immune there was nothing we could do to go after the person who was gunning for luke so let's just vote for nicole and go after him next week!... that was the plan but then luke was like "well lets go after one of his allies..me, you, sam, nicole vote chris and that's majority" and im like oh fuck and try and counter argue with "hmm possibly but the thing is i dont really trust nicole" and he shuts that down by saying that he knows nicole and even if not then we can get gabby so im like out of excuses as to why he shouldnt go after chris without exposing my allegience and im just trying to do whatever it takes for me to not be the name people write down and luke asks "would you ever write chris's name down" and if i say no i'm fucked and if i say yes i'm fucked but i figured the least amount of short term fuckage to get me thru just this round would be by saying yeah i'll vote out chris.. so that plan went into action.. luke talked to gabby and sam and gabby and sam were both really on board to vote out chris and luke was going to try and talk to nicole to vote out chris so it appeared that at the very least it would be luke/sam/gabby/richie/nicole voting out chris with jay/chris voting out luke and its a done deal.... my closest ally seemed to be out the game and i'm joining the majority to vote him out.. but you didnt think my messiness would stop there did you!!?

oh no! at this point i start to think "hmm.... the majority of people have rallied together and are all talking about voting someone out.... and that someone isn't me!?!" and with that knowledge of where votes were going i went to chris and i said "i'm hearing your name brought up you should play your idol" (nevermind the fact that i inadvertently was the reason why the plan to get him out was really set in motion i didnt think that was an important detail to mention to him at the time)   and im thinking okay so somehow despite how shitty of a situation this is with all those people voting out chris and chris playing his idol me and chris can decide who leaves without having to worry about setting up a plan with anybody else.. and i thought about choosing nicole as the target but by this point luke was telling me things like "i'm putting all my trust in you because I literally have nobody in this game so like please don't vote me out" and im about to do something that goes against his plan so hes going to be mad at me for not voting with him and i'll have to deal with the reprocussion of that and worry about that affecting my game OR if he's already going to be mad at me why not vote him out since he's the one that would be most betrayed by me not voting with him anyway... so me and chris voted for luke, chris played his idol, and i somehow stayed safe which is all i cared about at this specific vote

i literally could have gotten the exact same results of luke leaving by just going with jay and chris and voting out luke at the start and telling gabby and/or sam to vote with us and i wouldnt have led luke on to a point where hes going to feel super betrayed, i wouldnt have had to lie to gabby and sam, and i would have saved myself like 2 hours of intense scrambling but here i am in the final 6 with no relationship with nicole, serious damage control to do with gabby and sam that i've been trying to figure out how to get out of this but i cant, no personal relationship with comp savvy jay, and only chris 100% by my side + probably a pissed off luke in the jury... but at least i have 2 idols to play at f6 and f5 so im guaranteed to make it to final 4 and if i can make it there with chris, gabby, and nicole... i see the path to the finish line in sight but i know that even though ive been building relationships that could make people feel MORE betrayed when i vote then out rather then have them say "aww i love him i want to vote for him" and i'm always thinking and planning but my execution is a little messy, although effective, i recognize that its messy that while my path to the end is paved my path to winning is a bumpy ride... let's see how it goes!

Gabby

So I've been working with Richie for the longest of Time and I really do not want to vote him, he has good ideas and at this point if he is using me oh well because I'm using him just to get even further. Love him though, but for some reason I feel like Jay isnt the biggest target again

Richie

winning immunity for the fourth time feels good because it means that i have some room to be messy again... okay lets be real that last vote was my peak messiness but now i can be messy without playing with fire like i was last week!

so far i think i've gone to literally everyone and told them all a different plan so all its going to take is 2 people to talk and be like "damn richie is a MESS he told me this" "oh yeah? well he told me this *pulls out receipts*" so i would not be surprised at all if people have put 2 and 2 together and realize what i'm up to but at the end of the day i don't really care all that much because i'm safe and i'm my own #1

my goal for this vote is to get out jay, the thing is i know he has an idol and with the fact that last week was a 3-3-1 vote against chris, if i were jay i would be playing that idol no matter what so my goal was to make jay feel as safe as possible to disarm him and hope that he'll want to wait until next week to use the idol, but i'm not too optimistic so im expecting to take a swing and miss this week but it's okay i'm prepared for that!

i think the messiest thing i did yesterday was tell nicole everything... why did i do that? we've never talked game, we've never even talked like theres no reason that i trust her and theres no reason she should trust me, in fact i want her gone just as bad as i want jay gone if not more because aint nobody going to want to take me to the end if nicole is still around... but regardless of that fact i went to her and told her all about my plan to get out jay this week because she's a part of that idea and as much as i'd rather do this without her, sam & gabby just voted out chris last week theres no way that chris/jay will trust them.. nicole is the best chance at pacifying jay's paranoia....ideally i would have tried to set up a 3-2-1 and leave nicole in the dark but my thinking is that nicole has to be in on the plan to get out jay to avoid a tie just because she may actually want to vote with them if she thinks thats where the numbers are...

Chris

#idolrehiddenconfirmed

Brian spilled the beans in his response to me trying to see what Jay wrote.

[3:02:15 PM] Chris: I wanna guess Chest 1 for 644

[3:02:24 PM] Brian (Kauai Host): You wish

[3:02:26 PM] Brian (Kauai Host): Incorrect

Richie

whew things went crazy last week huh! i hadn't talked to many people and since i had immunity i was going to use that as a chance to get insight from people without having to scramble so i was approaching the vote pretty calmly and it seemed like people were just thinking of voting AJ because why not... then a couple hours before the vote AJ went off in the main chat against jay and austin and i was sitting there with popcorn watching... then AJ adds me, luke, and kyle to a group chat and is like "you're the only 3 that i trust" and tried wanted us to get out jay and i was like... oh wow this is interesting huh because even though luke and kyle were on NuHanalei with me, we never went to tribal council together and we never really talked so i had no clue where their heads were at so i didnt want to agree or shut down AJ's plan right away without feeling them out first...

if i had to put a number on it i would say it was 50/50 me playing along with AJ to get information out of him and me actually being open to the idea of going along with his plan if he actually could make it come together because hello Jay is a threat and blindsiding him with his two idols would have been something i would normally be happy to do... but with me being not really closely connected strategically with many people on the tribe it would have been dumb for me to jump ship on the me/Jay/Chris alliance this early to join an alliance with AJ/Luke/Kyle when AJ is cracked't, luke is sneaky, and kyle doesnt talk to me... I went to AJ to see if he thought maybe we could switch the vote from Jay to Austin but because of Kyle/Luke's connection with Austin it seemed as though they would be more open to voting out Jay and that's why AJ was going with that vote... in the end i figured it wasn't the right time for me to cut ties with an alliance this soon and i told jay about AJ's plan and made it seem like i was worried about AJ maybe having the votes and I kept it vague in hopes that jay would play one of his idols because in my mind i was thinking "if jay has 2 idols he may see that as a security blanket where if he sees austin in trouble he may play it for austin, where if he's down to one he's going to save it for himself" and i know i should want my ally to have the idols and i should want to know where they are rather than fear whose hand it could end up in but we'll see... finally, i voted out AJ and i know i lost that jury vote bc i really strung him along all day 1/2 bc i was contemplating going with him 1/2 just to get info out of him so he probably feels betrayed so RIP his vote lmao

ANYWAYS!!! the auction came and I won a pig and the choice to put at 20% disadvantage on anyone for the next immunity challenge!! i wanted to choose austin or kyle but my relationship with them is very minimal in existence in neither a positive or negative way so i figured that neutrality is better than nothing... i ended up choosing nicole because she hasnt talked to me once since the TRIBE SWAP on the first day of NuHanalei and i figured that if she gets mad she's going to do the least amount of damage to my game and also she will probably get a strike anyway for not submitting so putting that disadvantage on her will do the least amount of harm... it wasn't the most flashy or productive move but at this point im just trying to not make waves until i can get better footing... oh and that pig? i dont eat meat but i made an exception and what did i find inside? A HIDDEN IMMUNITY IDOL WOOOOO!!!!! AFTER SEARCHING FOR WEEKS IN THOSE STUPID FUCKING CHESTS ALL I NEEDED TO DO WAS LOOK IN A LAVA ROASTED PIGGGGGGG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwxtCEP_HqQ

now i have an idol, me and chris found an idol when we merged which he has, and jay has one so everyone in the my name is no alliance has an idol :D the only thing is that theres probably a fourth idol that austin got a clue too and who knows what Gabby and Nicole got in their auction prize... but for now im just going to focus on playing this airplane game and winning immunity again so i can continue to work without my incessant paranoia disrupting my thots

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Richie

woo i won immunity againnnnnn!!! okay 6 people didnt submit so that makes it way less impressive but hey at least im immune and if anyone tries to make the "he's a comp beast we need him out!!" argument i can play the "okay literally only 2 people submitted against me" card... this is a little more out in the open game play that i would have liked... im not too excited about the possible target this puts on my back as i would have liked to stay under the radar a little bit more than me winning the first two individual immunities but ill take the safety i guess?

now would be the perfect time for ME to take out austin.. theres 9 votes and in my dream scenario i would try and get me/chris/sam/gabby/jay to vote for austin with kyle/austin/luke +nicole vote for whoever they want to... the only issue is Jay i don't know if he'll want to do that yet because idk if it makes sense to do it right now for everyone else.. it would make sense to wait one more vote and take out someone like kyle/nicole and then go after austin one or two more weeks so it wouldnt be such a close 5-4 vote it could be like 5-3 where if someone flips or is scared of someone flipping the repercussions wouldnt be as scary for people who are vulnerable... but for MEEEEE??? going after austin while i have immunity would be dope af because i could scheme against him and if someone rats on me or something goes wrong i can't be the one who gets taken out and i'll have the time and foresight to know if something fucked up and i can play my idol rather than if we wait and let austin grow more powerful and i get blindsided yknowwhatimean??  https://66.media.tumblr.com/e8923a4b1c63a24dbef2763aaf8e61fa/tumblr_oa10y7dh0c1uw9vt4o1_400.gif

this is all too much its only been like an hour since immunity was revealed and i havent even talked to anyone so this is all just me being crazy on my own im sure the second someone talks to me im going to spiral some more and freak out over all the possible things that could happen

Luke

I genuinely feel so lost in this game right now. So many things happened in the last round with AJ exposing as many duos as possible and it just scares me that I could be the next one voted out. AJ mentioned Austin/Jay, Jay/Chris, Gabe/Richie so it seems like everybody is in some sort if pair. Austin spoke to me about how him and Jay being a pair is a lie and that he'd rather work with me than Jay but I'm having a hard time believing anybody's word at this point. The two people I like the most are Austin and Richie, they both talk to me the most and I can have genuine conversations that don't seem forced with both of them which I really like.

Gabriel

I have 3 strikes and I honestly had no idea that there was a challenge going on and I was 100% unaware of and I was like oh...and now I'm putting my allies at risk

Richie

so i found another idol today thanks to gabby telling me they got a 101 dalmations dvd as their auction item and i thought that maybe that was the combination to an idol chest and guess what it was woohoo!!! i feel bad keeping it from gabby but now i have two idols so how bad can i feel??

so we all know ive been wanting austin out since he pulled that play right before the merge and sam and gabriel told me that they were willing to vote for him tonight and i wanted it to be a blindside in case he got a clue to a different idol than the one i found today.. so i went to jay to try and talk to him about it because in the past Jay has told me that he is willing to cut austin but now i'm not so sure I see that Austin may be Jay's dream goat to the end which isnt good for me bc why would i want someone around that my ally would rather take to the end?? so jay never responded to me and that was sketchy so i went to nicole (who i havent talked to once since the premerge tribe swap) and i told her that she was going home tonight and if she voted austin its the only chance she has to stay and she told me she already voted for austin so i was like dope! so now it should be me/chris/gabby/sam/nicole voting for austin jay/austin/luke/kyle voting for whoever....i know im being messy but i won immunity and i have 2 idols and chris has another so i feel like i have a bit of a safety net to play a bit more aggressively than i would normally even if i know i can't be comfortable with my position or safety

but theres so many things that could go wrong... did jay snitch on me to austin? did austin get a clue to a different idol than the chest 1 idol i found today? will jay play his idol on austin? is this all going to go down in flames? find out tonight on survivor k-k-k-k-kauai!

Luke

I'm literally so sad. Austin was the person I trusted the most in this game and we talked all the time and now he's gone and everything sucks. I have no idea what I'm going to do now because it seems like I'm on the outs because nobody told me that Austin was being voted out so I need to try my hardest in the upcoming immunity challenges to make sure I don't join my ally in Jury....

From here I'm going to stick with Richie if he didn't vote Austin out sk hopefully he didn't and I can find a new ally.

Nicole

Okay so...what the hell? I am outraged that people were voting me!!! Just kidding, I'm a flop so I'm not going to hold it against them. I got two strikes in the last week because I'm just that dumb so I can see their reasoning, but I saw the divide with Austin so I kept an eye on that and voted him by using these facts, and gladly sent him to jury. I should probably get my head in the game for the next immunity because I could have easily beat Richie's score if I had been home.

Gabriel

At first I was worried but then I though, I got some friends and one wrapped around my finger and they do what I say, I am the  Messiah of my alliance

Luke

Richie voted Austin out (: I feel so screwed. Nobody told me they were voting for Austin, they were all so comfortable in telling me that they voting Nicole and they voted Austin. Eurgh. This sucks, I need to win immunity!

Luke

Literally if I don't win immunity I'm going to scream. Every single one of those people let me tell them I was voting Nicole last tribal and most of the went ahead and didn't vote for her like they said they would so I have the feeling I'm next if I don't do something!! I need this immunity and that's the Tea.

Richie

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so austin got voted out last round :D that was a fun thing that i didnt know if it was going to go through until the votes were read i had everything set up so that he would leave but you never know with this game... luckily things went exactly how i pictured them to and he left and another question mark left the game but the aftermath could have been better bc i had to deal with jay and luke being left out of the vote

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i had kinda half told my plan to jay before the vote bc i thought i needed his vote to send austin home but he never responded so it was after the vote but before actual tribal council that he finally responded and said that he voted for nicole but if theres a tie he'll switch to austin which was good but i was still kinda scared that he was going to play an idol but he didnt which really solidified that he was putting himself over austin which i was okay with because that means he  probably feels secure enough in our alliance that he was willing to let go of austin???? maybe??? but then there was luke... who was not as apparently easy going as jay was for this vote which didnt make me feel good because im a literal crazy person where if you make me question you once you're in my book because i am always taking notes and im a paranoid mess like im literally insane.... anyway luke was saying how he was left out and he spoke to everyone and no one told him that austin was getting voted out and he feels out of the loop and like he's going to be next to go.. and when someone feels like that they get paranoid and scramble so i was trying to apologize and just be like "ahhh im sorry it was a really last minute thing" which it was a last minute thing but i made sure not to tell luke just in case he would tell kyle/austin and austin got something with that idol clue... i probably could have preemptively worked on that issue with luke before hand to have reduced backlash but im not a perfect person!! i've tried to step up my social game with him but idk he probably thinks im being fake to overcompensate because i know im not that slick lmao so i was thinking like oh god what if luke comes together to gather the outsiders to vote me out!?! but guess who won immunity again :D

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i cant believe i've gotten 3 in a row even if the last one was a fluke adhfasdjfhasdf im so happy that im safe another week but like i know this isn't good long term i thot i would be an UTR2 michele quiet social player but here i am OTTNN5 it's unreal... there's 8 people left and i'm one immunity win away from final 4 like that is SO crazy because i'm safe this round and i have 2 idols like how did this happen?!?! something is going to go wrong just watch because things are going too smoothly right now i just know something terrrible is coming and i'm going to play this game like something terrible is about to happen bc im not going to get comfortable at allllllll i know im going to fuck my game up veryyyy soon so watch out for the downfall of richie coming to you in theaters this summer!

i was thinking of maybe going after luke? or maybe taking a swing at blindsiding jay to get rid of him and his idol even tho we're allies but i dont trust him for literally no reason other than the fact that i just dont get a good vibe from him??? but i think im just going to go with whatever this week and maybe try for someone like nicole or kyle because at this point people are looking at them like goats and thats not good for me... i dont want people in here that someone will look at and say "i want to take them to the end bc i can beat them" or someone that if im on the chopping block next to them the majority will laugh when thinking about voting them out over me... so if i can decrease numbers of a possible outsider group from forming (which is what i would do if i were them) and get rid of the goats that will be dragged further than me im more than okay with voting them out!

Sam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32OWJ3YMpfY

I'm so sorry for not keeping up with kauai

Richie

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.......i lost my first individual immunity by only 1 point :( and jay won immunity and he was going to be the person that i wanted to target :( well i really wanted to target nicole but i thought that if i won immunity again and decided to make a #BigMove i would go probably go for jay out of lack of options????

the results of the touchy subjects were.... interesting and kinda scary.. apparently  the majority of people voted that i'm the person that REALLY running the game, the person you'd take to prom, and the person that others would most like to win the game besides themselves... all of these things are really great it shows that im doing a good job at making connections and having people like me and im getting some recognition for having a strategic game which would be good to use as ammunition in a final jury scenario... however making that information public when im no longer immune is scary because someone can look at that and be like... yo look, richie has won 3 immunities, he has people who like him, and how good would it be to put on our resume that we took down the person that was pegged as running the game? hell if i weren't me i would be doing my best to go to every person and recite that exact argument to them to get my ass voted out!!! i know that sounds self righteous and like everyone wants me out  bc im so great but truly i dont believe that i just feel like i need to play with the mindset that everyone is out to get and what would i do if i were in these other peoples shoes and it just makes sense for other people to want me out

for a while i've been able to make moves and play a bit more boldly because of the immunities and now that im vulnerable again i have to go back to tiptoeing and worrying about my own words coming back to bite me and i know because of who i am as a person with my anxious energy and constant paranoia, i'm gonna go crazy lmao but worst comes to worst i play an idol and waste it in the fear that i become the next james clement being voted out with 2 idols in his pocket

Richie

so its july 14th, 2016 at 6:13 pm EST votes are due at 9 and i have no clue whats going to happen

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i want nicole to leave because i have a relationship with everyone else left in the game... ive made it a point to have a good 1 on 1 relationship with gabby, chris, sam, and more recently luke + an alliance with jay even if we dont have a strong social bond like i feel with the others so like nicole is the safest option for me right now before i can go on my cut throat rampage in the f6 f5 where i use my 2 idols to cut either jay and luke or maybe sam depending on immunity wins!!!! okay i know i need to focus on the now and worry about my safety this round rather than playing for the f4 when i may not even survive the f7 if i dont work on this vote or play an idol as a security blanket since i dont know where the vote is going???? WHAT. DO. I DO!!!!!! jay said that he already voted for luke, gabby and chris said they would vote for nicole, i havent talked to sam or nicole so idk what theyre doing and then theres luke who idk!!!! ahhh!!! im close with sam but i know hes a smart player and someone that wouldnt be afraid to play dirty and blindside me by teaming up with nicole/luke/jay/sam to vote me out!!!!! UGHHHHHHH I HATE THIS I HATE THIS IM SO CRACKED BUT I CANT SHOW IT BECAUSE EVERYONE WHO CRACKS GETS VOTED OUT AJ? CRACKED AND LEFT! KYLE? CRACKED'TED AND LEFTED! ME??? TRYING MY BEST TO HIDE HOW CRACKED I REALLY AM AND PROBABLY STILL LEAVING!!!!  my head hurts...

Sam

I'M SORRY IT'S NOT A VIDEO YET

Okay so Richie and I have just been talking about how we needed to win this one challenge to make merge--and then the merge just falls into our laps?? I'm still in shock. I'm not sure what to think that if the "plan" was for AJ to just act and then they vote out Tyler?

The game just changed. It's scary to know that people can make a move like that. I'm excited to move into the individual phase, but I need to stay under the radar somehow, while still making good connections with others. It'll be tough, but nothing that's worth it isn’t.

Chris

So either I'm really good at playing people or people are really good at trusting me. I'm not entirely sure which of them it is.

AJ tried to blindside Austin because I don't know. Blindsides are fun. It didn't work because Tyler did a self-vote and we sent out Ryan. Then AJ threw a huge fit in the tribe chat calling everyone out basically.

He just said that me and Austin are riding on the coattails of Jay and that we have no chance and etc. He then said he would be throwing the challenges so he could hurry up and go home. I'm just.. okay.

I clarified stuff with him, like telling him that Jay did indeed have not one but two idols and that was cute. I also clarified how he got to the idols (me giving him the link so he could search).

Our team won the reward challenge anyway because we're not awful even if the full tribe isn't participating and then AJ asked to go to tribal instead of making us wait for the immunity challenge. Everyone agreed after some debate.

So Jay messages me saying that he's going to play both idols just to be safe and I told him not to be silly. AJ couldn't have found an idol, the receipts he provided are fake. He says that Jay may have faked the fake receipt so that it looks even more suspicious and I'm just sitting here face-palming. I once more told Jay not to use them and he decided we should split the votes instead.

I liked this plan better because it's virtually impossible for AJ to have found two idols so at the very least either Tyler or AJ would be the one voted off. That plan worked and we made it a tie. Then on the revote we sent Tyler because AJ wanted to. Keeping people who self-destruct their game is a plus!

Tyler became the first juror and then we merged!

Kyle

Wow I sure do love stacking blocks

Chris

The moment we merge Richie messages me with some piping hot tea.

That's how he words it. I still have my final two going strong with Richie. It is really cute. He's so sweet and never lies to me.

So the piping hot tea was that he opened box three and that it had a paper in it from Taj. I told him that Jay had in fact found the idol from box three and that the note was left to confuse whoever found the idol next.

Anyway, he told me that he had been searching hard for the idol in chest two since it was the only one left in the game and that there were only seven options left to search from.

I... up to this point have been doing a lackluster job of hunting for the idol. Because I'm a flop. Or because I forget. Or a combination of all of those things. But - anyway I asked which ones he did not search so maybe we could put our efforts together and make sure others don't find the idol. He sent me his list of numbers and I had already searched three...

So our odds improved. And then.. BAM! I searched 901 and it opened up and got me an idol. Good news! I have an idol, bad news I have to leave a note.

Also, good news. The final two unbreakable magical bond TO THE EXTREME between Richie and I is strengthened by the totem of power we hold between the two of us. So that's fun.

I think we're going to name our tribe after bread or something. Which, to be honest, is a better name than Wine Mom any day.

Gabriel

I- when did merge happen? This is so fast

Jay

I'm infuriated. I'm completely heartbroken that we gave up immunity AND voted out Tyler. Austin literally LAUGHED IN HIS FACE as he was blindsided. As he was being voted out Tyler messaged me "pls no". I feel like a jackass. Austin is my friend, but he is despicable in this game. He's just playing for shit's and giggles at this point, he told me many times that he just doesn't care. I put 100% of my effort into every game I play. Just because it's a side season doesn't mean I give less of my effort into this game. I have 2 idols that I've sat on for two tribals where i've felt iffy about the vote. I think one has to be played at the merge tribal if I don't have immunity.

Chris

[2016-07-04, 12:56:58 AM] Chips:  I figured since AJ was dragging people openly in the tribe chat I should come in and do the opposite.

[2016-07-04, 12:57:03 AM] Chips: Also, lol.

[2016-07-04, 12:57:06 AM] Chips: Tyler was clearly reading it.

[2016-07-04, 12:57:12 AM] Chips: Because he messaged me asking where the stone mountain was.

[2016-07-04, 12:58:04 AM] Chips: So I sent him the ilnk.

[2016-07-04, 12:58:05 AM] Chips: *link

[2016-07-04, 12:58:07 AM] Chips: And he gave me his clue.

[2016-07-04, 12:58:10 AM] Chips: Which was how to find the link.

[2016-07-04, 12:59:01 AM] Chips: So it was useless. But it was him showing me he trusted me.

[2016-07-04, 12:59:14 AM] Chips: :$

[2016-07-04, 12:59:21 AM] Brian (Kauai Host): So why vote him out?

[2016-07-04, 12:59:31 AM] Chips: Because AJ wanted to get voted off.

[2016-07-04, 12:59:33 AM] Chips: And you know.

[2016-07-04, 12:59:39 AM] Chips: I just don't like spoiling people.

[2016-07-04, 12:59:42 AM] Brian (Kauai Host): Interesting

[2016-07-04, 12:59:54 AM] Chips: Plus AJ is gonna blow up Austin and Jay's game faster than he does mine.

[2016-07-04, 1:00:00 AM] Chips: So keeping him in will do me more good than bad.

[2016-07-04, 1:00:15 AM] Brian (Kauai Host): Got it

[2016-07-04, 1:00:25 AM] Chips: People are so tough to manage.

[2016-07-04, 1:00:29 AM] Chips: Gotta go out and meet new people.

Luke

I'm so excited that I made the merge /and/ Jury! My feelings on everybody at this point in this game:

AJ: I really like AJ. They told me all about the last pre-merge tribal council and what down to cause them to forfeit immunity and Tyler being voted out which shows to me that they trust me and think I'm a good person to confide in. The more people that think they can tell me their secrets the better tbh.

Austin: I bonded really well with Austin when were on a tribe together and the fact that we both survived the swap and made it to the merge is amazing because I'm really open to working with him in this game. That being said, I know he has a really strong connection with Jay which AJ is weary about so I need to keep an eye on that and make sure it doesn't ruin anything.

Chris: I've played a few games with Chris, we've never really bonded. In this game I'm going to try and bond with him as much as possible and hopefully strike up a level of trust going forward.

Gabe: Gabe confessed to me that he is really close with Richie and that they have a connection with each other. I'd definitely be open to working with both of them but people that have strong connections are on my radar and similar to Austin and Jay, I need to watch that duo.

Jay: I talked to Jay a little bit when he was allowed to come to our tribe and we found common ground with the fact that his boyfriend or bestfriend (I'm not sure which he meant) lived in England and not too far away from me which is pretty cool. Hopefully I can work with him and Austin moving forward but I definitely want to keep on eye on him.

Kyle: I get a weird vibe from Kyle. I like him but at the same time, he seems kind of shady to me and like he's being observant of everybody and not really trying to talk to much or create waves within the tribe. I'm keeping my eye on him.

Nicole: My queen. I've played games with her before, I have a feeling she trusts me and hopefully we can work together more in this game than we did in previous games. I really like Nicole and working with her throughout this game is my ideal scenario right now because I feel like I can trust her.

Richie: I talked to Richie the most out of anybody after the tribe swap and I feel like we're on the same wavelength in this game and would definitely be open to working with him.

Sam: I like him!! When we were going to do the trivia challenge we were on call for like...3 minutes and he seems really cool and hopefully we can try and get something going.

In conclusion, I'm open to working with everybody and keeping my eye on...everybody. lmao

AJ

I MADE MERGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48lOffce67U

Mood on my old tribe

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Thank GOD I escaped that personal hell but honestly it was heard, the last two rounds have been a MESS.

Okay so like after losing immunity in the first round, my target was Austin. During that round I gained a lot of information, with Jay even telling me he had an idol. I tried to use this to my advantage and attempt for him to flush his idol while Tyler, Ryan and I all vote Austin. This plan flopped because I accidentally voted the wrong person when talking to Abbey, Ryan was the only one who voted the right way because Tyler self-voted and unfortunately he got voted out because he got caught in the crossfire of my scheming.

After that round I felt like I had no one so I was PISSED. I went off in the tribe chat, exposing Jay and his idol. I said that I would be throwing both reward and immunity (I was only able to throw one). I basically yelled at everyone because I really thought I was going home. It even got to the point where I got my tribe to agree to forfeit immunity and immediately go to tribal where I went off some more SURPRISINGLY I STAYED AND TYLER LEFT.

AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? MERGE CAME. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF I'M GETTING SHIT DONE.

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The Wa'Luigi tribe (gag) is cute but this week? I'm going to try and take out Jay. Let's see if it works.

Richie

okay so much has happened and i dont even know where to start?? nukoloa won the last reward challenge and then all of a sudden we found out that they forfeited immunity and everyone was like ...what? and im my head i was thinking "omg me jay and chris had that alliance before the swap so jay, tyler, and chris (original hanalei members) must have given up tribal immunity because they have a 3-2 advantage over original Koloa members and if they forfeit immunity then they can vote one of them out, spare me and sam from the dangerous 4-2 situation we were in, and have us go to the merge with 5-5 numbers and an idol thats GENIUS!!!!" um... BITCH I WAS WRONG AS FUCK!!!!!!! WE JOINED THE MERGE CHAT AND I SEE THAT TYLER WAS VOTED OUT AND MY BRAIN GOES CRAZY.....

the second that we merged jay messages me saying "THAT WAS THE DUMBEST THING IVE EVER BEEN CONVINCED TO DO.. I FEEL LIKE A COMPLETE JACK ASS... Austin thought it would be funnt to completely fuck over tyler and chris said i guess so i kinda had to go along with it even tho i rather not" and at this point im so lost like... how did this happen amd jay continues to tell me that he has austin 100% but austin is a jackass and he wants him out ASAP as soon as we have the numbers to axe him... and my brain just isn't computing anything that was being said  and i watched the video of the google hangout from the tribal council and it still didnt make sense to me so whew this is wild...

so basically my perception of the tribe dynamics based on the very little information i have this could be 100% wrong but you know jeff probst always says "in survivor perception is reality":

ausin is a psycho maniac that is a wildcard and willing to fuck over anyone and do whatever he wants, chris told me that austin admitted that he's playing a "goat game" because he's in another season that he's focused on and thats why chris isnt worried about austin, but hello i dont care about that at this point im focused on making it to the end and having the confidence in my own game to beat whoever im sitting next to so i dont care that i can beat austin in the end bc he's a "goat" if he's going to fuck everything up and cause chaos for the entire path to the end that can mess up my game!!! whew anyway... austin and jay are in the center power positions.. austin has jay and he has luke and kyle and jay has chris so that group makes 5 (PLUS JAY HAS TWO IDOLS!!! and chris has the other) so basically... they're in a very solid position right now and yes im aligned with chris and jay but im jay's #3 at the highest and austin's #6 so... how does that help me? i dont think it does but theres nothing i can do about it right now because chris wont listen to me when i talk about austin and im on good terms with gabby and sam and aj is desperate so we COULD have 4 and nicole? literally who is she???? its just.. not looking good right now idk im scared that if we dont make a move now we're never going to have the opportunity to make a move but also the numbers aren't there for me to go against the larger majority especially when im on the outskirts of that side so it would be like turning against allies and teaming up with people i dont know or talk to... but i dont talk to austin luke or kyle... UGHHHH ITS SUCH A MESS!!!

on the bright side: i won immunity with my flag, i named the tribe after waluigi, i know where all 3 idols are, i have good relationships with chris, gabby, sam and mediocre level relationships with aj, luke, and jay...

idk i may just vote out aj tonight because its better to be in the majority at this point when theres still a full tribe i just... wouldnt be mad if somehow something went wrong.. idk maybe i can try and create paranoia to get jay to flush one of his idols tonight so he's not as protected down the road idk maybe ill just shut up and say if its not me then dont put a target on my back... wow im cracked!

Richie

[2016-07-06, 4:58:17 PM] Richie: DRAMA IN THE MAIN CHAT AHH IM WET

[2016-07-06, 6:25:43 PM] Richie: Honestly? I may just be messy and vote for Nicole because she hasn't talked to me once and the votes are being split between aj and jay and jay is playing his idol

[2016-07-06, 6:26:42 PM] Richie: I figure she's probably going to self vote since she's never here so if I vote for her and something goes terribly wrong then she'll leave or I get to be transparently playing the middle and refusing to decide between voting for aj or jay

[2016-07-06, 6:27:27 PM] Richie: Fuck I hate mobile

[2016-07-06, 6:28:31 PM] Richie: I know gabby Chris jay and ¿Austin? Are voting for aj... Kyle aj are voting for jay.. Luke could be doing either i dont know I think he's drunk??? Then Sam and Nicole aren't here

[2016-07-06, 6:29:30 PM] Richie: So I'm guessing it will be 4-3-1-1 or maybe 5-2-1-1 without my vote???

Jay

Jay

Let's do a recap shall we? This whole round was a mess on the new tribe. How the fuck was the vote 3-1-1-1???? Me, Chris, and I assume Austin voted for Ryan? Aj voted for Austin, ryan voted for me, and tyler self-voted? How did the even happen? And Brian almost killed me by accidentally counting the votes wrong. And I got out of this with both idols in tact? How the fuck?

Luke

Richie

im.... unhappy.... we just voted out taj who yes, he didn't submit and hes from a timezone thats like 12 hours ahead of everyone so he was never around and there was no way he would be useful in competitions or socially or strategically but like he said he wanted to work with me and thats more than i've gotten from Will who is on day 6 of not speaking to me at all..... and now we're going back to tribal again and the only thing that's going to keep me safe is this stupid bee challenge?! oh im cracked huh!

Richie

To throw this immunity or to try...that is the question.... There's 6 people on the tribe I'm in an alliance with Chris and jay and I feel like I have a solid enough bond with Sam... Do I trust them all? No! Do I feel that comfortable with my position in this tribe that I feel like I'd be 100% safe if I didn't have immunity? No! So then why am I even considering it? I feel like a tribe swap is likely going to occur and if I go onto a tribe where I don't know anyone and I'm the person that won immunity? Oh I'm dead!! So it's like do I risk my safety in the now for a better chance at safety in the hypothetical long term game??? That's where I'm at right now... But lol watch me not even get a good enough score to win even if I decide to not throw it and this is embarrassing lmao

Kyle

There has been drama, chaos & confusion at our camp and I honestly can't take it anymore :/

Gabriel

Let me live Brian lol I also enjoy people on meh tribe aj and Luke the best probably and I better get that computer quick cause ima bout to be on that chopping block

Ryan

So talking to Jay about a possible alliance in order to save my ass at tribal because i don't really know where my tribes head is at. If I have to throw someone under the bus I will but that's not what I'm about.

Jay

I found my second idol! I traded immunity to Austin for an idol clue and it worked out. I told Chris about it when I got back. So on Koloa, no one is working together seemingly. Nic who is someone I could use is a lost cause as he's added no one. Im just happy to have immunity.

AJ

Both tribes have to go to tribal and like

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I HATE! I'm good person, I don't fucking deserve this. But right now it's looking like Nic since he doesn't have anyone added so yay, easy votes are always fun. It's funny cause I've seen him talk in the chat but has yet to add ANY of us. So...

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Antyways, I feel the most close to Luke and Kyle at this point. They're the only people who've made an effort into talking to me lately. Nicole and I have talked vaguely and I don't know what Gabbie's up to lmfao. I sometimes forget Ryan is there (sorry bb, you know ily but you a ghost), and Austin's been in and out. But let me touch on one topic:

So basically Jay was allowed to pick who he gave immunity and I honestly don't understand the point of that cause he was obviously gonna hand it to Austin due to them being friends out of this. There was 0 point in the rest of us explaining to Jay why we deserved it, but hey.

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Anyways, more tea later I guess. Tootles!

Richie

So... i just got my way and got Will voted out from Hanalei in that double tribal council (yay go me!) and you know what happens???? oh yeah a tribe swap... and not just any tribe swap oh no!! its a tribe swap we're theres 4 original Koloa members and just me and Sam from the old Hanalei... oh and my alliance with Chris and Jay? yeah they're on the other tribe! oh and the idol? yeah Jay has that on NuKoloa............. i am LIVID! if these 4 are smart they throw the next two challenges, vote out me and sam, and go to the merge with a 7-3 advantage :) :) :) :) this is some Survivor China swap bullshit right here i hate it!!!!!! my only hope is that these people aren't smart and i can work work work work work my way to get at least 1 or 2 of them to flip... wish me luck?

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I think I made a mistake and my selfishness and resistance to fully trust may be my downfall and i'll look back at this moment and either say "that's the moment i lost the game" or "thats the moment i saved myself"... with the 4-2 disadvantage it's most likely going to be the first one and im going to have to live with that :\

sam told me his HII clue and i remembered that a while ago either Jay or Chris showed me their clue that for the same chest... that means i'm 10 guesses away from getting that idol :D :D :D :D i decided to keep the Chris/Jay clue to myself because I thought it would be better if I had the idol in my own possession in case it does come down to me vs Sam being the first one out on NuHanalei... I lied to him and told him the only clue I had was the one I found myself about chest 2 starting with 9 so now I can't go back on that without seeming sketchy but if I had told him then we both could have been guesssing for the idol and cut down the amount of time it would take for us to go through all the numbers from 10 guesses every 8 hours (80 hours which will take us to Saturday if we do it every 8 hours) vs 40 hours which will take us to Thursday which is likely going to be before the first vote if we were to lose this upcoming immunity tomorrow so it would be perfect timing for it to be in our possession and we can use it together to save us both... FUCK i feel like i fucked up but if this works out and I somehow get the idol for myself after coyly playing that off and keeping that info to myself.... wow im a mess huh!!!!!!

Luke

A lot has happened over the past few days! I'm really glad that the first tribal I attended wasn't messy and we all decided to vote Nic out, it turns out I wasn't the only one he hadn't added as a contact so I guess he dug his own grave. I'm excited about the tribe swap and I'm so happy that Koloa has an advantage in numbers on the Hanalei tribe on this NuHanalei tribe but that doesn't mean anything in Survivor, it only takes one person to flip before things go awry. That being said, I'm excited to get to know Richie and Sam as I've never met them before and I'm looking forward to hopefully winning the next immunity/reward challenges!

Ryan

Nicole

First Confessional: So right off the bat in this game I noticed I was at a severe disadvantage since....there don't seem to be many girls, if any? I haven't gotten to know anyone but, it just seems like it'd be easy to target the girls if I was the only one......anyways. this season has been going smooth, we won first immunity. I'm pretty good with Luke, he's cool. I will update with a longer confessional once something happens but right now I'm just trying to keep all of our asses afloat.

Ryan

I hope 78 is good enough for my tribe to keep me. Cause will I do it again?

Insert Selena Gomez "I mean I could, but why would I want to" Gif

Richie

first vote done and over with whew i wish that kurt didnt have to go because theres other people i would have rather had gone but whatevz he was the tribe flop so as long as it wasnt me i wasnt going to say anything...

chris gave me a heads up to the immunity idol, shared his clue with me, and added me to an alliance chat with jay and him where we put our clues together and jay found the idol so... yeah that happened fast and im happy i was brought in on that haha i was putting the most work in on building a relationship with chris because i figured he could be a good connection to have and i guess i did something right!? even though chris and jay werent really my first choice for an alliance on a tribe of 7 having 3 people working together and with an idol.. um yaeh ill take it!

theres the 3 but for majority you need 4 so i've been trying to find another person to have as my side piece ala bb12 bragade and their outside alliance and ive been trying to put in work to get sam to be that person for me, i shared with him where the idols are and ive been putting in work to try and be social with him so fingers crossed if we lose another immunity that ill be able to have him on my side as well as the chris/jay/me alliance

i also seem to have an okay relationship with tyler although i still can't figure out how to speak to him, and taj said that he wants to work with me so thats +++ even though hes like never around because of time zones so thats not a reliable person to have because im the type of person who needs to talk things thru and if i cant do that with someone its not going to work but ill take a mediocre bond with them for now..... and will? ive tried talking to him like 4 times and no response so he can GO even though jay or chris said that they have him on their side so that might not be easy to maintain this middle ground im playing but we'll see hopefully we don't lose this immunity so i can just continue build stronger relationships

Kyle

bloon tower defense was very drama, those blimps literally snatched me. i demand a recount.

Nic

I kind of assumed that the challenges would be more competitive since we've been playing against previous players from past seasons, but so far it's been 1 sided as hell XD hoping we win our third in a row

Jay

I'd say I hate that challenge but Boat-o-Cross is Satan as a video game so I have to use hate sparingly now.

Sam

Second Immunity Challenge--second loss. It was very close this time too. I'm not really sure how the vote will go this time, but I do feel like I could go next.

Luke

I am so so happy that Koloa won immunity once again! I think our teamwork is incredible and we're a really strong tribe. However, I don't think that will last too long and I'm definitely anticipating a tribe swap in the imediate future.