Episode 3: The Game Begins, No Really It Does!!

[andrew]

So Katy went home, blah blah blah, nobody's surprised. Katy's blaming it on her actually having a life and Juice for not texting her and blah blah blah, nobody cares. Katy was just inactive. A lot of people just don't wanna make the time for ORGs. Nothing wrong with that. But at least admit it, don't blame everyone else for your no-showings.

Anyway, that's done. Now the real game really begins. 20 people are left, (meaning I'm already guarenteed to do better than I did in Ireland, YAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.......oh I could still finish horribly) and everyone left is pretty active. I'm really nervious about the tribal situation. Where are the alliances? How can I take advantage of them? Who can I trust.....well obviously nobody, guess that one wasn't a question.

Right now, I'll just go ahead and rank my tribemates in order of who'd I'd want to ally with, maybe that will help out me a little....


1. Hooker: We've been officially alligned since I was annouced into the game. I don't completely trust him, but it's clear by now that he does value me as an ally, since he keeps me updated on everything and helps me plan our moves out. We're gonna need to make a big move should we lose another immunity challenge, because right now, neither of us feel all that secure in our positions.

2. RB: It's pretty sad when a guy you've only talked to 3 times is your 2nd most useful ally. However, RB is charismatic and seemed to be very open to the idea of working with me immediately, which is important. Next time I talk to him, I'll bring up getting some other people together.

3. Juice: Juice and I have been alligned since the start. However, I've also known since the start that I can't trust much of what he says. The fact that he's so anti-Bud and seemingly getting close to a lot of other players is part of what's scaring the hell out of me. Hooker's starting to get nervous too around him, and RB's never trusted him. Good, that'll help out when we need to get rid of him. Until then, Juice does at least talk strategy with me and I don't believe I'm his next target anytime soon. So #3 is where he stays.

4. Megan: This is tough because Megan doesn't like to talk game with me apparently. I think she's got other alliances, but I still could use her vote and we have agreed to look after each other. That's a start, a small start, but a start.

5. Bridget: I'm nervous about putting her this high up. I know she's a threat and I know I'm not high on her ally list, (otherwise, why be so hesisitant about talking long term game with me?). She's probably got some major alliance going on and I just haven't been able to figure it out yet, (though I'm sure Jeffrey and maybe Megan are in it). She'll slice my throat the first chance she gets, so she'll have to go soon. But she still is up there because I talk game with her, nothing more.

6. Bud: I actually like the dude, but I haven't made any alliances with her yet, which is concerning me. I think I'm just gonna go ahead and make the move next time I talk to him. If me and Hooker are gonna take over this game, he's just the guy we need. He'll be happy to stick around, he'll be happy to let us let him take charge, and he's the perfect shield for us should we find ourselves outside the numbers game. Bud is basically the perfect expendable ally.

7. Joel: Never talk game with him, so he's secure enough without me obviously. If me and Hooker take over, he might be the first one to go bye bye.

8. Jeffrey: I don't miind the guy anymore, now that I'm starting to get his sense of humor, but the fact is, the boy doesn't talk to me ever. I've spoken to him twice since this game has started, and both times I've had to hunt his ass down. He clearly wants nothing to do with me and ideally, I could take him out next.



It's weird because normally I'm all ready to play and making the alliances early on. But my more under the radar approach has definitely changed things for me. Now I don't feel secure, BUT I do feel like I'm paying better attention to what people are telling me and thus getting a better read on them. So maybe this idea is working after all. That being said, I've gotten my reads on everyone, it's time to start my dominating gameplay again. No more mister quiet guy, this time......YOU ALL DIE!!!! MAHAAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHHAHH!!!! Well, I just vote you out, I won't actually kill you. But yeah, you get the idea. I'm taking over the game now and there's nothing you can do about it!

[andrew]

Okay, so yeah. We had another immunity challenge. And we had yet another million controversies. Seems like once again, the "Heroes" were playing their loophole game while once again, the Villains bitched about it. This tribe has a serious case of crybabyitis!

As of right now, it's STILL going on, Stephen vs. Juice. I kinda actually think we're going to win this challenge, since Juice is a determined little fucker. Stephen's a tough beat too though, but he probably has school this morning, so he's probably going to have to relent to Juice sooner or later, though I think both on on Pacific Coast time zone, so nobody has an advantage.

Anyway, about the controversies. The Heroes were doing all sorts of stupid things with their posts, (this being a posting contest), like trying to blend in the name of the person who had to post next, writing small print, etc.

Two things really set this challenge off, one that's for sure our fault, the other......well we'll let Sandy decide that when he gets here.

1st: At something like I dunno, 11:19, it's Tucker's turn to post. So we wait and wait and wait, thinking we finally got the bastard. Nope, 11:24, Tucker posts. Here's the catch. Some of the villains, (namely Joel and Juice) thought that this meant Tucker was eliminated. Others, like Bud and myself, knew better and knew exactally where this was going. So after some arguments, (including from me defending my homies, lol. which btw was only done to look good in my tribemates eyes, I knew damn well that we were wrong), Joel got eliminated and we moved on. I'm not happy with Joel over this. All he had to do was post along with Megan, (who btw I keep wanting to call Courtney because of her pic, lmao) and he'd have stayed. Nope, he had to play like the Heroes were wrong and wouldn't see the facts. Idiot. He KNEW damn well that he was wrong and just wanted to fuck things up.

Well, frankly if we lose this challenge, now I know I'm after him. Did his action cost us anything? No, not really. But I am getting tired of Joel whining about everything that doesn't go his way. It's annoying as hell.


OKAY, now for the 2nd controversy that's sure to shake everything up.

Don't remember the time, I think after midnight at least, Stephen does this stupid thing were he posts 2 pictures of the hand holding the potato. We all knew he was up to no good, but couldn't figure it out. 5 minutes later, he says Bud's out. WTF?! How?! Stephen says he put Bud's name somewhere in the 2nd picture..............................wow, my hero.

Seriously, I know you wanna get this challenge over with, but that's a really douchebag move. Hiding names in the picture, (oh and btw, i STILL can't find Bud's name on that!) is really cheap and frankly I think that should be disallowed. Both me and Megan (who I just wanted to call Courtney again) decided we're not posting again until Sandy clears this thing up.

Naturally that was ignored, so it was poor Juice vs. everyone else. Now he's got it down to just him and Stephen, so good for him!

Too bad I think this challenge will probably be cancelled. It kinda has to be after all the fighting and whatnot. If it isn't, then so be it, since it's been Stephen and Juice for a long ass time now, and it won't matter if Juice wins. If Stephen wins though, this will get ugly.

I know at least one or two of the villains are threatning to quit the game is Sandy allows Stephen's post to count and we lose because of it. Personally, I think that's kinda lame, but whatever, each to their own.

But yeah, this whole thing is getting ugly as hell and unfortunentally, given the nature of this challenge, neither host was available, so we'll just have to wait and see who wins the duel between Stephen and Juice, and what Sandy says about all of that. He isn't going to be a very happy host after this developement.......

[andrew]

Okay! Lots to talk about tonight!

First off the challenge, Juice is the MAN! He basically took on 7 heroes and beat them all in the immunity challenge, staying up all night long and surviving against the shady actions.

Juice winning against those odds will forever go down in iSurv1vor history as one of the coolest preformances ever!

It keeps us safe from the vote and now the Heroes have to feel the pain of voting someone out! I love it!



Now for better news.

From what Hooker's telling me, Bridget is interested in making a big 4 alliance with me, Hook, her, and Jeffrey. This would be a pretty solid 4-some, though I'm not very confident in keeping Jeff around too long since I never talk to him. Still, it only helps my odds at going far and hopefully winning this game!

Tell you what though, me and Hooker are putting ourselves into a very envious position in this tribe. Everyone likes us, we're nowhere on anyone's hitlist, and we're both being smart and patient.

For me personally, I'm alligned with Hooker, Juice, Bridget, and RB. This new alliance would ally me with Jeff, and I hear I'm on Bud's good side too. That only leaves Megan, who I'm also on good terms with, and Joel, who I want out next.

Oh, and I'm working with Erik, (if he's ever online) and was with Tucker, although I bet that deal is out of the window by now. I should get another spy. Allan maybe? I could work with him. So why not try it?

I'd say I'm doing quite well this time around! Can I do it? Yes I can! Will I do it? As long as I don't choke the game away, I feel good!