Episode 7: New Challenges

[andrew]

Okay, first to note on the eliminated Survivors.

Joel: No surprise at all. Juice and Jeff did stick with us, which was wise. Maybe we should have just made it unanimous that he'd go. I dunno, probably not gonna mean much. Anyway, no one shall miss him, though I don't dislike the guy as a person.

Allan: This sucks. Allan was someone I was hoping to be able to count on come merge time. Now that he's gone, my best (and only true) spy to the Heroes is gone. However, at least I'll get Ashley out of this, as she seems willing to help me out to get revenge for Allan!



So now for the twist, which basically was a tribal pickem. The tribes have been swapped, and now I'm a Hero, (which is totally weird and stupid, at least let us have new tribe names!, lol)


Here are the new tribes....

HEROES
Andrew
Ashley
Erik
Erin
Jeffrey
Megan
Tom

VILLAINS
Bud
Hooker
Jordan
Juice
RB
Stephen
Tucker

NO TRIBE
Morgan


Once again, Morgan is safe due to being Exiled! She's always been lucky in that regard though.

The new Villains tribe is pretty tough. They'll be a force for sure! My fellow Villains have the numbers here, but Juice is likely to jump sides. Then again, Tucker is likely to jump sides from the Heroes anyway, so I would expect Bud, Hooker, RB, and Tucker to start working together and be fine.

Over at Heroes, it's ugly. There aren't a heck of a lot of challenge whores here. Plus, the Heroes have a big advantage over the Villains. You've got Tom, Erik, Erin, and Ashley, while we only have myself, Jeffrey, and Megan. Ashley will start working with me I think, but Jeffrey is the wild card here.

Jeff was out of the loop because of his role in the Blindside Fail vote. He knows it, so he's got every insentive to jump sides. I HAVE to convince him that I've got his best interests in mind. If I don't, I'm screwed. It's that simple.

[andrew]

Well, maybe there is another route I can go now. Apparently, Tom was blindsided by the vote himself. Something must have switched last second from Morgan to Allan, so I wonder if Tom will hold any grudges as a result of this. Hopefully yes, then I can get him in an alliance and won't even need to worry about Jeff. I'll still need to try for him, but we'll just have to see what happens.

If I could pick a target right now, it'd have to be Erik. The guy's got a ton of power and he's been pretty cocky from what I hear. Getting him out would be huge!

It's gonna be so tough though, I know he's got Erin on his side, maybe Tom too, although I can work on that. Jeffrey is still the wildcard though, with that idol of his. It's gonna be tough to work this out, but I have to try!

[andrew]

So a little bit has happened last night.

Megan thinks that she could possibly get both Tom and Erin on our side with Ashley. Her plan would be to split the votes 3-2 on Erik and Jeffrey. Not a bad plan, except for one issue.

It won't work.

Tom has said he's gonna vote based on who the tribe can "most afford to lose"......thanks a lot asshole. That tells me nothing of use. But maybe that means that he's willing to vote out a weak link if we do lose, right now that could be Erik since he's been kinda inactive since the swap. That'd be amazing if I could get Erik out that easily, but I know it won't be. Jeffrey I think is definitely working with Erik now, so that scratches him off. Plus, again, that damn idol is gonna be a bitch to work around.

Erin wasn't much better. She gave me no answer really, but when I told her I've made the most connection with her, she said the same of me. That's a start, but I'll need more to work with. Still, maybe Erin could be the swing vote I need after all! Still seems unlikely though.


Luckily, it seems as though this tribe is doing pretty welll in the immunity challenge thus far, thanks pretty much entirely to me and Megan. Tom found a couple of shorter words, Jeffrey found one.




Yeah, that's all the help we've gotten thus far.

Erin has an excuse since she doesn't have a good program in her computer, (not without downloaded), the others don't. Ashley's done nothing. Erik is no use whatsoever, cocky fuck, probably thinks he's totally immune, so why bother helping out. And really, Jeff and Tom haven't been that useful either! It's basically me and Megan holding up the fort with minimal help from the rest of the tribe! Definitely sounds like we're in trouble first time we lose immunity! But if we win, at least we'll get another round to work things over, which we need big time! Plus, we even would get to avoid having Morgan as a tribemate, which is only good for me, since that's another Hero (and a long time rival) to worry about if she did show up, (to say nothing about her weakness in the game thus far).

So yeah, hopefully we don't lose! Cause, it ain't looking good for us otherwise.......

[andrew]

There is HOPE!!! I definitely have Ashley on our side now and she wants Erik out too! So that's 3 we could have with us two and Megan.

Too bad that's the best we have so far. Erik is controlling a lot right now, Tom is too stupidly loyal to the heroes, Jeffrey I think jumped ship. That leaves Erin......who has a reputation for not thnking for herself.....yeah that's not a good sign. Still, she's our best option right now, so she'll have to do. I've been working on her hard, but it'll take some time to get her onboard with us, so what we really need is to win immmunity. Win immunity, and I will have enough time to get her onboard and take Sheep Humper and Jeffy Poo out!

[andrew]

Well the current plan is to try for Erin, tell Jeff that Erik's the target, and then blindside Jeff.

However, I wonder if Jeff would be willing to stick with me and Megan. I've been seeing where his head is at in regards to giving up his hidden immunity idol and voting Erik out. He's been rather open to both ideas....maybe we're going for the wrong person here.......but then again, I gotta convince Ashley and Erin that I'm gonna be loyal to them, (and for now I actually might be), but we'll have to see where this goes........

[andrew]

So yeah, JUSTTTTTT in case working Erin fails, I have a plan B. I was talking to Tom and it definitely sounds like it's me that they'll be targetting.

So, being the competitive guy I am, I definitely wanted a plan JUST to make sure it isn't me. So I pretty much got Tom to admit it's me they want out. And I then hit him with everything but the kitchen sink, "this is my last game" (which it is), "Erik controlling things and you're letting him!" (which is also true).

He pretty much shot everything down, so I hit him with the most humble, passionate, bullshit promise I've ever made someone in the game. I promised him that if he'd give me a chance to show him he could trust me, I would NEVER vote him out for the rest of the game, (pretty much had to go there, no other choice). He even asked if it might I'd vote Megan out over Erik, I lied and said yes, (actually I may have to anyway if it looks like I need to).

Well what do you know? After all that postering about how it had to be me and sorry ol' chap, but there's no other way, OF COURSE Tom relents here! Course, he didn't promise me safety, but he did say he'd "talk" to someone, (read Erik). Since it's probably gonna be Erik's call, I still may be cattle fucked. But it's a neccesary first step, just in case Erin decides she wants to be a sheep and follow Erik too. We'll just have to see where this leads.......I'm not dead yet!

[andrew]

Oh and Jeff found out about Megan wanting him out because she stupidly went to Tom about it, fool. She knew better than that, but nooooo, she had to go ahead and try to be the mastermind.



She has no power to be trying that stunt! We had a perfectly good plan set! Why mess with success? Ah well, we'll see if she pays for it!

[andrew]

Okay wow, my confessional is starting to look kinda ugly as hell! So I'm gonna try to simplify it a bit.

Situation: Me and Megan are scrambling for votes. Ashley is onboard. We need one more vote to offset Tom, Jeff, and Erik. Erin is the key. We'll have to vote however she wants to, but that's fine, it keeps us alive.

I'm thinking our plan is to vote Jeffrey or Erik out, whichever Erin is more comfortable with voting out. I'd prefer to get Erik out, but Jeffrey would surfice.

I've made a deal with Tom that he keeps me around, I won't ever vote him out for the rest of the game, (which of course is most likely a lie).

I've made a deal with Erin that if she votes Erik out this round, I will help her vote Megan out next round, (which is also a lie, unless I have no other option).

I'm trying to see if Jeffrey would give me or Megan the idol. I highly doubt that, but anything that's an option for me, I will take.

I have no fucking idea what's gonna happen, although I suspect that it'll be me or Megan that gets voted out this round.

[Tom]

Apr 30, 2010 6:40:25 GMT -5 andrew said:

Tom has said he's gonna vote based on who the tribe can "most afford to lose"......thanks a lot asshole. That tells me nothing of use.

Bahaha, my cloaked way of saying, "I can't frikin wait to vote you out for the second time."

[andrew]

Jun 16, 2010 18:40:52 GMT -5 Tom said:

Apr 30, 2010 6:40:25 GMT -5 andrew said:

Tom has said he's gonna vote based on who the tribe can "most afford to lose"......thanks a lot asshole. That tells me nothing of use.

Bahaha, my cloaked way of saying, "I can't frikin wait to vote you out for the second time."

lol yeah I totally should have read between the lines there! but, as you said in your confessional, I really need to learn to find out how people feel about me. Maybe one of these days I'll finally learn that, lol!