Episode 13: “Count My Chickens” - Drew
Only two more times to use it......... But honestly, just having it is more valuable than using it.
Imagining playing the Harimau one and then having people go to exile TO SEE THE SAME CLUES and figure out I had ANOTHER IDOL wasn't good.
Imagining playing the exile idol and then having Ben or Mitchell work their ASSES off to find it (or actually have reason for us to believe they did) wasn't good.
Those 4 were on call with me THE WHOLE HOUR. They KNEW I wasn't sure that I could trust them.
I knew they wouldn't vote me out... this round.
Lol what the fuck am i gonna even do with these idols now that isabelle is gone like probably just keep them
Wow final six am I going to get a loved ones challenge? Jokes on me of course I have no loved ones :)
[12:11:09 AM] Mitchell Kalabang: We've got to somehow convince drew/kait to turn on each other now
Little does he know I did that like 3 rounds ago
We.....we did it. We tied the Fans and the Favorites. For the first time since the pre-merge Double Tribal. I had hope that we could get to this point, I saw the path to get here, but I didn't have the confidence we could actually do it. Kait or I could win this. Really Kait could win this, I don't think I have a chance against her, no matter what Mitchell says. But like at this point, who even cares? We're in the midst of pulling off a Kura Kura Three run in the followings of Yul Kwon and Russell Hantz. That's badass. My obvious goal is to win, but I came here NEEDING a Fan to take it home, and we've got a shot.
CAN I JUST TELL YOU HOW MY HEART STOPPED SO MANY TIMES LAST NIGHT.
1. Surprise Immunity challenge bitches!
2. We're voting someone else out in two hours!
3. MY NAME BEING READ AS THE FIRST VOTE.
But that challenge was fun though, it almost worked out. Did you see how when there were still four Favorites to three Fans, all three Fans were the last ones standing? Caught that? Okay then, good. We'll see what we can do to make that the actual finals too (except Alex won't be winning that one).
Mitchell calling me out in his voting confessional is about the funniest thing ever just because of how much he got wrong. I'm the one with the secret alliance with Ben? Nah, go check with Kait on that one, AKA the person you've been trying to get to turn on me because I'm going to leave her for Ben. Alex being the last one left to know about Sara's immunity idol? Nah, we told him about that a few hours before the vote because we saw you coming. In a perfect world, everyone would have voted for Sara to flush the idol? Maybe some merit there, but did I hear anyone approach me with the idea? No? What a shame. I do appreciate the vote of confidence though. Tbh he's been trying to paint me as the major pick to win this entire time, since top 11 when he called me out in his confessional vote to Kait, and I just don't see it, but making the target on my back seem larger to the jury can't hurt at this point. Everyone I know outside this game tells me I'm crazy to have this much blind faith in two people. Maybe, but maybe I understand things better than them.
I'm starting to work on my FTC speech. If I never get to use it, fair enough, it's been a great run. But I'm an English major and three of the six of us will need to have that ready in something like ten days. I can't just wait until I need something to start writing it. Especially if I need a really good FTC speech to win Mitchell's vote (honestly Mitchell...oy).
Revision: Just realized it was Jenn who cast the vote for me. Ah well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdnvZUNUJTY
Yeah, Isabelle's boot is when I call game.
Kait and Drew outplayed me and I admit defeat.
Looking forward: ideally Kait and Drew would be next using idols (idk, 50% chance Kait could misuse hers). BUT THEN WHAT? I'm in a f4 with Alex Mitchell and Ben??? HI FOURTH PLACE CLUB.
So can't do that. Drew and/or Kait need to make f4. It's possible to get out Drew at 6 or 5, and make a case to those remaining (probably Ben and Alex) that Kait is the obvious winner of this game of the four of us. That's my only way of still having a chance, and I honestly think in that scenario I lose against Ben.
Mitchell... He wouldn't work with me again even if it was a guaranteed win for him. Anything I'd say to him, he'd use against me. He'd be great to sit next to (and God only knows he'd be the worst person for me to put on the jury), but holy shit. He bragged about making me cry to his outside game friends... And they seemed to value that trait. I don't know what kind of species Mitchell and those people are, and I'm not willing to let him be my downfall (because I doubt we'd even make it to finals at this rate of hatred towards me).
So... Yeah. Best bet is to try to drive a wedge between Kait and Drew, the power couple of this whole season. LOLOLOLOLOLOL yep, bye. My idols will carry me to f4, and I may even make FTC, but adios, blue ribbon
honestly fuck all these potatoes keeping me from going on some chicken nugget date with matt summers
https://youtu.be/WVAUB33OzwY
Glad to know my loved one came through. I don't blame you David, how could I expect you to do some silly flash game if my dad didn't even come back from the store after 14 years =/
For the record this is a joke my dad never leaves the couch let alone my house, I hate you David at least if I don't win you don't either!!111
My main objective in the challenge was to make sure Drew didn't win so we'd be on track to blindside him and what not.
My only regret is going 5th and not 6th in the order :~) or maybe that I didn't get to go on reward to get that advantage of being able to have two lives. Regardless, hopefully this wasn't all in vain~"
wow i've never won anything in my life!!!! then me and matt summers went on some chicken finger date with sara and her ghost of a loved one and then won this weird ass chess game!!
ok but low key that moment when i realize it's not just final five i've secured it's final four bc idol ~~~~
also i'm voting drew out this round. i've been thinking about it for a while and i've come to terms with the fact that i'll be the last wine mom standing. it could be a game winning move for me, so here's hoping that's what it develops to.
Alright so... this is kind of an interesting deal.
I was so close to winning immunity. I had all this shit planned out and I'm mad that it didn't work out.
Mitchell is going tonight. I'm not sad, he can go. He'll be going to that Jury and he'll be dragging my name.
Here's the thing; that leaves us with Ben. I'm assuming F5 immunity is Endurance; judging on the fact it's on a Saturday and we have yet to see such a type of challenge (there was the Trivia but eh).
Ben can easily beat us. If he does I have to decide between voting out Kait and Drew. What ends up happening is I go home. Kait and Drew won't vote each other out I don't think. My only chance would be convincing Kait to vote for Drew because he's a big threat to win.
I don't want to vote them out. I had this idea that we'd get Sara three votes on her so she has to play her idol.
There's something in the back of my mind where Drew and Kait might be going against me. If they are I'll be actually really sad.
But if I have to vote one of them off, there will be tears
I could easily get through this vote without an idol... So I've been seriously considering not using it at all (and only using one next time). Doing this would save Jenn and Jimmy from finding out I had the Harimau idol at all and being unbelievably pissed at me on the jury. But honestly, I had no chance of getting Jenn's vote anyway. And, my real only pitch to win is sitting on half the idols for almost the entire game.
So, I think the added insurance and proving to the jury (despite backlash that will occur with some of them) that that was indeed the case is worth throwing it out there.
I considered saving it to use on someone else, but tbh there's no one I'd want to save. Kait and Drew I would do anything for in real life, but saving them is suicide to my game (tho Kait will save herself next round). The other 3... Alex isn't going anywhere, and I actually have no idea if the jury will favor Ben or Mitchell more. I can see it going either way for different reasons.
So yeah, no better use for it than a throwaway at 6, then the exile idol at 5.
OH, I GUESS BIGGER NEWS, Drew's going home tonight. He's the most obvious threat in the game, and Kait actually approached ME about it.
The beautiful thing about this is that SHE'S doing all the foot work on this with Ben and Mitchell, which only increases the target on her as the biggest strategic threat at 4. Shouldn't be hard to be the last woman standing here in Malaysia :~)
That FIC will be something !!!
I think I made the finals, you guys….this is terrifying. But I think it’s happening. I at least think I have a better shot than most. There are three people here that need some big thing to happen and change everything. But if everything stays on course, I'm in. I’m trying really hard not to count my chickens before Flicka sets them free. But it’s hard not to get ahead of myself because everything is going so well. I believe that Kait will take me to finals. I believe that Alex will take me to finals. I believe that Sara will take me to finals. I believe that Ben will take Kait to finals, and that she wouldn’t screw me over after everything we’ve been through.
Only three things can ruin everything now.
1. Mitchell has the Harimau idol.
2. Ben has the Harimau idol.
3. Ben wins F5 and F4 immunities.
Even THEN, in the case of the last option, I don’t know how much is ruined, I just know Ben wins an F3 against any compilation of people left. He gets Jimmy, likely gets Katie, likely gets Jay and possibly Isabelle too, might get Jenn and Mitchell, I don’t know. But aside from maybe Isabelle and Jay, I don’t think Sara gets votes, and tbh I don’t think Alex gets any, so even that much uncertainty with Ben is enough for me to want him gone after Mitchell.
It terrifies me that I’ve set up my game to be the one that the other side not only doesn’t turn to to try and make deals, but that I’m frequently the target of said deals. I don’t have the relationship with Ben or Jenn that Kait does, and that might end up being my downfall in the final vote. We’ll see how good my game looked from the outside, I guess. At this point I’m not even processing the intricacies of the vote, who is perceived as a better player, how hard relationships will factor in…fuck it, I’ve gotta get there first.
Family visit was trippy, having the drafts come in. I hope I didn’t ruin Jenny’s Lost City game, since she was voted out that night. I actually feel really bad for Mitchell though, his score was amazing, if this hadn’t been the family visit week, he would have crushed us all, I probably would have been on Exile (although the disadvantage wasn’t that strong) and Mitchell might have pulled off immunity. AND HOW DARE KAIT NOT TAKE ME ON REWARD! Sara didn’t use the advantage well at all, and if I’d had it, I would have won immunity! Knight Moves was so much fun though! I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to visualize it but by three rounds in, I was mentally shouting at people for ruining my next five moves. I’m glad Kait saw her last move, anything else would have given Ben the win. I do wish there had been a more tangible disadvantage for Mitchell than going first. As the one who got pulled to go second, it didn’t feel like it was much of a disadvantage. But my face. My face when I saw how to cut him off and eliminate him from the challenge. It was perfect. It was PERFECT.
I absolutely adored having Emma come as my loved one!! Honestly... I really needed some love. It hasn't been a tough road so it was great to spend some time here with someone who won't always have ulterior motives. That being said... if there had been no loved ones, I would've won this challenge handily. Emma unfortunately couldn't compete as well as the other loved ones; just maybe one more round would've been enough to push our score to victory. Then, without being on Exile, I probably would've been able to win just like Kait had thanks to the advantage. And now, I'm probably going home.
I say that all the time, but I don't understand, numerically, why I wouldn't be sent home. I'm a bigger threat in challenges than Ben is so I would go first, and even though Kait has been playing the role of guardian angel once again - saying that we could get Drew out now, as it's in everyone's best interests - I'm not convinced at all. You could still take me out and then just boot Drew next; why do a 4-2 vote keeping alive two minority alliance members when you could boot one and achieve the same goal in a 3-2 vote? Maybe they're worried about timing; Kait has immunity and Drew doesn't, and if he wins it next, a tie could be forced at F4, or worst-case scenario, Drew could win out. It's not impossible to do from this stage forward.
Looking at it, I definitely could see it being done. Ben and I are still on the bottom and Kait keeps her numbers 3-2, with Alex and Sara having been up to this point unwilling to work with me. Should everything go according to what Kait says, though... That might change.
I'm under the impression that Alex wants a Fan Final Three. However, when one Fan takes out another, keeping a third in the dark about it... that could potentially be the severing point. That could turn Alex against Kait. That betrayal could be what I FINALLY need to convince Alex to make a move for his benefit, and I've got points to make should this situation arise. I don't have faith in him because he's an idiot, and I don't have all that much faith in Kait, but still... this is all I've got to go on. Hopefully if Drew goes, thus dashing Alex's goals of a Fan Final Three, he'll be more open to letting me get there. Kait definitely has to go because she's unquestionably going to be the front-runner after Drew's gone. I don't know if I can beat her; I've got some friends on the jury but Kait has played much better than I have. I could argue my case - I'm good at that - but that won't change Kait's skills at jury appeasement and strategic maneuvering.
Welp... the final countdown :~) Hopefully Ben and I can survive just ONE. MORE. ROUND. and then turn shit on its head. It's in sight; ""I'm not saying it's impossible, but there's a lot of ground to make up."" - my friend 2k16
also note when... in that live ic during the live second tc.. when my friends were yellin shit like ""make sara cry again"" while my mic was on... thats still funny lol
Will Ben make final 5???????
Will Ben get blindsided??????
Will David ever care about me??????
Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z!"
Post-Vote Confessional: Please disregard my previous confessional, that all looks rather foolish now, doesn't it?
Had a blast, this isn't the last you'll see of me, Kait, you're a shady bitch who I don't think I could've beaten in finals anyway, but I still love you. Sara, we're good too. <3 I've been saying for weeks that someone's going to realize I'm the one that needs to go, you don't get called out as a threat as many times as I have without it sinking in. See you at FTC!"
