Episode 1 - “Matt won’t ever betray me” - Matt E
Coming into this game I'm going to try and make social connections with everyone on tribe and make them feel that "Matt won't ever betray me". I want to be seen as a valuable number. Once that is accomplished we will go from there.
I hit the beach on Day 1 and I decide to start focusing on creating social bonds. I want everybody to see me as somebody they want to keep around. The key is finding common interests with each player.
Dan likes to talk about school, well guess who all of a sudden has an interest in school talk? I DO!
Eric likes Kpop, well guess who all of a sudden has taken an interest in Kpop? Well, actually I don't know a thing about Kpop, nor do I care to, so I'll have to find something else to bond with Eric over.
But you get the picture. The more people tell you about themselves the more connected they feel to you. Its part of the way humans work. You subconsciously tell yourself "I must like this person because I am revealing myself to them".
My first impression of the tribe is that I really like Dan, Crow and Luke. Dan lives half an hour from me in an area I grew up in (though hes not from the area himself), Crow has a humor to him that I enjoy. Luke is easy to talk to.
Adam I don't have an opinion of. Eric seems a little dense and a bit annoying, however he does seem super active. Kyle annoys me as he is inactive and always has a negative energy to him.
The first reward challenge comes along. Winter bells. Bunnies jumping on bells like it should be. I don't really care to win the first challenge but I want to put a good showing in just in case the scores get posted. I get to half a million points (which took longer than I wish to admit) and decided thats good enough. I figured the winner would have 1 million, maybe 2 million. Well was I wrong. I don't know how some of these people scored so high, especially Andreas who scored a number so high I'm too lazy to type it all out.
So Dan, being the stand up dude that he is, decides to take a challenge advantage for the tribe instead of what I assume would have been a personal advantage. Thats the kind of person I want to work with; somebody who puts other people before themselves... because I'll be more than happy to slide in front of him and take his spot when push comes to shove. Maybe the nice guy thing is an act on his part and if it is touche to him.
When the immunity challenge is announced I find that the tribe is in total disarray. We have to plan this thing out if we want to win but nobody seems to care. I didn't want to be the person leading the charge but fuck it if we want to win we need some order and I get us to pick a time.
Its the morning before the challenge when Crow comes up to me. He says he has a good feeling about me and wants to work together. I say sure, as he was somebody I wanted to work with anyways. He then asks if itd be cool to bring Eric in. Now I'm not a huge fan of Eric at this point but what am I going to say? Thanks for bringing me in but I don't want to bring in the other person I know you've been talking to. No, of course I can't say. I just smile and say yes.
Well come to find out these two motherfuckers have pretty much already found an idol. They know how to find an idol and they have a clue on how to open the chest the idol is in. However they are trying to find dates that link up with the Great Lakes. There are only 999 choices, lets just power through them. They think this task is too daunting so I start on my own. Eric jumps in after a while (I had already gone through 300) and within 10 minutes Eric comes across the correct combination. And there it is.. an idol. I may have had the chance to snatch it up from out under his nose (maybe not, but I think I had a chance if I tried to do it quick) but I decide to let him celebrate the win. Without him and Crow I never would've been close to finding the idol anyways. After talking with Eric and Crow some more I'm starting to think Eric isn't a bad kid. I still wont be having any Kpop conversations with him but perhaps we can forge an amazing alliance together.
I manage to see the entire idol post before he claimed it so I know that super idols are in play if you put two idols together. One idol down, one to go.
At the challenge Dan steps up again and organizes the tribe during the challenge. This made me happier to no end because I hate being the one that has to do the organizing so I'll happily take a step to the side. The challenge goes well and we finish it without a single mistake. Add in the 10 minute deduction we get from Dan getting the tribal challenge advantage and we put together a score that would be very hard to beat. And, as it turned out, the score was too hard to beat as we won pretty dominantly. One challenge down, one win in my pocket. It can't get much better than this.
I decide to go to the shoreline and find two of my tribe mates already there (Dan and Luke). They tell me where they've searched so I know not to look there. I get pretty far down a line before I take a wrong turn and end up with a smelly fish instead of a clue to an idol. Bummer. Then Dana comes along and this is my first chance to talk to somebody from another tribe. Dana is a member of the returnee tribe and after asking some questions she very easily says that there should be an easy vote against Stoner tonight since he isn't as active. To make the situation a little more awkward Stoner shows up a couple minutes later, right after Dana says he is going to be the first boot. Stoner comes in like a bull in a china shop saying how everybody on his tribe wants him out and hes in big trouble (right in front of Dana mind you).
Well it seems Stoner got a stroke of luck and pulled out part of a chest combination. He says he got a number with some xs. I know what this means and what to do with it however its clear he has no idea. Now I want Stoner to stay for two reasons. 1. He isn't as active so by him staying it helps our tribe win immunities. 2. More importantly Stoner is my friend. There was a twist when he returned that he got to choose 2 friends that hadn't played the series before to come on with him. Now I'm not sure if we are the only ones who are friend or if the game is filled with 7 threesomes but I'm keeping my eye open just in case.
Now my two tribe members leave the shoreline and I decide I need to tell Stoner how to look for the idol. However Dana is standing right there so I have to speak in code. I post the url for the tumblr and follow it up on the next line with an xxxx saying it isnt working and im trying to make a dead face emoji. Now this is something a little out of the blue and odd.. but if you don't know any better I'm hoping you look right past it. However I ask Stoner if he understands what I'm saying and he replies "I think so". I'm hoping beyond hope that he did understand my code and pulls an idol out. If he takes out their challenge beast Andreas in the process I'd be extra grateful but I have no control over that. I would rather have that potential idol for myself (and have the ability to use it to form a super idol) but Stoner never told me what the number was, or where it was in the sequence, so no luck there.
My alliance (Crow, Eric and I) have decided that we want to bring Dan into the fold and are in the process of finding the right time to float the idea by him. That would give us a majority of 4 with 4 solid players and an idol. We said we aren't going to tell Dan about the idol yet but may disclose that information in the near future.
I am so excited to play! I really hope that we can send the veterans to tribal. I don't want a newbie and especially not me being the first boot. Let someone who already played before be eliminated first.
I talked to Crow and it seems we have a lot in common! Right now if I had my pick of a ride-or-die, it would be Crow.
I don't think I won the individual reward, but hopefully this note can help us even if it's an individual reward. I've said this already, but a newbie shouldn't be a first boot. We should get a shot to play. :)
I am glad that Dan picked to help the tribe instead of an idol clue. It shows his heart is with the tribe and not with himself, and hopefully that can give us good karma and we can win the first immunity challenge and show how good we can be.
So apparently some multi-tribe alliance formed at the shoreline between crow, kage, bodhi, christian and myself. I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with that after watching Tocantins and seeing that multi-tribe alliance go down in flames. But since I am already apart of it, I will have to trust the members from the other tribe even though we don't really talk. And after discussing the reward, the other tribe has Matt to worry about, and he probably took the clue because he didn't tell his tribe about the challenge advantage. I don't know what to think going into the rest of this, so I am hoping that we beat the other two tribes and stay safe because I DO NOT wanna be the first eliminated.
After Crow told me that the 4 digit combo might have something to do with the history of the great lakes or something around it, i decided to do lots of research on the great lakes and maybe years or like square miles that had 9 as the 3rd digit and there are 4 digits. this will take a long time but I REALLY want this advantage because I'm not sure if im in trouble if we lose.
OH MY GOD. *unwraps advantage* I can't believe I found the super idol! The trust has to stay between Crow, Matt E and myself. We worked together to find the idol, and that we did. I am so proud of us and hopefully we can stick together
In the immunity challenge, Dan quickly took charge, which I was glad of. He was doing a great job of tracking when our turns were, and we stayed focused on the goal. Just where is ribsor (idk if ribsor is kyle or not)?
I'm so happy we won! We showed these vets that us newbies can play too, and we can play harder and better. Final 7 baby!
I'm really glad that Crow asked Mearl to be apart of the Gallaghers. He has the same mindset as me in wanting to strategize and show everyone what you can do for an alliance, but I would rather let him and Crow do more work than me for now so I don't have anything to fix if I make it to the merge.
Even though it's none of my concern, I couldn't help but think who might be voted out from each tribe.
i am shook that like 4 of these people have only been in the community for like a week or haven't played a game at all and then there's me sitting here with like 8 seasons under my belt including one win...i am gagging
My tribe is probably already irritated with me, whoops... I warned everyone that I was socially inept....
2.5 hours in.....no alliance proposals, I'm getting nervous. Have I already isolated myself? ......I thought I was doing so well!
I'm trying so hard to relate to people's likes and dislikes.....Eric an his KPOP and Shameless, Luke with his Forensic Science major, and Kyle with his social awkwardness. I hope it's working out...
Ok, real talk: There's strategy behind my bubbly, awkward, cheerful personality. I'm trying to establish a high social rank early because lord knows I cannot climb a social ladder from the bottom to literally save my life in the game! My number 1 rule in Survivor is to always make people underestimate you because that allows me to not only evade a target, but also to have various strategic opportunities at various times! That's my only long-term strategy though - I like to play the game day-by-day because there's too many variables to accurately decide on a concrete path to victory from the get-go!
Alright, I've gotten into the strategic scene (finally!). I am aligned with Eric in "The Gallaghers" and then separately with Kyle. I got to talk to both Matt and Adam and actually found out Adam and I were from the same state! (yes, a connection!) so I'm hoping I'm setting myself up well to survive these early rounds. I plan on going to Shoreline soon to try and figure it out, but it seems either no one wants to talk about it or no one really cares. I don't think it's the latter, these people seem pretty bright. For now, I just need to keep strengthening my social ties and remain on guard.
So I visited Shoreline to meet Kage from the other newbie tribe...he seems...shady? I get a weird vibe from him. Immediately wanting a cross-tribal alliance after like 5 minutes? Eek, I'll say yes with my fingers crossed behind my back for this one...
So I searched Shoreline to find a weird rock with a weird marking. I told Eric about it to build trust and I'm contemplating telling Kyle about it too. I need to find stable, strong allies. Quality over quantity for me!
I'm talking to Kage and I'm slowly building trust. Do I trust him more than my allies on my tribe? No. But a tribe swap is inevitable, especially after an early double elim, so I gotta take some risks. There's really no incentive for him to blow up my game considering he's given me some info as well (plus I'm no special threat to him) so I'll proceed with caution for now.
Okay with Eric and I working together, we know there's a chest with a 4-digit combo and the 3rd number is 9.....so I looked up dates regarding the Great Lakes and submitted a guess. It's a long-shot, but hey, why not?!
Alright the first challenge is over! I did extremely well - stayed with it start from the end, and the best part....I don't get labeled as a physical threat or leader. Nobody seemed to notice I was the only one to drink from start to end. Plus, tension occurred with Kyle and nearly everyone, and I LOVE tension (that doesn't include me). Dan gets the leader target/responsibility and Kyle gets the bottom link on the totem pole while I seem to be sitting nice in a #2 or #3 spot. I want us to win of course, but I have a good idea I'm safe even if we do lose!
I want to always be the one to lowkey invite people into a group alliance because I think it helps my one-on-one bond with them from the get-go, as if I'm the one that suggested them (which isn't the case lol). Plus I can get a sense of where I stand with them as I ask the two questions 1. "Do you wanna work with me?" 2. "Okay great! Do you wanna work with [insert names] too?" And if they answer Yes to both, great. But if they don't say yes to the 2nd, oh well! Guess I'll just work with him solo.....I mean, y'all told me to talk to him, right? ;P
woow my first confessional.i totally hope I make it far. It's hard for my acerbic personality to not come out. i'm really an honest person so it's really hard to lie. so far no one has offered any alliance or deals with me but I plan on making some final 2s off the bat cause it would be kind of funny.
This is going to be one mess of a season (But not because of the redemption twist) First I was a little late to the cast reveal when I was added but I don't think anything eventful happened so that's good.
Compared to other games I've played it seems a lot less personal and slow-paced. I don't want to play hard because that's too much damn work for me so I'm probably just gonna be boring ass UTR like I usually do.
I also recognized Christian from T******d and also Chris Stoner too??? Like wtf first I recognize 3 people in India from Wikia games but now this? What have I done to deserve this premade hell omg
My opinion on my tribe isn't really much interesting so far. Everyone besides Matt, Christian and myself are still in HS or something like that and I'm getting a terrible feeling because of that. I don't think we're that strong in challenges either but I'll still try my hardest.
This tribe is... not the most talkative.
I think it's just me reading into social play too much but it just seems like everyone is just 100% pure strategy fiends, which I can roll with for now since I got added to an alliance chat very recently thus I pretty much HAVE to go follow it but with the shoreline in play I better see my notifications popping off because this tribe has me skleep!
My score is garbage but it's winterbells, it's the weekend, and it's an individual reward. Those three signs are enough to make me go yeet and back into literally anywhere else in the world.
Assuming anyone in my alliance wins then cool, but either way I don't really mind because it's probably something about the Shoreline which is isn't really concerning me since it's Day 2.
I'm pretty sure we're gonna end up losing this challenge and I have no idea who's gonna win between the other two tribes... I'm a bit uneasy about this vote because of lake redemption and since the Odawa Majority alliance is really focused on going to the Shoreline which I don't really have a strong opinion about, I met Julia at the shoreline which was cool I think I've seen her on another community before?
Hi dudes it’s Aidan, here to spill all of the hot gossip from the Odawa tribe! Or, Y’know, how my disaster of a mind see's things
For background knowledge, this is my first ORG ever. I have no fucking clue what I’m doing but I’m good at bullshitting my way through shit irl so that’s what I’ll do here. Hopefully, anyway.
First of all, I am defiantly the only non-male on this tribe- Yikes. Also, I’m like 90% sure everyone thinks I’m a dude. Tbh I don’t actually care as long as they respect my pronouns but like ://////
First impressions!!!
Bodhi-I LOVE Bodhi!! We’re both into theatre and we’re already joking about shit together so that’s pretty cool. He seems like a solid dude, and he’s into the punk scene as well. He’s legit my fave person on this tribe, and I’d love to align w/ him in the game. We haven’t talked strategy or anything yet but I’m gonna see how the reward challenge later on plays out before I try and make some alliances
Scott- Not as much of a fuckboi as I originally thought. He seems pretty smart (He does a double major like holy shit!!!) and he seems pretty chill as far as I can tell. We’re talking about uni and shit but he seems alright
Kage: Kage is talking about other people w/ me I feel so validated this is great. Apparently Ashton tried to make an alliance with him? I am mildly insulted Ashton didn’t ask me for an alliance but I guess I now know to be wary of Ash?? He seems to want to play it chill rn but maybe he’s laying low for now
Ashton: He seems a like pretty cool dude, he’s played a bunch of ORGs before but never on skype/tumblr, bUT APPARENTLY THIS LIL SHIT IS ALREADY TRYING TO MAKE ALLIANCES LIKE BINCH IT HAS BEEN THREE HOURS
Matt: I’m waiting until like a normal human time for americans to talk to him (I passed out at like 4am last night and didn’t talk to him whoops) but his intro made him come across as hella cocky and I just cannot be bothered with dealing w/ that shit. I might be wrong about him but idk
Christian: He seems pretty quiet, but also he seems like a pretty chill guy from what I’ve seen . We’ve spoken a little bit and apparently he’s also completely new to this, even though I’m continuing to bullshit and am pretending I have actually played an ORG before.
Okay so, day 2 of Great Lakes!! I’ve been talking to Bodhi about ORGs and stuff for a couple of hours, and he’s definitely the person I feel the best about in this tribe. I’m kinda indifferent on Christian and I don’t think Matt’s been online too much, because I still haven’t seen him online apart from a couple of minutes last night. Kage is still chill, and Scott’s still a good bro. I haven’t seen Ashton online today so idk
So, I know a little bit about Bodhi’s play style now. He relies a lot on his social game when he plays ORGs, which I suppose is why he’s the person I’ve talked to most on the tribe, bc he’s trying to make connections or smth idk. But, according to him (which at this point is questionable, I don’t know for sure what he’s saying has any actual truth behind it so far) he’s pretty decent in the physical side of stuff as well, he says he won a couple of individual immunities in his other ORGs. If this is true, I definitely want him on my side. Anyone who can prove a social and physical threat is absolutely somebody you want with you, not against you
*** (OKAY I FORGOT TO SUBMIT THE ABOVE SO NOW IT’S ONE CONFESSIONAL FUCK IM BAD AT THIS)
SO, STUFF HAS HAPPENED!!!
Basically, Bodhi messaged me and was like “Yo, Kage wants an alliance between me, you, him and Scott. You in?” and I was like “Uh, Hell yeah!” This is pretty much /the/ dream alliance for me at the moment, these are the four people I’ve gotten the best feelings about on the tribe and us having a majority would be a w e s o m e. Me and Bodhi talked about it a little and basically we both said that we both wanted to work with each other and Scott, but the only we aren’t really sure about Kage atm, bc we don’t know how he’s gonna play, like if he’s gonna be chill or if he’s gonna try and make really unnecessary big moves. But, y’know what they say, keep your friends close, and people that might make big moves closer.
So me and Bodhi have both said yes to Kage, so we have an alliance of three at least. We’re waiting to see what Scott says but I don’t think he’s been online today, or at least I haven’t seen him. But I figure he’ll probably say yes. I mean, who the hell says no to a majority alliance?
We’ve got a reward challenge in about three hours now? I think maybe idk time conversion is hard but I’m looking forward to it. It’s a good test of how our tribe works together without the pressure of having to go to tribal if we monumentally fuck it up. I think it’ll be fun.
WINTERBELLS
F U C K I N G W I N T E R B E L L S
I WAS SO SO WRONG ABOUT THIS BEING FUN HOLY FUCK I HATE THIS GAME WITH A VENGEANCE IM SO BAD AT IT
WAIT
WAIT FUCK THIS GAME IS TOUCHSCREEN COMPATIBLE GOD BLESS WHOEVER GOT ME THIS LAPTOP MY SCORE JUST GOT SO MUCH BETTER OMG
ALSO KAGE IS TELLING OUR ALLIANCE SHIT ABOUT THE SHORELINE BLESS HIS HEART THIS MEANS I CAN RULE OUT POSSIBILITIES N SHIT WHEN PEOPLE GO. SO FAR, ALL WE KNOW IS THAT THERES NOTHING IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE COVE UNDER THE UNUSUAL ROCK
HONESTLY BLESS THE SHORELINE I’D LOVE TO FORM A MULTI-TRIBE ALLIANCE AND JUST MESS W/ PEOPLE WHEN THE MERGE COMES. WELL, THAT AND I WANT THE GOSSIP FROM THE OTHER TRIBES TBH
Being on a tribe w/ all Americans is rough man. It’s like 5pm and I haven’t seen anybody online all day yikes. Although when school starts up again it’s gonna be pretty good bc I won’t actually miss anything when I’m stuck in the sixth circle of hell for several hours every day
I submitted my score for the reward challenge last night and I think I actually have a pretty good chance of getting my hands on the note, mostly because most of my tribe don’t actually care about the challenge lmao Bodhi has a score of like 3000 which I’ve crushed and if I’m remembering right I think my score was higher than the one Scott submitted. I have no idea about anybody else’s score but I think my score is pretty good so i can just hope for the best
I was gonna check out the shoreline about now but it dawned on me that the note is probably an idol clue or at least a clue to something you can find, so I’m probably going to end up going when the results get announced, which is at like 1am rip my sleep schedule omg
THIS GOT UGLY REAL FAST Y’ALL
Okay, so I didn’t win reward and I probably sound like a bit of a prick in my past confessionals bc of that fact, but, not all is lost! Kage, the real mvp of the alliance at the moment bless his heart, says “I bet I could make a fake alliance with matt and get the note” and what do you fucking know, not 5 minutes later, Kage has the note and has shown all of us. It’s a choice between a way to get to an idol and a tribe advantage for the immunity. He chose idol
So, now we all know everything Matt does, but we also know that he’s a total wanker who values himself over the tribe. GG Matt, GG. So, we all roast matt in the alliance chat until the immunity challenge, which is basically counting down and trying not to fuck up too bad
So me, kage and ashton carry the tribe, get to 40 odd when my internet fucks me over yikes we then try repeatedly to get going again, and in doing so add 40 mins of penalties to our time because we’re all fucking stupid and incapable of looking at the shitting time
And then, the single greatest thing that has happened in this game so far happens: Kage, IN THE MAIN TRIBE CHAT, says “Let’s just give up and vote out Ashton tomorrow” and I have a fuCKING HEART ATTACK AND THIS STRING OF MESSAGES HAPPENS IN THE ALLIANCE CHAT
[03:28:47] Aidan O'Malley: K A G E
[03:28:49] Bodhi/711: HAHAHAHAHAHA
[03:28:50] Bodhi/711: Hahahahaha
[03:28:51] Bodhi/711: Fuck
[03:28:53] Bodhi/711: Oh my god
[03:28:55] kage hamilton: Shit wrong chat
[03:28:58] Aidan O'Malley: OH MY GOD
[03:28:58] Bodhi/711: Hahahahahahahahahahhahaahhaha
[03:29:03] Bodhi/711: THAT WAS LEGENDARY
[03:29:19] kage hamilton: Omfg
[03:29:20] Bodhi/711: I hope he didn't see it omg
[03:29:25] kage hamilton: Do you think he saw
AND THE BEST THING IS WE DON’T THINK HE SAW IT?? THIS COULD THE ONLY TIME TONIGHT KAGE FUCKED UP IN A WAY THAT DOESN’T TOTALLY SCREW US OVER
BUT YEAH LONG STORY SHORT WE’RE ALL TOTALLY SCREWED AND GOING TO TRIBAL TOMORROW IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER THAT IT’S DOUBLE WE’D BE GOING ANYWAY
ALSO ANYONE WHO SAYS SHIT LIKE “I DON’T WANNA BE AWAKE THAT LATE” IT IS 4AM FOR ME AND YOU ARE ALL WEAK ASS BITCHES
So, I don't know how to start one of these but let's just jump right into it. So far, I've kinda threw Ashton under the bus with half the tribe. I spoke like two words to him and then spread rupees that he's playing the game really hard. Me, Aidan, Scott, and Bodhi are slowly getting an alliance of us four. My goal is to get Ashton gone asap so that word doesn't get back around to him. Anyway, if I have to throw the next immunity I will.
I'm not doing much today. I'm trying to hold back from strategizing too much because I've already targeted Ashton for doing that (which he never did). As far as I know the four of myself, Aidan, Scot, and Bodhi is pretty solid. I'm not participatinin this first reward challenge for reasons I'm too lazy to go into detail about. I don't know why I'm targeting Ashton, but it seems I've convinced my alliance he's evil. I predict Ashton will be the first from our tribe to be voted out, but who knows, it could be me.
Ok, so I guess I am doing stuff today. I made an alliance with Christian, and another with Ashton. I'm just working with Ashton to make him choose a bad path on the shoreline like I did. Christian however, I think he could be the golden goose for me if I'm ever in a tight situation. And that other guy pffttf who cares. I still can't decide if I want to throw the first immunity or not
Ok, so where to begin? I told Matt that I found an advantage. It was going to prevent Matt from voting for me but my plan kinda got busted by one of the hosts. We managed to salvage it but my original plan was too sketchy now so I just made up some extra vote thing to build trust. I guess, I should switch my target to Matt since he's probably a little weary of me now. Also my relationship with Ashton is growing so he can stay a little while longer. Right now my biggest threat is either Matt or Isaiah, I can't decide.
Holy crap! This could not have worked out for me any better! Matt won reward! Since I gave him an "extra vote" I'm expecting him to share the clue with me. Then again, since he's my primary target if it's a good clue I might have to switch back to Ashton. I still don't know if Matt fully trusts me or not.
Oh god! I wasn't expecting to do this many confessionals. Sorry BTW. It's just this game is moving fast and I feel I should keep you up to date. Anyway, I got the note from Matt and gave it to the foursome to build trust and put a target on Matt's back. I'm also building up the target on him with Chris and Ashton.
WOW! I cannot believe how bad we did last night! We had to restart like 6 times, eventually everyone just gave up and went to bed. Midway through the challenge last night I accidentally sent a message talking about how we're getting rid of Ashton or Matt to the public chat. Luckily I think I deleted it before either of them seen it. I think we're going to stick with Matt because he did prectiacally nothing in the immunity (compared to Ashton).
Ok, on The Shoreline I met Crow from the lee newbie tribe. We talked and decided to make a cross tribe alliance. It was going to be Crow and Eric from their tribe. Christian and I from our tribe. However, Bodhi jumped into the chat before I could get Chris on with the plan. This forced me to include Bodhi instead of Chris. I didn't want to do this because I feel he is too attached to the original four of Him, Aidan, Scott, and I. My current plan is to get Bodhi, Aidan, and Scott to vote for Matt. Then tell Christian to also vote for Matt. Then, separately, tell Ashton and Matt to vote for Aidan. So Ashton would think the second vote for Aidan was me and same with Matt. I can tell Chris one of the others flipped. I don't know if you understand this but it's basically a way to vote out Matt and still have him on my side.
Ok, NEW PLAN. Ashton does not want to vote out Aidan so I'm just getting everyone to vote Ashton. No more nonsense.
Me, Ashton, and Aidan have a fake alliance together. Personally, I kinda hoped Matt would drop out because of his family emergency. Ya know, better chances for me haha. Plus he might be making this up to get sympathy. My primary target is still Ashton
I'm feeling relatively good about my starting tribe!
Right off the bat, Aidan and I hit it off. We both have experience in theater, and have been a part of our own local punk scenes. We're both 16, and I think that we think in similar ways based on our conversations. I don't think he'd make a great ally in the long run, but I'm not letting him know that. He seems like he has a very good understanding of strategy, but it's fairly obvious that he does, so I doubt he'll go too far. He seems like an early merge boot, but I wouldn't mind him sticking around for later. I just have to make him think that I'm sticking with him, and he'll bring me along until its his time to go. He's one of the ideal people for me to be with right now considering the game I want to play, so I'm going to continue to foster this relationship!
Ashton seems cool enough, but I've heard from Kage that he's trying to get an alliance together already. I don't really trust either of those two, but I like them well enough. Ashton's bio shows that he doesn't really care if people perceive him as a threat, and he is VERY adamant about how interested in strategy he is. If one person is going to go full out BIG MOVEZ TO WIN THIS GAME, it's going to be Ashton.
Kage is an interesting figure on the tribe. I really have no idea if I can trust him. He brought up ideas of someone else trying to start an alliance with him, and I basically just said that I don't want to commit to anything super early. He responded by suggesting a 4 person alliance of myself, Kage, Aidan, and Scott. What a socially inept thing to do. Whatever, I said that it sounded pretty good to me, but made it clear that I wasn't completely committed. The biggest problem with this tribe as of now for me, is that almost everyone blends together as a highschool boy who cares too much about strategy. Theres a few college students, but they're mostly the same as the highschoolers. I'm a highschool boy who cares too much about strategy as well, but I'm gonna try to keep the strategy on the DL. Don't want these dominant forces taking me out!
Matt thinks he is much funnier than he is. I think we'll connect just fine, but his bio really rubs me the wrong way. He picked fucking CALEB for his avatar?! And he says that one thing that hurts his trust is when people lie to him. What an obvious goddamn thing to say. There is not a single person on this entire planet who trusts people more because they lie more. I mean sure, there's the whole idea that if you lie to people and then apologize skillfully enough, that builds trust, but the act of lying has NEVER made someone trust someone else more.
Scott seems like a really genuine guy. I think he and I are going to play relatively similar games. I opened up about my personal life to him, and I think it'll work out well with us two. One of the first things that he told me was that he works out, and that his muscles are very sore. I respect that he works out, and that he wants to take care of his body, but I think his working out is very ego driven, so I'm going to be stroking that ego of his as much as I can without making it obvious.
Didn't even notice that Christian was on our tribe until this morning. Oops.
The game has begun...and I'm ready to get playing. I'm just gonna try and talk to everyone and form some bonds that will keep me safe the first few rounds of the game.
So I've been talking to everyone just random chit chat. But I'm starting to get worried about the lack of strategic talk. Maybe there is no strategy going on right now or maybe there is strategy going on but without me. I hope it's the first one.
The alliance making has begun when Kage approached me with an offer for the two of us to pair up. I like strategy he's more social, I feel like we can compliment eachothers strengths pretty well
So everything is going well in this immunity challenge. Me kage and aiden are going smoothly when suddenly all of it goes to shit. An hour in Aiden messes up and we're almost definitely going to tribal.
So this challenge was a trainwreck and it really looks bad for me, Aidan and Kage. But I'm going to try and use this to my advantage so that I can pull Aidan over to my side.
Surprise. Surprise. We lost the challenge. Now it's time for our first tribal council. I think our best bet is to get rid of Matt because he got that clue to the idol. But I'm sad to see anyone on our tribe go.
Guess who's back and ready to cause some chaos out here in the Great Lakes...? Yeah, not me... but anyway! You have no clue how happy I am to return after my time in Bhutan got cut short. Oddly enough, going out early wasn't so much of a bad thing since I did realize the mistakes I made and the change I want to see in this game. Last time, I was too afraid to make moves and put my ideas on the back-burner for everyone else. This time around, I want to call the shots, be the conductor on the train to the top. Can that happen? Who knows, but I will certainly try :D
Can I just say my tribe is iconic? I love everyone here and have connected to everyone on some sort of level and I just love it! <3 Putting that into a gaming perspective, everyone getting along isn't the best thing ever but a happy tribe means a happy me.
I don't want to toot my own horn, but I do feel like I've established really good relationships with everyone and put myself in a good position. Dana and Andreas have both said I was the only person they've connected to the most and we set some mutual strategic relationship with each other. Carson approached me for an alliance with him due to us being pre-merge flops, which I love. Stoner is my #BhutanBuddy and we have an odd friendship. Emmon and I are really cool with each other and I feel we can connect due to being the youngest people here. The iconic Julia (or Roxy/sex beast) and I have had really good talks, which I appreciate. I honestly feel like a kid in a candy store and all of this is appealing to my sweet tooth. I have no clue what I'm gonna do... ;-;
EMMON IS IN THE MOTHAFUCKIN HOUSE! LIVE WITH IT! JUST LIIIIIIVR WITH IT AHA
Oh lordy be, I have really no clue how I stumbled myself in this situation. For those of y'all who likely and shouldn't know who I am, my name is Christian, I'm 18.997, and I'm just very confused right now. I've literally never even been on Tumblr before and honestly just feel like the Sierra Dawn Thomas of this cast. I was literally recruited like 10 minutes before the cast reveal so...I guess there's really nowhere I can go but up? Anyways, this may be my first time on Tumblr, but this sure as heck ain't my first rodeo in the game of Survivor. I've played well enough to know who I am as a player, and be comfortable with myself. I don't need #BIGMOVEZ or #BLINDSIDEZZ!!! to define me as a player. There's going to be people who go out here trying to do and play for the sheer purpose of being a big character. That simply ain't me. I may be the most irrelevant one in this cast, but even the most ugly duckling can grow into a pretty bombass swan. That gon' be me in this game. But I guess I should try talking more about myself so I'm more than that dude with a religion based name. I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, until the Katrina struck and decided destroying houses and lives was fun (zeugma), so I moved to a less hurricane-friendly state aka Texas, and have happily lived in San Antonio ever since. Moved to Dallas to go to college this year so that's dope as heck. I've been described as a Southerner through and through, well minus the wack political views I guess. I sound like I fell off the hick bus, I use the word y'all more than my cell phone, and I think of myself as a pretty nice dude. I'm not gon' get in faces and scream at people, but if people start yellin' at me, you bet yo ass I ain't going to sit down and take it. I'm fully capable of defending myself, and my knowledge in English rhetoric is useful for both destroying arguments and making people regret the moment they decided to take their keyboard swords to me! Anyways, my main "strategy" if you can even call it that at the moment is just to try to get to know these people. Too many people view this game as playing with numbers, pawns, and other inanimate objects. The thing is folks, we be playing with LIVING BREATHING HUMAN BEANS. More often than not, you actually try to get to know people, and it benefits you more often than something like "ALLIANCE NUMBERS VOTES VOTES VOTES IMMUNITY!". Last thing I just wanted to rant about was the age of these people. Like NOTHING AT ALL AGAINST YOUNG PEOPLE, but I feel so old oh my lord! I thought 18 (nearly 19) was young, but then I'm seeing like 13/14/15 and I'm just wondering if I'll even be able to connect with them. I feel like the world's youngest grandpa, and Lord knows I sure as heck was a different person when I was that age, so I'm just hoping and praying to the Big Dude upstairs that I somehow can manage to work myself into something decent at least. Okay well that's enough ranting for now, I gotta go and do some things, so it was nice ranting to you mister google docs! Until next time, peace out bros
I feel like none of these people like me lol. I'm trying hard to converse and such and get to know them but all I'm getting is one word responses so OOF that ain't looking good. Time to prepare my body for a likely target if (read: when) we lose this next challenge
Aaaaaaaaaaaand here we go!
First of all, I'm just so glad to be back. Its just wild that I can finally play a main season again. I'm ready to prove myself.
So I already have a solid alliance! How wild! Augusto and I clicked ALMOST IMMEDIATELY when we talked about what seasons of survivor we've watched live... and it turns out we both started with SJDS. We're both ready for Sandra to murder everyone in Game Changers, we're both huge Natalie Anderson fans, but most importantly we're tired of getting robbed AF. So it only makes sense to align right? Because we both to make the merge in a main season. Its really great I found someone that also has the same approach to games-- they put so much trust into an alliance that it sometimes bites them in the ass. I'm the same way, too trusting for my own good. If we work together then we shouldn't have that problem, or at least in theory.
EMMON THE DEMMON HAS RETURNED! I'm so glad I get to work with someone from Uncharted, bc not only is it nostalgic but we were on good terms in until I voted him out (oops). But its ok bc I wasn't the one who orchestrated it. Idk we should be good and I'm really hoping to work with him. It'll be really important to have numbers when the vote can come down to one vote.
JULIA IS AMAZING. She's so hilarious omg... Yes, you have to read past the typos but were talking rn and I'm dying of laughter. She's another robbed queen so I'd hope I can add her to my web of allies, but its too early to tell! I still want to see how everyone does in the challenge and wait until we have to go to tribal to make alliances. That way, people won't catch wind of it too early and then have time to do something about it.
The others I haven't gotten to talk to much, and I don't feel like analyzing them bc I haven't gotten to know them. If we were going to tribal at this moment in time, I would vote out Andreas because he's played 3 other times, and has done relatively well each time. I'd be able to convince Augusto to vote him bc we literally formed an alliance on the grounds of just getting to a merge. I'd worry though if he is working with him already bc they might know each other already, so I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Wouldnt want to get hasty and throw someones name around before we even go to tribal.
Sidenote I havent even met the other tribes but I can already tell from some of their intros that theyre cocky pieces of shits. We better keep this tribe around so they wont just pagong us in a swap or merge nnnnnnnn
I hate that we have this challenge because we need everyone online.... which is nearly impossible at this stage in the game. I mean, at least if we can't complete the challenge we'll know who to boot! But I don't feel like doing that yet.
Stoner needs to get his ass online. You're a returnee, act like one! I could just have higher standards than some, but I uphold that title. Keeping people around, even if they're inactive, is huge in the long run. Its literally 14 newbies to 7 returnees, at any point during a swap or merge they could easily put a target on us, simply because we're returnees, and take all of us out.
Plus, what if I get blindsided bc someone wouldn't open skype and play the game they signed up for? I'm not about to take risks Day 3. We really need to win this challenge.
Ok, this challenge is actually a mess. We got as low as the 40s and then one person messed up and then everyone started fucking up and it just got a lot worse from there holy shit I can't garhsjhvjsva
Hey it's me the winner of TS: Great Lakes. Or first juror or first boot tbh. So my first impression of everyone on my tribe is largely negative honestly. I only really care about Adam and Luke and the rest of them can choke. Just kidding but I do think kyle is rude. He said he wasn't doing very well so I offered it he needed someone to talk to he could talk to me because I'm a fucking good person. He was like, why are you so obsessed with me???? Fine, I hope your day continues to be as great as you are. Mearl or Matt or whoever that is is so dominant and it's scary, other than that, Eric is annoying and naive and will be used for filth by me, Luke, and Adam
So we won the first immunity challenge which is so lit! I was so worried that I would have fucked something up in the beginning but honestly we stayed organized and on track and slayed.
I am happy I took the tribal advantage still because I feel like it really has gained me favor with people like Matt and Crow. Matt and Crow both reached out to me and wanted to talk game which is great.. Kyle and Eric still bug the shit out of me, but they will be easy first boots from the tribe.
Additionally, Adam and Luke both searched the shoreline and found 2/4 of the combination lock numbers. However, they found a page on the blog with a combination on it, but the chest had already been claimed that the idol was in. My guess is someone on the other tribe got it, unless someone on my tribe was lucky enough to get two numbers and know what to do with them, which given the knowledge of the game on my tribe, I think that's not as possible.
