Episode 13 “Panic! at the Muzco” -Dan
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Oh my gosh that went perfectly. Bye bye Mitchell! Hopefully Bridget and Wes will be joining you soon. I think I’m a control freak. Take away my control and I go nuts and make hasty decisions. Sorry you were on the receiving end of that one Team Fans.
Bridget: I. Am. Livid. Like what the fuck. Dan feels like Mitchell is a threat to his game, so he goes and works with other people? That does not work for me. I love Dan, I would have loved to work with him further, but he is proving to have too much fucking influence on this game. First, Dan says we all vote Wesley because it’s an “easy” vote and no one will see an alliance forming like blah blah blah whatever, SURE DAN.
But THEN. Marko comes to me and others trying to vote Dan out and we rallied everyone together real quick because that wasn’t about to happen.
Now, because Dan feels like Mitchell is too close to the rest of us and not to him, he flips to other people to work with them? How do you think that fucking looks, Dan. And now I feel like I’m on the bottom, and he can’t do anything but “reassure me.” Like FUCK OFF. Spare me the bullshit, DAN. I’m dating a guy named Dan right now, and I just feel totally turned off by the name now. Ugh. How am I supposed to work in the morning? I feel like I just got cheated on and am now going through a bad break up lol
To end things, I’ll quote Amelia:
[6/8/15, 11:12:46 PM] Amelia: okay well, as far as long term goes they’re all dead to me i’m with you and dom 2kforever
Mitchell was cool and all but I didn’t have any game-alliance or whatever with him (not a real one anyway). But I am SO. HURT. That my alliance did not let me in on this plan to get him out. Tbh I feel really naive now that I trusted them so much. But I have felt comfortable since before the second tribe swap, tbh. The moment I started seriously working with Candace, I felt comfortable because we could so seamlessly strategize and honestly we numerically owned the game from that point on. But now I feel like she and Dan have kicked me out, kind of. I don’t really know what’s going on and I just wish that I was let in on the plan.
Candace and Dan have both personally apologized to me, but it’s gonna take a bit. I really need some good reasoning.
I’ll be honest here. I’ve been thinking about the final tribal, and I had decided to take Candace and Dan if I were in a position to choose because I sincerely enjoy them, they deserve to be there, and there’s just no way I could win against Bridget or Amelia. But DAMN. If they keep pulling moves like this A. I won’t be able to trust them at ALL and B. I won’t be able to beat them either!!
I just really hope we can patch this up.
I’m gonna make some hibiscus tea in memory of Mitchell and hopefully that will help my strategic wounds.
Marko: I could not be happier that Mitchell has left. It makes me happy knowing that when people don’t listen to my very simple instructions, they leave. The best part about it, too, is that literally nobody is mad at me. Not one person has had choice words for me yet. Bridget is so quick to shove everything towards Dan because she knows it couldn’t have been my plan.
Speaking of Bridget, she, on my list of “people that Marko needs to get rid of,” has fluctuated the most dramatically over the past few days. If I want to make Dan feel comfortable, he may have it out for Bridget and make that emotional decision himself. However, if Dan and Bridget are willingly unable to work together, it’d make the most strategic sense to keep both of those two around. And get this: Bridget and I talked after the vote and she said she was slightly upset that I didn’t tell her to vote Mitchell because she’s “always been honest and upfront” with me. Oh is that so, Bridget? Because the minute you told me that the first time was around the same time you wrote Erin’s name down.
I only trust Nour fully at this point because we each have a copy of our shared map of the Machu Picchu maze.
Although Dan helped me out on this vote, I don’t feel at all like I owe him anything. I still need to keep in the back of my mind what he’s been saying about me, i.e. everything relative to the double vote mania that I had to deflect while I was on Ekkeko. I need to make sure not to get blinded by all the compliments he’s throwing out at me, and I need to have Nour and Hunter on their toes about him creating some assemblage of power before it’s too late, because right now I think myself, Nour, and Hunter would be my ideal final three situation.
Amelia: whew thanks sole for making this decision so much easier for me :’) i thought it was gonna be really hard to decide between working primarily with dan and candace or with dom and bridget but now it’s so much more obvious :) that really worked out well!!!!
i got home and i was going to eat dinner first but i was like “eh i’ll just check and make sure the revote is still nour” and then the first thing i see is
[7:25:11 PM] Dan/Sole: (heart)
[7:57:35 PM] Dan/Sole: Just want you to know that you’re still my closest ally I understand if you don’t feel the same way anymore
and i’m like shit, what happened? so i went to bridget and was like what the fuck just happened i don’t want to read the tribe chat i feel sick and she was like “dan didnt feel like he was being heard so he and candace got together with marko, nour, and wesley” and i’m like shit shit shit dom is gone fuck this always happens to me and dan did it to me AGAIN and then she’s like “they took out mitchell” and WHEW okay at least it wasnt dom but what the fuck dan why didnt you tell me this
idk i’m just mad because nobody deigned to even mention mitchell as a possibility for the vote to me or told me any of what was going on and now candace and dan are all like “we’re still with you, final three, sorry about this but we are still solid please love us” and i’m like, again? fucking again? goddamn fucking deja vu with people blindsiding me and then expecting me to get right back on board with them like hell no. i’m gonna suck it up and be nice and play along for a couple votes but you told me with this vote that i’m not your #1 so you’re not gonna be mine anymore either.
and yeah, i get the logic behind it, i get that they thought that it’d be hard for me to vote mitchell because of my relationship with bridget and dom or whatever but i would have appreciated it if hey had at least TOLD me that they were gonna do it because does it look like i would have fought to keep mitchell around? is mitchell in our alliance? no and no. i guess i’m just not trustworthy enough to handle it, which is bullshit. i’m just upset and i can’t eat dinner now and basically everything sux for the next couple hours
but you know what??? you don’t fuck with me. and now that i’m past final 12, i’m unstoppable. this is a low moment for me, but in the words of chicken marsellus, every winner strong player has a low moment and then they rise above the bullshit and become a better, purer, more terrifying being of fire and darkness ((ASCEND))
Hunter: Okay I encompass the definition of a floater in this game!!!!
So at the first tribal I had to go to on Chaska I aligned with Marko Nour Erin Mitchell Ethan and Casey. We are against Dylan Dom and Amelia. Dylan goes.
There is a tribe switch. I then work with Dan and Candace to get Casey out. She goes.
Merge. I flip on Erin Marko and Nour to go work with everyone else because heck that was a trio to be reckoned with. Erin goes.
I flip back to Marko and Nour with a few others to put the fans out of their cocky zones. Mitchell goes.
Floater R US! I haven’t won any individual challenges, nor do I expect to since we have dominant challenge competitors like Marko, Dan and Dom. What I do have is the social aspect, everyone likes me so much and wants to work with me. I have seriously had three people come up to me at different points in the game and tell me they hope I end up voting with them the next round. Wtf wouldn’t they want to target me since I didn’t go with their game. I am the wall that is in the middle of the road but it has some sort of historical aspect to they keep painting me pretty! I’m not getting too cocky, I just know I have such a great social aspect to me, plus some strategic since I had to slowly plant seeds in people’s minds for the last two merge votes. Plant seeds to show the power trio. Plant seeds for them to see fan plus Dom and Amelia domination. Then plant seeds that we need to do a split votes, because IDOLS ARE EVERYWHERE! lol I think there might only be two in game right now. *cough* Dom Dan Marko Nour and maybe Amelia and Wesley *cough*.
Just continuing to sit pretty. That doesn’t mean the seat’s comfortable though
Amelia: okay okay everything is fine i’ve gotten over it tbh
this might actually be better in the long run because now me and dom and bridget are hella close and dom is maybe setting up a final 5 thing with us, candace, and dan (although personally i think dan should be taken out at f6 but we can deal with that later) and this has definitely further solidified my bond with sara who is 110% bae and i had a really good talk with abel who was unfairly taken advantage of with this plan and he literally said “i won’t ever ever ever go along with a plan to vote you out” so <3 <3 <3 those two are literally sacred beings i love them so much
it’s gonna be okay i’m still lowkey mad but i’ll suck it up and deal with it for now
Amelia: lol just kidding i’m crying a little bit cause dan came online and apparently this was all my fault because what changed his mind was me saying “so to clarify: fans for nour, faves for marko?” because apparently it was the opposite way before and apparently he couldnt just say “i think it was the other way around” and i ??? what a mess i was just trying to see if that was right i didnt mean to change it or whatever i thought that’s what we had decided but apparently this is all my fault apparently my best friend here doesn’t trust me enough to pm me i’m upset ugh
i dont know why i even care so much about this vote it’s not like it was that bad goodbye
EVERYTHING
Amelia: first of all, i cannot believe marko took dan on reward like … i can believe it but i also CAN"T BELIEVE HE TOOK DAN smh
second of all, dan keeps being like “yeah i’ll try to find the idol but i really don’t want it, it’ll put an even bigger target on my back” and i’m just like “okay but…………….whether or not you find it changes literally nothing about how big of a threat you are unless you go around telling everyone about it…….if you go on the reward people are going to assume you might have it regardless of whether you actually do………”
it’s not like the immunity idol comes with a huge flashing sign that says IDOL HERE like thats the whole point of a hidden immunity idol it's hidden you are not legally required to tell anyone about it and this isn’t even the real show so you don’t even have to worry about bulges in your pockets chill out a little bit
okay i’m sorry i need to stop being mean to dan ilysm dan but i’m just so
Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Ayyyyyyy I pulled off a tasty #blindside last round
Mitchell is out of the game and I can move on with my true allies :~)
I wanted to do it for a few reasons: 1- Mitchell was shady af with me and Bridget was talking about him like he was her firstborn child??? and 2- (it sounds crazy but…) I actually needed some blood on my hands! I need people to be mad at me so they would forget that I have connections to people, am in a lot of alliances and can win immunity if I try really hard.
And boy did it work…. Bridget is PISSED and I’m seriously considering taking her out next. I have my tried-and-tested misfits alliance of people who should never have been working together (marko, nour, hunter, candace, abel and me) so I can use them if I want. Sara and Amelia have forgiven me, though, so the Navy (me, candace, abel, sara and amelia) is an option for the future too.. Until I make up my mind though:
also im not looking forward to this G*SHD*RN TOUCHY SUBJECTS FML
Bridget: I. Hate. Everyone. And I hate this game (kidding). But seriously, why can’t people be as honest and trusting and upfront as me? Things would be so much easier. Okay, fine, whatever, I guess that wouldn’t make for a fun game. *rolls eyes*
If this is Dom’s (or Amelia’s or my) last night, then fuck you all, and especially fuck you, Dan.
Marko: So, the touchy subjects challenge just happened and I was way more apparent on that board than I had first thought. To preface this confessional, no, I’m not sad I got the negative ones, no, I’m not in a good position in this tribe, and no, I’m certainly not making some bullshit ten-minute video complaining about the answers in my bedroom.
Right now, I have a couple of miniature operations running at the same time, but it’s hard to get all of them to click smoothly the way I want them to. Firstly (and I think this one is the funniest), I have a Vermeer. I shared a map of the Machu Picchu maze with Dan to secure some trust with him. The thing is, though, I erased a good chunk of the map so it looked like I hit two dead ends on my first try, but I actually retrieved the idol and covered my tracks. So now, Dan is scouring the entire maze cluelessly, and all he’s doing is making the map bigger for Nour to think she has a chance at finding the idol. It’s beautiful. I’m working both of them. I have an artist who’s painting the picture, and I have an ally who’s buying the picture, and I’m profiting.
The next thing I’m doing is freaking the fuck out about my idol because I’m not sure whether I want to play it or not. I want to save it for the next vote in order to blindside a member of my immediate alliance, but I am really on the hot seat right now and I would hate to pull an Andrea Boehlke.
Amelia: i was gonna drag dan a lil bit more but tbh he doesn’t deserve that - i’ve dragged him enough and it’s been rough for him this round so i will be nice. the only thing i will say is that i wish he wouldn’t keep saying things like “i’m trusting you in saying this” or “i hope i can trust you to not tell bridget this” when, um, he’s the one who lied to me last round OKAY I"M DONE SORRY DAN I LOVE YOU
okay first of all, touchy subjects was fun :) i got some good ones so i’m pretty happy with that :) even though it might be a problem in the future if people start to see me as a jury threat. [sigh] not so happy about dan getting “most likely to be blindsided” or about marko getting “who’s getting voted out” or whatever it was, because that caused a huge mess. people just…..need……to calm the f*ck down for five seconds here alright
i get home and suddenly everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off (basically that gif of the pizza man walking into a burning room); bridget is freaking out about dan and not trusting him and how maybe he’s gonna vote out dom, and dan is all “everyone is being so suss i don’t know where i can turn”, and i’m just like whoa there let’s be reasonable and talk this through. of course i find out marko’s behind all of this chaos. of course. honestly why do we keep letting him stay here? i thought he was going to be a nice, quiet, desperate shield, but apparently not so much. he needs to GO.
(of course, now that i say that, he’s probably going to pull off some last minute wizardry and vote me out……rip in pieces)
anyway so i think things are kind of under control now, dan has said that he’ll go with the majority decision to vote out marko and we’re hoping to not split it this time bc where did that get us last time smh. it seems like marko is planning to band together the same six he used last time, so the plan as i understand it is for them (dan, hunter, abel, candace) to do some undercover agent shit to make him feel like they’re all going to vote dom - supposedly because people (marko) are saying he has an idol from premerge although a. i know that’s not true and b. idk why they would all of a sudden bring that up after all this time. anyway, the one thing i’m concerned about is dom and bridget and their trust in this, because bridget’s been really mad and “shouting” at dan about thinking he’s with marko, and dom was pissed after the vote last time, so what i’m hoping is that i can mist marko into letting me into his alliance so that i can let dom and bridget know that i’m in on it and reassure them that we’re not actually going to vote dom out.
sigh. what a night. everyone needs to chill.
Candace: Coming to you live is Tumblr Survivor Machu Picchu’s FAKEST contestant. Oh gosh Touchy Subjects is so fun. And me being PERCEPTIVE as I am, I got 17 correct and won! My first individual immunity win. Apparently I’m due for a blindside by Wesley (good fucking luck when your only ally is Bridget who is most likely getting tossed away like yesterday’s paper) and Sara has me pegged as the winner. Thanks Sara, I do too!
So the continual meltdown of Bridget continues. After the results, of course new majority (Abel/Dan/Marko/Nour/Hunter/Me) struggled to get a vote going. Abel didn’t want to vote Bridget, and they were trying to get the vote rallied for Dom. No way, I was not going to vote off Dom and I had to fight for his life and get it on Bridget, which I successfully managed. Not only do I still consider Dom an ally, but I also will need him to eventually get Dan out who I can’t keep around until the end. He’s just going to win and he’s sneaky as fuck. I don’t think he’ll ever see me coming for him either. I let Abel know this as well, but no one else but Dom and Abel will know that Dan has to go eventually. But for now I need him. Bridget is really stupid… She attacked Dan today, LOL! Like good for her though, let people know Dan is the one to watch out for while I hide in the rose bushes. She thinks they’re going to vote Dom, LET PEOPLE KNOW! The more she runs her mouth the easier she makes it. Especially since I am convinced the idol is in the hands of Dom at this point, even though he won’t admit it. So if they think Dom is a possible target, the easier it’ll be to cut Bridget off. Amelia/Sara are so naive and I feel so bad. But I think maybe last minute I’ll let them know, so it isn’t a complete shocker. Although I will still probably lose their trust, but I can just blame it all on Dan. I mean with the way Bridget has been behaving, why wouldn’t we want to vote her off? She has questioned our trust, so if she doesn’t trust us why would we willingly work with her. That’s the perspective I’m taking of my lying and voting off Bridget I’m sticking with anyways, hopefully they buy it.
So here’s how I want the rest of the votes to go
Bridget > Wes > Dan (blindside) > Marko > Nour > Amelia (blindside) > Dom (blindside) > Sara
Then I can sit pretty next to Abel and Hunter in final three and collect my CHECK! I have so much planning, lying, and sneakiness to do and I hope this “boot list” goes as planned.
Amelia: [7:51:00 AM] Dan/Sole: Ayyy
[7:51:10 AM] Dan/Sole: aYYYYY
[7:51:14 AM] Dan/Sole: AyYyYyY
[7:51:19 AM] Dan/Sole: aYyYyYyY
[7:51:39 AM] Dan/Sole: ayyy ayyy !! ayy
this morning i woke at like 6:30 or something fuckin crazy like that and i messaged marko like “hey!” because we had said we would “touch base” last night (after he was like people have been talking about dom bUT IT’S NOT MY IDEA I’M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT I HEARD) and then i waited like an hour and then literally as i was just about to try to go to sleep again my phone goes off and it’s marko (of course). so i took off my sleeping mask and i started into this charade about how i was thinking about what he said last night and “i know that people expect me to vote with dom but that’s why i thought it was worth exploring different options” and “if he’s being seen as a threat now it may not benefit me to be connected to that”. which i think is p reasonable because marko knows i’m not dumb and that ultimately i’m playing an individual game, which could come back to hurt me if he weren’t getting voted out tonight ((hopefully)) ((fingers crossed)).
he said he’d talk to dan about it and i don’t know if he bought what i was selling but if he did that’s frickin amazing, strategical game on point congrats @myself, if he didn’t then i guess maybe he’d decide to vote for me instead but that might actually be even better because i know dan and candace and abel aren’t about to vote me out, and in any case dan can tell me what’s happening with that. and you know what, i pressured marko into eating a bagel so i’m satisfied with my work today. the only thing i have to decide now is if i’m gonna talk to nour about this if i get accepted into the elite inner circle or if it’s better at this point to just not do that. i guess we’ll see if i get that acceptance first.
(also delayed touchy subjects paranoia setting in, i’m terrified that i’m gonna get blindsided in a couple votes ugh bye)
Amelia: aaaaand just like that we’re back to ZERO CHILL WHATSOEVER
dan comes into the navy chat and is like “we should vote out bridget now” because she and dom are apparently bigger threats than marko even tho he’s the one who was supposed to be gone 3 votes ago and yet has still wriggled his way to this point??? like??? also the fact that dom and bridget both have a lot of other stuff going on rn so they’re not giving it 100% and also just….no…..dan is worried about “connections” but let’s be totally real here he has more connections than they do and so does marko. so me and sara are like “no we really shouldn’t do that we promise we’ll vote bridget next time” (which i’m not gonna do but w/e) and then dan is like “that was a total set up” and “i feel so attacked” to sara in pm like um first of all it’s called an alliance and we’re supposed to talk out the decisions together second of all why do you have to be in charge and have final say on every vote that’s really not helping you out bud third of all you!! just!!! flipped on us last time and you literally said “it’s marko next time i promise” and now you’re gonna flip it onto bridget??? whoooaaa there. whoa. i don’t think so.
me and sara both privately agreed that he has too much influence right now and that we’re not voting bridget no matter what, and if dan decides to go and do it anyway and lie to us again we just can’t work with him anymore, that’s just how it’s gonna be. i love dan so much, but if he goes and does this right now, i gotta leave and he’s gotta go home. especially because that would fuck me over with marko and nour even more.
i’m just so over this dan-is-the-leader thing and he seriously needs to listen to his alliance members or he’s not gonna have an alliance much longer
and this is EXACTLY WHY MARKO NEEDS TO GO he is too good at creating paranoia and messing things up and is so strategically on point he can’t be allowed to stay and dan needs to stop drinking the tea
Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyWQZx20j7o
Marko: I’m considering naming this the Brick Wall Alliance, because speaking to Abel is just the most frustrating experience ever. It’s not that he doesn’t want to strategize, I just think it’s because he doesn’t know what the hell is going on 95% of the time.
I know I’m getting five votes tonight, so I’m highly considering playing my idol. Abel could decide to flip and make things interesting, and I’m not about to let the most passive person ruin my game just because he was bored.
Dan/Sole/Dole/Fuckboy: Panic! At the Muzco. Bridget should be going home and that makes me sad… she is SUCH a lovely person and an amazing player. She has been the target so much this game, and she has survived so many tribals and still hasn’t been voted out. So far, this is the hardest vote of the game because I legitimately do really love Bridget - she’s so smart and really engaging in conversation and she’s going places in life i think haha
But at the end of the day I have to do what’s best for my game. Our relationship didn’t recover from the Mitchell vote and she started planting seeds about my control over the game. The fact that she’s been really hard to get out means she had an impressive set of connections in the game and that’s even more threatening.
For some reason, though, I have this teeny weeny gut feeling that this vote might go wrong and I could very well go home so I’m trying hard to keep it together. If it doesn’t and I go then I did what I could! I trust my allies and that’s all I can do.
