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Season Awards and Other Fun Things

There are a few small orders of business to wrap up!

First, the season awards can be found as follows:

Players of the Season: Jake (Newbie) and Dane (Returnee)

Most Robbed Pre-Jury: Johnny

Most Robbed Juror: Ryan

Hero of the Season: Autumn

Villain of the Season: Jake

Biggest Blindside: Ned (Final Eleven)

Best Idol Play: Sam (Final Nine)

Best Tribal Council: Sam sent home at final six with one vote

Most Improved Returnees: Brandon and Julia

Best Confessionals: Autumn and Julia

Best Challenge: The first challenge or the Medallion Hunt (final five)

Worst Challenge: When Owen had to sit in the bathroom in the hotel room for three hours and do the same awful maze with everyone at final ten, or when Owen forgot all of the rules to the final six immunity and made everyone sit on call while he tried to explain them fifty times

Best Book of Tales Chapter: The Prehistoric Era

Best Decision: Autumn decides to make a final two (shoutout to most of you choosing a personal advantage in the arcade immunity)

Congratulations once again to Dane and Jake for players of the season!

Additionally, you can view the EDGIC for this season here:

It can also be viewed at this link: https://prnt.sc/i8102u

And finally, if you are interested in reading all of the Book of Tales possibilities/endings, you can find them all at this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18O5XZa3vu6DuubVtO5kG_Haj6Xjc8BOicYHI-IaUuOo/edit?usp=sharing

Some of the document is incomplete and not every person who found something was documented in this way, but there are some funny stories there!

And with that, this season is officially done with! Thank you one more time for sticking with me and making this an amazing experience, I love you all!

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Episode Thirteen - “I’m So Happy With The Way I Played This Game” - Jake

#tscrossroads #episode thirteen #finale #confessionals

Episode Twelve - “I’m Sorry We Couldn’t Dismantle The Patriarchy Together” - Autumn

#tscrossroads #episode twelve #confessionals

Episode Eleven - “This Game Has Turned Upside Down” - Sam

#tscrossroads #episode eleven #confessionals

Episode Ten - “I’m Allowed To Talk To People Without It Being Shady” - Ryan

Ok I just wrote the longest confessional and it all disappeared so I'm angry and now my replacement confessional will be much shorter, sorry about it. So Jake flipped on me and Autumn last round. He voted out Rebecka, after we worked so hard to bring her to our side. Me and Autumn were pissed but we realized we have to do 2 things. 1 we have to make jake think we aren't mad and he is our f3 still. Because if we show any signs of distrust, he won't help us anymore. And 2. We need to solidify something with Dane. We made an alliance chat and it's been going really well so far. Jake and Dane came up with a plan to stage a fight in the tribe chat, so that it looks like my side is distancing ourselves from Jake. This will hopefully cause Ryan to confide more in Jake, who will hopefully turn around and tell us what the other side is planning. I'm pretty sure they're writing down my name tonight, and I don't have an idol. I'm relying on him to be loyal to me on this one. I want to vote Ryan, because the more I think about it, the bigger a threat he is. He got both Dane and Jake to flip on me to vote with him. That would be a huge statement if he was against me in FTC. As much as I want Ryan out though, I think he still has an idol. We tried to get him to flush it last round by voting out John instead, but since Jake flipped, he didn't play it. Therefore he probably still has it. So this round we are stuck voting out Haley, hoping Ryan plays his idol on himself. AND hoping Jake votes with us this time. We told Jake that we are telling the other side his name, in case they try to come to him about us. I think with Jake flipping and the fight between the two, it would be somewhat believable. Also, as I am typing this confessional, I am talking to Haley. The convo was very annoying. First she asked about the vote, I told her Jake. She then goes on to complain about feeling on the bottom. BITCH. I have been on the wrong side of most of the merge votes. The only one where I got my way was when I played an idol on myself. So for Haley to be trying to make ME feel sorry for HER! I am heated. Also, Jake just let me know that she used quoted messages from me saying his name. She literally has the worst social game, and I hope she feels on the bottom :) We are all voting her out tonight and I hope it works out. I'm going to be upset if I end up in jury tonight, but at least I'll be reunited with Ned and Bryan. I miss those two soooo much. Also I have these two coins that I have been impatiently waiting to trade in for anything and Owen keeps postponing it! I won't be in this game forever Owen, help me out pls!

#tscrossroads #episode ten #confessionals

Episode Nine - “I’m An Indecisive Mess” - John

Okay tribal just happened. I'm sweating a lot. I wasted my idol basically. I did get votes, but only 4 of them. There were 4 for Julia and then I voted for Ryan. If I would have voted for Julia and not played my idol, I would still be here AND have an idol for the future. But since I switched my vote, it tied and then my idol made her go home. It's hard bc a part of me is pissed that I wasted it. But another part of me sees a light in the distance. Autumna and Jake are the only ones who know I voted Ryan. Not even Dane knows. Right now, Coffey and Ryan think it was Rebecka. This hopefully will cause them to trust her less. But Dane's crazy advantage may mess us up right here. There is no immunity. Dane can sit out of tribal tomorrow, be immune, and not cast a vote. Or he can come, vote and potentially be voted out. He told me that he is too busy and he is sitting out, which sucks. Now there will be 7 votes. And I know Haley, John and Ryan won't vote with me. My only hope is Rebecka. And either way, none of those 3 believe that she voted with them. Julia got 4 votes. The obvious solution would be me, jake, autumn, and dane. They would never assume I would throw away a vote to ryan, especially how low I am, numbers-wise. AND there was a voting confessional for Julia (I think Autumn wrote it) but it said "this is for imperium" and i have literally cried to ryan and john about how sad i was seeing ned then bryan go back to back. They most likely think that was me. I think this then created distrust among them and rebecka, so hopefully we can pull her to our side. I think the smartest vote this round will be Ryan. He has had it out for me for a while and he has the closest connections on the other side. Let's face it, he is holding the other side together. John and Haley are not close, but Ryan has been playing both of them against us. I'm stressed whew. I'm lowkey mad at Dane for skipping, but it makes sense for his game so I don't blame him. I just need to work on Rebecka right now.

Tribal is happening soon. I'm very nervous. Me, Autumn and Jake originally had a plan to get Ryan out, but apparently he has an idol he wants to use tonight, so we had to switch our target. Hopefully he still plays it. We are voting John out, and Rebecka is telling us she is with us, so hopefully he goes 4-3. Dane isn't voting with us so we can't rely on him to save us this time. Haley came to me earlier and asked me for a name. It was really weird. I know she went to Autumn and Jake as well. I don't know if she truly is desperate in this game or she thinks she can actually get information out of us. We told her Ryan, and she says she will write down any name at this point to not go home. There are 2 scenarios that could happen from this. 1. Haley goes immediately to Ryan, he plays the idol on himself and it is wasted. or 2. She votes out Ryan because she is so desperate to not go home. Then we vote out John, and then Ryan is left and knows that Haley flipped on him. Having those two here and not trusting each other would be great. I feel like Ryan has such a handle on John and Haley and we really need to split him away from those two. It's scary to think about the future, because I don't know if I will be there. A part of me wants to start planning my FTC speech and my f3 (which would most likely be Jake and Autumn) but Haley told me a few hours ago that John and Ryan were voting for me this round too. They think it's safest because my idol is gone. Now I' m stuck with just 2 coins that I'm impatiently waiting to exchange them for something. I'm really annoyed at Ryan and John constantly going against me and my side. I understand why Ryan is, I flipped on him and voted him out when we technically did have an alliance together (even though my heart wasn't in it). I just don't understand why I can't get along with John in this game. I have done nothing wrong to him. All I have done is listen to him and be lied to ever since merge started. It sucks that he has been so against me, especially because I thought we were good friends outside of this game, but he wants nothing to do with me, and he wants me out of the game so badly. I'm definitely getting votes tonight. I just don't know how many. Me Autumn and Jake are voting for John. If Rebecka joins us, we have majority. I just worry about any idol plays. It's getting to the end and people won't have much longer to use them. I need to compete hard in this upcoming immunity if I'm still here. Also I don't think me voting Ryan was the worst move anymore. Haley today told me that she thinks Rebecka voted for him, and I knew Ryan and John already think that. Also, another thing, I'm nervous that I may have lost some trust with Autumn and Jake over having the idol. Because I told Jake in pms first and then hours later he was like maybe we should tell autumn and I'll pretend I don't know, and I was like that sounds great. So I told them. But Autumn was a little hesitant with me when I told her. I hope it was just shock and not betrayal she felt. I really need these two to make it in this game. I couldn't even imagine having to strategize with Haley or John.

#tscrossroads #confessionals #episode nine

Episode Eight - “Get Your Head Out of the Gutter, And Maybe Get A Brain” - Bryan

Ok so I really don't know who to trust at this point. I miss Ned soooo much. A lot of people from the other side have come to me to clear the air, but I really don't see a way to recover from this. Yesterday was an actual mess. Julia was lowkey bullying Bryan in the merge chat. I say lowkey, because it wasn't personal, it was game related, but it was extreme overkill. Bryan had said "ok thats fine" and "I see what I did wrong, I learned from my mistakes" etc and she continued to say things like "now go shit talk me more, I know you will" and it was just really rude. And Haley cheering her on in the background definitely amplified the situation to make Bryan feel worse. I feel like the only people I can trust are Bryan, Autumn, and Jake. It's hard though, because I know Bryan is a threat who needs to go. Autumn rarely talks to me. And I recently got close to Jake, so I know he has been working with Bryan a lot longer and would choose him over me in a heart beat. Dane seems to think that him flipping to vote out Ned wasn't "picking sides" and now everyone can be on a more even playing field. At least that's what he told me. He also doesn't want to think of them as "sides," he wants to vote out Bryan next. If there are sides and I vote out Bryan, It's literally going to be down to 3 vs 6, with me in the minority. As much as I love and miss Ned, I don't want to be in that jury. I want to be at FTC with Ned rooting for me the whole time. I also don't know how to feel right now. I'm conflicted, because everyone is telling me shady/sketchy things about Ned and reassuring me that it is best he is gone because he was untrustworthy, but I really don't think I believe it. Like I know Ned is such an honest and genuine person, I really can't see him playing me like that. And of course everyone will try to justify voting him out to me, it was so obvious we were a f2, we had never separated the ENTIRE game. Literally day 1 we were on impala and stayed there. I just don't know where to go from here. I'm upset that Haley and Dane won reward, it seems like the worst people to have won. Hopefully it doesn't help them in immunity. I really want to win. I'm scared though that if I do, Bryan will leave. A lot of people are upset about how he acted last round when he was immune. I don't know how I feel, I really just need to see how the next day goes. ALSO Dane getting under 5 minutes in that maze seems toooooo good. Like I did it as fast as I could and couldn't even finish half of it in that time. It seems very impossible.

NED!!!! If Chris was my Beth, you were my Glenn cause you're so positive and hero-like aaaaannnd because I was a wreck when you died lol. Is it bad that I couldn't stop crying? http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2016/12/15/b1aca255-c49f-4f8f-be1f-853d48cd3f55/maggie.gif I really hadn't seen the vote until you asked if I flipped. Then I went to watch the rest of the tribal video and started sobbing. Did I flip? Absolutely not and if I hadn't left the call, Crossroads would have my reaction to prove it. Whew if I had seen that shit live... look I'm an ugly crier and Crossroads can only exploit what I give it lmao. Anyway we spent half the game trying to make it back to each other only for you to die 5 minutes later and that suuucks rip. THANKS JULIA! YEP YOU HEARD RIGHT SIS IS NEGAN!!! Under all the humor and cute pro pics... tragic. Bryan only killing Chris and not you? Never judge a book by its cover haha. Anyway I hate this happened to you because you deserved so much better and I hope you're in a better place in jury. Imperium is in shambles- Scrappy is out here squaring up in people's pm's, Velma has gone awol, and Scooby is in the doghouse since everyone knows he has fleas. Idk what's about to happen but you're right everyone is a snake. Ok I should go I have a lot to do if I'm gonna make it to the end because #owensucks #crossroadsisugly Thank you for like playing this whack game and believing in me when I didn't believe in myself @ everyone else: https://78.media.tumblr.com/a661740fa7785ef674d1c8ef7971f4f9/tumblr_myzplpOrQ51ql5yr7o1_500.gif NOTHING YOU CAN SAY WILL STOP ME FROM BEING PETTY AND SENDING YOUR ASSES TO JURY SO SAVE YOUR BREATH!!! Do you need to explain yourself? Absolutely. Will it make a difference? NOPE. If you gave a fuck about me you wouldn't have lied in the first place. Also everything you say to me can and will be used against you so y'all really need to chill. I mean it- stop checking in like we're good because you will not know the answer to that until the game ends. Thinking that we're friends doesn't make it true. But you know what is true? I will send every single one of you to jury and I cannot fucking wait

OKAY So hours before the last tribal I wanted to vote out Jake because he's lodged up Bryan's ass. However, the only person that Ryan could get enough people to target was Ned due to the amount of people that he pissed off. So honestly between Ned or Ryan to stay? I think it's pretty obvious for me to know what's better for my game. :) After the tribal council however Bryan immediately called me and started yelling at me and demanding he knows what my strategy is moving forward in the game, but I wasn't going to give it away, so now I'm playing the role of the dumb sheep and I'm starting to make people believe that I'm not worth it to vote out at the moment. Anyways! After that call I thought I would give Bryan the benefit of the doubt and I just assumed that the tribal council would be a wake up call for his attitude, but nothing changed! He immediately ran his rat ass to Ryan and started talking shit about me so now I'm pissed at Bryan again. Now here we are again hours before the tribal council again and it's a shit show because from my point of view I think the votes are going to fall between Bryan and Julia.... maybe. Julia and Bryan had a "fight" in the main chat but I honestly believe it to be fake and I think Julia flipped back to Bryan and my paranoid ass is starting to believe that they're going to conspire against me and vote me out. BUT! I do think that my social standings with Sam would help me get past this vote. With that being said though I may have to abuse Sam's kindness to further myself into the rest of the game. I was thinking with Ryan and if we get Haley on board we can vote 3 votes onto Autumn or Sam (wildcards atm) and in the case that Bryan plays his idol (BTW I FORGOT TO SAY I FOUND AN IDOL RIGHT BEFORE TRIBAL LAST ROUND OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MAMA) we can play one of our idols and get out Sam or Autumn. However, if we do that then we isolate ourselves as a 3 which is why Bryan, Jake, and John were targeted in the first place for. This tribal council is going to be just as messy as the last one and I'm terrified and I don't want to waste my idol if people are telling the truth and isolate myself, but I don't want to go home with an idol in my pocket.

#tscrossroads #episode eight #confessionals

Episode Seven - “You’re Cute, I’m Cute, We Should Be Dating Not Targeting Each Other” - Dane

I couldn't care less about the new challenge I just need to talk to Chris/ VL and admins I need you to bring him back to the chat so he can see this thank you @ Chris: IM SO SORRY THAT HAPPENED TO YOU AND YOU WERE TRULY ROBBED!!! I was worried about you in the pit of my stomach and like I wish I had been there to help. The wild part is I've worried about Ned everyday since Swap 1 except that day and I never thought you were in danger until that day... but I didn't think it would happen. Swear to God I got home from work at 12:30 AM and the first thing I saw was Ned in my PM's saying: AUTUMN IM SO GLAD YOU SURVIVED BUT IM SO SAD CHRIS DIDNT BRYAN WILL RUE THIS DAY Like Survivor has never made me cry but that. That really wrecked me- us coming that close to our trio's reunion and us all making merge only for it to slip away like that and you get hit by a stray bullet AN HOUR AWAY FROM MERGE https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/cry.gif?w=650&h=365 Also I can't believe you went for John and not Bryan lmao/ John wasn't coming for you and was down to tie the vote w/ you ya doof. ALSO YOU KNOW BRYAN IS UGLY AND HATES YOU SO what you doin haha. Anyway you're lowkey my best friend in this game and my right hand so I have no clue how I'm gonna play this game without you. I legit have survivor's guilt (no pun intended) because you did soooo much in this game, especially to protect the alliance. Thank you/ Idk how to repay you other than just not flopping. I'm being social and nice like you'd want me to, but I also hate everyone and I can't wait to get rid of Bryan, Jake, and John for you/ revenge is what I do best. Wow me finally mourning your death and crying in this confessional? More likely than you think https://media.giphy.com/media/l0OXVSJPflJ75FiIE/giphy.gif I'm sorry you're just really gone and it's hitting me that every time shit pops off you're not gonna be there. I'm really crying this is so embarrassing; ok I hope you're doing well and in a better place. Ummm ok positive things? People like me and want to work with me because I keep talking to them; someone wise once told me this game depends on being social even if you yourself are not. Btw Haley pleaded for the tribe to be named after you so we like Haley the most besides Ned I think I'm gonna keep her. See you on the other side!

Okay so that last vote with Brandon was not all personal. Yes, I did just make a confessional about how annoying he was to me, but I only had 3 choices to vote out. I was already super close with Autumn and I was starting to form a bond with Rebecka, so why would I choose to eliminate one of these people that I'm extremely close with over a random guy that i've never spoken too and has already annoyed me? Sorry dude ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. THEN We finally fucking merged!!!!! https://imgur.com/atm1mXr I'm so ecstatic to say that I made the merge again, and this time I believe I'm in a way better position due to the circumstances. In Okinawa it was boring and was obvious tribe division; in this game it's boring but it has the potential to not be boring due to everyone playing free-lance. Right now I think I'm in a great position of influence with a lot of the other castaways, but I think I need to keep that hidden for a while. I do want these castaways to think that I'm a threat so if I make it to the end, then they can hopefully respect that I made it there while they oppose me. However, I don't want to show my cards too soon so they target me as soon as possible, I have to wait for my time to make my moves and coast on down towards the end. I'm allied 100% right now with Ned, Autumn, and Ryan and I'm close with Rebecka, Sam, Bryan, and Haley-ish (through my relationship with Ryan). Right there that's 7 people of 10 others on the tribe with me that I'm close with. For the other 3, I still think I'm pretty decent with: Jake, John, and Julia. I'm starting to form a closer bond with John right now, but I know that I'd have to take him out sooner rather than later due to his reputation of being a socialite in these games. Overall, I can't really trust Jake or Julia that much, Julia because I've stated before: our unresolved personal issues makes it really hard for me to trust her on a game level, and Jake is just awkward to talk to so I can't really force myself into enjoying playing a game with. Now, just because I can't trust these people doesn't mean that I can't use them for a vote or two. There are some people that I'm close with that I don't trust that much: Bryan, Haley, Sam, and Ned being the main culprits. These 4 I believe are going to try and play a similar game to mine which is just being friendly with everyone and using their allies to coast to the end of the game and "flying under the radar," and that's a threat to me. I want to be the only person in this game playing a game similar to mine. So overall if I had to make a potential boot list it would go: 11th: Jake 10th: Julia 9th: Bryan 8th: Sam 7th: Ned 6th: John 5th: Haley And then I don't care who I'm with in the final 2 or 3 with between Ryan, Rebecka, or Autumn. If I lose to either of those 3 I'd be content, but my goal is to still win.

Okay I don't know where to start with this. So at first, Ned came to me and was like Haley talked to Coffey and he wants me and you out. I didn’t think that sounded right bc I am close to coffey and I know he said he wanted to work with me. Long story short, I straight up asked coffey and he said that haley twisted his words and i believe him. bryan apparently told autumn he wants haley out, who then turned around and told haley. bryan threatened to blow up the entire imperium 5 alliance bc of it, truly messy. but bryan has devised a plan to get ryan out. Haley may have an idol which she will maybe play tonight so we dont want to risk her picking who she wants to go home, esp since she is targeting literally me, ned and now coffey hahaha. so ryan should leave easily and i pray he doesnt have an idol. the people voting for ryan are me, bryan, ned, dane, jake, julia. idk what coffey, rebecka, autumn, haley or ryan are doing. i am in an alliance chat with ryan, haley, and ned, but i didnt agree with it since day 1 so im fine with it splitting up. I'm nervous for this tribal bc idk if ryan is catching on. apparently he was campaigning to dane to convince him to stay. Also its so hard playing this without ned being 100% here. hes a mess playing half way active. he literally had messed up like 3 times. i love him but come on. and he doesnt trust the side wanting ryan out. he thinks that bryan will choose jake and julia over us in a heart beat and dane will choose john over us. idk what to do, i literally have 3 hours to figure this out. and ned is on his trip so we cant have a full in depth conversation about it. idk how to get through to him. I really dont know if im making the right decision. I am just scared that everything ned is worried about rn will come true. he is worried that bryan would pick julia and jake over me and ned and that dane would pick john over us. together me and ned have an entire idol if we compare our halves but idk if thats the right move. im also very upset bc me and ned have fought over this a lot and i hate fighting with him bc ive gotten so close to him in this game and i really dont want to lose his trust. he is the one i want to sit with in the end (ik i keep going back and forth, let me live). I'm also so conflicted. i wanted to kill bryan yesterday, like i was literally hating him for being immune. but today we called for like 3 hours and he's so funny and seems genuine but at the same time sketch, i want to die. i'm votng ryan and praying that me and ned are okay. i just don't want to be betrayed or blindsided. ughhhh

#tscrossroads #episode seven #confessionals

Episode Six - “No One Tell Karma Anything I Just Said” - Autumn

I really slept in and woke up to find that not only did Optio lose the challenge, but now I have to pick between 3 allies and get a majority before they start talking and realize I know all of them well and am the smartest bet to send home https://media.tenor.com/images/1e425f0991c66cd840f78b389e84f5c9/tenor.gif I mean Brandon will read all of this eventually but the vote is him because Imperium ties run deep and feminism. I've been aligned with Dane from the jump #kidsnextdoor so when we got reunited, he was ecstatic to see me and was down to do whatever if we lost. That kinda loyalty is hard to find soooo I can't vote him out. Rebecka and I have history (which only Chris knows about) and played most of Athena Himalayas together so voting her out is just fake. I trust her waaaay more than any of these people so I have to put my money where my mouth is and prove my loyalty. Her and I never got it right in Himalayas so I'm not voting her out or dropping her name. Does this mean I'm betraying Brandon? Yes and that sucks. Is it better than the consequences of betraying Dane or Rebecka? Absolutely I've also learned that Brandon flipped votes to get Rhone out, which spooked Rebecka, and Dane is very committed to our old alliance so when I told him Chris and Brandon were tight, he wasn't having it. Also he's got bigger problems like his beef with Julia so he has to stay around I wanna watch that up close hahaha. Brandon's a great competitor so as great of a friend/ally as he is, I can't beat him in the end (not that he would ever take me over Chris). And I sure as hell can't let Brandon flip Dane or Rebecka on me because he's 100% smart enough and social enough. Sooo it's done- almost everyone has casted votes and I've made my peace with my ugly savage self. BRANDON IM SORRY BLAME OWEN ITS HIS TWISTOS TWIST!!! Highkey wouldn't have turned on you if we'd been put with other people so it essentially is Owen's fault. Ok done scamming for the day- no one tell karma anything I just said! https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/9WRvREpZJp5kMg4z8BwZqqC-XkQ/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2016/11/14/049/n/1922398/3167f7e419274941_57c736261700000011c76cb6/i/Bye.gif

This round has been a roller coaster of stress, excitement, disappointment, and terror. First of all, we had our suspicions that "teaming up" would lead to a swap, but I don't think anyone seriously thought we'd be put into three tribes of FOUR. In a tribe this small, there's nowhere to hide. Sam and I decided early on to team up, because at this point, I trust her more than both Dane and Bryan, and Julia wanted to be on her own team so she could be exiled. Sam and I were put with Haley and Ryan on Imperium. #Imperium4Lyfe I trust Haley because she aligned with Chris on the old Fatum tribe, but Ryan kind of sketches me out. I was already preparing to either blindside Ryan or play my idol, because the immunity challenge was frickin impossible and the TWO losing tribes are going to Tribal. We had to guess a 7-digit code to find a secret page on the blog, and every thirty minutes or so we'd receive a relatively useless clue like "the sum of the first three digits is less than the sum of the last three digits." Ultimately, I decided to use my challenge advantage, which gave us two extra hints. This morning, Sam and I created a system that listed every possible code. Once we realized we had narrowed it down to around 36 combinations, it became a race against time to see how quickly we could enter each code on our phones. It turns out that we NEEDED my advantage, as Sam found the secret page literally SECONDS before Chris did on another tribe. I'm slightly suspicious that the double Tribal may just result in the two people voted out switching tribes, but then Julia would be exiled for another round and that doesn't seem very likely. Either way, I'm just happy to be safe for another round. Sam and I were just talking about how awesome we are together, as the two OG Imperiums who haven't gone to Tribal at all. I was really starting to feel like we could dominate the merge together, but then she said "You're my ride or die." https://i.imgur.com/JKVZSFJ.gif Those are the same words I never wanted to hear from Sam again, because that's word-for-word what she said to me in our first game together right before she backstabbed me. I guess the old saying is true: keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

#tscrossroads #episode six #confessionals

Episode Five - “All In The Spirit of the Game” - Johnny

I'm kinda annoyed. Woohoo tribal went to plan, but the first fucking second Haley gets onto this tribe one of Stoner, Autumn or BDC were telling her that I saying all these negative things about her. Because I was telling people Haley was very OTT and caused paranoia on our tribe, essentially telling the truth, but also REALLY trying to convince people that the Fatum four wouldn’t be an issue if Ryan, John and I survived tribal council. So then I went to her about it, and I told her the biggest reasons I did it were because I didn't want anyone to suspect that we were close, and I also wanted to mask any thoughts on the fatum four to keep John, Ryan and I safe,, and she was like “I don’t believe what these people are saying because I know how close we are, and it’s just their attempt to swing my vote." And I was like SUREEEEEEEEEEEE...... She should definitely trust me because now i'm 100% sticking Fatum strong, and I am not backing down, because whoever did this really pissed me off, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it and make sure that person goes home! You won't like me when I'm ANGRY!!!!! I really trusted those three too, so it annoys me to see one of those three just jump at the opportunity to throw me under the bus. I think it may have been Stoner, which would really piss me off to the core because I trust him more than I trust most people, even including some on my tribe. Honestly, stoner gives me a BIG manipulator vibe. Like a BIG one Because he's really good at building those relationships with people and people not realizing he's got that bind with everyone. He's come in 2nd 1st and 12th due to an idol play ffs, so he's clearly good at Tumblr Survivors, and I'm looking out for it AGAIN this time around, because I'm starting to really not trust him, and if I can manage to blindside Stoner if we lose another one, that'd be HUGE for my game. Also, John told me all of this Haley nonsense was going down so big shoutout to my man John. John also said that Bran, after tribal council, swore up down left and right that he never wanted something with Ryan, Stoner and Autumn, which is most likely Stoner making up another lie, and that being the reason we kept BDC over Bran. I get the feel that Stoner would do nearly anything to stay in the game, so I'm just going to continue to talk to him like he's got my trust more than anyone else's, but if we lose another tribal, I might wanna see his snake ass out the door

I feel there are so many things to talk about since we've left off, and I've been thinking about so many of them since tribal ended, and I may or may not have forgotten if I made a confessional. Oh well... I'm just getting really over this, and this may be the most pessimistic attitude ever seen in a tumblr survivor ever, but this has really been ruining my night to the core. I have been to THREE tribal councils in a row, and the second the challenge got announced, I got really excited because it's about will power and getting good at challenges, improving your scores, and beating the other tribe in a head to head matchup, but of course, my tribe proceeds with the following: "I've never really played any of these games :/" "Sooooo just so you know ... I am known for getting the worst score in every challenge in my first season. Every challenge was a flash game So this won’t be good for me" "I’ll do whatever y’all want . I’m not the best at flash games" "I'm not great at flash games either. Tetris is my worst" This is from FOUR of the other SIX of my tribe members, to where Ryan is really trying, because he's a comp beast, but of course the rest of my tribe has pretty much thrown in the towel or they think that someone is going to carry them to this victory.. AND THEN OF COURSE in my state of depression of inevitably going to my fourth tribal council in a row, I tried to delegate to everyone what they should do for the challenge, but now this might put a target on my back, and they won't even try anyways, so what's the fucking point? Now here's the absolute worst thing that I am going to say tonight... I just KNOW that if this tribe continues to lose challenges, we're going to vote out BDC, and then probably Autumn, and then if we lose again it might have to be Stoner, and then guess what happens? The Fatum Four make merge woohoo, but we're the obvious targets. We're likely just going to get picked off like old school survivor, like a good ol' pagonging, and I'm about to get fucked. I don't really know what to do, and I'm sure I'll figure out something, but everything since this break has ended has really killed my mentality, and I'm not happy about it. I am fully prepared to lose this challenge, for a fourth straight loss, and then I'm going to have to vote out someone I don't wanna vote out, but whatever. It's all in the spirit of the game. *rolls eyes*

I’m so happy we won whew but I’m also very nervous bc I STILL haven’t been to tribal yet (along with 5 other castaways-the original impala tribe members) therefore I’m not standing out whatsoever and I’ve had no chance to strategize or make moves. A FTC speech from me rn would not sound too impressive. I can’t believe we are at final 15 (?) though, that’s insane. Hopefully the other tribe having tribal gives me some time to relax. The break in this game literally ended after I started my Christmas vacation. I won’t be at my house (aka somewhere with access to WiFi) until January 3rd. That’s an entire week from now, so unless I can be excused or given opportunities for mobile play, I’m screwed on a personal level and I’d be putting my tribe at a disadvantage. I feel like I’m not contributing as much to my tribe as the other castaways, but I’m so busy! A few challenges ago, with the scavenger hunt, I sat out. And then this challenge, I was the lowest wager on our entire tribe, betting 1 point. The other tribe put their highest wager of 7 on flappy bird (my only mobile option) and gained 8 points for their tribe. It didn’t do anything, since we still won the overall comp 41 to 15, but still, I hate that me and Jake were the only ones not earning points for our tribe. I don’t know if the rest of the castaways look at me like that. And it’s a tricky time period in the game, because if they do, it could make them think in 2 different ways. The first would be negatively, because if we want our tribe to be strong and win, we don’t want someone bringing down the win streak, or the second being positive, because I won’t be a challenge threat when it comes to individual immunities post merge. Hopefully (if I’m still here by then) I can turn things around on them and show them I’m here to compete, but for now, I have to do the best I can with the resources I have. I also am excited about this coin advantage I received! I’m excited to see what it is. I hope it’s something big like a half idol, bc I’m pretty sure ned has the other half (?) I can’t actually remember. I hope the other tribe votes off an impala member. I know that sounds awful and I have been going back and forth for a while on it, but getting down to the end, I can’t be compared to 5 players with the same pre merge game, it’s not impressive to a jury. Between Chris and autumn, I’m torn. I have no relationship with autumn so her leaving would not hurt me at all. BUT even though I’m close with Chris and semi trust him, I know he has won and he has been playing hard this game. It’s tough, which I guess is why I’m glad Fatum is choosing it and not me. But if fatum doesn’t choose one of them, it’s their own faults if impala sweeps through merge and dominates the rest of the game. I still can’t believe all of us are here. And they have only had a few opportunities to get rid of us, but with how powerful we are, I’m really surprised they haven’t taken any chance they could. “They” being fatum members who were not original impala. I don’t know what Julia, rebecka, or Jake would do, but I really don’t think they would turn on each other. Not without a fight at least.

*Skips to another idol search* Owen: Johnny, would you like to insert a coin? Johnny: Hold on lemme ask my consultant. *Johnny runs to Andrew bae* Johnny: Hey Andrew, I have this coin that I got from a random person one hour ago, and now Owen wants me to insert a coin into a dead arcade machine to either get a prize or punishment. I have a 1/10 chance of getting a half an idol, but it's made public, or you get a a challenge advantage/disadvantage, blah blah blah, should I take it? Andrew: Meh. You can only play in a main so many times, so ya might as well. Worst thing that happens is you find a half an idol and they announce it publicly *Johnny inserts coin, gets half an idol, Owen announces it publicly* VDFJKLSNVJKLSNDFJKLNSVDJKLNFJKLNVJKLSVDNSNDFJKLVNSJKLDFNKJLVSFDSNVJKDFNSJKLVNSDFJLKNVSJKLDNVJKLNSDJKLFNVJKLSNDFJ WELP! I've got another half of an idol, and boy oh boy I wish people didn't know about this one. Here's my big dilemma here. Haley has previously given me a half an idol to form a whole one, so i feel I'm the biggest asshat in the world if I don't give her this one, but at the same time, I'm still sitting on this egg, where if I survive another two tribal councils, then something is going to pop out, which can be a good thing for me, and I'm really NOT trying to give that up, especially if the thing that pops out is a half an idol, because I would love to have two. It'd be a Survivor Dream come true, but I also don't wanna get too carried away. I think if Haley brought it up, I'd end up giving it to her out of .... y'know, not committing Survivor Suicide and pissing off an ally, plus I think this thing I'm sitting on in this egg is an advantage like a special idol, and it may not even be a half an idol, who knows? But I still wanna play every situation the best I can, so time will tell how this all pans out. I'm sure i'll write more neurotic confessionals about idols as time goes on until I find out what's in this STUPID egg! All for now! TA TA TA from Johnny xoxoxox

MERRY CHRISTMAS BITCHEZ! What an eventful holiday. The entire family came together for a Christmas feast. Obviously, the feast was nothing but dramatic. Sitting at the head of the table was Chris because he thinks he's the old, wise father who can survive anything. He is the most respected member of the family and literally everyone goes to him with advice and ideas. Next down the line was Autumn. She is the only daughter to Chris and his prized possession. She will do anything for her father and does not like when anyone talks bad about him. She is definitely a daddy's little girl. She is also a charmer; she is the sweetest girl you will find in the neighborhood. Next to her was me, Brandon. I am the husband to Autumn and the son-in-law to Chris. I managed to pick up Autumn when I moved into the neighborhood and it was love at first sight. I also became fast friends with her father. However, I am greedy and Chris is quite rich so I am pretty envious of his position at the head of the table. There is nowhere I would rather be. Sitting right beside Chris on the other side of the table was Ryan. He is Chris' youngest son and Autumn's brother. He left home right after high school and never turned back. He loves his family but he separated himself from them. During the holidays, he tries to make mends which usually lasts for a month tops after the new year. Right beside Ryan was his new girlfriend Haley. This was Haley's first time meeting the family and she made quite the positive impression. The entire family loves her almost as much as Ryan does. However, not the entire family is quite as loving and accepting. Next to Haley was Johnny. He is the first of the twins and he doesn't really get along with the family. He tries to keep things on the down low by lying about his issues but they run very deep. He had a flask in his pocket throughout the day so he could drink away his problems. He stole money from Chris and tried to get Autumn and me divorced last year. The family doesn't like him very much...they tolerate him. Finally, at the far end of the table was John, the other twin. He is the nicer of the twins. He tends to keep to himself and not really take sides. However, everyone knows he will fall on the sword for his twin brother. ~~~~SECRET SANTA~~~~ Following Christmas dinner, the family headed outside to compete in the 66th annual neighborhood Christmas games. We all tried to come up with our best strategies but we lost to the rich family next door. (They win every year). So right after the loss, we all headed inside to do Secret Santa. It was quite the tradition. It was also quite shady because not everyone got something. First was Chris. He was given a disadvantage in the upcoming family game night. Haley then received a huge advantage granting her half safety. I received two disadvantages. Finally, Johnny received half safety. ~~~~GAME NIGHT~~~~ In preparation for family game night, the family began to strategize (things got serious at game night). Tired of the twins' antics, the entire family decided to put aside their issues to turn on the twins. However, afraid of the advantage, we decided to make it look like nothing was wrong and that everyone was actually targeting the two new family members. If everything works out the way they should then Chris, Ryan, and Haley will side together, myself and Autumn will side together and one of the twins will be the loser of Game Night. BDCFor real though, I have worked very hard this round to set myself up in a better spot. I am the only one left from my tribe on this new tribe now that Bran is gone which puts me as an easy target. The second we lost, I messaged Chris and told him that we should create a chat with Autumn as the core three of the tribe. I want Chris to continue to believe that I am his slave in this game. I am the Natalie to his Russell. He will not see me as a threat as long as I bow down to him. At the same time, I made sure to message Haley and Autumn about their days. I want to continue to work my personal connections with the girls so they trust me and like me. The biggest news of the night though is that me and Ryan called and hashed everything out. We agreed to put the past behind us and actually work together to get out the two people who are playing the game way too hard and being way too shady - Coffey and Johnny. They saved me last round, but now they are after me for some dumb reason...don't come for me!!! So if everything works out the way I want it to, the votes will be split between the two Johns and one of them will be gone. I am personally hoping to see Johnny leave because he is ~SHADY~. As far as the game is concerned, I think I am setting myself up to be in a pretty okay position come merge. I am probably perceived from the other tribe as being on the bottom because I am the only one left from my OG tribe. I am perceived as having absolutely no power because of my strategy of bowing down to everyone's feet. Plus everyone thinks me and Ryan hate each other so now that we are semi working together, that will help both of us make it further. I am hoping I can at least make merge at this point because I have tried really hard to solidify my relationships which will definitely come in handy at that point. Hoping for the best, expecting the worst - like always!

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Episode Four - “I Think I Misunderstood The Assignment” - Bran

So I didn't win reward.... I lost by one, which BLOWS, but it doesn't blow THAT bad because I played for the half an idol, and RYAN GOT IT VNDJFKLVSDKJFNLVJKSDNFLJKVNSLJKDFNLKJVSNKJFNJKLNJKL! I love trusting and playing with that man. He is so slick, so now he's got the half an idol, and John has a half an idol, and I've got a full idol........... a n d w e ' r e h e a d e d i n t o a s w a p Oh joy. Looking at this new tribe, I actually feel pretty comfortable for a lot of reasons. For one, I am sitting on a tribe with John and Ryan, two of my most trusted allies in the game, and I know they both have a half an idol, and I've got an idol, so if someone finds another half, we've guaranteed to have two idols in our back pockets, and on this tribe, that can be a fantastic thing. And NOW we can function as a true group since Haley is off in exile and isn't on this tribe anymore. We've brought in Bran and BDC from Optio, and Stoner and Autumn from Imperium, which are some of the best people that could've been brought over if you ask me. BDC - Biggest asset to this tribe, because him and Ryan have got some BEEF! it is probably going to be the center of attention for our first tribal council, which keeps the target off my back. Bran - A winner, which is a target, but also, I helped to make sure he got immunity in that first round, so hopefully that's something he may remember, but it won't really be something I'll bring up. Ryan thinks he has a good relationship with him, so if he does, then he's gonna be good with me too Autumn - Quiet, but probably nicer and smarter girl than freakin Haley! She actually gave me an extra glimmer of life during that reward challenge, and I shot her a thank you during that challenge since she did help me out, and I told her I appreciated it. I'm definitely going to bring it up in conversation and let her know that I remember that, and maybe it'll incline her to want to work with me more. Stoner - Probably the person who I most trusted outside my tribe (besides Jake). We formed an INCREDIBLE bond during that One World phase, we made common ground off of being stoners, and also our relationship with Crow, which we both have from past games, and we have a lot in common. I have his snapchat and we've been snapchatting, and I knew him a bit before the game too, so I definitely think having him here is going to be payout massively for me. I am really excited with this new tribe, and I think I've got a real good chance at making a run to merge here. I do notice that all three winners are on this tribe, but that doesn't bother me that much. I'm sure they've got some kinda pact to work together, and I'm fine with it I guess, but for now, I think I've got a lot of groundwork to lay with these new tribemates, and I'm very excited for it! This is when the game really picks up :)

So I just did my idol search, and I found a dinosaur egg. This dinosaur egg is attending the next three tribal councils, and if the egg survives, a friend will come out with it when it hatches. So all I've gotta do is give it to someone on the losing tribe, if we lose, and if they survive, I get the idol back. I dig this twist. I've just gotta make it to top 12, and it sounds like I get "a friend" which can be a whole idol, half idol or even another special twist. I've gotten lucky on nearly every fucking search so far, so I'm going to keep going and hope that I'm not one of 11 people in the game who are getting lucky on EVERY search, and finding shit, but I definitely don't think that'll be the case. woooooo Johnny StocktonSo I wakeup from the most amazing hungover, bacon enduced morning, and see that we've lost immunity, which sucks. Already people are going at it. Ryan AVIDLY wants BDC out of here, and thinks that BDC is going to come for him hard, and that we've gotta do something about it. Meanwhile Bran came to Ryan, John and I, and was saying that BDC is trying to make a group of four to take out the old Fatum...... BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE! Stoner, who i trust a lot, let me know that nothing like this is happening, and Bran is making it up, to try to Villainize BDC, to try to get us Fatum, to jump on board with Bran, to take him out, which he is being transparent about, but there's something else Stoner told me, that I didn't know about SO THANK GOD FOR STONER Stoner told me that Bran wants a cuatro with Ryan, Stoner, Autumn, and him, to axe Coffey and I once we vote out BDC, which is no bueno with me! Some of these people are just overplaying their asses off for no reason, and they're about to get their asses bit because of it. I go to talk to BDC, and find out that Bran was throwing fits on his old tribe about throwing challenges, and him being the one to want to compete in the Heroes Challenge, just to throw it (all according to BDC). John, Ryan and I are all sitting back right now and letting Stoner run around to try to make his plan for this tribal, while Bran and BDC are actively after each other MEANWHILE if we somehow make it through this tribal without Fatum being targeted, then we get Haley back on our tribe, and we're going to be up 4-3 on numbers regardless, and I'm still not sure how badly I want to keep her around, but if THIS tribal goes the way I think it is, then we've got a chance to have no problem making it to merge, especially for me. I am going to use this time to just look for more idols, build better relationships, and hope for the best :) I like this new tribe. Bunch of try hard idiots who are gonna sink themselves faster than J'Tia

Waking up to a win is so nice! I just hope the ones who stayed up until 3:30 don’t get mad at me for going to sleep at 12:30. I did it for 5.5 hours straight with no missed opportunity while I was out with a friend at a theme park so, if anyone has a problem with it, they can take it up with me :) I wonder who on the other tribe will go home. I feel like autumn and Chris are going to be at a disadvantage being the minority on a new tribe that hated their previous tribe hahaha. Chris may have an idol, or some advantage, I don’t know. I hope they’re safe though, just bc that’s all I really have ally wise, except John Coffey maybe but it’s been so long since we talked, I don’t know how he stands with the rest of his tribe. I’m glad my tribe isn’t going to tribal bc I feel like it would’ve been messy. In a perfect world, it would be our 4 against their 3, but that just seems too good. I talked to Ned a lot yesterday, we had a call and talked strategy which was so nice bc that’s been lacking from my game so far, not being with anyone but the same 5 people and always winning with them. We basically agreed that if we were to go to tribal with these people, it would be either Julia or Jake. Bc Rebecca is the obvious choice, but we feel like we need to get out a threat this late in the game. We need to keep the people that won’t win against us. Ned also told me about his advantage in a challenge so I feel like he trusts me. And I told him about the Chris messaging Bryan incident and he got a laugh out of it. I would honestly say at this point in the game, ned is the one I trust the most. Then Bryan, then Dane. And normally I would put Dane higher, but I feel like he’s not active/social enough for me to know anything. I have loved Dane for so long, I just don’t know if he’s here completely for this game. Also, every game I play, i say to myself and my confessionals that I’m going to be diligent about looking for idols and then I ALWAYS forget. The way to find idols in this game just seems so hard to keep track of, it’s purely luck! I’m going to relax while the other tribe has their tribal and hopefully get closer to the 3 new people on my tribe :)

What a round! As we all expected, we swapped after the reward challenge. Unfortunately, I didn't win the half idol- but it didn't matter, BECAUSE I FOUND ANOTHER ONE BY FIGHTING A T-REX! Yeah boiiiiiii So I was stayed on Imperium with Dane, Sam, and Bryan, and we got 3 of the Onions: Jake, Julia, and Rebecka. This gives us a clear 4-3 advantage IF everyone stays loyal. So my job this round was to become everyone's babysitter and make sure they're not going to flip- because if anyone flips, it's going to be me. Actual footage of me suddenly becoming best friends with Sam and Bryan: http://i.imgur.com/cikqfGY.gif So I called up Sam and told her just enough information to make her fully trust me. I told her about the HALF idol I found, and she told me about how she doesn't trust Chris or Autumn. That's a problem, because Chris and Autumn are my Final 3. Fortunately, they're on Fatum, so as long as they can last until the merge, everything will be good. Sam told me about Chris accidentally messaging Bryan before the swap saying like "I'm asking Sam and Bryan where they looked for the idol so I know where not to look hehehehehehe." This was my reaction to that: https://m.popkey.co/3957be/XRpEw.gif I pretended to be shocked and was like, "NO WAY, because he asked me where I looked too!! Frick, that makes me super suspicious of him." I also found out that in the case we lose, Sam wants either Julia or Jake to go home, because Rebecka's basically a non-entity at this point after her number one, Rhone, went home at the first Tribal. The challenge was really tough, but somehow we managed to pull through. Every thirty minutes, we could send a message about feeding the Imperium velociraptor. Every time more people fed ours than theirs, our velociraptor would get closer and closer to catching theirs. Things started out pretty close, but it became clear that Fatum was getting tired. Eventually, Sam, Bryan, and Rebecka went to sleep, and Julia, Jake, Dane, and I were left on night duty. Fatum knew they were going to lose, but Autumn and freaking Hoodie (I don't even know who that is... change your Skype name please) sent messages until the very last second. Every time I saw "Autumn is typing" I died a little on the inside because I just wanted to sleep. Fortunately, we pulled through, and I bonded with Julia and Jake a ton. I like them both a lot, and that gives me options going forward. Now I have an idol, a challenge advantage, a coin, and a decision to make. Stay tuned to find out what happens next!

SO BITCH, let me just say how fucking hyped I am over the fact we won immunity, early in the competition too. I love how Dane, Ned, Jake, and I refused to give tf up. Literally were awake until 3:30, and we were all drained and tired. It was honestly the most proud I've felt in TS. ALSO GUESS WHAT. I am not getting 15th place again? Like are you fucking serious? I honestly and crying typing this because I've failed twice and got 15th, and this time around I didn't. Like overall i'm just so happy, and so proud of myself, and the tribe. And like I know this shit ain't gonna last, but I mean I might as well be happy in the mean time. So anyways, aside from the immunity I have some good news, and some bad. So I was spot on accurate knowing what was up with the swap, meaning I am not being so naive and actually processing stuff correctly. Which is good, since I wasn't able to do that in Bangladesh and India. So I was more than prepared for a swap. Now who I got swapped with concerns me, and excites me. 1. Ned- I have a great feeling about him. We were in Bangladesh together, but never played together. But this made us bond. I feel like I can be able to trust him, as much as I trust Brandon. I honestly have a really good feeling about him. But I know that we cannot make our duo obvious. 2. Jake- So I am iffy about him. I noticed on the other tribe how he gotten so close with Rebecka, who we screwed over in the first round. And I feel as if he is clinging onto me at the moment due to the swap, and he seems to be opening up to me pretty well, but I don't know if I can completely trust him. 3. Rebecka- So this I am also iffy about. I would say I completely do not trust her if she didn't have anyone to cling onto. But she has Jake or me I believe. She is new to the community, and I don't think she has gotten to know these people like I have. Sure I will take her under my wing, but I know she won't forget that I screwed her over, and I won't forget it either. 4. Samantha- I cannot for the life of me feel her out. She is more reserved, more quiet. It worries me, yet doesn't. She is obviously a weak social player, which is good for me, but bad since we do not talk much. 5. Dane- This one I am slightly worried about. I know he and I have had a petty past, but we have talked. Silently, I think we both were like "lets forget about it" but I don't know if he thinks that. I have talked A LOT with him, more that I expected from when I saw his name on my tribe. Which is good, because maybe that is a sign that he can stand me. I am gonna have to keep an eye on him, because I don't know his true intentions toward me. If they are good though, I would like to work with him. 6. Bryan- Again, another one who socially is lacking for me. BUT, I do enjoy him. We got along in another game, and hit it off really well back in One World. But socially he is lacking for me. But I do feel like I may be able to pull him in for a vote in the future if necessary. My other worry is the half idol, and the other one. So we received an immunity challenge, and one person won an idol halve. And than we received an Idol search, and Jake had told me "cus i tried it today and got to some bitch and she was like let me give you half of it and then was like jk i gave it to someone else". UM ARE YOU KIDDING ME. Thank god we have immunity. So now I am gonna attempt to get to the bottom of this like holy shit. Anyways, I will get more tea shortly. Bye bitchhhh.

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Episode Three - “The World’s Smallest Violin, Playing Just For You” - Rebecka

Wow. Tribal went fantastic. I had my formal last night and was completely blackout during tribal council, so I didn't fully wrap my head around what was happening until right now, and THANK GOD IT HAPPENED!! Emily was playing too hard, and not only that, but the five of us were very together on what was happening, which is good for team cohesion. I am going HAM on the next immunity challenge because I do not wanna go back to tribal council, but I know it's bound to happen again. I definitely think the next vote is going to be between Nicole and Haley, in terms of the names being thrown out there, but without a doubt, I am not voting out Haley. I need to bring her rookie-try hard ass to the merge, because I think I've officially found someone who is going to be a bigger target come merge than I would ever be, because I somehow always seem to be that target, and to be quite honest here, I'm fairly confident in making merge now that I've made it through one tribal. I have this very serious goal this round to have an edgic of MOR2. I need to not be under the radar, because obviously a winner is never under the radar, but I really need to be low-key this round. I didn't take any heat in particular last round, but Ryan was a bit confused as to why I was agreeing to vote for him, and the good part is that he was saying he was scared because he didn't wanna expose our relationship, so he can just be saying that, or he can actually mean it. I need to just lay low and really hope we don't go to tribal, and I don't get selected to go a tribal council. I want to quietly look for the idol, by myself, and hope to make progress, while not being super communicative in hopes for the best. I'm playing in a risky reward challenge, and I think I'm not gonna try too hard in the challenge, since it's all about knocking people out of the challenge, unless I get later in the challenge and it's advantageous for me. I don't want to make those moves against anyone, so we'll see what happens since that's an auto target on my back if I play that challenge a bit poorly. We'll see what happens.

I'm so broken apart by what happened this round. I honestly love playing, since it's going to be the most survivor-like experience I can possibly get, and I love getting to know people and play the game and be a power player, but I can't do that if I'm getting voted out third. So to start why I'm so upset, let's rewind to last night. I decided to volunteer to compete in the immunity challenge for my tribe. I know I'm a pretty decent competitor, and I really really thought I had a chance at winning immunity this round, but that clearly isn't what happened. I am fairly confident in my challenge skills, but once I'm ready to compete, Owen tells me that we'll be competing in a logic puzzle..................... For anyone who doesn't know, logic puzzles are absolutely the worst thing to ever happen to me ever, I literally take nine hours to do the simple ones, so this was just death. I actually really honed in on the challenge, but couldn't come out with a W. I was prepared for me, as the losing captain, to choose someone from the winning tribe to win to bring to tribal with me, and I was going to pick Jake, but OF COURSE the twists keep changing every round, which is getting more and more annoying to deal with, but I'm rolling with it. The decision was this: On 12/18/17, at 6:47 PM, Owen (Crossroads Host) wrote: > This round, your tribe is going back to tribal. However, only three of the five of you will be eligible to WALK THE PLANK. Because you failed as a captain, you are automatically one of the three eligible. The winning captain has selected Ryan to join you. Between John, Haley, and Nicole you must select the third person to face elimination with you. Only the three of you will be able to get votes. It will not be revealed which person the winner picked and which person you chose. It is your own decision as a captain. SOOOOOOOOOOO Now Ryan and I are forced to be the two votes, and i'm basically forced to single handedly choose, before everyone else finds out, who I'm voting for this round, because I'm clearly not voting for Ryan this round since i trust him. My thought process was that I was either going to have to choose between the "stoners" (john haley ryan me) or the vets on our tribe, which is Nicole Ryan Haley me, and I basically chose the stoners to side with since I don't have an alliance chat with the vets, and I didn't want shit blowing up if I chose Haley. The biggest reason John was off the table was because the names going around last round were everyone except him and I, so I just wanted as many people to potentially get voted for to be up for eviction with me.

Okay so I am about to single handedly make a blindside happen at tribal, alongside the help of Haley. I went on call with Haley, and told her I had a half an idol, which wasn't my first choice of things I wanted to do, due to my traumatic idol PTSD from past games, but I took a different route by telling Haley, and I made a pretty ingenious plan to get me into the best position on this tribe as possible. Step 1: Get Haley to give me her other half of the idol. (DONE) Step 2: Tell Haley that it's okay to vote for me at tribal, and that it's going to be 3 votes for me, 2 votes for Nicole (DONE) Step 3: Watch the blindside unfold. Step 4: Do damage control with John. Let Ryan be mad at John and Haley for voting for me, let John have to apologize for voting for me, and me play victim and try to really rebuild the strength of our relationships. And then after that, make sure that John and Ryan are the ones at odds with each other, while me getting John back on my side, and putting me back in the driver's seat. I know that this is going to put an insane target on my back when it gets to later in the game, and I'm going to be the guy who had a good idol play in the third round, and I'm going to be the guy that's like "he found the idol once, he can probably find one again" so I'm going to have to be real tricky with getting to merge, because I think the target is going to be on my back a lot more now than it would have ever been this early in the game, but I'll just have to throw caution to the wind and really come up with some shit and hope for the best. I did not want to have to play this hard this early, but it's happening :/ I need a swap soon. I would LOVE for us to go to tribal one more time before we swapped, to vote out John, and then Haley, Ryan and I all make it to a swap, to where I need to build some super strong relationships with some people. Haley ratted out John so much to me in the midst of this whole thing, and that Nicole and John are trying to vote for me this round, and John is going to say some snarky shit like "There's only room for one John." I'm torn on when I'm going to use the "throw haley under the bus" card, but I'm not quite there yet. I know it's going to come eventually, because that girl is playing very well very hard and very early in this game, so it'll be too tough to tell. I don't like that this is how this round is happening, but I'm ready for that OTTP5 edgic this round..... Me when I wanted a MOR3 NFVNVKSLDNFJKLVNLJKSDF

I'm so annoyed, but if this works, it may be one of the biggest early moves I've ever made. First off.... the confessional from earlier. It was a genius idea, but of course our tribe's village idiot fucks it up yet again (dull) So OF COURSE (surprise surprise) Haley tells Ryan about the idol, which means that our cover is blown, Ryan is mad I didn't tell him, and now Haley is "telling" me she is 100% voting for Nicole. I don't trust Haley for shit, so I run to John because I've just gotta get him 100% on my side to make sure that he is going to be voting to keep me, and he knows that he can use me in the future, and that even though he loves Nicole, he's gotta trust me. I tell John that Haley gave me her half of the idol, and that I've got the whole thing. I told John that if he doesn't tell anyone that he knows about my idol, it gives us a lot of wiggle room and we can figure out how Haley is going to use her knowing about my idol to her advantage, and we can just out her more as a snake than she has been for the first three rounds of this game. John also told me that Nicole gave her half of the idol to John, since she is so confident she is being voted out, so now Haley has nothing (thank the lord), i've got a full one, and John has a half, which can turn into a whole very very soon since apparently these things are dumb easy to find. (Note: I told John that if I found another half, I'd give it to him, but there's no way in fucking hell I'm giving up a half an idol, are you fucking kidding me? The only way I'd give it to him is if I had to do something dumb, publicly, to obtain the idol... Then I'd give it to John *eyeroll*) Nicole and John both promised me I'm not being fucked with, and that I'm a good guy and this isn't some master blindside, and if they're correct, then we're going to have four stoners here after tribal council, and our alliance of four is what is going to remain. Here is where I stand right now: 1. I don't trust Haley for shit 2. I need to work on John's trust, and I kinda expect him to tell Ryan about my whole idol, but he knows that Ryan knows and that may get back to me, so he may not tell Ryan 3. Ryan needs to know that I still have utmost trust in him, and that him and I are probably at the center of this tribe right now, because next tribal will probably be between John and Haley going home. 4. Nicole is a saint, does not deserve this if she's getting voted out, but if she has an idol of some kind, and i'm being fucked with, rip Ryan. I'm praying this tribal goes in my favor.

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Episode Two - “Tumblr Survivor Don’t Want Me To Live” - Julia

WOW OKAY. FIRST OF ALL....... Icon me getting an automatic bye in the semi finals of the reward challenge, by simply doing nothing, and then losing horrifically on my first go at the challenge. It's okay! I showed I'm a team player by not playing for the storyteller for next round, and our tribe didn't win anything for reward in particular, which didn't bother me at all, because that means that no one on our tribe looks particularly good, and we all are on a level playing ground, which is good strategically from my perspective. Now, heading into post reward challenge, which is the more ICONIQUE part of my night..... I go to search for the idol, and it's the first round, so very meh, the odds of finding ANYTHING are typically not in my favor... rt? NOT RIGHT!! NOT RIGHT AT ALL!!!!! [12/13/17, 11:11:39 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): You open the book to the marked page. The prologue has ended, and you turn the page. “Chapter One,” it reads, “At Castle Crossroads.” Immediately, the world around you shifts. You find yourself standing in a dimly lit hallway. Lit torches line the walls, and surrounding you are two large doors. What would you like to do? You can… 1. Continue down the hall. 2. Take the left door. 3. Take the right door. 4. Take a torch from the wall. 5. Cry out for help. [12/13/17, 11:17:19 PM] ~~Johnny~~: hmm [12/13/17, 11:17:53 PM] ~~Johnny~~: I really wanna see what happens if I choose option Five [12/13/17, 11:18:03 PM] ~~Johnny~~: But the SMART version of Johnny is telling the dumb version of Johnny not to choose that option [12/13/17, 11:18:11 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): do whatever you want :) [12/13/17, 11:18:17 PM] ~~Johnny~~: watch crying out for help mean an idol gets put in my hand [12/13/17, 11:18:18 PM] ~~Johnny~~: fuck it [12/13/17, 11:18:20 PM] ~~Johnny~~: it’s round one [12/13/17, 11:18:22 PM] ~~Johnny~~: it’s all luck [12/13/17, 11:18:25 PM] ~~Johnny~~: I’m gonna cry out for help [12/13/17, 11:18:44 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): Your calls are soon answered by the most handsome man you have ever seen in your entire life! “Hi,” he says. “I’m Sir Nestor.” What’s your name? You introduce yourself, and he grabs your hand, shaking it firmly. “What did you come here for?” You have two options - profess your undying love for this beautiful man and claim to have come here to woo him and take his hand in marriage, or, try to play it cool and make him jealous, claiming you are here for the Ball, and a chance to meet the Prince. [12/13/17, 11:19:09 PM] ~~Johnny~~: oof [12/13/17, 11:19:20 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): I know [12/13/17, 11:19:20 PM] ~~Johnny~~: one will probably mean that he grabs me tight and gives me an idol [12/13/17, 11:19:27 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): that's what I said when I saw sir nestor too [12/13/17, 11:19:27 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Another would mean that if I play it cool, he might say fuck off [12/13/17, 11:19:48 PM] ~~Johnny~~: So I think the safer option is to profess my undying love for this beautiful man [12/13/17, 11:19:55 PM] ~~Johnny~~: as if anything that I’m saying makes any logical sense [12/13/17, 11:20:01 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): gdgdfsgd [12/13/17, 11:20:03 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): one sec [12/13/17, 11:21:02 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): Sir Nestor is flattered. “I’m sorry, but my heart belongs to another,” he discloses. “But I owe you for the piece of your heart I have stolen.” He grabs your hand again and presses something small and wooden into it. “Take this for safe keeping.” He winks at you and walks away, into the darkness. [12/13/17, 11:21:19 PM] ~~Johnny~~: uhm [12/13/17, 11:21:21 PM] ~~Johnny~~: excuse me? [12/13/17, 11:22:55 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): Sir Nestor has given you half of a hidden immunity idol! This half of Sir Nestor's heart can be combined with any other idol half to make a hidden immunity idol. These halves can be obtained in numerous ways - you will have to find them! [12/13/17, 11:23:03 PM] ~~Johnny~~: OMG [12/13/17, 11:23:04 PM] ~~Johnny~~: STFU [12/13/17, 11:23:07 PM] ~~Johnny~~: I found a half of one? [12/13/17, 11:23:09 PM] ~~Johnny~~: I’m dying LISTEN READERS!! I KNOW THAT'S A LOT TO READ, BUT FFS PLEASE READ WHAT JUST HAPPENED. I chose "Cry for Help" and "Profess undying love for strange man" and got half an idol! THIS IS FUCKING FANTASTIC!! Now... on a serious note. Having half an idol is huge for a lot of ways. For starters, I am definitely not telling anyone I have this half of an idol. I learned last season from my Steffen incident, and I know that there's no chance in hell I can share this information with anyone. I am, of course, going to try to go for the idol every single round, in hopes of finding the other half, but I now, more than ever, need to play a super strong social game, but not delve into strategy talk (Thanks Andrew for that piece of advice) and just keep it purely social, and let people bring up things like "I trust you" and "I get good vibes from you" so that way they can maybe feel more comfortable telling me about the idol. This gives me a lot of leverage early on in the game, and I'm pretty stoked, but I've gotta keep it cool. As for not participating in the immunity challenge. I see there being no upside to competing for several reasons. First off, I said over and over I'd compete if someone else wanted to sit out, which shows that I'm willing to compete, and also, if we win, I'm immune and didn't have to do much work for the challenge, meanwhile if we lose, there's likely going to be a member of our tribe who didn't do as much, and it's going to be easier to divert attention on that person. I'm thinking I'm safe if we lose, but I honestly don't believe my connections are as strong as they can be, so I'm going to really have to pick that up the best I can, but I do feel confident in my relationships with Ryan, Haley and John. I know Haley likes Emily, so that can maybe give me an in there. I see Nicole being first out of our tribe. She doesn't seem the most active, so I've got faith in that being the vote if we lose still. I know I keep talking about who I would vote over and over again in these confessionals, but it's always a thought in my head, and rightfully so, because eventually this game is going to pick up entirely, and it's going to be chaos.

Sooooo we lost the challenge, which is exactly what I was anticipating. I knew that this challenge was going to be one we were going to lose, because our tribe didn't give a half of a shit in terms of effort, and it kinda pisses me off, but now we're headed to tribal in the second round, and I think i'm partially ready for it. I knew that Ryan, John and Haley have all been pretty tight, and it should've been pretty simple in knowing that we were going to choose between Emily and Nicole, but then the LOVELY twist of the best scoring player from our tribe bringing a member from the winning tribe to tribal council is NOT bueno. Emily decided to bring over Bryan, which was an interesting choice. Honestly, I don't think Bryan being here or not being here will make an impact on tribal council, and I know the conversations I'm having right now with him are pussy footing around almost, and I'm trying not to make it seem too casual, because I can tell he's fed up with the small talk and wants to know what's happening with tribal council. APPARENTLY, according to Haley and John, is that Emily has admitted to both of them that she enjoys talking to Ned and Bryan more than she spoke to us, so like BUH BYE BITCH!! I tried to bring up the counter argument that Nicole is probably going to be detrimental in challenges when it comes to effort, compared to Emily, because Emily seems to care a lot more, but in a smaller cast, with an inevitable swap coming very soon, we can't keep around Emily, when she has way closer relationships on the other tribes, and we'll almost rather take a loss in a challenge with Nicole, than a few wins and bringing Emily into a swap, where she might screw us. On top of all of this, I know my social game couldn't possibly be as strong as it could be this time around, considering Emily didn't trust me with the information of her talking to other tribes more than us, which she did tell John and Haley, so this means I've really just gotta watch out and make sure my name isn't the name that is being brought up today for the potential vote from Emily. I think Nicole is going to be on board with voting with us too, to get rid of Emily, so I've gotta do a bit of talking to her today to make sure that Nicole feels some loyalty to me, and will feel closer to me after this vote, than hopefully the other people on our tribe, and then I've gotta talk to Emily and just make sure that my name isn't the name she plans on throwing out there. I think she's going to throw out Ryan's name, but who knows. Only in due time of tribal council will we find out.......

SOOOOOOOOO an alliance was made called the "The Stoners" which is actually my favorite alliance of all time, and I couldn't be happier with the title of it. The title alone just makes me want to trust them whole heartedly until the game is over. jkjkjk on a serious note NOW So the alliance is pretty damn perfect if you ask me. I have the three people I trust most in the game so far, and that's Ryan, John and Haley, and being in an alliance with them is good. I trust them, and I'm always pretty nervous going into a tribal council, but I do think we'll be fine this round, and I'm just going to try to make my name not come up at a tribal. My social game could be better, but i've gotta make it stronger with nicole and emily. AS FOR THE IDOL SEARCH THOUGH: Last time we spoke about my idol searches, I FOUND, check that out, FOUND half an idol on my first try, and I was like HOW DID I DO THAT WTF!! So then I decided to search again, and I ended up going down the main hall, and down the stairs, and I found a witch, and she asked me to play a game! [12/15/17, 9:51:18 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): You walk down the stairs and find yourself in a dark, damp room - presumably the dungeon. You hear a noise up ahead - it seems to be a chain dragging along the ground. Cautiously, you walk ahead into the darkness, and come upon a jail cell. Inside is a tiny man dressed like a jester. “Hello,” he says, surprised to see you. “My name is Mervyn. I’ve been down here a while… Would you like to play a game?” [12/15/17, 9:54:47 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Hmmm [12/15/17, 9:54:54 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Do I have to say yes or no? [12/15/17, 9:55:18 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): fkjadshjf yeah [12/15/17, 9:55:32 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Okay. I'll say yes [12/15/17, 9:56:08 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): ok so here is what will happen [12/15/17, 9:56:15 PM] Owen (Crossroads Host): “Excellent!” Mervyn exclaims. “It’s been a long while since I’ve had some entertainment. Here is how this will work: I am hiding a coin in my left hand or right hand. If you can guess the correct hand three times in a row, you win! I’ll give you three attempts. Understood?” I lost the game, unfortunately, but IMAGINE if I won, it may have been the other half of that idol, and I would've been tripping my balls off, but I didn't find it, so I decided to try to gain some favor, and this may have been a HUGE mistake, but I get this feeling that this makes Haley, who is playing the game pretty hard, trust me more than she trusts John and Ryan. So I told her the exact path I took, and I told her that she had to play the game, try to win. I alsooooooo may or may not have decided to tell John too. I think this level of transparency that I can have with John and Haley this early is good. I'm definitely going to have to tell Ryan too, in hopes that one of them gets the half an idol, and tells me. At this point, I'm giving them a huge piece of information in this game, and I think they'll be thankful later, and maybe even secretly tell me that they found the other half of the idol that I'm looking for, that they don't know I have. I know this may be a flashback from Japan, but I've got a pretty decent vibe from these three, and at least knowing that Emily doesn't have it is just a step better than anything else, so I'll take that as a moral victory for now, and hope I'm the one who beats the game to get beyond the "Win."

And the winning streak continues! The reward challenge was great. We decided to split the challenges with 3 of us playing for Storymaster and 3 playing for immunity advantage. I was put into the Storymaster challenge (Knight Moves) with Chris and Autumn, and our only competition was Julia... who left before the challenge even started. So we played amongst ourselves and had Alliance Bonding Time (TM), where Chris eventually won. Also, Bryan won the advantage for our immunity challenge, which we didn't really need because everyone put in a ton of work and we won in a landslide (even with Chris's disadvantage from the Storybook as well as him being sick all day). The alliances are going great. Chris and I have an alliance with Dane (called Wassup Homies) and one with Autumn (called Mystery Inc. I'm Fred, Chris is Shaggy, and Autumn is Daphne). Now Chris and I need to work on stealthily merging the two alliances into one, but it's looking like we're in a good spot at the moment. In addition, I found a challenge advantage in the Storybook, which Dane tried to convince me to play last night. Dude, try to make it a LITTLE less obvious when you want to flush my advantage, because now I'm not sure I can trust you. Dane, keep that hug *boop* for me. Cuz it wasn't real. http://oi53.tinypic.com/vg6kcn.jpg Now here's where Bryan screwed up. Again. Because Fauna lost immunity, the person on their tribe who scored the highest gets to kidnap someone from another tribe, where they will cast a vote but be immune. The winner of this advantage happened to be Emily, and it was no surprise who she chose: Bryan. https://media.giphy.com/media/xT0xeQ3Qqmf2ZZ9rQk/giphy.gif So Bryan's obviously going to get pulled into Emily's alliance, where he'll learn ALL about the relationships and goings-on at Faulty, which will set him up REAL nicely for a swap or merge. If he doesn't spill all the Faculty secrets as soon as he gets back to camp, I'm strongly considering throwing the next challenge to vote him out, because letting Bryan reach a swap is a risk I'm not willing to take. SamanthaI’m glad I’m on a tribe that keeps winning but that makes me nervous bc there is little strategy going on, and if we merge without having a tribal, we are fucked. I may be getting ahead of myself with the merge thing, but my tribe is kicking ass. I sat out of this comp though so I really can’t take much credit. I am nervous about how close Bryan and Emily are. Bryan was the one who talked to Emily about having our tribes work together and then she won a reward allowing her to borrow Bryan for their tribal. If they’re both around when we merge, that is definitely a duo to split. I also love Chris. We snap all the time and he’s so funny and kind! I think I want to work with him. And we were talking about people on the tribe and we both think autumn is on the bottom. I haven’t talked to autumn since the first night which is not good at all hahaha. I really like Ned, we have a lot in common. I didn’t realize that in our previous game, and I know I have Dane. We have been friends for so long. I think we can easily work together. Autumn and Bryan are the only ones I’m worried about, but overall I think theyre fine for now. I’m really interested to see what happens at tribal. I wonder how the other tribes see us. I know fantum probably hates us but oh well :) I want to do a lot of idol searching this game. I’m tired of never having idols, I get them so rarely, I’m determined this game.

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Episode One Part Two - “How About We Play This Game My Way?” -Ned

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Episode One Part One - “This Is Such Uncharted Territory” - Autumn

[12/10/17, 11:41:35 PM] ~~Johnny~~: What’re your thoughts for this challenge? [12/10/17, 11:43:34 PM] Ned Strong: My initial thought was just that it's gonna go practically randomly until the end and that it's basically luck [12/10/17, 11:43:55 PM] Ned Strong: But then I realized that whoever you give it to, if their tribe loses, they can't win individual immunity [12/10/17, 11:44:17 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Yea see I just don’t understand what’s happening (cwl) [12/10/17, 11:44:21 PM] Ned Strong: So it's like, give it to people you're not close with so the ones you are have a shot at individual immunity [12/10/17, 11:44:35 PM] Ned Strong: Yeah I've never heard of this challenge before (cwl) [12/10/17, 11:44:43 PM] Ned Strong: And it doesn't help that it seems like John is asleep [12/10/17, 11:44:49 PM] ~~Johnny~~: ohhhh LMAO [12/10/17, 11:44:53 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Is John asleep? [12/10/17, 11:44:58 PM] ~~Johnny~~: He said in our tribe chat he gave it off to someone [12/10/17, 11:45:02 PM] ~~Johnny~~: But maybe I’m wrong haha [12/10/17, 11:45:28 PM] Ned Strong: Then is Owen asleep? :o [12/10/17, 11:45:34 PM] Ned Strong: He should've announced it then [12/10/17, 11:45:57 PM] Ned Strong: Right on cue (cwl) [12/10/17, 11:51:22 PM] ~~Johnny~~: LMAO [12/10/17, 11:51:22 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Ikr [12/10/17, 11:51:30 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Just as we were talking about it [12/10/17, 11:51:34 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Okay well I definitely won’t give you a key [12/10/17, 11:51:37 PM] ~~Johnny~~: And we’ll see where this goes [12/10/17, 11:53:29 PM] Ned Strong: Yeah I won't give you one either. I think what we need to do to is give Fatum another key so they don't just coast to victory with the automatic "less than 3 keys = victory" rule [12/10/17, 11:55:14 PM] ~~Johnny~~: Can I give to one from my own tribe? [12/10/17, 11:55:31 PM] Ned Strong: You're not allowed to unless you're the last tribe remaining [12/10/17, 11:56:02 PM] ~~Johnny~~: So then how can I give to Fatum if I’m on Fatum? mkay....so clearly you're trying to take a knock at my tribe, when you told EMILY that we were going to work together to make sure that Optio is going to tribal council. I see you Ned.

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We have a winner! The nine members of the jury have all cast their votes. Let’s see who holds the title of Sole Survivor!

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You can view the Final Tribal Council here!

Jury, the nine of you have until 9 PM EST on Tuesday, January 23 to cast your vote for Sole Survivor. Feel free to include a message with it!

We will be having a live Winner Reveal and reunion tomorrow. The time is TBD!

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