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Post by John Cochran on Jun 17, 2013 14:23:41 GMT -5
         Brenda: gorillayordreamsBrett: brett_clouserCochran: callmecochranMalcolm: getawaymalcolmNaonka: NaOnkaIsHereParvati: pieceoflime_jenPete: hecanflyzackStephen: horror.heather |
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Post by John Cochran on Jun 18, 2013 1:08:40 GMT -5
Yet again, the Magnetic Tribe showed everyone else what we are capable of doing. This week, the challenge went by very, very quickly since everyone seem to have a good amount of Survivor knowledge, which really helped us overall, because we need to get everything right very fast. In less than 20 minutes, we had all of our body parts found and started sending PMs to Jeff.
The second stage of the challenge, which everyone had to send our list to Jeff as soon as possible, really panicked the whole tribe. Since we all saw the whole Lindquist tribe get online at the same time minutes after we finished our list, we imagined they were done like us. And, while that happened, NaOnka was kinda MIA when we needed her the most.
It was kinda devastating to have our whole faiths in NaOnka's hands because we didn't know when she was going to be online and send her list to Jeff as well. The only thing we could do at that point was pray and hope she was going to see the thread and finish the challenge as fast as possible.
At the end, thankfully, she did send it, which makes her a much better tribemate than Natalie by a thousand miles or more. Well, we weren't the fastest tribe overall, but we had the highest number of correct answers, which is all that matters. I'm quite sad that I was the person who gave the only freaking wrong answer, but, come on, it was for sure the hardest body part of them all. And, after all, we still won the challenge, so I had absolutely no reason to worry myself out.
So, I'm safe from elimination again, which is awesome, because I always hate to have a date with Jeff at Tribal Council. Believe me, it's always a bad experience and I'm really freaking sure that every time that we have to visit Tribal Council in the future, it's going to be a fucking hard thing to do, since it's not going to be about challenge performances or social skills anymore, but just strategical decisions, since we don't have another piece of dead weight just like Natalie to get rid off.
And to make sure I'm not the one leaving this game, I need to be the one in charge of those strategic decisions, right? That's obviously something that I'm focusing right now while we don't have to vote out someone every week. I need to get the numbers on my side to start getting more and more power.
Thankfully, I have Stephen on my side. I think I may have underrated his importance to me at this point, because the little guy seems to be a huge social player, even though his communication skills are not that great at all. Apparently, he and Parvati do have some kind of a showmance. I don't know what the hell that means, but I think they're definitely an alliance, so I think I might be their third wheel?
That's not a good position to be in the long run, but I can work with that for the next few rounds. They definitely need to be broken up sooner rather than later, but I think it might be too damn early to even think about separating those two. Actually, probably my goal needs to be making sure I'm the one both of them want to take to the Final Two (or Three?) at the end of the day, and not their loved ones. It's gonna be a tough job, but I guess I can make it work.
Also, Stephen really seems to be playing a hard game so far. He just revealed he wants an alliance with both of us, Parvati, Brett and Brenda. I think he might already have proposed deals to all of them, which is great, because it saves me a lot of time and energy. It does help my gameplay a lot too, because he's the one making promises to everyone, well I sit pretty under the radar just being he's friend who's also in their alliance. So, I might already be safe from the next couple of votes without putting a huge target around my back.
I feel like I can definitely say Stephen is doing my hard work at this point and I'm glad for it. I don't wanna get my hands dirty right now because I don't want anyone even considering me for the vote. That's why I'm always nice, hard-working and excited. I want to be everyone's best friend while they all think Stephen is the head of the alliance, while instead I do believe I have control over him, so when they all start going after each other, everyone is going to be come up to me with a deal. In my option, that's probably the perfect position. |
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Post by John Cochran on Jun 18, 2013 1:21:49 GMT -5
Since my alliance seems to be myself, Stephen, Brenda, Parvati and Brett right now, there's three people left from our tribe. That's NaOnka, Pete and Malcolm. I do think I have a good and strong relationship with Brett, but I don't if I can really trust Parvati and Brenda, but Stephen might not be up to change up the 5-way alliance. In his opinion, Malcolm has a freaking huge ego who is super annoying, NaOnka is obviously crazy person that might play a wishy-washy flip-flopping game and Pete turns out to be a huge question mark, so if there's something I need to do right now, it's solidify my bonds with both of the girls, because we might get stuck with each other for a very, very long time. With that in mind, I've decided to talk with Parvati, because both of us and Stephen seem to be kind of the core of our alliance, because us guys have the Revenge of The Nerds thing going on and Stephen and Parvati are some weird kind of showmance which I don't fully understand, but just have to accept, I guess. But, as you can see, our bond is Stephen, so we need to have a relationship that doesn't involve him, otherwise I won't have so much control over my alliance as I would have hoped. Our deal started as a promise to look out for each other, but I think we can grow that into a full-formed alliance. There's a lot of room to expand our friendship and really willing to let it happen, since I really like her as a person and she seems to be the kind of person that might help he get further into the competition, just like Stephen right now. |
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