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Round Twelve; 2/22/12 2:00 am
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Well, I've been forced to play a different kind of game than I'm used to. Down in numbers, it's all been about adapting and making myself useful to others... about always looking for options... about out-guessing those with power... and about slowly making my way back toward a spot where I can have power once more.

I think I've been doing well. Once again, I had to decide whether or not to play my idol... and once again I correctly figured I was not the target. Sawyer told me they thought they'd be splitting votes. I knew Sawyer would keep his word, but I was worried that Jill would make a move. She didn't.

Now I'm still in the game. Helen is still in the game. I still have an idol. And only SIX players remain. I gain a little more power with every tribal council I survive.

The big questions on my mind are as follows...

1. Will Jill make a move against Sawyer?
2. Why aren't Dwight and Robb scrambling?
3. Will Sawyer really go to final 2 with me (he says he will)?
4. When will Helen or myself become a target?
5. And as always, do I or do I not play my idol?

I'm trying to make myself EXTREMELY useful to Sawyer. Here's the message I just sent him.

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So here is what I know. The night you and I started talking on here about the plan to vote with Helen and Jill, Jill had already started talking to Helen about it. She straight up asked Helen who she trusted more, you or her... to which Helen obviously told her she trusted her more. I'm still always amazed by those sorts of questions. Of COURSE Helen isn't going to answer any other way when asked that question, or else it puts her on Jill's radar. But I digress. LOL. She also told Helen not to tell you or me that they were talking... but Helen told me anyway.

Now I don't know how much of what came next happened because Jill wanted to secure Helen as a vote or how much of it happened because Jill is positioning herself to make a move... but.... she basically told Helen that you think you are controlling things, but in reality it's her. She said she wanted to take out Lindsey and then Dwight, and then at final five, she wanted to take you out because you try to control the game too much and because she doesn't think she can beat you.

Now, that would make the final four herself, Helen, Robb, and me. How much she really wants that, I don't know. It sounds kind of weird to me.

At any rate, this is why I brought up that we could use the idol to do some really creative things. I do like the plan you had for it... to give it to Helen next round and then take out whoever we want. But at the same time, I'm not sure everyone will just outright vote for Helen, since they know the idol is still in play. The idol can be used through 5, so if Jill really IS planning to take you out then, I can actually give it to YOU and we could send her packing the night she makes her big move. How epic would that be?

That of course, depends on if she really IS going to make that move at all, or if she is just feeding Helen lies to make Helen trust her. Either way, the idol is ours to use any way we see fit.

Has Jill talked to you about how she wants to vote next? She's asking me what I want to do and I don't know what to tell her really. If I say what I think she wants to hear, she could always use it against me... like if I were to say Dwight, she could just tell Dwight.

Neither Dwight nor Robb have said a word to me since Lindsey got voted out tonight, which I find kind of strange. You'd think they'd be scrambling after that. Makes me wonder what they've been told.

Anyway, get back to me. What would you want to do next?


If I can, I still want to get to the end with Helen. But if I can't, I sure as hell will still try to get to the end. I'm fighting tooth and nail in this thing. I think I've played a strong game. I positioned myself well for a merge, but unfortunately, the merge was nothing more than organized chaos... and a group of real life friends... but the organized chaos is erroding them. But it turns out I might be water proof... maybe.
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Well, I've been forced to play a different kind of game than I'm used to. Down in numbers, it's all been about adapting and making myself useful to others... about always looking for options... about out-guessing those with power... and about slowly making my way back toward a spot where I can have power once more.


I know the feeling when you find yourself playing differently than you normally would or might want to because of circumstances. BUT what I like about those times is that you have
to become adaptable. I hate playing "defense" in games.........like if a merge vote goes the other way and you have to just become as valuable as possible to "the numbers" so that
if nothing else..........they have a REASON to keep you in a round or two til you can shake it up.


My stance on SURVIVOR has long been A D A P T A T I O N.


Every single person who ever plays an online game HAS TO have SOMETHING NOT go their way.


They have to.


If people aren't forced to adapt...............it's practically impossible to become a better player.


That's the one thing I actually LIKE about having a round somewhere go haywire because all of a sudden ~ you're forced to think up a *PLAN Z* and make it work.



P.S. I'm preaching to the choir. :D But still. I like making Confessionals not just useful to the player, but to other players reading afterwards.




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Yeah, and good defense positions you well for a strong offensive should you survive. I had to take a defensive stand in Belize, and before you knew it, I was controlling things for quite a while.

I had to take a defensive stand in the Office, and it didn't end up working so well for me. In Siberia, I was mostly on offense for most of the game, which is where I really shine.... but turns out I'm not so bad at the defensive aspect of things either. If I make it to the end, I still think I can build a strong case for why I deserve to win... and I'm good at persuasion anyway. I'm still dangerous.
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O, and Helen and I are both good at coming up with plans A - Z... and then well into letters not yet invented. So, that part has been fun. We are still a very dangerous alliance, and I would have to say my early assertion that she was going to be overlooked and underrated has definitely come true. Helen is a weapon. Period.
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Update: 2/22/12 3:10 am

So now Deb is telling me that she saved me Sunday night because they were going to vote for me but she got them to vote for Ibe instead, because we both didn't trust him.

The great irony here, if it is true, is that Ibe voted for Jill... so Deb really didn't save me. She actually made life harder for me and it led to her own demise. Had she just voted Jill,
Jill would have been gone and we would have been in the majority.

That's what emotional, impulsive playing gets you. Paranoia will destroya. Period. That is why I've been so "bold" with regards to the idol. You have to think long-term. In the moment, it might look like taking a risk is dangerous, but if the risk is necessary for long-term gain, sometimes you just have to take it. Plant your feet firmly in the mud and take
a stand.

Hindsight is 20/20, and Deb is probably kicking herself right now. Woulda, shoulda, coulda, didn't.
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And it gets better. The reason she didn't vote Jill is because she didn't think Ibe or Helen would vote the way they were supposed to, so she also didn't vote the way she was supposed to, to "save" us. Except, Ibe and Helen BOTH voted the way they were supposed to, so her plan to "save" us got Djon and Allie voted out that night and herself voted out one tribal council later. What a save!!
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Update: 2/22/12 2:55 pm

So things are getting pretty interesting around here. I think I might actually be in a position where I can secretly run things again.

Sawyer no longer trusts Jill, as he shouldn't. I've filled him in on everything she's said to Helen in "confidence." I've let him know that Helen is telling me everything behind Jill's back . So now, he feels like I'm protecting him using Helen as a mole. He needs me and Helen to feel safe now, because we offer him idols and information. In fact, he has half of the hot tub believing HE has the idol, and Helen is playing into that paranoia, because she admited to Dwight that she had it and gave it away... but she won't tell him to who. She just said she messed up because she no longer trusts that person. He assumes it's Sawyer.

Meanwhile, Dwight is scrambling to Helen, asking her if she'd vote out Robb with him and Jill... even though Jill is still planning on voting him out next, unbeknownst to him. Jill seems to think she is running this game, which, in my eyes, is dangerous to everyone involved, because she makes big impulsive power moves and constantly tries to change things up. It brings chaos to the game and is hazardous to everyone, including herself... because her plans have a tendency to either backfire or have un-intended side-effects. Sawyer and I both want to vote her out next.

Dwight has now made a final two promise to Helen, though he's been known to make promises and then to break them almost immediately in this game. Sawyer is acting like he wants me with him in the final two. I think people think they can beat me or Helen easily... but they have another thing coming. Because we've done so much behind the scenes, and because we know how to address the jury to let them know just what we have done. Not to mention I think I have Newman's vote, Allie's vote, Djon's vote, and Deb's vote already locked up if I get there. If Helen gets voted out, which I'm actually not hoping for, but if it should happen, I also have her vote, and probably the game.

At this point, I don't even think me or Helen are targets anymore. The next vote will most likely be either Dwight or Jill. And I still have the idol!!!
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Kate,Feb 22 2012
02:32 AM
And it gets better.  The reason she didn't vote Jill is because she didn't think Ibe or Helen would vote the way they were supposed to, so she also didn't vote the way she was supposed to, to "save" us.  Except, Ibe and Helen BOTH voted the way they were supposed to, so her plan to "save" us got Djon and Allie voted out that night and herself voted out one  tribal council later.  What a save!!


You should see my Confessional ;)
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BROBST,Feb 22 2012
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You should see my Confessional ;)

Can't wait!!
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Update: 2/23/12 12:35 am

So now Dwight is putting his cards in Helen's basket. Helen wants the final four to be her, me, Sawyer, and Dwight. Sawyer wants the final four to be her, me, Sawyer, and Robb. Dwight wants the final three to be me, Helen, and him. I don't. Because Dwight could very well win the final challenge and he would take Helen to the end.

Sawyer is promising me final two, and I'm going along with it. I've promised it back to him. Helen is obviously promising me final two as well, and I'm promising it back to her. In reality, I think my chances are better against Sawyer, because I'd have Helen's vote on top of Pam's, T-bird's, Ibrehem's, and Lindsey's. That would be a win. BUT, if I won last immunity, I'd bring Helen to the end.

I want final three to be me, Helen, and Sawyer... obviously, because I think they'd BOTH take me to the end. Now things get tricky, because people have to position themselves.
For the first time in the game, my interests and Helen's aren't completely identical.

If I could somehow find a way to slip Robb into the final four in Dwight's place, that would be optimal.
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What have the discussions about the idol been like lately? I know you and Helen have discussed that Sawyer has told some folks that HE has it.


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Dwight and Robb thought Sawyer had it. Jill still thought I had it. However, Sawyer attempted to get both Dwight and Robb on board for voting Jill out tonight. Dwight already wanted to vote Jill out. In fact, Helen had told him he was Jill's target, so he was all for it. There was no need to get Robb involved.

Of course, Sawyer told Robb anyway. The problem is Robb wanted nothing to do with the plan, so he went to Jill and told her two things... one of them true, and the other false...

1. Sawyer wants to vote her out tonight.
2. I gave Sawyer the idol.

So apparently, Jill's been freaking out all day. Now her and Robb both want to blindside Sawyer tonight so they can get the idol out of play. Silly rabbits, Idols are for Kate. :lol:

Last I heard, Dwight is still voting however Helen votes, and that will be for Jill... unless she wins immunity, then it will be for Robb. Those two should be getting split up tonight no matter how the cookie crumbles. Jill and Robb think Helen and Dwight are voting for Sawyer, so they will not be happy campers when all is said and done.

And of course, I will not be playing the idol tonight. I will most certainly be playing it tomorrow night to ensure myself final four, since it is the last night it can be played. And then, there will no longer be any mystery. ;)
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