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With the next immunity challenge coming up...; Why I should feel better...but don't!
Topic Started: Jul 10 2017, 08:19 PM (40 Views)
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Last night, Michelle was eliminated from the game due to non-participation. I called it! (at least, halfway). ..and, indeed, the competition itself was just practice for the rest of us. Plus, Brobst informed us that each losing tribe will become immune from the very next tribal immunity challenge (following their vote-out)...which I think is a sensible twist, because prevents any single tribe-of-four from ending up being "Koror'ed" in this first portion of the game. Although it increases the pressure on all of the winning tribes to keep on winning.

As I'd mentioned to Joel -- I predict that, after the first six eliminations, everyone who is still in the game will be reshuffled into two larger tribes of seven. And will probably proceed in those combinations up until the merge. No guarantee of that, obviously; but that'd be my best prediction. Whether the merge is at F12 or F10 or otherwise...who knows??? (although I do believe there will be nine jury members plus a Final Two, regardless of how early or late the merge itself ends up being).

So now, Cork is busy constructing our tribal flag. Joel, Rudy, and Dave are really getting into it. I'm trying to go with the flow, act like I'm having fun...when I'm really secretly terrified as to how these next tribal councils are going to go. But I'm trying to hide my fear -- even to Joel. Well, as much as I can. I want him to know, in a fraternal way...if he's similarly terrified, he has a kindred in me. So maybe he will want to survive together alongside of me? I look at it this way: if I do my best to bond and integrate with our Cork tribe during these activities, it helps to minimize the chances that Joel/Rudy/Dave will bond with EACH OTHER more than with me...and, consequently, refrain from turning against me as a trio. So I'm trying to play a very Fabio-like game at this stage, until there's another shakeup. It also doesn't help that I have ZERO hands-on artistic ability, so I can't really do much in the way of design or PhotoShop. I can only offer suggestions. So I have to act like I'm having fun with it, without coming off like I'm trying to micromanage the flag design process itself.

Here's the truth: I really couldn't give two shits about our flag. Well, let me amend that -- I care about creating a flag insofar as boosting our tribal morale, if it ensures that we can avoid going to tribal council. I could care less, though, about what our flag actually looks like. If I had gone to camp as a kid, I would have sucked at arts-&-crafts. Actually, I can't swim, either. And I'm pyrophobic. And I hate bugs and wild animals. And I don't like other people doing my laundry. Hmmm, now I think I realize why I never went away to camp...

In the words of Nicole Nilson-Schaffrich from BB2 -- I hate fucking arts-&-crafts!!!! But I'll just go along with it, whatever the rest of them want to do. Apparently, our tribal flag will have some tie-in to a future challenge...whether that's tomorrow night's challenge, or the one after that. Speaking of which...

Since Amanda and Sierra's tribe is immune tomorrow, that obviously means one of the other sixteen active players (I'm excluding Misty, for obvious reasons) will be headed to the Ponderosa tomorrow night. Now, I'm guessing that the third tribal council of the season will be the elimination of Misty...*assuming that* she's still a "no-show" at that point in time. Ideal scenario: Rudy, Dave, Joel, and myself all hang on for as long as possible. Although Joel is my first-choice to work with (out of those three), if our quartet could manage to survive into the next phase of the game, I could see Rudy and Dave as people who *might* be willing to work with me and/or Joel, at least for a little while. But, I'll be playing that one by ear.

That brings me to my long-lost Zeke and Todd. Oh, my brothers, I hardly knew ye. I constantly think about them and wonder how they are doing over on their new tribe. Will they discard me in favor of Adam and/or Nick, if there's a tribal swap? Or will they consider having us all work together, even if only temporarily? Sort of like being in one of S33 Hannah's little "trust-clusters." And what about people such as Diane, Ozzy, Sierra, and Amanda???...whom I was just getting to know before The_Big_Split.

If I can make it to that stage of the game, I suppose I should keep two things in mind. First, don't discard anyone who is left in the game in terms of potentially aligning with them. That doesn't mean trust anyone unconditionally or prematurely, of course. But keep all options open for alliances. Especially because I don't know which of the people whom I've befriended might not be there, once there's a switcheroo. But, secondly, I need to avoid any assumptions that just because people are entering a new tribe from their old tribe together, that it would necessarily mean they are aligned or have airtight bonds. My hope is that Zeke, Todd, Joel, and myself can all manage to get to the merge/jury and make something great happen (and, if we all advance to that point together, I would have to be very careful about how I balance my friendships with Zeke/Todd versus Joel, in such a scenario)...but I'm also aware that none of them can promise to stay loyal to me until the very end. And, if any of them leaves the game prematurely...this is where cultivating better relationships with Diane and several of the others could serve me well. Or even if Rudy/Dave are still in the game, depending on how that goes. So there's a lot weighing on my mind. How to survive this immediate stage of the game. How to make it onto the jury. And then, most intriguingly, how I could navigate any social dynamics if I'm fortunate enough to be heading toward the final leg of the game playing against a group of competitive-yet-affable gamers.

I'm sure that even Fabio -- as calm and collected as he appeared in Nicaragua -- was shitting bricks the whole through until his immunity run happened. At this rate, Rudy's allegorical references to diarrhea on our tribal flag will become actual diarrhea. From my own buttocks.

We'd better win tomorrow. Or I'll be like Vanuatu Rory, burning down the Ponderosa...

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Bubba,Jul 10 2017
09:19:02 PM
....don't discard anyone who is left in the game in terms of potentially aligning with them.  That doesn't mean trust anyone unconditionally or prematurely,
of course.  But keep all options open for alliances.

VERY WELL SAID. B)
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