#bethany-ricci

Hey there! You said you are a vet so you’re the first person I wanted to reach out to because me and my gf are both huge animal lovers. I would love to work together!

hey ricci, great to meet you!

I hope we can still be friends but I'm actually going to the vet later with my dog, I'm not actually a vet 😭

Wow my reading comprehension is on fire already

Works all the same 😎 I used to have a golden retriever and am adopting 2 cats with my gf soon

nah you're all good. I'm a huge animal lover too ofc so I love the enthusiasm

aw that's great! are you gonna go to a rescue and try and find a pair?

That’s the goal! My gf has volunteered at a few places since we moved a couple years ago so we’re probably gonna start there when we’re ready

good for yall, hope you can find some cuties

so tell me about yourself a lil bit, I wanna know about who I'm workin with :)

I’m 24 out of Tampa, FL - been working all over healthcare for about 6 years now but i’m currently doing pharmaceuticals. Very much into animals, nature etc along with reality tv which I would imagine is obvious 😭 I just got back from a week in Alaska! How about you?

ah neat I have always wanted to travel to florida because I love manatees so much. do you ever see them around?

I'm 39, single, live near Sacramento with my little elder dog, she just turned 15

I like pretty basic things like watching movies, reading, video games, taking the dog to parks, trying to paint. I like concerts and going to basketball games sometimes, watching the finals rn

then for work I help oversee a grant that funds projects for residents in skilled nursing facilities. I do the fiscal stuff like pay invoices, track budgets, make reports. it's pretty boring sometimes but low stress so I appreciate it

Love to hear it! There definitely are lots of manatees down here, me and my gf frequent the tampa zoo and disney and that’s mostly where we see them - quite rare just out in the wild unfortunately. We are also very big movie and music people! Both AMC a listers lol, also not sure what type of music you like but we are huge Noah Kahan fans and seeing him in June so we’re excited for that

yay I am a movie lover too. I have not gone to the theaters lately and miss it, so I do watch a lot at home. I've been getting into terrence malick again and thought knight of cups was really great. I love music too and try to see my fave artists when I can. I just saw jose gonzalez in san francisco a few weeks ago. I don't know noah kahan, can you recommend an album?

That’s great! I haven’t seen knight of cups yet but i’m a big Christian Bale guy so I gotta see it. Stick Season is his really big album that launched him into popularity, he just released another last month called The Great Divide that has some wonderful songs on it. Orbiter is an all-time favorite track for me now

thank you! when I have time to relax I'll take a listen

yes christian bale is great and amazing in the movie. I watched the new world last night and he's in that as well, though colin farrell is the male star of that one

You’ll have to let me know what you think! I’m a fan of Colin Farrell as well, last thing i’ve seen him in was A Big Bold Beautiful Journey which did not hit for me at all so hopefully he redeems himself with me in the next thing I watch him in

are you interested in any new movies coming out? I'm kinda out of the loop on super new stuff

Very much so! We honestly try to see as many new releases as possible so I could probably comment on any movie you may be interested in watching that’s out now. But Obsession was fantastic and one of the best horror movies i’ve seen in a while, we have tickets upcoming for Backrooms, Mandolorian and Grogu, Masters of the Universe over the next week or so - and tickets to Dune Part 3 later in december this year on one of the largest screens in the world which were super excited about

Also, not to play too hard to fast but I obviously feel very good about working with you primarily - If we had 1 or 2 others we liked it could help us get through these early stages smoothly. there’s 2 others on australian time so it may be difficult to connect with them consistently, I have spoken to Corny a bit and am enjoying his vibe - not gonna say that to anyone else yet though

hey I love playing fast like this when it's in my favor! I love your vibe too and am down to commit to working together. I like corny a lot too and the others haven't been around for me yet. I've played with australian time players before and it's hard but can be done. one season I played an australian guy won it so 🤷‍♀️

I've heard nothing but good things about Obsession so I need to check it out

and yeah let's use this time to see if we can wrangle 1-2 more people in with us. I'm sure we could but feel the vibes so we dont come on too strong yknow

Hopefully we both stay in this long enough for me to hear your review 🫡

If you’re liking Corny as well we could definitely move as a core group, I tried feeling out Molly a bit but wasn’t getting much. We can see how the other two are when they get online - worst case scenario though if we have us 3 together on the first vote I find it hard to believe the other 3 would be on the same page to tie us

I’m committed to running all my info through you though, I feel like the best thing I can do at the moment is fully trust 1 person and i’d like that to be you

let's fucking do this thing

Yes!!!

I exchanged one message with molly and it was about our dogs. which is a nice start dont get me wrong. but I'm going to have to double text next and I hate that. but I need to step out for the vet so hopefully peoples are on more later

yay I love this, like I said, early game talk is great if you can vibe with someone early. why the hell not?

That’s good to hear, she must’ve stepped away cause I also would be double texting there - definitely open to that option if you feel like you can bring her in. I’ll also be gone from about 7-9:30 est for a movie which I know will be prime australian time but we can connect again then and see how we’re doing

Exactly! This is my first full sized org, only done small stuff with friends and preexisting bonds in the past. So in this setting, why not just lock in if we feel like we work well together!

ahh cool, I love to play with newer org players bc sometimes I still feel like one. I don't know anyone on this cast and that's how I like it. it's never totally fair when there are pre-existing relationships, even if those people didnt plan being on the same cast together. I'm curious wtf was up with molly calling out those two (I forget atm) about knowing each other. was that real, lol?

I'll be at home tonight so I will work on whoever is on when they get up. hopefully everyone is cool and we can have our pick of people to work with. and also I hope we just win out because going to tribal first sucks

I feel like Molly was just excited and made a joke without thinking it would have much consequence but honestly who knows lol, I can’t imagine those specific 2 people knew each other though. I don’t know anyone here but i’m sure at least a couple do.

Yes hopefully we just win as much as possible and can work with even bigger numbers if we feel good about the others. Anything in specific I should be expecting for these challenges? I’m going in completely blind to how these things usually work

ooh the challenges, well, there's lots of options. sometimes we each have to do a game/puzzle, submit our best scores, and the top scoring tribe wins. or we might have to design something together, like a tribe flag or poster (I hate these, I can't design), or it could be like a scavenger hunt which I personally love doing

that's so random but ok. def threw me off because I've never seen a call out like that or the term "premade" but I get what it could mean

I'll ttyl! vet time

Sounds good! Hope it goes well

hey hey I am back, what'd I miss?

yah went well, she's gained .6 lbs which she needed 🥹 got a vaccine and a general checkup and all is well as can be for her age. she's deaf and going blind and has some confusion sometimes however, so that's been a struggle. but she still seems like a happy dog otherwise

Aw that’s sweet, i’m glad she’s doing well. I do love older animals and how calm they are

I just got back but you haven’t missed much of anything from what i’ve seen! Ryan responded recently so i’ll see what vibe I get from him

sounds good! I'm watching a movie rn (the new world). how was your movie?

It was good! We saw Mandalorian and Grogu lol. Not huge star wars people but we have watched the show before and enjoyed this

ah cool I'm glad you liked it. I'm more of a star trek gal myself but I do adore the og movies

Very much a fan of the og movies as well! I’m headed off for the night, had a few good words with Tully when he came on just now so that’s a start. We will see what tomorrow brings 🫡

ok very good, Ima chat with him too. I'm excited for tomorrow! sleep well ricci and talk to you then 🫡

Morning! Hope your night went well and you enjoyed that movie. I’m ready to win this challenge today

gmorning to you! I'm feeling great today so I'm so ready to do my best. as long as everyone participates we have a great shot. I'm scared the twist might be all tribes are going to tribal first, which makes sense to me as a way to trim this giant cast. I've never played with 24 people before

I loved the movie btw, I watched the extended edition 2 nights ago and the theatrical edition yesterday, which I have seen before. it's complicated to me because the movies are partially romanticizing colonization but definitely takes its moments to show how stupid the settlers are. the romance between john smith and pocahontas has palpable chemistry, it's the kind of love I want with someone shown on film. so I love the movie even if I might find it problematic.

Yeah you’re right, I gotta imagine it’s either that or doing only 1-2 tribes winning immunity for the first few rounds to really cut things down (like we would’ve hoped for in 50! 😭) Either way we know we can keep each other protected, I feel like we probably have the most connections on the tribe combined between us so we should be able to direct the vote if we have to

I’ll be adding to my watchlist! as i’ve started to grow into movies more i’ve liked ones that can challenge you to form opinions whether good or bad so im interested to see what id take away from it. I think im about to hit a Dr. Strangelove rewatch while preparing for this immunity challenge

ugh don't even get me started on s50 hahaha. I'm happy with the outcome but oof some episodes were rough to watch. and yes, we will keep each other protected. if things keep going the way they are, I imagine we can vote based off of activity levels. I'm still hoping it's a normal challenge but I'm just expecting the worst (quad tribal). I really hope the others start chatting more. you are the only person I've heard from today! quietest starting tribe I've ever been on

ooh yes I love early day movies. I'm actually watching one now called 'the long good friday', it's a british crime film and one of the best in that genre if I do say so myself. the music is really good and bob hoskins is a star. I haven't seen dr strangelove in years but it's so funny and I love george c scott in literally anything

do you have a letterboxd btw?

lmao! I completely agree - Cirie is my all time favorite so I definitely had a good time for most of the season when she was running things. I’ve always loved Aubry so i’m pleased with the outcome but it did feel a bit odd how we got to that finish and honestly the entire makeup of the endgame.

It definitely is odd how little people are talking but at least it puts us in a power position if we’re doing most of the talking. I had good convos with Ryan and Tully and they both said they haven’t done much socializing so hopefully they’ll just follow along with us if we keep at it on those relationships. I still feel good with Corny as a 3rd to our core if you’re also on that same page. Seems like Molly has disappeared since marooning so i’d be surprised if she’s made connections with the others just yet

Let me know what you think! I’m gonna continue adding to my watchlist as you recommend movies that haven’t been on my radar haha.

and yes here is my letterboxd!

https://boxd.it/cA9EP

Me and my GF Jess realllyyyy started getting into movies around September of last year so I still have so much to find and watch

ryan and tully have both been friendly with me, though we haven't exchanged that many messages. molly disappeared for me too, and seeing how vocal she was at marooning, it's making me think "I hope she's ok" type of thoughts. funny how that happens when you've known or been talking to someone less than 24 hours. orgs can make or break bonds real quick lol

I just followed you :D yeah the movie I just watched was great, though I had already seen it. I have a respectable dvd/blu collection and bought this last year so was the first time I'd seen it on disc. I like that you see all the new releases, that will help me pick and choose what I should bother with

ohhhh greeaat the design challenge

Followed back! I have gone quite crazy with adding to my physical collection as you may see in my lists haha. Always looking to add older films that I haven’t seen before - I try to go physical over streaming whenever possible

hmmmm I have nearly no artistic expertise but the fact that only about half our tribe has been relatively active is concerning with how much teamwork this will require. At least it’s only 1 tribe going to tribal do we just need to not do the worst lol

I have some ideas to at least keep us on theme! I'm a huge fan of the show and it's the main reason I applied

Well that is great to hear, I wasn’t a fan when I applied but I did start watching and am about halfway through Season 2 right now and am loving it, so i’m relatively familiar with the show at least

oh f yeah!!!! that's so awesome. I can't wait til you finish everything

I’m gonna start speeding up my watching now that we’re in this, I was getting a bit worried during the cast intro that they were about to start spoiling details of the show 😭

What are your thoughts on the exile twist? With only 2 going I imagine it’s gain a vote for winner and lose a vote for loser. We definitely have the early social capital to risk it if it gets to that point - could be detrimental if one of us loses a vote though

I need to sit and think about this exile first. I am tempted to go but don't like having to volunteer. and then we vote as a tribe to send someone? that's a weird discussion to have hmmm

I also don't like they said it could last more than 24 hours, what's up with that

I also am not great at puzzles so if we need to compete against the other exile person that makes me nervous

btw do I pronounce your name "reechee" or "ricky" or something else?

Pronounced Ricky, Thanks for asking! The voting between volunteers is definitely tricky cause we have to vote before we even know if we’re winning or losing and actually sending that person or not - it could just give away our true connections and give people time to scramble if we don’t vote for them. I do feel pretty good about puzzles and like word scrambles/memory recall or whatever the challenge could possibly be so i’d be willing to volunteer - bottom line i’d feel the most positive about one of us getting a hypothetical advantage, just gotta make sure the risk doesn’t outweigh that

yeah let's see how the day goes and how people are feeling once they come on, we've got some time to decide

I ran my idea by mike just in case it could be spoilers but he said it was ok. it uses an image from s3 but doesn't mean much on its own

Definitely! I obviously haven’t shared with anyone that this is my closest connection here so let’s chat about ideas for the design in the tribe chat at some point today and kinda give off the idea that we aren’t already well acquainted - just in case lol

I want to start in there but it's just you and me right now lol

Yeah lol, should be late evening for Corny and early morning for Tully and Ryan soon so hopefully we get at least a bit of time with all 6 of us online

hmmm wellll I have a project of sorts to do today so I'll be at the computer. I'm ready when everyone is

We can share more detailed thoughts about what we want to do for this challenge in here and then make it a more natural conversation in the tribe chat when more people come on if that works for you. Do you have any past examples from seasons you’ve done? Just wondering the level of skill i should be expecting here haha

I should be here most of the day as well! Seeing Backrooms 7:45-9:30 pm est but gonna be a late night for me afterwards when mostly everyone should be on

looking forward to your backrooms take, I've heard mixed things but it looks creepy af and I love that

Me too! I heard some concerns that it was a bit derivative of the youtube series he based it on - which makes sense considering that’s like entirely found footage and the movie needs more of a structured plot, but i’m hoping it still has the same vibe to it

hmmm, unfortunate thought just crossed my mind regarding exile. 24 people, only 1 tribe going to TC1 - any chance you think exile loser is booted? Not sure if that’s customary or even a possibility for an org like this, but potentially something to worry about

that would be MEAN as hell for the exile loser to actually go home, I'd be floored if it was that intense. I'd expect losing a vote/winning an advantage to be the standard, but anything is possible

especially since we are volunteering to go, like wtf

Okay yeah I still strongly believe first exile will just be lose a vote for loser and gain an advantage/vote for the winner, I just wasn’t sure how commonplace random elimination were in these things - cause that would suck!

oh gosh no, as far as twists go, I've never seen something eliminate a player in an unfair way, just traditional votes

doesn't mean the hosts can't fuck with us in other ways. this one time I was in a game with two tribes, and we both did the challenge, and then we both had to go to tribal without knowing the results of the challenge. one tribe would vote someone off for real, and the winning tribe would send the person they voted off to the other tribe. I remember that really messed with me deciding who to go for seeing as they might still stay in the game

Oh wow that’s a fantastic twist tbh 😭😭 Would be incredibly difficult to navigate

I definitely think one of us should volunteer for it, I don’t mind who as long as it’s in our hands. If you feel less comfortable with puzzles then i’m definitely open to volunteering

I don't love us being separated, what if the exile players have to switch places?? but if it's a traditional exile, then I agree we should control whatever is there. we've earned it through our activity at the very least hahahaha. molly messaged me Hi!! and nothing else so idk what's going on there

I'm down for you to volunteer, you'll have a better chance with whatever challenge is there

If it’s swapping places that would be insanely brutal considering the swapped person would just be an easy auto boot for those tribes. I’ll just have to believe it’s not that lol - i’ll wait to submit my volunteering until last minute ish just so we get as much information as possible before then

Molly also messaged me back but only once and also nothing since then. Seems like very limited activity beyond just us lmao

I’m off for the movie 🫡 Be back shortly when hopefully everyone is on

sounds good and have a great time! ttyl

Thank you, i’m back! Movie was good and backrooms vibe was excellent - I feel like they completely missed with the story though ngl. Review coming on letterboxd soon lol.

Did I miss anything important here?

cool, can't wait to read it. no, didn't miss anything really. ryan is on and we're chatting basketball. tully is around too. tbd what's going on w the challenge; someone needs to step up with graphics skills. I'm going to wait before I say anything bc I don't want to be driving this challenge unless I have to yknow? being pushy is offputting but also our tribe is disjointed seeming atm

I’m gonna throw together a rough edit in photoshop over the next 30 mins or so and i’ll send it in there and see what they say. These next few hours are probably the only time we’ll get with the others until the challenge is due so hopefully we have it wrapped by the end of the night

I don’t mind pushing a bit, hopefully it’ll get me an extra vote or two for the exile trip if we end up having to do so

Mike did just send that message about nobody volunteering as soon as I sent in mine in so hopefully that’s a sign that nobody wants to volunteer and we won’t have to vote 😭

exactlyyy let's get it wrapped up. we only don't have to be in literal last place 4/4 so we can do it

thank you for getting it started

I just asked ryan and he said he doesn't want to go. havent asked anyone else yet. but molly and corny have been afk so doubt they did it

I have a feeling if the other tribes are any bit as active in this challenge as ours has been, we should have a pretty good product to put up against there’s - hopefully we don’t get docked too much if people don’t necessarily contribute all that much

I should have something done in like 10 mins

you did great! that's just what we needed

the hosts can see the thread and our dms and are well aware that some people aren't around or who's contributing or not. it's not fair to dock us for that but idk. I was laughing thinking I wonder if molly dmed us and said hi in the chat to avoid getting a strike like the bare minimum

Thank you! I’m working on that glitter effect right now and it’s proving a bit difficult but hopefully i’ll have it soon lol. And yeah out of everyone Molly has definitely been the most quiet, still haven’t heard anything since when I mentioned it - and we’re in the same time zone

I’ve been informed i’m the only one who volunteered for exile

So no vote to expose our connections, good

very good very good

I will act surprised when it comes out :)

or if, I wonder if they bother announcing the people who aren't going

Hopefully with no need to vote within our tribe they won’t expose it unless we end up actually being the ones going. I just have a feeling the other tribes are gonna put some ai slop together and we’re gonna pull out 1st 🤞🏼

they can try to use AI but it's against the rules thankfully

and I don't want to get our hopes up but our flag is kinda basic imo. we need to jazz it up somehow for 1st

yeah it definitely is quite basic, I tried playing around with a few different effects but nothing worked out too well

I'm cautiously optimistic. are you excited to probably go to exile? I'm so curious to hear about it

I feel pretty good about it if it happens. I feel like I can take advantage of a 50/50 chance at an advantage, and worst case scenario I feel like we’re relatively protected moving forward if I go and lose a vote or something

But I have faith we will have an extra vote in our future

And definitely a huge positive for us to just get a feel for how exile will work in general

I was thinking what if you got a clue for an idol/adv? they keep saying there's nothing hidden yet

That would be even better! Would love to have an idol over an extra vote - anything as long as I don’t lose. Would definitely make sense for idols to be a part of exile since we’ve heard nothing else about them yet

Alright i’m out for the night, I will be up pretty early tomorrow and will get that addition to the design in the chat 🫡 talk to ya tomorrow

I have confidence you can take on whatever is there. goodnight ricci talk to ya tomorrow. thx for your work on the flag 🫡

Good morning! Just sent that updated design in the chat, let me know if you have any other suggestions that would make it look better 🙂

good morning! I love it honestly. I'm not sure what else to add

I asked molly how it's going yesterday and no response. have you gotten anything with her?

Good morning! Nope, Corny and Ryan actually both brought up the fact she hasn’t been talking at all to me so clearly others are getting the same experience and noticing

I’ve gotten some good info from those 2 this morning, I was just poking at who they feel closest to and they were both essentially saying they’re getting the best vibes from us and each other. Could be something solid for us

nice work, ok. I agree that I feel best with corny and ryan other than you, and tbh ryan might be more in the #2 spot for me after we chatted yesterday. we should definitely solidify that if we go to tribal

Omg that’s hilarious I would say the same thing, Ryan was giving a lot more in conversation and seemed genuinely excited

If we do have to go to tribal I feel pretty good that we would have us 4 voting together, seems pretty evident the other 2 haven’t been talking to many people at all

yeah I think it would be an easy vote all things considered. and if there's no advantages, we have nothing to worry about...right? it seems like we'll be ok no matter what

Yeah seems like we’ll be okay, ideally we get 1st but if I do have to go to exile hopefully it’ll be an advantage we can bank for the future - I definitely feel like we’re both set up to survive the first vote or two without sweating too hard if it comes to that

I'm always a bit nervous til votes are read but on paper it feels solid for us!

you know this flag was 100% you and me right, hahaha. if we fail no one can be mad since they all approved without contribution

It most definitely was 😭 I appreciate the others at least chiming in and saying they liked it, shows that we at least had some form of teamwork. Whatever keeps us out of last place

I have a feeling you are probably going to exile my friend

have you submitted it?

Yes, I was the only one who volunteered from our tribe so it’s guaranteed to be me if we do get 2nd/3rd

I have faith i’ll be bringing us back an extra vote

Or wait do you mean submitted the design?

yah submitted the design

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🕯 1st place 🕯
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🕯 ricci winning exile 🕯

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I tried so hard to get the first candle right

Omg that’s too funny, yes hopefully it’s one of those two outcomes for us. I’ll be out when they reveal the winners so hopefully they don’t immediately send to exile but if so - anything else we need to cover?

And I haven’t done anything besides just uploading that final graphic to our tribe submissions chat, but i’ll also throw it in my personal one just so production knows that’s what we’re going with

yeah you might have to enter in subs or ping prod when we've finalized it

and we should have some time after deadline so they can judge them. still I'm not sure what else we need to cover hmm

do you know anything about finding advantages in orgs? I could give you some pointers in case you have to search for something on exile

Not at all so I would love some tips! I sent prod a message in my submissions, i’ll throw it again in the tribe one now just so we make sure it’s counted

I'm going to paste a brief guide that I got from another org that gives the basics

Perfect thank you!

Some idols and advantages can come as a result of occurrences in the game, while others are hidden and have to be found. While I cannot tell you what we plan to do with idols and advantages this season, I can give you general tips on how to find them:

1. Search the server frequently, it's very common to find edited messages, photos, usernames, channel descriptions & etc. that conceal information that can lead to an idol

2. Many idol hunts utilize commands. Typically, most commands begin with a ! or ? and then have a word attached to it. So, for example, if you see the hosts alluding towards ducks, you might try !duck in your submissions and it could give you either a reward or it could be a clue within a larger idol hunt. If you think the command is more than one word you will separate those words with a hyphen like !i-can-use-commands

3. There are many, many ways that idols and advantages can be handed out, so don't expect a certain path to an idol to occur in every season. There can be idol safaris (random hunts for the idol), full scale idol hunts, or they can be handed out at random or as a reward. The trick is to be adaptive and always vigilant, and you will improve your odds of finding one.

Oh that’s quite helpful, I wouldn’t have thought to check past messages for edits or commands like that. I feel prepared! Hopefully will bring us back something nice

I’m gonna be out for the next hour or so, hopefully we don’t get separated while i’m gone 🫡

alrighty, I hope not either but if so good luck on your journey! maybe you can make a friend on the other side

Wow

Just got back

Those other 3 look worse than ours ngl, they must’ve been collaborating hella

Mad eyebrow being raised at the prod member who graded us but whatever, we move lol

yeahhh esp 3rd place. I'm disappointed. weird they outed you're going to exile and then whoops not

Yeah also not very happy about that

I'm at the store rn I'll be back within an hour

Sounds good, they’re now saying losing tribe sends someone as well which contradicts what they said earlier - so I may be gone when you get back but we’ll see if they fix that

hey hey. am home. nah I think they just messed up and you're not going. I wouldn't bother bringing it up unless someone else does

Yeah they pulled it back so seems like i’m safe from exile thankfully, hopefully as few people saw that I volunteered as possible lol

Tully got on and started talking to me but doesn’t seem like anyone else is. Who would you rather take out first - Tully or Molly?

for my two cents I think it's got to be molly. she's not even here. tully is somewhat trying

I'm now more annoyed nobody else did shit on the challenge. it could have been more ~creative~ if more brains were involved

Yeah quite sad that we were the only ones giving any sort of effort towards it. I kept trying to ask for suggestions and hint that we’d need some more voices but just didn’t want to push too hard.

I’m totally down with Molly first, Tully has at least responded to me with more than 1 message and then dipping

Ryan on now as well so hopefully we can get a read on what he’d like to do and drive it from there

tully told me hello and that he's going to school. idk how much we'll get from him but hopefully something! I would not mind ending this tribal early if we all agree

Yeah definitely, Ryan just told me he’d like Molly out as well, looks like we’re gonna be relatively sweat free here

Molly volunteered to go lol

perfect lmaooo

yessss love that

Looks like this will be settled relatively quickly 😭 And let’s pray there’s no more damn design challenges!!

there shouldn't be, they're gonna mix it up

I'm going to submit my parchment soon

Yeah i’m just gonna throw mine in now as well, seems like this is pretty wrapped up already

Maybe next tribal we’ll actually get to start playing 😭

Tully said he wants Corny out lol 🤫

Good info for us to have

ohh interesting, I wonder if he liked molly at all. still good info for next time

Hopefully we won’t have to go to tribal again for a while

That blowup from Molly was quite unexpected

And still hasn’t responded to any of us individually after that 😭

nope, not to me either

indeed, I have never seen anyone do that before so honestly yay. least stressful tribal everrr

fyi I'm going to my friends house the next couple days, I'll be at the office tomorrow-tues so a little less active. he watches havana while I'm at work

Sounds good! I’ll also be a bit less active early in the day while I work but i’ll still be able to check in and do what needs to be done

And yeah hopefully people just submit their votes so we can get it over with fast

Good morning! I’m gonna be at work for the next 6-7 hours or so - so i’m just gonna lock my vote in now 🫡 Enjoy your day!

good morning! ok, have fun at work! I just got here too. I have a few meetings but can pop in sometimes

I submitted yesterday. I wonder if molly will vote for anyone or not

Thank you & you too! I’ve checked in with the other 3 and they all seemed to imply they submitted their votes already - which would mean Molly hasn’t or else they would’ve put that poll up by now… Gotta imagine she’s just not even gonna vote, she was beefing more with production than any of us in that tribal chat

yeah she'll probably selfvote if she just doesn't care. ok then! I guess we can enjoy the downtime while we can

btw I got "you're cool, let's work together" message from tully. unexpected tbh since we haven't talked that much but hey I'll take it

That’s great! We’ve been talking a little bit more since the challenge ended so we’ll see how active he is moving forward, i’m certainly open to working with him. I think we both probably feel like Ryan is our next closest ally - so we can decide if we’d rather keep Corny or Tully moving forward if we have to go to tribal again.

Conveniently Tully already wants to go for Corny, so if we happen to lose again it should be easy to pit them against each other and let us drive the vote entirely without being in any danger

yupppp that's what I'm thinking too. we should be safe no matter what if tully already threw corny out. I agree ryan has moved up and comfortably in my number 2 spot. I would expect one more round then a swap so no tribe gets too small. if we had to go at 4 that'd be tough

Exactly, i’m really hoping we avoid tribal in this og group entirely moving forward, I at least feel like everyone on this tribe besides Molly would have our backs in a swapped tribe, if we lose 1-2 more we’re gonna be so likely to be swapped into a minority and screwed

Getting Molly out could potentially be a bargaining chip to gain favor on a swapped tribe if we need it, just considering she fought with multiple people on other tribes at the marooning 😭 Other than that hopefully we just win people over

I'm hoping the small tribes turn into larger tribes at the swap and there's a good mix of folks and no one is out numbered. we've got our backs covered here, and we can work with anyone we get swapped with. last game I played I was swap screwed and went out. sooo I really want to avoid that again. I think we can win others over; we did it once we can do it again

Yup, I can’t imagine other people are gonna be completely ride or die with their original tribes, this ain’t early survivor gameplay. The others teams having such high teamwork scores is concerning but like you said, we can win people over

Also Molly just said she’s voting for you, yeah we’re ending her swiftly lmao

oh no, my perfect game!! 😂

walking atm

Hahaha, maybe we can convince her to self-vote. Obviously we’re not in any danger immediately but i’d like neither of our names to be written down just so we don’t swap and then people start saying one of us have caught votes before and therefore are easy targets

I should be done with work in an hour or so, not that there’s much work at all for us to do prior to this vote

I wish I could screenshot the entirely of my convo with molly. apparently she's put off by "how's it going" type messages. it's ridiculous for her to vote for me but maybe it's an age thing. everyone will know molly essentially quit so there shouldn't be a lot of weight on who she votes for

I have like 6 hours left of work ugh so will be here for vote reading. won't be able to help with challenge stuff til later this eve

No worries! I’m done with work for the day now so i’ll make sure i’m paying attention and will let you know if anything significant happens

It definitely feels like an age/maturity thing with her, I can’t even get a normal conversation going no matter how hard I try. no idea why you’d sign up to play a game like this if you’re only gonna work with people who are identical to you

wtf is she doing help

She’s now scrambling and wants Corny out instead 🤣🤣

She finally responded to me

whoa why is everyone going for corny lol

He’s been a bit dry and short with me in conversations recently, probably the same reason Ryan moved up both our rankings over him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t really actively reaching out to people and moreso just responding when people talk to him

He does still seem receptive to what i’ve been saying to him, but would probably be a challenging vote between him and Tully if we did have to go back and vote again

Looks like we can finally react for an early vote lol

in total I've connected more with corny than tully but I know what you mean corny being more responsive to things and not actively reaching out. tully is also in the endgame in another org right now, so I'm sure that's his focus over this

idk if 4 of us are even around right now

oooh that’s good to know, i’m sure he’s way more focused on that than this easy ass first vote. Any read on him as a player from that org?

And probably not, super early morning in australia for Ryan/Tully and late night for Corny in germany so they probably won’t get around to it before votes are read

he's at F5 so doing something right, but we can't use that against/for him here, that'd be metagaming a bit

Okay yeah fair enough i’ll stay away from that

it's only half an hour but will feel like an eternity

vote reading is 6pm est/3pm pst right?

oh shit I was thinking 1pm pst

no you're right

dang I want to get this over with

I wish 😔 I would be far less antsy for this vote read if it was only 30 min away hahaha. Tully/Ryan have been on around 1-3 pst everyday so hopefully they’ll be on soon and react to it

that's good you've been paying attention when they come on because I have not

btw is that cash flow rich from australian survivor on your pfp lmao?

Yes 😭 I was such a massive Rich fan last season, insanely underedited but like - the businessman archetype is usually either an early boot or a complete jackass on AU survivor. This guy somehow gets a relatively young tribe entirely magnetized by him and calling him “Ca$h flow”

It was so iconic

Rich, Keeley, and all the returnees were my favorites last season so I had a great time watching it

I was rooting for keeley all the way, I adore her. she's definitely coming back. I love au survivor like it's night and day with ours. the editing is uneven for sure but I much prefer the format, players, and dynamic and complex gameplay

I saved this because it was so iconic when it happened I squealed

I have the same vid saved 🤣🤣 Such a great moment from the season

he was great but it was hard watching him fizzle out right at his vote out with mark clocking him

That moment with Mark was also amazing, “I’ll explain later…” “Will you?” like omg

oh my b mild au survivor spoilers here mods

oops lmao

idk if we need to spoiler tag in dms lol but big brother is always watching

I really hope Keeley gets to play again, if Au Survivor can manage to not get cancelled it’s gotta be guaranteed. I agree it just feels like such a better show, I can look past the editing imbalance for how fun and dynamic the players always are

For some reason all of my videos/pics automatically spoiler tag in discord, very strange

whoa that is strange maybe it's in your settings

I feel like for reality tv, as long as it’s not a currently airing season we should be fine to talk about it without spoiler tags

Which btw… Traitors NZ3 started yesterday and i’m eating that shit up right now

oh my gosh I would like to see that. I just finished the traitors canada seasons 1/2 I was missing

I havent seen NZ2 but I hear that I should

It’s definitely hit or miss, I don’t remember which one between s1-2 but one was really good and the other was honestly really bad. You can definitely feel the difference in production quality and $ put into it

I still haven’t seen CA1 but I really liked 2 and 3

The Can4 names are honestly so strange so far. Happy Ty gets another shot but like… Kane?? Elan??? Justin Biebers dad???

who is elan??? I think NZ1 is the bad one because I never finished it cuz I was bored. have you seen any non-english seasons? I have not yet

worth your time but I think I like canada the best out of all the productions so I'm biased. CA3 is my favorite season I've seen

Elan is someone who was on Love Island season 7 haha, he was just so unmemorable on love island i’m shocked he’s getting a traitors callback, all the good recent Canadian gamers are on that CBS contract from 50 now lmao

I haven’t seen any non english seasons yet, i’ve been recommended to watch Quebec and Belgium but haven’t gotten around to it yet

I loved watching CA3 live, everyone was playing hard and the season was so entertaining throughout. UK4 is my favorite season i’ve ever seen, I watched it live by myself back in January and just did a rewatch showing it to my gf for the first time. It’s amazing if you haven’t seen it yet

I loved UK4. my favorite winners ever. I'm always rooting for the traitors, so seeing a pair fully trust each other and win was so special, it was so much fun

I also loved the celeb UK season for similar reasons

they're working thru all the canadian survivor players haha need the deeper cuts now. I want to know why hasn't maryanne been on there, she's prob my fave new era winner

I remember being so emotional when the finale came out, they were so cooked so many times, felt like they were gonna turn on each other for like 5 roundtables in a row, and both played a Cirie-level skillful traitor game. Could not have been any happier with how that season worked out. And basically the entire cast was playing hard, nobody was a complete dud like you’ll see in most traitors seasons

She definitely needs to play at some point, I think she was out of casting for CA3&4 just because 50 casting went for so long and she was cut so last minute. Maybe she’s also trying to be loyal to CBS a bit in hopes of coming back one day… but at this point she just needs to get back on my TV, it’s been too long

oh I didn't think about 50 casting impacting traitors. sounded like CBS really flubbed the whole thing stringing people along til last minute. she does fascinating commentary on rhap episodes sometimes if you need a fix

LMAO ty for that

She is always wonderful on RHAP. I’m a big fan and patron, in the middle of reading his book right now.

And yeah i’m ready to get to this vote 😭 She DM’d me asking who she should vote for… girl, it’s over lol

send her a photo of christian self-voting 😈

well that's annoying but we made it thru is all that matters 🥳

that would’ve been even better hahaha

Yup! Glad it’s over with and hope we can win this damn immunity challenge

did you see mike say: We’ll give a half hour for Fuggles and Void to wrap up before the challenge!

wrap up what hmmmmm

Hmmmm I would imagine it’s for whatever challenge they’re doing, interesting that it’s something that they would both still be working on after 24 hours

yeah no kidding, could be a gauntlet. one time I saw a redemption island chall and it was who can complete the most puzzles in 24 hours 💀

Wow that would be absurd, hey i’ve been pretty active so I wouldn’t mind an activity based challenge later on. If we get a tribe one like that, we might be screwed with how inactive some people have

lmao the loser is stuck in the Black Lodge for a full cycle

hopefully that’s a hit to their teams ability in the challenge

Puzzles!

I hope so. but knowing this, why would anybody volunteer if you have to win a challenge to escape...do you still feel up for it?

puzzles greeeaaat

Not at all 😭 Based on their wording it does seem like only 1 person is gonna go from any of the other 3 tribes, so hopefully we can avoid it entirely - but definitely need to give some thought on what we want to do

Varying levels of difficulty in puzzles is interesting, hopefully someone feels more confident than me but I feel good about our chances

I'm nervous as hell lmao I'm not great when it's timed

didn't I anticipate both of these challenges when you asked about challenges? hahaha

You did say these two things specifically 🤣🤣 What type of puzzles do you usually see? Im thinking anything from like math, unscrambling, spelling, physical piece puzzles

these are typical puzzles though I've never seen crossword. I would like crossword tbh

Oh I see the hints now, yeah crossword will most likely be twin peaks themed, good idea for you to go knowing the most about the show. I honestly feel great about the top 3 difficulties, if there was math i was cooked but this works

and only 3rd place tribe sends to exile

that's great. they may have to randomize us now bc I'm sure as heck not volunteering

I was thinking, with us very easily being able to pit Corny/Tully against each other - best case scenario is probably to convince Ryan to volunteer. I feel like he’d want to benefit us with whatever happens, and we would still be relatively safe from the vote knowing it’s 1 vote for Corny/Tully and we pick who we’d want to work with most

Thoughts?

this is pipes, this is a great site for puzzle practice https://www.puzzle-pipes.com/

oooh that's interesting. I'm not sure how to convince him but I'll bring it up when we talk today. did he say anything about liking corny and/or tully? I need to ask his vibes on the tribes still. our convos keep getting cut off from timing

Thank you, this is gonna be very helpful lol

When we talked on the first day he said he was talking to you and Corny the most, then when talking about the vote yesterday he said he definitely wants to keep Tully because he’s putting in an effort. I’d imagine he’s probably pretty split between the two, I don’t get the idea Corny is putting in as much work talking to him as we are

hmm ryan wants tully over corny, I want corny over tully (currently), you may tip the scale if it comes to it. this challenge time will be crucial, I hope they are online today

I’m honestly neutral on it right now, I just want us to be safe primarily - and keep Ryan close. Hopefully we don’t have to go next and actually get some time to think on it and talk to both more

I think i’ve learned what the exile advantage is lol

Just got a message from the guy who won at exile, i’m assuming that’s not normal lol

omg I did too! like wtf

I'm asking him deets now apparently it's the advantage from exile

that's pretty huge if he can talk to literally the entire cast

Yeah that would be a wild advantage, he said if you lose 5 exile comps in a row it’s auto boot

That’s a problem lol

oh f

he's probably getting questions from 20 ppl rn

Yep, wonder how this plays out for him on his tribe - quite the threat knowing he’s had personal convos with everyone and gained favor by telling them about exile

he's auto a huge threat period now which is unfortunate bc it's not his fault

man I really disagree with this from a game mechanic standpoint. you shouldn't lose the game because you can't win a challenge

I agree, 5 in a row would be quite hard to do - i’d be surprised if it happened

I'm really irritated about it still

we need to win this

well corny might be asleep before we need to decide. would that be ok? . I need to do mine tonight. if the 4 of us pick what we think we're best at and hope corny can do the last thing

yeah we’re just gonna have to take it at that point, I definitely want to get this done tonight

I’ve been practicing the pipes puzzle and i’m absolutely cooking, I think I may just take that one if people don’t respond

also not ideal for people to not be on and volunteer for damn exile, might just end up being a random draw

I'm anticipating that, maybe I'll ask around after this challenge is sorted

that's great!! sorry I'm a bit afk right now, watching a show w my buddy

no worries at all! I do have a question, for the pipes, what size do you think should I be practicing/expecting? I’m able to get the 4x4 ones in like 15 seconds, 5x5 in 45-1min, and the 7x7 ones have been insanely difficult 😭

I'd expect 5x5? is my guess

or more but no less

I will strongly hope it’s 5x5 lol

I could be wrong but I was assuming the logic puzzle would be some sort of riddle, or a grid/sudoku type

riddle I can handle, the others ehhhhh need practice

Seems like Ryan is willing to do the logic puzzle, I feel like the crossword has to be twin peaks, makes sense for you to do it

I'm not at a place with a printer or I would totally print it out, but I'll manage. going to think of a bunch of keywords first

Well looks like i’m doing the hardest one instead 😭 Im assuming this is about to be just a massive puzzle

yeah expect like 250 pieces

and or rotatable pieces

I honestly may feel better about that than the pipes, I started to just blank on the 7x7’s after a while

if it's on puzzle planet theres icons in the bottom left that will show the completed puzzle underneath

I was thinking that, maybe not the best time to challenge your new skill in a high stress setting

yeah, think i’m gonna wait and do it tomorrow morning with coffee, give myself the best chance lol

honestly I might just do the same, get up early before work. I'll do some legwork tonight maybe. and it's almost midnight for you I don't blame you!

Yeahhh i’m already quite tired so i’ll probably be off shortly. I’m glad both Tully and Corny said they’re specifically good at those types of puzzles, takes some pressure off if they’re able to ace theirs

me too, they've got some practice in. and the hosts said they dont know if anyone will be around earlytime so I will do it tonight. a word search is easier because there's nothing to research first. so wish me luck. sleep well if I don't hear from you!

Good morning! Hopefully it went well for ya if you did it yesterday. I also got that message from hosts about potentially not being here early which is quite a bummer - i’m gonna try to do mine in like 20 mins but if they’re not up I guess i’m waiting lol

Fuggles told me AK & Omar are on the outs of their original tribe due to the time difference, could be good info to have in case of a swap

good morning! so it was a whole ordeal waiting for hosts to be on last night with me so I'm doing it today. I didn't feel well this morning so I called out of work. once I wake up and stuff I will do my attempt...if someone is around. there really should be coverage for all 24 hours but apparently not here

oh I wonder if those are the european players, he said that people were quiet because of timezone differences

oh that’s quite brutal, especially for our australian friends that aren’t gonna be waking up for another 6 hours or so… hopefully they have it done already

and yup those are the two european players, if Fuggles is saying this to everybody it’s 100% gonna get back to them by the time we swap 😭 not sure he’s playing this advantage exactly how he could be

and I hope you feel better soon! I’m only just now finally getting better from a week-long sickness when I got back from Alaska, it sucked

when I mentioned to fuggles yesterday we had two Australians on our tribe he was like oh ok so that's why they just started responding to me, not in a mean way but he is acutely aware of activity levels

he's using exile info to get trust from us and then can pick and choose who to work with over time, be prepared for any swaps. this is a cursed advantage imo because it's too powerful, and so early into the game

like I don't even know if I want it. talking to 19 people would be exhausting for me. fuggles says he's not like that

one thing that stood out is he made a few jokes that were like "nah I'm just kidding" like he's not afraid to lie about trivial things even if they're innocent jokes. idk what to make of him yet though I did enjoy talking to him

oh that's awful, I didn't realize. I'm glad you're feeling better and I am already too

tell me about your alaska trip, was it a vacation? do you have any pretty scenic pics I can peep at? 👀

100%, i’d be leaning more towards using the info against him than working with him in a swap scenario. It would be different if he was selective with the info but if he’s just giving the same pieces to everyone - it devalues what he’s telling us

omg it was beautiful, it was a 7 day cruise with my parents and gf and we stopped at 4 ports in Sitka, Skagway, Juneau, and B.C. In Sitka we did some hiking and went to the fortress of the bear which is a sanctuary they have for injured bears that they are rehabbing, Skagway we took this scenic rail train through the mountains and went to a brewery in their downtown, Juneau we went to mendenhall glacier and hung out in their downtown/historic district with that being Alaska’s capital. We were only in BC for 4 hours but we did a quick whale watching tour. Actually the best vacation i’ve ever been on in my life - returning to work these past few days has been quite the struggle though lol

Photo dump incoming 🫡

The last pic of the bears is like my prized possession now, I don’t think I will ever take a better picture for the rest of my life

oh my god I just did the challenge and let's just say I'm glad I finished

those are gorgeous photos. I love the train video and the bears. so neat you could get that close to them

damn! How many words did you have to find?

Also Corny just messaged me and said he thinks he tanked the pipes puzzle lol

We may be back at tribal very soon!

it was about 25 full names of actors in the show

like, david lynch,mark frost, sheryl lee, etc

huge grid with lots of extra fucked letters like K and Q and X all over

how did yours go?

damn that’s difficult, i’m about to do mine now - was supposed to do it like an hour ago but when I got back from work my internet was out. Gonna hope my hotspot holds up and do it now

godspeed! I'm sending you luck

thank you! whew, it was a 100 piece logo puzzle. I did it in just a little under 20 mins, no idea if that’ll be a good time or not

I don’t feel like I bombed at all, I never really got stuck

excellent! I'm not sure on times either but that sounds good to me. I took almost an hour, and I think it was good all things considered like I need to show you this puzzle after results come out

maybe the difficulty was revered like level 1 was the hardest

That is certainly possible, I was pretty shocked it was just 100 pieces - I thought I was about to be locked into a 300 pc puzzle for the next hour or so

Corny said “it’s worse than you could imagine” when I asked how he did lmao

we’re so cooked

no clue how our aussies did so just hoping for the best. corny is so hard on himself I wonder if he dnf

yeah...

He said it was a 15x15 jesus

I would’ve flipped

flopped*

oh dear

so glad you switched

he DNF’d

what do you say to an alliance chat with ryan if we go to tribal

yeah 100%, we gotta make sure he’s fully on our side if we’re voting again. I think Tully and Corny would be coming for each other but we gotta make sure we have majority

absolutely. and I don't think corny and tully would go for either of us. have they said they wanted to work with you at all?

Tully said he wanted to work with me last night, I wouldn’t be surprised if Corny thought I was his #1 right now

I genuinely wouldn’t care who goes though, i’m tryna keep this core safe and that’s it

benefits to keeping either I think, and I want to see what ryan thinks. tully has sent me the same messages, and acknowledged he's been less active due to his other game. I kinda want to give him a chance, but feel bad for corny in this situation yknow

Yeah being on the disaster tribe was not what I had in mind 😭 Tully told me he thought he was getting voted out tonight in his other org so maybe his activity ramps up after that.

I’m quite 50/50, like you said there’s benefits to each. I’m slightly worried that if Tully starts ramping up activity, he’ll pull Ryan in over the two of us just since they’re online at the same time. But I also feel like Tully is showing more interest in working with both of us compared to Corny

also my puzzle was on jigsaw planet, thank you so much for telling me about that website lmao, I would’ve had no idea of the controls and how to rotate pieces if I didn’t go in there and practice once you told me

I just told my confs "disaster tribe incoming" LMAO

I literally just did the same 🤣🤣

don't worry we're gonna be the emily and kaleb of it all

or the kenzie and tiff

forged thru fire 🔥

I'm gonna give you any tips I can think of! you're my ride or die so I want you to do well too and work together on stuff like this. I wish somebody told me all this stuff when I first started. I was so lost in my first game

Kenzie and Tiff 🔥

Tiff is a legend after 50 I love her, and she’s so likely to play again now too 🙏

And thank you! It is very helpful - I would’ve never thought about what you said with the hidden idols either lol. I got you till the end!!

🫡 🤝

I love tiff too I saved this bc shes just so lovely

https://tenor.com/view/survivor-50-tiffany-no-carrots-survivor-tiffany-auction-survivor-tiffany-auction-don%27t-want-carrots-gif-982862162121430832

That’s the queen

Corny said Fuggles told him basically all the information he’s been telling to us, so seems like he’s having 20 identical conversations lol

Also since they moved the cutoff for the challenge to 7:30 est, i’ll probably be at a movie when they reveal challenge results - but should be back around 9-930 est to either celebrate or prepare for this vote

what movie?? and ok sounds good, I will be available tonight and really hope we get the night off. we deserve it

We do! I just hope Ryan and Tully do their puzzles lol, I still haven’t heard from either of them that they did. We’re seeing Pressure tonight! Movie about the weather on D-Day and how it impacted their decisions before the invasion - it’s with Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon

movie sounds interesting and that's a stacked cast. I appreciate your descriptions of the movies btw

Of course! I’ll have more info on it when i’m done but Andrew Scott is playing a german meteorologist with a thick accent so i’m very excited for it

Ryan is on now, hopefully he did well with his puzzle lol

damn I just saw the message about Pipes, and Corny is asleep… probably gonna miss the cutoff to retry it

I told production and they said they got it sorted lol, hopefully this gives us a better chance at the W

I really hope corny isn't penalized because of this nonsense

I feel like they have to give him extra time for the circumstances

I’m off to movie 🫡 hopefully good news when i’m back

yes indeed, and have fun! ttyl

🥳 🫶 🥹

LETS GO!!!!!!

I’m so happy

and the movie was great

what a night

That word search clearly was insanely difficult! You did great all things considered. I’m quite impressed with Tully’s 36 seconds on the slide puzzle, he smoked everyone

Would’ve been quite a shame if we lost off Corny DNF’ing

I'm so thrilled to avoid tribal and exile, and everyone was so down on themselves (except tully, who wasn't on before results) so I was not expecting 2nd place that is just such a relief

tully said he was ace with slides and he wasn't kidding lmao

Yup, was very worried for a random draw for exile and having one of us get stuck there for multiple cycles. Not worth going at all unless these advantages improve

I’m headed off for the night, glad we don’t have to stay up scrambling for tribal. Good night!

enjoy the night off! I'm so happy for us, may this be the first of many W's

Good morning! hope you enjoyed the night off as well.

I’m a bit surprised these first two rounds have just been single boots, I have a feeling this next round is gonna get a bit crazy - hopefully we aren’t swapping yet, but after this round there will be 21 people + 1 on exile, i’m thinking we’re either getting another single boot and then swapping into 2 tribes of 10. Or doomsday scenario only 1 tribe wins immunity and we go all the way down to 18 + 1 on exile and we swap into 3 tribes of 6

gmorning! yeah I needed the night off because I went to bed at 930 last night. I was exhausted but feel better now

21 people sounds like a great amount to swap 3x7 and the exile person will have to go to a new tribe when they win

basically I'm expecting a swap every time til it happens. a big reason is they said nothing will be hidden until the tribes we're on are no more. I'd imagine they'd want to kick off whatever advantage system they have sooner than later

Glad to hear you’re feeling better! Not too sure how to handle these off days but i’ve just been chatting our tribe up in hopes to build some more trust there in case we swap imminently. You make a good point with the idol thing - That would be a shame if we swapped immediately after this round into 3 tribes of 7, at the very least we saved ourselves from a severe chance of being swap screwed if we lost & only had 4 players compared to everyone else still being a full tribe

I honestly think everyone here would be loyal to us in a swap, Corny may need the most work though

Not sure if he’s just down about his challenge performance but he’s been pretty checked out with me since yesterday

corny would have been the reason we lost and a reason to be voted out, so I get him being upset. I haven't really talked to him besides trying to cheer him up and saying it's no big deal (now lol) because I went out early last night

yes keep up chats because we should assume the worst and we get swapped away from each other. but it's also typical for chats to dip off some if we avoid tribal

Yup I was basically having those same conversations with him, can’t blame him! I probably would’ve been leaning towards keeping Tully over him if we had to go back to tribal

Ryan started talking about us as a trio in our chats yesterday so he definitely feels comfortable enough with us. Are we allowed to start multi-person chats whenever? Could be a decent idea to all get on the same page if we think swap is imminent, up to you though

yeah we can make alliance chats whenever! I don't think it's a bad idea

I am also starting to lean keeping tully over corny if we go. tully is trying more and has been more explicit about working together and more recently

I asked prod and the other tribe has til 9pm est to vote, so we've got time to get a little chat going with ryan. he'll be up for a few of those hours anyway

Okay perfect, I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page if we do happen to swap tonight.

I think there’s social weaknesses on the ‘Failed’ tribe where Fuggles was seeming to be throwing out AK/Omar’s names, and potentially on the ‘Observed’ tribe with them voting someone out today - If Coco isn’t the one voted out, they reacted negatively to the Molly vote-out announcement and seemed kinda friendly with her at the marooning, so that may be something to look out for

yeah let's wait a bit til ryan is on or a little before he comes on, so it looks like more of "our" alliance and not our duo+ryan, you know?

that's good intel about the other tribes. I'd imagine word of molly's quit and shenanigans have spread via fuggles, so I don't think it should be held against us. and it allows us to obscure relationships because it wasn't really a real tribal. molly probably would have went anyway but we still would have had to have more trust in each other to make it thru

Perfect, sounds good to me

Hopefully nobody holds the Molly vote against us once it’s fully explained. I do imagine a good bit of people will want to head-hunt the ‘Loved’ tribe with how dominant they’ve been in challenges

yep the tribe with all its members will be looked at more than us

Good! And if either of us get a shitty draw with swapped tribes, we can just volunteer for exile to get the hell outta there and not even be a choice to vote for

I’m a bit more scared of exile knowing the twist, but I gotta believe it would be hard to lose 5 in a row - we could use it as an advantage if we’re severely outnumbered and it seems like there’s no way out

I was thinking that, exile is a good way to escape if you're on the bottom, that is a legit reason to volunteer. I'm wary of the challenges that could be there after yesterday's, worried they'll be super hard. so I'm just expecting a swap and going to be on top of convos with any new people. we should have a new person to talk to with whoever wins exile next, so that will be interesting

Ohhhh interesting, you think the exile advantage will continue to be the opportunity to talk to everyone? That does make sense as an advantage pre-swap.

These challenges are also significantly harder than I envisioned 😭 I think I can fare generally well at most puzzles/brain exercises - but evident by some of those times, there are some absolute geniuses on this cast lol

I think they'll give the power to whoever wins exile next. it wouldn't be fair to give it to one person only, and that would put an even huger target on their backs. maybe they could take the power away from fuggles and give it to the next person? but I'm sure it will continue one way or another

and yeahhhh get used to seeing insane times from some people on puzzles. I always joke that kids who grew up on the ipads probably have a natural advantage at these puzzles. I know I'm slow just because I never do them and don't care enough to practice. definitely a weakness in my games but I do my best in other areas

Hasn’t been the case much these past few years in my adult life, but I was a chronic gamer throughout middle & high school so hopefully some of those skills are still there hahaha. Our skills complement each other well - I was a bit worried for the first puzzle, but now that I got it over with I do feel good that I can be competitive there. I am color blind so hopefully that doesn’t come back around to fuck me over in any future challenges lol

Fuggles said Coco and Molly know each other, Coco crashed out exactly like Molly did - and Coco will be voted out unanimously tonight. lol

if production knows what they're doing they shouldn't have any challenges where color blindness affects anything. but it might be good to tell them just in case. I hope the challenges are less puzzle-based in the future. I like collaborative challenges but it will be harder with the current tribe. it doesn't seem like there's ever a time we're all on at the same time

oh my gosh TEA. well if that's true we still don't get much info from that happening. like what are the tribe dynamics of who is left? hmmm

Yeah that probably would’ve been a good idea to inform them lol. What other collaborative type challenges have you seen? I imagine there will probably be one immediately after we swap since it’ll be lots of new people interacting

It is quite a bummer they are basically doing the same thing we did and won’t be revealing any alliances. As of right now i’m just assuming people are loosely together by time zone until proven otherwise. We’ve worked around it well, but if the activity is anything like our tribe, i’d guess AK/Omar are on the outs from the failed tribe, and Bree/Void from the loved tribe

I could see an endurance type challenge. we might have to "check in" to a channel every hour, or do some small task every hour. one time we would be given a category (like fruits or restaurant names) at the start of the hour and everyone had 60 seconds to answer as many things as possible. those are fun but obviously depend of people being online as much as possible so could be hit or miss for us

we would have gotten together anyway but I think it's kind of funny we're aligned in part because we're the most active people on our tribe. like of course we're going to be talking to each other. if people were smart they mightpick up on that. timezone groupings is a good way to link people until we know otherwise. and if people are together thru multiple swaps. which means it would unfortunately be better for us long term if we were apart for some of the premerge. not looking forward to that but we ball

yeah hopefully we swap before this challenge happens lmao, we would be cooked

I do wonder what the others think about that, cause i’m sure it is pretty clear based on activity. I’ve kept up activity with the others as much as I can but it is pretty difficult only catching most of them on the beginning or end of their day. Quite nervous for a swap and being separated and having to rely on the pretty inverted schedules of the others - hopefully the numbers fall in our favor or we get another Molly situation on a swapped tribe lol

I'm having trouble keeping convos flowing for the same reason. I'm used to messaging a bunch when I first wake up, but only you're around. which is kinda nice, I definitely talk to you way more than anyone else and it's great you're so available. I told my confs earlier how glad I was you were here like "thank god someone here wants to play the game". I'm getting that nervous/excited feeling before the next cycle starts

I asked fuggles and he told me the same thing, that coco crashed out and knows molly, so should be going home

hey I feel the exact same way! It’s hard to keep conversations going with the others when we only have a couple hours of overlap with when they’re most active. I was worried coming into this that I wouldn’t be able to really lock in with someone so i’m glad we connected so well and work together nicely.

I think it’s quite funny how Molly and Coco flamed out the exact same way, seemed like Coco was trying harder at first but it ended up all the same. Fuggles also told me that he keeps the chatting power ‘throughout premerge’ so it’s quite powerful

unless he gets voted out ofc. it will be interesting to see the dynamics if we swap with him. he said even though his tribe was less active he felt safe. he may be in a similar power position as us (assuming we've got the right read on everything here 😅 ).

fuggles is only going to make more friends as time goes on. I like him but I'm wary of what I say. I am assuming anything we tell him could get around

I would love to stay far away from a tribe with him, we’ve talked more than i’ve talked with like Tully but if he’s just repeating the same convos to everyone, I can’t believe that he’d work with me over anyone else he’s talking to on other tribes.

We’re definitely in the power position here 🤣 I would like to not have to swap for a bit even though it’s definitely coming, but we would run the table here if we had to

yeah the more I think about it a swap would not be the best thing right now. we've got the numbers and it's so damn early in this game still. maybe I want to swap because I'm getting a bit bored here with the lack of other interactions but swaps are also dangerous and a lot of work getting to know new people, starting all that over. I've talked with fuggles more than tully too and would want to work with him if say we started the game together. but now that he's in this position it sours that prospect. if he were to approach me I'd take it seriously but am always going to wonder if I can really trust him

Yeah exactly, same thinking here.

Looks like they ended tribal early lol, time to find out our fate! Hopefully Ryan gets on before anything happens

fuck we’re swapping now

we got this! good luck if we're apart

We are, your tribe just got announced. Best of luck!

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Hopefully they’ll move this to an active chat soon but I can’t wait any longer. WOOOOOOOO 🎉🥳🎊 I’m so fucking happy with how this worked out for us. We have so much to catch up on, I feel good with both Tully and Marissa coming from Failed 2.0 with me and think they would want to work with us under whatever circumstances.

I don’t even have to reiterate this at this point but I am so locked in with you until the end, whole time on that other tribe I was just dreaming of a way that we could get into a new swapped tribe together in a majority. We’re gonna make it happen

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I am so happy to see you ricci you have no idea!! we have indeed so much to catch up on. I'm pretty locked in with fuggles now (lol) though not like w you just alligned closely, and on good terms with others and felt like in a great position there though it wasn't tested. that tribe was getting kinda dead by the end we had so much time together haha. lots of little things I need to tell you

I'm so locked in with you to the end!! I love to hear it and am so glad you still feel that way 🥳 🫶 😎

Yes this is great! I’ve still kept up my chats with Fuggles so i’m very happy to work with him if you feel like he’s trustworthy. I was very much connected with everyone but there was a pretty clear divide with Andrew/Clint/Marissa vs Ryan/Tully if we had to go back to tribal - and everyone felt like I was with them so i’m very glad we avoided it. Brayden was super inactive, so easy boot there. I definitely think that Marissa and Tully are both workable on this new tribe for us. If my read is accurate, I think Marissa feels pretty locked in with me, she did say she was close with Gem on Loved 1.0.

For sure gotta check in with Corny and see where he’s at, but hopefully there’s two pretty agreeable targets in Star Updates/Soul. Either way I feel very confident we can get back to the type of power position we had back on Served 1.0

I’m 100% not sharing this info with anybody other than you but i’ve been trying a shit ton for the idol clues. I’m sure you got this already but in treemail there was an old edited message with the word ‘interruptions’ and that will give you a new clue if you put it in submissions

yes I got this clue courtesy of fuggles and we're both stumped on all of them. I am SO ANNOYED it's this difficult to interpret because I like riddles generally

do you want to VC sometime btw?

All of these clues feel genuinely impossible, but i’m especially horrible with riddles 😭 I also noticed that there’s 4 letters randomly in bold across treemail: a, v, i, d. No clue what to do with that but it’s there

Yes I would love to! Would make it much easier for us to get on the same page and get a feel for how we want to move forward. I was thinking about finding a way to do that while we were still separated after the VC challenge but it was just impossible to coordinate lol

ok great I would love to too! I've been at my friends tonight so a bit afk but I'm heading home now. maybe we can plan something for tomorrow since it's getting late for ya

Perfect, i’m gonna head off for the night. Hope you had a great day and i’m very pleased we’re back together!

ok goodnight ricci! can't wait to talk to you tomorrow 🥳

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Good morning! I had production make us a 1-1 VC so that we can talk freely without worrying if someone is monitoring the public one. I have maybe the easiest day at work i’ll have all year today, so whenever you are free we can catch up

This tribe might be messy, I was checking in with Tully last night and he was saying he finds Corny disingenuous 😭 Also, i’m not sure if he heard this from you or Fuggles, but he told me that you 2 were close - we may just need to be careful with him, he was a bit of a loose cannon towards the end of Failed 2.0 but I still think he wants to work with me. I think no matter what - nobody is saying our names for a while, we really should be able to take control here

hmm fuggles brought up that he hasnt talked to tully or corny much, but he likes you a lot, and I agreed w him, so he probably feels safe sharing that with you. maybe we could figure a group here with us and fuggles but with more people so it's not focused on you/me being a thing

oh f yeah thanks for doing that. good morning!

AH I misread, tully thinks me and fuggles are close. all I said to tully about fuggles is he was the only person i knew on the last swap, so he must have made that leap. I didnt say we were close

Okay that’s interesting, his direct wording was “Bethany is close to Fuggles apparently” so he def could’ve just inferred that based on what you said to him. he hasn’t given the impression that he’s talked to Fuggles very much so i’d be surprised if he was going around telling Tully that information

But yes 100% I think a group with you me and Fuggles is the best way to move forward in this tribe. I feel confident Tully will want to work in that group but he’s veryyyyy anti-Corny, so similarly to Served 1.0 it seems like we’re just gonna have to make a decision between those two. Marissa feels good with me + said she worked well with Gem on Loved 1.0, and i’ve now had some very good chats with Gem over last night into this morning.

Right now, I would think the easiest route is probably forming a 6 person majority with you/me/fuggles/marissa/gem/tully and having Star/Soul/Corny on the outs

well as long as we keep tully onside he can think that about me and fuggles. I'm waiting for more messages from tully, he seems to want to wait until we're both on

corny is spilling about the rlime tribal and is pretty much claiming the move

gem is frustrating to me because she seems amazing but would disappear for long stretches, then go into tribe chat with paragraphs about being busy. she'll probably start being more active on this swap

between you and me only I'm pretty sure the vote would have been between gem and soul if we went to tribal, based on activity

star is close with fuggles btw so we'll keep that in mind

fuggles was telling us star came to him with a plan to collude on the turf challenge. it didn't actually happen but they were discussing it

lmao this is so funny, Corny just sent me a voice memo about the tribal and it is just a slightly altered version of what Star told me that makes it seem like his move 😭 Corny also said “i’m very excited to be back with you and Bethany” soooooo definitely seems like he and Tully are at odds with each other and fully aware of it on both sides lol

this is so messy from star, our tribe definitely didn’t need to be colluded against for that challenge lol - we only had 4/7 members actually participating

welll we didnt know that hahaha. everyone assumed people would be on at the last second

he sent me a vm too and I'm having trouble getting the details but sounds like part of it was lying to or framing star for something? I haven't talked to star about her tribals yet

Oh this is good to know, Fuggles threw out Soul’s name to me + said the thing about Gem not being very active. I should’ve picked up on that

That’s good that he’s shared his relationships with you, I was quite worried he’d be a threat to me - but being the most socially connected player in the game we could get some could use out of him working with us

Let me know when you have time for VC, I keep remembering different things I need to share with you from the last swap phase and my brain is exploding 😭

fuggles is a huge threat for sure but not now. we should take advantage of him wanting to work with us because he's got a lot of connetions and info. but also be wary. if I found an idol or something, I wouldn't tell fuggles, only you

honestly I could talk pretty soon here. I'm at home today working so :D but I want to wait til dog wakes up and I can take her out, which should be in the next hour or so

I 100% agree, he’s clearly a good player and wants to work with us so it makes complete sense to take advantage of that for as long as we can and it’s beneficial for us. I’m so glad we have such a great alliance haha, this is like what I would dream of having if I played Survivor fr

That’s perfect with me! I’m meeting my gf for lunch in 90 mins but then after that i’ll be completely free with really nothing else to do for work today. I’m doing my 1v1 duel at 3:30 pm est so we will have as much time as we need

it was painful at times not to have you around to talk to. I dont have anywhere near this level of trust and ability to openly communicate with anyone else here. it's all still dancing around the super important things. I'm sure that will change once I have to go to tribal again

I just bombed the first blacktea I tried so thats nice

Exactly!!! I was constantly telling my confessional how much harder Failed 2.0 was compared to Served 1.0 but that everything I was doing was to get to a spot where we could be back together and run this game

so you want to call before or after lunch you think? I'm pretty much ready

I’m free now while I drive

Actually I have some time before I start driving, i’m free regardless lol

i'm going in

Can’t wait to write basically a full novel in my confessional breaking down that VC chat for production 😭

I'm firing off sentences of whatever I can remember lol

Finished lunch 🫡 I hope you have a chicken salad chick restaurant out in Sacramento because this place is glorious

When you’re practicing this blacktea game, how are you going on it? I’ve practiced a couple times now and i’m usually getting somewhere between 12-16 words right before losing 2 lives. Yet again I have no idea if that’ll be a competitive score or not haha

that's huge, I haven't been getting that many right at a time. I thought I would be better at this but it's so quick. I am looking up words to use for items I got wrong

I dont recognize it so probably not :/ do they have a caesar salad there? that's probably my favorite item to order anywhere I go if they have it

It’s tough! All it takes is just one weird alignment of letters and I get totally stuck - i’ve flopped completely on some of the practice runs i’ve done. Hopefully we both get a lucky run

Omg no way, i just looked it up and it’s completely a Southeast thing - I had no idea this wasn’t a nationwide brand. They don’t have any salads, it’s all some form of chicken salad either in a sandwich or on its own. I always thought I hated it until I tried this place and now it’s one of my favorite lunch spots to go to

I’m right there with you though, I will order a caesar salad 50% of the time that I go out to eat lmao

that's awesome, I knew you had good taste. I dont eat chicken salad often but would be willing to try it somewhere if it's their specialty for sure. if I ever travel to those areas I'll keep an eye out

Yes!! I also finally got my first message back from Soul. Apparently they’re in Canada and still in school and said exams are going on right now and that’s why they’ve been so inactive

Why are like a third of this game’s players inactive lol

hey it's annoying sometimes but helps us to trim the fat on this giant cast. theo sounds like another who's checked out so that's one more placement hopefully

Yup, he’s probably gonna get purged out of the game from exile at this point. The fact he’s totally checked out makes it so tempting to want to volunteer for exile but i’m just not willing to risk the social position we have, or even the possibility of getting separated again lmao

I think mostly everyone on Loved 3.0 is actively playing, that tribe just seems so chaotic compared to what we got going on here. Can’t explain enough how lucky I feel we got with this draw

Yay I won my duel

so I won the first duel with jack and we were going to do best of 3 but then he's like actually I have to go right now so I'll give you the win

TYVM jack ahahaha

omg that’s amazing. Great job!!!!

yay thank you! the practice helped

good job for you too! corny told me he doesnt even know when he'll be able to do his. idk about anyone else yet

Well now we know for sure that our tribe is up at least 2-0, 7 other games to go and we just need to win 3 more

Is it Corny’s fault that they aren’t able to coordinate a time?

not fully because he said he was around earlier but now he has to go to work

I did hear that Bree was insanelyyyy inactive. They’re both on the same time zone but like… it’s 10 pm over there and the challenge ends in 4 hours, I doubt it’s getting done lol. Works out for us if they can’t do it and production just gives no point for that matchup, we’re already in the lead 🤷‍♂️

I wouldn't call her insanely inactive but she was also less active yeah. I'm surprised she didn't at least respond. maybe it's just zero points for both if they dont do it

oh you already said that. org players don't read

I'm just buzzing with how good this tribe feels for us. not getting cocky mind you but it feels good man

No I completely agree!! I’m trying to keep it all within check cause we still gotta fit all these pieces together and get the right people on the same page, but as soon as I saw the tribe breakdown last night I was grinning so hard. Like everything we have been doing over the last 3 cycles has finally paid off and now we’re exactly where we said we were hoping to be back when we got separated originally, back in the power position on a new swapped tribe. Now it’s Merge -> Jury -> F3/2!!!

Oop Corny played and lost, 3-1 now as far as we know

I'd expect another swap or two before merge, which would be at say F13 at the earliest. we're at F19 now so that's a lot of rounds for bullshit from production. still, I'm thrilled with where we are now and the people we're with

yeah that's fine, can't expect a perfect record

Fuckkkk you’re probably right, I just wanted to be delusional and think we could stay here until merge considering we’d both be very likely to steamroll our way to merge from here 😭 But yeah this is at least a great home for us for the next few cycles.

hey we still might steamroll but we must expect adversity. one round at a time 🫡

I definitely need to take it one round at a time lmao, first thing I started thinking about when I saw the swapped tribes was how we were gonna make merge 😭 we still will but let me not get too confident

I feel like we need a name for this F2 🤔💭

we do! I'm so bad with names though don't ever make me think of the pub trvia group name

I dont want to steal this but maybe something similar to 'board of directors' from aus survivor aha

if youre having trouble you should go to me

I like this line of thinking - like the committee, the officiates, the law, the council. idk i’m spitballing

hit me with your best PvZ F2 name

idk actually

this is so funny. so tully and fishpog have history and apparently were in an alliance in another gme calle the board of directors!! so we got to be more original than that

Hmmmm, I cannot think of anything better at the moment. board of directors is literally my favorite alliance from that season

This will be a big test for if Ryan managed to make connections on our Failed 2.0 tribe. I’m worried he’ll be an easy boot choice for that tribe

bree is new to them so if she's less active then it could default to her, maybe?

or do you think andrew/clint would want to weaken our og tribe numbers? if they are running things

then let's do it then. I'm honored to be linked to keeley in any way assuming I'm the keeley :)

I would be honored to be Cash Flow Rich 🫡

Clint was telling me that he liked Ryan and would want to work with him on a swapped tribe. So if Ryan winds up being the first boot and he was a part of it, we’re sending him to the moon

that sounds promising for ryan at least? I'm holding out hope. tully said he was worried for ryan too but wants to be reunited. he said he sees the 4 of us as a strong unit come merge

which I am all for but people will be expecting it if we're all still here. it'd be good if we can branch out into other groups

Yeah it would definitely be expected, but we could play it off well enough if we keep bullshitting about the time zones making it hard to connect with them 😭

I feel like i’ve had the best conversations with Fuggles and Marissa today of the others. I talked to Tully this morning and he was basically saying the same things that he really wanted to work with us as a trio and find numbers to make a group

I like marissa a lot!! would definitely be down to loop her into something. I want to get on her good side because she's a sweetheart so far

I haven't heard from star since this am and with soul it's not substantive. I need to respond to gem but don't feel like it (I will) thankfully we have 40 ish hours to talk to them all and figure it out before another possible tribal

OH tully also said he was glad marissa is here because he's been trying to get her to trust him, so he's down with her too

Same here with Star. And I see what you mean now with Gem lol, lots of periods of silence and then extremely thought out paragraphs. As long as Marissa feels good with her, and we feel good with Marissa - works for us as an extra number for now 🤷‍♂️

I haven’t had much strategy talk with Fuggles yet but he’s very social so i’m sure he’d be open to working with any of the other very social people on the tribe that we’re trying to form a group out of

so I did get a response from star who called her tribal the "darkest ever" so i hope she will elaborate. see if it matches what corny said

yeah absolutely. I want to talk to him about who he likes here when he gets back from exile. I already know he likes you so, do we explore a trio together? or only a larger group hmm

also I was thinking do we want to tell fuggles that corny and tully are at odds as a way to build some trust and signal that we don't need to play by tribal lines? not right now, maybe if we go to tribal. but something to think about

Good morning! If it happens naturally through conversation when he gets back from exile - we can try to form a trio, I don’t want to slip up at all and give him the idea that we’re way closer than he probably thinks - But I do feel very good with him so I don’t think he would find it too out of the ordinary for us 3 to be naturally coming together

This is def a good piece of info we can use to start forming a majority, we just have to keep Tully/Corny in the dark so they don’t realize we’re kinda playing them off each other

Speaking of, how have your chats been with those two? Corny and I have basically only rehashed what went down on our 2.0 tribes and haven’t had much real strategy talks. Tully and I have had more talks and it’s been positive in the sense that he always says he wants to work with us as a 3. And has even said that he would like to work with you/me/fuggles since he knows yall are working together. However, for some reason he seems to desperately want to bring in Soul. I’ve told him that I think Soul would be an easy consensus boot for us if we had to go to tribal early and he said that’s just an even bigger reason to bring him in

Oh Theo got another strike today, he’s definitely about to be eliminated due to exile

corny told me about that tribal and we haven't had much game talk besides that, just him saying he's so happy to be with me again and me agreeing. I'm trying to keep some distance because I dont fully trust him

star left me a voicememo about the rlime tribal nd it's got a lot of juicy info but I need to listen to it again bc it was hard to follow

like the vote was going to be omar, then switched to corny, then corny talked to rlime and rlime said no I want to switch back to omar and that flip floppiness made people want to vote rlime instead. rlime also told jack he was going to be the decoy vote for an unknown reason

ok rules says I can copy paste so I'm gonna paste the transcript from star

Same here, I’m slowly trying to get information out of him about who he’d like to see go first and it seems like he wants to say either Soul or Tully. But I am worried he feels more connected to his 2.0 tribe members than he would be to us - so he will be a problem eventually

I'm not on my laptop yet so it's harder to pump out thoughts so this should help for now. I'm trying to understand cornys role in all this

okay perfect haha, i have a feeling we got a very similar voice memo, Basically RLime was throwing Omar under the bus, but went to Jack and said “hey Jack, mind if I start throwing your name around as a decoy?” (what an absolutely horrible thing to do strategy-wise btw 😭) Then for some reason, RLime chose to throw Corny’s name out to a bunch of people, successfully got everyone on board to vote him out - then last minute said “oops nvm I like Corny now, that was all Star’s idea anyways”…. So at that point people just got fed up with him throwing basically everyone UTB and they just voted him out

oh ok you basically got the same thing then, good

Sounds like Corny genuinely had no agency here, would’ve been voted out unanimously if RLime didn’t decide that he actually liked him a lot and didn’t want him to go home - but at that point he had flipped the vote so many times that he just took the bullet instead of Corny

well apparently corny had the one chat with rlime to flip the vote off him which is impressive to me. corny had that agency, even though it was really close

I want to caution you on talking about who to vote out before we actually go to tribal...if you agree with someone, they could turn it around and be like "ricci said your name", which could give them time to form a counter against it. maybe I'm a little old school in that way

Yeah this is true, I imagine he would’ve been voted out if they went to tribal again - but at least he managed to push RLime into madness a bit to save himself

Yeah for sure, basically the only people i’ve actually suggested targets to are Tully/Fuggles. Everyone else i’m just passively chatting about relationships to see where their head is at for when we eventually do have to go to tribal

I'm looking forward to fuggles returning and whatever goody he's picked up this time haha. poor theo is probably striking out soon

Yes!! I really hope it’s an extra vote and not another half-idol/full idol. I assume he’ll probably be coming back sometime this evening right?

yeah probably after tribal is over 5pm pst

I’m getting the sense Star Updates either isn’t feeling me or maybe heard from Fuggles that I said they’d be outside of the majority 💀 Haven’t heard back since before the challenge. Lesson learned to keep my mouth shut until I fully know dynamics/friendships lol

I dont know about that but I fear I didnt respond appropriately when star spilled because I was like oh, I have a thousand follow up questions but I'm not sure if thats ok for me to ask! I just met you! so I'm gonna try to work on them more today and be friendly

brb dog needs me

I responded basically the same exact way hahahah, that’s the last conversation we’ve had now. I’m actually getting more from Soul than I am from Gem, but I do worry that Soul/Star/Tully could be a natural grouping just from their personalities that i’ve observed being very similar

But maybe i’m also just in my head considering this is the first tribe i’m on where we haven’t lost the first challenge 😭

you've got some mild trauma anticipating the loss and the tribal that would have followed. our tribe is strong I think we have a good chance of winning here til we swap again

I hadn't clocked soul and tully, he only mentioned marissa to me. star with them isn't great due to fuggles, but I think fuggles would go with us over tully/soul for sure, just wouldn't expect him to want star anytime soon

We are strong, i’d rather win as much as possible but hopefully we get at least 1 vote here just to test the relationships we have and see who is truly working with us

I don’t think it’s a formed bond already, but maybe Tully sees the writing on the walls that you’re connected with fuggles, i’m connected with Marissa - he may feel like he doesn’t have his cross-tribal person that he trusts yet and is trying to do that with Soul

I think with enough pressure he’d be willing to vote for Soul though, especially if Star isn’t an option due to Fuggles

what about going for corny? it'd be delicate since he trusts us but how does being with him help us? I'm trying to understand--are star and corny closer as a result of the last tribal or not really?

This is what Star said about voting for Corny, basically saying like eh I don’t hate him - but he wasn’t active and it was what it was

So I doubt they’re really close, moreso that tribe just got pissed at RLime and figured his chaotic play was worse to have around than a less active Corny

I don’t think going for Corny first would be a bad idea, I just worry that it could hurt us in the future when we know Corny would likely be loyal to us - whereas Soul/Star would be kept in by proxy to keep other people happy

"by proxy to keep other people happy" that is such a good way to analyze this situation. you're totally right, maybe it's better to keep someone we know will be loyal than others connected to others more

I think Soul is probably still a good first target, the only person we may have to shake around to get onboard would be Tully - but nobody else is really connected with Soul from what I understand.

A hypothetical second vote would be more dangerous for us cause our options would be:
A) Star (piss off Fuggles)
B) Corny (piss off nobody but lose a number)
C) Gem (piss off Marissa)

And yeah, i’m all for keeping Fuggles/Tully happy since we think they’ll be the ones aligned closest to us - we just need to asses the possible benefits/risk of cutting one of our own numbers in order to make others feel better about us

I think with corny I'm worried about the perception of an OG served voting block. if the winds are blowing for corny to leave, I dont think we should put up that much of a fight basically. I'd rather vote for soul first but want to be flexible

Yup I fully agree with you on this, plus losing Corny will hurt less numbers-wise if we know we will be getting Ryan added to us whenever we reunite

yeahhh true a lot hinges on who goes home from the other tribe

I was getting a bit worried towards the end of Failed 2.0 that Andrew/Clint/Marissa were coming together to oppose myself/Ryan/Tully

But they swore up and down that they’d be willing to work with us on new swapped tribes - if Ryan gets booted first, i’m coming for their heads

That actually did just give me a light bulb moment. If Andy/Clint/Jack/Sams are running Loved 3.0 as an alliance of original Observed 1.0 members - it makes it way easier to paint a target on Soul being the only other Observed 1.0 player in the game

they very well might have. 3v3 would not have been fun. rocks at F20 LOL. but Idk, I havent met the mysterious andrew and clint but marissa is amazing and I'd like her to be with us, especially if she has that connection

that's a good point. if ryan goes then taking out soul could be a good response

Marissa was fully my strongest connection on that tribe in terms of who I talked to. The original plan was to pull her away from Clint/Andrew and make a 4 with us/ryan/tully but she seemed scared of a Served 1.0 alliance working together. Now that we’re here she seems way more inclined to work with me and bring Gem along into whatever we form

But yeah my options were either full court press on Marissa and make it a 4-2 vote for Andrew/Clint. Or flip on Tully with Ryan and send him out 5-1. No way in hell was I going to rocks for Tully - cause that’s who would’ve caught votes from our side

I'm open to that but dont love dragging in gem by default, but the more the merrier when we're trying to find our footing

that would have been such a tough decision. I probably would have flipped on tully to save ryan and get in better with the others. mostly because it's still so early in the game

I was in this game and it was F15/18 and I defended this guy that nobody in the tribe liked. so after we voted him out, they voted me out next. I didnt realize how everyone else felt about this guy, so sticking my neck out got me voted out. it's not exactly the same here obviously but that's what this reminded me of

Yeah exactly, Tully hasn’t really been disliked from what i’ve gathered - but he very clearly isn’t forming deep connections with anyone, probably because of the time difference

Gem has given me so little so far, but it almost seems conditional for Marissa that Gem needs to be included on whatever we form. Which is concerning long-term for sure

But exactly, more the merrier

interesting. that's how I feel about you but I wouldn't say it out loud to anyone. in fact if we are in alliances without each other later in that'd be just fine. I think gem is a huge utr social threat, she's giving me aubry in s50 vibes. like on the bottom now but not going to tribal and likeable enough to get thru later

100%!! I find it crazy that she’s pushing for Gem to be in the alliance because it pretty clearly spells out to me that she would pick Gem over me if it came down to it - that is quite literally why I haven’t shared how close we are to anyone, so we can take advantage of it down the line if we keep people unsuspecting

And despite Gem’s inactivity, she always responds with completely thought-out kind messages that make you feel good about her - makes her great to talk to but also totally fits what you’re saying about her being a huge social threat

exactlyy like she's clearly a sweet person irl and I keep thinking oh I want to give gem a chance which is threatening on its own. I see marissa as a social threat too but I feel better about working with her because I have a better sense of her connections via you. her threatness is more visible imo

maybe I'm just personally threatened by gem bc she's so lovely and is playing utr like I want to play..like I want to be the aubry here hmph

Yes exactly!! The biggest positives to working with them are that all the other Loved 1.0 members are about to get wiped out of the game. Theo will lose at exile, Void was on the wrong side of the RLime vote and will likely pay for that, and Bree has been inactive. So if we find a way to bring them in and make them loyal to us - I doubt they’d have anywhere else to go in a future swap or merge

Biggest negative being that they’re genuinely lovely people which is hilarious but also very telling of how good they can be in this game

I’ve also like only heard from Soul & Gem today… which is slightly concerning for how we were thinking about moving this tribe forwards lol

it's still early today! at least for me. I heard a hello from corny and a little from from star. we still got some time before tribals over

I need to review the tribe charts more because I didnt realize that about Loved 1. I have them all saved in an excel file too haha

I swear I check the cast-info channel at least 10 times a day just referencing who has played with who 😭. Clearly I need it cause I totally forgot that Fuggles and Star were on Failed 1.0 together and would obviously have a relationship

Btw i’ll obviously still be able to do whatever the challenge is and check in occasionally - but tomorrow will probably be the day of least activity for me in this whole game. My gf and I are going to see Noah Kahan in Orlando, which is like my first concert since before covid so i’m very happy about that lmao. But i’ll be driving early afternoon, then concert from 7 pm est - whenever it finishes probably close to 11/midnight est

So hopefully we win the challenge, if not i’m gonna have discord be very presently available on my phone so that I can do whatever I gotta do if we’re preparing for tribal

that sounds like fun! he's one of your favorites yeah? go have a great time and try and take a break. you're so active that it makes up for when you have to be away

it's a smart thing to do!

Yes!! I don’t listen to a lot of music at the moment so I would definitely say he’s my favorite and basically the only artist I listen to on a consistent basis lol. Hopefully we just win immunity and i’ll be at ease for the night, but if we lose it’s gonna be impossible to keep myself from hopping on here to check in and do some pre-tribal scrambling 😭

omg Marissa just said she loves talking to you because you love Zelda hahahaha that’s amazing

yessss I love that! coincidentally or not I just told her I wanted to w work with her and she agreed :D

and when our alliance name is “The Legend of Twin Peaks”

that’s great though, I was thinking you two would get along when we were talking on Failed 2.0

that's so good aha

yeah she's a lot of fun to chat with. I feel like I can goof off more w her than say gem or corny

I fully agree with this lol, I feel like my chats with Corny are always so serious for some reason. Hopefully we can pull her away from Gem and get her feeling closest with us long-term. Especially if all her 1.0 tribe members get pagonged on this new Loved 3.0.

lmao now we’re talking about Zelda, that’s so funny i’m surprised that we never got to that topic

so you're a fan too??

Yes! Doesn’t sound like i’m assssss big of a fan as you two are but i’ve played quite a few games on the switch + their online library

Windwaker, breath of the wild, tears of the kingdom, links awakening, majoras mask

all played to varying degrees but mostly windwaker

😍 I love all of those games. but are you telling me you haven't played ocarina of time? it was my first game when I was 11 so the nostalgia is strong and I love it so much. I have a tattoo even

wind waker is such a beautiful game, I wish they'd make another in that art style

I haven’t!! That’s so fun though, I saw they just announced that they’re remaking it for the switch for sometime later this year so I will definitely be buying it when it comes out

I know right, it feels impossible to have something like that with how today’s games look

I love that you want to play it but my eye twitches a little considering how different this remake might be from the original if that's the first version you're playing

photorealism or bust!--all new games

lmao you’re probably right, I really should go back and play the original before it comes out

I’m gonna be out for a bit for a movie 🫡 talk to ya when I return

have fun ttyl!

Just got back

Very pleased to see that Ryan survived

And another Fuggles ally gone which brings him closer to us

But you did say you were close with him so that sucks

or at least were gonna work together on a vote*

that is true but ak was gonna be my ally too, I'm bummed to see him go

wish it was anyone I hadn't met really

but that's ok, thrilled ryan survived!

It is a bit of a strange choice knowing that Bree was under fire for not being very active, Omar was under fire for not being very good at challenges. Why AK? Hopefully Fuggles can get some word on how the tribal went when we returns from exile

soo that alliance i told you about? they just removed AK but it's still open. I think sam is about to spill

ok this is top secret info sam wouldn't want leaked: void was the vote, he idoled, and then the vote went to AK. both sam and AK were offline when it was going down and sams is upset about it. I'm awaiting details but he disappeared

oh wowwwww, wtf I asked prod if I could still talk in my alliance chats and they said no lmao

Well I guess we know that void will be the vote if they go to tribal again

He solved the clue in treemail i guess?

I'd say go for it. sams tagged fishpog and asked and he said it was fine? they usually shut them down in my experience so it is kinda weird to be able to

void went to exile a while back so maybe from there

oh true, that’s probably the case

oh marooning chat open

please tell me we’re not swapping again lol

No swap

I'm scared lol

yipee

oh okay

just double boot

this is fine

there it is

yeah

That’s better than what it could’ve been lmao

ooh are we competing for individual immunity then

most likely?

Oh I have no chance here lol, i’ll be out most of the day tomorrow

This is a dumb challenge considering Ryan and Tully will also not be able to win by default

I hate this challenge already

pls dont make me film myself ffs

and yeah you're right. more live bullshit

Yeah I think i’m throwing this one ngl

Whether intentionally or not

I got no chance here

Hopefully Soul doesn’t win

I could see star being all over this if they're free

You’re definitely right, I would imagine fuggles would be good at this as well

lmao reward being seeing your edgic strip

i’d rather not

I would love to ngl but it's not worth my dignity

I think it’s odd someone is sitting out of an individual immunity challenge but i’ll sit if nobody else wants to lol

they still want to track team points for placements and the effing lodge

I want to sit bc I dont want to do this shit lol but I'll be around tomorrow mostly

This challenge is brutal

I almost feel bad that i’m the one that’s sitting out

I got the real reward

I think you did!! I dont want to be waiting on edge for random tasks

somehow I got points on the coloring one so thats something haha

I believe the current score for our tribe is Fuggles: 5, You: 3, Soul: 3

And we’re getting smoked as a tribe 😭😭😭

Gem said she wants to form a group of 4 with us + Marissa

Everyone wants to work with us

how fun

that's great! she's responding to me but hasn't mentioned it yet

this challenge is way too fast paced for me. soul is getting a lot of points so we should be prepared for that. sucks corny and tully will have a lot to catch up on

ah cool gem is asking me who I like and whatnot. she says besides you and marissa she likes fuggles and...soul

Why does everyone like Soul 😭

If Fuggles wasn’t connected to star this would be easy

we may just have to take the hit on a number and cut Corny if Soul wins

I mean I like soul too but he's at the bottom of my list still

Exactly how I feel

that's what I'm thinking

star's getting points too, but I'm slowly starting to not pay attention

Yeah Star and Fuggles are both definitely still contending for it. I feel like Soul is way less active during the day so hopefully they do a ton of challenges then lmao

I told her I liked all the same people and also added tully but that he's not around much

oh I forgot to mention soul lmao

Good morning! I see Tully went ahead and made a trip alliance chat for us

Also fuck this challenge lol i’m getting a migraine just looking through the marooning chat

they’re running these challenges at dog shit times so Soul is gonna end up winning immunity

I hate this challenge too. I'm simply not built for it, too chaotic but it's been kinda fun to watch. whoever wins individual immunity deserves it but it's not fair when like a quarter of the cast cant really participate

yep he probably will. good thing we have friends here and backup targets

Yeah exactly, quite unfortunate but we’ll probably have to cut Corny if Star isn’t an option at all

Any idea what Fuggles got from exile? We’ve talked a bit since he got back but he hasn’t brought it up

no but we haven't talked that much since he returned. I'll try to ease into asking if he doesn't bring it up

Okay sounds good, from the chats i’ve had it seems like Corny is most people’s preference regardless of immunity winner. Too many people have been saying they feel good with Soul and I haven’t heard one person say that about Corny yet

That’s gonna suck lying to him

it really will, he trusts us. hopefully he's down to throw a name to us so we don't have to figure out a decoy. would corny be bold enough to say tullys name I wonder?

I doubt it sadly, the one time we talked about connections on this tribe he said he was cool with working with all of the og served members (granted he said us two first then waited a whole paragraph to also say tullys name) + said he really liked Fuggles and Star

So by process of elimination I think he’s throwing out Gem or Marissa

And if that is the case, for as much as losing Corny as a number would suck - I think Gem/Marissa could be two numbers for us

this reminds me so much of that other game I was in. sticking our neck out for corny in favor of targeting anyone else could be a death sentence for us

meant to reply to this one. they are a strong pair and by bringing us two in, probably think we're a strong pair too. but that's ok because we can cross groups and protect each other. I hope anyway

100%, only person i’m sticking my neck out for at any point in this game is gonna be you

I think this will be the case, hopefully if i’ve done a good enough job at concealing our relationship from 1.0 then Marissa will think i’m in the camp of her + our failed 2.0 alliance and we can work that side as well

I’m about to hit a long drive for this concert 🫡 Be back in a couple hours

ditto. anyone but us

ok! I will hold it down for now. safe travels 🫡

Soul said he was gonna be inactive for the rest of the night lol, if they spam challenges late night then maybe someone else will win

I think i’d ultimately rather do Soul than Corny if we got the chance and people supported it, but we’ll wait and see what happens

I agree, I'd rather go for soul but I don't think it'll be possible bc I think he'll win. prod isnt posting as many tasks anymore. and hasn't corny, tully, and gem said they all like soul? I think fuggles might be down but idk who else

They did, also bad news relating to that. Fuggles just said that Tully is throwing around Corny’s name but Fuggles doesn’t like that

I feel like he might be testing me and how loyal I am to served 1.0, cause why tf would he have interest in protecting Corny

interesting. is tully even on right now? I hadn't got a sense that fuggles cares about corny so it could be a test??

then again fuggles has been talking to everyone the whole game so maybe he has a relationship w corny we're not aware of

I hope it’s a test, if Soul wins immunity and fuggles pushes for Corny to be safe then we’ll have a problem lmao

I haven’t been keeping score but it seems like Soul may have lost a large lead

I think soul is gonna take it but gem could be close

omg star won by 1 lmao

I would love to vote out Soul if we can, but cool w Corny too

LOL just logged back on

I'm glad it wasn't one of us going at least

oh Soul went to the lodge… that’s awkward

Sorry Corny

looks like it’s his time

just on paper who else would we even go for

I mean if Star has immunity and Soul is gone - only reasonable choices are Corny and Tully imo, so I think we gotta do Corny

that is such bs giving ryan and tully strikes GEE I WONDER WHY they couldnt do any tasks

I know… I’m kinda tired of these live challenges. We were told 24 hour timeframes, i’d like challenges I know I can compete in

imma review this w/ prod but ill probably take their strikes back?

i think that's fair yeah personally

oops what gasp who said that

no more live challenges unless you pair ryan and tully together

note that we did plan literally all of our challenges long before the season started lmao

oop I missed the production clapback

Hey at least this challenge format/schedule will only help us out in the future when we’re two of the more active players left in the game lmao

Seems like everyone is dancing around saying Corny’s name lol

I know right. I want to be like look I don't mind voting for him just hate saying his name first since he trusts me

marissa so chatty usually but giving one word answers to everything in there lol

I think Fuggles is about to make a 3 person chat with you and me, maybe we try to convince just him first, then pitch it to Marissa/Gem as ‘Fuggles/Tully/Star are all doing this and we’re just hopping on board’

I doubt marissa and gem will prefer tully over corny, she's just being cagey right now (like me too)

I don't love having convos when not all the alliance is present

Yeah, don’t want to talk out a whole plan just for Gem to come in and completely disagree lmao

I think Marissa would prefer Tully for sure, she knows he wants to work with her from Failed 2.0 I hope

I would rather do these main chats tomorrow. the adrenaline doesn't help me sleep when it's actively going on you know?

Of course!

and I feel like corny is going to log on any second lol

no I dont mind talking with you, but with other people where I have to dance around things basically

Gotcha, I feel the same way - i’m drawing a blank for what to even say to Corny or Tully when they get on. This feels like the first actual difficult vote for us this game

it is, for me anyway. I don't think it should be thaaat difficult to get people on board. I messaged star so hopefully they say the same names to me and we can get the ball rolling tomorrow. I'm just sad about lying to corny more than anything

Good morning! Unfortunately I woke up later than usual because i’m insanely hungover but Tully messaged me overnight basically deducing ‘Well if we want to work with Bethany/Fuggles/Marissa/Gem, and Soul is at exile + star immunity: that only leaves 1 name as an option’

So I think he knows it has to be Corny, doesn’t seem like it’ll be hard getting Marissa/Gem onboard. Then we just need Fuggles to agree and probably fill in Star

Do you think we should bring up Corny/Tully being at odds with the Marissa/Gem group? Could be a good way to bring up Corny as a target option, then just tell them we feel like Tully is a more workable ally. I feel like Marissa and Gem are being cautious because they don’t want to say Corny, then we “bring that info back” to him and then vote as Served 1.0 + Fuggles against them

I think thats a good idea because it will be easiest if those are the only names we need to manage out there

It seems like Tully threw out Corny’s name to Marissa

so he did what we wanted him to do already hahaha

I think Marissa is onboard already, we’ve chatted a bit this morning

sounds good. have you responded to corny at all? I am about to

We talked a bit this morning about my concert/ how his day went but I pushed off the game talk by using my long drive home as an excuse lol

Still need time to think of how to draw a name out of him without saying anything he could run with

I'm gonna delay as much as I can too. we might need to say peopple are being cagey, or just ask him first so he doesn't ask us first

oh btw fuggles brought up the alliance of us 3 to me last night after I was asleep

Im down for doing that for sure, if we have to go to another tribal after this - I have a feeling he would be targeting Tully/Gem/Marissa. I’m hoping we can find a way to get him aiming at Soul, or even Star if we’re desperate

But also, we’re losing 3 tonight I would imagine. 1 from each tribe + Theo losing at exile. 15 left we may just be swapping again

I think this is very possible and likely actually. 7x7 plus one at exile

7x7 would be nice, I think we’re solid with most of this tribe + have potential connections with Sams/Clint on the other side. I’m worried it’ll be some bullshit with 3 tribes of 5, nobody at exile since Soul will win and Theo will be booted - and then 2/3 tribes go to tribal, merge at 13. Then it’s basically coming down to dumb luck on who you get swapped with

Let me not manifest that though lmfao

they said they weren't doing the blood moon and that's basically it! so I really hope not either

I hope so!

Oh Marissa just shared the piece of Tully wanting to vote Corny

This should be an easy sway, we’ll have majority with us plus Tully. We just need to find a way to properly fill in Fuggles/Star

fuggles just told too, tully said corny and went to bed with his vote in for corny

and he already talked to star about it, though sounds like star started the 2 names

lol I would love to pin this on Star down the line if that’s the perception

Good, i’ll talk to Fuggles and find a way to make us naturally come to that conclusion

I’m wondering how we handle this with Corny, he’s gonna find out from someone that Tully is saying his name

and I feel like Corny can probably diagnose that Tully would be telling us this info, and then not sharing with him

I told corny I was going to brunch to buy some time anyway

Why is everyone saying they’re impartial on this 😭 Literally Gem Fuggles Marissa. I really don’t want to be the one to tip the scales but what’s going on here lol

they are all leaning keeping corny though

I just straight up asked Marissa in 1-1’s if she’s cool with voting Corny and she said yes

Hopefully she can translate that to Gem for me

I think basically everyone is on Corny now, it could be a bad look if someone goes to him first. Is there any value in telling him Tully is coming for him? Or does that just leave us open to looking shady?

hmmm

the cleanest/cruelest thing to do is not say a thing to either and ask for forgiveness after. ofc it doesnt make sense that we wont hear any names the whole time

if we tell either their names are out for being less active I think they'd understand. but it's so hard to do

I do think this could be the best route, but then he’d probably ask who that’s coming from and give us more problems. ghosting him is probably the cleanest way to do things although quite cruel, but if someone else goes to him first and spills, then he would know we’re implicated regardless

we have to be flexible still, it could still be tully going if people dont bite

you made a good point about tully being a better connection with marissa vs who knows with corny

I thought that could be a good way to make it seem like less my decision and more natural circumstances lol

I think that 4 person alliance will all be down for Corny, Fuggles has seemed to agree with me in 1-1’s but idk

yeahhh star just said they're voting tullyy probably

corny is keeping up with people more

Yep star just said the same to me. That’s not great for me lol, shouldn’t have pushed for that with gem marissa and fuggles

omg I meant star said tully

yeah voting for tully

I think the only way we change that is if Fuggles agrees and then flips star

but this is messy now

ehhh we weren't pushing that hard yet

you made good points. marissa and gem are probably conferring behind the scenes

I would assume so. This is probably an even bigger reason to tell corny that tully is throwing his name out

Star may have even done so already

yeah true, though star said corny last night didnt they?

Not that i’ve heard of, I just figured they’d be voting out Corny since it seemed like that’s what Fuggles is doing based on our 1-1 chats

I think i’m just gonna take my foot off the gas and let fuggles come to his own decision, I don’t want it to seem like i’m trying to protect tully too hard.

yeah I'm not saying anything else in that one atm

Marissa is telling me in 1-1’s that she thinks voting out corny is the best choice, so i’d assume Gem agrees

That’s 5 votes and majority if we did it with them + tully. I just don’t want to be on the opposite side as fuggles

fuggles will go with the majority I bet, and he would give star a heads up who would do the same

Hmmm okay that’s good, how do we get him to know that’s gonna be the majority vote?

(If that’s where it seems to be going)

hmm wait til marissa and gem are confirmed then tell fuggles one or both of us talked to them

Sounds good, Corny is pitching me his plan right now so i’m about to see how much he knows

Star told Corny that Tully is coming for him

ok then, does corny want tully?

Marissa just said she “informed Fuggles”

Don’t exactly know what she said, praying she didn’t say “hey! we have a group of 4 voting for Corny, join us” 😭😭

I acted surprised and asked if the plan was to fire back, he hasn’t said anything yet

I am worried he knows I know, but we’ll see

any news? I'm waiting to respond to corny since I'm still "out". but it's quiet for me now

Pretty quiet on my end as well, i’ve chatted with Corny a bit and basically said like wowww that’s wild that Tully would do that, quite hasty to throw out your name blah blah

I’m waiting to see what Marissa says about her chat with Fuggles before I do anything else, I really want her to be the one to get him onboard with Corny cause then we’re fully detached from it

Corny just asked what I thought about forming an alliance with us + you

yeah that sounds good, let's let it breathe some and people will come to a decision and I think if there's any pushback to keeping tully we let him go. corny could be just as a good an ally as corny and corny does have more connections. if he vouches for us it could look good

oh man haha how are we supposed to juggle all these alliances?

The consequences we face for being the most connected in this tribe and everyone wanting to work with us 😭😭 I’m just gonna tell Corny i’m down if you are down to work with us, just gotta placate him and make him think it’s Tully I guess

Fuggles just said he’s gonna talk to star about changing their vote to Corny, I guess Marissa did some solid work for us lol

yeah he told me about star telling him which I'm running with. idk if it really changes anything except people might trust star less

that's great, ok. I need to check in with folks. I have been rewatching Borneo and just finished and it's getting me all emotional, I love the first and early seasons so much

That would be a great result, star and fuggles seem very close with each other. I’m now getting into a bit deeper convos with Star and they seem totally unbothered by who goes, just voting out Tully because they were just on a tribe with Corny

I neeeed to rewatch Borneo again soon, there really is nothing like old school survivor. I just rewatched Marquesas the week I was in Alaska and it is still a perfect season

He just dm’d me 1-1, Honestly I just want to tell him to lay back and not do anything drastic. I think it’ll naturally become unanimous for Corny if we go hands off

yeah we just need to placate corny and gently push when it comes up

I'm telling him I'm fine to vote tully

Okay i’ll do the same if he ends up asking for it, he probably just assumes that’s what i’m doing

Has Fuggles said any more to you about his vote? He seems to be claiming to me and Marissa that he’s down with Corny but I cant tell if that’s what he’s actually doing

I dmed him and said corny knows and he's like corny is apparently talking but not to me :(

he says if corny is able to get something going for tully fuggles is down but that corny isnt trying much so

Okay yep those were the same words he was using with me when I told him Corny is aware lmao. I don’t think anymore nudging is necessary - Corny probably trusts that we and star are keeping him safe and doesn’t think he needs to do much

aw fuck corny wants to make the alliance

feels bad man but theres no reason to say no. corny could have an idol still!!!!!!!!!! however unlikely

Yup we just have to say yes and pretend it’s Tully + hope he doesn’t keep talking to Fuggles/Star

I think it'll be ok

I think so, doesn’t seem like Corny is campaigning at all, and even if he does and somehow flip those 2. We still decide what happens

Star just said to me “I think it’s on tully”

genuinely what conversations am I missing here lol

Omg it was a mix up and they said the wrong name

it’s unanimous for corny lol

hey erm

no screenshots that is in fact strikable

ill let you off the hook but do not do that again ever

Not sure who did it cause message is gone now, but if it was my copy of star’s voice memo, my bad. I thought that was allowed, won’t happen again

screenshot of a message from tully

i forget which of the two of you did it i just saw the screenshot and wiped

I know but it was in our mutual alliance

oh if it was an alliance chat both of you were in thats fine lmao

yeah no I would never do a screenshot. it was a message to me and ricci in our alliance

i just see game related screenshots and that's instant panic mode from a host pov

I understand I will be more mindful

all good

Oh I see lol

Which message from him was it?

the one where he said let's meet in 20 minutes

Ohhhhh yeah I remember seeing that lmao, where you said it was ominous 😭😭

I think Tully is calm about it

I reassured him in 1-1’s that we have his back and he seems chill

Oh Gem just said she feels reassured by Tully as well

wow this was so clean for us lol

Now we just have to placate Corny for a few more hours

yesss this is going pretty damn smoothly

I really don’t understand why he’s not trying too hard, but it makes it even easier for us that Corny isn’t really making an effort to get anybody to want to vote with him

Shit he’s not even pressing us that hard for reassurance 😭

corny very well be comfortable with us and what people are telling him, or maybe there's a part of him that doesnt mind going. I am making that up, IDK, but that could be part of it

Oh I also just realized it’s past midnight over in Germany, he’s gonna be voted out while he’s asleep lol that sucks

ohhh yeah you're right, that does suck for him. I feel bad because we got close to corny but we're doing what we think is best for our games. I think we're making the right decision

Yup I think we are doing the right thing. They probably would’ve been equally loyal to us but idk I just trust Tully more for some reason, he’s also more connected to Marissa/Gem which helps make him an easy number to work with, but he’d be supremely loyal to us two + Ryan at the end of the day

All votes are in, are we feeling confident it’s unanimous for Corny?

yes I think so (???)

I’m just reacting to the message to get it over with, I don’t think anyone’s told Corny

Just strange he hasn’t pushed hard at all

if it goes smoothly it means enough people reassured him

like us 😭

Yeah basically lmao, but how could he not check in with over half the tribe to see if he was good 😭

Even with me literally all I said was that it was wild that Tully started throwing his name out so early, and yes to the idea of forming an alliance with us. I figured he’d at least ask for my vote considering i’ve been on every tribe with Tully

I should react to the messgae I suppose

nevermind here we go

Yup we’re getting it over with

Well

that’s over with

ripped off the bandaid of our first real tribal

we pushed just hard enough to get our way :)))

omg Theo won and is joining us

LMAO

idk why but thats the funniest thing to me

Original Loved 1.0 tribe member, I hope we don’t lose Marissa/Gem to him

that is hilarious though

Theo probably has an advantage as well

soo fuggles told me something insane about theo

well theos situation

he said that theo returning to the game, if people vote out theo, they get some kind of advantage

Oh I completely forgot about that, he said the same to me

Do you believe it?

Seems a bit strange

it seems incredibly fucked up from production for one thing

I dont entirely buy it but I'll bring it up again at some point with fuggles

Okay sounds good. And… with Theo being in exile for 5 straight rounds - i’m quite happy to just vote him out as an easy vote but I feel like it has a large chance of backfiring with whatever he could’ve gotten from there. And now that we’re not getting Soul back, the only other option is Star and that would be a hard sell for everyone

hmm sounds like we need to just win the next challenge and avoid that headache doesnt it

yeah, quite a shame Soul couldn’t step up and knock another player out of the game lol

extra reason to vote out soul when we get the chance 😭

yeah definitely. I haven't talked to theo but hey said hello and looking at his reception he does seem well liked. I loved that he said all that exile stuff immediately. we'll see how it goes

enjoy the break!! talk to you tomorrow. we did so good today!

Talk to you tomorrow!

Good morning! It is wild how good people feel about theo after being in exile for 4 straight rounds… like do people just feel bad for him or is he that good of a social player?

probably a little of A and B

good morning my friend

I wonder what both tully and fuggles immediately asking what we think of theo means. are they threatened by him?

Fuggles seems relatively against him from the chats i’ve had with him. He said he hopes whatever advantage he has is minimal, and that he let him know he told people about this “advantage if you vote for theo” thing and he was upset about it

I couldn’t guess what Tully’s intentions are, he tried to bring in Soul so i wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to bring Theo in as well

damn I wonder if folks would try and go for fuggles/star

That was my concern, cause I think Gem/Marissa are not going to jump to want to vote theo out first

And Marissa is my way in to infiltrating and taking down the Andrew/Clint/Jack/Sams majority sometime down the line so I would really prefer to not turn on them. I think you feel good with them as well

Like, Tully may end up being the only “consensus” vote on the table if we did that to him - everyone else probably wouldn’t hesitate

Seems like this immunity challenge today is important lol

Star/Fuggles are now the only people left from Failed 1.0 so like, their loyalty more than likely would lie with us if we worked on those relationships hard enough

I want to try and be loyal to fuggles bc I love how open he's been with info this whole time and wants to work with us. I don't have that same relationship with star yet but would be willing to work on it. push comes to shove I'd prioritize them over tully but would much prefer a theo to go first. but that's an in this moment feeling, I could change my mind on it

I agree, plus he definitely has an advantage loaded from his last time winning at exile that he still hasn’t told us about so it’s better to keep him working with us. I agree i’d rather prioritize them two over Tully if the relationships developed more. Cause it’s definitely not a dealbreaker for Ryan if we cut Tully.

I would greatly prefer a theo boot first, cause Tully is absolutely better for us than Theo. But again, don’t want to push too hard to keep anyone that’s not you

yeah, and I fear if we want to keep marissa and gem happy we would likely need to keep theo, right? let's see if they bring up theo to us like will they care about our opinion of him like tully/fuggles?

Im not sure if they’re thatttt loyal to him just yet, so we will have to feel it out heavily if we end up losing. I talked with marissa about theo yesterday and she seemed happy he was back, but also acknowledged he’s been gone for a while

Like from my eyes, their relationship to him as a comparison based on how much time they spent playing together - would be like how we felt about corny

Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking

I would prefer to get Theo pointed at either Star or Tully, then we all vote Theo and pray there’s no idol - and even if there is the blowback doesn’t come on us and we still get this hypothetical advantage for voting theo

yeah that's the goal in my eyes too as of now. I'm going to breakfast and will pop in thru the day

okay sounds good, apparently theo had told tully that he wants to work with our served 1.0 trio

Theo told me he wants to work with me gem and marissa

we’re all just getting what we want to hear

But apparently Theo told tully that he doesn’t think Gem/Marissa will prioritize him

so we could get Tully to leak that maybe accidentally as a way to paint a target on Theo and make Gem/Marissa feel less inclined to protect him

like you mean you me and tully trio? or you2 with ryan? idk why theo would want to work w me without meeting me

Yes apparently theo told Tully he wants to work with you me and tully in a 4 person group

and theo told me he wanted to work with me marissa and gem 😭

so he’s just feeding people what they want

that's so fast too! kind of sus but I still need to catch theo when he's on :|

if true that's wild that theo would assume/clock that we're all working together. I don't love that

Yep, good for us that Theo is doing too much and putting people off

we already have great reasons for people to feel not so good about him just by him saying different names to multiple people

we can bring all this to the table if we got to tribal next

Tully said “not to share this” but apparently theo shared the disadvantage thing where if people vote for him they get an advantage. I guess if it’s a unanimous vote, then nobody receives anything

so we would get something if it's NOT unan? I'm sure someone can be convinced to throw a stray haha

So he seems to confirm with Tully that it is real at least

Yeah exactly, I feel like it’s an easy sell for someone to throw a vote on someone else just in case Theo has an idol

Tully also thinks that Theo would be going for fuggles

that's fair I mean fuggles did throw theo utb by sharing that. I dont think fuggles did it maliciously but it's coming back around now

oh nooo what's happening

oh shits going down

I wasn’t paying attention

damn time to lock in

sounds like double tribal

I wonder if sams and soul will pick new tribes

Oh jeez, we could easily get fucked over

Good thing we’ve been cordial with everyone lol

I don’t think this is a challenge I can win, but i’d really like to know tribe splits before I do this challenge so I can know if I actually need it or not lol

Or are we staying in current tribes? I’m confused

they really should make it whoever completes the most tasks wins not just whoever gets to the end

that makes me want to drop out immediately like I dont got time for all that today

oh dear

If we have two tribals, other tribe votes someone out of our tribe

omg I HATE this

what a fucked twist

Luckily the power structure over there is andrew/clint/jack/sams/ryan and they should keep us safe

I'm seriously anxious about meeting andrew clint void and dealing with theo for the first time

but that’s scary

I'm good with sams and ryan at least

wow so we are really banking on sams completing wtf is going on in the lodge. I have faith he will he seems dedicated to the game

nah we doin that

if no one completes it whoever has the most takes it lol

good thanks

we're evil bastards but we have our limits

Yeah I would be quite shocked if he wasn’t successful over there. But then are we seriously going to 1 tribal with 16 people?? 😭😭

two people per tribe damn this twist is sketchy

So difficult to work around

they need to clarify if its a one world tribal or just one of the tribes goes

Yeah we definitely need to know what happens with the twist before we play the challenge at all

I have a feeling some of the punishments will simply not be something i’m gonna do

So i’ll probably just drop out immediately depending on what extra info we get here

oh nevermind all my laura 3.0s chats are turning into 1-1

I think it would be one tribal with all of us

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hey...

just doing what i was told...

we're just trying to figure out whats going on

due to the structure of what's going on in the lodge, we cannot tell you what it's going to be until after the challenge

it'll make sense soon enough i'm sure

sigh

sigh

now I won’t know how worth it it would be to throw this challenge lol

I'm going to give it my best but I'm not looking forward to it

just don't pull a stephen!

what did he do

context: the way we did this in fiovivor was we gave all the tasks/punishments at once

when you got the list you had to pick which task/punishment was your limit

stephen decided he would take on 12 punishments

if you put the amount of punishments/tasks that you promised to do in writing and didn't do them, you would get strikes

stephen didn't do any of his punishments

stephen caught 25 strikes and was removed from the game immediately

hahaha oh my god

I see thanks

if you look at the #rulebook, we have a stephen clause in there

gifted to us from that very incident

can we talk about the tasks/punshiments with each other?

thats a @-fio :D question

I've done challenges like this before. some punishments I remember: changing pfp, changing display name, only being able to speak in gifs, losing a vote, public voting, not being able to compete in the next challenge, stuff like that

no

Shit I only use discord for this and other small survivor groups so I dgaf about those first few punishments 😭 I feel like I would just drop out quick on a bad challenge

pain

the spoiler server 🔥

ricci no!!

I’ve been crushing mini orgs in there so I feel like I am honing my skills

50 was torture 😭😭

i haven’t been playing any of those lmao

those are all one session-ers i think and i only ever have like

you should it’s very fun and evil

2-3 hours at a time at most to sit down lol

i always got some bullshit going on

I’m getting the sense that the other sides majority wants to target Star or Fuggles if they vote someone off from our tribe

oh jeez i’m not a fan of how the other side has developed

they want a super alliance of Sams/Jack/Andrew/Clint/Soul/Void/Me/Marissa/Ryan/Tully

how are we not smart enough to realize that’s a horrible idea…?

who is "they" talking about this?

yeah at this time I want the large tribal because I dont trust the other tribe and I dont want to lose fuggles

Andrew specifically said it, but that would imply that Andrew Jack Sams Clint and Void had discussed it

I really think he’d be in trouble if it was 2 tribals, so we need this to be a merged tribal

I feel confident I can keep it off us though

andrew went off line but one of the first things he said to me was "I def got some of the best vibes from you early" and then when I said wow I didnt know I had that aura (because we have never interacted) he said "I think you just give off very approachable energy" so if andrew is in some power position thats good so far

I think so too I just dont want to lose an ally. we might have to cut someone we care about and I'm not ready for that. but it would also give us the chance to pick off someone strong from that side if we can rally people

clint saying he's only heard good things about me, from you and sams :3

thank you thank you

Hopefully we have laid the groundwork to survive this!

I’m not pleased that they want to work with Soul as well

literally 5 observed 1.0 members

you have to recognize how greedy you are

we might have to make a sacrifice now but that doesnt mean we cant get soul or whoever later

I think ideally we get them to vote theo, but star works too if necessary

I don’t mind voting Bree from their side, we’re gonna have to make a move on this observed 1.0 tribe quickly though

I'm just gonna keep up with everyone I can and get in good with them. we should plan another vc once we know the outcome of this tribal twist maybe?? come to grips with what our options might be

Yeah definitely we should. And best plan now is just building as many relationships as possible and getting everyone feeling good about us so that we aren’t even an option

you know we're so good at that! one thing at a time and all that and we should be just fine

I asked jack about his tribals and he spilled all about the AK vote, I'm going to paste the voice note. have you heard about that one? also some about the omar vote last time

from jack:
So basically, as soon as we went to Tribal, it was pretty clear that there were like two very clear groups, which were Andrew, Clint, Ryan, and then AK, AK, I don't know, Omar, and Brie. And then Void, myself, and Sam's kind of floating in the middle because we had decent relationships on both sides. and nobody said anything until like an hour before tribal and aka and uh andrew it seemed like kind of just came to a consensus like okay let's just do void whatever and so everyone voted void and then votes locked void is like i'm playing my idol good luck and when he says that i'm like what the fuck does that mean? Like, am I about to get idled out with one vote? So I threw the vote on AK, and then AK Andrew, vote tied, and then Voight and I, basically, we voted to keep Andrew, and then last time we were like, okay, let's just vote Omar out, and it ended up being a split on Brie, which I think was kind of like reinventing the wheel for no reason, because I really, I don't think anyone thought there was actually an idol. But I was happy to have an excuse not to vote Omar out, because I really liked them, and I felt bad that they were going home. But yeah, it was a nightmare. And I am nervous today.

Hmmmm this is interesting, Jack is covering up how close he is with Clint and Andrew, I wonder why he’s doing that

The vote breakdown is basically what I heard from the others though, so that’s all true

But Clint doesn’t seem to be shy from the fact that they’re all working pretty closely together and all feel comfortable in their alliance

I'm still shooting the shit w clint we haven't gotten to the game talk yet, but he is charming, I can see why people would feel good about him

He is very likeable, I think he’s gonna want to go for fuggles or star pretty soon

what makes you say that? sorry if you've mentioned before. they could be easy targets since their og tribe is gone. but has he said anything directly?

Clint has told me before that he thinks Fuggles is dangerous because he’s talked to everybody this whole game. Also just today he said those two would be easy to go for since they don’t have any other tribe members left to defend or avenge them

I’d like for them to point at theo but I can’t tell who would really drive it over there

so I think I forgot to mention but fuggles got a safety without power from the lodge last time 🤐 maybe if he feels like he is in danger he can use it here

clint is right though fuggles IS dangerous but less so if he is on our side

Yep, and we can ultimately go deeper in the game with Fuggles. Clint has shown that he’s gonna prioritize his observed 1.0 tribe and try to take them to the end

Could be smart for fuggles to play it, his vote against the other tribe wouldn’t be as valuable so good for him to not use it in the future and leave us stranded when we need his vote

have you told fuggles any of this yet? I think it'd be worth it if we have to go to the separate tribals

so is that literally clint-andrew-sams-soul or who do you think is in that special group?

I haven’t told him that they’re coming for him because fuggles tends to just say whatever so I was worried he would then go back to clint and let him know i’m leaking that info. But we did chat about how Observed 1.0 is gonna come together as an alliance and that’s gonna be the power that we have to take down moving forward. So he knows they’re a threat

this group + Jack

and they want me marissa ryan tully to form a mega majority in the event of 16 person tribal apparently

At least, this is what Andrew is telling me - maybe he’s completely delusional and not on the same page as the others

But Clint is also telling me that he wants those same names protected

ok gotcha, damn

Ive been softly nudging them in the direction of voting Theo in the event of a double tribal

I feel like Clint is the one I can share the most with

But I think we’re gonna need Me you Ryan Tully Fuggles Star Gem Marissa to take down this group

Cause theyre doing too much already, like coming to me and saying to join this obvious Observed 1.0 crew and include none of my allies in on it - the ego is insane

They need to be punished

that's the energy I'm feeling like if we have to vote separately maybe we can go for someone big

Wouldn’t that be fucking hilarious if we blindsided Clint

that's what I'm saying. we could start with fuggles, you know star would be down

tully

and then figure out how we approach gem and marissa because they're all glowing about clint (who isnt really)

I feel like they’re gonna want to use them as a bridge to the other side. Cause if you take out Clint - you’re pissing off Andrew, Sams, Jack, Soul, Void. Those two were scared to say a name between Corny and Tully, I just don’t picture them ready to make such a big move so early

they’re Aubry not Tony

I do think if we survive this vote, take out Bree. We can Enter merge with Me/You/Tully/Ryan/Gem/Marissa/Fuggles/Star vs Andrew/Clint/Jack/Sams/Soul/Void

8v6

We just need to pick right and we can set things off

ryan is saying he's locked in with you and me

do you think he would be down to turn on the andrew/clint faction if he's a part of it now?

when the time is right I'm down to be tony with you. TONY AND KASS but working together

I think Ryan is itching to turn on them 😭

Idk how Loved 3.0 went but they honestly neglected him and Tully on Failed 2.0

We anticipated the swap and started talking about working together tribe strong towards the end of it but I can’t imagine he was feeling confident when he saw he had to rely on them

good!!! you and him together are perfect to inflitrate that group

Yup, I honestly think Marissa will be down to do it too which is great

I’m gonna head off for the night, talk to you soon!

ok goodnight!

Good morning! I got another message from Clint overnight that basically said Fuggles is a massive threat and may be more worth taking out over Theo. I don’t want to push too hard to save Fuggles and become a target myself - but we may just want to tell him to use safety without power and then we see if we can gather a strike against Clint

I’m still worried Marissa and Gem are gonna be unwilling to do it, but if Clint is already gearing to take a shot, he’s gonna want to take that shot every round from now on

(I’m not talking specifically about tasks or punishments or anything specific so don’t get mad production <3)

But I made it pretty far into the immunity challenge, I think i’m gonna drop now though. It’s quite scary with two people winning immunity, cause for example if Theo and Star win, Fuggles plays safety without power - then we’re fucked and the only vote options are You, me, Marissa, Gem, Tully. We could convince them to vote Tully but we would be walking a tightttt rope at that point

Even Jack is telling me straight up that he feels great with his entire tribe and Bree would be the only one on the outs and that we could form a group with all of Loved 3.0 + Soul. I’m getting annoyed at the ego on these players….

No, I’ve woken up mad now

I hope Bree wins immunity so we “have no other choice”

Andrew isn’t the most powerful player over there

Void got voted against 7 times by that side and is now getting walked like a dog by them

Sams will probably have some form of protection from whatever this exile twist is

Ryan will obviously flip to us when we fully merge

I think we cut off Clint or Jacks head

"no other choice" is a film and in it the guy is pressed into doing more extreme things to get a job done. I think that fits perfectly in this situation

good because I was busy and forgot so I didnt get very far. it would be great if you won. I'm terrified at the double tribal based on who could win and who would be left. I'm still trying to talk to these guys for the first time

we're gonna use that anger when we vote. I'm ok with a bree vote if we vote at the larger tribal but am so down to make a move if we do separate

I fucking love that movie 😭😭😭 I will absolutely channel Lee byung hun, i’m feeling petty now

oh that's awesome you've seen it!

also ryan told me bree was coming for him last vote

We went to the early access IMAX screening of it back in early December and I loveddddddd it, top 3 of the year for me with Sinners and One battle after another

Ryan and I have also had fantastic chats throughout the last 12 hours or so. He’s fully onboard to run this game as a trio

And he said he feels like he only really got in good with Sams, but that he hates the idea that Observed 1.0 is trying to blatantly work together as a F5

So I think he’s ready to strike whenever the time comes

We would have to come up with very powerful reasons for Marissa and Gem to flip, but honestly even with just me, you, tully + fuggles/star if we tell them that Observed 1.0 is coming after them hard - we got the votes to do whatever the hell we want

thats good and I feel strong with sams too fwiw. aint no way we are letting that f5 happen

maybe we see what gem and marissa wants. would they give in and go for bree? just because that's what the people want doesn't mean we have to. yes you me tully fuggles and star are enough. we'd have to be cautious seeing as comms are still open. I would hate for either of them to leak a plan

I feel like that’s likely what they’d want, maybe an outside chance of wanting Void just since he played a successful idol. But I think if we sell them a very effective story about the dynamics on that tribe - we could get them pointed in whatever direction we want

I was working with Marissa/Andy/Clint in a group on Failed 2.0 so i’ve brought up the idea of somehow getting the edge on them later in the game, so i’m sure she is ready for the possibility

Ryan seems to really want Bree unless she wins immunity

He’s scared of hunting the big fish

I’ve been getting more and more petty as the day goes on and want the big fish 😭😭😭

I dont blame him bc she was after him

and we dont want to get big moveitis too. we need to do what's best for us which can include keeping our alliance happy. we just have to decide which alliance that is. we have options but going after anyone but bree will draw stronger lines in the sand

Yup, I definitely agree that Bree is the right move if she doesn’t win immunity - just the basis alone that she was targeting Ryan makes her unworkable, so it’s smart to get her out of the game

I just have all of my petty side praying for her to win immunity 😭

I can't wait to complain about this challenge after

But you are right that once we do it, the lines are in the sand and it’ll come out that we drove it - so we’ll be top threats immediately

The actual punishments and tasks haven’t been the worst so far, but the whole voting for someone on the opposite tribe is a hater ass move

I would’ve way rather had some more double boots premerge 😭

yeah same, now we're getting a bastardized mergatory

Mergatory but you cant decide your own fate with your vote 😎

so you think if fuggles uses swp they would go for star? going for anyone else would piss someone off and they must know that? or tully maybe

I think their order of targets at the moment would be Fuggles > Theo > Star > Tully

ohh right forgot about theo 💀

Which is exactly why he should be booted 💀 Totally disconnected, won’t rock the boat with anyone

I haven’t yet talked to the others that deeply about game talk - but Clint seems to really want it to be Fuggles

https://tenor.com/view/look-at-the-flowers-twd-carl-sad-gif-13413320

We should be putting Clint down like a sick dog if Theo doesn’t win immunity and he still tried to get Fuggles out

Can’t have your cake and eat it too king, don’t tell us to take out Bree but then not listen when Theo is obviously the safest choice

lmaooo I love this energy

I wish I was at my laptop

theo the safest choice IF he doesnt play any trinkets from exile

I knew they were shady from Failed 2.0 when Andrew/Clint expected me to ditch Ryan & Tully on day 1 of the swap, but I still rolled with it. now i’m just fired up that they want me to ditch all of my allies again and be happy coasting to a 6th-8th finish with them

I agree, I think our ideal outcome is probably getting them to split with Theo primary and star secondary target

that would be ideal and if star goes we get closer to fuggles. we'd also need both of them if we want to make a move. you telling them the other side is coming for them might be motivation enough

I think we could drop hints to them throughout today, if we wait until after immunity is finished it could just look like we’re trying to save our own asses

But I certainly wouldn’t mind Star going if that’s what it had to be

I think it's ok to wait bc so much depends on who wins immunity. also I haven't heard any of this stuff directly, it's from you, so it'd be stronger coming from you

Yeah I don’t mind pushing it, I think it’s strong enough evidence that we could win Star/Fuggles over easily. It’ll be a much harder push with Marissa and Gem I think

agreed, we may need to leave them out of it if we went for a big fish

and is it too early to do that kind of thing? they would trust us less

I think it’s only too early to do if we don’t include them in on it

Cause if we don’t tell them and just do it they’ll probably think we’re shady and jump to the other side

I don’t think Gem has any loyalties to them whatsoever, so I think i’d just need to convince Marissa that we can make it further in the game with me, her, you, Gem, Tully, (whoever stays between star/theo), Fuggles as opposed to the other side

I'm glad you think so because Idk where gem and marissas loyalties lie other than with each other. maybe they're like us and flexible as long as it's not them

They certainly could be lying to me, but I feel pretty confident that their ultimate loyalty lies with this 4 person group we have. They like Theo but aren’t too close with him cause he’s been gone for so long, they like Void but also recognize the threat in successfully playing an idol and negating 7 votes. That Loved 1.0 tribe has turned into a trainwreck after dominating early

I think Marissa may have some residual loyalties to Andrew/Clint from Failed 2.0, so if we just push hard enough about how they’ll always choose each other over us we could probably make her cut those ties

Omg i’m loving what Gem is saying in our alliance chat rn lol

I think coming from her will help Marissa get on the same page. Cause she’s fully right, although Bree and Ryan may be at odds with each other, we can keep her away from targeting Ryan of all people - Bree is on the bottom of that tribe and knows they are all pushing HARD for her to go

Thank you so much!!! I feel the exact same way, it’s so difficult to trust others once the game kicks off, so i’m so happy that we locked in immediately and it’s been completely effortless working together. I really don’t think any two people have as strong of a connection in this game as we do and that will only benefit us in the long run! I fully intend on running this F2 the entire way and will literally never even think about writing or saying your name unless it’s to win. I feel like we’ve accomplished so much already and there’s still a long way to go, but we’re gonna find a damn way to make sure that one of the two of us wins this game!

yessss!! we are so strong and can be powerful together. this is so cheesy but I've already thought about a cute parchment to make for you to vote to win lol. that's the only way I'd write your name down too

Hahahaha that’s awesome thank you!! I haven’t done that yet but I have been envisioning us making F3 together so maybe that’s why lmaoo. I would happily drop a couple placements if it guarantees that one of us wins though! Best believe you’d know it’s my vote for you to win when you saw it haha

Clint seemingly just got on and told me that they still want Theo out, and he’ll “100% get on the same page as me before doing anything” in regards to whether they’d lean more towards Fuggles or Theo

God it would just be so fucking glorious if we convinced them to vote Theo and then stabbed Clint in the heart

I wasn't intentionally thinking about a parchment but I was watching old survivor and was inspired

seriouslyyy get rid of a loose end and cut the head off the snake in one swoop

Would be such an iconic move of us to do if we had the chance

It’s nice to know that we could always fall back on Bree if we wanted to though

Not to get too far ahead of myself, but Clint not on jury is a happy thought for me. He preaches old school survivor loyalty so hard that I feel like he would try to poison the jury against whoever flips on him

i asked void straight up what the groups are bc he said he feels stuck in the middle somewhere

he said: Clint Andrew and Jack are definitely a thing
Sams could be attached to that im not really sure
Bree and I kinda are isolated I think from our tribe
And I don’t really know where Ryan is

Oh Void is telling the truth on all of that, that’s a great sign for his ability to work with us - it makes sense after getting voted for 7 times. I was baffled when Andrew told me he was “tight” in their alliance

Sams is clearly playing incredibly socially, cause he’s with that andrew clint jack group and just giving people the perception he’s not

I think we could pull in Bree and Void if we wanted to, they’re unstable numbers but they’re better than the opposition

Clint just told me that we should vote out Void if Bree wins immunity lol, he’s gifting us ammo against him for free

beautiful!! I am high on void for spilling all this (and not asking for anything in return as of yet) so I'm inclined to want to work with him

Yup i’m right there with you on that, i’ve uncovered a bit more in my chats with him and he’s like - insanely resentful to observed 1.0 for trying to take him out 😭😭

We keep getting reasons to blindside Clint 😭😭😭

😈 😈 😈

we have a lot of options and it's exciting

It’s so exciting

I feel like the potential additions of Bree and Void would make it make more sense to shoot faster on Observed 1.0, cause then it gives them less time to eventually turn on us down the line

But now my brain is exploding thinking about the first big move

it's scary to consider especially bc anyone we bring it up to could leak

I'm more inclined to do it if we're voting separately. if it's one big tribal, what do you think?

I feel like fuggles tully and ryan would be safest to start with bringing it up, particularly fuggles if he's already being targeted

I think separately for sure we have clearance to go for whatever we want, if it’s a big tribal it would be way harder but still even could make sense with Bree and Void both being pissed that they were their boot choices

Those are good names to bring it up with, Fuggles has shared with me that he’s scared of that group forming so I think he’s basically already there

and Ryan wants to flip on them already no questions asked lmao

I haven’t said anything to Bree or Void of course, but they both are indicating that they’re unhappy that they’re being thrown out as easy vote choices and would happily work with us in a merge

So i’m just going along with it, never saying no to an ally

Fuggles just said “i’ll update you when im done eating breakfast, but this vote is wide open”

lol I think the nudging has been enough and everyone is arriving on the same page

yes he just said to me he thinks observed 1 is thinking about coming for him. I'm asking if he'd consider using the swp

so I said we can fire back and dont have to go for the obvious choice in a bree

lmaooo okay I think the ball is already rolling down the hill now, i’m ready to take the shot if you are

we're gonna be cool as cucumbers about it

Yup, i’m done pushing for anything now lol

Just gonna sit back and watch it happen

Fuggles said he wants to chat with our alliance all together

me you him

so we may get a message soon

fuggles wants to take it to our alliance chat now

oh lol

let's gooo

This is good, we just need to frame it to him like Tully will 100% be on board with whatever we say - and we need to work on Gem and Marissa to get them onboard for whatever we want to do

and obvi star would come with since they’re being targeted as well

I'm talking to star too. I brought up void and star said she blindsided him at rlime tribal but really wants to work with void

How blunt are we gonna be about this lol

oh I didn’t know this was “my idea” 😭😭

If he blows this by telling Sams, we’re sending him to the moon lmfao

Like, he has safety without power - not us, he needs to keep this quiet lol

I dont think he would screw us like that

he might leave but shouldn't leak a plan

I don’t think he would do it intentionally, but he tends to be very chatty so I just don’t want him to say the wrong thing and then we get exposed as double agents and Observed 1.0 still has an opportunity to take us out in retaliation

I think he probably got the message though

This is already easier to get people on the same page as us than the corny vote lol

so far so good. I hope fuggles stays but I wouldn't blame him for swping

void is down to work with me and us and also tully :3

Perfect, he’s telling us both the truth which is encouraging

Biggest challenge left for us is to get Marissa and Gem on board without making it seem like the decision has already been made

Gem seems to be there already

Marissa is skeptical to do anything tbh 😭

Clearly fuggles is talking to other people about this which is concerning me

Especially since he’s labeling it as my plan lmao

he's talking to void and void is theoretically on our side

Oh never mind lol I just read the chat

it’s all just confirming what we knew

We’re good

Does he not realize Theo needs to be booted in this?

what am I missing that booting theo is better than booting fuggles? the advs from exile from booting theo yeah but fuggles is more dangerous overall

I think that’s why the other side wants to vote him out so bad

boot theo?

No the other side wants to boot Fuggles

It is a bit concerning that hypothetically fuggles could use swop and then theo uses an idol

But there’s nothing we can do about that