Stranded in Tuamotus

1-There was immunity for sale tonight. Why didn't you buy it? Is there some other thing you're saving all those coins for?

Gurl, look at that money??? *shakes my bag of coins* What am I gonna buy with that!?

2-One third of the cast has been voted out of the game. Now that we're solidly in the mid portion of season 38, what kind of plans do you have to ensure you make it through the next 8 boots?

Oh god. More on that with a more personalized confessional.

3-It's game on, and people are here to PLAY. In modern survivor a lot of people play by the "Meat Shield" strategy and keep a few big targets around in order to hide behind them. Would you consider yourself a big target? or are you hiding behind one?

I think I could be a target. They have every reason to vote me out. I'm decent in challenges (although I've tried to tone if down by doing absolutely nothing at the last challenge. It's not like yelling at eight people what colors to guess would have changed the outcome all that much). People just keep saying "yay good job allie" and I'm like stfu bitch I'mma kill you. Then the fact that people are not straight-forward with me, I think they don't see me as someone they can work with, and this is no good for me. I could be a target yeah. So do I want to hide behind some targets? I would like to do that yeah please. One of the reasons I wanted Wardog to stay.

Alternatively, do you not ascribe to gameplay norms like the meatshield strategy?

I think it's maneuvring through connections. I don't really who is meat who is not meat, it's about being on the right side of the trench.

Last tribal

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. I thought I was going home. No joke. I had my bags ready. Something was off, and I could tell the moment my plan was not working. Jed completely rejected my offer to vote out Reynold, and all of a sudden, boom, Jed, out... Voted out by his own partner. Oh my god I'm laughing. The dude had a chance to stay. I could get Wardog,myself, and Liz, to vote for Reynold. That's all he needed to do and the rest would have followed, nobody gonna draw rocks for him come on.

So now this is where I find myself, on the outs with Liz. I'm immediately playing it off as I didn't care that Jed went home, because I don't want people to think I'm upset over it. I'm not because the dude was hard to work with and was not so opened when the decisions didn't come from Liz, however, HOWEVER, as a player, not being told about a vote, not always a good thing. Especially when I fucking casted my vote against Wardog. Damnn.

I had a talk with Wardog, hopefully this was enough to damage control...

Stephannie, Sherri, Matt, they all came to do some damage control. Sherri's reasoning sounds like she didn't want Liz to play an idol on him, she thought she had a strong alliance with Jed, just like I thought (I made sure to let her know I thought that too), but she probably didn't trust me either, thinking I would maybe tell Liz. And I'm fine with that. This way I don't burn bridges with Liz by voting a way she hasn't voted lol. All it does is strengthen my alliance with her as I was unsure how many people she was working with.

I filled Aurora in with that. She needs to be aware of what happens in the game. If we come to the merge we can't just randomly start working together, you need to start the garden a little bit, right? She even suggested they could maybe lose a challenge and give us a break. I wouldn't be against that rofl.

Oh and now. Wardog tells me that it was Jed that brought up to Wardog to vote for me. He was viewing me as the secondary target in case of idol? Omg, the dude. Please die!!

The lines

Liz keeps bringing up that Missy had a hand in that elimination, and I'm just like *facepalm* Girl, no, Sherri and Matt decided their shit on their own, there's a limit to what Missy can do LOL. Missy has no minions. No one really trust her. Sherri and Matt decided to blindside Jed and keep it quiet to Liz, simple as that. And I'm glad Liz finally sees that. That Sherri and Matt are not to be trusted. I didn't trust them long ago, but something like this needed to happen because I'd just look like some clown saying random things. K, SO. She wants to work with Wardog and Stephannie. GOOD. This is what I wanted to do last round a.k.a. I still want that. That would be 7-3. We would have numbers. But would Steph and Wardog want to work with Elizabeth after she crossed Wardog twice? I don't know. I think I've done my damage control, but not so sure Elizabeth did...

Apparently Missy told Alexis who told Elizabeth... that... she wants to target Stephannie... Huh? Why is Missy so random though? LOL. If I were her, I would just stay quiet and not try to get too much involved in the vote of the other tribes, this kind of thing can backfire if you keep doing that. But I'm glad she keeps my name out of it for now? I mean, maybe she does have plans for me. So I'm not going to be all over Missy's case. She will probably dig her own grave at some point in the game. You can't dig every vote like this without some repercussion on your game. We're still Final 16, we still have a long way to go...

But so yeah, Liz plan would be to throw the plan under the bus to Stephannie in order to get her to vote with us. Okay, you do that girl. Meanwhile, I'll continue my connections to Wardog and Stephannie.

Weirdest moment of the day. Pay attention to this carefully.

My strategic chat with Liz :

Spoiler: show

ME : Did they go to you to damage control lol?

ELIZABETH : Oh big time! I called them out though. On the missy thing. They denied it too. So we have to be cautious

ME : I don't see how Missy would have a hand in that lol. I think it was Sherri

ELIZABETH : Ya I guess missy told Alexis I was suppose to know about it. Cause I was so mad after. It was Matt and Sherri who decided to keep it from me apparently. I’m just like. Wow. Ok. What can I do now.

ME : Yes I know. But I still don't understand what Missy had anything to do in that? What did Missy do?

ELIZABETH : Alexis said missys pushing for a Stephannie vote next. I’m hoping because I told Steph we can use that to get through. Take someone else out. Maybe she will vote with us and maybe wardog. Who knows.

ME : My ideal scenario would be to get wardog and steph to vote with us...

ELIZABETH : I guess she was bragging she was in matts ear and convinced him Jed had to go

ELIZABETH : Ya I’ve already been telling Steph everything I’m hearing

ME : Steph told me she never talked once to Jed so I understand she helped Wardog to stay

ELIZABETH : Ya and I get that! We just weren’t told either. Play off that. Just that we heard wardog and Jed said he had votes. That’s it. Went with numbers because no one told you otherwise

ME : Exactly

ELIZABETH : We can act victim like we need wardog

ME : I've already done all of that and I also told Wardog that what he told me last minute made me think he was voting me.

ELIZABETH : I mean we do but maybe if we act like we didn’t know he “will take us in” haha we need a new leader. Please save us mr wardog

ME : He was like "it's not against you, nothing personal". im like omfg

ELIZABETH : Ya you have a better reason! Because he was saying you.

ME : Right after I heard there would be votes on me

ELIZABETH : Lol you are good at least. I have burned him twice haha I’m like fuck, I gotta suck some D today hahaha

ME : Some D LOLLL

ELIZABETH : Hopefully just his hahah I ain’t up for no matt and Sherris smelly bananas lol

ME : Hahahah

ELIZABETH : We can do this haha

[...] (clue talk)

ELIZABETH : I don’t know what to believe anymore lol I think Sherri for sure has an idol.

ME : I do too.

ME : I think she held Stephanie's. While she went at tribal.

ELIZABETH : She paid for the half clue. Only fair she got it by default

ME : Right

ELIZABETH : Or that.

ME : But I always had my intuition tell me watch out she might have one

ELIZABETH : Ya same and she’s been overly confident.

ME : Yep ^

ELIZABETH : I’ve been walking on egg shells with her

ME : She's very dangerous. She has Reynold and Matt wrapped around her finger, and I think she thinks she has Steph too.

ELIZABETH : Agree. I been telling alexis every thing. She was having same vibes. Like she wasn’t telling Alexis everything

ELIZABETH : I think so too

ME : Listen I think I know her main alliance though. When we were on Te Poto, I noticed a groupchat with three people in it and for all the time that it was these tribes i always saw the same people online in it. I think Matt Michael and Sherri were together. But I think they have Reynold too.

ELIZABETH : Ya probably. I’m so mad too. Jessica said to Michael something about Alexis. But I think Alexis is just milking me so they have an excuse to vote her. I dunno. Something fishy is going on. I was closest to jed and Jess of returnees and now they’re fishy if Jessica. She also, told Michael the list we made of partners. He told Matt. Matt probably told Sherri.

ELIZABETH : Fml Jessica!!! Hahahaba

ME : I think she overtrusts Michael, I felt that too.

ELIZABETH : There’s a definite connection

ME : Careful what you tell whenever it concerns this trio it could run back to them

ELIZABETH : Yep! He listened to all our season podcasts so probably knows how to work her

ME : Yeah

ELIZABETH : I agree! I’m saying nothing I think there’s more.

ME : There might be

I think Elizabeth is 100% on same page as me now. There is no other player in the game that sees the game with a closer perspective to mine. She definitely climb up my bootlist in the safest place to be found. Now it's a matter of making sure we don't go home?

If no plan works, I know that Elizabeth wants to play her idol, which does bother me considering the votes could be split between me and her, they would have the numbers to do if they do team up together. My odds of going home are eeek.

Spoiler: show

ME :Also, how are you feeling about tribal? (if we go, of course)

MATT : Scared lmao. What about you?

ME : More than you?

MATT : LMAO

ME : Fair. This group is a mess.

MATT : I just hope we win a challenge.

ME : We all say and think that. That quote is from like 1990s

MATT : I'm not voting for you if we lose if that's reassurance at all. Idk who to vote yet though.

ME : Yeah that is the problem though, these ten minutes scramble are scaring the shit out of me. But I'm not voting you either.

MATT : Yep last night was horrible. Thanks. Like that was so bad.

ME : I'm not even seeing clear at what's going on anymore. Can't make a smart decision lol.

MATT : Yeah. I think there's a lot of idol paranoia too. And so maybe that's why it's scrambling 10 minutes before?

MATT : But still, I'm over it.

ME : Who do you think has one? [This is me being 100% sure he would bring up Liz hahaha gooo bring her name to the table you have no choice ^^]

MATT : Well Liz with her public idol. And then idk just assuming the other idol has been found.

MATT : But maybe not

ME : I think Stephanie on the other tribe had one, that's why people voted her out, which I did not really understand why but well I guess I wasn't gonna vote by myself lol.

MATT : Literally LMAO

MATT : Yeah so I think that's factoring into it too. But I could be totally misinterpreting things.

ME : I just do not understand the 10 min scrambles

MATT : And people are really tightlipped

MATT : Like I know you've said Reynold before, and then Liz has said Wardog. But it's hard to get reads

ME : So you think they would want to go for Liz? (back to the Liz subject buddy)

MATT : IDK. I don't think so

MATT : But it's hard to know.

MATT : Like I guess what I'm trying to say is it's hard to know until 10 minutes before lmao

ME : The problem is Reynold I don't talk game at all with him, so it's hard to get a read

MATT : Yeah makes sense.

ME : I don't know how you feel about him though, I just... idk

MATT : He's been better with me but I also spent the second tribe with him

MATT : So I got to know him better over time

ME : Yea you had the chance to have three tribes with him.

MATT : Exactly lmao

ME : But does he talk game though? Or he just ..? idk

MATT : He doesn't talk game that much. But I don't think he'd vote me off if that makes sensee.

MATT : Like not yet at least lol

ME : Yeah, well, idk, I wouldn't know

MATT : What are your thoughts on Liz?

ME : Tbh, I don't know, I assume she knows more than me about the game, I don't think she would vote me just yet, but I don't think she would go all the way with me soo...

MATT : Yeah that makes sense. Kind of in the same boat

ME : It's like I'm worried she would screw me over at some point and be like wow ok so she was working with these people actually, you know

MATT : Yes, super fair

Right now, I'm in a very small infilitrating mission with Matt. I wanted him to spill the beans about the Liz vote because I figured that's what they'd do lol. No way they gonna keep a public idol in game after they've burned her. It's science. He's kind of confirming it by the way he's been questionning me about her, now this opens me a door. A door where I can actually talk to him about the Liz vote and try not to be the casualty of this. I just need that door where I can at least defend myself if needed... Because people are so damn quiet.

Challenge

When the offer to buy immunity came at the challenge, oh my god, this is what I need to survive. I'm sending all my fucking money on that bid. EIGHTEEN PLEASE. Someone outbids me? No fucking around, I literally THREW that whole bag of coins on Liz and kicked her elbow LIKE GO BUY IT. And then she pulled it off LOL. I was so excited I didn't even focus on this challenge anymore. Not like I got to participate anyways. And Liz gave me back all the coins I sent her which means she was rich as fuck.

Vote

As soon as we got back to camp, Wardog runs up to Liz and he's like oh ohhh I don't want Allie to go and blablabla. And now all of a sudden he wants to work with us. But clearly, the fact that he only runs to us AFTER Liz won immunity, while I worked on him ALL DAY to get his vote... tells me he's not straight at all. But I would think hey, Liz has immunity, she has an idol, no one is going to stop us. So do your scramble boy.