- Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:55:39 am
#58786
Swaps and Stupidity
Hello again.
Let's talk about this swap. Here were the dynamics from my point of view. From Pukaroa 2.0 we had Myself, Alexis, Aurora, Rocker, Tai, and Shamar.
Aurora had no idea that she was going to be the next one out over Tai if we had lost that tribal council. Alexis, Sherri, and Matt were all ready to throw her out of the game, and it actually hurt me a bit with my relationship with Alexis to try and defend Aurora. Although I was going to give her up.
Alexis was feeling a bit uneasy about me as I was acting a bit like I was playing my own game and leaning too hard on Jessica.
Shamar is kind of a clueless fool on all of the dynamics going on in the game, He's a nice man, but clueless is a very good word for him. He was apart of the Pukaroa 6 with Alexis, Matt, Myself, Sherri, Reynold. But he really had nothing going on aside from that and a relationship with Sherri.
I have the HARDEST time connecting with Rocker. I have no idea what it is about him and/or me but we just CANNOT connect. I feel as if he doesn't really want to. As for Tai, he has always looked like trouble for me, so I never wanted to mess around with him and they were my biggest targets.
coming to the merge, i'm joined with Missy, Jessica, and Hope.
Hope was on original Puka. I would like to remind everyone that she created an alliance of Matt, Elizabeth, and Alexis on OG Puka. In which both Matt and Alexis told me about but Elizabeth decided that it'd be better if I didn't know. I don't forget these things, Elizabeth. Hope is a little bit more game savvy than I originally thought, but I don't think she has the social ability to really pull it off. She always reads as some tinder girl who expects me to put in all of the work for a conversation, but she never gives me anything to work with.
As my partner, i'm already very familiar with Jessica. I have a bit of faith in her, because I know she doesn't really have much choice at the moment but to work with me. So it's a relationship i'm willing to take full advantage of. I would like to say that I do enjoy her as a person now, even though she's taken some getting used to.
Missy is really the only person who is completely new to me. She keeps talking about how she's changed since Tanzania, but honestly....I don't really see it. She had an immature meltdown over work this weekend and essentially tried to be dramatic and quit the game. While she didn't end up quitting it's just very telling about how much growing up she really needs to do as a person. I can see that she's trying, but she's not ready.
my focus this weekend was with Hope, Aurora, Missy, and Shamar. I wanted to see if I could get closer to Hope and spark the newbie alliance within her. Aurora is going to slowly start gaining some options and I wanted to make sure that she knew I had been at her side. Shamar just needs a friend, if he feels abandoned I see no reason why he wouldn't try to find anyone else who'd talk to him. Missy was mostly me just trying to figure her out.
During the immunity challenge, we may have dominated...but it's only because we put in like 5 hours of practice before actually doing it. Shamar and Rocker were headaches to watch try and figure it out, as I had pretty much perfected the challenge from the start. Sadly, I wasn't able to compete because of logistics. I actually don't think we are the stronger tribe. I believe that Pukaroa with Steph, Liz, and Jed are the bigger competition threats. I had originally thought that I may want to throw a competition, but with those strong players over there...I don't know if it'd be the best idea since I feel like we're going to lose some naturally anyway.
Okay..so this idol seems so impossible to find. the main clues I have are "Velvety Smooth" and "Tropical Treat" the closet thing I could find was a velvetbush that grows in Tuamoto, but they don't eat any of the plant unless it's famine season. I'm just so confused. I put in so much work for it.
