R9: Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

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So I made the F10 out of the players still remaining. The title of this thread is about the fact that this is the 2nd bullet I've dodged at Tribal Council. Last round, I could have easily been out if not for Jenna self voting. Same thing for this round, lucky for me, Lex picked a great day to be a bastard and knifed Rupert, but kept his word to me thankfully and I did the same to him.

If Rupert was to win the duel, that would probably NOT be a good idea for me in the sense of him joining up with Colleen to take me down at the merge, BUT.... it is a person gunning for Lex and not me so I definitely would love that bullseye off my back. Lex is probably the only true ally I have on Verraad at this point. We've never been able to fully work together in the past for his bastard status (or well also because I decided to be a little flipper in SBB and ruin any hopes of working with the Outwits . ) This TC worked perfect and I'm thrilled to still be in this game.

However, I had Erinn wanting me to boot Lex, which now would have been a completely idiotic and bogus move due to the fact Lex actually stayed loyal to me. Erinn wants Bob Dawg to NOT win on RI if he is still alive, but Bob is a vote on my side if he comes back in the game. Now Rupert leaving not only splits Lex and him up, but Colleen and him too. I shot myself in the foot completely for nullifying Hunter and Rupert's votes, but it worked out well for me in the end.

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Anywho, my prediction is that a merge could possibly be looming next round or the one after. For me, it's a chance to completely redeem my game play so far pre-merge. For starters, me and Lex have to dismantle the Fengbao's if we are going to have any chance of survival. I mean we have Me, Hunter, Erinn, Alina, Lex and whoever returns via RI that are anti-Feng, and of course that pits us at 6-5, meaning if merge is next, we should have a huge numbers advantage. However, we need to work on Feng's low man on the totem pole and try to talk them into voting with us (That person I feel would be Austin because the others seem way close to each other than we think.)

Thing is if it's Bob coming back, then I don't think him and Erinn will exactly be willing to work together, so I might have to approach Bob separately to make sure he's voting the way I want him to, cause if I approach him with some kind of Erinn/Alina/Hunter/Lex/Rob alliance, he's gonna say "fuck that" due to the fact Erinn is a part of it. So, with that being said, I'm gonna have to run this whole thing to him a lot differently to get him to accept.

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In Case of Merge:

I decided that I'm gonna write an analysis of the 10 people left, starting with Alina and going down to Lex.


Alina: The only person left from my older alliance that I had on Verraad with Sierra, her, Jimmy, and Todd. I could definitely see her as a close vote on my side considering I'm the only person she even talks to anymore in this game. I do NEED to consider the fact that she's sliding by in this game in the exact same manner with Malaysia. On little activity at all, so that's not someone I want to see make the F4 again.

Brett: Brett is a good friend of mine outside of this game, we used to get along well as allies, but in this game, he is going nuts for power. This is all to show certain people (or should I say, certain someone ) that he can win an ORG. Definitely the person topping my hitlist right now out of original Fengs. I told him I wouldn't vote him, but after going ape shit to get Lex/Rupert to vote me the round Jenna left, I have 0 problem with voting him.

Colleen: Another friend of mine in this game, and probably the biggest item in the pocket of Brett himself. She's openly told me that she would lead a revolt against me to make sure I'm the first merge boot, but lately the game's getting to her and she's mentioned nothing about wanting me out, and with Lex betraying Rupert, that might knock him into first on her target list over me.

Erinn: Erinn, the most I can tell about her right now is that she's Anti-Feng and she's a vote on my side. If I know one thing about Erinn, is that she's an expert at manipulation, so I feel kinda like maybe I'm getting played the whole time and she's with Feng, but she'd be an idiot to side with a tribe that's gonna give her 6th at the most for sticking with them.

Kim: The second highest person out of the Fengs on my hitlist after Brett. This chick tells literally everything I tell her, and then plays it off like "I didn't say a thing." and then gets mad trying to defend her case against me, which only makes it more suspicious. Kim is a threat in a sense that's she's an "arms dealer" to the Fengs (meaning that she has the most points and gets the most prizes and rewards to help them.) The only way to essentially defeat her would be to blindside her when she'd least expect it.

Russell: I had desire to work with Russell in this game, but I can't really work with him as much seeing that he's just as far up the Feng's asses as anyone else that was originally from there. What makes Russell so threatening? He's an immunity threat, but his threatening ability is a cut above Austin for me.

Austin: Austin, the least threatening member of the "Fengs" in my mind. This being due to the fact like Alina, Austin skates by on the fact bigger people are always targeted over him, and nobody guns for him early on. That same method could make him get far in the game, possibly to the finals just like in Namibia, and that CANNOT happen in my book.


Hunter: Hunter, Hunter, Hunter. This guy is hard to read when it comes to the simple question, "Is he Anti-Feng or not?" I mean this guy completely sabotaged our jewels challenge by not showing to help out at all, and he's the "Manipulator", so of course there's valid reason to why I don't trust the guy completely.

Lex: Lex has officially moved up to my #1 ally slot since Kim and Brett want to be a bunch of power hungry bitches at this point, and try to take the Anti-Fengs down. I owe most of my safety in this game to Lex for the most part, but I've saved him just as much (The round Candice left, Sierra and Todd brought up Lex's name, which I shot down because I felt it was stupid to get rid of the one person who helps out a lot in challenges.)

And there you have it, that is my merge analysis since I am bored out of my mind, and I needed to write about something. Seems these rounds are hard to write about before the challenges, TC's, etc. Once that happens, then there's a lot to talk about. I will be back tonight to try and win this thing if it is individual, because if I don't win, I could very well be the next going due to Colleen's rampage, but winning this is easier said than done due to the fact Kim and Brett like me are night owls, and Russell is a challenge whore. I would rather me go tonight than tomorrow if it's endurance cause I'm a late sleeper and I could sleep in way too late and not have enough time to end up winning, and tonight I could at least go from 10 to 6 or something if I wanted, depending if I screw up or not.

[Amanda Kimmel]

One person you forgot... what about Redemption Island?

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May 8, 2011 19:25:22 GMT -5 Amanda Kimmel said:

One person you forgot... what about Redemption Island?

Yeah about that, I was gonna wait till I saw who came back before I added them in there lol. I'll modify it later on with the RI person's analysis.

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Okay so here's the Bob Dawg analysis (Didn't feel like modifying the original post, so here goes.)

Bob Dawg: Back before I defected off Auha, I was of course aligned with him and Danielle. However, his tribe gave him a completely bad hand due to Erinn behind a main contributor to him leaving. He knows just as well as anyone not original Feng that their tribe is too "unified". He's also a strong challenge threat, so I feel he can help keep the Fengs from having immunity around their necks as well as anyone else in this game.

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So this immunity challenge was really important for me to win, which is why I stayed up 8 hours posting in it from 11 PM to 7 AM, so I really hope I got my 8 hours and it was all correct. It was important to me to win if I do because Colleen was threatening to take me out first at merge, so basically me winning is my way of giving the middle finger to her plans. I think if I was to win, they would go for Bobby or Lex, simply cause both are pretty good at the challenges and Lex they all know how dirty his game is.

It's good to have at least some comfort in this game, I definitely am NOT settling to be the first merge boot, and me going all out in this endurance is just my way of showing them, if you're gonna kill the Robfather, I'm not gonna make it easy for you.

As far as who we target after this, I believe Brett or Colleen would see votes for them coming, and they would pull out rewards. Now if it's someone like Russell or Austin, people that WOULD NOT see it coming... we could get them out without the rewards. If Lex leaves, I lose a pivotal key in my alliance and my whole plans, and that just let Feng win for another round. They remind me of a lot of the Tiberius tribe from Capri that I was a part of, as a tribe, we managed to get all 5 members to the F6 only to have plans go haywire cause of a badly timed elimination challenge. I know from experience that if you have a tribe of people that are aligned and won't budge to flip on each other (unlike Earl), that you're pretty much screwed.

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Woo! So pretty much, I just gave the plans to lead the revolt against me at the merge a great big fuck you! Having immunity is a great insurance policy that no matter how this tribal goes, I'm in the top 10, and as long as it's not me leaving, I could really care less who goes, although I would rather it be a Feng than an Anti-Feng pretty much at this point. I went all out in this endurance to have 484 posts (yeah Amanda, I counted out of boredom lol) just to ruin Colleen's plans. Huzzah!

As far as tribal goes, there's a lot going through my mind. I could take out the two people that wanted me gone (Brett and Colleen) and risk them playing prizes due to the fact they're gonna be expecting votes, or play it safe and go for people that won't see the vote coming (Austin and Russell.) The whole tough part is I like everyone I'm left with and that makes the votes that much more stressing, and this isn't pretty at all.

The downside is that Kim somehow knows that there is an alliance set to take down the Fengbao tribe members. I didn't say anything to Kim, and I'm not sure who did. Kim needs to go sooner than later, because I like her, but she cannot keep her fucking mouth shut to save her life. The more stuff she tells, the bigger the target on her back gets. She's like Pinocchio in a way, except that instead of telling lies to make her nose grow, she tells every secret to make her target grow.

My next goal in this game is to find the one person I think I could have a shot against in the end to win and stick faithfully by that person no matter what.

Lex: Lex is my #1 ally, but even when he thinks the game is in his favor, he blows it due to arrogance (*cough* SBB *cough*.), but a majority of these people like Lex, and that makes him a jury threat in my mind.

Bob: I do see Bob somehow winning cause of being the "comeback kid" and that would probably gain him votes over me, but Bob has his fair share of enemies in this game too (Erinn and Colleen being two of them.), and also the fact Bob is a previous finalist.

Alina: Alina would be a pretty much easy win in my mind, but I don't know if I want to win this game knowing I took an inactive to the end and beat her 9-0 etc. etc.

Hunter: Hunter would probably get votes just based off of being a previous finalists, but as far as gameplay goes he hasn't done much, and he's somewhat a jury threat due to him being friends with Brett and Colleen.

Erinn:In my mind, Erinn could easily be the ideal F2 partner in this game. Erinn would NOT be easy competition in the end because like me, she's a thinker. Erinn also like me would have a 50-50 jury of people that like her, and people that hate her. She has a way with words too, which also might make her edge me out a little.

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So the plan now is to vote out Bob Dawg, simply cause the other members of Anti-Feng don't trust him. Honestly, I think it's a stupid move to vote out someone that is with us, but if a majority is doing it, then I have no say in trying to talk them out of it. Feng of course would be very fine with targeting Bob since they all know he's not original Feng and he's Anti-Feng. It sucks really because I wanted Bob back in this game to be a vote on my side, and now its crumbling cause of the feud with him and Erinn.

As I see it, I got 3 options right now:

A) Vote Bob with the majority and end up betraying another friend in this game.

B) Vote with Bob on his way out of the game, or throw my vote, and risk pissing off the Anti-Fengs

C) Vote Bob, and nullify my own vote so that it doesn't count, that way at least if I vote him, I wouldn't be a vote that gets him out of the game.


This is a tough round for me personally just cause there's so much going on in my mind over what to do. I don't wanna be the bad guy to a friend, and I don't wanna be a complete bastard to my alliance. I feel that Option C would be the easiest option for me personally, cause I would rather know I stayed loyal to my alliance, but that I didn't have a hand in sending my friend packing out of the game. If I can get the vote off of Bob's back, that would be nice, but I don't think that I can.

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This vote sucks completely... My only way to satisfy two sides here is to vote Bob Dawg and just nullify my own vote, but then I run the risk of Erinn leaving if I were to nullify the vote. Erinn thinks now that Bob might have an idol, and it could be possible. He got 8 points for coming back in the game, plus 5 votes from the endurance, so that alone is 13 points this round. I talked about maybe a few of us voting for a Fengbao member just in case, but then I thought about it, and how many times has splitting the votes ever gone successfully in Survivor? Not very often from my memory today.

Right now my back is against a wall completely, and the fact we don't know what the Fengs are doing for the vote makes this thing that much risky. We're pretty much walking on a wire here, one slip up, yeah we're gonna fall to our deaths.

[Kim Powers]

You don't get it, do you? You were NEVER aligned with me and you ALWAYS wanted me out. So if you told me something, then yes, I was going to tell the people that I thought should know. You're the one that can't keep your fucking mouth shut about anything. You want me out but you expect me to not tell anyone what you tell me? You're delusional if you think that, its Survivor, did you forget?