R12: Last Man Standing

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So Kim and Erinn left at this Tribal Council, which for me seeing Kim leave takes out the 2nd biggest threat on the Fengs. I did hate lying to her and telling her we voted Brett and Colleen, when really it was her and Colleen. The fact was, they were considering targeting me originally, and Kim was pushing Brett to use his 6x on me and take me out, which for me I said to her beforehand "I have no reason to vote you, you haven't targeted me", then to see that she targeted me hours after I said that, really shot that deal to hell. In this game, I will keep my word with you as long as you do that to me.. but for her to say "6x Rob" to Brett really pissed me off. I don't care if she ended up doing Brett in the end but still.. knowing you brought my name up really sealed that.

Erinn leaving is pretty sad She was probably the closest person in Anti-Feng to me other than Lex, and it sucks to see her go out. She was our leader, and to lose that really cut us severely. I wish that Alina had played her idol on Erinn and not herself, if that would have happened, Colleen and Kim would have left and that would have been two birds in one stone, but I can't be too mad at her. We need her vote, but I cannot blame her for not telling me about the HII. I would have done that too.

Anyways, my confessional title is because, believe it or not, I'm the last remaining Auha member in the game. It's a hell of an accomplishment to be the last person standing from my original tribe, the 2nd time in an ORG it's happened (SBB being the first.) I'm in F7 now, and that makes me excited because I didn't think I'd get this far in my life, but I'm glad I did.

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So there's Feng, Anti-Feng, then the "Cult". The "Cult" is the name me, Lex, and Brett gave ourselves this last TC since we were all voting together. How I see it, this double tribal gives me an open door to the Final Five, which is a lot better than what I thought I would have had almost a lot through this game. At this point, I need to figure out who I would win against. Russell and Austin didn't flip over to us, so they are still playing for Feng, which makes them pretty good angels in the eyes of Feng. Either way, whether they want to stick with us or not, we got a majority (Me, Lex, Brett, Alina.) It was a super good move to make.

This next immunity challenge is somewhat crucial to win. I think it's majority rules based off the treemail that is posted. I hate majority rules just cause it's luck based and those kind of challenges are never really in my favor, but hey it's all about knowing the people you are left with. I think I know these people somewhat, and that helps a lot, but you can never actually know what people are thinking. With the big dogs out of the cage, it's time for me to start making some moves to control this game, I've been forced to be a follower for way too long.

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In the meantime, I need to update this, not sure how accurate it is but ah well.

I'm gonna try and update this every round for reference to myself out of boredom and just in case the staff is curious as well.

Most Days: (As of Day 29)

Bob Dawg - 68
Austin - 68
Rob - 67
Alina - 66
Erinn - 65
Russell - 65
Hunter - 64
Colleen - 62
Brett - 60
Rupert - 59
Kim - 59
Jenna - 56
Lex - 56
Danielle - 52
Sierra - 48
Brendan - 47
Candice - 47
Jimmy - 42
Todd - 42
Fabio - 40
Dan - 34
Darrah - 21

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So anyways, Colleen is now wanting to F2 with me simply cause both of her F2 partners (Kim and Rupert) have been voted out from the game. For me, it puts me in a crazy position here. Sticking with Lex and Brett, I have a guaranteed F5 spot. If I flip over to Colleen, Austin, Russell, that would also guarantee me an F5 spot, but at the same time, I become a complete bastard to Lex and Brett. However, I do feel I'm basically playing for 3rd with Lex and Brett, and if there's an F2, I could easily get voted out. If I really am playing alongside two people with an F2 deal, then maybe it would be in my best interest to flip over, if it takes that to increase longevity in this game. I also do think if I were to flip, and take out Brett and Lex, it automatically removes everyone that has a good shot at winning this game.

It's like at the same time, I don't want to become a bastard by betraying another alliance for the other side, but then again I'm playing for Rob and of course I am playing to win. This situation I'm in is like buying a car: You want to go with whoever has the best deal. This game has completely tested me as a player. I've tried to be a lot more loyal and honorable to my alliances and deals, but it's hard when I feel everyone is together and having Final 2 deals. Do I really want to be the third wheel with the Bastard and the Control Freak, or do I want to flip over with a tight original tribe and get 4th? This is gonna be an intense round for me that's for sure.

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Okay so if I can make this round go over smoothly and things go the way I want, I am seriously considering flipping on "The Cult." To do this is going to take a lot of work and a lot of secrecy: Meaning I have to talk Austin and Russell out of flipping over and voting with me and Colleen, and I have to talk to Alina, but at this point I consider Alina my sheep simply cause she doesn't trust anyone else in this game that she's left with except for me. That part comes with me dropping Alina PM's whenever she comes on the site or telling her to come on AIM, I really need her to get back close to me cause recently we've kinda drifted off due to her not coming on AIM as much. The reason it has to work in secrecy is because if I don't win immunity, and someone rats on me that I'm thinking of flipping, then the vote turns around on me and I'd leave, so I need this round to work perfectly if I actually flip.

If I can get Alina in with Colleen, I will be in complete control over this game because no matter what happens, if there is an F2, Alina would take me to the finals and so would Colleen, so basically with that F3, I'm guaranteed a finals spot and of course it's time for the shepherd to lead his flock, but if this round doesn't work in my favor, then I can't flip just yet.

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I'm gonna say this in the words of the real Rob Mariano....

"I'm a villain?!"

Kim Powers 9:22 pm
lmao just went through last tribal, you did vote me. nice

overdrive82891 9:23 pm
i told you last night i did lol

Kim Powers 9:23 pm
no you didn't. you told me that you were sorry for not telling me what really was happening

overdrive82891 9:27 pm
and i apologize for making a deal with you that I couldn't keep, i understand if youre mad at me and it was a mistake on my part

Kim Powers 9:28 pm
lol
you kidding me? as soon as you made that promise to me i knew it was BS

overdrive82891 9:29 pm
how?

Kim Powers 9:29 pm
you did the same thing to candice
and you try and portray this "nice guy" act when you were just part of the most villianous thing all game

Kim Powers 9:30 pm
but, i'm not mad. just telling you that i knew you weren't serious

overdrive82891 9:30 pm
well you seem mad

Kim Powers 9:31 pm
i'm disappointed
not mad
because i could have easily voted you out instead of erinn
but i told you i wouldn't vote you
my 6x could have went to you
not her
cause in reality, you were the bigger threat

If anything in this game I've been a complete neutral player, I aligned myself with someone known for being a complete bastard in ORGs, that makes me a villain? That's like saying people like Natalie White were villains for aligning with Russell Hantz, who is a complete bastard of the Survivor world. I say I'm a neutral because okay I've lied at several parts of this game (the Candice vote, the Kim vote last round, etc.) but I've still been honest and loyal to several people at times in the game. I don't think I'm a complete villain like people like Lex are. This whole blindside was actually HIS idea unknown to me, and Brett and Lex both staged it like Lex hearing someone was blindsiding Brett. Really?! It takes me hearing that this whole thing was a ruse to blindside Kim.. I hate this game for the most part because even my allies aren't that honest with me, and Lex I can see his plan clear as glass in this game: Basically be Mr. Lifesaver to the people in danger so that nobody votes him feeling they owe him a debt of gratitude. It also clues me in that Lex and Brett are together and have a Final 2 deal, and I CANNOT just sit around and play for 3rd at this point.

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This immunity challenge is definitely going to be a close one, just cause it's a luck-based challenge. Lex from what I've seen in other series has a good reputation for winning majority rules. I do hope that I win, but it's hard to read what these people are thinking sometimes. I try to talk to everyone on a daily basis, and sometimes I don't, I feel my social game was a bit better than it was in Namibia. My main focus at this point is to just do my best. I am going to also avoid letting people know how I do in the Deep Point challenges. I had enough of Kim telling people my scores and how many points I had. I'm learning now that if I keep stuff to myself it will allow me to keep the element of surprise in my game.

I've been going off of the "unseen strategy" so far. I say that because it's a strategy that I HAVE NOT mentioned at all in my confessionals. That strategy being always playing like I was next to go (although, I will admit most times I was actually BEING nervous about leaving, and other times I was doing it as part of strategy). Despite annoying people it gives me 2 results if I play my cards right:

1) It makes people worried of the possibility of "If Rob thinks he's in THIS much danger, he's going to use prizes", so therefore they wouldn't be as prone to go after me thinking I have rewards up my sleeve.

2) It allows me to remain completely oblivious to things going on around me. My whole game play has been based off obliviousness so far in this game (for instance, pretending I had no idea about Kim telling things on me, when I knew exactly what she was doing.) The best thing to do in this game is to pretend to have NO clue what people are doing, because once you hear it through the grapevine, you can adjust to it without that person doing anything about it.

I just need to gain a bit of control in this game, and I think if I was to flip on Lex and Brett this round, I would do just that. It's a lot of work to make this thing happen, and I need to consider every pro and con of flipping on them or staying with them this round.

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Lex and Brett want to go for Russell, and I'm sure Colleen, Austin, and Russell will probably go for Brett. What I'm thinking now, next round is probably the best time to flip on Lex and Brett. Simply because I got them to buy rewards to use at this TC to wear down their shop points some, that way next round they wouldn't have enough to play. I told them also I only have 5 points, when in all actuality, I have 9, and I should have 11 once this round ends, depending if I win the DP, then I would have 14 (if I added right.) I want next round's blindside to come unexpected, and if I go "hey I got 9 points", then of course they're going to want me to buy a prize, and if they see the prize I had used at TC then that's not good.

I have to explain to Colleen my strategy, that Russell leaving takes him out and he's doing nothing but lie to people, and he is a jury threat (I mean come on, I don't think there's one member of that jury THAT wouldn't vote Russell to win the game.) I need to tell her making Lex/Brett buy prizes would also knock some rewards out next round. See, everyone thinks I'm a follower, but I'm a thinker, and I'm gonna make a move next round that's gonna put me in danger. Welcome to the danger zone Rob.

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There's one thing that I don't like about Survivor and that is timing. I mean there has to be an opportune time to take out your targets, or else they will gain momentum and stay in a lot longer than you want them to. I feel like if I don't get rid of Brett this round with the Feng people, that I WILL have to do my best to make sure Lex doesn't win immunity next round, cause if that happens, Lex will give Brett his idol and then BAM! They both make F5 together. This is a pure suckfest round, and I really need to play my cards right and not make some mistake that's gonna bite me in the ass. I did manage to try and make them buy stuff in the hopes they are broke going into next round and won't be able to gain the majority when I do flip, but now it comes down to worrying about that damn idol if either of them had it. Maybe Kim was packing it when she left, I don't know.

There's that little voice screaming, "Get rid of Brett!" That voice being Colleen, but I need to think about all the possibilities if I do vote Brett out this tribal and not next. Brett leaves this TC and someone other than Lex wins and he has an idol, then he's guaranteed F5, meaning that round Russell or Austin would have to go.

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I was so close to getting what I wanted this Tribal Council. It was a pure bastardly move to flip on them, but you have to realize something. I'm not the kind of person that's just going to play for third place and sit around and not do anything about it. I'm pretty sure that by now I'm probably one of the least liked people by the jury just cause the game I'm playing has been a bit underhanded, but I do think if I got up there to FTC and I spoke a good case to those guys, that they would give me their votes to win, and if not then that's no harm either.

This move was probably the best one on my part to make. I like Brett, but I couldn't risk going another round with him and Lex together. Lex has complete control over this game, or so he thinks he does. However, next round Russell will have to go if he manages to survive this re-vote. I do feel the guy owes me for saving his ass, cause I could have easily sided with Brett and Lex and he would be sitting on the jury, but I chose to flip to make a good game move and caused this tie. It's going to be a 3-2 re-vote I'm assuming, unless I can flip Alina and make it a 4-1.

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The votes tied up once again... Dun dun dun. Yesterday was the first time there has been a tie in this series before the Final 4 (Correct me if I'm wrong Amanda!.), and now this is the first time there's been a tiebreaker challenge before the Final 4... Dun dun dun. See, here is my position I'm in now: I could either play my tiebreaker prize from the auction and put everyone out of their misery now, or keep it pocketed and keep my faith that Russell kicks Brett's ass all over the island tomorrow, but wait, THERE'S MORE!

So let's say that the Alina vote doesn't count since it was originally nullified (Thing is, Colleen used a 2x nullifier on Brett and Alina's votes, but Brett can't vote meaning Colleen has no 2nd vote to use her nullifier on, which would render it invalid.), but if that decision stays to keep Alina's vote valid, then it's a 6-6 tie, and if it gets reversed then Russell goes and my ass is grass.

I told Brett I wouldn't use the tiebreaker so that they could duke it out, but Lex has constantly been nagging me to use it and take out Feng because he believes I'm next if they do. What Lex doesn't realize, is that I'm closer to the Feng members than I let on. He thinks right now I just flipped to take out Brett, but I technically flipped cause I would rather stick with Feng who right now doesn't have anyone that is a huge threat to win the game (minus Russell) right now, whereas if it was me and Lex, I'd lose.

If Russell leaves and not Brett, essentially that might not be so good for my game. I spent this last round contemplating on splitting Russell and Brett up, and I opened the door for opportunity to knock, and if I didn't let it all the way in the door, then I'm gonna be disappointed.

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It's time to plant some seeds in the Garden of Eden:

overdrive82891 7:55 pm
well i was worried if we all got there and it was an f2
id be last juror, once again

Brett Clouser 7:56 pm
you'd probably win the immunity

overdrive82891 7:56 pm
against you and curtis?
lol

Brett Clouser 7:56 pm
lol I'm not that great and curtis has had a lucky streak

overdrive82891 7:57 pm
well I'd say something here, but im worried it's going to get back to the person its about

Brett Clouser 7:58 pm
and if i won final immunity i'd have to be an idiot to take the person who won all that stuff in majority rules
it would kill any slim chance I might have of winning

overdrive82891 7:58 pm
at least against me, you'd have a chance because i do have some enemies on the jury

Brett Clouser 7:59 pm
yup

overdrive82891 8:00 pm
but yeah curtis has been saying the same things to me that hes telling russell :-\
you didnt hear it from me

Brett Clouser 8:01 pm
:-\
i'm not surprised

overdrive82891 8:02 pm
well he was telling me stuff like that we needed you right now, but he had no problem voting you off down the line, and like he mentioned before that, something about us making F5 then taking you out, he's being a complete bastard
hence his title lol

Brett Clouser 8:02 pm
sigh

Brett Clouser 8:03 pm
I cant get any solid allies this game, can I?

overdrive82891 8:03 pm
the sucky thing is this is the guy whose got the highest chance of winning the game

Brett Clouser 8:03 pm
yup

overdrive82891 8:03 pm
just please dont tell curtis i told you that

Brett Clouser 8:04 pm
I wont say a word

This is where I'm trying to basically recover the blow I gave Brett last round with the belief that I'm basically the easiest person he can beat at the end of this game, and telling him all the stuff Lex told me. Sure it's a risky and ballsy maneuver, but at this point, I need people to feel closer to me so that I can get further in this game. Lex doesn't realize one thing about me, and thats the FACT that I'm closer to the Feng members than anyone from the former Anti-Feng alliance. I realized pretty much it's better to play WITH them than AGAINST them, and mostly me flipping on an F3 Lex set up was because what if this turned into an F2 and wasn't an F3? Take a guess at who would get 3rd? It'd be me simply cause Brett or Lex wouldn't take me cause I flipped on one vote to get myself farther in the game. I feel as if.. I can turn this game around in the favor that I can possibly win. The ball is in Rob's court now and it's time to serve. If Russell stays, then all this work I'm doing on Brett is just pointless, but I would have another person that trusts me in Russell since I basically saved his ass by forcing this revote and the tiebreaker due to my flipping.