Confessionals

[danniboatwright]

Alright, so I guess this is where I'll be posting my confessionals and such during the next couple of weeks.

[Host Wes]

Yup

[danniboatwright]

June 19th:

Time for my very first confessional! The game is afoot, as Tarzan would say. I've dun goofed a bit so far, because I haven't been online very much, and so today I'm going to spend a majority of my time building relationships with my tribemates. If people like me, they'll be more likely to want to include me in an alliance, and a lot less likely to vote me off first or second. 
Last night I made it a point to try and bond a bit with Kim Spradlin before the tribe swap. This is my first Survivor ORG, so I'm not sure how beneficial not being the only female winner on the tribe is, but if it does anything to lessen the target on my back, I'm all for it. And so, Kim did end up picking me during the tribe formation, and I'm pretty happy she did. Almost everyone whose reached out to me so far is on the Reed tribe, specifically Ciera, Kim, and Gabe. I think I'm going to focus on building my relationship with these three in particular for now, whilst remaining active in the Tribe's group chat so that I can get a feel for the other castaways. However, I'd be stupid to not assume that those three haven't reached out to a good amount of people aside from me. This gives me all the more reason to make sure I'm close with them. I want them to know that if they decide to pull off a move, I'm with them all the way. Whether or not that's the truth, we'll find out soon enough, I'm sure.

Anyway, I'm really happy to be on the Reed tribe! I mean, as I'm writing this, I'm looking over the other tribe, and I think we have the superior team overall. I mean, out of all the hundreds of Survivors, who picks Shirin? I mean, Vince I can see, and Coach, but Shirin? A part of me wonders if they chose Shirin in order to make other castaways perceive them as being a mediocre player. That'd be a smart move, though I can also see it as a downfall if the other tribe begins to think the same way as I do. Time will tell, though. As of now, the Reed tribe hasn't been conversing very much, which isn't good news if a challenge happens to be scheduled for today. We need to be able to communicate effectively and work together well if we want to decimate the other tribe. Hopefully things pick up sooner than later.

[danniboatwright]

June 19:


Today went fairly well. I've managed to further my relationships with a few of my tribe mates, namely Gabe and Kim. Bobby had to leave the game for person reasons, which I understand. Luckily, Jonny Prob--I mean, uh, Fairplay decided switch Bobby out with an alternate. I say luckily because I'm not so sure it would have happened if it all hadn't taken place prior to the Immunity Challenge. Anyway, Burton was added to our tribe, and I spoke with him a bit. From what I gather, he's played a fair amount of ORGs, and he seems to have an alright head on his shoulders. If I were to form an alliance of form right now, it'd be with Gabe, Kim, and Burton. 
However . . . I've also found out today that Ciera isn't totally fluent in English. Call me evil, but this presents an interesting opportunity, should I decide to work with her. Would a language barrier make it harder for her to detect when I'm lying?

During the beginning of the challenge today, Kim chose me as the person she thinks will do the best at challenges for whatever reason, and so now I'm battling against Coach, who is also still up at 5AM doing the challenge with me. Even a Dragon Slayer needs sleep, I mean come on. I reckon I've got another couple hours in me, but it being Father's Day weekend and all, I have plans for tomorrow afternoon and evening. I'll give it my best shot, but I doubt I'm going to beat Coach the Friggen Vampire over there. Regardless, the rest of my tribe is be doing well so far, mostly 'cause Coach seems to be the only one doing even the challenge over there.

A little while ago I actually got a message from Vince. He was very obviously trying to figure out how I was doing in the challenge, so I just bluffed him. I'm not sure if he realizes you can see how many posts a person has made on their profile. Anyway, as soon as that went down, I immediately told my tribe about how Vince tried to get information out of me. The last thing you want is for something stupid like that to become a big thing 'cause you kept it a secret. Anyway, as it would turn out, Vince had approached most of us trying to get information. He's a sly dog, that Vince. We all agreed that he was terrible at the game and moved on. 

Anyway, if we end up losing Immunity tomorrow/today, Cirie is probably gone. I don't think I've seen her say a single thing in the chat. Hell, I'm not sure if she's even been online so far. Win or Lose, I definitely plan on putting together an alliance ASAP. I need to get myself in a position of power before it's too late. My plan is to approach Gabe first, and then see who he wants to bring in as a third and fourth. Crossing my fingers for some combination of Nick, Stacey, Kim, and Burton.
 

[danniboatwright]

You know what? Fuck it, I'm just going to mess with Coach. Here's my plan: I'm going to first convince Coach that I've given up, and that I'm going to bed. It's 6 AM, so that's believable. I'm going to make sure to specifically mention that I've been watching the posts number on his profile. I'll then go invisible and watch his profile until he goes offline. Then I'm going to wait another half an hour just in case he's testing me. More than likely, he'll finally have gone to bed, though. Then, I'm going to create a new post in my Confessionals thread . . . and proceed to spam a good hundred or so posts of bullshit while making fire in the background. My hope is that he wakes up, remembers about the posts number on his and my profile, takes a look at my posts number and does one of two things:

A) Freaks the hell out and gives up, giving me a chance to catch up and overtake his number,
Or,
B) Freaks the hell out and goes HARD in the challenge all day tomorrow, both mentally exhausting himself, as well as making himself look like a huge competition threat in front of my whole tribe, as well as his own. 


As it stands now, he probably won't stop posting until he thinks I've given up, so this is probably my only chance of either beating him, or weakening him. If I have him overplay in the comp now, if he's still around come the merge, I won't be seen as the biggest physical threat. That'll be Coach. Or he gives up, thinking that I have something like sixty fire things, and I proceed to win this thing with about twenty-five. Let's goooo! 8)


Edit: Okay, so far so good! Coach went to bed as I predicted, and I've got my posts count up to about 200 now. I did the math, and I believe that he has either 28 or 29 fire things, so I'll make 31. I'm going to send him a message when I finish, something along the lines of "Hey, I felt bad about tricking you, so I'm going to give you another chance to beat me. Don't know how much I'll have by the time you wake up, but I'll just give you a link to my profile so you can check my posts count", etc etc. Basically, this is to fix the time problem, where he might ask "How did Danni get so many in like 2 hours?". He'll assume I've been doing it for almost the whole duration that he's been asleep. Huehuehue

[danniboatwright]

Holy crap, Coach actually took the bait! That's crazy. I'm watching his posts count go up right now. I was a little worried he'd catch on to my plan and just add another five fires to his total or something, but he's been working on it all day. I feel a little bad about him wasting his Saturday, but I'm sure he'll be fine. 


So, the plan right now is to let him create as many fires as he can before 9 PM. Once the challenge results are revealed, I'm expecting a huge gap between his score and everyone else's. This should be useful down the line when we merge, because if even one person starts to think "Hmm, maybe we shouldn't take Coach to the end . . ." they'll be much more likely to vote with our tribe in order to take him out before he can go on an immunity run all the way to the end. 

[danniboatwright]

Is it Christmas? I've nearly gotten everything I'd wanted this round. Coach (like his real-life counterpart) is super proud of his performance in the challenge, and his team as well as my own is in awe. Do you know what awe is? Awe is a mixture of fear and wonder, and once the wonder wears off, all that's left is fear. Give it a day to sink in, and I think the majority will tell you that Coach is the biggest threat in this game. 
So, Coach came to me after the results were posted, and he gave me this spiel about how he suspected I was spamming and such. I thought it was hilarious, because even while suspicious, he STILL managed to fall into my trap and continued on making fires throughout the day. With his 43 fires, would I have been able to beat him? Sure. Would I want that target on my back? Hell no. I made sure that after the results were posted, I wrote in the thread something like "Fuuuck, Coach, you're a challenge MONSTER!". The best part is that my own results weren't shown during the challenge, so nobody knows for sure how many I had. All they know is that Coach had more.

But enough of Coach. Let's talk alliances. I mentioned before that I felt like it'd be beneficial for me to work with Ciera because of the language barrier. Well, Ciera approached me tonight and asked for me to be in an alliance with her! Further, she also brought Gabe's name up as a possible third member! It's fantastic. So far, I think the three of us are the strongest players (physically) on the tribe, and so the three of us would be a powerful combination. I'd like to bring in a fourth member, as well.

Going into Tribal Council tonight, I'm not worried at all. I don't know what's going on with Cirie, but the tribe can't be dragging her along the whole time. It'd be terribly moronic to vote anyone else out besides her tonight.

[danniboatwright]

Alright, so I think I've got my logo and slogan:

Logo:


  SLOGAN: "A Tribe With All The Fixin's"

[Host Wes]

Jun 22, 2015 15:30:31 GMT danniboatwright said:

Alright, so I think I've got my logo and slogan:

Logo:


  SLOGAN: "A Tribe With All The Fixin's"

Next time can you please post your Captain choices in a separate thread please

[danniboatwright]

June 23:

We won our first Immunity Challenge! Wooo! More importantly, we won our first Immunity Challenge while I was Captain! Doesn't hurt that I put in 75% of the work, either. 98% of the work during the challenge was done by me, Ciera, and Gabe. Stacey was especially useless, not even showing up to cheer us on, or check out our progress. Kim follows behind her, popping up every once in a while claiming to have been busy, only to be busy once again, and the cycle continues over and over again until you forget she even exists. The latter does put in some effort to speak with people, though, so it's not like she's a bad player or anything. Not as of yet, anyway. Burton speaks with me A LOT. It seems that every time I come on, the guy shoots me a message. I could already tell before then that he was going to be a dangerous player, but his behaviour pretty much confirms my suspicions. I'm going to see if I can get something going with him, mostly so that I'm not stuck playing with just two other people. I need somebody on the side, somebody who knows the game well. I feel like Burton is that person. I'm pretty sure he has something going already with someone else, but I don't mind that. I just don't want to be the last one to make an alliance with him, because then I'm on the bottom of that totem pole. Right now, the most important thing for me to do is to make sure my position within the tribe remains fairly neutral, if not positive, and create bonds and alliances with people in which I can exploit later on in the game.

[danniboatwright]

June 26:

Why do I have to be on the shitty tribe? First we have a completely inactive player, but then half of the tribe left are barely active themselves! We've only won a single challenge so far, and that's mainly because they didn't get to play a big role in the challenge. Now we've lost another, and my jimmies have been rustled. It's ridiculous, especially on the part of Dan, who not
only continuously proclaimed his ineptitude with puzzles, but also refused to tell any of us his best time. I asked the guy twice, and both times, he just blew me off, saying something like "I'm not even close to your scores!". Ugh. One guess who's name I'm writing down tonight.

I'm not impressed with Kim either, though. She did horribly while Captain, and now she's done badly during the challenge. I mean, that's excusable, if only she hadn't gone around telling everyone she's the puzzle whisperer or some shit. She knows she's dun goofed, too, because within the first five minutes after the results were posted, Kim tries to sway me into voting for Dan. I express my annoyance at him not telling us his time, so that now she has ammo when she tries to sway other people. Dan is probably gone this week, and Kim is doing all the dirty work for me.

I'm extremely concerned about there being some kind of early merge or whatever now, though. I'm the outgoing Captain, and somebody leaked that I worked on the flag challenge the most. I'm hoping it's Dan. That'd be some karma. However, I don't doubt it being somebody closer to me.

[danniboatwright]

June 29th: 

Man, I really want to write confessionals more often, but there's literally nothing to write about most days! I mean, not that I don't like having nothing to write about, but. I guess playing two ORGs simultaneously has something to do with it as well, though.

Anyway, so Morgan has come to our tribe, and I don't think she's seen Cook Islands. It's nice to have her as a number, though, even though part of me thinks she's a spy. She's told us that she doesn't want to be controlled by Coach anymore, and that Coach is controlled by Whitney. That story makes complete sense based on what information we knew beforehand. However, I think she's something of a spy. Parts of her story just don't sit well with me. For example, during the puzzle challenge, she'd said that she was pretty much throwing the challenge. Then, their average time beats ours. Now, either Coach-Bot got something like 0:07, or Morgan totally didn't throw that challenge. It's hard to say what her game is, really, but for now, she's a number on our tribe, and I'm going to try to get to know her a little better. 

Oh yeah, and Ciera is the new Captain! I would have preferred Gabe, but Ciera was my second choice. Mostly because Ciera has proven herself to be a big threat when it comes to challenges, so if Gabe were to become Captain, there'd be two separate targets people would want to take out before me. Now there's just one big target for me to hide behind, while Gabe hides behind me. It's not the greatest place to be, because if Ciera wins individual immunity at the merge, the other tribe is voting for me. So, I need to work on creating and maintaining a majority alliance while also creating new targets bigger than myself, like what I did with Coach during the first round.

I feel the merge coming soon, too. My prediction is that there'll be one more vote after this round, a swap for two more votes, and then hence comes the merge! Either that, or we'll merge at 12. Either or. 

[danniboatwright]

Cirie 2.0 is gone! Man, it's been self-vote city over on the Read tribe so far. Shirin told me that their own Tribal was crazy. Something along the lines of a 3-2-1-1 vote with Ace still getting the boot, and Hali playing an idol. This not only confirms to me that there's got to be some kind of alliance in power over there, but also that there are people already trying to break that up. Their tribe is a mess, and I plan on taking advantage of that as soon as I can. 

On my own tribe, Morgan has been setting off huge red flags with me. She's recently been going on a "Let's vote off Whitney and Coach!" tirade, where she brings it up literally every chance she gets. That's suspicious to me, because it implies that she's either very hyped to vote them off, OR . . . she's trying to make it look that way so we won't vote her off. If I put my tinfoil hat on, I could theorize that Hali never even played an idol. Perhaps Morgan actually has it, and she's planning on pulling it out during the next vote right before we merge. Maybe she was supposed to get it from the "secret location", but Hali had already taken it, so now she's simply scrambling to make sure we don't vote her off next if we lose the challenge . . . and maybe we will. 

On the other hand, you have Kim, who's also been scrambling, but for what seems like no good reason. Before the last vote, Kim went around campaigning for Stacey to go. I mean, she went as far as to send me a message on the forum about it. Is she just trying to worm her way back into a role at the head of the tribe, or is there something a little more shadier going on that I don't know about? Has she been doing something that she feels we'll vote her out for if we find out? Whatever is going on, I don't have a good feeling about it.

I've voiced my concerns about Kim to Ciera, and then Ciera parroted it to our alliance, which is what I wanted her to do. I really couldn't have asked for a better ally. 
We've been talking about bringing in a fourth person to our alliance, and I threw Burton's name into the mix. Everyone agreed on him being a good choice, and so I'm going to be pitching it to him this evening. This is awesome, because it means that literally everyone in the alliance will have me as their closest ally within the group. My hope is that when one inevitably decides to jump ship, they'll take me along with them, while they also take a bulk of the heat for betraying the alliance. Hello, bitter jury votes!

[danniboatwright]

Our tribe won another challenge, and I'm just so overwhelmed with joy! Jk I'm paranoid as fuck right now. Ciera came to me today telling me about how Kim had apparently flipped on her tribe at the merge during her previous season. If we'd gone to Tribal tonight, Kim would have been gone, and we all wouldn't have to worry about her shit going into the merge. Here's the thing, though . . . in her previous season, she flipped to an all girl alliance. I'm playing as a girl. She speaks with me a lot. She very recently spoke with me and hinted at working together. I think Kim wants me to flip with her. I'm going to make sure that I continue to speak with her, because if we end up in a scenario where she's flipping, I'm going to lie and tell her I'm with her 100%. On the other side of that same coin, maybe it won't be a lie. To get far in this game, you need to stick with your tribe and make connections with people. To WIN this game, however, you need to fuck a majority of those same people over. I'm okay with that. I ain't playing for fifth place. I just need to make sure I don't make my move too early, or too late. 

I'm also going to try to inch my way closer to Morgan, because if she's really just planning on flipping back to her old tribe, I'm going to make sure she at least likes me enough not to bring my name up for the first vote or two.

Surprisingly, it's not just me who's suspicious of Kim and Morgan. I spoke about it with Burton, and he brought up my own points without me having to even mention them. Kim is sketching everyone out, and Morgan can't be trusted. It's definitely an interesting tribe dynamic going into merge, that's for sure. I'm excited. 

[danniboatwright]

Just call me Lady Battleship! What was that, 5 out of 5 ships sunk because of me? Lucky as fuck. Not great, but decent. I hope nobody is dumb enough to start thinking of me as a challenge threat now because of this. I doubt they will, but you never know what desperate players are going to try to bring up in an attempt to stay alive in the game. Shanini is probably gone on the other tribe, unless she gets an idol from the "secret location". I really hope she does, too. That'd be friggen hilarious.

Nothing much has changed on my own tribe since my last confessional. Ciera told me about a fake alliance she has with Kim, so I may try to create a fake alliance with her, as well. On the other hand, Kim is probably giving out alliances like candy on Halloween. She hinted one to me already. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she's got weak alliances with a few others, including people on the other tribe. 
In the tribe chat, she claimed that she hasn't even spoken with the other tribe, but according to Ciera, that's a lie because apparently Kim has been telling the other tribe that she's gunning for Morgan. Whether or not Ciera is just saying that to have me target Kim for whatever reason is irrelevant. I want Kim and her annoying "boo boo"s out already, anyway.

But then you also have Morgan. During the challenge, we were all speaking in a chat including members of both tribes. The whole time, Morgan was very abrasive and rude towards the other tribe. I mean, to the point where it's got to be an act. It's just so in your face. Further, Davis seemed to be throwing the challenge itself, hitting spaces already hit. Either that, or they suck at Battleship.

I spoke with Ciera the other night, and we explored the possibility of throwing the last challenge before the actual merge in order to get rid of either Kim or Morgan. One side of me knows that it's almost never a good idea to throw a challenge. The other side, however, knows that they're both sketchy as fuck, and Kim is proven to be especially dangerous. It's a tough call that'll require some more thought.

For now, our tribe is essentially Morgan vs Kim. Morgan wants Kim out, and Kim wants Morgan out. It's pretty hilarious, but what if that, too, is an act? Kim flipped in her past season with girls in order to target the guys. What if she's faking a rivalry with Morgan in order to cover up a cross-tribe alliance? All the more reason to throw the next challenge, really. In the meantime, I'm gonna go grab some more popcorn, 'cause there's nothing like a good ol' fashioned cat fight.