Confessionals

[danniboatwright]

Oh shit, well disregard what I said an hour ago, then -- Shanini is safe! She managed to mutiny over to the Read tribe. Holy fuck, it's going to be a war-zone over on Davis for the next 24 hours. I shot a message to Coach telling him good luck and bullshit like that, and he asked me if there's any way that we don't Pagong their tribe once we merge. Kind of a stupid question to be asking this early, so I gave him an equally stupid answer. He lost his shit and went off on me. I then parroted an exaggerated version of what he was saying in my Tribe Chat. My hope is that they'll now not only see him as a challenge threat, but also as a lunatic. Honestly, it's better for my game that he stays around a couple rounds into the merge, but now he may be gone within the next 24 hours. RIP Dragon Slayer and that facet of my game. 

I've told Shanini about the Morgan vs Kim ordeal going on, and to stay relatively neutral for a while. My goal here is for her not to want to make any waves whilst in a vulnerable position. In simpler terms, I just want her to go sit under a tree and do nothing for a while so she doesn't mess my game up somehow. 

[danniboatwright]

FROM THIS DAY FORTH AND FOREVER EVER AFTER, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I AM OFFICIALLY DATEABLE! WOOOO!

Man, my strategy has almost entirely gone down the toilet after the two(?) mutinies and the merge. Morgan seems to have somehow convinced herself that she's the new leader of the tribe, which is absolutely hilarious for all the wrong reasons. It's like if when Cochran flipped on his tribe back in South Pacific, he then went on to try and lead the Family Alliance. I think Morgan is going to need to purify the water she's been drinking a little more. 
I have absolutely no issue with it, though. Assuming she's not just secretly working with the other tribe, she's only really making herself a bigger target on both sides of the tribe. I love it. She even went as far as to create a new tribe-chat for the old Read tribe SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDING Shirin because "She's new to the tribe, we don't know where her head is at,". LOL. Morgan absolutely HAS to be a troll, I swear.

Shirin herself puts effort into speaking with me whenever I'm on, which I appreciate. I don't trust her at all at the moment, but I think it'd be advantageous for her to trust me. Should I tell her of Morgan's tribe-chat excluding her? It's probably too early for that, but that'll be useful as ammo further on down the road. The way I see it, I have about two rounds to put my endgame together, or I'm probably not even getting close to the FTC. Luckily for me, Morgan seems to want to get rid of Whitney first over Coach, which is pretty much good for everyone unless you're Coach or Whitney. Everybody believes he's a fucking monster in the challenges, just like I said they would. I think that if my position stays the same by the next TC, I may approach Coach with a deal to vote Morgan or Kim off. Of course, that's assuming I can get my alliance to back me, which is probable. Morgan is practically pissing everyone off universally, and everyone in my alliances is sketched out by Kim. Should be a fun early-merge.  

[danniboatwright]

I just finished having my very first ORG fight!  Well, I'm not sure if I'd call it a fight, really. More-so just Morgan yelling misspelled words at me in front of everyone, and then badmouthing me in private. It really picked up when I added Shirin to the chat Morgan had made excluding her. Morgan wasn't to be outdone, though, and so she added Sash and Coach. I'm still unsure as to how she thought that'd be strategically beneficial to her, but hey, sometimes you've got to make due with having only two brain cells.

I'm getting ahead of myself, though. The short version is that I went to Coach and offered him a deal. I explained how him being around was beneficial to my game, and that I'd rather keep him safe until late-jury. Yaddayadda, he agreed, I warned him about how illogical it was to leak said information . . . and so he goes on to leak said information. To Morgan. Kek
I mean, I really expected him to be smarter than that, to be honest. I'm a little disappointed. It's the same reason I always do so shitty in my Survivor drafts. I always underestimate just how stupid Survivor players can be. Coach would have been safe for the next few rounds if he'd have just taken the deal I offered him. Guess he thinks this will get him to FTC somehow? I don't see that happening at all. Maybe he just wanted to cause some chaos before he gets the boot? Perhaps there's simply just no logic to be found in illogical moves.
It just sucks that I might have been screwed over by trusting an idiot to not play like an idiot. I mean, I guess I should have seen that coming once he threw a tempter tantrum after Shirin mutinied. Oh well. I take solace in knowing that if I go, his dumb ass is getting the boot right after me, just like I told him it would. I wonder if he'll write a poem for himself?

I'm definitely not giving up, though. Albeit losing a significant amount of drive, I was in this same position in a previous ORG, and I still managed to pull out a win. I definitely have my work cut out for me this time around, though. The correct move for the majority of these people is to vote me out. If I go, then they can simply go back to their Pagonging of Coach and Sash because Morgan has somehow convinced herself that I'm the only one who finds her annoying. It's going to be a pain in the ass, though, because for my style of manipulation to work, they have to think logically, and if they think logically, they'd want to vote me off. 
In the end, I may just have to leave my fate in the hands of others. I fucking hate doing that.  

I fucked up, Coach doesn't understand how to play the game, Morgan is so shitty at the game that I'm convinced she's a troll, Kim keeps calling everybody "Boo Boo", Shirin is so terrible at conversation that I'm starting to think she's actually Steve from this season of Big Brother, and . . . I really have nothing bad to say about any of the others. If I go, I'd love to see one of them take the game.
Ponderosa is going to be a terrible, terrible place.

[danniboatwright]

I'm back!  I lost my drive for a while there, but I finally got my shit together and campaigned like a motherfucker. I think it may have worked, too! If I survive this round, I better friggen get asked back for All-Stars, I swear to god. Huehuehue, jkjk. Maybe.

Seriously though, today has been a clusterfuck. I really shit the bed trying to make a deal with Coach, but I may actually have gotten myself in a better position accidentally. If the alliance votes with me, along with Kim and Nick, instead of two people getting Pagonged, there's now four, Shanini, Sash, Coach, and Morgan. If that works out, then that leaves my alliance as the majority once the dust settles.

I'm getting ahead of myself, though. Apparently Morgan has been campaigning and spreading lies about me all of last night and today. It's my belief that she sort of jumped the gun in all of this, but hey, that's Morgan. I waited patiently for the immunity challenge results, because you don't want to pull off moves unless you really need to -- a fact which I foolishly overlooked earlier in this round.
I didn't win immunity, and so it was time to make some moves. I first went to Kim, and she almost immediately started to spill just about everything Morgan has been doing in the last 22-something hours. Apparently her main weapon is a lie about me having a secret F2 with Shanini. Apparently it worked on Nick, but I believe that I've managed to clear that up with him. I told him and everybody else that I'd be voting for Shanini if they wanted me to. They wanted me to, and so that's who I'm voting for. Shanini is a nice enough person, though, and she seems to be the only one over there who actually knows how to play the game. Horrible conversationalist or no, I will feel a little bad giving her the boot, but that's what needs to happen if I want to have any chance of saving my ass this round and the next.

I made a new chat consisting of all of the original Read tribe members left in the game(+Austin), and I gave them my spiel. I told them that as long as I'm here, I'm always going to be the first person voted off out of the six if the Davis four were to play an idol. I also made sure that they knew my main desire in the game now is to place better than Coach and Morgan. We all seem to be on the same page now, 'cause instead of the merge chat, we all just talk and joke around in the new chat I made. I'm really hoping this works out. And hey, if I still end up going, then at least I go out knowing that I tried to pull off some moves. I didn't come here to play a dull ass game and bore the viewers. 

Also, apparently Coach and Morgan are PISSED at me for whatever reason. Coach is going on about how I'm cocky and such, which doesn't make sense, because I keep that whole part of myself locked up safely in my confessionals. I know he's only sixteen or something like that, though, so I guess the mood swings make sense. This isn't the first time he's thrown a tantrum . . . and it's kind of hilarious when he does, to be honest. 

[danniboatwright]

Exhibit A:                                            Exhibit B:
 


So, I woke up this morning to news that the Demente--I mean, uh, Davis tribe had tried Photoshopping fake conversations between me and Sash. The photos themselves were just embarrassing to call forgeries, to say the least. The font was wrong, "I" wasn't typing with any grammar, and "I" was saying phrases that I've never once said in this game, such as "whatsup". Further, there's supposed to be a scroll-bar above the smiley face icon, which is mysteriously vacant here. EVEN FURTHER, at the time these photos were sent, I was offline . . . but it says I was online. Regardless, somebody was dumb enough to believe it, anyhow, which is honestly baffling to me. I can't wrap my head around how NICK of all people fell for this, but he did. Luckily it wasn't too hard to fix, considering my last conversation with Sash was from July 8th, and all it took was for me to take an immediate screenshot and send it over. He now feels stupid, and he probably should, to be honest . . . 

I doubt these are the only forgeries floating out there, though. I would also not be surprised at all if somebody else was dumb enough to take the bait. Man, if I get voted off now solely because of somebody being a moron, my jimmies will be rustled once more. 

Shanini somehow found out she's our target, but of course, we still need to vote her off because otherwise Nervous-Nick will have some variety of mental breakdown and flip on everybody. Literally, everybody wants to target Sash instead, but Nick INSISTS on it being Shanini. The guy is really just making people want to vote his ass off, but I'm fine with that. Let him dig his own grave. 

My only concern other than my numbers being morons is an idol being played on Shanini. I'm pretty damn sure they're writing my name down as I type this out, but I don't have many other options than to just become the old Read tribe's official shield for a while. I don't like it, but it's better than getting voted out unanimously ASAP, I suppose. 

I went and spoke with Morgan, and she told me about all the wonderful names she's been calling me in her confessionals, which I'm totally okay with. I've been making fun of her, too, in my own. I want to make slight amends with her, if only to make sure she's not gunning for me as hard as she has been. Might work, might not, but it's worth a shot. 

[danniboatwright]

I've returned with even more info! Might as well just call me Broker Boatwright at this point.

Apparently before the whole Coach and Morgan thing blew up, Ciera, Nick, Kim, and Morgan all planned on voting me out. I respect that they were trying to make a big move, but it's definitely too early to take me out if I'm as big of a threat as they claim I am. Ideally, they should have waited two more rounds and teamed up with whoever was left over out of the old Davis tribe. I suppose the problem there is that Ciera apparently started that whole rumour about me being close with Shirin. 
I've made sure to notify Burton and Gabe about these things, and I'm going to continue on as if I'm oblivious to the plan to take me out. For all I know, they could all still plan on taking me out, so there's not much I can do with about three hours of time to work with, especially considering Ciera and Kim are offline. 

I should just title this post "Danni's Grand Board of Information"(name pending), 'cause I have some more! Gabe has told me that Kim has a double vote. I'm not sure if that's a seed he's planted in order to get me to want her out, but again, I want her and her "Boo Boo"s out, anyway, so I'm cool with that.

Burton says that Kim doesn't want to vote me out, which I suppose fits with what I've been experiencing so far this round. Morgan wants us to work together now, because we're both destined for jury at this point. I highly doubt she's serious. If I were to say I'm down, she could easily just use that to get people to switch on me before tonight's vote. Further, she could even just use that to get me to vote for the wrong person, giving them and one other person the numbers this round. For now, I just need to continue on trying to be as transparent as possible. If people already distrust me, I won't give them any reason to distrust me any less.

[Host Austin]

I made a new chat consisting of all of the original Read tribe members left in the game(+Austin)

Priorities in check. . <3

[danniboatwright]

Huehuehuehue, I'm still here!        

Hopefully for a little longer still, too. The challenge is majority rules, which is either fucking fantastic news for me, or won't really change anything at all. I have two options here: I could try to win it, or . . . I could vote in such a way that the results may paint somebody else as a target needing to go out this round in case Coach wins immunity again. Realistically, there's probably no point in trying to win this challenge, anyway, because then they'd just get Coach out this round, and then I'd go next round. so I think I'll be a little devious and try to manipulate the results to benefit my game. 

Worth a shot, right?

[So Kim]

So happy you stayed, keep slaying.

[danniboatwright]

Ouch! That majority rules challenge burned me pretty fucking hard. 
I can't decide on whether these players just don't understand the game well enough to realize I'm pretty much fucked as it is, or if they had the same idea I did and tried to answer in a way to make me look like an even bigger threat . . . which is about as equally dumb of them. Have they thought about who the "biggest threat" is once Coach and I are gone? What a bunch of clowns. lol

If they were smart, they'd want me in the F5 or F4 with them. They'd have to all literally pull a unanimous Woo Hwang for me to slip my way into FTC. I mean, they're dense, but they're not THAT dense. Which means they can take me out pretty much whenever they feel like it, so long as I don't get my hands on an idol somehow or win the final challenge, which doesn't seem to be happening. This will be my argument to Kim and Nick. One thing about this majority rules thing is that it gave me a pretty damn good idea of who is targeting me, and who isn't. Kim and Nick are two who have me in their sights for sure, along with Ciera. I'm aligned with morons. This blows. If they take me out this round instead of Coach, oh my god. It'd be about as hilarious to me as it would be embarrassing for them. 

[danniboatwright]

Alright, new game plan. At this point, it's fairly obvious that everyone wants me out, so I'm basically playing dead. My goal is for them to think I'm pretty much just waiting to get voted off, and that I completely suck at immunity challenges. In truth, I'm not even trying too hard in the challenges, not to take anything away from Coach, Morgan, or Sash, of course. All I've really got to use to my advantage right now is my terrible challenge performances, though. It's very similar to the game Dr. Will played in Big Brother 7, I suppose. I want them to believe that they can get me out whenever they can, so they'll put it off each round. I'm playing this way because it has a chance of working whether the old Read tribe sticks together or not. In another two or so rounds, I'll try pulling off something once again for sure, but for now, I'm the dead fish who's mean to the old Davis tribe. 

There's another option, of course -- Morgan keeps trying to get me to work with her and Sash. Here's the thing . . . I know that working with them is probably the only way I'm making it to FTC. On the other hand, I don't trust that they(Read: Morgan) won't just go right to the Read tribe and be all like "DANNI WANTS TO TO WORK WITH ME AND VOTE YOU ALL OFF", in which case, RIP me this round. It's a situation of risk vs reward, really. That may be my move if I'm around in another two rounds, but for now, the risk is way too high. People are looking for pretty much any reason to vote me off before Coach right now.
It's me vs something like three strong alliances. Good fun! 

Unfortunately, if not me, I think they're going to target Burton. We were voted as the strongest pair for some reason, which I'm still a little confused about. I don't recall ever mentioning his name to people, so either they chose my closest ally correctly by accident, or Burton dun goofed at some point. Taking out Burton would certainly weaken me . . . but I'm not sure if they'd be clever enough to think of that. Once again, I swear, if Coach survives this round, I'm going to die of laughter. I practically felt the need to spoon-feed the majority their endgame at tribal council.

Coach continues to target me, which makes me think it's a bit personal on his end. I mean, I don't see how that makes sense, strategically, unless he'd planned on people from his supposed alliance voting Shirin out last round. If not, then he probably should have considered switching targets by now. That'd make me more worried, honestly. He claims I'm cocky . . . which is probably because I called his move stupid that one time. I'm just such a terrible person, really. I jaywalk sometimes, too. I should be arrested. Nobody who knows the game votes somebody out after the merge because they're mean to people, though. I don't think Morgan even realizes that she's a lock for FTC unless she royally fucks up before then. lol

[danniboatwright]

Loool, looks like Coach should have just taken my deal! Ah well.  He was a worthy opponent . . . he just needs to think things over a little more instead of being so impulse driven, and he could be a pretty decent player. Maybe work on that social game, too.
I awoke the other night just after the results of Tribal Council were revealed. Hilariously, I signed into AIM to find that Coach had tried to bluff an idol . . . while I was asleep. LOL. The screenshots of his idol were pretty good, though. I have mad respect for what he tried to pull. My guess is that he meant for me to freak out and try to get everyone else to put their votes on Sash, which I probably wouldn't have done, anyway, because I've always felt that if you're going to BLUFF the idol, it means you don't want to actually have to USE the idol. I still don't understand why everyone is always coming to me trying to get me to change the vote lately, too. I mean, I probably don't even have much influence over Gabe at this point. Burton should be jumping ship by now, too.

I think I'm in a lot of danger this round. Morgan had told me a few days ago that her, Nick, Kim, Ciera, Coach, and Sash were all supposed to get together to blindside me. Coach being voted off tells me one of two things:
A) Coach was on the bottom of the aforementioned coalition, and they felt they didn't need him anymore.
B) The old Read tribe really has decided to stick together and Pagong the last of the Tané tribe.

Here's the deal . . . I'm screwed either way. If there's a new majority alliance picking people off, I'm probably gone this round. If the old Read tribe is sticking together, I'm gone at F6. So, in the paraphrased words of Spencer Bledsoe, do I want to go a bit further in the game, or do I want to risk going out NOW, for chance at making it to the FTC?

So . . . why prolong the inevitable? If I'm gone either way, I might as well try to pull something off this round. So here's what I plan on doing . . . first I need to speak with Morgan. Yeah, she hates me, but that's irrelevant. I want to bring up the supposed coalition of people that wanted me out, and then I'm going to get her to re-verify that Ciera was one of them. I'm going to feign being upset, and then I'll try to get her to think that instead of being closest with Burton, I thought that I was closest with Ciera. I'm going to give her screenshots and everything in hopes that she might even share them with others. I may also mention that out three different people, her name didn't come up as being the last juror. I want her to feel like she isn't in anyone's long-term plans. Those two things should get her thinking a bit. Then I'll propose that we work together for a round or two in order to place the both of us in better positions. She'd get Sash, and I'd try to get Gabe and Burton. That'd give us the majority to take Kim, Ciera, and Nick out. Then the F5 would be Morgan and Sash, along with me and two of my closest allies. I won't be telling her that bit, though . . . 

Of course, she could always turn around and try to fuck me over like Coach did, but then I'll just go out this round instead of MAYBE making the F6. In the end, I think taking this risk is worth playing for.

And hey, if I still go, at least I'll have caused a little bit of chaos!

ALSO, OBLIGATORY FINAL EIGHT WOOOO!!! o)-<

[Natalie]

Hey Danni

[danniboatwright]

Holy shit, literally everyone has been buying what I'm selling this whole round so far! Morgan says she wants to work with me, Sash says he wants to work with me, even Shirin bought that I planned on not doing anything this round, evidenced by her dislike at Tribal Council. Even better, it looks like Morgan truly thinks I wasn't actually targeting her when I made a deal with Coach, which I totally was. LOL. This all makes me kind of worried, honestly. I don't like when things are little too easy. The easiness makes one feel comfortable, and as soon as one feels comfortable, #blindside.

How about that Morgan reply at TC, though? I didn't even see it until after I made my deal with her. I was very surprised at the coherent sentences. I mean, has she actually just been playing a character this whole time? Kudos to her if so. I'm legitimately very surprised by her understanding of what's going on in the game right now. Anyway, this is both good and bad. Good, because now she's exposed her whole hand to everyone, and bad, because everybody should be expecting me to flip now, and she'll get full credit for it if I do. Would the jury believe that I've been planning this ever since merge?
Apparently there are "secret powers" in the game, which is pretty annoying. Morgan and Kim both claim to have a Vote Doubler. I may try to get Morgan to use(Read: get rid of) hers tonight. 

I still haven't spoken with Burton and Gabe about this whole plan, but if they're on board, there will be a brutal blindside tonight. The target is Ciera. She seems to be playing people against each other, and I can't have that anymore. On the other hand, I would have liked to target Kim, because then once she's gone, Ciera should come running back to me as her only "true" ally, albeit maybe Nick. Further, keeping her in the game as the common threat for this new coalition would be beneficial to me, 'cause it'd be a little extra insurance during the next round. I've already agreed upon Ciera, though, and so if I try to change it to Kim now, it'd look sketchy.

Again, the joke could definitely be on me, and they could all be writing my name down tonight, instead. So far, nobody has told me who to vote for, which definitely isn't a good sign on the part of the old Read tribe. I'm getting the same vibes from them now as I did when they tried to vote me off before. It's not a good feeling, so I sure hope tonight works out, 'cause otherwise I'll be off to Ponderosa with bitter people who want to eat my first-born. Oh, and also Shirin. LOL

[danniboatwright]

I've managed to get them to change the vote to Kim! This should raise the probability of Gabe and Burton flipping, because once Kim is gone, Ciera is likely to actually be loyal to our old alliance. Incentive. They're putting up a ridiculous amount of resistance, though. Apparently the vote had swung back and forth between myself and Gabe (because he has a vote nullifier, apparently), before finally settling on Morgan. That side suddenly wants Morgan gone now, probably because she's exposing all of their little plans to the tribe. They've also said that they're going to still try to vote one of us off next round. I've told Gabe all of this, and he's STILL hesitant to make a move. I mean, I do see their concerns -- I don't trust Morgan, either . . . but is really any better to just sit around and wait to be voted out? I just don't get it. They want to wait until next round to make the move, which I don't want, because once Morgan is gone, then I'm the sole "big target" in the new group. And plus, Sash owes us nothing, especially me if I go back on my word now and vote Morgan off. What's stopping him from just siding with Kim, Ciera, and Nick next round? We need Morgan in order to control Sash. Ugh, I don't know, it's just frustrating when you literally have to convince somebody NOT to make a stupid decision. . . 

At this point, I think I've done just about all I can this round . . . and so all that's left is to cross my fingers and wait for the vote. #Pray4Danni

Edit: Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention -- apparently the reason I'm such a "big target" is because I'm "just too chill". LOL, these people, I swear to god.