Stephen confesh
So after we merged, we had a nice non-live challenge and this was a great opportunity to talk to everyone, see what they tell you and form an opinion on them. Everyone I talked to was nice, they were willing to talk, so it was good, but if there's anything I learned in the last three years that I've played here is that people can be sweet in your face, but get the knife out and stab it in your back just like that.
I knew that the only people I could fully trust are Julian and Nick and everyone else I would check up on by seeing whether their stories match with others, which surprisingly, they did. While and after the results were announced and Blake won immunity, it was time to throw a name and it was very awkward, as you can expect from a newly merged tribe.
I didn't get a good vibe from Zach, nor he replied to my mail, so of course, I threw his name out there and went to sleep. It was all done like ''Who don't you trust? Uhm, I don't know, maybe Zach''. From experience I know that whenever someone says a name and the vote is up in the air, whoever it is, that person is gonna get voted out. When I woke up, his name was the only name I was hearing and I was very glad with that.
It ended up being a very straight vote with Zach going and throwing a vote at me, which I appreciated. I know that I organised some stuff around here and I respect it when someone who I'm out to get is also doing the same, but I'm glad it ended up in my favor.
Natasha ended up winning the following challenge by 2 minutes over me, so it was like, damn it! I didn't want her to win as she's as shady as it can be, I don't trust her at all.
When it came time for the vote, I initially wanted Jacob as the vote because I know how threatening he is and having him around is a no-no and I did have some people on board with my plan, but I learned some of the hardships of this game along the way, so I had to change my strategy a little bit.
Andrew spilled the beans on a secret alliance that was formed and it included Ranz, Josh, Dakota, Natasha, and Blake. I knew that I had 4 votes steady as I had me, Nick, Julian and Andrew locked down, so we needed Jacob and Lynette with us to form a six to five majority. However, because of the deadline, we couldn't pull this together as Lynette and Nick had been offline for 10+ hours and going against them outnumbered would be social suicide in this game. Dakota threw Lynette's name to me, so we figured that's who they'd vote for and me and Andrew decided to go for Lynette and tell the rest of our alliance to do the same.
Now all of this could just be a big, nasty scheme to take me out because not a lot of people mailed me for the vote like they used to, so I don't know whether that's because the alliances were exposed or they're getting rid of me, but I don't like it. I'd be heartbroken if my journey ends here as I have a lot of game left in me, I'm still not done with this game and hopefully, it's Lynette like I heard, not me.