Ashanti (KingGeek) Confessional EP:7
ever since this merge has began i have NOT known peace and i am absolutely ready for this round to be over and potentially pick up the pieces to what could very well be a disastrous outcome. david left yesterday and i was in shambles, that was my possible f2 since brad was gone so now i'm back at square 1 in that sense. i'm probably a fool for thinking so longterm so suddenly but i mean what else could i do with all the downtime. anyway, triple threat for the most part has made it to this stage relatively unscathed (excluding the emotional scars i received from the ben tribal), and we're moving on to bigger things. nathan and i received immunity for this tribal, me through EARNING it and nathan through the late david and the samurai curse. with only really tyler to worry about, our coalition seems to be in tip top shape.
after doing some talking with people like kevin, i learn that arek isn't really someone to be trusted and with his sheisty behavior he could be a potential merge vote. so i approach to this triple threat, who wanted to do zach initially, and change their minds. this is because i present them with the idea that if we do take out arek, we'd have kevin as a number as well as juan (who he considers himself to be close to), and nathan could insure kai's vote guaranteeing a 6-4 vote in our favor. the only thing that really concerned me was the fact that zach and i have been working so hard to repair our in-game relationship and here we are.. not voting with each other again LMAO. but like i guess that's only one (1) person i have to be concerned with, right? no harm no foul really. anyways, i present this plan to kevin and he seems game for it. the only issue is that while he is close to juan, juan is also close to sam who we've generally associated WITH arek/kellen/zach. i still propositioned this to juan who seemed to be okay with this, but not convincingly. still, i counted him as a number because it was better to present things like that to the group and voice concerns later. even though i probably SHOULD have voiced that concern to begin with.
this morning, kai made a voting block consisting of himself, kellen, nathan, tyler and zach. LOL. what the fuck like screw me i guess. :( but that immediately was foiled and because he alluded to taking out people like arek, and controlling people like sam, the vote looked to be him on their end. which was perfect. that would absolutely guarantee our 5th/6th vote. things start to get really blurry after that as we try to keep up with pulling off our arek vote while feigning to everyone else not included that we're voting kai with them. it's been kinda a chore dancing around this vote with zach, i DID mention arek to him as a possible vote bc he just wouldn't drop the subject of saving kai to me. i didn't say anything more to send him running but he probably did some running anyways.
but then things get all AHHHHHHHHH. FUCKING AHHHHHHHHH. like i can't deal. i'm literally losing my marbles as i write this. so basically, after a nap and some quiet time, things have popped off. tyler is paranoid and now they're trying to get into kai's ear to vote for someone else. they want him to flip and tyler thinks it's him, so tyler fesses up to having one of the idols. this entire time we've assumed that both tribal idols were between the two of them so now we have some solace in the fact that that one is on our side. tyler presented the plan of having kai stay on arek, while triple threat + kevin flip to zach. we've kinda assumed juan has been taken over to the darkside courtesy of his connections during the swap. my conscience kinda couldn't handle doing zach like that, so i suggested we vote sam! it felt the most sensible second option to me considering the fact that it'd isolate the relationship juan/him have and get out someone who'll probably stand in my way during challenges. a win/win! kevin's a little concerned that tyler's paranoia is getting to him, which was some