Stranded in Venezuela

Another Tribal Council, another blindside.

Are you worried that the next blindside may be on you? What measures are you taking to keep yourself safe?

Who is your next target?

Sarah is functionally brain dead. What a malleable trainwreck.

I love the word malleable

So do I. Unfortunately, at 4 syllables that's about 3.5 more than Cleopatra's brain is able to comprehend.

Honestly I'm not even mad that she voted me, I'm just annoyed that she could be so stupid and foolish. I mean Sean has done nothing but lie his ass off to her the last 2 rounds and suddenly he just comes out of the blue saying Gabe & Pat are gunning for her... So she decides to vote for me? IDGI. At least they made the stupid decision to split votes though. Sarah would have to be absolutely moronic to draw a rock for people that fucking split the vote on her this round.

Are you worried that the next blindside may be on you? What measures are you taking to keep yourself safe?

Of course I'm worried. I think I've been the girl who cried wolf for the last... 3 TCs now? It just sucks because the power was really in Patricia & Gabe's hands the past two rounds and I was just kinda at their mercy, lol. Although I'm glad they pulled through for me. My major measure is extending an olive branch to Sarah and telling her that even though I'm annoyed that she voted for me, that I hope she realizes we have to stick together out of necessity and get Sean out of here. Then, me/Pat/Gabe/Gina will vote for Lex or something and hopefully it'll be 4-3-1 because I do not trust her

Who is your next target?

Probably either Lex or Linda.

Jesus christ Sarah is dense. I'm talking to her about still working together and her reply was "well, Sean still voted the way he said he would..." WTF? He still had his alliance split votes on you and you would've been FUCKED had I had an idol. [Shii Ann] Stupid, stupid players! [/Shii Ann]

Sean has my vote if he makes final 3 though. Jesus, I wish I could make people eat out of the palm of my hand the way he does.

So you and Gina are putting your trust in Gabriel and Patricia who did not vote with you guys on the first vote they said they would. Flipped back and voted out Vecepia on this last vote. At this point do you believe they are with you and Gina to the end? Do you think that Sarah's flip had more to do with you than anything else?

Jeff Probst wrote:So you and Gina are putting your trust in Gabriel and Patricia who did not vote with you guys on the first vote they said they would. Flipped back and voted out Vecepia on this last vote. At this point do you believe they are with you and Gina to the end? Do you think that Sarah's flip had more to do with you than anything else?

I mean, here's the thing... We don't have much of a choice otherwise. I mean, what's our other option? Gina & I could cut a deal with Sean/Linda/Lex, but that'd be stupid because we'd be out 4th and 5th. I mean, Gina is the only one I truly trust but Gabe and Pat really did only screw me on one vote so as bad as that sounds... They're still the people I trust next most. I'm not sure if they're with Gina and I til the end. And Sarah's flip had more to do with Sean getting inside her head than anything else.

But you and Gina fully trusted Patricia and Gabriel after the first vote?

Not at all. I had lots of hesitations but you need to take risks in this game. And my risk was trusting them with that last Vecepia vote rather than trying to look for something else. And it worked.

And Sarah wasn't willing to take that risk with you? I'm a little shocked because I saw you/gina/sarah/kim p as a great alliance bonded through circumstance. Are you hurt by her or did you expect it from her?

Jeff Probst wrote:And Sarah wasn't willing to take that risk with you? I'm a little shocked because I saw you/gina/sarah/kim p as a great alliance bonded through circumstance. Are you hurt by her or did you expect it from her?

I guess you can phrase it that way. Yeah, she didn't want to risk trusting Pat and Gabe. How that ended in her voting for me, I have no idea. Sarah's issue is that she's very naive. If someone tells her that someone else is targeting her, she'll believe it, no questions asked. I thought we were bonded by circumstance too tbh, that's why I'm shocked that Sarah believed Sean again so easily. I mean, this guy has targeted her and had nothing nice to say about her at every possible opportunity and she still eats every word he says for breakfast, lunch & dinner. The alliances that are brought together by necessity are usually the strongest imo which is why I'm surprised she was so easily swayed. I'm not really hurt, because that implies it offended me personally; I'm just annoyed that she could be swayed so easily. But yeah, I didn't necessarily expect it but it didn't shock me too much, either because she's always been easily swayed by other people.

A hot mess has occurred in my absence. Glad I wasn't here to convolute it further.

So tell me what has happened since the challenge. Did it open your eyes to anything in particular. Is there anything going forward that you took away from it?

Props to Sean, I'm his flattery target of choice this round and I gotta give a hand to him for putting such a great effort into convincing me to blindside Pat. BUT... As much of a threat as Pat is, Sean is just as big of one. Gina & I are wary of both. I'm not about to fulfill Sean's best interests and pull the same moves that I lambasted other people for falling for in the past few rounds.

Anyways, since the challenge it's just been Gina and I talking about wanting to get rid of Sean/Pat ASAP (they're by far the two biggest threats and the challenge helped to affirm that) and wanting to possibly take Linda to f3 with us as a goat if at all possible. I think she's the least respected of the final 8. Also, Sean has been laying it on thick trying to get me and get me to get Gina to vote out Pat and forge a new alliance of Sean/Sarah/Gina/Lindsey. I guess that he's wary of Lex/Linda's strong pair dynamics, so I can exploit that hopefully. I'm actually more pleased than how I thought i would be from the challenge? I only got answered for one question and it was a positive one, I'm glad that people think the jurors like me so far.

As I was typing this something occurred to me... I could propose to Sean a deal of helping take out Lex this round but uniting next round to take out Pat. IDK if he'd go for it, but I think the votes would be there to take out both. Me/Pat/Gina/Gabe/Sarah/Sean voting Lex this round then me/Gina/Sarah/Sean voting Pat next round. Then from there hopefully I could find some way to ditch Sean... IDK.

THINGS ARE FINALLY STARTING TO MAKE SENSE

Gina told me she found the merge idol back right after Kim J left. This is awesome. I think Gina trusts me as much as I trust her so I highly doubt she told anyone else about it. But we both realize how important this will be as leverage. I'm now pretty sure where both idols lie and where people stand at this point. I guess not really having a clue what's been going on the last 2 or 3 weeks has paid off a bit for me in a good way? I mean, now Gina & I are getting paid off for our loyalty. People know where we stand so now we have a ton of options because I think we're more candid that a lot of people here. Anyways, Sean made a weird comment a couple TCs back that tipped me off into thinking he passed his second idol to someone else. I'm almost sure it's Sarah. Sarah said she was playing an idol at this coming TC to me earlier tonight which shocked me because I didn't think she had it. But now it makes sense as to why she would keep going back to Sean after he lied to her, since he gave her an idol.

The plan right now looks like we're going to pile votes on Sarah this round as a compromise. No one trusts that wishy-washy ho. However, she did say she was playing her idol, which means that I assume it will be used to take out Lex as she said, which would be absolutely ideal for me because we could keep Linda (Gina & I have both been working on her the past few hours) while ditching her obvious partner. We've kinda come to the conclusion of a Patricia blindside at f7. She as well as Sean is really the biggest threat left. Then using Gina's idol as leverage, we'll try to force a Sean boot at f6, leaving us with a final 5 of Gina/Lindsey/Linda/Gabe/one of Sarah or Lex, which would be pretty good. It's time to play big!

False alarm about Sarah having the idol. Gina reminded me of the trivia question "how many idols are currently in play" in the one immunity challenge... the answer was two and Gina already had hers and Sean hadn't played his, which means he bluffed about having two and Sarah is bluffing as well.

Soooo, everything's not starting to make sense then?

I am curious about some of your logic leaps here. You say Pat/Sean are the two biggest threats that you want out, yet you still turn down Sean's push to take out Pat? Why not let those two go head to head? What's your reasoning there?

And now you have this idol on your side. Well, on Gina's side at least. If it's not another photoshop And you talk bout "using it as leverage". What do you mean by this? Telling more people you have it? Or just playing it somewhere you know votes are directed?

Yeah, what Brenda said! Tell me the logic behind keeping a threat around over someone that you describe to be so wishy washy and unsure?