Episode 08

[Marissa Peterson]

Who would you like to see go home?

[Jeff]

hahaha, yes Ashley. Is that you?

And I actually don't mind at this first vote. Anyone but me. I'm cool to just stand back and let this vote happen, see how the chips fall and then evaluate where people went with their votes to see how I should proceed.

Everyone is talking to everyone so I don't have a damn clue who is working with who at this point. I'll let people come to me. If Stacey's the easy vote this week as Kimmi says then Stacey will go home this week and I'll postpone standing back and evaluating until next week.

Also I think Kimmi and Angie are a lot closer than they are letting on.

And I think Angie is tired of me already lol. I kind of don't want to respond to Angie/Carter because I know if I respond I will have to write another message or else I'll feel rude and I just don't feel like doing that.

maybe they feel that way about me.

[Marissa Peterson]

Who leaching is best for your game?

[Jeff]

I'll rank it

best for my game if they leave to worst:

Chris
Stacey
Carter
Angie
Ramona/Hayden/Rich
Denise
Kimmi/Tina
Debb
JEFF

But I don't really care. I just want it to not be me this vote. Next vote lines will be in the sand and I think I will get a better feel for the game and whether or not I want to use my idol to change up the game, or obviously save myself.

[Ashley Underwood]

Th Guru is, unfortunately, not me. :(

You've ranked Ramona/Hayden/Rich together and Kimmi/Tina together - is that because you seem the as a group or because they are equally as valuable to you?

Are you very close to Debb then?

[Jeff]

Not so much as a group but, they are currently on the same peg as far as how much I trust them or how much I need them in the game. If I lose Richard/Ramona/Hayden, I still have the other two. If I lose Kimmi/Tina, I have the other one. They are just equal in terms of how much I need them. Equally valuable as you said.

Not particularly but I'm not super close to anyone right now. If I was doing my ( )'s, it'd be ( ( ( ( Jeff ) ) ) ) before anyone else even enters the equation...

[Ashley Underwood]

(Jeff) then ((Jeff)) and now ((((Jeff))))

What's next? ((((((((Jeff)))))))) ? :P

[Jeff]

Yeah that's going to be me when I get voted out and need to hug myself for emotional support.


I'm actually pretty nervous now. I'm pretty sure I have an outgoing message to everyone in the game that hasn't been responded to except Carter, and Kimmi too maybe, who are both usually pretty good at responding to messages.

hmm..

[Jeff]

Also, why do some pictures have black dots usually to the right of their neck / collar? I noticed it on some but not all pictures.

[Ashley Underwood]

Every picture has it, even the hosts - it's just part of layering on the avatars as they were made I assume :P

I'll hug you if/when you get voted out Jeff ppy

So aside from thinking you're going to be blindsided, what's the plan that you know of for this round?

[Jeff]

I don't think I am going to get blindsided this tribal council. I am pretty sure I will still be here on Monday.

I think I will be in 3 or 4 tribal councils when I think I know what's going on. As it turns out, I am not as "in it" as I thought I might be which could be a very good thing right now at the merge or a very bad. I think that rather than leading a group, I will be more of a swing vote at this point which is a tricky position.

IDEALLY, I'd swing back and forth and take out Stacey and like Ramona then switch and take out Chris and Carter and then they will probably join forces maybe? and try to

I don't think I'm as tight with Denise as I thought I would be and I think she is back in with the old Kirati. Kimmi told me Chris is not as close with Carter/Angie as it might appear. There are cracks here. I think Kimmi and Angie are pretty close.

The people on the Rai tribe are also particularly distant which is strange considering we've been talking a bit coming from Kirati together. I started up a group message to get the conversation back up and going. Maybe people just aren't as active today.

Every time I log in though I see like several people online that are probably talking to each other and not to me which makes me feel a little alienated and makes me feel as though I am glad that I have set my goal to be solo in this game, with people surrounding me as "alliances".

[Jeff]

Every time I log in though I see like several people online that are probably talking to each other and not to me which makes me feel a little alienated and makes me feel as though I am glad that I have set my goal to be solo in this game, with people surrounding me as "alliances".

By this I of course mean in terms of strategic conversation..

[Jeff]

If I learned anything about these idol clues, it is that I need Richard to figure it out and then I need to beat him to typing it in. lol

[Ashley Underwood]

[Jeff]

I'm pretty nervous about this vote because I don't know who is going to vote who, or even who is with who, or even who I am going to go with.

It better not be me.

[Jeff]

So, it looks like it will probably be

Angie, Carter, Chris, Denise, Kimmi voting for Stacey.

me, Hayden, Ramona, Richard, Stacey voting for Chris or Carter.

Tina is probably going to be voting Stacey and Debb, I don't know but I expect Stacey to go tomorrow night and I'm not even that mad about it.

Kimmi and I are going to try and do an opposing alliances thing. I'm a little bit wary of her, hope she ends up telling me she has the idol from Madhesi, that'd be cool. I'm still not going to tell her I have the Kirati one though.

I'm hoping that Tina/Debb flip flop between Kirati and Rai and just keep voting one off of each in each tribal, at least 1 from each before it becomes a concern. I still have my idol so hopefully Kimmi can make me aware if my name comes up and if she has the idol and I let her know when her name comes up, we can protect each other that way too.

Doubtful it'll work though, still guessing I will finish in 7th place after getting blindsided when I think I have the game under control.

[Jeff Probst]

To me, if you were telling me you are with me and then you vote out one of my allies and lie to me, I'm going to be pissed. What's stopping the remaining Rai from going to the others and telling them you lied.

[Jeff]

Right, my plan is to not do that. I'm going to vote with Rai here - probably, unless Richard causes the vote to become Kimmi or Tina - and probably for a few more tribal councils unless the alliance crumbles. If it does become Kimmi or Tina, I can just vote Chris and say I stuck to my guns of voting Chris which was the entire plan all along and I didn't want to vote out a Madhesi the very first tribal council post merge and give myself a disadvantage immediately compared to the other two tribes that are 4 strong.

If I lose Hayden or Rich this tribal, it won't be because of me since I'll be voting with them. But if I lose one of them, then me and the other one need to re-evaluate that alliance because we clearly didn't have the people we thought we did (though I already know we don't have Kimmi).

Ramona is sure that Stacey is sure that Kimmi is going to be with us however I am 100% sure she is not. I can't tell them that though or that will blow her cover and possibly my own cover. I need to make sure the vote is on Chris or Carter, and I will be voting Chris or Carter.

I want Chris or Stacey to go this TC and then I want the other to go in the next one. The order doesn't matter to me. I'm not going to be voting Stacey out unless this alliance decides to turn on her and vote her out.

[Jeff]

Kimmi has the Madhesi idol and I have the Kirati idol.

This could go pretty well if we play it right. ^^

[Jeff]

The Rai tribe wants to vote Tina to be "safe"...

How do I tell them that I'm not going to vote Tina..? hm...