Episode 05

[John Cochran]

Alright, A LOT went on tonight.

What do you think about Papa Smurf leaving?

What do you think about Yau Man quitting?

Swapped tribes, how are you feeling about this group?

Steph took immunity, what do you think of her decision?

[Candice]

What do you think about Papa Smurf leaving?

Him leaving on his birthday . But if I had had to pick someone that was leaving I thought it would be him. From what I understand JP played his hidden necklace and Papa was not around to change a pre-vote. Talk about taking advantage of an activity situation, but good for JP. And it would have been really good for JP/CiCi/Nate if the teams had stayed the way they were.

What do you think about Yau Man quitting?

No loss for me personally. I do figure he was allowed to slip his idol to someone, which I have to be somewhat aware of, but I had never interacted with him and seriously would have never had him in any of my plans, so I honestly don’t care. It just got us all one step closer to merge and that’s a good thing.

Swapped tribes, how are you feeling about this group?

I feel pretty good about this group. Even though I will always have doubts about Penner, I can’t imagine him being against me on this tribe for any time to come. Cass is my girl. I am good with CiCi, which should being Nate (who I liked a lot last night.) Stacy voted for Nate so there is some disharmony there. Rebecca is a wildcard who I think Penner can control but she is not in any of my plans unless it is to use her vote. I did not talk to Rebecca or Stacy last night but I’m down with either of them leaving at this point.

Of everybody I talked to last night, CiCi is still rather gung ho on original tribal lines. I’m most assuredly not. But I’ll play that way for a round or so if I need to. I’m still much more in keeping with solidifying a good group, and for me, that will always include Cass and Anthony. (Please let him be OK over on green.)

Steph took immunity, what do you think of her decision?

I think she was set with or without it on that tribe. Maybe she took it so others on her tribe would not? No idea but it unnecessarily made her a target. And from my earlier confessional, I’m really not an idol fan so I’ll rarely have a good opinion of someone taking it.

[Candice]

I love this. It is basically my first message from Stacy except a 30 word hello.

But I was hoping you and I might be able to work together. Firstly because I think you're going to be super awesome to have in challenges, but secondly because I'm all about the girl power! I'm not sure if you have any strong feelings towards Penner or Rebecca, good or bad, but I can potentially pull CiCi, Cassandra and/or Nate into the fray to vote with us if we need it. What do you think?

Girl comes on strong. And she is direct. And it just makes me smile.

Here are the problems. I'm not super awesome in challenges. But prays she will continue to think so after our first outing.

Second I'm typically so anti alliances based off gender that I usually go in the opposite direction as that because I think that is a shitty thing to base a relationship on. That being said there is not much penis on this tribe so I can play along. I do think though if she takes this approach say with Rebecca it will get straight back to Penner. Heck, I'll probably tell him myself that she is girl power and just say it casually, so he will think she is a viable boot option if and when we need one.

At least she was honest about her TC and how she voted Nate and she was worried about him holding her vote against her.

Just having talked to her though she is better than Rebecca. I already know that. I just think Rebecca might be a safer option to keep. I'm not sure.

It's very early with this tribe. Nothing is set in stone in my mind. I'm just running scenarios.

[Jeff Probst]

I love this. It is basically my first message from Stacy except a 30 word hello.

But I was hoping you and I might be able to work together. Firstly because I think you're going to be super awesome to have in challenges, but secondly because I'm all about the girl power! I'm not sure if you have any strong feelings towards Penner or Rebecca, good or bad, but I can potentially pull CiCi, Cassandra and/or Nate into the fray to vote with us if we need it. What do you think?

Girl comes on strong. And she is direct. And it just makes me smile.

Here are the problems. I'm not super awesome in challenges. But prays she will continue to think so after our first outing.

Second I'm typically so anti alliances based off gender that I usually go in the opposite direction as that because I think that is a shitty thing to base a relationship on. That being said there is not much penis on this tribe so I can play along. I do think though if she takes this approach say with Rebecca it will get straight back to Penner. Heck, I'll probably tell him myself that she is girl power and just say it casually, so he will think she is a viable boot option if and when we need one.

At least she was honest about her TC and how she voted Nate and she was worried about him holding her vote against her.

Just having talked to her though she is better than Rebecca. I already know that. I just think Rebecca might be a safer option to keep. I'm not sure.

It's very early with this tribe. Nothing is set in stone in my mind. I'm just running scenarios.

Slay girl.

Also, to answer your jessica question, They are still able to access confessionals (as should you on svinoy) but are unable to see anything else but their own confessional here. They are also not allowed to access PMs. I've double-checked this myself.

[Candice]

OK about Jessica. Good to know.


And seriously, I'm just running tons of scenarios. I'll do a proper team ranking with more detail tomorrow. I need to talk more to everybody at this point.

[Candice]

Fuck me, Cecilia wants to vote out Cass. Seriously fuck me.

[Candice]

Tribe Ranking

I really wanted to get this done last round but several of this team did not ever come back. Guess they will rank low then .

6. Nate. Let me explain this. He’s cool and he’s active and he’s friendly. BUT … and it is a big but … he has no original thought in his head. Everything he says is spit right out of the logic/mind of Cecilia. I don’t like that. I don’t mind a person being influenced by an ally. Hell, allies should influence each other. But I do not need someone completely controlled by someone else. That is NOT good for my game and I want him out first. Might be very hard to accomplish. Might not. More to come on that.

5. Stacy. You bitch that JP is inactive. Where the fuck have you been since the swap? Oh, that’s right you put in 20 minutes to tell me Girl Power, rah rah rah. Yeah, no. However, I have not written you off. OK I have, I’ll be honest. But I’m willing to potentially work with her if I can be convinced she might want that. For now, I’m not even close to being convinced of that.

4. Rebecca. I’ll say this, I like her way more than in the early days of the game. She obviously shows a personality with her gifs and she has talked more to me in one or two PMs on this tribe than she did all the opening weekend. But more importantly if I think she has more personality or not, because ultimately I do not care, I might need her. I’d be working on her more IF she were here more.

3. Cecilia. I will go more into her in the Episode 6 thread. But for now, let’s talk about her personality. She is bubbly. She is very talkative to me and shares way more info than she probably should. I think she genuinely wants to work with me. But be clear on this. THIS is how I truly feel about her. She is a logical hot mess. She is one of the shittiest liars I’ve come across. She can’t keep a story straight to save her life. Her whole goal right now it to build a mini-fiefdom with her the queen. Guess what? If she is the queen, I can’t be. Her goals and mine will never add up and this is going to be a constant problem for me.

2. Penner. I go back and forth so much with him. At times, I love him and trust him. At times, I think he is fickle as they come. Right now, I’ve decided that me and him are totally good. I’m opening up to him about Cassandra and my fears of her leaving. I am opening up to him about CiCi which will be great for me or bite me in my oh-so-cute ass. With Penner, I’m at that totally-taking-a-leap-of-faith-that-I’ve- assessed-him-correctly stage and praying all goes well with that trust.

1. Cassandra. We see things so much the same. I totally trust her with my life and she is my #1 in this game. I do not really see that changing. I can tell her anything. We can joke or chit chat or talk game. She’s just the exact type player I want to work with.