Episode 02

[Jeff Varner]

Hey Stephannie, how's it going?

So, with tribe swap over and done with, I have some cool new questions for you to answer:

1. You ended up being ranked in the top 3, got any thoughts on that?

2. You ended up picking Liliana. Why Liliana?

3. You're reunited with Flicka and Rebecca. How do you feel about these two? And how do you feel about how your three new members?

4. Also, what do you think about how the tribes ended up shaking out?

[Stephannie]

could that have gone any worse?
Well I guess if we had Nate on our team, it could have....



BUT OMG FLICKA AND REBECCA, SERIOUSLY????
AND YAU-MAN TO TOP IT OFF???


So like... I'm pretty much the prime target to be voted off right now.
If the three pink on our tribe decide to stick with the "Green vs Pink" mentality, then it's ME they'll target first because I was ranked #2 for Svinoy.

Flicka and Rebecca were 7 and 8.
If they wanted to hurt our tribe, they likely wouldn't care about getting rid of 7 and 8. They'd want to target the highest member on the team.
PLUS YAU HAS AN IDOL TO WORK FOR THEIR ADVANTAGE!

And of all people, I get the two on my tribe (besides Nate) that I trust the LEAST

What a quick way to go from "best position in the game" to "worst position in the game" AND I THOUGHT FOR SURE I WAS MAKING THE MERGE IN ONE OF THE BIG/SUPER POPULAR/WELL-KNOWN ORGs FOR ONCE

Okay. Breathe. Breathe. It's not over.

I'm not a quitter, and I'm not just going to sit here and whine about a swap.
I'm going to be proactive, build relationships, and get a plan to keep myself safe.


Do I have to sell out Rebecca or Flicka?
Do I have to make a plan where we lie to Yau and trick them into using their idol on the wrong person?
idk.

But I sure as hell am NOT going to be the next one to go.
Thank GOD I have Wednesday off in case we lose the upcoming challenge.


I'll answer those questions later. I have to go to bed in ~30 minutes if I want to be able to wake up tomorrow and I still have to take care of PM's.

[Stephannie]

1. You ended up being ranked in the top 3, got any thoughts on that?
I wasn't surprised, because I figured I had a pretty good read on the old Svinoy tribe... and based on the results I think I did. The order of people was more or less the same as what I rated everyone, and all 9 votes were sent in.

It made me feel good in the beginning, but now thinking about it... I'm with 7 and 8 on this tribe. If the pink tribe is going to want to go after any of the three of us to weaken old Svinoy, they'll go after me.

So I'm just going to lay it all out on the table and skip the BS'ing. Because I KNOW if I don't connect with these three well enough, I'll be the first one leaving from our new team.
I've sent Yau a no-nonsense PM just now, so hopefully that goes over well... if not, well... then it's time for a new plan.

2. You ended up picking Liliana. Why Liliana?
I contemplated choosing someone lower ranked so that I could have a "pawn"-esque Flicka type person on our tribe that would be easy to out-maneuver... but ultimately I wanted a higher ranked person for both challenge strength and for strategic reasons.

All the high-ranked people on old Svinoy were people I naturally connected with, so I figured there was a good chance of connecting with a high-ranked member of the other team.


3. You're reunited with Flicka and Rebecca. How do you feel about these two? And how do you feel about how your three new members?
Really not ideal.
The core group was me, Candice, and Penner with Adam and JP kind of there in my mind. Flicka and Rebecca were always "there" as pawns or expendable people who we'd vote out given the chance.

So to be matched with both of them is off-putting, but if I want to be a good player I'm going to have to find a way around that.

But it is a little worrying to me still... because Candice and Penner are together, and they had a great connection. As are JP and Cecilia, and Cecilia really likes JP.

I have to keep in mind that Flicka and Rebecca probably both rated me high on the tribe ranking if I finished 2nd overall... so maybe I'm being melodramatic. But still, they were the people I connected with the least over on Svinoy aside from Ozzy and the old Nate.

Maybe the other teams will let us have immunity to keep Svinoy numbers strong? Since the idol gives the pink members of our team an advantage?

4. Also, what do you think about how the tribes ended up shaking out?
I think I touched on this in some of my other answers, but I'm not entirely sure... Cecilia and JP are in kind of a precarious spot having Nate with them, because Nate hasn't talked to us really at all... so it could easily become 2v4 for them over there.

Blue team has the truest "3v3" so if I was ever in a position to send one tribe to TC I would send the blue team.

Anyway, have to go to bed in about 10 minutes and don't want to fall behind on PM's before that, so I'll finish my post here.

[Stephannie]

And Flicka just told me Yau is already trying to get her and Rebecca to vote me out...

Like. Ugh.
And Yau is lying right to my face telling me he would vote off one of Liliana or Rocky.


So frustrating because I was in such a good spot over on old Svinoy. To go out like this would make me sad :(
At least I made the swap though!



BUT LET'S NOT GET THAT DEFEATIST ATTITUDE JUST YET!
I'm sure there's a way out of this.

[Stephannie]

K but tiebreakers could also save me as well... since Flicka and Rebecca shouldn't be afraid of a tie since the tiebreakers are broken by a vote on the other team or something like that.

So Flicka and Rebecca shouldn't be inclined to vote myself just to save themselves because even if there's a tie they'll be fine no matter what, right? Or do I have to go back and read the tiebreaker rules?


Also have to make sure they don't idol the person we're voting for in that scenario as well...

[Stephannie]

WHAT A NIGHT FOR ME TO WORK THE FUCKING MORNING SHIFT TOMORROW.

I need to stay up and answer PM's but I have to wake up in 5.5 hours and go to work.

[Stephannie]

If I'm voted off pre-merge from this tribe I'm going to be so sad :(

And Yau is making me SO MAD because he's replying to all my PM's with 1-line.
He could at least TRY to lie to me in a believable way.

[Stephannie]

Just so rattled right now. Will I even be able to sleep with all the thoughts going through my head about this?

Ugh just so frustrated right now. Hopefully things start looking brighter tomorrow with a new day.

[Stephannie]

I had a dream last night that I formulated a plan and it started working

let's hope that's a sign.

[Vitinho]

let's drink that dream!

[Stephannie]

Just got home from work, and throughout the day I was thinking...

Even if we can't win the "Green vs Pink" war, I can still try to convice the threesome to vote for one of Rebecca or Flicka instead of me.
I'm not going to sail F or R down the river, because from what I've seen they've been really loyal to me.


But if I can get into someone like Liliana's head and make her think I'll be good for her game to keep around, it could buy me a few rounds of safety.

[Stephannie]

Getting along with Rocky... hopefully we can change some things around or something. idk.

We just seem to "click" naturally... but if Flicka and Rebecca find out I'm trying to schmooze Rocky for anything other than looking out for "the group" of us 3 girls as a whole I'm worried they'll lose trust in me and stop protecting me... so I'm being really careful with what I say to Rocky while also trying to be open and build trust between one another.


I also feel like I kind of forgot about the human aspect of the game last night... like if I naturally get along with Rocky, then wouldn't he want to keep me around?
Like... maybe I won't be the "#1 target to go" just based on the tribe ranking alone? (Still though. Apparently Yau already approached R&F with a plan to get rid of me)
'Cause if Flicka and Rebecca keep up their PM habits over on this tribe, then I can't see them being too well-liked by Liliana or Rocky... Yau maybe, but Yau seems even worse than day 1 Flicka at PM's... at least in his PM's to me.

And let me be fair: Flicka has improved A LOT with PM's, and so hopefully we both make it out of this mess together.
And I definitely am SO grateful that she's willing to put the effort into saving me... her and Rebecca both.

But truthfully I feel like if I get voted off, those two are just the next ones to go... I honestly don't think they'd be able to do a strong enough job in PM's to save themselves if I get voted off... unless they get pulled in to help flush Yau's idol or something like that...

but I'm rambling. I'm bringing up stuff that may not even happen and hasn't happened.



So I'm just wondering what I should do...
Because based on how my talk is going right now, I really like Rocky. The 3-2-1 plan I had with Flicka and Rebecca would ideally be used to send Liliana home instead of Rocky now... but hopefully (a) I can convey that to the girls without giving away the fact that I'm getting close to Rocky and ( b ) Yau still agrees to go through with it.


And I'll try to work Rocky... and also hopefully Liliana... (Yau seems like a lost cause at this point) to vote for Flicka or Rebecca if they're going to stick to voting one of us 3 girls...
That way even if the 3-2-1 vote thing doesn't work, it's not my neck on the line.

Also there's the question of... if I build this relationship with Rocky and we start trusting each other... what do I do? What if he says he wants to vote off Liliana?
Then if we do the 3-2-1 plan it would need to be Rocky we're voting for and I don't like that... he's the Mykines member I like the most right now.

And if we do a 3-2-1 and get rid of Liliana while Rocky thinks I'm going to vote out Rebecca or something... that will breach our trust as well.



I mean the plus side is that I no longer feel like I'm "100% going home no matter what" like I did last night... but if I want to get out of this I'm going to have to break the trust of somebody no matter what.
Something I didn't want to do until a little later in the game, but you have to do what you have to do.


Those are my thoughts as of right now...
I don't want to ramble too long.

[Stephannie]

lol look at me being all big-headed and thinking "highest-ranked" automatically meant "most-liked"

...which... I feel like has some to do with it, but Rocky pointed out he viewed it only as usefulness in challenges.
Omg imagine if I'm sitting here all "I'M THE BEST! I'M A THREAT! I'M THE MOST LIKED ON THE TRIBE!" and the whole time it's just been a ranking of challenge strength.


Lol imagine if me thinking "high ranked = most liked" instead of "high ranked = good at challenges" is going to be the thing that actually gets me eliminated.
I mean I've already pretty much confirmed to all 3 Mykines members that I was in a good spot on Svinoy by bringing it up in the first place now... omg can you imagine if they weren't going to view me as a threat but do now because I put the thought in their minds?

[Stephannie]

If Liliana is telling the truth, then if we go to TC we're going to try to group the 5 of us and blindside Yau-Man.

I think it may be smart to split the votes and have two people voting for someone else in case Yau plays his idol... and I feel like nobody really wants to throw a name out there, but I'll do Liliana a favor by offering to help me and let her do Rebecca or something like that.


I think, though, it could definitely be a scheme to get us to waste our votes on Yau.
So I think what I'm going to do is insist that Flicka and Rebecca vote Yau, and Liliana votes Yau.
I'll ask Rocky to vote Rebecca with me since he's the Mykines member I trust the most.

I mean, this is all assuming Rebecca is the "scapegoat" person... Liliana could want it to be Rocky or someone else.
I feel like I'll have to wait and see now...

I mean, hopefully this all works out... I would feel bad putting Rebecca or Flicka as the back-up vote since they seem to have really had my back this whole time, but I really need to keep myself alive these rounds.
"And if she has to go, she has to go, it ain't my name. So I don't care! -Alicia Rosa


One complication is having Flicka and Rebecca go along with the plan...
I don't trust the Mykines enough to both vote Yau, but Flicka, Rebecca and I were so gung-ho about the 3-2-1 vote that they probably don't want to vote for Yau...
Or they'll want to continue with the 3-2-1 and get rid of Liliana instead... which I would feel awful for doing if she's going out on a limb for me.
...or everyone is just lying and it's still me in the crosshairs

I just really hope we don't lose this challenge.

[Stephannie]

I want to tell Flicka and Rebecca about this new plan, but I'm not entirely sure...

Because I know Flicka has been lying to Yau and leading him on that she's going to flip and vote me out... so what if that turns out to not be fake? Then if I tell her info it might get back to Yau.


Maybe I'll wait and see if we lose the challenge tonight.

[Jeff Probst]

I need you to assign one of the seven deadly sins to each of your tribemates. You cannot tell anyone on your tribe that you have done this nor can you reveal to them or hint in any way who you have given which sin. If you do it will result in an auto-penalty

Anger - This is the tribemate who has the lowest temper of anyone on the tribe. They are often volatile, and rarely judge situations fairly.
Envy - This is the tribemate who is the most jealous of other tribemates. They typically have low self esteem and long for the qualities of other tribemates.
Greed - This tribemate has no desire to look out for other's interests. They are the most selfish. They are likely to want the most alliances, yet value them the least.
Gluttony - This castmate is most likely the heaviest outside of the game. They can never eat enough food. They horde the food.
Pride - This tribemate thinks extremely highly of themselves. They believe they are smarter than everyone else on the tribe. They desire to be the best at everything
Lust - This is the tribemate that is most easily seduced by other tribemates. They are more gullible and easily manipulated.
Sloth - This is the laziest of all tribemates. Rarely making appearances unless prompted, they do not go out of their way to help the tribe.

As there are 6 tribemates and 7 sins, on eperson should not be assigned any sin. That is up to your discression as to which.

[Stephannie]

Well I guess having Yau on our team will be useful for once

But the other sins are kind of hard... dunno how much Flicka and Rebecca have talked with our 3 new members... feeling confident on 4/6 but not the last two.
Wondering if tribemates are going to have to guess what I assigned?

Yau-Man - Greed
Flicka - Lust
Rebecca - Sloth
Stephannie - Pride
Rocky - Gluttony
Liliana - Anger

[Stephannie]

YES girl. I like to think I did a good job with these... now time to play the waiting game. Stressful.

Yau and Rebecca are easy... hopefully my insecurities I shared with Rocky and somewhat Liliana tip them off about mine.
Flicka is.... maaaaaybe.

Not so sure about Rocky or Liliana.

[Stephannie]

omg @ having the hardest one first :(

and they have pretty much all the other ones

[Stephannie]

I WAS GOING TO PUT LILIANA AS GLUTTONY BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FATTEST AND CHANGED MY MIND.

omg if I put Rocky Anger we'd be good to go right now. :(