But damn, mad props to Candice for that move, she's certainly winning if she makes it to the end. I think she got Penner to flip?
Nate I just want to clarify this. Actually, I figured I was fucked as you are well aware. My main deal was I'd vote Stacy since I knew Penner felt no connection to her and I thought it would be easy to get Rebecca to do this too if need be.
Penner and I talked a lot about the vote and how could it not be a choice between me and Stacy because I think he worried about me not being able to argue myself out of the situation and I think he was already planning on voting me out within the next 2 rounds anyways. This is not a real shock, you knew I was just trying to get one more round at that point in the game.
But Penner has quite the ego. I hope everybody realizes that by now. It's not overpowering but it does drive him. As Cass stated in one of these threads, he'd come in and pontificate and tell us the deal and it was something we had already discussed, determined and moved past a day before he got to it. But his ego made him tell us about what he had figured out.
So when I started talking about Nate really setting himself up in a great position and Jessica and Stacy both seeing how strong his end-game was going to be, he said maybe I'll just push for Nate with Rebecca and Stacy and see if I can get Rocky on board. NO WAY did I think Rocky would get on board. And I could not talk to Rocky about it. It would not have even made sense for me to approach Rocky with that. I did not have a good enough relationship with him and it would have been so forced feeling.
So I simply encourage Penner by playing to his ego to do it. I started talking to Penner at that point on as if I was already a jury member because hell I knew I was going to be one. So I told him how it would play to the jury if he orchestrated a Nate boot. And I just let him and his ego take over from there. He actively worked against you the rest of the round. I just confirmed it with Stacy. And then when Rebecca came on and said she too wanted a Nate boot and gave her game reasons why, and they lined up with everything I had already talked to Penner about, I knew it was a done deal.
But I did not really orchestrate this. I want you to consider what Penner did and Stacy actually in regard to this.
The only thing I did was really play to Penner at the very end that Rebecca might have prevoted Nate and how could he leave her hanging out to dry like that when he was such a good friend to her and someone she had connected with the whole game. (Rocky would not budge and Penner said we might just have to vote Stacy, which was NOT going to fly with me LOL.) But ultimately Penner said "Fuck it! I can't keep asking permission to vote who I want out. I just have to take the game by the balls.
So I think this is something Rebecca and Stacy and I certainly wanted. But Penner did a lot to try to make sure that vote actually did happen that round.
