Post by Erik R. on Sept 4, 2015 20:35:41 GMT
Well shoot. This first challenge was brutal. It basically ends up with one person being the sole reason why their tribe lost, which can be really rough for a first challenge, and today, that person was me. I set my alarm to wake up for my throw at 4:45 and the next thing i know, it's 7:45 and I'm seeing my Survivor life flash before my eyes.
But alas, Survivor is a social game, and before this challenge, I was playing it well. I think I've had a good thing going with Sean and Dave, so as soon as things went awry with the challenge, I started hoping that I could at least fall back on those guys and hope for a tie at the very least.
And then, lo and behold, Lil comes to me today and says "hey, between you and me, i would rather flip the vote against eliza rather than you." OK! Sounds good to me! I mean, i was gonna probably try to swing my alliance against Eliza or Greg anyways, so I'm totally down if Lil wants to be our fourth.
And sure enough, we (I...) lost the challenge, by a considerable margin. so we're headed to tribal. I reached out to Sean and Dave to see if they're still on board with the Eliza plan, but they haven't gotten back to me quite yet, so now we wait. Lil told me that she has Eliza believing that I'm headed home, but supposedly "we're all voting Eliza out". Now, I would love to just rest easy believing this to be true, but coming from Lil...I don't know. She's not really a core member of the tribe, and I feel like at least one of the group of Sean, Dave, or Greg could be putting her on and telling her what she wants to hear. But, if alliances hold true, then that's at least 4 votes, plus maybe Greg, against Eliza, which will work just fine for me. Hopefully my original alliance with Dave and Sean holds true, but if not, then, fingers crossed, I can at least get 2 of the 4 votes that I've heard are going towards Eliza and at least get a tie to fight another day. Lil wants to get a Me-Lil-Dave thing going so, if the core 4 of me, Dave, Sean, and maybe Lil can stick together, we could do some damage post-swap.
But, I won't feel safe til my head is resting on hard bamboo tomorrow night. So we'll see what happens.
But alas, Survivor is a social game, and before this challenge, I was playing it well. I think I've had a good thing going with Sean and Dave, so as soon as things went awry with the challenge, I started hoping that I could at least fall back on those guys and hope for a tie at the very least.
And then, lo and behold, Lil comes to me today and says "hey, between you and me, i would rather flip the vote against eliza rather than you." OK! Sounds good to me! I mean, i was gonna probably try to swing my alliance against Eliza or Greg anyways, so I'm totally down if Lil wants to be our fourth.
And sure enough, we (I...) lost the challenge, by a considerable margin. so we're headed to tribal. I reached out to Sean and Dave to see if they're still on board with the Eliza plan, but they haven't gotten back to me quite yet, so now we wait. Lil told me that she has Eliza believing that I'm headed home, but supposedly "we're all voting Eliza out". Now, I would love to just rest easy believing this to be true, but coming from Lil...I don't know. She's not really a core member of the tribe, and I feel like at least one of the group of Sean, Dave, or Greg could be putting her on and telling her what she wants to hear. But, if alliances hold true, then that's at least 4 votes, plus maybe Greg, against Eliza, which will work just fine for me. Hopefully my original alliance with Dave and Sean holds true, but if not, then, fingers crossed, I can at least get 2 of the 4 votes that I've heard are going towards Eliza and at least get a tie to fight another day. Lil wants to get a Me-Lil-Dave thing going so, if the core 4 of me, Dave, Sean, and maybe Lil can stick together, we could do some damage post-swap.
But, I won't feel safe til my head is resting on hard bamboo tomorrow night. So we'll see what happens.