Post by marionete on Aug 6, 2018 17:56:17 GMT -5
Oh boy... Post-veto, I officially started playing this game.
I entered the house late, and I knew relationships would already be formed, so I thought maybe someone would approach me to join their alliance, or maybe I could just float my way to mid-game.
Well, thank God I had immunity, because now I think I might have been put on the block that week as well.
So before the veto competition, there were still a few people that I hadn't talked to. Ever. While some approached me to say hi and ask how things were, I didn't make any promises or alliances with anybody. And I thought I might just squeeze by for another week... That was part strategy, part laziness, as I thought of approaching violet to propose an alliance between us, DavidJunior, bottle and TAR21 - we're the RFF OGs, after all.
Too bad I was lazy, because during the veto meeting, I had a gut feeling I would be put on the block. For some reason I just did. The same way I felt I was gonna get picked to play the veto, which I did, but this time the news was bad. I immediately realised that nobody's gonna want to save me without getting to talk to me, so I went to work.
There was only one person, DavidJunior, who immediately told me that he was voting to keep me. He had seen me on RFF quite a bit, and felt more inclined to work with me down the line, rather than Rippizaroni. Then, I got a reply from TAR21 saying he was leaning towards keeping me, so I kinda had 2 votes. But the rest was hard. I made promises left and right, had different people tell me I was too little too late and that they had already made up their minds or made promises to evict me, until one by one, people started considering keeping me. First, Gavin promised to consider changing his vote if I got to 3 guaranteed votes besides him, then Charlie explained that if I don't let anybody know, he will secretly vote to keep me. After that came Cyzoran, who I talke quite a bit of strategy with - he said he's also a floater with no allies, so we're looking forward to forming a tight twosome later on. I think we'll be a very unlikely duo that nobody will suspect (for a while, at least). And finally, I think I got bottle to switch his vote after I let him know I had some votes already, as he thought it would be unanimous to evict me. He was probably the person I had talked to the most before all this, although that doesn't say much.
So anyway, I do feel pretty safe, and I will feel backstabbed and disappointed if I am indeed evicted this week. I even talked to violetb, and she told me she expected a complete meltdown from me, similar to Bourkie's in Week 1. Plus, Rippizaroni never came to campaign to her (strange!), so I got her on my side. However, she told she wants me to help her get TAR21 out next week, which I'm very unsure about. I've generally made too many promises, all the while assuring people I wasn't making that many, so next week might be very tough. I might have to show who's side I'm on, and I'm probably going to have to betray someone that helped me this week. I'll have a lot to think about, but I also have a million options. I could stay loyal to violet, do whatever with Cyzoran, or tell everything to TAR21 and wait for some fireworks. I think that doing the latter would earn me his trust, which would be extremely beneficial, but I just don't know how many people exactly are on violet's side. Gavin seems to be controlling a lot of things behind-the-scenes, so if he's with violet, too, that might just be too much power for me to battle right now.