Post by Mark "Papa Bear" Caruso on Jan 11, 2013 15:41:44 GMT -5
Alright. Lots to talk about yet again....
- Well, yet again, we lost the challenge. It seems like my time on Savaii has been characterized by heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak. Even some of our wins didn't come on our merit. Let's face it. In challenge strength and especially in dedication to the game, the Upolu tribe has blown us out of the water. If many of the challenges after merge involve posting, we're going to have trouble. My best bet is to hope for lots of puzzles and luck-based challenges. Otherwise, I may never win an individual immunity.
- Last night, Dawn revealed to me first and then the rest of the tribe that she received the hidden immunity idol. I cannot tell you what kind of relief and excitement I felt when she broke the news. If anyone deserves it, it's definitely Dawn. She has been my favorite ally in the game so far, and because she is such a humble person, she pretty much explained to the rest of the tribe later that she wanted to use it as a means of blindsiding Upolu and furthering the Savaii cause. Her selflessness is remarkable to me, and I hope we are able to successfully use it to our advantage. After she told me, Cochran, and Elyse, we finished off the evening by doing quite a bit of strategizing about how we plan to approach the merge. Obviously our backs are up against the wall because we are so behind in numbers, so we're going to have to take anything we can get. It could get interesting.
- At tribal council, Whitney once again played the victim. Now I realize I nag a lot in my confessionals, but it's only because I know it's only being seen and written in the privacy of my own confessional. She is really starting to get under my skin with all of that nonsense though. It's like she is trying to make us feel bad for the bad decision she made some four or five rounds ago. I would've been happy to let it go, but the fact that she continues to cling to it makes it abundantly clear that she not only feels like an outsider in the group but also that she wishes things would've happened differently way back then. To me, my questioning of her sincerity is legitimate. I think she's lucky we have carried her along so far, and I have no doubts she will continue to sulk to the other tribe when the merge finally arrives. She's too emotional for me, but nonetheless I sent her a message that more or less apologized for any wrong doing we have done to her and made it clear that I wanted to keep in touch better in the days to come. Now the ball is in her court. I have been the first to message her every single time now, so she can finally do some work herself and attempt to contact me.
- And I saved the best for last. Elyse has asked the tribe to vote her out in an attempt to help our tribe out come merge. Get this. Her plan is to go to Redemption Island and then come back and essentially talk shit about us to the other tribe, who will think we ruthlessly blindsided her. You have got to be kidding me, right?! She wants us to take the fall and look like bad people, so that she can hopefully come back and gain leverage with the other tribe. This is not okay with me at all. I think it's clear that her rationale is not because she is some hero that wants to look out for the tribe but rather she knows when we merge that she is the biggest threat and probably first target for Upolu, so she needs something that will make her look like the victim. One only has to read my last few confessionals to realize that I have felt somewhat threatened by Elyse for a little while now, but this tops it all. I think she has a lot of audacity and apparently selfishness, too. And it makes me wonder, too, if she is close with Whitney, because as of last night, we had a solid plan within our four person alliance to take out Whitney this time. Regardless, my plan is to follow through with this little scheme. But there is a bit of a catch. I plan on print-screening and saving the message she posted for all of us in the tribe camp in case I need it later down the road. But additionally, I am following through with this because I am eager to jump on any plan that votes Elyse out. As far as I'm concerned, I am a huge Christine or Ozzy fan when she goes to Redemption Island. Potentially taking Elyse out before the merge is probably the best thing that could happen for me. I haven't been a fan of Elyse for a hot minute now, and this plan to make Cochran, Dawn, and I look like the bad guys only fuels that fire. I hope she is out of here soon.
That's all for now I suppose. I'm really anxious to see how the next couple days of the game play out.
Papa Bear
- Well, yet again, we lost the challenge. It seems like my time on Savaii has been characterized by heartbreak after heartbreak after heartbreak. Even some of our wins didn't come on our merit. Let's face it. In challenge strength and especially in dedication to the game, the Upolu tribe has blown us out of the water. If many of the challenges after merge involve posting, we're going to have trouble. My best bet is to hope for lots of puzzles and luck-based challenges. Otherwise, I may never win an individual immunity.
- Last night, Dawn revealed to me first and then the rest of the tribe that she received the hidden immunity idol. I cannot tell you what kind of relief and excitement I felt when she broke the news. If anyone deserves it, it's definitely Dawn. She has been my favorite ally in the game so far, and because she is such a humble person, she pretty much explained to the rest of the tribe later that she wanted to use it as a means of blindsiding Upolu and furthering the Savaii cause. Her selflessness is remarkable to me, and I hope we are able to successfully use it to our advantage. After she told me, Cochran, and Elyse, we finished off the evening by doing quite a bit of strategizing about how we plan to approach the merge. Obviously our backs are up against the wall because we are so behind in numbers, so we're going to have to take anything we can get. It could get interesting.
- At tribal council, Whitney once again played the victim. Now I realize I nag a lot in my confessionals, but it's only because I know it's only being seen and written in the privacy of my own confessional. She is really starting to get under my skin with all of that nonsense though. It's like she is trying to make us feel bad for the bad decision she made some four or five rounds ago. I would've been happy to let it go, but the fact that she continues to cling to it makes it abundantly clear that she not only feels like an outsider in the group but also that she wishes things would've happened differently way back then. To me, my questioning of her sincerity is legitimate. I think she's lucky we have carried her along so far, and I have no doubts she will continue to sulk to the other tribe when the merge finally arrives. She's too emotional for me, but nonetheless I sent her a message that more or less apologized for any wrong doing we have done to her and made it clear that I wanted to keep in touch better in the days to come. Now the ball is in her court. I have been the first to message her every single time now, so she can finally do some work herself and attempt to contact me.
- And I saved the best for last. Elyse has asked the tribe to vote her out in an attempt to help our tribe out come merge. Get this. Her plan is to go to Redemption Island and then come back and essentially talk shit about us to the other tribe, who will think we ruthlessly blindsided her. You have got to be kidding me, right?! She wants us to take the fall and look like bad people, so that she can hopefully come back and gain leverage with the other tribe. This is not okay with me at all. I think it's clear that her rationale is not because she is some hero that wants to look out for the tribe but rather she knows when we merge that she is the biggest threat and probably first target for Upolu, so she needs something that will make her look like the victim. One only has to read my last few confessionals to realize that I have felt somewhat threatened by Elyse for a little while now, but this tops it all. I think she has a lot of audacity and apparently selfishness, too. And it makes me wonder, too, if she is close with Whitney, because as of last night, we had a solid plan within our four person alliance to take out Whitney this time. Regardless, my plan is to follow through with this little scheme. But there is a bit of a catch. I plan on print-screening and saving the message she posted for all of us in the tribe camp in case I need it later down the road. But additionally, I am following through with this because I am eager to jump on any plan that votes Elyse out. As far as I'm concerned, I am a huge Christine or Ozzy fan when she goes to Redemption Island. Potentially taking Elyse out before the merge is probably the best thing that could happen for me. I haven't been a fan of Elyse for a hot minute now, and this plan to make Cochran, Dawn, and I look like the bad guys only fuels that fire. I hope she is out of here soon.
That's all for now I suppose. I'm really anxious to see how the next couple days of the game play out.
Papa Bear