Confessional

[Elyse Umemoto]

I'll post my thoughts in here later, and give you a better breakdown (although I don't have much to work with, some people are boring )

I will say though, I have a hard time believing both Cochran and Semhar have had virus troubles. I COULD be wrong, but my money is on Cochran having it, and Semhar using it as an excuse to cover herself. Not that I blame them it is the holidays but still. We have to vote somebody out and one of them (hopefully) needs to go.

[Elyse Umemoto]

Alrighty, so where to begin.

Well we lost our first challenge, and to be honest, I was surprised it took so long, the other tribe seemed to have their shit together. Cochran and Semhar slowed us down, but as I mentioned before, I believed Cochran's story more then Semhar. I mean a virus, the exact same excuse the other person used? The thing with it is, Cochran atleast has been on more ever since he got a new computer to use, but Semhar has just been on as much as she used to, so personally I feel like she was just using it as an excuse.

Anyways, I'm glad Semhar is gone. Something about her was off to me. I don't know what but just something didn't fit. I don't think I would have gotten along with her or been able to work with her either. She did message me at 4 am and say I'm part of the minority and there is a pre-game alliance, which, if it's true worries me because I don't know a single person in this game. However, it could just be her being bitter because she knew she was going. I mean was she really that oblivious to the fact that she was one of two people who held us up in the challenge? I will say, that vote for Papa Bear was out of nowhere but other then that, it was all good from the looks of it.

However, I will have to keep my ears and eyes open to the potential idea of a pre-game alliance on this tribe. To be honest, something does worry me. Ozzy is hardest person to talk to. I've tried on a few occasions to start a convo with him and it's always been one word responses and delayed responses. I mean I get it if he's busy here and there, just let me know. But to give one word responses and not keeping the conversation flowing, just makes him look bad and does make me worry he's probably already solidified in an alliance from before hand. I hope I'm wrong. Regardless of if I'm right or wrong though, if I get the opportunity to, I will try to get his ass voted out because I can't go with somebody like that.

I haven't had the chance to talk with Keith or Dawn as of yet. I've messaged Whitney before the vote but she hasn't been on since so they are all wild cards for me as of yet.

Before I voted I took the liberty to let John know I wasn't voting for him and we've seemed to kick it off since. I think we can work well together and he seems (so far) like somebody I can work with well into the game so I am going to keep working on that angle. Papa Bear is also somebody I think I could work well with, he messaged me and we seem to be on similar wave lengths so if I can get a bigger alliance formed with John, Papa Bear and another person or two we could be set for a while, atleast before merge. Jim is nice but he seems a little aloof, and not just because he self voted (it was christmas eve so its understandable) but just from our limited conversations. I get the feeling he hasn't really been talking with others because he messaged me this morning around 9 am and had no idea about the vote, so that shows me he hasn't talked with others and vice versa, meaning it's only me he's talked with which could work in my favor for now.

So we'll see how things go, I hope I can capitalize on some leads and build a solid alliance to get to the merge and then depending on the situation I find myself at merge (if I make it) take it from there.

[Elyse Umemoto]

NOW this shit is getting interesting. I'll fill you in tomorrow once it's all sorted out.

If it works out, you can thank me for orchestrating this QUICK turn around and the guy who thinks he's running this tribe. If not, wel, I tried and these people would be dumb to follow around like sheep. I knew there was something off about Ozzy. Now I need to get to work and vote him out, just need to butter some people up!

[Elyse Umemoto]

This is going to be soooooo risky but so beautiful if it works!!!!!!!! ;D

[Elyse Umemoto]

Well this could not have gone any better! We didn't even need to leave it to a tie! I wonder who voted for Cochran, they just gave us a huge lift. Guessing here, but maybe it was Whitney with a boot list vote? I don't know, I guess we'll find out in time.

Anyways, Ozzy thinks he was running the tribe. Wanted P Bear out. He messaged Jim and John and asked them to join him Keith and Whitney. Myself, and Dawn did not get such a message, meaning if P Bear went, I would be next, or Dawn. So it was a stroke of good luck on my part and bad strategy on Ozzy's to exclude me and Dawn. I wasn't going to just sit there and let him pick me off sooner or later, besides I liked P Bear much more then Ozzy. I feel like Ozzy doesn't care when he talks on AIM, he's so out of the conversation and gives one worded answers its not even funny, and I told you I had a bad feeling about him, I was right.

Anyways, I scrambled around a little, got a feeling. Obviously P Bear would agree with anything I said because it was to save him. Cochran is nice, and we got talking. He prefers sticking with P Bear and myself over Ozzy, so me and him plotted a lot last night. Dawn was on the outs so she messaged me, we talked later and I ran the plan by her and she agreed. We had 4 for a tie, needed a 5th. We thought Jim would be that person, but we're better off talking to a freaking stick then Jim, god, I can't even say anything else because I have nothing nice to say.

Me and Cochran knew Jim was a lost cause so we had to improvise. At first we thought, why not turn the tables on Jim and try to get Ozzy to vote him out by saying Jim came to us to backdoor Ozzy. Risky so we didn't. Then we thought, why not vote Ozzy and hope Jim votes with us. Again, relying on Jim was not going to be a smart idea so no.

Last plan, Cochran thought, if we do go to a tiebreaker, why leave Ozzy immune?

So we decided, let's vote for Keith, force a tie. If Jim, Whit or even Ozzy do not flip and change their vote, then we go to the rocks. The thinking here was, they have a lot more to lose then us. If P Bear went, I was going to be soon next anyways. Why not gamble? So all 4 of us (me, Cochran, P Bear and Dawn agreed, risk it and try to gain power on this tribe).

If it went to rocks, they had the same chance as us to be purple rocked, and Ozzy and Jim being vulnerable, they might have been scared to force another tie anyways.

Anyways, we were willing to risk it all, because even if it didn't work in our favor, we had redemption. We were on the outs and this move would have given us outsiders power. They had everything to lose, and well, whoever voted Cochran really helped us out, we didn't even need a tie!

Next up, I am coming for Ozzy!

[Elyse Umemoto]

Well, as much as I want Ozzy out, after this defeat, we have no option, but to stay strong. Ozzy, as much as he's not liked, is active and good in challenges so he's spared... for now. Easy round though, hopefully. Hate that we lost, freaking Rick! and god, Edna and Stacey are annoying as hell!