Round #3 - Cool Twist

[zach]

Cool twist

[zach]

But yeah first impressions for the week are positive, even Jackie said she wouldn't nom me had she won HoH (not like I exactly believe her) and now we are in the same clique so she literally CAN'T nom me.


I have talked with Cody a fair amount so I think I'll be ok but I'll obviously keep doing it make doubly sure. Considering I just made an alliance with Becky literally last round I feel like her winning was also mega convenient but I am curious to see what she does. Nat had said she'd probably nom Porsche but that's more of a her thing and selfish. HOPING it doesn't end up coming to that.


Erika being my new DT is sad tho but I feel like it's likely she gets targeted by someone for not talking to them (even though she says people ghost her) so I guess the points wouldn't be too tough.

[zach]

When I got home I ended up taking a bit of a nap after dinner. For me, a nap is probably the equivalent to the amount of time I sleep sometimes (couple hours) and occasionally I do get pretty interesting dreams. It's been a while since I've had an ORG related dream but that literally just happened and I woke up panicking because I just remember Shelli and Porsche being PISSED and going into the house chat where they were blowing up my entire game to people and ratting me out and I just wanted to die. I was SO relieved when I woke up you have no idea lol.

[zach]

Ok sorry for being a flop this round for DRs it's just different not being HoH but still talking to a lot of people about game stuff but not a lot that's worth talking about. There IS however enough that is probably important that I should get into because I feel like I MIGHT be semi-important to the round depending on how it goes. Not necessarily "I'm the swing vote" but I think if I be like "ok i think we need to do this" then it'd happen.



I'm talking primarily about the noms Becky made. Now it's too bad that I talk to both of them a fair amount but that's going to be a thing for probably every group of nominations over the next rest of the game. Both of them have pretty big pros and cons that they offer to my game. Jen is someone who is always going to be a big target and she said that she wants to do a bit of divide and conquer. She doesn't care what people think which is both her greatest strength and greatest weakness, because people find her too blunt and annoying but also if you have her on your side you're gonna be getting a good ally.

With Erika, she is a lot more lowkey. I'm probably one of the few people in the game to talk to her pretty consistently and I feel like she'd be a loyal ally. The thing is she doesn't have the same connections as Jen has which means she wouldn't be as integral of an ally unless she's HoH or something. Plus the fact that she's so lowkey is a problem because the fewer targets the more likely I'll be targeted. Also she is my DT so I get more points if I do vote her out.



TBH, if there were no social repercussions my immediate decision would be to vote Erika out. The reason I'm hesitant is because of this being Becky's HoH. I just made an alliance with her last round and asked her to vote out someone who was my DT so I could get points. I don't want to be a dick and refuse to vote out her target when she was so willing to do it for me. Now granted, I don't think she was exactly close to Tiff OR Jackie so she probably didn't care that much, but had Jen still been on the block she probably would have wanted her out and I THINK had I asked her to vote Tiff instead she would have. So I just don't want to go back on that because I'd feel bad and it'd also make me into a bad ally.

Both Jen and Erika have talked to me about keeping them and so far I've told both of them I would try to. I need to figure out what I want to do quickly before I end up lying to either for too long.



Jun is a pretty big factor in this for me too. She said that neither Erika or Jen really talk to her that much and if that's the case then she probably will just lean the same way as Becky. I expect her to say anything I've mentioned to Becky so I've been careful about how much I've talked about wanting to keep Jen and have moreso been talking about the arguments Jen has been making. Not sure what she wants to do but once we figure it out then we essentially become the deciding votes cuz Jackie is going to vote Jen almost surely and Kelsey and Corey are apparently rly campaigning for Jen. David appears to have spoken more to Jen but may go either way, but if those 3 vote Erika then us 3 vote Jen and Becky breaks the tie and Jen goes. Again, have to figure out what we want to do soon. My own personal best move is Jen staying but idk if it's worth potentially losing trust in Becky as an ally.



As far as the other noms are concerned, I have no idea whats gonna happen. I haven't asked anyone there who they'd rather see go but I would GUESS Ika is the one in trouble. She messaged me today asking if I thought she had a shot and I said that she probably did have an uphill battle. I would rather Michael stay so I'm VERY glad I'm staying out of that vote because that would have been hard to explain to the person I was voting out. I thought Michael would be safe for sure until Jun said something about how she talks to Ika more, so I guess it is possible that's a thing with other people. Just dunno if that'll apply to that group.

But ok I think that's it for now i don't want to be up too much longer so I'll ttyl!!!!

[zach]

To the surprise of no one Cody didn't use the PoV. Now just time to see what Becky plans on doing.

I'm kinda relieved Jen won the PoV but I'm getting more and more worried every day that she's either going to find out I told Shelli and Porsche about her plan or that she's going to rat me out. If I am supposed to be working with her at least I don't need to give a weird reason to Becky or Jun as to why we should keep her.

Becky said that Arlie and Kelsey have been trying to get into her ear. She wants to nom Steve, as do I cuz we hardly talk and it'd make things way more convenient if he left, but also Kelsey wants her to nom Arlie, cuz she's probably close to Steve again, and Arlie wants Porsche nommed something I really don't want because I want Erika to stay in despite being my DT. I really do feel like she'd be a good potential ace in the hole.

I think whoever Becky noms tomorrow gets eliminated, just not sure who yet. I feel bad because Ik she wanted Jen out and Joe she needs to pass off even more people.

[zach]

Also a thing to NOTE, Kelsey was grilling Becky about the vote and said "I know you and Zach are close", which makes the 2nd time she's called out someone I'm close to out of game that I'm aware of. Good to know and keep in mind because I know she's a tricky player and I wouldn't be the least bit shocked if she's telling everyone in the game like she was probably doing with me and Sarah.

Not a good look Kels.

[zach]

Also also Kelsey and Shelli gave the same reason for wanting to keep Erika so I'm gonna need to be on the watch for THAT. Shelli said that she has been talking to her RNF14 peeps so I wouldn't be surprised if they have something going. Also her and Steve but that'd be slightly easier to discern given they did go F2 together.

[zach]

OK I feel a little bit bad but a bunch of stuff happened so heeeeeere we go.



Erika is my DT so I probably should be targeting her, but I talk to her more than Steve so I didn't really want to. Not gonna lie though, I thought I had to vote her all of yesterday and this morning because I thought I was the only one who that applied to. Turns out I was rather wrong!



But I'll get into that in a bit. First of all, like I said Kels went to Becky saying "I know you are Zach are close" and about how I wanted Erika to be saved over Steve. Now at that time I didn't actually say anything about who I was voting for, and when I asked her about it she apparently MISINTERPRETED the fact that I said I liked Erika before anyone was nommed next to her. So that's whatever, then she randomly messaged me a couple hours later asking if I still wanted to vote Erika cuz she "heard differently" and when I asked why she thought that she didn't really elaborate and just talked about how people lie. Ok, once again, very weird, but whatever. At this point Kelsey is making me want to vote Steve MORE< she's just been so aggressive it seems dumb. She is campaigning with no tact and doing her usual thing where she accuses you of something out of nowhere claiming she has proof trying to get you to admit to something that never happened. Jun talked about how she was witch-hunting for alliances all the time in RNF14 and I've seen similar stuff in her previous games.



However before she said anything too dumb, Steve messaged me and asked me about the eviction. Now at the TIME I thought I was voting with him so I told him that I did talk to Erika more but I'll take his word for the fact that he'll be more active next week and how he wouldn't nom me as a part of his HoH. He said he didn't think he'd have my vote and seemed really thankful and that all went really well actually, it made me want to keep him more tbh.



THEN I talked to David and.....he also talks to Erika way more. He wants to vote Steve. I tell him that I didn't think a lot of other people were in that same boat but then after talking to Jun I figured I was wrong/



Jun was spending a lot of today trying to save Erika. She said that she talks to Steve less so like, why not. I also wouldn't be shocked if him nomming Sarah week 1 had anything to do with this (and tbh it crossed my mind too) but that's beside the point. She was talking about how Kelsey went to her about how Arlie, Erika, Natalie, and Becky have an alliance which is total BS and knew that from the start. She's just so sketchy and tbh I wanted to vote for Steve because of her moreso than anything Steve did. Awkward because I promised him already, but I'll need to go back on that cuz idt i really have a choice now. Jackie said she wanted to vote Steve too because of how he probably voted to evict her so that's 4 and that's enough.



Now here is my only qualm about voting Steve. Like I said in an earlier confessional, Shelli is a great ally if you give her everything. She wants Steve to be kept around and is fairly sure that Erika will be a pawn that she can get eliminated next to and she at least has a game relationship with Steve. I want to keep Shelli happy because of the fact that I want to be able to work with her long term, and I think that might end up being impossible this round. If it wasn't for Shelli I would have immediately hopped onto the vote Steve band wagon but I knew I couldn't do that without some consequences. We ended up talking it out and I asked her about her relationship with Steve and she essentially described what I just said as a reason to keep Steve and get rid of Erika. She then asked ME if there are rumors of an S14 alliance. I told her the truth in that I think there WERE (David mentioned being suss to me as did Jun) but then Arlie said he wanted Steve out and he clearly isn't a part of it and Becky more than likely isn't either so IDT anyone is thinking its a thing.

But now that the votes are essentially there I need to figure out how to tell all of Shelli, Kelsey, and Steve that I'm voting to save Erika. Kelsey already got mad at Jun and I'm going to talk to her later but didn't want to do it right away because she was talking to Jun still and still at work. I'm not sure if there's a way to recover too much with Shelli but I hope there is, and there is really nothing I can do other than apologize to Steve.



Also apparently Michael is leaving over Ika so that's sad. She went to me saying that a winners alliance probs isn't happening but that she should still be alive. Howard said that he was keeping her and it seems like Nat and Arlie will too with Cody forcing the tie. I am CONSIDERING talking to Nat about the vote to see if she could save Michael but she already promised Ika she'd keep her so I'm afraid that it's already too late. I just need to keep it on the DL that I wanted Ika out over him because she seems to still be talking to me so far considering I've been relatively open about everything else when she talks about it.

[zach]

"Now I got people saying you told them I said that group to you"

^Kelsey to Jun

Not sure if trying to accuse Jun to get her to admit it

............or Shelli ratted me out to her.

[zach]

Kelsey went to Erika to tell her:

1) i heard about a group that formed but was nervous serious with you becky nat and arlie
2) i mentioned arlie as a replacement nom option during the renom process
3) people were telling me that they wanted you out/becky was targeting you this week to go so i thought okay that means zach is obviously going that way too
4) then zach changes his story after promising Steve safety this morning and that it would be unanimous for him to stay

So I just want to break down each of these individually, get a good idea at what she's saying.

1.

As far as I know, this isn't that far from true. The group supposedly was brought up by Arlie but it never went off the ground according to Becky and Erika. Erika explained that to me and I told her I figured as much.

2.

Completely true, that's what Becky said she said.

3.

This is where I feel like the truth is being a bit run over by her words. She was the one actively campaigning to vote Erika out when Becky was pretty clear that she didn't care either way with what happens. Also idk what she means by zach is "obviously" going this way but whatever I guess. All of David, Jun, Jackie, and I felt like she was strong arming us the whole time and if that many people are saying that then surely there is some truth behind it. Arlie apparently said something to her about her being a bully tho which I don't think was ever a thing.

4.

Ok so I DID obviously change my mind about the Steve thing and I explained to Erika why (I genuinely thought I was the only one who was trying to keep her). Not sure what she means about the unanimous thing tho. THIS was a bit of an addition to that last one tho that I found particular amusement in:

and also zach is the person connected to everyone and playing everyone

Pshhh Kelsey, you're not supposed to KNOW that or say that out loud cuz then I need to eliminate you ASAP

I do think it's a bit of an overstatement tho because I don't think I'm THAT overly connected. I wish I was tbh, but I can still see myself get nommed and eliminated outta the blue. I had some fun with it though and did this:



I am the king of subtlety tbh.




But what I was most worried about leaving the week was losing the trust of Shelli. We had a pretty long talk about everything that happened and I apologized for being a bad ally and she just said she felt dumb for voting Tiff when I asked her too cuz she wanted to keep her. Now I don't think this is QUITE the same situation but I wasn't going to say that lmao. We both agreed we gotta do what's best for out respective games and its hard to be mad about it as long as we're being honest. Also I made sure to clarify I wasn't using the dumb "The majority wants to vote Steve out" excuse cuz that's a dumb reason that I knew she'd see right through. She said she appreciated me clarifying so I think we're good now. HOPING so, I'll always try and be cautious.



Also asked David if he was in an alliance with Jun, him, Porsche, and I. Now #1 what a dope alliance I wish I thought of that and #2 um why is she doing that lol. David never mentioned it to me which is a bit too bad but not like I distrust him for it. Gonna remember that when she keeps talking about wanting to make working both sides work.