Week 2

[Flint]

[Flint]

Anyway Kota won Captain!!! This is great news for me because I'm in with Kota so I'm immediately in his ear about Dion, and Dion is going up this week. Hopefully he heads right out the door but knowing my luck he'll haunt me for the rest of my days in this game.

[Flint]

Confessional coming tonight/tomorrow after I'm off work! Sorry I'm a big ol flop right now.

[Flint]

What a whirlwind this week has been so far. It's kind of weird how fast things have kicked off. Nothing of note even happened until tonight, but tonight's events have more than made up for a relatively quiet round from my perspective. 

Let's start from the beginning. That Captain Challenge was over really quickly. My strategy was some weird mixture of putting down what I legitimately felt was the minority, and some reverse psychology bullshit I was playing on myself by double guessing and put down what most people would think the minority was and choosing the opposite (I just read that over immediately after typing it and it makes no sense but I'm leaving it because it accurately portrays my thought process). Needless to say, I didn't do well and I was out on the first question (Dion seriously is way more annoying than Jihee though!)

Kota won Captain, meaning another week of safety for Flint! I know it's a little arrogant of me to complain, but I really just wanted some excitement (plus Zarine should absolutely not be here in my opinion? Is that unfair of me to say, who knows). Seeing Kota win Captain was a joy for me to hear because Kota and I are on pretty good terms, agreeing to look out for each other. I was immediately in his ear about Dion, and much to my delight, he was feeling the same. Of course, Dion is an idiot who decided to insult Kota immediately after he won Captain--who does that btw--and then refusing to plead his case at all. So naturally, Dion was nominated, and I was even more excited to hear that he was the target. Cue about a day and a half of relative stillness and quiet. 

That Cross challenge was brutal. Of course I flopped on it. The way that I saw it, there was ever only gonna be one really awful outcome from it though. As long as Dion didn't win, I figured that he was basically doomed. So of course, I was feeling pretty smug when I saw that Dion didn't do the best. Everything seemed to be falling into place, and Dion was pretty much set to go home. I had been planting seeds as subtly as possible all round about how socially connected he was to essentially anyone that would listen. My nemesis was about to fall in an embarrassing 17th place, I could practically feel it. Nothing could go wrong.

WELL, I WAS WRONG.

Noemi--NOEMI-- of all fucking people won the Golden Cross. At first, I didn't really think that anything was amiss. I figured that Gabrielle was gonna be saved because she seemed to be connected but not to the annoying point that Dion is. Then Orson and Gabrielle both start messaging me and playing that social card. I knew immediately that Dion was gonna get vetoed and I wanted to probably throw something because why do I have to put up with YET ANOTHER week of his particular brand of bullshit? 

The most interesting thing about the fallout of this is Ana, who I have spoken to once before tonight, messaged me and started blabbing all this crap, trying to convince me to keep Gabrielle. At first, I was very confused about this because she was being positively scathing about Kota, calling him brainless and all that. I was wondering why she'd trust me enough to talk so frankly because there's nothing stopping me from telling Kota everything she said about him. I'm not going to though, because I brought up the matter to Cass, who told me that she was basically responsible for getting Ana and I to talk more. I don't mind, because Ana is this cute little mix of humorous and shady. She has a bit of a mouth on her (especially when it comes to Kota, Dion, or Charley), but I have a higher opinion of her than I did before tonight. 

I'm in this weird position with this vote. Gabrielle has made more of an effort before tonight to be social with me, so I feel like it's only right that I reward that. But Orson and I had a pretty nice chat tonight and I came out of it liking him a whole lot. It's weird, because I already agreed with Ana that Gabrielle had to stay (this was weird by the way. Definitely something to keep in mind because she was very adamant about it). But I think I might actually like Orson more. At least he didn't stop replying to me when he needed my vote unlike another nominee who will remain nameless (it's Gabrielle). 

As of right now, I think the vote is gonna be for Orson to go, but it could be split. I'm gonna wait and see how the chips fall before placing myself in any camp. Who knew that Noemi of all people would make all these waves by saving Dion. Of course getting him out wasn't going to be that easy. I should have seen this coming from a mile away.

In addition to all that, I'm happy too announce that I have an alliance!

WHITE RICE

I think this alliance is a little questionably named (I'm the white, they're the rice). Nevertheless, I'm not gonna get all political in an ORG because experience has shown me that it's more exhausting than it's worth. I think I like these two ladies a lot. Jihee was someone who I connected with early, and I've been getting to know Steffy more and more these past few days. Our general goal is to keep ourselves this tight knit and anonymous group of three and spread ourselves out to get as much info as possible and all that. Jihee strikes me as being well connected, as does Steffy. I'm trying to stay in the loop, but not being so tight with people that people notice and want to cut me before the endgame approaches, because that's been my downfall in the past. 

POSSIBLY?

This isn't anything official, but from the vibe I'm getting, Cass is going to propose this really soon. She likes Ana, she likes me. At first, I was apprehensive about Ana, but after tonight I'm feeling a lot better about her. I'm really worried about playing both sides if I let myself get into this alliance. I think it's important to keep my options open. I really need to question who I'm truly loyal to in this game. I'm not used to playing cutthroat. I'm hoping I won't have to. 

TEMP AGENCY

There's, uh, also this. I really don't think Kota is long for this game. If Gabrielle survives this week, I'm pretty sure three people from Command will be out for his blood (Dion/Noemi/Gabrielle). I told him to lay low and hope for the best. Someone I can keep in my back pocket until he outlives his usefulness, I guess. 

And now for the hitlist:

GTFO

Jordan and Zarine suck, as does Apollo. Such nothings and a drag on the game, tbh. Charley is someone who never reaches out to me and actively ignores me, so he can go at any time. Dion and Noemi are likely tight and completely ruined any plans that I had this week. Ideally they're both up next week, but I'm unsure how I can get that to happen without doing it myself, and I don't want to draw first blood. Not yet, at least. 

I think that covers everything though. I'm trying to lay low, and so far I think it's working. I think with the amount of flops that are in the game right now, it'll be easy to coast to the opportune moment to make my move. I gotta work on that challenge game though. Feeling pretty weak in that aspect at the moment.