Post by liz on Jun 30, 2016 18:46:50 GMT
yay, i made it to week 5! so exciting. i'm going all out for this hoh because i really cannot tell if i need it or not. i know that naeha is going to be coming for howard, and right now i need howard. and i bet naeha will go for this hoh, she is so good at comps in general i'm sure she can be focused on endurance. i just need a SLASH member or myself to be first HOH so we can do whatever we need to do to stay hoh.
arlie was kinda upset about this comp being endurance, saying there's no way he can win it because he has a life. like okay arlie, way to be preemptively shady to someone who can do well in endurance. it's suchhhhh a shitty excuse for not doing endurance well if you want that key. like, you sign up for this game, you know endurances happen. plus, it's every five minutes, not even that busy. i went to the gym, went to the store, showered, and made/ate lunch all while posting every 5 minutes. you make some sacrifices here and there but if you're careful and use your phone, you can still do stuff while doing the endurance. (lol, apparently not typing a DR, as i messed up typing this one.) idk. i understand it would be mostly impossible if you worked, but if you have any days off between now and saturday (start friday night) then you COULD do it. idk. i don't care to hear how arlie is too ~busy~ for this specific HOH when he spends a couple hours on AIM every day. it's just a shit excuse IMO and if you want HOH you'll figure it out.
rant over, time for a cast assessment. going by order of loyalty...
blonde windows. shelli is definitely my ride or die in this game. we have had a f2 alliance from the first week and have always been on the same page, venting to each other, and talking things through. she keeps reassuring me she is good at some comps and will win one eventually, and i hope she does lol. especailly when we get down to the wire, i am gonna need her to be able to win stuff. but for now, having someone i can be completely open with is priceless to me and i loveeee shelli.
the targettes. howard is bae. i fucking love this guy. we have great convos and definitely understand each other on a game level. we are great at comps and we decided rather than let people pit us against each other, we are going to run this game and go to the end together. i am slightly more loyal to shelli but only because i was aligned with her first. i doubt i'll ever have to decide between the two of them so i'm not gonna stress about it. however, there are some layers to my relationship with howard. for one, he is a great shield. i think he is slightly better at comps than i am (though i did beat him on honey and puzzle) and he's definitely more abrasive. people have mentioned that he can be a little outspoken. so in that regard, he is a good shield. but there's definitely a negative aspect of him being slightly better than me at comps. if people want to weaken howard, and he wins veto, i'm looking real good to be taken out in his place. i mean, i'm not so bad at comps either this game. so like, making sure that people don't want to take me out as a means to weaken howard is super important for my game and my alliance with him. i especially need to work on people like naeha, or get her out.
i really like steve. we have great conversations and while he is maybe a little more forward about what exactly we need to do each week, it's nice to have someone that will say it. like last night he was immediately saying that naeha has to go. so in that regard, great! he also has had some good showings in comps despite never winning, so that's good to have on my side for now. i think him and i really do get along very well. i'm in two alliances with him so we are going to be working together deep into the game. right now, i don't think i need to be doing anything different with steve. we trust each other and we're going to continue moving forward together. i'm not worried about him.
i go back and forth on becky, but clearly she's up here. i told her howard was using the veto on me to keep her close. plus, she knows about the SLASH alliance. she has a lot of information and connections in the game, and it scares me. but she does seem loyal to steve's angels. i am always sure to have good one on one conversations with her, because i'm not sure others always do. for example, shelli told me she doesn't talk to becky a lot. so i need becky to see me as useful to her game as the weeks come. but for now i trust her, she was even willing to vote out naeha last night. i also need to watch how close she is to arlie.
arlie is also someone i like quite a bit. he bothers me at times but never too much. he's friendly and pretty trustworthy, seems loyal to SLASH. I would guess his top allies are becky and howard, both he and becky have mentioned to me that they're close in weirdly obvious ways. i do think that down the line, arlie could cut me as a way to get howard to himself, or weaken howard's other options. but also, last night, arlie mentioned that me, him, shelli, and becky should create an alliance to pull becky into the SLASH alliance. of course i didn't tell him about steve's angels, but i do plan on telling howard that he did that. not in like a "we need to get arlie out" way, but in a way that it makes howard trust me more than arlie. i am loyal to arlie as long as i'm loyal to SLASH, but he's the one that makes me most wary in SLASH.
i reallyyyyyyy like kathy, but i can't help but be hesitant to completely trust her. i think she is loyal to ESPN, more so than kelsey, but i think she must have other things going on. she's pretty active, good at comps, and a smartie. she must have another alliance? i just can't shake the feeling that she does. it will be personally tough, and hard to justify, cutting her if/when i have to, but i am ultimately loyal to SLASH/Angels. i do want to keep kathy close so that when she goes for people in SLASH, she doesn't come for me. but that's tough to balance because i have 8 allies of the 11 other people left
libra is tough. i think she's actually pretty loyal to me, but she's hard to balance. part of the problem is that howard and i have this final 3 alliance with her, yet we can only tell her so much because she doesn't know about SLASH. i think that if she were to go soon i wouldn't care too much. she has even told me out right i seem hesitant to talk game with her. so i try to be veryyyy open with her when i do talk game with her, but really i can only tell her so much. and it doesn't help that she and shelli would nominate each other lol. but for now, if she wins HOH, i'm good with her over a lot of people, so i don't see myself going after her. she is just kind of a wildcard that i happen to be aligned with.
definitely the ally that i have that i trust the least. i can just tell the way we talk, we don't fully trust each other. she is one of my favorite people on a personal level, but we don't really talk game outside of the ESPN chat, which has a very basic strategy of "get all 4 of us to the next week." i am so glad that naeha quit before kelsey and i started talking about the vote, because i know she would have tried to protect naeha (and i don't blame her). but it would have shown that i am aligned with people that want to evict naeha over someone semi-active. it's stressful. and we haven't even talked about the fact that howard vetoed me. i need to run some relationship control with kelsey, though winning HOH this week and not nominating her would definitely help. sooo let's start there, maybe.
i do like cassandra, although she's a little annoying. i can't always tell if she's nice to me and tells me i'm one of her faves because i can win and she can't, or because she genuinely likes me. either way, i like her for the most part. she is terribleee at comps though, so i could see myself nominating her this week as a means to stay HOH. it kinda sucks but i would probably try to convince her to agree to go up as a pawn or something. idk. it's scary to nominate lol but i want to protect my alliance. it will hurt my relationship with cass, but i don't trust everyone to keep me and howard safe anymore. not after last week. anyway, cass is fine, but her weakness in comps is probably going to get her nominated this last week of botb.
oh, naeha. clearly a great player, but a huge threat. and everyone kind of knows it, and she hasn't made quite good enough social connections to keep her here over nick. i think she just comes across as very smart and collected and it scares people. i kind of like the idea of keeping her in for her rivalry with howard and the general target that she has, but i am worried that if she swings and misses at howard, she'll come for me next. so that's why i'm not completely willing to use naeha as a shield. though she is probably low on allies at this point and being nice to her could go a long way.
i really didn't expect james to make it this far, but i guess that's what happens when you win a competition every week. good for him! i could see him being last juror but he might slip by. he has won 2 luck comps so i don't think people are super threatened by him even still. i really just have to continue to use him as a nomination until he leaves, because it creates one less enemy and i still don't think he trusts me, even though we had some good conversations last week. doesn't look like i'm winning this HOH though so oh well.
