Episode 3: I Hate Olives

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Well, it's Week 3, and this game is moving right along. I still feel pretty safe and unless the stupid fans trade me to their tribe, I should be fine if I go to a Tribal Council. Never know though! I find it hard being social in this game because I already haaaaaave my alliance of what I consider Myself, Alex, Robbie, Brittany, and Lorii/Joey as Satellites because I and my alliance love them both, and it's hard to get to know others when you cant be like "Omg let's go far together I love you!!". No, I plan to vote them off soon or eventually.....dat sucks. I still have yet to get to know a lot of the fans and it's getting a bit late for that, but I don't really know what to do. None of them interest me as much as the people I'm already aligned with . Caitlin could be cool, but meh. Anyway, I really need to consider this crazy plan I have going on! I am waiting to see if we win this immunity challenge because if we DO, then Olyvia might be sticking around, but if we do not win it, I am afraid Olyvia will definitely be a target and maybe get the boot unless people can convince the others to go after Alyssa instead, which I would be against (even if she's shown no desire to play hard in this challenge which is HIGHLY disappointing. I wanted Alyssa to prove she could play without Zack...). I still have Kirin as well who I don't even know what to do with because I think she is really loyal to me and I absolutely adore Kirin, so how could I ever vote her out? Lol. I have a super hard time backstabbing people that I believe to be totally loyal to me and unfortunately there are quite a few of those this game. It makes it hard. I'll make those decisions if and when I ever have to though.

Anyway, I missed the beginning of the challenge again. Whatever....no use in making myself out to be a threat now and to be honest I would almost rather lose. Then I have guarenteed safety...if we go to TC I should be fine, and if they steal me I will obviously have immunity with them, even though it would suck after that. BUT I do need to keep appearances within my own tribe and at least seem like a middle-of-the-road contributor so that my lack of challenge helping doesn't make me a target . Plus, I want my tribe to win so I can try this plan with Olyvia. I havn't made any crazy alliances in a while and that makes me sad. Complacency is never a good thing and I need to keep on my toes and keep the gameplay flowing.

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Oh btw, I think I just tricked the other tribe into giving up for the night when they could have gotten like a bazillion points while we all slept. WOOT! I noticed the fans seem to think that one of their tribe members CAN post twice in a row as long as one of our tribe members gets a point between their posts. WRONG! I'm pretty sure you have to alternate whoever is getting points on your tribe no matter what. Well....I got the last point for my tribe at 5:15. Evan got one at 5:30. I decided to try and get the 5:45 one for shits and giggles (I was by myself and my tribe went to bed). I was first to get it with Caitlin close behind. I didn't think she'd actually delete hers thinking I got it, but then SHE DID!!! Hehehe. Then she signed off...probably gave up.

Unfortunately Tucker JUST posted so they havn't given up, but I'm going to try again at 6:15 and see if I can trick them into throwing away another point...

>=D

Who said I couldn't compete by myself?

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SOOOOOO......Today we had our first giant dramafest!!! Woohoo!!! It's been a little boring around the Illyvia camp what with us winning everything and all. But, even with winning the super hard challenge, our tribe manages to fall apart completely. And it is all in thanks to Sandy's evil twist. I must say, I do LOVE this twist for entertainment value. It is certainly making people shit bricks and adds another perspective to this game. Lemme break down what happened...

After it became apparent that we were winning the challenge, of course, we began talking about who the fuck do we take from the Fan tribe? No one wanted to pick someone that would pick them to switch, obviously, so everyone has their own little agenda. Alyssa tells me so and so would pick her, Robbie claims so and so wants his head on a silver platter, I didn't really care. I, again, wanted to go with the least objectionable person, and that was Syafiq. So he got my vote right away and most others seemed to agree. Then....Robbie starts freaking out. He seems to believe that if we pick Syafiq, the others will certainly convince Syafiq to choose him to leave. The only solution, therefore would be to pick EVAN who guaranteed Robbie he wouldn't pick him since Robbie and Evan were friends, thus screwing someone else over instead and saving Robbie. Robbie did see this as somewhat of a problem and initially said he didn't want to name who he wanted to steal, but it became apparent that was more of a facade he was making because after mentioning Evan he seemed to push quite hard for us to listen to him.

Now, for some background, Robbie had been pretty against Alyssa and Zack from the start. Round 1, Alyssa wanted Robbie GONE and he wanted them gone. Definite enemies! And Robbie had been complaining about Alyssa a lot. So when she started talking in the chat after we won and he worked so hard, he just kinda lost it. All of a sudden, Alyssa and Robbie are just bitchin each other out hardcore and I'm like "...*gets popcorn*". Alyssa asks me to back her up and I didn't really want to do that, I wanted to mediate, which is what I TRIED to do. I tried to point out that Syafiq was least objectionable and that Robbie couldn't really ask people to pick Evan (which he claimed he wasn't doing) but then he like freaked out! I felt like he was taking it super personally and yelling at me and insinuating all these things and it just wasn't a good moment. He implied that he had the worst odds of surviving on the other tribe. UMM. I'm a winner plus I'm amazing plus I have no relationship with like any fans!!! Hello. A lot of people on our tribe would be screwed if we went there. But Robbie was making it all about himself and IMO thinking very selfishly which was a side of him I was not such a fan of. He said that Syafiq was a good pick for me?? Lmao. I have never spoken to him, I have no idea who he'd pick, so I thought that was the fairest thing to do. I wasn't gonna pick Evan and have him screw over Alex or anyone else. If the other tribe wanted Robbie...well....that's unfortunate. But it's not our fault and asking someone else to take the fall for it just isn't gonna go so smoothly.

Anyway.....eventually we all decide on Syafiq. Robbie eventually goes with it but he is not happy or feeling safe about it obviously. THEN....some more shit comes out.

Now, I'm still confused about what happened here. I didn't pay that much attention to it because I was mostly just laughing and enjoying my popcorn. But apparently Robbie was having Olyvia do some covert work on her old tribe...trying to figure out who they would take, keep them from taking him, I don't really know. But Olyvia talked to, of all people, JASON (her supposed ally) about stealing Alyssa or Lorii. Little does she know Jason and Alyssa are super close, so of course, Jason runs to Alyssa with this info and Alyssa knows Robbie is a snake. She confronts Robbie and Robbie throws Olyvia under the bus. SO....then Alyssa (as I'm encouraging her) calls Olyvia out in chat.....

Can someone say.....


MREOW!!!! CATFIGHT!!!





It was quite enjoyable . Lorii and Alyssa teamed up and called out Olyvia for being a MOLE and giving information to the other tribe! Robbie jumps right on the bandwagon and is selling Olyvia out! It's MADNESS! I don't even know who was lying and selling out who, but either way, I do know that after this whole tirade, Alyssa went to Jason and asked him to get Syafiq to send Robbie to the Zeta tribe, which Syafiq did because apparently he worships Jason or something. It's possible Robbie actually screwed himself by freaking out so much, but we'll never know if they woulda taken him anyways. Definitely could have.

After the whole thing, I went to Olyvia and consoled her. She said she was crying and really upset. Were they crocodile tears? Perhaps. But I lapped them up regardless and told her I was there for her. Which, for the time being, I am. There are other fish to fry and I believe Olyvia will be useful to Alex and I.

Anyway, Robbie sent over to the other tribe. He LOSES the immunity challenge which, I will admit, seemed ridiculously difficult to the point of impossibility at some parts. But anyway, Robbie is LIVID. He threatens to quit iSurv1vor for like the 3rd time and quite frankly I'm just tired of it. Why is that always something he resorts to? Quit is not in my vocabulary.

Anyway, don't get me wrong, I like Robbie, but the way he handled himself tonight just didn't sit that well with me. I feel terrible for the guy. He worked super hard on the immunity challenge only to be the only one without immunity and possibly going home. He has a right to be pissed. But I think Robbie is taking this game a wee bit too seriously. He's letting it severly cloud his judgment and it's turning him into sorta a crazy person. He was acting very selfishly today and I mean, like Britt and I were saying, if it was one of us being targeted and sent over to the other tribe, I would have accepted it and kept trucking! It's called a twist for a reason, it's supposed to mix the game up, and before today our alliance was on top. The best you can do is accept the twist and make the best of it. If you get totally screwed, owell, it could have happened to any of us. But going out the way he is and threatening to quit isn't helping anyone.

I hope that Robbie pulls himself together and finds a way to save himself, though after everything that has transpired I think he's dug himself quite the grave. If the faves are mellow though, maybe they wont care as long as he talks to them and makes friendly. If they want immunity, they'll keep Robbie and kick off Jess. They'd actually have a pretty strong team if they did that. Anyway, it would be a shame to lose a member of our fantastic Perabia alliance so quickly but maybe it's time to start looking at possible new recruits...:/. I am hoping Robbie pulls through though.