by Grant » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:47:23 pm
Ha, ok great.
So here's the deal.
I had an alliance that I referred to in my confessional as the core-4 alliance, which was me, Stephanie, David and Mike. I planned to be true to these guys to the end. I made this alliance pretty early on in the game and fully intended to stick with it as long as I could. (Sorry Ralph)
When I got swapped over to Nama, I knew I wasn't in any trouble if I went back to Ovambo but I wanted to try and get info / appear concerned to not be seen as that big of a threat. I think that did me more harm than good in retrospect. I knew PB was not the mole but I was not sure who the mole was. I talked to Ashley and we talked about how we were going to get out of this together, and all this good stuff. I guessed PB because Ashley told me she was close to Sophie and IF PB was the mole, him leaving would be the best for both of our games. Everyone was telling me Whitney was the bottom so I wasn't going to guess her and Ashley was close to Sophie so I wanted to leave her with an ally. I wasn't sure so I went with what would be best for the both of us IF that person was the mole - that was PB.
In the first vote, things were shaking up. PB wanted me to flip but was saying "I have someone" but wouldn't give me names. I didn't really have any intention of flipping unless he gave me a name to go home that I wanted to go home. I believe Ralph was the one who flipped here and Ashley did not vote. She told me that she did not vote because I did not tell her who was supposed to go home (I was afraid if I told her, she would tell Sophie and the idol would be used on Cochran, so I refrained). If Ashley had voted Mike, it would have been a split and who knows who would've flipped. I believe that PB/Sophie thought that Ashley voted with them and that Ralph did not, which led to PB revealing all about Ralph and his idol to anyone who would listen (so I was told).
In the PB vote-out, I know that David and Mike both flipped because we knew we had the numbers. It was a flip that was talked about at length that it was not a flip against each other but an attempt to help us get further in the game with another resource. I know that Ashley voted against PB, she even showed me her confessional. I did an awful thing in this game and that was suggesting to David that he share his voting-confession with Sophie beforehand so he'd know he was the one who flipped to her, and then everyone started doing it and asking for it which sucked.
Ashley survived the vote in Nama much to my surprise so I was immediately suspicious. I was hesitant to tell her anything until she proved she was voting with me/us. Kristina thought Ashley was 100% with us and formed a 3-person alliance. This was before Ralph was voted out, I believe.
After Ralph was voted out, my PMs blew up. Kristina formed an alliance with Sophie, myself, Ashley and Stephanie, and then formed an alliance with myself, Ashley and Stephanie, and then there was the alliance of myself and Ashley. I made a joke about how I didn't receive the offer to get that alliance any deeper and Ashley sent me a PM saying final 2. They were all telling me it was going to be Whitney and then Julie, which would have left the game at 7 and I had my alliance of myself, Stephanie, Mike and David with a 4-3 advantage so if that was what happened, we would've run the game after those 2 votes. I was very concerned that Sophie would play the idol with Whitney and shared it in the group PM with Kristina/Ashley/Stephanie and then again in my group PM with Mike/David/Stephanie. David Mike and I voted Sophie as insurance, expecting her to play the idol on Whitney, expecting Ashley to flip and force a tie in which Sophie would go home. Julie said she was going to vote for Whitney but based on confessionals and typing styles I know that only Stephanie and Kristina voted for Whitney. I told Julie before the vote that I was switching to Sophie and suggested she do the same, clearly she did not change to Sophie. They almost did too good of a job that I saw it coming, and knew I was in a lot of danger and tried to protect against it. I did not think Ashley would vote against me but I was wrong.
I feel like I was very "in the know" and that's why I think I was such a big threat. I wasn't necessarily making the decisions but I was right there facilitating which went through and which were rejected. I knew who was voting who and when every time except for this vote (more or less, with some error such as believing Ashley when she told me the vote was Julie when Cochran went home, but I got the numbers correct).
