R11: Pulling The Nails Out Our Coffins

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

This is what I am feeling right now. We might be down in numbers but we are not going to go down easily. The IC is in 2 hours and is a definite must win for us because we need to keep it out of our enemies hands at this point in the game. Right now, I think our best bet might be to gun for Chase or Benry at tribal. We are obviously aiming our cannons too high and missing our targets and we can't afford to keep gunning for them and losing allies, and that's what I feel is going to happen. With taking out one of those two, we are cutting their numbers down, and then soon they will be back eye level with us. So like if we took out Benry and Chase these next 2 tribals, it'd be me, Peter, Katie, Gabe, Boo, Earl vs. Brenda and Courtney and we would for sure have a majority over them and its just easy pickings from there.

Only thing I have to do now is get Earl on board voting with us, and get him and Boo to rekindle their trust, that's the only way things are going to work our way these next few rounds.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

The reason Chase and Benry are going to be targets (at least that's what I want this round.) is cause:

A) It would make Earl vote with us more cause he feels he owes Courtney and he's apparently friends with Brenda so he wouldn't vote with us to take out either of them.

B) At this point of the game, I feel like we're gonna lose an ally everytime we target Courtney and Brenda, and if that's the case, we're gonna be easily picked off in no time.

C) Chase pretty much isn't the best conversation holder, I mean I'm to the point where I don't wanna bother talking to him on AIM, but he says he trusts me. Benry said he likes me and wouldn't vote me... but I know they are deadly swing votes that will go any way the wind blows but Brenda has them in her palm so they need to go.

I just need to let Katie and the others know the plan this TC, I hate to sound like a complete boss about it, but it's probably our smartest move because it would make us go to the F7, 5 vs. 2, and then no matter if Earl flips over we would still have a majority.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

Oh yes how ironic that part C started with Chase's name Definitely was unintentional.

Okay so the IC is tonight, my guess it is may involve posting cause most of our challenges have in this game but I could be wrong, so maybe it's endurance? If so, I'm hoping I have a good shot at winning it, usually I lose distraction and end up falling out of an endurance challenge, and I can't allow myself to lost focus like that this time around. This is the kind of challenge where if I last a long time and come in 2nd, I could very well become the new target in the other player's eyes, and Earl being a west coaster, could easily beat me since he's 3 hours behind, and I wouldn't see someone getting on at like 7-8 AM the next morning and posting the entire day till the night, I see most doing 7-8 hours possibly, so I need to do 10-11 in hopes I'll win.

Anyways, I may be getting overprepared it could very well not even be an endurance challenge and possibly something different lol.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

So the challenge tonight is majority rules, it's gonna be pretty obvious for some of these might what get put for others, not so much. I need to go with my gut for this because if either one of the targets win, we have to jump for the other. I for one have had terrible luck with winning majority rules in the past because usually im out on like 3-4 questions, and Boo says he needs to win this cause he is very well the target of Brenda, which she has mentioned people wanting him out cause he's hellbent on Chase leaving. Boo now wants to vote Benry thinking that Courtney or Brenda have the HII or more prizes... when I know that Katie has the HII, and I told her I wouldn't tell anyone in game she has it, so it sucks I couldn't tell Boo about it but I cannot break my word to her.

I do hope that Chase doesn't win but in the case that he does, then we would have to vote for Benry since he'd be the next target on the chopping block. The best part about my vote being blocked is I can sit and play around with Brenda's side and not have to cast a vote.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

On another note, I have still got to talk to Peter and make sure he's on board with the Chase/Benry thing, this is considering the fact that Chase was on the old Tiberius tribe with him and I'm not sure how well they got along, but I would be fine targeting either of them down the road because for one, they didn't just beat around the bush over the vote, they murdered the hell out of it, and that's one reason I want them gone, they didn't have any guts to tell me "I voted Dreamz" till after the results went up. It's not that hard to say, just 3 little words.

I hope I can win this IC today, I mean in general I'm fine if anyone wins it besides the person we are going to target, then we have to jump to the next target. I hope that if Boo wins, that I don't become Brenda's target since that is pretty much what she said she was hearing, but I don't think I would be, it'd probably become Peter to her since she's expressed not liking him.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

Also realized that F8 would be 6 vs. 2 against Brenda and Courtney, my counting was a bit off, but if that is the case even if she can get people to flip over to their side then it would still give us the majority because for one I don't see Peter flipping over to vote with someone that dislikes him, unless it's purely some act to hide an alliance, it's probably the way he was being smug during the sneaking challenge, I know that annoyed a lot of people. Earl is according to Brenda her "boy toy", so right now I'm on shaky grounds with trusting him enough to vote against her with us, either way we're fine with me, Katie, Gabe, Boo, Peter voting together.

I just have to keep their heads in the same direction as ours, that's the only way we're going to make them do anything.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

So Courtney won immunity, I'm glad for the most part that someone like Benry or Chase didn't win this, I did better in it than I've done in the past, usually I am in the last but hey 7th out of 10th isnt bad for me in a type of challenge I usually do crappy in, and in a way I'm glad I haven't had immunity around my neck yet, it lets my whole pre-merge challenge prowess die down and I won't get targeted over being a challenge threat. I would hate to be Boo and Chase knowing the majority distrusts you and the fact you're least deserving to win in people's eyes. However, I need to make sure the targets stay off of mine,Gabe, and Katie's backs even if it means throwing Boo out there as a possible target to Brenda's side because we're doing good at staying in the clear, and we can't afford to lose any more numbers.

As far as most heroic... pssh that is not what I would label my game-play so far as, but I am glad they think I am AS worthy and the best social player.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

So last night, me, Earl, Peter, Boo, Katie, and Gabe were all in a group chat and we all decided on Benry due to the fact it would throw the others for a loop since they already expect Boo to vote for Benry, my only worry which I didn't say in the chat is Brenda and Earl are friends, and that might influence his decision to go against voting for Benry. If he does vote out Boo, then ultimately it screws me, Gabe, Katie, Peter over cause he's with the other tribe.

So to express the vote tonight in pictures here it is:

Best Case Scenario:



(Side Note: I couldn't find a picture of the torch being snuffed but that's his vote out.)


Worst Case Scenario:



(Couldn't find a good scene of Boo getting snuffed lol.)

OR EVEN:




I honestly would hope the last one wouldn't happen, but Courtney is being really quiet on AIM, so it gives me a bit of sliver of doubt in my mind that she could be voting for me. Quiet people will always tickle paranoia, which is why Chase needs to go next round. I can't stand for someone to just sit there and be deathly quiet like that. Even in a game like this, no matter how good you feel you stand with people, there's always a bit of paranoia in your mind, and someone has to tickle it in the right spot to bring it out.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

I'm sticking my neck out on a pretty far line for the most part now, cause to Brenda I'm playing completely dumb about the vote and making like I have no clue what's going on, when I know our side is gunning for Benry this TC. I don't trust Brenda and Courtney that much because it's odd they are acting shady when I mention the vote to them, if they voted me, it'd definitely wouldn't be their best move since I'm in the middle of the fence, I'm on half green grasses, and half dry brown grasses. They don't know which side I've picked cause since merge, I've had no chance to pick any. It does make me nervous, playing dumb about the vote is a complete risk, if something goes wrong then it's my ass that's gonna pay for it, but I love playing their side cause it helps us gain intel.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

Brenda says I'm not being targeted don't worry... then goes and does a smiley with sunglasses right after she says it. I ask Courtney on AIM, and she goes away and never responds. These people are acting super shady, and I'm trying hard not to get super paranoid, but there's always that sliver of worry in my mind that they could very well write my name down, and I hope that doesn't happen because I really want to stay in this game because I am playing hard to win, and I hope I do end up winning. That would be amazing to win my first ORG cause right now I'm 0/3 as far as that goes, and right now I feel they're hiding something from me, I've given them as much impression as possible that they can trust me, but it's them I don't really trust.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

All I can say after reading tribal is WTF? I cannot believe someone flipped on us, I honestly think it was Earl. This is bullshit, why would you vote with Courtney and Brenda? They are obviously going to win this game, but I'm not done. We've still got means of retaliation, we got the HII, we got Grotto, and we got II. We will bounce back from this as much as we can, and even if I do go out this game, the most I can do is play Brenda's side for the time being cause they got the majority and there's not much we can do about it at all, expect get a slew of prizes and hope it helps our ass in the meantime.

There's a rat in this F9, and I'm just gonna catch it in the trap and figure out a way to discard the rat from the game, just devour it like those snakes do. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let Brenda and her Moron Alliance make the F3 without a fight.

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

All I can say after reading tribal is WTF? I cannot believe someone flipped on us, I honestly think it was Earl. This is bullshit, why would you vote with Courtney and Brenda? They are obviously going to win this game, but I'm not done. We've still got means of retaliation, we got the HII, we got Grotto, and we got II. We will bounce back from this as much as we can, and even if I do go out this game, the most I can do is play Brenda's side for the time being cause they got the majority and there's not much we can do about it at all, expect get a slew of prizes and hope it helps our ass in the meantime.

There's a rat in this F9, and I'm just gonna catch it in the trap and figure out a way to discard the rat from the game, just devour it like those snakes do. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let Brenda and her Moron Alliance make the F3 without a fight.

[Terry Deitz]

Why do you think Earl is the rat?

[Danielle DiLorenzo]

Feb 5, 2011 22:35:37 GMT -5 Terry Deitz said:

Why do you think Earl is the rat?

Well, Earl voted with them last time due to the fact that "he owed Courtney", this round Benry and Brenda both told me the 5 that voted Dreamz were voting him again, and the guy was in an AIM chat with me, Peter, Katie, Boo, Gabe, and still lied to all 5 of us

[Tom Westman]

Do you think regardless who the rat is, you will need them for the next TC?