Caleb's Crappy Confesional Corner

[Rodney]

Hang in there, bud.

[thebankston]

I'm tired as fuck, and I don't know what's going on anymore. Never a bad time to pump out a confessional, though, right?

I went to Joaqamole last night and basically told him that Ashley was proposing to me an alliance composing of him and I, herself, and Goth Alec. We decided to roll with it, so now that's being thrown together at some point today. It's a relief, 'cause that sort of leaves Monica to me, which is another troop on my side if I need to rally the votes against The Joaqin' Dead later on. For now, though, I've made him my fake #1. I'll be asking for his opinion on shit, and making sure I touch base with him once or twice per day. Who knows -- perhaps this is the beginning of a slightly better than mediocre relationship!

I'm making an ass of myself in the chat right now, mostly to come off as not-so-smart, but also just to keep up appearances. I've been on something of an AIM hiatus since Younweik was kicked. I've had some more time to think, and at least we didn't have to deal with an endurance competition. Silver lining. Also my puzzle time was crap.

If the pattern of challenges continues, the next should be a creative one, in which case I may end up on another AIM hiatus in order to keep myself from becoming too frustrated at everyone's inevitable dumb ideas, LOL. I mean, if we lose the challenge, it's really not much of a big deal at all. Just, it's annoying having to act like horrible ideas are strokes of utter genius.

[thebankston]

Round Three - Challenge

I've been an idiot . . . I forgot all about the mole throwing challenges! This means it cannot be Goth Alec. Comes down to either Joaquin, Ashley, or AFKelly. Joaquin didn't catch anyone in the first challenge, Ashley only managed to post one flag, and AFKelly did absolutely nothing. Prime suspects 1, 2, and 3. Of course, that's assuming there really is a mole, in the first place. I've thought about it for a while. Maybe it's all a ploy in order to have us distrust and turn against each other early on in the game. Kind of reminds of Battle of the Block in Big Brother, where it's supposed to add to the entertainment value, but all it really does is keep the goats around for longer than they're supposed to be.

Monica thinks the mole is Ashley now, and thus believes that she should be the first to go. I think I've sort of talked her out of it for now, but I wouldn't be surprised if she brings it back up again once we lose a challenge. On one hand, Ashley is one of my prime suspects. On the other, I have a good relationship with her. That's pretty big when you've got the social skills of a rock, LOL.

I have a new alliance now. Ami pulled Monica and I into a threesome. It was pretty great. Our new alliances is pretty good, too. I have a decent relationship with Ami, and Monica and I strategize on the same wave-length, so I could see this working out well. Monica wanted to tell Joaq about it, though, and so I was forced into telling him. Hopefully us telling him about it proves to be a good trade off for secrecy.

I just finished telling Ashley that there's a "rumour" going around that she's the mole. The point was to simply get her talking a little more so that the target isn't on her already, but she acted pretty sketchily. I don't know, maybe she indeed is the mole. I've got, what, four alliances now? I could probably let Ashley go if I really had to. Let's see what the tomorow brings, though.

Goth Alec has volunteered to do the challenge, so I guess I'll just leave him to it. I did this challenge in Pure 3 and won. It put a target on my back. No way am I doing it this time. All the power to ya', Goth Alec!

[thebankston]

Round Four - Post-Challenge

I haven't been on AIM since last Friday, 'cause I'm home for Thanksgiving, and Canadians don't get to download the AIM app for some stupid reason. Not dealing with the mess that is IM+, either. It feels like I've missed so much, though. Might be good for my game, especially if we're heading into a swap soon. I dont know yet how strong my alliances are at this point in time, or if I've been brought into new ones. I feel confident in my connections, though, so I'm not worried either way.

So yeah, thus concludes this horrible confessional written from my phone so that I don't get penalized. w00p

[PW Chelsea]

Oct 12, 2015 22:50:32 GMT thebankston said:

Round Four - Post-Challenge

I haven't been on AIM since last Friday, 'cause I'm home for Thanksgiving, and Canadians don't get to download the AIM app for some stupid reason. Not dealing with the mess that is IM+, either. It feels like I've missed so much, though. Might be good for my game, especially if we're heading into a swap soon. I dont know yet how strong my alliances are at this point in time, or if I've been brought into new ones. I feel confident in my connections, though, so I'm not worried either way.

So yeah, thus concludes this horrible confessional written from my phone so that I don't get penalized. w00p

Trillian is a pretty ok substitute if you really want a mobile version of AIM.

Also hi.

~Gabe

[thebankston]

Round Five - Pre-Challenge

Oh God, please don't let me get stuck on a tribe with friggen Rudy. That guy is annoying me to death already, and I've only seen him talk about four times. I mean, from a confessional standpoint, he's probably awesome. Buuuut . . . I'm going to probably go bald trying to talk game to him.

I guess Tracy quit, which is annoying, but also meh. I had no allegiance to her, and she was inactive as fuck. Problem now is, a couple of us are likely getting swap-fucked. See, that probably won't be an issue for me, so long as I'm with the right people. I'm willing to flip before I'm flipped on. Aras and Tyson seem like good guys, and the former is a huge merge target already. Also Blonde Kelly is hot. Would align with Blonde Kelly. Jeremiah was one of my alias picks, so maybe we have a thing or two in common there. I don't feel particularly strongly about any of these people, anyway, aside from maybe Monica. Joaqamole is growing on me slowly, though again, I'm sure he's having the same effect on everyone.

Oh yeah, and also shoutout to Gabe, who didn't drink kool-aid or something like that over in Pure! I'm sleepy, okay.

[thebankston]

Welp, I got swap-fucked. No sense in crying over spilled milk, though. I've got to decide on how to approach the situation. I considered just sitting back and shutting up, but I think Goth Alec will already fill that role well enough, since he's from Europe. My only chance is likely to schmooze and be nice. Have them feel good about me. I mean, they don't even need my vote, but maybe they won't Pagong us. That's dumb, though, of course they're going to Pagong us. The best I can probably do is try to make sure I'm last on their hit-list somehow. It's risky, though, 'cause there's a fine line between getting in good with them, and coming off as a social threat. I'm walking that line as I write this. I hope our people on the other tribe aren't dumb enough not to throw challenges.

Aras is here, which is . . . not so good, since Tyson was the main person I felt good about. Aras is good at challenges, but I'm not so sure he won't just throw these ones, 'cause why not? Kelly is here also, though, and Nick messaged me right off the bat. Cracks? They've been to tribal a couple times, so perhaps. Hard to say. I definitely have to keep my gaming side to a minimum, though. The last thing I want to do right now is come off threatening in pretty much any way.

[thebankston]

Round Five - Challenge

I've had some time to think about strategy over the past while. My first thought was to pull off the same strategy I did in Season 1, where I just lie to everyone and make the majority think I'm on the very bottom. Not sure I'm feeling it this time, though. I had a different plan, and it depends upon whether or not I get a good read on Aras. I briefly mentioned it to him before, that he and I were the two people who stayed up all night guarding the board. He's obviously the biggest physical threat, and he'll be a target after merge. My card to play would be that I'm in the "same" position. I don't think I really am, but if he feels like I'll be a second physical threat alongside him after merge, he'll be more likely to want me around until then. Might even be able to work with him.

They don't seem to be throwing the challenge so far, which surprised me. They've been to, like, three or four Tribal Councils already, so I guess one could assume there are cracks, paranoia, and distrust among them, but wow. I hope our own people aren't this foolish, LOL. I'm sort of including the element of misdirection in my own posts. I'm spamming with Tapatalk, and only posting photos from my computer. If you post using Tapatalk, it shows a little indicator on your post, so my hope is that people assume I don't know how to embed photos from Tapatalk, hence the photos only showing up in posts not from Tapatalk. The point is that they might start to skip over my Tapatalk posts eventually, even though my Token actually IS in a Tapatalk post. I don't know how effective it'll be, but any extra amount of mist can only help me in this challenge, I think.

Nick/Kkk/Kick told me that Tyson is the prime suspect on the other tribe in regards to who the mole is. Apparently Tyson was pushing for Nick to go, but they were about to vote Tyson out before Tracy quit. I really only have two suspects left from my own tribe, Ashley and AFKelly. It's kind of nice knowing that I'm on the tribe with (supposedly) no moles. On the other hand, I'm in the minority, which is not as nice . . .

It kind of sucks knowing, if we do end up being Pagonged, that our games were pretty much cut short at the hands of quitters and a shitty PW. I'm going to try hard to win the next couple of challenges. If we lose, I'm going to try hard to stay in the game. #Pray4TheMerge

[PW Ashley]

The "crappy" in your confessional title is false advertising

[thebankston]

Round 5 - Post-Challenge

WHAT THE SHIT, HOW . . . WHAT?! Once again, I've underestimated just how stupid people can be in this game. If you're Monica, Ami, or even Ashley, how brainless do you have to be in order to NOT throw that challenge? Ugh. I'm so pissed off. I don't even care if I go now, fuck it. I'm done playing with stupid people. All I've had to deal with in this ORG so far are quitters, pseudo-cheaters, inactives, and friggen morons. I've had it.

. . .

Ugh, god dammit, AND OUT OF EVERYONE, MONICA, ASHLEY, AND AMI?! What?! I mean, Ashley or Ami I could maybe see being that foolish, but Monica?! Jesus Christ, man. I'm perplexed! Shell-shocked! Flabbergasted! I'm done with these people. I'm going to have to go to Tribal now with a 4-3 disadvantage, and it's my dumb allies who've sent me there. If I'm still here at the merge, none of them are safe anymore. I will happily vote out all three of those idiots. Maybe I should let people know that. I don't care. What are they going to do -- not throw some more challenges? My god.

[thebankston]

Okay, I've had my Snickers. Feeling better now. Ugh, they're so stupid, though, I don't take it back!

So anyway, losing this challenge was almost a gift in disguise. Almost immediately, everyone started talking to me. Nick pretty much tells me that he was planning on pushing for me to go, but I persuaded him to target Joaq, instead. Then Jeremiah messages me. He proposes an alliance, and  implies being open to targeting somebody besides Joaq. I serve him Goth Alec potentially being the mole. He eats it up. Kelly messages me and says she's down for Goth Alec, and says that Jeremiah seems to be, as well. Nick then messages me soon after and says the vote has changed to Goth Alec. Everything is going wayyyy too smoothly. I'm suspicious.

I think if any one of them are actually loyal to me, Jeremiah is. He even made a little alliance banner, "Canadian Country Boys". Reminds me of a video Colton showed me this one time . . . cough cough. Anyway, if this is all just a ploy to #blindside me randomly, then specific kudos to Jeremiah! I'm still very paranoid about Nick or Kelly turning on me this round and voting me out alongside Joaq and Goth Alec. I did indeed throw both of them under the bus pretty hard already, out of necessity. If that's going down, though, there's not much I can do now to avoid it, 'cause it'd be a cloak and daggers move. It would definitely benefit Joaq and Goth Alec the most, but I don't know how good it'd be for Nick and Kelly, so I'm not going to worry too much about it. If my downfall is expecting the rationality of others, then it is what it is.

OH YEAH, and I think I know who Nick is! Maybe. The way he talks, the lack of . . . awareness in regards to what he's saying -- reminds me of Wesley. Nick is kind of rude, though, and comes off as stupid. Wesley never came off as stupid and I don't remember him ever being rude . . . change of strategy, maybe?

[thebankston]

Welp, I knew things were going too well. Goth Alec has found out that I've been "exposing" him as the mole, and now he's out for revenge. Which is stupid. I literally told him myself, that if he wanted to stay, he'd have to change the target to Joaq, but nope. He then proceeded to tell me that he'll be targeting me next round if he stays. What an idiot. If I'm the main reason everyone is voting for you, I could have easily been the main reason why everyone is voting Joaq. All he's doing here is making sure both of our games take a hit this round, which is just ridiculous and illogical. I think I still have Nick and Jeremiah's vote for the time being, but I'm going to have to actually work now to try and keep Kelly's and Aras'. I'm not sure what Joaq is going to do, but if somebody leaked what I've been saying about Goth Alec, then they've probably also leaked what I've been saying about Joaq. Somebody around here is a rat, and that same somebody doesn't seem to know how to play the game smartly.

If I do end up going this round, Goth Alec will just go next round, and perhaps the reverse, now that he's campaigning against me. I have to make sure the votes stay in my favour, 'cause at this stage in the game, I could go really easily, especially whilst playing with morons and inactives. I'm very worried about overplaying my hand now in trying to make sure the spotlight stays on Alec, though. I don't want to fuck up and play myself out the door. Gotta stay cool, calm, and collective. Relatively.

[thebankston]

It's time. I would be beside myself if I went without writing up one of my famous tinfoil hat confessionals!

*Puts Tinfoil Hat On*

Okay, so I've been thinking, right, and what if Goth Alec's irrationality is premeditated? If somebody wants Joaquin to go this round, all they'd have to do is make sure Goth Alec seems to be coming after me, and then go around telling everyone to vote Joaq out so that the two people left here don't want to work together. It wouldn't be a hard sell at all. Of course, that leaves a potential mole in the game, and thus a disadvantage at the next challenge, but . . .  maybe they've smahtened up. Every time we win a challenge, that's one of their old people potentially going home, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if there are some alliances split between the two current tribes. Further, if they keep Goth Alec here solely to lose challenges, then that takes the heat off of them with the old Akha tribe after the merge. Something to consider.

*Takes Tinfoil Hat Off*

I've done my rounds, and everyone is telling me the vote is still Goth Alec. I "came clean" to Joaq and told him about how they wanted to target him, and that I went along with it, but spent the night looking for a way to shift the target onto someone else, instead. I explained to Aras about how we're both seen as physical threats, and that if we merge together, both of our targets will be smaller due to there not only being one singular threat for everyone to go after, a la the original Coach-Bot. I've even told everybody that I won't be voting based on tribal lines. I'm hoping all of this pays off. I really don't want to go so early due to bullshitty conditions.

[thebankston]

Round Six - Pre-Challenge

Muahahahahhaha, YESSSS!

I love crazy rounds like that! And best of all? Two brand new (big) targets have emerged! The first, Joaquin, turned out to be the mole after all! I stopped suspecting him after he won the poster challenge on his own, 'cause I thought the mole was throwing challenges. I'm definitely not complaining, though. There are two people who might be targeted before me now, and the only person to write my name down just went home. This round legitimately could not have gone better for me. I might still be swap-fucked, but at least I'm getting what I want . . . for now.

The second target is Nick. Nick tried to cause so much trouble last round, and he's been leaking so much info back and forth between everyone. He's a rat, and you don't want a rat around when you merge. Especially not one who is playing the game that hard during round friggen six. I could see him being targeted before me. Perhaps even before Joaq. Sure, Joaq is the mole, but as far as I know, he's still got my back. I need that in this game.

About 15 minutes before the voting deadline, Joaq shoots me a message and tries to get me to vote for Nick. He can't tell me that he's the mole at that point, though, so him magically finding an idol literally minutes from the deadline was just way too sketchy. In the long run, for me, I think it's probably better this way. I know Goth Alec was working with Kelly and Nick. Considering this, It would have been way harder voting Goth Alec out over Joaq, or even Nick, really.

This round, I'm going to focus on lying about Nick. He's leaked a lot of shit to me, sure, but not enough to where he'll be targeted before Joaqamole yet. What I need to do is throw some lies in with the truths. I've already tried this with Kelly and told her, right between two truths, that Nick told me she had an alliance with Tyson and Aras. No idea if it'll work, but I don't see it going wrong if I use this strategy sparingly. My reasoning for doing this is that Nick supposedly tried to get Joaq to vote for me, and I feel "betrayed", etc etc. It looks like the majority wants to throw this challenge, so if I'm going to swing the axe towards Nick, now seems to be a good time to start.

[thebankston]

Nevermind, new plan! I'm going to continue lying about Nick, but my focus will actually be on Kelly and Jeremiah. Joaquin may indeed have to go this round if we lose. I put a lot of thought into it, and A) I can't have people realizing that nobody is going to want to align with him after we merge, and B) There's a lot of sketchiness surrounding the vote. Jeremiah claims that he voted Goth Alec with me . . . which means  . . . who did Joaqamole vote for? Me? Was his plan to simply have Nick and I go to a tie? Kelly claims she self-voted for fun, but I don't know if I even believed that, either. Nick did tell me that "my vote doesn't matter anymore" because Aras came online, which implies that Jeremiah may be telling the truth here. Regardless, Joaq might have to go this round, because I'd only need two votes next round in order to take Nick out instead of me, those two being Jeremiah and Kelly. Nick over Joaq because Nick is objectively the bigger merge threat, and so the closer we get to the merge, the bigger his target is going to be. I'm going to try to put a lot of work in with my two votes before then. If the vote changes to Nick, then I'll have to go with Nick, but I don't think I'm going to necessarily be pushing for it anymore. Who knows -- maybe we'll just go on an immunity streak, and all of this scheming will have been for nothing. I hope so. I do loves me some post-merge targets.

All in all, pretty happy Goth Alec is gone. Even if we took Nick out, I could totally see Goth Alec flipping on me instead of going 3-3 and forcing somebody else to flip, especially considering his relationships with Kelly and Nick. Further, his time zone would have made it difficult to talk game to him later on, so . . . 10/10, would vote Goth Alec out again.