[Jeff Probst]

- Thu Nov 26, 2015 6:21:38 am #4000 Questions to come.

Merge Baby!!!

[Kimmi]

- Fri Nov 27, 2015 6:20:36 pm #4102 Answers to come as well.

I'll spill a few things while I've got a minute.

I clearly didn't have a great grasp on things over on Kaikusi. I'm pretty sure Ozzy was that vote for me, but it could've been Sugar. I'm like 99% sure it was one of them. That vote for Jenna was weird though. I'm going on the assumption that the vote was from Ozzy. I guess Kim got to him more than I thought. I think it's put me in an interesting position now, though. I've got to choose between siding with Sophie or siding with the people I voted against. I don't think I can trust any of them. So I'm playing double agent Kimmi for the time being. Finding out who's with who, working out the deals and alliances, figuring out the pros and cons of siding one way or the other. I think this first boot is gonna come down to Sophie vs Liliana. They're the prominent players at the moment. Ideally I'd like to pick a side and use the leader for my shield for a bit. All the while building my own forces behind the scenes. I'm already working on Mookie and I'd like to recruit Gabe as well. I figure I need one more person to form a solid quadfecta that I can use to dominate the game. Probably someone I can have as a slightly smaller shield like Marissa or Kelly. I'll see who mook or Gabe are liking. The one thing I know is I don't want to be out of the loop as much as I was before. Honestly it's embarrassing to think about. I think taking out Sophie and siding with Lil would be the best political move. It'd show I can be trusted and that I'm not with Sophie. The downside is I can actually trust her more than I can Lil at the moment. I lied to Lil, so there's no incentive for her to be up front with me.

I also think there's more of a chance for me to salvage allies from the wreckage of Sophie's boot than if I voted out Liliana. I think Marissa would be understanding and still be willing to work with me. I really think the numbers are leaning towards a Sophie boot anyway. So few people like her and voting with her would probably ostracize me from multiple potential allies.

So that's all for now, I think. Maybe more to come.

[Jeff Varner]

- Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:19:48 am #4133 Hey Kimmi. Hope you are enjoying your extra long break from challenges and all that.

How have you been feeling about the merge so far? How have you been getting on with your new tribe ? Do you have any thoughts about who could possibly be the first merge boot and what is your thought process for that?

Also, please size up your competition for me. How are you feeling about your chances of winning at this point in the game?

[Kimmi]

- Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:55:20 am #4221 I'm pretty sure I addressed much of that in my other post. But for the stuff that hasn't been addressed, I'm pretty sure that the merge boot will be either David or Sophie. More than likely the latter over the former. I don't think there's any way around it. I'd love to keep Sophie around if I can and use her as a shield but it'd be too risky to push for her to stay and a death wish for me to even really try it. I don't need to confirm the suspicions that everyone's had that I'm with her, although apparently that is also something that Sophie firmly believes. Marissa too. I'm like 90% positive that this supposed alliance between us and Kim never happened, or at least was never brought up to me. Like, there was talk of me, Marissa, and Ozzy working together but I don't remember anything official being discussed between myself and Sophie. And I DEFINITELY don't remember anything being discussed between myself and Kim. That was out of left field. Whatever, I'll let them think that. I can exploit it later. Once Sophie's gone I'll need Marissa anyway. And Gabe, who is in this foursome alliance with me, Sophie and Kelly and firmly with Sophie, it seems. Why Marissa is left out of that, I'm not sure, but it's an odd thing to me considering Sophie herself has told me they're close.

I'm probably gonna end up voting Sophie tonight. Don't get me wrong, I don't exactly want to because she's like one of the only ones that actually seems to want to work with me, but I think that socially/politically it's best for my game if she goes. I've got kind of a double agent thing that I'm doing here, reporting to Sophie what the other side is thinking and vice versa, but sooner or later I'm gonna need to pick a side and declare it to everyone. And whether I want to side with Sophie or not, her side has very few numbers from what I can tell. Kelly's not with her either, so she and I got dragged into a thing by Sophie and Gabe. I think that I can safely vote out Sophie while maintaining a hold on Marissa and Gabe to use them for future votes and not damage my relationship with them, so long as I tell them before it goes down what I'm doing. That's crucial. It needs to seem like a last minute "no-other-option" kind of vote.

I'm also working on a thing with Mookie. I think we can go far together, but I'll need to get rid of Liliana soon to solidify that alliance. If Sophie goes now, I think I'd like to get rid of Liliana next. I'll work on Shane and Artis and a couple others to see if I can't swing the numbers in my favor. For now though I need to get her to trust me. The one thing that could really screw this up is if Sophie wins immunity. Not sure what I'll do if that happens. It makes things very precarious. The vote would probably shift to Marissa, which would be bad since she's a much more UTR threat right now and I can still work with her without really arousing suspicion, unlike Sophie.

Basically I'm just trying to put myself in a position in the middle right now where I can see the most of what's going on and make as informed a decision as possible. I don't think anyone realizes how in the middle I am, apart from maybe Kelly who's right there with me. Not sure how loyal she is to Liliana but she's someone I'm trying to get closer to as well and I'm using this whole alliance with Sophie and Gabe to do that.

Also, I love this avatar. Easily the best one in the game, like Liliana so astutely ranked it.

[Kimmi]

- Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:17:09 am #4224 So if this information I received from Artis is accurate it's Artis, Marissa, Jenna and Gabe on Team Sophie with Mookie, Sugar, David, Kelly on Team Liliana with me, Flicka, and Shane being kind of up in the air. Although Team Sophie thinks I'm with them. I'm still not sure if I am or not, but if the numbers are there then I might as well go there. It'd make more sense to go with people who seem to trust me over people who obviously don't and supposedly targeted me before. Plus it'd let me use Sophie as a shield like I wanted. Decisions decisions.

[Kimmi]

- Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:49:52 am #4314 Well, that idol solidifies things. I'm voting David this round. He and Liliana have been pretty flaky with me anyway. I don't trust them and I'm pretty sure they don't trust me. They haven't messaged me so they clearly don't even have any pretense of trying to get my vote. So they think I'm 100% with Sophie, I guess I am now. They like me better anyway. At least they pretend like they do, which is more than I can say about Liliana at the moment. I do feel bad about David though. He's a cool guy. If you read this in the future, David, you're a cool guy.

[Kimmi]

- Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:00:17 am #4320 According to Sophie my name is going around. Maybe that's legit and maybe it's not. It'd explain why my old tribemates are being so coy. I'll be the first to admit I've been pretty shady. It's a shame, I really hoped that people would be pretty stoked on me

[Kimmi]

- Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:10:12 am #4357 It was probably dumb to tell Sugar and Kelly and Mookie that I was voting David, buuuuuut I figure they were counting me out anyway and I needed to make sure I had at least a little leeway with them to potentially work with them later on. Also, Jenna is sketch. Ignoring like everything I sent her the past day