Welcome!

Oh hello there! I was waiting for the spectator questions!

1. I was not happy because even though Sidon and I are probably safe, I just don't want to be too careful. On the bright side, him being immune made it easy to help us comfort Chio in preparation for his blindside (unless I am in fact the one being blindsided).

2. I'm not convinced anyone has the advantage. Everybody on our tribe knows that we're master manipulators. Sidon's an old school player like me, he'd go for certainty. Riju knew her name had been put out there, so she'd go for immunity. Chio was scared and told me he went for immunity in our strategy talk post-challenge. Horse won immunity, so we know what he did. That leaves Link and Robbie. I think Robbie knew his name had come up, and so probably went for immunity? Link may well have made the power play. I doubt it, because if he's setting up five-person alliances he should know the risks of being blindsided by them. If Robbie has it, that's great because now we're close. If Link has it, that might be a problem when we try to blindside him in one-two votes' time.

3. If I publicly had the sole vote, I'd stick to Chio to keep us all unified. If I could anonymously boot someone, it'd be Link. He's the closest thing to a Power Player we have and that's not good for any of us. But taking him out makes unnecessary shockwaves this early.

4. I feel 95% on this one, but I'm very aware that I can be the one going home tonight. I don't think so, but I'm prepared to look the fool. I feel I played a good first 72 hours that I can be happy with if they have pulled a fast one on me. I feel certain that Sidon, Chio, and Robbie aren't voting for me, however. Meaning that logically it's impossible to be me? Since there are only three votes outside of me and the three I listed. But who knows, honestly.

5. Although Sidon is my number one ally, I think I'd save Riju. She's the sort of person who is cunning in the game but I do think is genuinely a lovely person outside of it. So if we're talking real world raft saving, Riju.

Also I just realised that we were right about the tribe swap.

But then literally burst into laughter when I realised that we went into six tribes instead of three.

I love this game. This is the best thing that ever happened to me and I basically forgot about my heartbreak over Chio.

Trashtalking Link publicly may well have been a dumb move, but if Roscoe or the Oven were good with Pelisan or Revali then like, I can see us potentially working together? Link won't have thrown his name out there.

Though Revali said he was in trouble! So that might be a good sign?

Bus thoughts:

I believe Revali's story completely. I don't see why he'd lie about that. Mining Duck Boy I don't trust for a second.

He's playing close to his chest, and I wouldn't mind that except for the bit where he's worse at challenges than I am. So if I end up with him on another tribe, I might go to tribal council. Heck even now I'm worried we will be. I don't want to go to tribal with someone who won't be open about their game. So now I'm pretty sure he's going to blow both of our games if he gets the chance.

If we go to tribal and we can talk to other tribe, I think that the best plan is to do a 3-2-1 vote. Revali, myself, and whichever courage pal I end up with can vote for Revali's rival or Duck Boy, and then the other two from that tribe do whatever and we tell Duck Boy something random? The point is that if I can get Revali on side now, I can maintain safety by willingly giving control to Revali. Three votes can be enough to maintain control and I feel confident that I can get three votes no matter how this challenge goes.

I realise the fear of hearing about a united Courage tribe which is why I've told them both about my plan to get rid of Link. It makes the wisdom tribe's unanimous vote look more concerning. I want this game to become Power vs Wisdom while Courage watch on and choose the winner.

I hope it works.

The moment of calm where Revali and I find out if we were able to coach Pelison enough to get us into the top two challenge performers....

I just realised how difficult it is to keep track of my confessionals.

In the space of three posts I can go from loving someone to hating them to loving them again.

If every you get confused about my current stance on any players, do feel free to ask for a clarification.

Also I'm loving these multiple eliminations that are going on.

It means I have to do less to make it to merge. I'm guaranteed at least 16th place now! My aim is to win, but failing that I want to make jury.