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1. That is... a very complicated question.

Riju and I are in a low-key from our first tribe. As soon as all of us were able to message each other she ran to me excitedly immediately.
Sidon and I... well I literally handed him the first advantage I've ever picked up in my Survivor career. We have a formal final two pact which only really could be made because we got onto this tribe together. We both have Robbie as our third "alliance member" as it were, though neither of us are really using the term "alliances". I think that the A-Word is actually quite dangerous to throw around, and it goes against the social player's strength: our ability to navigate the game.
Mipha and I are a secret pair, we took advantage of the fact that neither of us have ever been on the same tribe to use that as a justification for working together. Mipha is also close with Riju, so we kind of have a little trio going on there that I can go with if Sidon/Robbie falls apart.
Honestly this game is so incredibly intricate and these swaps are really helpful. I'm not in a conflict with anyone (that I'm aware of), and each of these tribes have somebody with someone else on their tribe in their iron sights. We've got our eyes on Oven, Robbie has his eyes on Link, and Royal Horse has his eyes on Riju. All of these conflicts are great because as people are picked off, the people doing the picking off are probably going to be the target of revenge. I feel like I could work with literally everybody I've been on a tribe with to this point except Pelison.

2. I don't think I have any pre-merge elimination threats... I want as many Courage people to get to merge as possible because from a jury management perspective, the people who have been with me from the beginning still remember how awesome my first 72 hours of game were. Even if my last 24 hours have been... questionable (giving away an advantage and throwing a challenge), I think they're going to remember my opening and when the jury are chatting in their villa or wherever that's going to come up. So... non-courage people I'd like to be voted out!

3. I mean I literally got one of the advantages, had a read of it, and gave it away. Sidon said that he'd give it back but he hasn't yet... I guess he just forgot because keeping it is literally telling me that he doesn't actually care about our final two deal.

4. My strongest bond is either Prince Sidon or Riju. In Riju's case, the bond solidified tremendously by her being on a different tribe because I could warn her about horse and tell her that I'm going to try to throw the challenge. In Sidon's case, my bond is solidified because we can be here together and be part of each other's games. The reason to take him to the final two is that it makes for an interesting FTC. We'll have played such similar games that it will really come down to our arguments about who did more, or how different our games were. Being the one who was able to build a bond with Revali, and by extension Patty, I would say gives me more of an argument than him, but I don't know what he got up to at his tribal council!

5. Craziest twist would be to have a challenge where fifteen people all have to message each other to find out important information in 24 hours to establish their new tribes... oh wait. We just did that.

But nah, I'm kind of half expecting some kind of Aus Survivor-esque "you're not really voted out!" tribal council to happen... it seems unlikely, but that'd be the only thing to really throw me. As someone who's now embracing my social play instead of falling back on it, these constant swaps are doing wonders for me. I'm pretty sure I've had a conversation with every player in the game except Epona at this point, and only three of them have me going "nope, can't work with this person at all". I might not trust others completely, but I could work with them. But Pelison, Hunnie, and Kass have given me vibes of "something is wrong, stay the heck away". Give me a tribe swap at every tribal council, I'm here for that.

Riju absolutely did tell me her words.

I'll just forget that bit when talking to the tribe.

For those watching at home:
"Glacier" is her geographical location. Not desert or city. Though you probably know that if you read her confessional thread...

Patty and I look like the heroes who were there when nobody else was to take a stab.

I hope they don't realise that I knew we were done from the beginning... I know for a fact we got zero of Riju's words right.

...

I know I'm being devious, throwing the challenge and all.

But Patty is a good person. I was playing up my confusion at the challenge and... she stepped in and like... was a genuinely kind human being and stood up to help and was actually concerned about me.

I will not write her name down as long as I'm on the same tribe as her. It wouldn't be right to take advantage like that. If I'm throwing challenges then she can't suffer because she thinks I'm super anxious.

If we win this challenge...

I will be VERY confused.

So like, I could've gotten us more points.

But the other tribes did so well that honestly we probably would've lost even without me throwing the challenge.

Though I did know Heart, Glacier, and Bow.

Maybe I did help us suck? I'm glad nobody noticed that the most social player managed to somehow land NOTHING, but I guess being the one to tell everyone what tribe I was on certainly lent evidence to that claim.