E5: A Yiga who blooms in adversity

Yes, you, someone who is generally perceived as a big social threat who has tons of friends, and I, the guy who's been blindsided once and been to every tribal, can both equally understand feeling isolated in the game.

Apparently Mipha misplayed an idol at her tribal. We like to see that.

Kass is pitching me on the idea that there aren't any idols in the game with that one and the half idols because that seems like too many with all the small tribals. It is a lot but, well, nope! I'm sure Mipha will spill how she got it, too, but luckily I have "it totally went home with Magda" to fall back on.

Courage idol is almost certainly still out there, although Oaki could have had it.

medoh will probably win this challenge, their "don't try to make a maze, just make it take a really long time to draw the line" strategy seems correct

She's not wrong. This game has had a lot of swaps and I think that can result in a power alliance owning the game. And it seems like this might be what's setting up to happen. One place where she may be wrong is the extent to which I'm on the periphery of that group and not smack dab in it, but the point more or less stands that I have absolutely no idea how I'm supposed to win the game running with that group.

A mistake I've surely made already is allowing myself to become attached to people. I didn't keep enough distance between myself and the game to be able to casually make big plays against friends, and so instead we are likely to see the version of me that's emotionally devastated by my own moves, or the one who fails to make those moves soon enough.

My short-term solution is to honestly share some of my concerns with Urbosa and maybe develop her into an option. I'm actually giving her some trust here, and I hope she will reciprocate. I don't want to rush headlong into a situation where I just lose; I don't want to go to tribal with Medoh and stupidly vote out Revali to reduce my own options because Kass feels like it.

I think I may not tell Kass the full extent of this. I want to, but I can't just merrily lose to him, as much as I absolutely love the dude. I've been telling Kass that I do intend to take him to the end but also acknowledging that I am not a complete moron and I need to have a compelling resume to be able to do that; like Epona wisely said to me, there needs to be equal power for a long term alliance to work among serious players.

I figure Kass is going to figure out anyway that I am nobody's goat. If I'm going to lose, you better believe it's going to be going out in a blaze of glory, not sitting next to the kingpin at FTC. I can only go to the end with him if I actually have a strong chance to win with a good FTC.

I don't have that many strengths as a player, but what I do have includes flexibility, the ability and inclination to form powerful new bonds well past the point most players have already decided who to trust, and a realistic awareness of threat levels -- both my own and who's unbeatable at the end.

at least i'm beginning to see where the lines are. clearly at least one spokesperson for "everyone else" has caught on to that group, so they may have a rough go of it seeing as there's less of them. i'm thinking the kass side of the game's plan is potentially going to not work, and i'd like to not be caught in the blowback to that, but then at some point i'm knee deep in a game that contains exclusively people who probably would be cool with cutting me.

What to do, what to do?