A Proposal

Friends!!! Good morning! It's a resounding YES from me! #TeamWinner

So, I did not actually go to sleep like I said I would. But now that Epona is awake and on board, I figure I might as well hash my thoughts out here and now, even if I am totally a zombie right now.

First off: It will definitely be key to keep this a secret. Obviously everyone and their dog knows that Epona and I are allies, I think we can safely assume that. So we have to make sure that no one knows that Revali is with us, something I think we all understand. Point done and done, let's move on to topics that actually require discussion.

Secondly: With all of us easily having allies that span the rest of the cast, we should probably figure out who we want as a solid F6, preferably that means including 3 others who we're all allied to already. From what I can tell, this could easily include Pelison and Urbosa (and maybe Kass?).

Third: Drama. As both of you have already talked to me about, there's a bit of unpacked drama simmering in the wings right now. Mostly against Patty, and between Mipha and Urbosa. Not to mention Revali still hasn't fully dished out with the old Powers, which we could easily lean into if we wanted to vote Kass or Kohga out. Or if Revali feels like that might end very badly for him, we make sure to absolutely stay away from it.

Fourth: Threats. There's still so many big players here, and I think we might have a hard time taking any of them down until later unless they stir up drama and everyone rallies against them. I'm specifically talking about Sidon. I know he's got a lot of allies and as far as I know everyone loves him, so he might end up having to go far with us until we can secure a majority against him. I think right now, the "smallest" players left are Peli and Hunnie, who should make for easy swing votes for us if we need them.

Fifth: Who do we want to see gone ASAP? Personally, the sooner Link is gone, the better for my game. I have no idea if he's gonna come for me or if he'll try to rekindle our old "alliance", but either way, I'd rather not risk having someone I have no idea where I stand with around. The only people I haven't personally met with yet are Patty, Mipha and Kohga, and all of them have some drama we could push. Let me know if there's a certain way I should handle those three that will help us.

Kass - Wound up voting with us against Teebo. Voted against Revali in round one but always sounded remorseful about his part in that. Depending on continued relationship-building between Kass/Revali he could either be a good potential ally or a high priority to get out before he guns for Revali.
Kohga - Voted with Revali in round one. Apparently went and hunted down Roscoe in a vengeance move over the blindside? Kept me alive rather than Oven, even after voting with Oven the prior round. We have a pretty warm relationship in our PMs. Good potential to keep him onside early in merge with the history of both Revali and Kohga being blindsided on the Magda vote, especially if there is further pursuit of the Power Round 1 TC as narrative fuel (see Patty)
Patty - The walrus on a lot of peoples' shit list. There's likely to be a pretty strong anti Patty consensus at some point and we should get on board with it when it happens as long as we can be sure we're not getting the minority vote there in case of idol play.

Link - I've never met him, everything I know is secondhand but it sounded like he was Riju's number two or vice versa so he's probably pretty lost and alone right now. Another fine contender for consensus early merge vote.
Sidon - As Royal points out here, Sidon is a big time threat. He's on good terms with lots of people myself included. I don't think targeting him early merge is a smart play though, we can work with him while gathering intel from all sides about his true motivations. Maybe a safer mid merge target when we control a larger share of the vote, but before he could threaten to go on a crazy immunity run.

Hunnie - My original read on Hunnie was the total sweetheart. Our conversation on Wisdom was almost strictly personal connection and just the barest hint of "we're in this majority together right?" strategy talk. But some later things I heard do make her seem a little savvier than all that. Pretty solid ally potential for all three of us? But like I said about Peli in my last post I also see Hunnie as someone who could become that person people try to bring forward to sit next to at the end.
Mipha - Queen of being Second Best Wisdom. Mipha was beloved, but Urbo was super beloved and she won that round one immunity, and I don't think Mipha ever got over that. She and I are going to have a very interesting conversation when I do get a chance to talk to her again. Supposedly she was integral to an attempted alliance building during the 15 person scramble with her fellow Zoras Riju and Patty that was trying to rope in Sidon, Kass and maybe Oaki (that last name is conjecture but I see solid supporting evidence). If Mipha and Urbo erupt into all out war that is great cover for us.
Peli - See my previous post
Urbo - As above

Ancient Oven - If he is a returnee I think he'll have a chip on his shoulder especially against Patty but also against Sidon who he seemed to truly believe was with him
Chio - I really haven't seen an active Chio ghost in a long time I don't think he's in the running to return
Karson - Would likely be a complete free agent unless he's got a really overdeveloped sense of revenge and wants to rain hellfire on all of Wisdom
Magda - This would be a great returnee for us, naturally close to Revali while Royal and I had no hand in her demise
Oaki - Agent of chaos, probably guns for Kohga and Sidon, but I would eventually be in the crosshairs too because I did share some of the things he said to me about who he would be willing to vote out. Might be a repairable relationship though with both of you whispering the right words in his ear.
Riju - Based on everything I know, Riju is strong and dangerous and on the wrong side of things. We'd need to aggressively target her to get her out again or she could rally troops against Royal.
Robbie - Would be anti-Revali, probably pro-Royal but would Sidon command his loyalty moreso? This would be a messy returnee too.
Roscoe - I don't really want to see a Patty ally return to the game, but at least he'd probably gun for Kohga even before coming for Revali
Teebo - This would be messy too, anti all of us, would have to target quickly as with Riju above

Okay so first on Horses stuff.

I know this sounds stupid but I want us to have our story straight, how do we convince people I'm not with you, or rather how should I talk about y'all, we can likely just have you say I was inactive due to exams/etc... but I'm not a great liar and don't want to give us away at the drop of a hat. Also I'll likely need a way to explain why I'm confident in your votes if it comes down to me having to explain stuff.

I agree with Epona on two counts. 1. We're gonna have to be flexible about our final 6, like plan A doesn't work and as big a fan as I am of a long term step by step plan in a game like this it doesn't matter how many plans we have, mods be tripping.

I also agree Urbo is kind of a natural ally. We got along really well on my last tribe, probably the only person I trust from that tribe and if we want to focus Mipha (which we should oh god we should) I think we can solidly work with them until 6 without any of us feeling tempted to try and go to the end with the most beloved of Team Wisdom.

I'd also reccomend we not have more than 1 other power player in final 6, near the end we need one of us to win immunity to block out whoever is not in our final 3 and well, if anyone is gonna threaten that it's a power player. Though I'm honestly not that scared of Khoga, but Kass AND Patricia being there would be problematic.Though, I have no issue playing the bad guy with not going to the end with Power, I mean like...they wouldn't believe I wanted a Power F3 for a second.

Big Drama seems to be whatever I need to hash out with Power, I can keep it on the back burner until we have numbers, but it'll definitely be a good smoke screen for y'all to set something up. Mipha and Urbo is some prime stuff but likely will need to be resolved quickly. Honestly seeing if we can have Link around a bit to cause a bit of Chaos or something might be beneficial though. Also using the "OMG 5 WISDOM AROUND" smokescreen for an early boot is also not a bad idea.

So yeah on threat, Mipha is fucking scary. Like they effortless made me love them off the bat on a level above everyone I met before, but also won the advantage from round 1 and has been destroying challenges left and right. Like they have challenge prowess, social skills and were sorted into Wisdom. We can not let them even get close to the end cause they could just win out and that is not a good thing. They also definitely have that alliance thing going Epo mentioned as they knew what Stamina's words were and Patty;s words in particular, so like they have connections, had an idol (which thank god they wasted back on the middle tribe (and also thank robbie for telling urbo they were voting them out post merge cause otherwise I would've voted into an idol).

I think I answered question 5 with that. We could also go something like Link but Mipha going first round of merge would be interesting, though we may have to settle for someone else like Patty, if we can get numbers at all. That may be preferable to extend the Urbo Mipha feud past 1 round.

Gonna do individual people thoughts.

I've got some thoughts on our messaging, so to speak! Give me a little bit I'm doing laundry and dishes quarantine has been horrible for my ability to keep a tidy home.

In an ideal world the scenario would be 2 from each starting tribe at f6. That's tough to balance with the fact that of the remaining Courage players Link is gonna be a quick target and Sidon is scary, but maybe it can work. Sidon, Urbo and Kohga could work, or something along those lines, although then we're getting into scary immunity run territory. I agree that the big challenge beast Powers should NOT be there close to the end, so Kohga is someone we should really focus on further relationship-building with ASAP.

Yeah I pretty much agree on all of this, and the fact that Mipha is a priority to target when we get the chance. She's good in challenges so other people will likely want to jump on board just because of that as soon as she isn't individually immune.

In keeping with the flexibility theme here, I think we have some very good starting options once we hit merge:
Target Mipha actively
Join a train against Mipha led by Urbo
Join a train against Patty led by anyone
Join a train against Link led by anyone
Target Link actively

We really just need to play that part by ear. The appearance of coordination becomes much harder to shake if we show up from a round of being sequestered together and immediately are on the same page about who has to die, so there's going to be some delicate dancing we'll need to do where we don't always say we want the same things to other people.  Knowing what endgame we're moving towards is a lot more important than knowing what early merge moves will be required in any specific order.