Tome 06: Light Arrow

I was naturally a bit more excited to see Ancient Oven return, as we had a decent personal and strategic relationship leaving the Wisdom Tribe. Oaki is a bit of a conundrum to me: I've heard from Kohga and Epona that they were incredibly close to Patricia — a byproduct of Riju, Patricia, and Mipha trying to enlist allies during the "open season" before Heart, Stamina, and Spirit. If this information holds, it could lead to a Patricia/Mipha/Oaki group. Revali was also quite partial to the motorcycle salesman, which may be good in that it muddies any plans made with Epona and Royal White Horse, but it also risks adding him to that hypothetical foursome. Add a generous amount of chaos in the form of SO MANY ITEMS potentially entering the game, and it is really anyone's guess as to how these first couple of rounds turn out.



Given the fact that Mipha played an idol (Naydra's Scale) and Link played a separate idol (Heart Container), I am going to assume that no fewer than six idols have been put into circulation.

Sidon casually let slip that he had a Legacy Advantage when stressing about Oaki's return — a Freudian slip? Is there a correlation between the advantage and Oaki?

Hunnie told me she won an item that, when activated, allows her to receive information about an immunity challenge.

Link and I know about the Sensor+ .

I would assume the other items listed in the Reward Challenge also found homes.

So yeah, that's a lot of potential ways to meet an unfortunate end in this game. Without knowing the true extent to which items saturate the merge, it's hard to factor them into plans. I prefer to be a proactive player rather than a reactive one, but in this case I may need to just lay low and hope that people leave the game with unused advantages or use them in such a way that I don't get caught in the crossfire.



I've spent most of the day laying the groundwork for people to shift their attention away from me. Sidon and Kohga are now preoccupied with Oaki and Oven, but the paranoia has already yielded mistakes — I doubt Sidon would have otherwise told me about the Legacy Advantage. Ideally, I would like to remove some uncertainties from the board; Patricia, Oaki, or Horse. Before the the resurrections, I would have likely pushed Horse just to give myself more options; Now that that's changed, it may be best to let the game come to me this round instead of getting out in front of any potential decisions. I've done what I can to clear up things with Mipha. I've initiated conversations with Oaki and Oven. I have Sidon, Kohga, and Kass approaching me for a four-person pact to help them stay safe. There is a lot going on, and it would be foolish to feel any sense of comfort without an immunity necklace, BUT if I go out I will do so knowing I did all I could with what I've been given to insulate myself.



If you'd asked me this morning, I would have said tribal lines have become so incoherent that it's better to perceive the dynamic in temporary voting blocs or "trust clusters." With Oaki and Oven returning, though, I think it would be naive of me to not worry players will target Wisdom. Two facets of the Zora tribe are incredibly influential as well, so if they DO manage to assimilate with Oaki and others, that could be an issue as well.



At the moment, I think it is incredibly unlikely I'll find myself sitting at the end. I am consistently at the bottom of any potential alliance formation, and if people want to use me as a scapegoat for an "easy boot" as a social threat, I am good as dead with no items at my disposal. I've had to rely on instinct, adaptability, and no short amount of (hopefully accurate) perception to get to this point, but that can only get me so far if I wind up in a situation where everyone around me has multiple items. If the Spectators would like to give me a magic button to purge all advantages from the game, then I would more than happily do so.

For now, I'm putting an inordinate amount of faith in my bond (?) with Link. I'm struggling to open back up to Revali, because I just can't shake the notion that he is deceiving me. To me, that has been absolutely soul crushing: I envisioned a scenario where I got to the end with a player who was equally deserving to win, who fought with me against insurmountable odds to face a Jury of excellent foes. It seems our bond was only an expedience to him, though.

This essentially confirms I can't trust Mipha moving forward. Tried to extend an olive branch to build something to fight off the Horse narrative of Mipha v. Urbosa, but if she is going to just pass along anything I say to her there's nothing much else to say here.

This is honestly a win/win situation for me, as either option neutralizes a player I don't see any hope of working with long term. It also undercuts this ridiculous push for Link as a consensus vote. No. Don't touch that cherubic Champion.

Considered trying to steal the Legacy Advantage from Sidon and passing it to Link to use just to ENRAGE Sidon even more. I may not have any shot of winning after this round, but I will at least try to make things entertaining for you, Guides and Spectators.