Post by Riju on May 30, 2020 0:16:48 GMT -5
I mean, if you were open to voting Horse, Hunnie and I would have jumped on that (Hunnie can disagree if I'm not accurate there). We both got the impression that wasn't an option though.
The problem Hunnie and I had going into that tribe was that Epona was on Exile so we knew that we had to get ahead of the "an original Wisdom member has got to go" storyline that was inevitably going to arise if we lost so we made strong efforts to distance. Our tribe ended up being immune for that first tribal so the Epona scenario didn't happen but we'd already put out this distancing stuff so it would have been weird to then completely revert. And like, the distancing wasn't entirely false, like in the event that it was between Hunnie and me, I wanted to stick around and I assume Hunnie wanted to stick around, so there was a certain amount of self-preservation going on too.
But, like, if I had said Horse right off the bat, I would have been targeted anyway? I had zero connection with Hunnie, Mipha told me to trust you, Patricia told me to trust Kass, and Horse was the only person I knew going into that tribe. I figured my best bet was to work with Horsey that round to stay alive ESPECIALLY because literally not a single person threw out that name to me, ever. And why would I all of a sudden think to suggest voting Horsey when you told me that you had zero problem voting Hunnie?? Like, I really didn't have any other play. I couldn't also initiate that kind of a play when Horsey grilled me about where I stood with him. If they caught wind that I was going to vote for them after our conversation, that could have eaaaasily been used against me to paint me as a social threat who was playing everyone.
I really didn't think anyone would take the bait about going for Horsey. I had been told right before joining this tribe that Horsey was putting my name out there as someone to look out for (but not in a good way)....what was I going to do? Sure, I could have been like, hi people I don't know....down with Horsey! Who's going to join me?! But that goes well for basically no one ever. I thought I could smooth things over with Horsey and trust the people named by my allies.
I think the weird part about this game is that it literally did not matter AT ALL who you built connections with prior. Normally the friend of a friend thing holds some sort of weight in these games, but that was seriously not a thing with this group of folks. I didn't pick up on that soon enough, I guess.