Round 2

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Round 2! Yaay. Heard Emily got voted out. Doesn't affect me in the slightest. Anyways, just had a few more thoughts after come conversations last night.



First off, I am feeling a lot better about Chase. I really think what I was feeling in my confessional last round will be a 1 time thing. He and I had a small strategy talk last night, and it just reassured me that he really does trust me. For some reason I had this fear that he would go off with Henry and Quincy and ditch me. But I don’t think that at all anymore. He’s honestly just so easy to talk strategy too, because he both listens to me and gives me his input. He told me he thinks the two of us will go far, but he’s worried about us being seen as a pair. But what I told him is that I think that Cassie and I are SUCH an obvious pair, that it overshadows him and I being a pair. And I truly do believe that.
Speaking of Cassie, I told Chase everything that Cassie has said about him in regards to her not trusting him. And Chase is perfect at using this information to help him without making it obvious I told him anything. He went to Cassie and tried to clear the air, but he still was unsure if it worked.

Chase Ingmen (00:03:22): I still don't know if I trust Cassie...
Chase Ingmen (00:03:27): I'm trying to clear the air
Chase Ingmen (00:03:33): Something just feels off though

So I went to Cassie to investigate how she really felt.

Kirin (00:05:49): Have you got to talk to Chase yet?
koolio1414 (00:05:58): yeah!
koolio1414 (00:06:00): we cleared the air!
koolio1414 (00:06:02): such a relief!!

And of course, I told Chase this, and I think it assured him a little. So I’m feeling a lot better about this whole relationship. I hope it just continues to get better from here. They both just need to trust each other.

I talked with both Chase and Cassie separately about this season 3 alliance. This is kind of reminding me of Big Brother All Stars, when BB6 was kind of pushed into an alliance. I never would have thought about making a Season 3 alliance, but the others are clearly concerned. Cassie and Chase both seem kind of on the fence about it. They want to do it, but at the same time they don’t. But I feel like at the end of the day, they are more apt to want to roll with it. But for me, with all due respect to Kathleen, I’m just not as close to her. I love Henry too much to vote him out anytime soon, I’ve already bonded with Quincy, and I’m not ready to cast a vote for Thiago. I would be open to considering voting Quincy or Thiago, but I feel like if season 3 is going to vote together, they’ll want to vote for Henry…Cassie is like, really worried about Henry I think. So I don’t know. We’ll deal with that later I guess.

Other than that, not too much to report. I really love Quincy, I just enjoy talking to him so much and he’s SO nice. I LOVE Dominic, he’s seriously one of my favorite people in all of gvse and I feel like we just get closer every day. And I finally talked to Michael a couple of times. No big conversations, just small talk, but he’s being really nice. Not sure how far this is going to go, but I do appreciate him talking to me even if it’s just a little bit.

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Yesterday was a pretty crazy day here in GvsE world.

Well first off I’ll say, I finally got to talk to Colleen. Just small talk and she asked me about a season 3 alliance which I agreed to without sounding overly excited about it.

So this crazy day started yesterday morning when the challenge was posted. Quincy, Chase and I began to attempt to work on it, but long story short, it didn’t work out. So they kind of just got offline, and I was here staring at the screen for most of the afternoon. I was literally just waiting for Henry. I KNEW that’s who we needed. But Cassie came on in the afternoon, and we just knew we were going to lose, so we just started to strategize.

I’ll go more in depth with everything if/when we end up going to TC, but basically the first dilemma is voting Colleen v. Not Colleen. Voting Colleen is a good idea because it would end any suspicious of a season3 alliance in the event that there is a tribe swap. However, it’s a bad idea because if we do lose again and we’re on these same tribes, she is a for sure vote on our side. If we decide not to vote her, we would decide between Quincy and Thiago. (I love Henry and I refuse to vote for him right now.) Voting off Thiago is good because he’s a HUGE threat and super smart, and will be super dangerous if he doesn’t go soon. However, that is the same reason to keep him, because he’s another winner who will take the target off of us. Quincy is someone who could easily go really far in this game, but he probably doesn’t have as many allies and might be more likely to stick by us.

Chase came online, but he was running off to work, so I quickly presented him the scenario. His first reaction was surprise that Cassie would be willing to vote off Colleen. When I told Cassie this, she got worried that Chase would throw her under the bus with that information, but I told her he wouldn't. Chase then said he’d rather not vote off Colleen, but he’d have to think about it.



A couple hours later, Thiago came online. And this is when things got interesting. First, he randomly asked me if he thought I was the first to go, and I said I didn’t think so, which at the time was completely honest. He then told me that he hopes we keep him around because he’s good at challenges. Idk, I was just kind of annoyed that he was starting to campaign already. Then he told me he had to ask me something. He said it was something he heard from people on other tribes. I started to get nervous, wondering if I said anything bad about him to anyone. He was like hyping up this huge thing he had to ask me. This is what it was:

Thiago (19:05:40): before you respond i just want to say it all first
Thiago (19:05:57): so today at work i checked my phone a couple of times, and on my lunch break responded to some people who said hi
Thiago (19:06:20): and after a bit of back and forth i had two different people say to me that you and cassie are like best friends forever in real life
Thiago (19:06:33): i don't want to disclose who said this because i don't want to get myself into any trouble
Thiago (19:07:04): they are not on our tribe, i can say that. personally i found it a bit shady to throw that in there, it was as if they wanted me to be wary of you or cassie because of this
Thiago (19:07:17): now i don't really know who knows who and who doesn't like who so i just wanted to ask you if that's true or not
Thiago (19:08:16): i feel a bit at a disadvantage because i don't really know the community at all so i'd rather hear it from you
Thiago (19:08:29): i just found it a bit odd in an hey how are you whats up convo
Thiago (19:08:32): and how do you like your tribe etc
Thiago (19:08:40): and then "yeah and you have two like best friends on your tribe :X"
Thiago (19:08:51): to me, it's a sneaky thing to throw in there, but i heard it nonetheless
Thiago (19:09:04): and i don't want how it was presented to me to influence the way i view our relationship, if that makes any sense?
Thiago (19:09:12): anyway you can respond now i've said what i wanted to
Thiago (19:09:58): i mean easily i could have just not said anything to you but i have really enjoyed getting to know you and i'd like my intentions with you not to be blocked off because some people were in my ear
Thiago (19:13:32): one person said to me that you go to SCHOOL together and i was really shocked that i hadn't heard that before, and when a second person had implied to me that you two were close i asked if you two new each other in real life and they said no but you talk every day for years or something to that extent
Thiago (19:13:42): it seemed a bit exaggerated in both cases

To summarize my response to him, I told him Cassie and I have known each other for a while, we’ve been especially close since the end of gvse3, but we know how to separate game and friendship. But the fact that someone told him we go to SCHOOL together??? WOW! Ridiculous. I honestly didn’t realize that someone was that out to get us! I mean maybe they really thought that? But I doubt it. I wondered if maybe Thiago maybe made this whole thing up to make Cassie and I paranoid and trust him (Cassie later told me she thought the same thing) but I think I really believe that someone told him these things.

I really do appreciate Thiago telling me all of this. I think it's definitely a sign that he wants to continue to build trust with me. But to be honest, it didn’t do anything positive for me. It didn’t really make me trust him any more. Especially after this comment:

Thiago (19:22:48): for a moment i was worried because i think on the tribe i've bonede with both you girls the most
Thiago (19:23:07): and i was questionign whether or not it was a calculated attempt on both your parts to have me really like you both
Thiago (19:23:11): if youre going to school together
Thiago (19:23:27): so i was feeling a bit uneasy today so i'm glad i got to talk to you about it

Like, the fact that he thought that I could have been being fake with him in anyway is kind of like, idk. I’ve been totally genuine with him this whole time and I absolutely love him. And so I don’t like the fact that he thought I could be being skeptical. He explained to me after that he likes to explain his full thought process since he’s emotional, which I totally get. But still, I feel like he just made this too big of a deal. He could have just been like “Hey so I heard today that you and Cassie are best friends in real life, is that true?” That honestly would have gone a lot better with me. I didn’t need all this extra fluff to the story. It just reminded me how hard he’s playing. Then he said something about being worried about being seen as a threat, because he’s a winner. And I gave him my honest opinion: This is All Stars. We’re ALL threats in someway. Maybe I’m the only one who looks at it this way, but who cares if you won GvsE? Almost everyone here as won some ORG. We’re all threats. And so I’d never target anyone solely for doing well in this series.

Also, one more note about Thiago. After he told me all the stuff about Cassie & I being friends, he preceded to talk about how everyone thinks him and Ellen were super close, when actually she has been trying to use him for information. It was actually good to hear his true thoughts on Ellen. But in the back of my head, I can’t help but wonder if this is all some big mastermind plan. Also, he told me he wanted to tell Cassie all of this himself, but he wanted to know if she would freak out. I told him I didn't think she would, but he should ask her more casually, not do the most like he did with me. I was DYING to text Cassie right then and there and tell her everything, but I respected his wishes and restrained myself from doing so.

Anyways, so I put that aside for a bit once the challenge started. We got off to a really good start, thanks to Henry. I seriously just love Henry. He's like the lifesaver in every challenge, in my opinion. I like, never want to be on a tribe without him. He's just so good at everything and I love his leadership. Anyways, long story short, we did Henry’s system for about 2 hours, then Thiago took over and said let’s start over. I felt bad for Henry because he put so much effort into his system, but we were going kind of slow, so at the end of the day I guess it’s good we started over. I know Henry was kind of pissed off though. As this switch to the new system was happening, he was IMing me about how we’re going to lose and Thiago is going to try to post all the images and win immunity. It was clear to me who he wanted to vote out, and I was happy with that.

So we’re like having such a rough time with this challenge, so I message Chase freaking out that Thiago was going to win immunity and I didn’t know what to do. So he asked me if I would be willing to vote off Cassie. I literally sat there for about 3 minutes just thinking about it. Should I go for it? Should I get rid of this person who I am strongly associated with, who used the shit out of me in season3? It would help me play my own game so much. What a big move that would be, too. I told Chase I’d be willing to, but I didn’t even think we’d have the numbers. His response:

Chase Ingmen (21:17:37):
If Colleen knew that Cassie was considering voting for her, I bet she would

That’s when it hit me. I had told Cassie earlier that Chase would not use that info against her, and so I couldn’t let him. Also, Cassie is someone that I know will vote with me, and Colleen is always a wildcard. Chase trusts Colleen more, but I don’t in the slightest. So I told Chase I just couldn’t do it, and what I told him is 100% true:

Chase Ingmen (21:35:14): I see Colleen being more loyal
Chase Ingmen (21:35:25): But if you aren't comfortable with that, then that's fine
AJ (21:36:34): i'm really not. i'm just not close to colleen at all. it helps me in no way to vote her off before cassie. i've worked so hard on cassie to make sure she trusts you. the day she stops listening to me, i'll vote her off.
AJ (21:36:42): she didn't even consider for one second voting you off this round.

So I saved Cassie’s ass, to be honest. And I’m not going to tell her, because I don’t want her to doubt Chase. So they both owe me a thank you.

So we went back to doing the challenge. After we started over, we needed someone to post images. No one really was being blunt about wanting to do it, just because no one wants to be that person that’s like “I WANT IMMUNITY.” At first I was worried Thiago was going to get it since he was posting a lot, then I was worried Colleen was going to get it because she was going to post them. So when Quincy was doing nothing and innocently offered, I jumped on it. I IMed him privately telling him to do it, and he said he felt bad but he didn’t mind. But I’m so happy he’ll have the immunity. I don’t have any sort of alliance with him, we’ve barely talked game to be honest, but I don’t want him going anywhere. I just love him. He’s so sweet, so enjoyable to talk to, and not uptight like Thiago and Henry are. He’s just so relaxed about everything.

Cassie and I were talking on the side during the challenge. To be brief told me that Thiago told her everything too. We kind of exchanged notes and both agreed that he needs to go if we lose.

Final note, I love Chase. Just watching him dominate the challenge, I just get this good feeling. It's kind of like seeing your older brother just be the star of everything, and just being so proud. I seriously have the best ally in the game. He’s just so good. I feel so cool to have such a good relationship with him! I never want to vote him out, ever.

And for the rest of the night, everything went pretty smoothly. We all worked so well together! We all had a different role in the challenge. It was seriously teamwork at its finest. We are such a cohesive unit and I love it. I'm willing to bet we work together better than both of the other tribes. I’ll honestly be happy whether we win or lose.

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The best part of preparing for TC before the challenge is over is that results automatically become a win-win situation. I was absolutely ecstatic to have won, but honestly, I was completely ready for Judgement as well.

So don't get me wrong, it feels great to have won. I've already signed off AIM, haha, because I really just need to rest my brain for the night! I'm becoming one of those players who is playing this game non stop in my head. I don't think I've stopped thinking about it for the past 36 hours!

But at the same time, I kind of wanted to go to Judgement. I was more than ready to make a move and take out Thiago, one of the biggest threats in the game. Now, I'm worried. Worried that the information that he was going home will get back to him. Although Cassie is the only person who knew the final decision of who to vote out was Thiago, there were many other hints. During the challenge, when Henry told me that he didn't want Thiago winning immunity, I agreed with him. Then pushing Quincy to win the immunity through the posting...He could tell Thiago I told him to do that, which would insinuate to Thiago that I didn't want him to win it. So I honestly am moderately concerned about either of them saying something to Thiago. However, it wouldn't be smart on neither Henry nor Quincy's part to do that. All it would do would make me lose the trust I have in them, and right now, neither of them are on my radar at all.

Other than that, nothing really to report. Definitely a good day in GvsE today.

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Do me proud sister!!