08: Cross My Heart and Hope to Lie

[Dominic]

FINAL 11 AND MARK IS OUT OF THIS FUCKING GAME OH MY GOD!!!!



Just saying, I've never loved Random.Org more than in this moment. It was honestly down to a coin toss and I'm so fucking excited to see Ben still in this game. This is honestly huge because for the first time ever, my little alliance of six is the majority!! Today will most likely be full of over-the-top celebrations by us because we are honestly ecstatic. We knew it was a risk but wow it paid off and I'm honestly so happy to see Mark become the victim of it! He has been nothing but rude to Ben and I and it's become really hurtful to the point that I'm laughing my ass off as he leaves this game by a ROCK after wasting his idol on the wrong person. How perfect is that?

ROFLMFAO
Mark rocks.
Pun intended.
THANKS FOR PLAYING <3

[Dominic]

The lies are flowing so heavily this round that I'm practically drowning in the bullshit. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't contribute though, but at least mine were necessary. So last we left off, Mark was rocked out (which is still making me laugh) and we are still not merged. All is set to win the next challenge so that Ben/Colleen/Ellen can vote off AJ or Cassie and it'll surely be an easy round, right?



After Mark's idol was rehidden and the endurance challenge commenced, Ellen and I were just Skyping while posting our little lives away. The plan was for Legatu to throw the challenge and head to an easy Judgement. Mark's idol then comes up in conversation and I ask her if there's any new clues... to which she answers no. About an hour goes by and Ben apparently texts her and says there's been clues up for like an hour and a half... I'm honestly a little pissed off because she obviously didn't look. She was then stressed as fuck and had every right to be. Ben hopped online and we quickly deduced the two clues were King and Rook, and that the eventual answer was "castling." After a few minutes of trying to convince them to guess it, they finally did and I was right! Yay, right? Wrong. The idol had been found. Which means either AJ or Cassie has it.... Way to fuck up a perfect round right?



So what the fuck do we even do now? It's infuriating because we fucking had this round clenched and we are SURELY (hopefully) going to merge next round. Now if Legatu were to go to Judgement, it would pretty much be a 50/50 shot as to who the idol would get played on. I don't like those odds at all... So to counteract this, we decided to throw the competition. And by "we" I mean the people that actually matter on my tribe: Luca, Selena, and I. The bullshit part of this was that before the idol was found, Luca/Selena/I were going to go for it and Thiago/Henry/Knox were discussing throwing the competition (obviously to save AJ/Cassie). Yet miraculously after AJ or Cassie (probably Cassie, who am I even kidding lol) found the idol over there, they are suddenly all about WINNING and TRIBAL UNITY. Please. Give me a fucking break. I'm sick of the lies and bullshit. We all know how this game is cut and now we're just seeing it play out.

Idk if you've watched the two seasons I've played, but as discussed before, I have a tendency to go down for my friends. So you better believe that this time, I FOUGHT AND GUARANTEED MYSELF IMMUNITY FOR THIS ROUND. Luca really wanted it which is admirable and all, but I'm not about to leave this game in 11th place after everything I've fucking done. After a semi-heated discussion on Skype, I pretty much told Luca that this was the only game I had and he had two other games. So suck it. Selena didn't really have much to say about it so yay there. So the plan goes through and BOOM! Legatu wins immunity and I got individual immunity over here. Hello Final 10 <3

After the challenge is where the real bullshit went down though... Henry, who has been talking and trying to get close to me for a few days now, approaches me with a scenario. To solidify our trust, he pitches that I get Selena and Luca to vote for him so that he will get immunity from the inevitable purple rock. Now if you watch Survivor or even know how the game is played, wtf is the first thing that will jump in your head? IDOL IDOL IDOL FUCKING IDOL. Oh yeah Henry that would be SO convenient if you knew how the vote was going. I'm no fool and I'm not about to take that chance for someone who has had like two conversations with me. So I just decide to get real with him and ask him straight up if he has the idol... since his whole point was to build trust with each other. So then he takes me on this mind-fucking adventure about how he has the idol but wants to save it and blah blah blah...

But things just aren't adding up for me so I ask him a simple question: "So what was the answer to the idol then?"
He then tells me the answer was "conundrum."



The ride was fun, but seeing how I guessed conundrum as well and was told I got it incorrect, I immediately knew he was lying and just trying to create idol paranoia. He then pretty much breaks down and confesses everything. Apparently Knox made a fake idol and they sent him over to befriend me and tempt/scare me with it. He then sends me the fake idol and it has instantly-noticeable differences from the actual ones. The main problem being the location of the letter on the idol. This honestly took me by surprise and was so fucking low! It also immediately killed any chances of me even dreaming of giving Henry immunity from the purple rock. Just in case they do have the idol though and this is a double whammy in terms of reverse psychology, I give Henry a little bit of hope that I'll still vote for him. But in reality, I'm pissed. Ellen, Luca, Selena, and I are constantly being labeled as horrible people and players, yet sending people over to befriend and lie to me is completely cool? I'm not okay with this at all. If they do have an idol, hopefully it gets flushed honestly and we benefit from the purple rock. I am so glad that I fought so hard for individual immunity this round because I would honestly be a wreck right now if not.

So here we go... ten minutes from the voting deadlines and all my lies are in full effect. I've pretty much delivered separate lies and stories to Henry, Knox, and Thiago and I'm not giving them any indication on how we're voting or what we're even thinking. They really unlocked the beast within by lying to me. This means war, motherfuckers, and let the fucking games begin.