Stranded with Allies

First of all, Congratulations for making the merge on this All-stars season! It's a big accomplishment, you've outlasted 11 players, nearly half of the players in this game.

Here's where the real fun begins. Where legends are made and the real season is defined. I want to wish you the best of luck and I know I don't have to tell you this because you already know... Leave it all in the game, don't waste any opportunities because you may not get another chance to redo them.

So I have a lot of questions but I'll start with a few:

1. Now that the Merge is here and it has gone to an Individual game, how will your strategy change?

2. Are you worried about any alliances or groups in particular? Do you think that the previous tribal breakdowns will factor into this merge at all?

3. Are you concerned with any threats in the game, and if you are a threat... are you concerned with being targetted for being a threat?

4. Now that the merge is upon us, players begin to look towards the finals and WINNING the game. How do you plan on proving to your other players that you deserve to win amongst all of these all-stars?

5. Who would you ideally like to team up with and who do you want to see gone ASAP? Are you planning on stepping outside of your comfort zone and making new allies/friends in this merge?

Dan basically threw me out to the wolves / bitches that are the Nauru tribe by taking out Mookie. If we didn't merge, I would be out now.

I'm trying to assemble the votes to take out Dan. If you try to take me out you don't make any fucking half measures. You aren't fucking with N4. You're fucking with N8.

I feel like the Saipan 2.0 alliance is gonna be my only saviour at this point, excluding Sierra because all she's done for two seasons is ride Dan's dick, that leaves
Me, Penner, Tammy and Rich.

Tammy is partners with Heidi who hates Sugar so that's gonna be another number.

Val is unknown.

I'm throwing the book at everything on original Pohnpei at Ozzy to see if he can listen and give me a bit more clearance.

That should be seven and the only way this season can be saved from the Indonesia people. Ironically with the winner of Indonesia.

Ozzy told me he has idol #3. Need to keep that in mind.

Hi Nate.

Now that we've reached the merge, how do you feel about your position in the game?

Also, could you please break the tribe down for me from your perspective. How would you rank your tribemates in terms of trust? maybe add on a rating of 1-10 as well if you don't mind.

holy shit varner your new avi is so derpy. why is one of his eyes more closed than the other?

You mentioned earlier that Val is unknown, have you talked to her much at all?

no, we didn't get much time to chat during the PMpocalypse 2k16, and she wasn't on yesterday and sent me a confusing message about how she has a plan to be in a plurality but not a majority and that plurality created me and was like "do you trust me nate, i know i haven't spoken to you yet but I want you to enter this plan blindly, nate"

Today she messaged me that the idea of a plurality was stupid and she was drunk and that she was being pressured by poody calling her boring.

Now she sends me a message referring to this situation as a coin flip between Dan and Heidi, and I'm like - are you basing your votes off fucking coin flips?

And then she explains its like the concept of a coin flip and strategically it's luck based and then I'm like - do you not understand the idea of a social game?

How the hell is Val a winner again? I know Indonesia was a season that contained multiple 13 year olds, but I'm pretty sure both of them were smart enough to deduce that Val was going to win the season.

Like, Drew - who I believe is experienced, referred to me on multiple occasions as "collateral damage" in this game. I've had four PMs with this guy, two of which he called me collateral damage. AND HE WAS ONE OF THE PLAYERS YOU FELT LIKE BRINGING BACK. I'm relatively aware that I'm probably only here because CiCi said no and I wouldn't be offended by that, if the Indo players in this game weren't so fucking stupid. I wonder who from Indo turned you guys down for you to end up with this bunch of fuckwits.

Anyway, back to Val. So, basically how confident I feel with this group depends on how confident I feel with Val, I'm aware she was the bottom of Saipan but I wonder if she knows that or not. Not just for the minority, but for the later game where Ozzy and I would need to get the numbers to take out Penner and Tammy and Heidi and Rich, but lets be honest Rich is getting 3rd place no matter how this season shakes out.

Why, what is it about Rich that guarantees him 3rd place?

Dalegate. Nobody would vote for him in the end because of that, which makes him too tempting to not vote out to vote out.

He could play a Kim Spradlin-quality game from here on, and I still would doubt that people would vote for him.

The only way Rich is getting voted out if we all decide to put our differences and ambitions to the side for an episode and go for an easy consensus boot, and I feel like nobody would agree to something that - dull?

Actually, I can imagine people trying to go on the moral high ground and saying we have to vote out the cheater, but even then if that happens, I won't vote for anybody who tries to take the moral high ground. Fuck that shit.

Is Kim Spradlin your model for the perfect Survivor game?

i wouldn't say game, but i'd say the game that's most likely to get votes at a final tribal council.

the more i think about the mookie tribal council the more i'm just annoyed.

I remember Sugar posted "remember the 5x5", which like:
a) You don't say your alliance name in public
b) If you do so, don't name your alliance name after how many people are in your alliance because idk about Sierra, but I don't want to be the sixth person in the "5x5" let alone the seventh.
c) If you do, make sure that number is greater than half of the cast.

i think Dan/Sierra are probably voting me out this ep, which is why Drew and the Nauru's are being so weird to me. They spoke in the same way to me as they did when they voted me out in the first place, but they may be crappy enough socially that that's how they talk to people normally. Hopefully I win immunity, but I imagine this being the counting challenge I won in Faroe but I'm more tired here and my computer timer isn't consistent.

Everyone seems confident in Ozzy flipping with me this round, which means he's either good enough at this game that I'm not even mad or that he's actually flipping.

If I'm sticking with the Saipan group I'd need more of a contingency. The social make up of the alliance seems to be Heidi/Tammy, Penner/Rich, Me/Ozzy and Val floating by herself, with Heidi/Tammy/Penner/Rich as the main four. This means a follow up move would need to be made against them at some point this week (Probably around 9), for which we'd probably need to recruit Val as a contingency.