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After the long-anticipated wait, Survivor Athena Motu Nui: Second Chances is finally available on DVD!

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Ep. 10:  Will I Regret This? Maybe... ~Ashley

I knew I would get fucked over by Jay yet again. The only reason I tried working with her is because going against a duo seemed stupid. At this point I hope Jack makes it cause he's honestly the only person I want to vote for. Good luck Jack, I may have forgot you were playing most of the time but you're the only good bean.

HERES THE TEA I WANT TO DIE! ULTIMATELY I WENT WITH KEEGLEY AT TO GO TO FOUR WITH, BUT I DONT KNOW IF THAT WAS A MISTAKE OR NOT. ASHLEY SAID SHE MIGHT TAKE ME OVER KEEGAN. HOPEFULLY JACK WONT WIN IMMUNITY AND I WILL BECAUSE YOU BET YOUR ASS IM GONNA DO MY FUCKENING BEST BUT I HAVE THE FINGER AND WRISTS OF A 90 YEAR OLD MAN. BUT IM GONNA DO MY DAMNDEST. Done w the all caps portion. Ashley says she might be willing to take me over Keegan to the end, and Keegan hasn't offered me the same thing, so that makes me think she might be being genuine. She also said that if she isn't willing to flip on Keegan, that she'll honor my request of going to firemaking, which I also hope is true. Yes, I would definitely lose firemaking to Keegan, but at least I'd have my fate in my own hands. If it's ever been time for my nonexistent challenge beast side to come out, tonight would be it. Please God. Writer fingers, don't betray me. Assholes. Ugh.

Boy do my arms hurt! But I did it, final tribal council. I'm voting out Jay because I think she has the best chance of winning. Plus? Lying to her after she's lied to me 3 times? Revenge is a dish best served in the final four.

SO OKAY. I'm trying to get keegan to vote me, Jack to vote ashley, and ashley to vote keegan. ashley has promised to let me go to firemaking and so has keegan. but the thing is, keegan thinks that jack and i are voting ashley and he and ashley are voting for me, but ashley thinks that she and i are voting for keegan and jack and keegan are voting for me. so. if this works. keegan goes home with two votes. and i make it to f3 without going to firemaking. like it's not great but it's possible.

So I lost final immunity challenge and Jack won. RIP So now me and Ashley are voting Jay. And maybe Jay and Jack are voting for Ashley. It could be a firemaking challenge to end the season. Which would be iconic and also interesting. I don't want to go against Ashley, so hopefully we're voting together. Im kind of hoping it goes to firemaking because I'd love for Jay to be next to be at FTC honestly, because I believe I can get more votes than her. But to be honest, Jack's probably won the season. He was entirely irrelevant for the whole game, but the jury might be bitter and he's angered no one on it and won some key immunities. That's it. 

Voting Keegan to make it okay for Jay to go to firemaking..... Will I regret this? Maybe... Will Keegan win? Probably, so hopefully ill get Jay's jury vote. Here we go. 

This might be my final Confessional! What an eventful night it was too. The live immunity challenge was Pressure Cooker, where we had to hold a cup above our heads for as long as we could. I did okay, made it to 24 minutes but ultimately lost to Jack. That was the worst case scenario. So following that we had a short time before a live tribal that evening as well!! I talked with Jay on camera for a while. Turns out she's a snake who promised her vote to Ashley if Ashley voted for me. So Ashley took the deal. And it resulted in a fire making challenge between me and Jay. She was cocky about how she's "written 6 novels" and the challenge involved writing. In the end, I won. Bye bye Jay. I don't feel bad, you brought this on yourself. As for what I've got planned for FTC? Well, a lot of Ashley bashing. Pumping up my own game. I'm going to go all out. I doubt I'll get any votes, since this jury seems pretty bitter, but I'm happy to have at least tied my placement in my first game ! 

Y'all ready to see a flop at FTC??? CUZ I SURE AM. I am freakin out. Everyone on jury has something against me and my only vote to win will probably be Jay. Tbh if I lose to Keegan I will be okay I guess..... But JACK?!?!??! yeah no thank you. Hopefully people can see that I at least played the game the whole time. And wasnt dragged. Woooooo 

Well, it's almost time for the FTC. I'm probably gonna be abysmal and ruin what little chance I have of winning, but that's fine.

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Ep. 9: When You Want To Die ~Ashley

I knew Jay was being fake and playing the emotion card. I'm so pissed, I'm usually fine with being voted out having alliance members go but this one, annoys me, a lot.

I AM SCREECHING. They thought they could flip the vote on me??? Wowwwww I bet Drew is wishing he had played the idol on himself right about now. How could he have thought Jay was getting votes? We needed her to vote WITH us. Which, obviously didnt work cuz she voted me.... Butthole. But it all worked out in the end. Keegan and I are safe, and we broke up two duos that couldve kicked our asses. So all we can hope is that Jack/Jay/LA dont gang up on Keegan and I, if they do we could be screwed. 

So tonight went...better than I expected. Drew went home and so did JD, which is scary but also good. I guess now I'm the biggest threat in the game. Which is bad. I think the only thing that can tank my game would be Jack and the whyanmars teaming up, making like a Goats with Knives alliance or whatever. Sheep with Claws? Idk. I still don't want to say I can win, but I still feel like I'm in an okay position. HOPEFULLY I can come up with some way to win the immunity challenge. HOPEFULLY they'll fix my wifi tomorrow. HOPEFULLY I can make it another vote. I think I could beat anyone left at the end. I'm just praying they don't realize that.

What an eventful night! So, after much deliberation the plan ended up being 3 votes drew, 2 votes jack. However, Jay was swayed by the evil side and ended up voting Ashley. So in the first tribal, it tied with 3 votes ashley, 3 votes drew, 1 vote jack. I guess JLAD ended up talking with Drew and Jack about trying to split up Ashley and myself but that plan failed and drew was voted out. And THEN I WON THE LIVE IMMUNITY CHALLENGE HECK YEAH. It was simple enough and Jack choked in the final round and I won. So, Ashley, Jay and I got to work. We reeled in Jack to vote JD and we split the votes between JD and LA. Not surprisingly, JD didnt play her idol. and on the revote we voted her out. Now, that may not have been the best idea jury wise. She'll probably be pretty bitter that we did that. But as long as we vote out Jack and LA next, and the final three consists of Ashley, Jay and myself, JD will have no choice but to vote for one of us. I'm a little worried for what FTC will be like, if I make it there. I;m hoping to crush this immunity challenge and be safe until final 4. Maybe i can just win my way to the end. I think I'm fairly safe with Ashley and Jay. But I've got Jack as the back up plan.

I found a photo set that sums up how I feel about my game right now so I figured one am was a good time to send it here. 

WE LIVED BITCHES AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH MY GOAT STRATEGY IS WORKING PERFECTLY

Amanda, Abbey, Duncan, Mitch

I'm not sure what's going on with. this tribal yet because I've barely been around. I flopped the challenge so hopefully Ashley or Jay pull out a win. If not, whoever of Jack or La loses is probably getting voted out.

Final 5 baby! Having everyone believe I'm naive and confused is working oh so well this time. This vote should be either on Keegan or Ashley, dunno who yet, but that duo needs to be seperated. I'm pretty much just taking the position of confused goat, even though that's not as much of the case anymore. Here's hopin' I don't get fucked. ________________________________________________________________ Final four is mine. Final three too, probably. The problem is I don't think I can win in any way, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When you want to die. 

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Ep. 8:  Jury Duty and Lower Andes are the Real Threats ~ Drew

Anyway it flopped and backfired and Kevin went home and I hope he still likes me.

Here are my parting words. Fuck Ashley and Keegan (probably). The only people I can trust are Jay and my goddamn dog. Kevin out

Okay so I was at work all day and while that was going on Ashley caught on to Jay and Kevin possibly feeding info to Drew. Or at least that's what JD and LA said. So, they switched their votes to Kevin. Which after a quick discussion with Ashley 5 minutes before the votes were due, we agreed it's probably for the best. So Ashley, JD, LA and myself all voted for Kevin. And Jay got a self vote. So with that, Kevin went home. And he said he had an idol in his pocket. Moving forward, it looks like Ashley, JD, LA and myself are now working together, rather than the Wholesome Happening. Is this a good thing? That remains to be seen. But at the moment I'm safely in the majority. And LA, Drews highest target is still in the game, providing me with a bit of a meat shield. This is a crazy game and so much is going on .

That.... Was not exactly what I thought was going to happen tonight but another potential number for Drew is gone. Hopefully, if we can get him to NOT BE IMMUNE, then we could MAYBE get him out. We still need to be weary of the idols and whatever. RIP Kevin. Poor baby. 

I swear to God. In this game I am Spiderman.... You know. My spider senses are tingling.... Or Deadpool, he's Canadian and he had a moment of "my common sense is ringing" 

I am truly amazed that we made it through that round. Am I happy with the way that is upset Jay? Hell no. Do I care? In the game no I don't care, in real life yeah I care. I'm not kidding when I say that I adore Jay, I'm just hoping that she doesn't hold it against me. But I would like to add that one the flip side of that, after tribal, Ashley told me that that herself, Keegan, Jay and Kevin were all working together and they were planing on taking out LA so, that is a huge reason why I don't care (in game) that she's upset. She ended up self voting because she had a headache, fare. If I have a headache I don't want to be anywhere where I have to think. If nothing else she knew almost all day that I was looking at voting Kevin and her only argument agent it was that it was a bad idea. I don't wanna say that she staged her headache, but it came at a very perfect time to keep herself natural. if it was a plan it was a good one really, I mean me and Lori don't look at her any different. She was always a number for me rather or not I was going to go to the end with her. Anyway, I tried to get Drew to give me the Rainbow Idol today, I think I almost had it too but I think in the end he felt that LA was going to go home anyway and I was going to be bitter and I wouldn't have given it back. The real question was if I was actually going to give it back or not. IDK! Probably, unless he won the next challenge, then I would have held it hostage so I didn't get sent home with it. Or I would have tried to use it to send him home, I don't really know what it does so I'm also unsure what I would have done with it. So other then my big melt down that I am surprised didn't send me home, like why did they still vote for LA? If that was my group I would of had them switch the votes. like the first time Drew does not win immunity, I probs wont vote for him, might go for Jack instead. I really do need to send Lori home though, I can't go to the final with her other wise (if Jay is not with me) I can hear her question already and I don't think it would be good... Probably me to Lydia in my season. I was not the nicest person ever. I think that at this point everyone knows that I have an idol, I think that Kevin went home with one and Jack has the other one? Maybe, if I heard him right. Anyway, it wouldn't have mattered if Kevin had the idol or not, it really came down to Keegan and Ashley on that one, the only way that Kevin would have been comfortable enough  not to play it was if he knew he had the numbers. BTW AMANDA! That was a very long pause at tribal! Whos gonna play it... Probs because I ranted in the host chat about my metal struggles. Anyway.... I'm obsessed with this face so have another one: 

You wanna know how I feel about tonight? About my biggest ally and only real friend going home because of MY stupid ass plan? About being totally out of the loop with my allies? About everybody being angry at me and yelling at me in pm about how stupid and frustrating I am? About BEING as stupid and frustrating as I am? About spending two hours making a spreadsheet for the challenge and then fucking up after ten minutes even though I'm literally gonna go home without immunity?

I just fucked up in the challenge, I feel like I didn't make it high enough to win which sucks cause I'm pretty sure I needed to win this one. 

Kevin was voted out, and it's a good thing because it seems like he flipped which is what we were worried about.

Jay is upset though? I get it seems like we've all paired off but I can't go to ftc with JD and apparently she was using my name last round, its only a matter of time before one of us actually goes for the other.

I'm also unsure if Jay is really upset or playing us, which sounds terrible but people say she's a really good player and this would be a good move. I DON'T KNOW. I like Jay and don't want her upset but I also don't wanna be played, the struggle of this game.

The last thing is JD claims to have an idol now. Kevin said he had one too and someone already used an idol ? so I don't know.

Only thing I know is Drew needs to stop coming at me every tribal. 

I'm so sad. I miss Kevin. I don't trust JD and LA and I don't trust Drew even though he's being nice to me and Jack hates me and I'm assuming Keegan and Ashley don't like me because they never talk to me. I know I'm objectively in an okay position because I'm still in the middle, but I'm tired of the middle. I'm mad at the initials and I'm sad. 

So Lori said she flipped this challenge with 40 bundles. I'm hoping this turns out like post every ten minutes challenge cus she thought she flipped that one too. I've got 61 so if she flipped then I really didn't do that great ether. 

Okay 110th confession today. Time for a classic Jay B confession. Anyone who's hosted me knows. It's the confession where I decide it's time to go balls to the wall. To really go for it in the game and stop giving a fuck. So that's the plan. Drew has one of the most crackedt plans I've ever heard up his sleeve, and I live for it. Everyone who's wronged me can vote for me at the end. Everyone left in the game (besides Jack hi) has done better than me in any game I've ever played. I deserve better. Fuck everyone except me. Villain Jay is coming out to play. She's back. She's in. She's going to kill everyone. I don't care. Goodbye.

Still unsure about where Jay really stands and JD needs to go, jfc. At this point it feels like she's running the game, along with Keegan and Ashley. I don't wanna suggest blindsiding Keegan right now because I think Jay will flip when we do but idk. I also have to work soon so I can't plot for long. fsdghriuhdfgdf. 

So! Here's the tea! The tea, besides the fact that I'm going to win, is that I'm with Jack and Drew. Basically, I really really feel like the initials have been playing me this entire game. Love them to death, really, but. Well. JD put my position into perspective when she told me the plan for tonight (hers is 3 on jack, 2 on drew, supposedly) and said "Ashley and Keegan are already on board with it." Look JD, if ashland and kegels are your f4, you need to be way more subtle. If you're making me choose between being #5 in one alliance and #3 in another, it's probably better for me to be #3. I'm the only person who doesn't have an f2, so all I have is to pray that this season is an f3 and stick with the people who can get me there. If I could get the initials to go for Keegan or Ashley tonight instead of drack, that would be ideal, but if they won't, then I'm definitely done voting with them. So there's what's happening, confessional gods. ________________________________________________________________ Update I just had the ugliest realization of my life. My best chance to win. Is. To go with. Keegan and Ashley.

I'm dying tonight. Or rather, I truly hope I am not dying tonight, but I am more than willing to put myself at risk to follow my gut. I've been holding onto the hope that one day Alley and Kieran would see reason. That Jury Duty and Lower Andes are the real threats, they're the only ones who can beat each other. And every time, both of them have turned against me, Ashland especially. Jack-O-Lantern Designs literally has immunity and a hidden immunity idol, and a best friend in Legal Analysis. On the flip side, Laser Attention has the battered player syndrome of having to survive being targeted so long to get to the end. IT'S INSANE TO STICK WITH THEM. And yet Geaken and Halsey seem to be perfectly fine with either 2nd and 3rd, or 3rd and 4th, or 4th and 5th. So I've given up on them. Tonight, Jay has been told in her alliance chat with Jefferson Davis and Lily Aldrin that the vote is going to split 3-2-2, to prepare for my idol. She says they're leaning toward 3 on Jack and 2 on me, because the majority of idol possibilities, minus the topaz idol, would still leave them with some form of revote possibilities. I do have the topaz idol, but I feel like that's completely irrelevant. I'm not playing it on myself. They lied to Jay about voting for Kumquat after Steven, and then they lied again to send Kevin home. I don't trust this plan is real, I can't for even a second, because I don't think they're gonna go with a plan that leaves them that vulnerable. So the topaz idol is being played on Jay B tonight. She doesn't know it. Jack doesn't know it. No one knows it but me. And I suppose now you as well, dear readers. But I genuinely believe that their four are going to vote for Jay and blindside her and get me to flush my idol, and they'll all be fine. They'd still have to contend with me, but they'd have four strong. Anyway I guess if this is my last episode, it's a really good bookend to my Athena journey. My first game, I got sent home because of an idol, because I didn't follow my gut and got it played on the wrong person. This season, if I go, it's not because I sat here trying to protect my own interests. It's because I followed my gut to its logical conclusion and gave myself the potential for keeping my best chance of making it to the end. I hope I'm right, I hope I'm not buying myself 7th place, I hope I'm still here tomorrow, but I'm okay with this. This feels right.

Apparently JD/LA/Keegan/Ashley are splitting votes on me and Drew? Unless they're lying, then probably they're all voting Jay. We're gonna try to vote for Ashley I think? My only chance at making ftc is to look confused, which... isn't very hard.

So it's a double tribal sort of tonight. Tribal, challenge, tribal. All within a single night. RIP. So JD is spewing out all these scenarios and ideas for how we should vote and I guess it's fallen into 3 votes for Drew and 2 votes for Jack. Honestly though I think that's a waste. Drew has that rainbow idol and I can 100% guarantee he's playing it tonight, so why throw so many votes on him when we know they'll be negated? But it's JD's plan so when it fails and LA is likely voted out, we can push the blame onto her. Which is fine. I think Ashley and I are in a pretty good spot. We've got LA and JD as one alliance and then another with Jay. As long we don't get votes sent towards us for either of these tribals we'll be golden. If we vote out Drew or Jack at the first tribal, it could be best for Ashley and myself to then flip it around and vote out LA or JD. We need to keep ourselves on the top. 

So this day has been interesting. I'm now at the point where I'm betting my idol to people that I'm not sure if I even want to go into the end with. I'm so unsure if I want Ashley and Keegan with me or not because I feel like they just know more people and those people could very easily asssume that they did all the stuff and I just came along for a ride. I would be the 3ed, there is no way around that but I don't wanna be the 3ed. But I can't make a move on then yet because without them I don't have the numbers. Okay so the day started with me at work going over ..... Wait maybe I should go back a little father. Like day before yesterday, when Kevin got voted out the 'i killed and eel, I buried it's guts' alliance started but I wasn't a huge fan of it cus I like Kevin and I feel like he was the eel. I want to say that maybe we shouldn't have voted him out but there was no other way, during that vote it was clear that he had flipped on us so he had to go. So anyway, I told them I'd go to the final with them. I mean if everyone thinks i have finals with everyone else then I might as well do it. Can't have people thinking that I do t want to go with them but that is go with the rest of the tribe. Earlier me and Keegan had worked out a plan to vote 3votes for drew, 2 votes for Jack and 2 votes for whoever they vote for. I worked though 4 possibilities. And only 1 has any real negative on them because of the possibility of all vote to Drew turning into votes for the person Drew votes for. So whoever him and Jack vote for will end up with like... Enough votes to go home. In my mind that is LA, the only reason he would have to change his vote is of he knows I have the idol and that I am playing it on her. Which I'm not and jay say she didn't tell him so there should be no reason to change the vote. And I louse my alliance member. 2. Top two votes are safe and in a 2-2-3 with LA, Jack, and Drew. They are all save and then we would have a re-vote (or maybe Amanda will take us right to rocks to save time but I didn't tell them that one) 3. Drew's idol can be played after the vote which, as far as I know has not been done before so idk if Amanda would put it in a second chance season. But if that's a thing then there would be a toe and a re-vote and goodbye jack 4. Most unlikely and now near impossible. Jack and drew uses idols and LA goes home. But Jack said he hasn't been to the reef I a long time. That being said I don't think he'd have been able to get the idol, the rainbow idol. He's just too.... Not into it I guess. But what better what to hide it then to to have your alliance member say they have it and then play dumb. Anyway, me and Keegan bother got the beginning idols, Kevin might have gotten the one after merge andif jack hasn't been to the reef in a wheelchair he wouldn't have gotten the one Keegan had used. So it was set that we would do a 3drew, 2jack vote. But now it's all kinds of fucked up. In 100% sure that Keegan and Ashley are flipping while I am saying this. They are probs gonna promise not to vote for drew and they will probs vote for jay. Because they don't trust her and if they find out that drew isn't using her then why keep her and I have immunity and an idol. I could use my idol on jay, assuming that my gut is telling the truth and they are flipping. My guy has very rarely been wrong and if that is all the case then idoling Jay is the best move. But at the same time I'm just like... Jay thinks that drew is convinced that she is with him. But ready... If he took jay over Keegan and Ashley then he wouldn't really have the numbers. It's going to be one hell of a night and we'll see what happens.

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Ep. 7: Like Juggling Chainsaws ~Kevin

Okay so. that worked out well. I think that was pretty much the best way it could go, like obviously there's no perfect outcome or anything. So. I'm now in my third alliance that has Jay in it, and fourth alliance overall. Ashley's also in an f3 with JD and LA but anyone in that position would know they're the third wheel so thankfully she's like no. This is still good because she's gonna tell us all the tea they give her which Jay and I can compare to find out the truth. It's kinda amazing how the stars have aligned so that we're in the middle of everything. It's a stressful position but it feels great. We hold the power and we get all the info so we can make the best and most informed decision. I think it's best to come clean about our alliance with JD and LA (or J-LAD as Jay called them) lest we get exposed by them. Being in all these alliances is like juggling chainsaws, but like juggling chainsaws if you pull it off correctly you look really cool. Also it's good for our game and stuff. ________________________________________________________________ Okay I hate being in all these alliances like Drew's complaining to me about being on the bottom and like that sucks but I don't know what to tell you bc like I'm in this messed up tangled up web of alliances like I can't make any promises to you when I'm already committed to like half of the people in the game okay? Also Drew told me that like the f6 would be me Jay, JLAD, and Keegley, and that JLAD would be the swing bc there's no way that Keegley would align with Jay and I'm like OprahFingerWag.gif.  

Kevin for the past YEAR AND A FUCKING HALF: Oh, Drew is such a rat, he's never worked with me, even though he always says he wants to, he would have flipped on me in Pompeii too, remember PI All Stars, remember Motu Maha, never trusted, always dissed, never stanned, he's a snake, why do you fucking do this to me every time, we could have worked together, we could have had everything!! Me: Kevin, I am with you and Jay above all others, this is my team, this is my family, and nobody is getting in the way of my family, this is it for me, y'all are it for me, let's do this Kevin: Well actuallyyyyyyy :~) Kevin: https://gyazo.com/4e0bbd0baf3d7d7c5b0da7c6557bb2c7 Kevin: okay so i'm sorry about that. it was kinda my uncertainty with jack like i mentioned before and paranoia and also i just wasn't like certain about steven since like this was my first round with him Kevin: this game just so messy Kevin: i'm honestly just taking this game one step (or round i guess) at a time Kevin: and i wish i could tell you something but i don't want to lie even more or make any promises yet bc like i said it's figuring things out one step at a time What's a guy gotta do to make a damn friend? Because the answer is clearly not "To make a friend, you have to be a friend." Not even for family. Not anymore.

Drew needs to stop fucking winning so I can get him outta here. Next I thought Jack would be going but I guess no one else wants that?????? Saying its too easy to get him out.... Like bitch aint that what we want? I mean I could see Drew seeing a Jack vote coming and playing his rainbow idol on Jack to vote out whoever they want. But Kevin mentioned not even going for Jack and finally separating JD and LA. I like that idea but then I am scared some people will then just flip to Drew. And in an alliance of 4 that wouldnt be so great.

Me: thankful that this round might be easier because everyone sane person in this game would want Drew out Drew: wins immunity Sigh. So I guess it's time for yet another fun round of screaming, panic, stress, overthinking, and even more screaming. It's time for us to separate the JLAD duo. From what Keegan said we're gonna split the votes between them and Jack. I personally wanna get rid of JD because I feel like she trusts me less than LA does, and idk she feels...shadier and like the more stubborn one. I feel like I have more wiggle room with LA? Probably? 

Oh man. I dun goofed. I played an idol so wrong it's almost right. Everyone and their mother was saying the vote was between me and Steven but someone lieeeeedddd. Jay lied. And Kevin lied. I guess drew talked to both of them about blindsiding LA. And yet neither told me it wasn't my name so bye bye idol. Aaaaand now I'm in the "Wholesome Happening" alliance with Jay and Kevin. So that's interesting. Ashley is also in that with us. She says she's also with JD and LA in an alliance chat. Hopefully she sticks with us. I guess the plan for tonight is to break up JLAD, while throwing Jack's name out there in hopes of drew playing a rainbow idol on him. It's unlikely but maybe. Either way, as long as the four of us vote for JD or LA, we should all be safe moving forward. And now we have to hope Drew doesn't win immunity next challenge. 

hhhhhhhhhhhso. Drew got immunity, which is annoying, because it means he probably won't play his idol tonight as we were all hoping. The plan is kind of....unsure at the moment. Kevin and I are still playing the middle, which kind of sucks and kind of is great because it feels like we have some power. I think I might actually be in a really good position on the tribe. Keegley trusts me and J-LAD trusts me, and Kevin trusts me. I might be able to wiggle in with Dreck. So that's good. The easiest thing would be to pick off Jack - probably everyone could agree on that and it wouldn't be too hard. But long term, this could be Kevin's and my only opportunity to separate LA JD. It feels like this may be the vote where we have to pick sides. But, from past games, I'm of course wary of making a big move and making myself known as a strategic threat. Hopefully I can pin it all on Keegan? I'm CONSIDERING the possibility of self-voting so that, after this vote, I can pretend that I was with everybody. If there's a majority on LA without me, that might be the best thing, but I still have to get the keegley+kev alliance to choose between JD/LA. My goal is to be able to make Keegan or WHOMSTEVER think that voting LA was their idea, not mine. Basically, after this vote, I want everybody to still love me and for everybody to be in my pocket. I think the self-vote might be the only way to preserve my position, because if I vote with either group, I'm gonna lose trust somewhere, and if I throw my vote, I'm going to seem like I was torn. With a self vote, I can pretend that I was 100% with EVERYONE and just blame it on...an excuse I haven't considered yet. Stay tuned. Hopefully tonight we'll see a bLAndside (Ali suggested that pun to me I'm so sorry.)

I've done some research and the results will SHOCK you. Drew is basically the Jordan Pines of this season. -He's kinda a duo with Jack C -Jordan's close ally, Jack C, went home at f9. Drew's close ally, Steven, went home at f9. -Both have the Rainbow Idol -Everyone wants him gone but he keeps fucking winning immunity The facts don't lie. #StayWoke I just realized I'm killing two of my Taveuni children in a row I'm a horrible parent

2. Who is in the best position? 17. Who has the most final two deals? 20. Who would you like to go on a romantic date with? I would say that me and lori are in the best position but that done not mean I have the most final two! It's it a final three anyway? Or did I not read something again? I'm flattered, that two people would want to go on a date with me <3 I know I'm hella cute~ hahah But okay, enough of the fun. The game is really starting to get me stressed, I don't wanna be the person that goes home with an idol in their pocket but I don't wanna waist it. I don't believe that the vote is for Jack, just doesn't make since at the point. I know I was all for sending him home before but at this point you need to keep the numbers, with eight people and there is always the possibility of flipping so me and LA need to decide asap who we are going to go to the end with but I think that we are leaning towards Ashley and Keegan just because we don't have that much trust for Kevin at this point. If we voted Keegan or Ashley now then the other one would get pissed and flip. On that I think that Jay would stay with us if we explained that we thought Kevin was playing both side, which I think he is and I know she is but at least she is telling us what is going on. This is literally the make or break it vote, I would use the idol to save the people that I want to but again, I don't want to waist it. But maybe if I can convince Jay that I'm throwing her name out there cus I think she is the flipper, tell her I have the idol and that I will use it on her then maybe we can still win this.... I might have to give her the idol and just pray that the vote isn't for me or LA again. I just  don't know if it is worth it... Is it worth it  or is it not worth is... THAT is the question! 

Amanda So its been a while since I gave my thoughts on the game so here we go... We have 4 pairs right now. Keegan/Ashley, LA/JA, Kevin/Jay, Drew/Jack. Everyone wants to split up LA/JD, and it seemed to be working so far, but JD is catching on that these pairs are gonna have to cannibalize on each other soon, so she wants to get a head start on that. Then Jay had this crazy idea about intentionally self-voting? Like, I get her strategy but like, seeing it from this end, every vote is gonna count and if she doesn't vote, it could go very badly for her. I dont know what Drew is thinking because the kid hardly makes confessionals and he isn't in any alliance chats. ugh... To be perfectly honest, I really don't know how this vote is gonna go. 

Okay! Game changer! JD just messaged me saying shes potentially willing to vote out LA and not work with her in order to advance her game and I'm......shook. I don't need to do anything devious if JD is willing to just go with the plan. I'm. whew.

njkdhbfboajniog I DONT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING! I NEED ALI!! OKay so i don't know if I am really planing on doing this but I mean... maybe? I'm really worried that she is going to go home and I think that it's stopping my game. I need to stop worrying about what is happening in her game and just play mine. dear god.................................. If this is what happens then Ali is right and I am like... The chick that voted out her mom o.O If I think that I actually have the people voting for her though, we can vote where ever we want and I can play my idol on her but... My game... I dont know yet. A) 

or B) 

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okay so my 'i dont know what Im doing' really just fucked me over. I'm dumb and I panic and I dont think about what I say and this is a prime example. ________________________________________________________________ I suddenly feel like Matt Fucking Summer in.... My season. ________________________________________________________________ Truthful I think that me and LA are on the bottom, that Drew is really good with talking with people and that he is ether in the process of flipping or has already flipped, you, jay, kevin and keegan. I think that if LA went home then I would be able to play my own game and maybe me, Ashley and Drew could go to the final, just with no alex. I also think it's stupid to take Drew to the end. so that's a no go if she goes home I dont have to worry about her but I also dont have to that solid extra person ether . ________________________________________________________________ After the mental mess I put myself though and the mess I made of things. I wouldn't be surprised if I go home tonight, but I still feel like Lori will go before me so I mean... Maybe. Hopefully. Well see if I life to make another confession

Alright so I have a quick question, what the fuck. Jay told me JD came to her and was like hey I'm voting Kevin and Jay's like um maybe don't do that and JD's like so you're good to vote Kevin?? I know she's cracked but??? This is a new level. I have a feeling Drew might be up to this mishap but idk? That's kinda my automatic assumption but oh well. If any idol hijinks happen tonight I'm playing my idol because I trust approximately 1.5 people in this game. 

Okay we're trying to vote LA again. It will hopefully be me, Kevin, Jay, Drew, Ashley, and Keegan, but who fucking knows anymore. All I know is I'm going to try to exploit my current confused status to get people to take me to the end.

I'm way less certain about this tribal council than the last one. Last time I was confident about where everyone else was voting. With the way JD's been acting I'm a little nervous. And if Drew has done some crap then it's 4-4 with the other side having the advantage since Drew has immunity nnnn. I know Drew does want the other side out so hopefully he's not snaking me. Also just nervous because Jay and I's mist has been kinda fading. Our mist isn't even mist it's like, water vapor. Our status as a duo is obvious but since it's kind of a duos game at this point that doesn't make us a threat. Still though...yikes

This is why Drew is going to win. I broke one time and told jay and Ashley that I wanted to vote for Lori and drew got a hold of it and now that's it. They are going to send her home and if I use my idol on her then I'm fucked because then no one will believe that I will vote her out. But then do I trust that they are voting out Lori and not me? Im not going to turn on her right now, not if it's to help someone else. If we vote Kevin and it doesn't work then I guess I'm gonna have to kiss some ass but otherwise... 20 minutes to go

Either Kevin, me or JD are gonna get blindsided tonight. It's been too quiet. And its that kind of day. Rip.

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 6: Send Help to 123 Internet Street Pleathe ~ Jay

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Excuse my French but fuck Ashley 

Alex was blindsided and is now the first member of the jury. I was not expecting that. But now we're merged and officially on jury! Ive got Ashley on my side, Kevin on my side, hopefully LA on my side, and hopefully Drew as well. I'll have some explaining to do to Drew about why Alex was voted out (should be easy enough). I still have my idol, thank god. Now to just power my way through the merge. I can do this. I'll stab everyone in the back if I have to. 

The peak of this game will probably be me naming the merge tribe. It's all downhill from here for me. I'm super glad LA survived because I didn't want a Taranaki to go home and out of the two over there I definitely didn't want her to go home. I think/hope this sets up things good for me. We have 4 OG Taranaki's, and even if Keegan strays away we have a core 3 in an alliance together. Then we have JD with us, and then Drew wants to work with us, and then we also can probably work with our swap tribe together since Jack will probably just follow whoever gets to him. That makes our options between...2 people. Ashley and Steven. I don't have much to go on, but seeing how Ashley flipped it that makes her seem untrustworthy. Steven is fresh off of a blindside so he's probably looking for allies, and I can be that for him. Of course, and I know I say this like every round, there's the possibility of voting for Drew... But I don't think I'll be in danger this round. I don't think I'm a threat to anyone but I'm still in a good position to carry myself farther into the game. But there's no doubt that someone's gonna shake the game up sooner than later. 

OMG! Thank GOD!! First off I am so happy that LA is still in it and I am sooooooooo happy that Alex is gone. I was actually trying to think of who I would get together to vote him out, I think we could have done it but it's nice not to have to worry about it. If I were Drew though, I would be feeling a little worried. Who are left: Ashley LA Drew Kevin Jack Steven Jay B Keegan Me Out of that group I am working with.... LA, Kevin, Jay, Ashley, Drew, Jack and Steven... Yikes. I mean my final four right no is still Me, LA, Kevin and Jay and Ashley for the final 5 I guess. I'd like to see Drew or Keegan going home next, preferred Drew too I think so long as Ashley is okay with it. I'm not sure if she wants to leave that whole group but since she voted Alex I think so. And me and LA tell her that we have a f3 with her then I can see her sticking with the chicks. Anyway, bless Alex but glad you're gone <3 I'm sure it wont be that last game I see him in though~~

im scared and confused and being held hostage by amanda pls help i just wanted to win

I can't believe that worked. I was content just going for Steven and saving myself but Alex just blew me off after going to him and said he think he had his group. Like this is survivor, don't tell people you're good, you lie and hear people out. Thankfully, his cockiness saved me and Ashley was willing to make a big move. Now I'm in an alliance with her and JD along with Charlotte's Angels still. I shouldn't have to worry too much, but that was only the first blindside.

Omg! I forgot about Steve! Steve is left too!!  >.< I think I'm almost disappointed that it's not a lip syncing challenge. Just because I've been playing this song for like.... Hours now but this is better I think, less embarrassment anyway XD ________________________________________________________________ I don't think I really have anything to say sayyyyy.... The guy I like got a hair cut?? Ummmmm bought new shoes...... Ummmmm don't think I did too well at the challenge but I'm trying to get my alliance and Ashley to spill where we have been looking to narrow it down, assuming someone didn't already find it Annnnd assuming Amanda actually put another one in. I guess we'll see. 

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Amanda: confess... Confess.... Confess... Confess... Me:

Listen up, kids. Children. Infants. This is Athena Second Chances. This is your time to come back to prove yourself, and show that you've learned how to play,  and you're not going to make the same mistakes you once did. You're better than all that now, right? Well for all your learning and going back out into the world to grow, you missed out on a rather important lesson. There are two things you NEVER give me: an enemy and a cause. So thank you, Ashley and Keegan, but especially Ashley. I may not win this season. But now, neither of you will either. You write Alex's name down, you die. It's literally that simple. Amanda would have put it on the rules page for me but we really thought y'all would be smart enough to pick up on it, but oh well. LA, babe, I see you too, but like do I really? Have you done anything besides search for Maui? Eh whatever, you can go too. Steven, you're aces, you're good people, I'm having you at my wedding and my FTC. I was barely here for this season, but you know what? I think I'm gonna start playing now.

Amanda Me after reading Drew's latest confessional 

So I just got back from a weekend away with my boyf and I'm just catching up on the game tea, but the biggest thing is that Drew messaged me to say he wants to gut Keegan and Ashley, which is pretty much my dream in this game. He also said he wanted to go for LA which I don't want to do, but he's given me a couple rounds to worry about flipping on my alliance. I don't want JD and LA to stay in the game together too long, so stay tuned.

Whew. Time for thoughts on what's happened. So I searched today and got my final stamp. Of course, someone else already has the idol. Out of the people in my alliance, I could definitely see LA getting the Rainbow Idol, because in Taveuni she went pretty quickly through the stamps. Outside of my alliance... Well, definitely not Jack. He wandered through the reef like a bull in a china shop. I could see Drew doing well. Steven, nah. It's a low possibility. And then for Ashley and Keegan, I don't know much about them so I have no idea. Sooo, yeah, that's out of the window. My best bet is to just ask for the Rainbow Idol after every tribal and hope that the person who had it was blindsided? Not the best strategy but it'll have to do. So I went to my alliance and told them someone has the Rainbow Idol. Unless one of them's a snake this is new information to them. now my alliance is going to collab on the Rainbow Reef, fun times. And after we decided to do this I realized I forgot I could keep searching after I found a stamp, so then I do that. And then I find an idol. Unfortunately the puzzle was ugly because half of it was sorting different shades of grey like what the fuck. Now if I were a true teammate I would tell my alliance it's there and then we could still have it in our power. But I don't know about thaaaaat. Because there's still one more day to get the idol, so I'm gonna take another chance. If I fail...I might not tell them still, it'll depend on my mood. ALSO, the latest news in the anti-Drew-even-though-we're-allies show: he comes to me and he's like "I hate Keegan" and I'm like "why" and he's like "he killed Alex" and I'm like "who the hell is Alex" And basically he wants vengeance for this "Alex" person and I'm like that sounds nice but I like Keegan. If they butt heads this tribal...uh, yikes. I don't know who I would choose. So...yeah! ________________________________________________________________ Of all people to win immunity... Sigh. I don't think I want Keegan to go. But who do I want to go? Well, Drew's out. And Keegan's out, which leaves 6 people. And then there's my alliance, which gets rid of half of them. And why would I want to get rid of Jack? So...Steven versus Ashley. The obvious choice is Ashley, but that's for me... Hm. ________________________________________________________________ I FOUND AN IDOL BITCHES!!! KELLEY WENTWORTH SHOOK. RUSSELL HANTZ SHOOK. BITCH IM SHOOK TOO WTF. Whew. So. This will probably be useful. I don't think I'll need it right now, and I'd like to hang onto it for as long as I can anyway so. Also...Drew officially has the Rainbow Idol. Of course. Sigh. But...he apparently trusts me, bc he suggested an alliance of me Jay and Steven. I think we can use this alliance to make him feel even more comfortable. Now that I know he has the Rainbow Idol I want him gone ASAP, and maybe (if we do everything right) we can do that next round. This is plan is tentative, and it relies on three people not winning immunity. Basically since he wants LA and JD out we can ~split the votes between them~ and then Jay and I can flip and get rid of Drew. Buuut again, it's tentative, and it's best not to plan too far ahead right now. But if I do send Drew home I can get my hands on the Rainbow Idol (maybe (if i'm quick enough idk)) and then I'll have two idols??? God I'm most certainly gonna fuck up but that's okay it's the effort that counts

I'll open by saying that I love LA and JD a lot. I really enjoy them both and think they're wonderful people, but as players? I HATE WORKING WITH THEM. SO MUCH. They're both relatively inexperienced players, especially when compared to me and Kevin, but they both have this 'I know exactly what I'm doing' attitude that makes me want to fucking SCREECH. I know Keegan and Ashley. I've known them longer than JD and LA have been playing ORGs. They're dangerous players. They're not going to work with me. Keeping them in so that JD and LA are comfortable means that I'm going to repeat my placement from FVF5, tbh. I don't like being strong armed by players who know a lot less about strategy than me. And I've watched JD play first hand as a host. I know how overthinking and crackedt she gets. I can't work with that. Drew suggested that we could go for LA. And I'm. Considering. That. ________________________________________________________________ Okay another update! Drew has the rainbow idol, he says it functions as a topaz idol and he had to choose between a bunch of idols with different powers. I might believe it I'm not sure. Basically I need to choose if Drew is going to beat my meat shied or if JDLA (wish they had a better pair name since they're literally one person) is going to be my meat shield. I think Drew is a better meat shield because he's more powerful. I don't want to be on his bad side. I don't want to be on anyone's bad side. On top of everything, Kevin has an idol. So the two of us are trying to figure out what kind of thing we want to do. No matter where we vote, we're choosing a side and making enemies.

Oh my God i HATE this round. I would try to recount the countless scenarios I've gone over, but quite honestly I can't remember. As of now, here's the current tea and plan: I told Jay about my idol. Jay and I are kinda in the middle, and it seems like we're like the only people not on anyone's radars. Legends only, or something. I had this crazy plan that involves giving my idol to Steven and fake flipping on Steven just so we could comfortably take out Drew next round? Yeah I don't even know. It seems like there's no way to vote someone out without leaving one side mad. So, it seems like the best course of action is taking out LA. This does a few things: it weakens JD, who's now duoless but also has less connections, and it also (probably) weakens Keegan and Ashley who I think are aligned with LA (probably)? I don't really know. Keegan and Ashley might be harder to work with since they're not close with Jay or anything. But... I don't know. Fuck! There's still...7 hours left to think. God I hope this works.

Okay so I guess Drew is a little snake and targeting me because I voted out Alex. Jokes on you Drew, I'm not going home. Pick your battles better next time. Like I have a hidden immunity idol, and then I've presumably got JD, LA, Jay, Ashley and maybe even Kevin on my side, that's 6-3. You ain't winning this battle Drew. We could have had something but you threw it away to be petty and vengeful 

Apparently JD and LA are a pair, and so are Ashley and Keegan, and those 2 duos are either voting me or Steven, so Me/Steven/Drew/Kevin/Jay are voting LA and I hope it works bcuz I DONT wanna get 9th again.

Apparently Drew wants to get back at me, Ashley and Keegan for voting out Alex. And he has the idol. At least this is what I'm hearing. I don't know if I trust Jay or Kevin, they really wanted Keegan gone which seems stupid to me but I guess there is bad blood there. But at the same time when we started Kevin, Keegan and I were in an alliance so why the sudden flip on him? I'm worried Drew is going to flip Jay or Kevin and either blindside me or JD or just vote out Keegan anyways. 

O.M.G why was it so hard to see! I would put 5 bucks on it, Kevin is working with drew. I would also bet that the yellow stone idol thing drew told jay was also bull, I think he's just using it as a way to scare people into not voting him. I will not be bullied! Not that drew isn't a nice guy, it's just the way he plays like an ass... Or at least when  your not on his side cus I never noticed this before. 

Anyway, me, la, Keegan, Ashley, Kevin and jay are supposed to be voting for Steven and from what I know, drew, jack and Steven are meant to be voting for Keegan. So if it all works out then we will have the numbers and it should all work. Next round we work it out so that drew goes home next round. I think we can do it and I haven't told anyone that I have the idol yet ether so if we can use it to take them him out and that's all I need it for. Me and Lori can decide who we want to go with after that but if we do go with Keegan and Ashley, assuming everything works out the way I want it to, if we do work with it  them then we need to make a long term plan because we are all so busy. I can't say I'm comfortable enough in this game not to play the idol but I don't want to waist it and then be able to use it later. I don't know, we'll see.

Being the swing vote sucks dick. Legitimately Jay and I have been talking over like every possible scenario and basically just running in circles because of this vote. But we're voting Steven. I think. Because betraying Steven only pisses off Drew (and Jack but like), while betraying LA pisses off JD, Ashley, and Keegan. That's 3 people, and 3 is more than 1 (or 1 and a half if you count Jack). I think we're gonna tell Jack shit got messy (which is true) and we pushed for Steven instead of him and it got switched last minute. And since we know Drew has the Topaz Idol that'll be easier to work around. I think. I don't think we should tell the others about it bc they'll get paranoid that they'll be voted out. I think (think is a common word in a lot of my recent confessionals bc lately I don't know shit) that we can make Drew vote for Keegan? But all of my expectations and predictions have been blown out of the water in the snap of a second so who knows Also, JD and LA, I was wrong when I called you Walmart and Dollar Store Charlotte's. No version of Charlotte would treat me like this :,(

I'm playing a lot of games with a lot of people right now. Kevin and I are definitely together forever after this vote because it's been BATSHIT. We're trying to figure out a way to vote wherein everybody will still be willing to work with us next round. I'm going to Drew to see if I could get him to play his magic idol to save Steven and send LA home, which would be ideal because I could vote with the majority and still have Drew in my pocket. I'm dying. Send help to 123 Internet Street pleathe

Apparently Ashley wants an alliance with me Jay and Keegan??? Like girl ily and you're super sweet but also girl what the fuck??? I'm already stressing out over managing two alliances, three will be the death of me. Popularity is such a curse. On a side note, if we did enter that alliance the only person we wouldn't be in an alliance with would be Jack. This is hilarious and also horrible.

Okay yall so I think Drew hates Keegan and I cuz like we got one of his homies out.... And that's terrifying. And maybe letting JD have her main love LA was a bad move... But like now I am in an alliance chat with JD and LA and I am trying not to fuck myslef over in the process. Tonight Steven is supposed to go home but Drew wants Keegan out. AND Drew has the Rainbow Idol! He could easily just play it on Steven and get Keegan or I out! I am shakin in my britches. But like now I am tryinggto get Jay to want an alliance with Keegan, Kevin and I.... Wish me luck

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 5: Whomst the Heck Let This Occur? ~ Drew

ookay so, I'm pretty sure that I went over the 'merge tribe" so I'm going to kip that and go right into it and talk about the challenge, which I think I might have touched on too BUT! I'm going to just say that hgdfigfijgjlkhkgfkgifhi I could have slept after all. but I'm so happy that me and Lori won, its a little funny and a little scary too, I think that the next challenge, I shouldn't try so hard. but we still need to win. The tribe swap was fun, I hate school yard picks but at least I didn't have to  pick between my first alliance and my real alliance, so this worked out right.

And with that tribal I now know I'm at the bottom of this tribe, but honestly, what's new. 

hi. i was just voted out. i'm sad. :(

I can't wait for Kevin to destroy us in the flash game. Side note, my cat looked hella adorable during kbdbxhrbeh 's tribal.

I had a plan, a very touchy plan but I like trying to mix things up and I really liked the idea of keeping Jay and Kevin from getting too close to Drew. The plan as to go to rocks, I'm safe though to so clearly I am more willing to do crazy things, but if it had been the other way around I still would have done it. So, go to rocks with the votes going to Jay and Kevin. Me, Drew, Jack = Jay Kevin, Jay, Sydney = Kevin. Then rocks would be drawn for Drew, Jack and Sydney. I could care less who actually went home at that point but meh. Jay said its too complicated and that we should just keep it simple.  Which is very very true, but I thought that it would be hella fun to the people that are watching but that it would also be very testing for us to really see who is really in this alliance. But whatever, before that I was thinking that I wanted Sydney to go home so when Jay said that she wanted to vote her I was more then happy and then when Drew suggest her too it was all the more perfect. So she went home and we didn't have to go to rocks, as far as the pink tribe is concerned we have the numbers now but meh, we now all know that's not my end game. 

I feel like we are going to lose this challenge, Kevin is a flash game beast and if we do, I'm going to be the one going home.

Jess told me how close most of their tribe was and clearly Keegan and I don't have a good working relationship, which is nice to figure out now. I was hoping to find something helpful in the reef but of course, I can't find a single thing.

Now I just have to hope Steven flops harder than me and I can use that to keep myself safe. I'm going to keep talking to Ashley too cause if I can make her like me, that will help a lot.

First of kinda sad that we're probably winning but oh well I guess we'll have the numbers when we merge tomorrow *winks at Amanda* Second... Jesus almighty JD is CRACKED. All of her plans are just...like, not only are they crazy, but I just don't understand them. Last round she was like "hey let's vote for each other and make our tribe go to rocks" and we're like "we could also do it in a simple way" and then after we vote out Sydney she's just like "hey Jay let me log into your account" and I'm like ConfusedLadyMeme/KillBillSirens.mp3 like????? Lord help me

Me..... Actually surviving the first swap vote? Whomst the heck let this occur? I'm screaming because I actually really like the people I'm with now??? Like i know i could be hella fucked because jay hosted jd and Kevin hosted jack so like there are bonds there that I can't touch. I don't know how another vote in this tribe could go. Maybe jack and jd would stick with me but maybe they wouldn't. I'm not sure I have to worry about that though because um..... I'm too good with the heteronormative giraffes. Those straight beasts and I have an understanding. Orisinal has always been good to me but today I reached a new threshold. So I feel comfortable that I won't be going to tribal tomorrow. If we do end up winning, I PRAYYYYYY that LA goes home because I'm not ready to lose the options of Alex, Ashley, and Keegan yet. I feel so astonishingly connected in this game right now, and I'm gonna have to watch my bonds with such a critical eye. This game might be the one to force me back to my old ways as a heartbreaker and villain, a place I haven't descended to since March (hey Duncan) because no matter how the splits of merge end up playing out, I'm going to have friends on both sides. Good people will die. So the morally questionable can rise. Now taking applications for the Drew's Luvs Support Group! Y'all meet on Sundays. In the jury. I won't be there. 

So last tribal Colin was voted out because I flipped. LA seems a bit angry with me for not telling her I was flipping and assuming I was sticking with them to vote Steven. I'm trying to smooth things over. And we just lost the immunity challenge. Which is no surprise since Drew was on the other tribe and he tends to destroy in these kinds of challenges. Like he single handedly got 8 times the score out entire tribe had. Alex, Ashley and Steven are probably going to want to vote out LA. If so, I need to decide if it's worth trying to save her or not. I can play my idol on her or even give it to her to play herself. Worst case scenario, they try to vote me out and I play my idol. If I get even the slightest bit of paranoia I'm going to play it. Better to use it and not need it than need it and not use it. Right now, I don't know what's best for my game. Preferably voting out Steven or Ashley. But I don't know Jf Alex would go for that. If we enter the merge (which is presumably after this vote) and LA is voted out, OG Taranaki will be down 3-6. If my alliance with Drew and Alex is actually happening, those numbers don't really matter. But I'd like to have the options and not have to rely on others. 

I REGRET NOT PICKING DREW SO MUCH. I DID THIS MYSELF, WHY DID Y'ALL LET ME BE A CAPTAIN AshleyAlright so I feel horrible about this freaking Giraffe challenge. I had some stuff going on and couldn't even get a score in but apparentlt no score would have helped my tribe escape the inevitable fate or losing to motherfucking Drew. Ugh. So now I am afraid I might go this tribal but Alex and Steven are thibking to vote LA and I trust them. However, I do really like LA, and I dont know how JD would feel if we voted her off. I definitely think she is more likely to have an idol.... This could be interesting. If she does have an idol, fingers crossed ahe wont be voting me. 

GOD BLESS DREW -JACK REALLY?!??!? I feel like if you broke that game then you should get all the credit for the win. I got half of the other teams score. If Jay a d Kevin had actually had time to put into it they would have gotten better scores and we wouldn't need to... I don't wanna say cheat because the way the game is set up, it would be fairly easy to get a really high score. With every kiss your points you're able to get go up by 100, to get a million I think I only played for about 20 minutes without missing one and it's very possible that if you play for an hour with out missing that you could get a very high score and since there was a pause button you didn't have to play it completely straight out. So I'm not saying he cheated and I'm not mad at him because I've we won and whatever but just... I had the next best score  and I'm proud of myself and I got half of the other teams score and I had to work. #Attentionwhore 

Sooooo change in plans? Maybe? Possibly? LA made me an offer/suggested a plan to me earlier. Basically get out Alex before he gets too far. She said he was too confident and was good at socializing. I totally see these points. However, I was feeling very uneasy about this plan. So I went to Keegan. And he said something about Alex mentioning that HIS group was all set for this upcoming vote.... Like excuse me? I am my own person. So LA,Keegan and I might be starting our own little love triangle to take down the world. 

Some interesting things are happening. LA wants to vote out Alex now and is trying to get Ashley to vote with us. Assuming I vote with them (Alex and Steven are voting LA). I'm really debating giving my hidden immunity to LA for her to play it and voting for her tonight. If Ashley doesn't flip and vote out Alex, it'll be 4-1 for LA, she'll be safe and Alex goes. But if Ashley does actually flip, I'd really rather not use my idol. This is a tricky situation. I'm pretty sure I'm part of Alex's "group" that he told LA about. Alex, Drew and myself are supposed to be working together come merge. On one hand, I really would like to work with both of them. But if I vote out LA tonight/let her get voted out, OG Taranaki will be down 6-3. That's scary if Alex and Drew decide they don't want to work with me. I've got an hour to figure things out. Whatever I decide to do, I'm hoping it's the right move for me right now and for me in the future. ________________________________________________________________ It's looking like Alex is the vote tonight. Ashley and I bonded tonight and I believe she's voting Alex with LA and myself. This is a big move. I might be losing the opportunity to work with Drew. But I've gained two allies in the process. ________________________________________________________________ Waiting for tribal. Why do I feel like I'm suddenly the vote?

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 4: Revenge Will Have to be Put on Hold ~ Kevin

Well RIP Ben, I was just getting to know him and he was totally nice AND liked musical theater, we were going to be great friends lol. Anyways there is going to be an announcement soon? I really hope it aint merge yet. But if so, I still have my alliance with JD, Drew and Alex. Hopefully when merge comes we stick together. And JD knows one or two people on the other side and I am sure the rest of us do too so maybe we can work some stuff out and be able to still stay strong. I also recently found out someone already has a rainbow idol. I finished all the stamps, but Amanda stated they seemed to be fresh outta rainbow idols. So thats scary. But maybe I can get one after one is played. Hopefully. 

I hate fake merges you sick fucks

let the records show that i came up with the name Charlotte's Angels and I'll be perfectly satisfied if that's as big as my impact will get in this season ________________________________________________________________ Okay sooo I just woke up so now time for my thoughts on everything that happened Um well Drew and I have seemingly "reconciled" but like we do that every season. Now if we're gonna be real I'm not the snake in this relationship but HOPEFULLY third time can be the charm this time around (even though it's second chances but whatever). As for the other K tribe people (Kirihuti? Kiruhiti? I don't know)...they're nice? I have some of my Taveuni children Jack and Steven, Ashley's nice, I'm scared of Alex. It seems like for both tribes the lines are pretty foggy, since there was hardly any action premerge not much trust has been built. So the merge will be...fun. Anyways I'm now in two alliances. There's the alliance of me LA Keegan and Kai, and then there's the more iconic Charlotte's Angels alliance of Jay B JD LA and me, and I love this alliance to death. LA and I are in the middle of these two alliances and as far as I know none of them know. This does give us 6 on our side already, so hopefully by playing in the middle we can get the numbers on our side pretty quickly. Sooo I honestly have no thoughts or predictions on how the first merge vote will go because everything's still uncertain? Lmao as long as it's not me! ________________________________________________________________ I forgot my first impressions thing that I was gonna more in depth into sjdjfjsb Alex - I know him from Neverland...yikes... I'm still scared that he could've found something in the Reef. Unless AlxCrks is someone else entirely and if that's the case well fuck Ashley - she seems nice and I wouldn't mind working with her. Lawful Good JD - The Walmart version of LA. And by the transitive property, that makes JD the, like, dollar store version of Charlotte. Jack C - son!!!! i hope he's still naive as usual and hopefully we can buddy up Steven - another taveuni child!!!!! i don't really know what to expect from him but hopefully it's all good things??? Drew - hiss hiss motherfucker please don't kill me this time 

Rankings of everyone in the merge bc my opinions are still relevant and important: LA Kai Jay B JD Keegan Sydney Drew Ashley Jack Steven Colin Alex Anyway that's all for now 

So I didn't even get a chance to talk about Ben leaving us. We were all ready to vote for Jack but Ben's going on vacation so he's not going to be able to get online, we voted him out cus he wanted us too. Now there is like, 13 people and we're merged. I got home from work last night to earwigs crawling into my room through my window so I didn't even realize we merged for like a hour cus I was making my room safe to sleep in again. Literally, Welcome  to survive, I had bugs and jay had this crazy lightning Strom. It was interesting. I'm worried about where my alliance is going to go from here. I wanna say that were going to work together but really, I don't know what everyone else bonds are like. I think  Ashley is the one mostly to stick around so I'll talk to here about the alliance later. I'm hoping that, I always say that this is what I want my alliance to be but idk how it's going to go: Me, LA, Jay, Kevin, Ashley, Alex, Jack would be nice. I don't think I really care who the last person is, Lori said she likes Kai and him and Ashley bare talking some too so I think that's more likely. I also wanna say drew or Alex will be the first boots, because I see drew as a threat but it's hard to really say. Were out numbered right now and there's no chance of Lori voting with us yet because if we want to get info from both sides then we have to play both sides. But I'm not sure how long that's going to be able to last before some people was to target is for knowing each other. Gonna take a 'okay' from Trevor and just not really talk about her much anymore. And really, she'll get voted out before I will.. I think, cus people actually recognise her name and in the main series she was known to be good in challenge and I was just a wittle old goat Lol So I didn't tell Lori I had the idol ether, I don't know if I'm going to, I would much rather not tell anyone until I know I can use it for some good. I don't think I'll use it if someone from my tribe is going home, unless it's Ashley because she's the one I'd like to work with the most at this point, and what better way to show someone your loyal then use an idol on them haha.  My reasoning for not telling anyone is that I dont want other people using it, when Ali told me he had the idol I was running different idea on how we could use it and really, I don't want anyone to use my idol but me so (greedy) but my idol, my plan :) ________________________________________________________________ Edit: Kai quit... Kai will not be in the alliance... Or any alliance lol but that means that we have the largest alliance so far. Me, Ashley, Alex and drew. If we stick together that is. And thank god there isnt a challenge tonight. I get the feeling some people won't be doing it or won't be putting as much time into it cus of the 4th of July kick. 

I definitely dont remember what I said in my last confessional so this might just be a complete repeat SO we merged. Which is interesting and not entirely good or bad. Immediately after the merge Drew came to me and said he'd drop his entire game to work with me. That's a plus but I'm not 100% sure I believe him. I'd love to work with him and think it would be a good way to twist the season around. We'll see what happens with this first vote and that'll determine whether or not I can trust him. On the plus side, he just told me he is the one who found the rainbow idol. That's a definite plus. If I need too I can use that as leverage to blindside him. Also, Kai walked today. Which is pretty bad for my game because we had a day 1 pact to never vote each other out and to stick together. (maybe not day 1 but close enough). So I no longer have a solid #1. I'm trying to talk to Ashley and get her on my side/me on her side. She's expressed before she's wanted to work with me and hopefully I can use that. I just need to wiggle my way into whatever majority there is on this merge. As of right now, there's 6 original Taranaki and 6 original Kahitu. So if we stick with tribal lines it will be an interesting first tribal council. But honestly, I'm willing to flip. That's something I've never really done in a previous season and I'm ready to make the moves I need to get to the end and win. Last time, sticking with my OG alliance didn't get me there. Now's the time to try something new. I have to make the most of this second chance. 

I'm making this while I'm on my way home. I'm debating whether I start right at 11 and go until probably noon or 1pm, since I woke up at 4pm, or risk waking up at some point in the afternoon and going until 11pm. I think I can start at 11 tonight and probably win. I have high hopes. I just really need to guarantee myself safety because I haven't talked to that many people, especially since the merge. Where, wish me luck. 

I don't know if I made a confessional since the merge but we merged! I'm with JD  and obviously we got together and shared some tea. She's in an alliance and I told her I was and we formed another with Kevin and Jay, which is something I've wanted from the start. Apparently someone has the rainbow idol so rip

WHEW this is late but I MADE MERGE!! maybe? everyone is speculating it might be a fake merge but................... i'm hopeful ok. Getting added to the merge tribe was intimidating tbh. But also really exciting ofc. Everyone seems nice, but I also need to step my social game up a LOT. It's merge and I still haven't been in a single alliance whew. rip me. I've only had to go to tribal once so far so maybe now is where the game gets interesting? Idk, I'm gonna try hard for that immunity. The only people I've really talked to since the merge has been Ashley and Drew, and they both seem really influential tbh so hopefully that can help me out, but I don't trust my position in this game right now. This game has been going really quickly and I'm feelin' highkey overwhelmed but I'm here to WIN hehe

oh, also, forgot to mention, Kai quit rip. Hope he's alright. 

iuehirgbrfjkdbjkangrngaioh I fucked up, I should have flopped at like... 7 hours but I just couldn't stop. I had to keep going until I couldn't. Anyway so alliances, me and LA are ovbs working together (for now, I wanna beat her after all) I don't know how to do this... School yard pick if I end up actually winning and mt alliance thing that its a school yard pick after this two cus its two winners. I don't know who to pick because I just... hate school yard picks. I'd much rather be the last one picked them that. I'm hoping that Amanda is going to split us up on her own and then the two that win are gonna be safe. On another note, were going to be submitting our season tonight, lori has done most of the work as of now too actually lol Another side note is that the Limitless tv show is really good.

So...just realized that Ashley is Ashley from Myanmar and now I really gotta keep my guard up because I was against BOTH Keegan and Ashley in that hell season! Thanks Amanda! ________________________________________________________________ Well I've never been swapfucked before so that's fun and new. We'll see if I can develop a semblance of a social game to live until merge, but I'm also GOING AWAY THIS WEEKEND so the odds aren't great. Catch me going pre-merge for the first time!

Well this is fucking terrifying. Like you are separating me from JD?!?! I am so sad omg. Okay but like I am a little sketched by why Jay picked Drew and JD picked Jay. Like obviously there is stuff happening that I dont know about but the trio is like hella scary. But I have Alex and Keegan! So hopefully I dont die. Pray for ya girl, I am going in. They dont call me the social queen for nothing. 

Hello I hate my new tribe. I'm last og Taranaki chosen and I have like 0 good social relation with anyone on my tribe. I'm worried about this next tribal whew. 

Well,  I'm happy to be safe for a round but I'm not overly happy about being a captain (but yay for being a captain twice now) just because Jess is one too and I wanted to stay on a tribe with her, and Kevin and Jay but bitch stole both of them. I have Keegan again, which is good we were working together and I've been talking to Ashley lately so that's good. Hopefully we end up being a strong group.

Y'all not only separated my main alliance, aka the most iconic alliance that's touched the Athena series, but you put me on a tribe with Drew? If we're gonna continue the theme of Walmart insults, Drew's the Walmart Russell Hantz, though possibly more troll-like. But I guess things are set up well. We only lost LA, so we have a 3 person alliance on a 6 person tribe. There's Sydney, who I think will stay loyal to the...Teriyaki tribe, whatever it was. There's Drew who...yeah. There's Jack who unless Jordan cursed the boy shouldn't be worrisome. So we can probably flip anyone over. I haven't talked to anyone about tribal buttt maybe the best choice for me isn't Drew. Like I know he picked me and we're buddies and if we had stayed at merge I wouldn't have considered taking him out at all. But first of all, he's a threat especially when his competition is Sydney and Jack. And second...this might be the best opportunity I'll have to take him out. Like why let the opportunity fall out of my hands yknow. And plus like, revenge is cute especially when I take it out on someone who's like quadruple my age, y'know? ALSO the tribal we're doing is for 11th place and I absolutely refuse to get the same placement as last time so jot that down

OKAY SO WE DIDNT MERGE. I think everyone called it. the last immunity challenge had two winners, and the winners not only won immunity but got to start a schoolyard pick for new tribes. JD and LA won immunity. So my new tribe is now LA, Alex (who picked me in the schoolyard pick), Ashley (who I picked), Colin and Steven. LA I was in an alliance with at the start of the game, so maybe I can use that. Alex and I played together in Sentinel Islands, I might be able to use that, plus we had some nice conversation during the fake merge. Ashley and I are on good terms. I don't have a whole lot of interaction with Colin or Steven. ALSO SO, immediately, Alex came to me and said that Drew suggested a Sentinel Islands alliance. I'm not sure I believe Alex but Drew did mention wanting to work with both of us. Alex also suggested voting for Colin. This would avoid rocks which I definitely don't want. And now Ashley is getting my opinion on the vote. Hopefully I'm in a good position and I can stay in the game until at least the real merge. Which I'm guessing will be at 9 people with a 2 person FTC. Or maybe we'll merge at 10 with a F3. Who knows anymore. I just need to make sure I'm safe. I don't care who is voted out, as long as it aint me /sandra.gif

I didn't get swapfucked I'm sorry

See we're making a group confessional (Steven/Ashley/I) and they're talking about targeting Drew. And how they don't know if Drew has anything. I know that Drew has the Rainbow Idol so go me playing both sides this is fun.

Group Confessional - Alex, Ashley, and Steven

JD is so profoundly cracked that I don't even need to pretend to be less cracked than I am. She's doing all the 'biggest threat' work for me. Basically what I'm saying is that JD is my meat shield for now. She'll have to be voted out eventually because she and LA are a duo and I'm not going to be #3 to a duo, but for now she's a great meat shield. Glad I brought her into the community.

Okay I'm a little late on the new tribes confession and I need to do one to explain thing but Cghskqkdudgdkdkgjkdkg I DID NOT COME HERE TO MAKE LIKE EASY I WANNA MAKE IT FUN and a little stressful is good to ;)

Unfortunately revenge will have to be put on hold. I kinda just realized this is my first real tribal council and I think it's a bad idea to go too crazy for my first time. I just...hope I don't regret this lmao 

Okay so I'm proud of myself. i'm actually talking to everyone and I kinda know what to expect for the vote! this has never happened in Athena for me! i'm GROWING as a player! i'm shooketh. anyway. the vote. I feel like it very well may be between me and Steven due to original tribe loyalties. Everyone I've talked to has mentioned the strong possibility of a 3-3 split. IF it does split I would actually prefer if they put votes on me instead of Keegan, just so I don't have to draw a rock. Right now it seems like Ashley or Alex is our only hope of swapping to our side. Except Ashley ghosted the moment I asked her about her thoughts on the vote so that's worrying. Alex, however, I am WORKING my social game with him. I just found out that he's really really interesting and I can actually have a conversation with him? like I went to talk to him about the vote and now we're just talking. He's actually iconic I'm glad I met him. WHEW but I gotta stop with the mushy stuff. I gotta make sure I stay. Wish me luck yall! _______________________________________________________________ I am hella playing the victim right now. I want Ashley and Alex to feel sorry for me and keep me. I love Steven but the guy gotta go. I hope it goes to rocks and I'm immune. 

Well, I might be sealing my own fate with this vote tonight. Unless something goes down at tribal, I'll be voting for Colin. Hopefully with Alex, Ashley and Steven. LA and Colin believe I'm voting with them to vote out Steven. But 1: I don't want to go to rocks. I'd rather be blindsided and voted out than rocked out 2: I've played two games now where I didn't flip and it could have cost me the game. I think it's time to try flipping. 3: I've gotta start making moves if I want to win. I can't get the FTC votes if all I did was play it safe and make the easy votes. So hopefully Alex, Ashley and Steven aren't lying and voting me tonight. They told Colin to his face it was either him or Steven. That's a little suspicious to me. Maybe my best course of action is to force a tie and then on the revote, switch and vote out Colin. In that case, if the vote is for me, I'll be safe at rocks provided no one flips. If it's not for me, I can flip and tell Alex et al that I was just playing along with LA. Who knows. This is a tough vote

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 3: You Need to Start Breathing When You Have Conversations ~JD

Whew, I'm competing for my entire tribe and I'm really nervous. If I win for my tribe, I hopefully gain their trust more, and they won't want to vote me out of other tribals we might face. If I loose, they might blame me for our loss, and want to vote me out, or just give me a break and vote out someone who is inactive. But I think I'm going to take the risk!! It could be a huge payoff if I do win.

About our first tribal-I was really wanting to work with Zack, so I'm really mad that he went out first. Yes, I voted him off, but I didn't want to vote in the minority week one. He was also one of the only people I know on my tribe. I know Colin, but he doesn't really contribute much in games. I only know Kevin and Jay because of Ariel, and I'm really hoping to work with Kevin. He is really fun and easy to talk to, and I'm hoping we can take each other far. Other than that, I haven't really talked to that many people. Lets see what happens tonight with the other tribes tribal and with the immunity whew

I don't really have anything to say but I wanted to make a confessional hehe. so we won. woo. Sydney is being a queen and doing the hero challenge. woo. I'm #working that social game. woo.

ummm what else the idol system is really really cute, I love the rainbow reef concept. I'm a stan! also, i'm gonna need a list of every gay guy in this game. for scientific reasons. there are some cuties in here.

Hey it's me Jay. I've been bugged to make a confession, so here it is. I dont really have anything to confess about the game except that I hope I get brownie points for volunteering to do the challenge even though Sydney did it lmao. I just got my new laptop so I was pretty inactive while it was at best buy for the data transfer, but hopefully that won't matter since we're safe another round and I have time to bond. I think LA's gonna be my main ally, and maybe Colin since we were just in another game together. Shrug emoji.

Sydney did it for us! We won immunity! Twice in a row now! We need to keep this momentum going. In other news: Kai, Kevin, LA and Myself started an alliance. It's a majority alliance for our tribe so if we all stick together we'll be golden until merge, unless there's some kind of swap that separates us. Which there will be. I'm sure of it. But as long as we keep this winning streak (is two wins a streak?) we'll enter any swap with majority. And that's all we need right now. 

Okay so I'm always behind in this and I wanna start off with this 

I just... I was shook and then really really giddy. This is the first time I've had an idol let along found one. I found it on Thursday so... 2 days into the game?? I still don't believe I have it, chances are I'll end up going home with iron my pocket because I'll forget it have it. It's Sunday, so day... Day 6 and I only have two more stamps to get. I think that is really good? But I'll say that and then it'll take me like four days and I'll end up going though all the full sections before getting there haha...ha..ha... God I hope not. Okay so I got a regular hidden idol and I only need to more stamps. Then I guess I am in an  alliance (finally) It's me, Alex, Ashley and Drew. And I am happy with it because, for the same reason as I wanted to work with them, they want to actually play and then they have a great scene of humor too. I wanted to write more but... It's just not worth it... And I really cant think of anything else so I have to keep up on these better <3 OOOOhh wait! YEah we lost! It was funny though, like in the challenge the only thing that I can think of it that I want to. I was watching it and I wanted him to pick the one where the last ship was. I've got those intuition~ ________________________________________________________________ Oh my lord... Alex boy, you need to start breathing when you have conversations. So many words but no awkward silence so that's nice :D <3

How do I make a confessional when this round's literally one day long Umm the reef is ugly and rigged and I hate it? Yeah Ummm here's to Drew leaving this round peace out 

Bxjjsjskdk omg I started a thing... Well. Kinda a thing, I misspelled Jack as Jake yesterday in our alliance chat. And I think tonight we're voting out Jake XD

Me @ myself leaving this game: 

I'm sorry to everyone that drafted me but i gotta go cause i'm gonna be inactive for the next few days. I, too, am heartbroken and pissed off but it would be wrong for me to take up space in this game and be inactive where as others are more active to play. I'm just doing what's right.

So it's really interesting to know that my two-season arc so far is going to be voting out the person who didn't like my flag in Sentinel Islands. I do feel bad because I really enjoy Ben. He is a really nice level headed guy, and realistically I still want Jack gone but at this rate Ben will be less valuable than Jack (even though Jack doesn't do much).

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Fan Favorite & Player of the Season

The Fan Favorite Award is awarded to the player that the public feels played a valiant game. The Top 3 contenders for the Fan Favorite Award were Alex, Jack, and Jay. After receiving 30% of the popular vote, the Fan Favorite award goes to...

Congratulations Jay!

The Player of the Season Award goes to the player that the hosting team feels played the best overall game. We put a lot of thought into who should receive this award. After talking it over, there is one person we think most certainly outwit, outplayed, and (almost) outlasted.The Player of the Season is...

From early on, JD made herself an asset to her tribe, being a big contender in Immunity Challenges. When the merge came, JD was in the center of every move, and was able to spin the vote any way she wanted, and had she not been voted out, she would have beaten almost anyone she went to the Final 3 with. With 2 Individual Immunity wins and such a command over the rest of her tribe, we feel that JD was truly the Player of the Season. Congratulations, JD!

#boardmyboat

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 2: GOTTA SCRAMBLE ~ Benjamin

Alex just told me he needs a permission slip to tell me about his sexy ass because Nebraska

Amanda So in round 1, everyone (mostly) is hyped. Its the first all-returnee season. Its second chance. They all want to prove they are better than their first game.

On Taranaki, we have zero alliance chats, but there seems to be a connections between Sydney and Kevin. Kai is quiet. Jay is worried about Keegan. Keegan just wants to stay alive. And LA seems to get along with all, and is on nobody’s radar. Colin isn’t round much, but he was in the ER so its understandable. Zack? Who? Where he go? Nothing in his host chat. Havent heard from him since premier night. Bye Bye Birdie. 

On Kahitu, we have Drew, who is dangerous enough alone, but we also have Alex, who like, worships the ground Drew walks on. I am certain he is telling Drew the paths for the Rainbow Reef. Drew has 4/7 stamps in the first 3 days. I’m certain he is going to get the rainbow idol. Also on this tribe, we have Madison, who everyone is saying is super quiet and they wanna make her first boot, but in her confessionals she says shes just shy. We also have Ashley, who is in an alliance with Ale and Drew, JD, who is getting along with everyone AND found an idol with no clues, and Steven and Jack who have been quiet. Overall, this tribe seems more cohesive than the other, and it showed when they won the immunity challenge.

When results came out, Taranaki immediately banded together to vote Zack out, but it was a moot point, because Zack did not vote, which caused his to get his second strike and be removed from the game. Womp Womp _______________________________________________________________

LA JUST WENT ON A 3 PUZZLE RUN FOR THE RAINBOW REEF THAT MAKES 4/7 ON HER PRISM PASS AND IF SHE HAD ONLY PICKED JELLYFISH INSTEAD OF PLANKTON I AM CERTAIN SHE WOULD HAVE FOUND THE RAINBOW IDOL THE GIRL IS GOOD YAS FOR FEMINISM

Well Zack was medevaced for getting too many strikes. It’s kind of a shame but also I’m not too shaken up about it. It makes it a lot easier and less stressful! In good news, Kai and I now have a pact to never vote against each other. I’m not sure how loyal he really is but it’s nice to have that for right now. It may be bad of me but if I feel the need to flip on him I probably won’t hesitate. I think I can get Jay on my side if needed. She just seems like she doesn’t want to flop and I can use that. Other than that, I’ve got a pretty decent relationship with pretty much everyone in the game. I don’t want to jinx myself but for the time being I think I’m in a pretty good spot. 

Soooo Zack’s gone, which is cool and stuff. Amanda, always ready to rig this game against me, gave this UGLY fl*sh g*m* challenge from Orisinal. And boy do I have some news for you coming from the Kai Is A Mess Department™. So this morning Kai comes to me and is like “we should make plans for tribal just in case” and I’m like “oh” and he’s like “you know in case there’s an instant tribal or something.” And by the way if this season has an instant tribal I will cry and after I’ve wiped away my tears I’ll be suing faster than you can call me Stacey Stillman. So Kai asks me who I’d want out, I say Colin bc he’s who I’ve talked to the least. And then Kai’s like “okay cool but what about Jay” and I’m screaming in joy and in fear because of this and I say “oh haha why Jay” and Kai, sweet Kai, he says “well she’s hosted before so she has an advantage over us.” And in that moment, I could hear the Kill Bill sirens go off in my head.

Visual representation of me at that very moment. And I think to myself…did he like not see my tribal question or is he like…planning to slit my throat later too???? But basically I just said to him “well that’s uh a good option but let’s wait until we lose yknow” bc frankly I don’t know whether I want Jay out at this point or not? Like I think (think) I can trust her but I don’t know how much that’s reciprocated. So uh, to cap this off: yikes!

Amanda So here is a shot of everyone’s Prism Passes currently

JD, LA, and Kai are all working on puzzles right now and can advance if they complete them in time. LA is the closest to finishing her pass and could very well get the Rainbow idol. She found 3 puzzles in a row yesterday, and if she can do the same today, she will get it. If she fails, I think Drew will. but we will see!

First of all, FUCK the Purple Stamp. Second of all, I looked back at the puzzles to see what usernames were they, and I found two: JayJoy and AlxCrks. Jay B and Alex C? Mayhapsbe. Jay was only one of the puzzle out of the four I’ve done, while Alex was on all of them I think? And that’s um not a good sign. So I need to hurry my ass up! 

On a side note I think it’d be funny to make a fake account and frame someone with completing the puzzles but I don’t know how well that would work or if people would notice but if I did do it I would choose to frame Drew in a heartbeat.

Okay well I now have like 3 of the stamps so like I ain’t even mad. I feel comfortable and I won’t lie I’m sort of targeting Jay B because she knows me from the past which could possibly end up working badly for me. I guess I’m also getting a bit ahead of myself considering we haven’t even done Immunity yet but it’s best to be sure I guess!!

Amanda So here are the current Prism Pass standings

LA and Keegan are so close! But Drew is working on the Red Stamp right now, and he’ got Alex and Ashley helping him out, so I’m pretty sure he’s about to get it. Which….. fine… I guess…. But I knew Drew does well in games. I want some underdogs to claim this prize! I’m hoping he misses on the blue stamp bc that’s the only stamp none of his alliance has, but he’s probably going to save his clue for help with that one. I love Drew. I honestly do. I just want some of my other faves to have a chance. 

SHIT GOTTA SCRAMBLE

WOOOO WE WON IMMUNITY. My tribe isn’t a total flop :’)

I wasn’t lying when i called Alex cute. Should I flirt with him to further my game? I have morals so no. But i have lust so yes. But i like confidence and looks myself so no. But i’m one thicc bih so yes. Do you see my dilemma?

So we just lost the 2nd immunity challenge. I’d like to say I feel comfortable but I don’t really think that’d be accurate. I am in an alliance with Alex and Drew, but we really haven’t talked much, I don’t know if it is only because we haven’t had a tribal or what, but hopefully we work well together. On the bright side I have almost found all of the prism stamps. I only need the blue and green stamps. I have a clue to the green location and Drew is getting the clue to the blue. Thanks to Drew I knew where the purple and indigo stamps were. The good thing is that he hasn’t been able to finish the puzzles within the 15 minutes so I am pretty sure I have a leg up on this, hopefully not a lot of people are far ahead, the idol could really help me in the future. 

WE WON! Yahoo, no loss after loss after loss. And I can’t be the second boot so SUCK IT SWITZERLAND. 

Kai and I discussed who we would vote out if we were to lose and we both sort of agreed on Jay. I sort of just threw out a name at random and he went along with it. I do like Jay so I’m glad we don’t have to vote her out yet. Let’s get the other tribe down some numbers before we have to keep cutting our own. I’m torn on whether or not I want a swap. On one hand I might be able to get swapped into a tribe with Drew and Ashley, both of whom I’m sure I’d be able to work with. But also swapping risk the chance of ending up in a minority and being picked off. Right now it’s some nice chill time while we hopefully watch the other tribe fall apart. A 4-4 split, followed by a 3-3 split and then rocks would be delicious chaos. But even a 5-3 split would be great to see. 

Amanda

told you (me)

So right now Drew and I are in a group called “Anti-First Boot Coallition” with Ashley. We plan on extending it into two groups. One with Steven/Ben/Myself/Drew/Ashley, and one with JD/Jack/Myself/Drew. This sets up Drew and myself really well. Also, both Drew and I finished with the rainbow idol today. He got it though and I shouldn’t be upset because he’s my ally. But at the same time, I’m the reason he got like two prisms and he only helped me with one, then told me that he had the rest of the passes AFTER he had gotten it. It kinda irks me, and it’s something he has that I don’t. I’ve also been playing both sides in that I’m telling Steven what’s going on, and I don’t believe Drew thinks I’m doing that. Drew thinks I’m completely loyal to him but Steven knows that I’m more with him than Drew. A lot of it comes down to me knowing Drew is dangerous and me knowing that Steven probably won’t turn on me whereas Drew probably would.

Um I did that!!!!! The entire other tribe can kiss my ass!!! Sooo unless Amanda’s evil (which won’t take me by surprise after all the LIES she’s fed me in this game) we’re not swapping next round so thank GOD. I’m not ready for this game to spice up, cause like the white part of me is allergic to spice. Hopefully we can keep winning, and hopefully umm I don’t get swapfucked when it comes. And hopefully I can get my hands on that Rainbow Idol wink wink

We won the immunity challenge ! Which I’m really thankful for since things seem to be sort of quiet lately. 

I really hope JD isn’t the first one to go on her tribe, I wanna get the chance to play with her. 

ALSO I FOUND LIKE THREE STAMPS IN ONE SEARCH. It’s probably the most iconic thing I’ll do this entire game. Which means I only need blue and yellow? I think, or maybe another but still I’m close. 

I’m worried if I’m this close that someone else is, or someone else already has it. I really hope not, cause this stupid idol is what sent me home in Taveuni. 

I’m probably getting voted out or being paranoid….you decide. I did the worst in the challenge which i didnt know it was possible to do that well in the damn game. And let’s be honest, me/Ben/Steven/Jack are all pretty absent in the tribe chat but who knows how active they are in PMs. I’m probably a goner which sucks but this could be my chance to turn it all around if I can manage to survive this tribal ;)

Me in Taveuni: *crawls out of my cave, hissing at my contestants* make confessionals it’s not hard Me when Amanda asks me: But is it really worth it Today I learned that the Rainbow Reef is full of disappointment and unfulfilled promises, a thing which I should’ve and I should be used if I wasn’t a flawed human. At this point the best thing that I can expect from the Reef is drowning.

WHICH ONE OF THESE UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS FOUND THE DAMN IDOL? I LITERALLY CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE THE IDOL WAS HIDDEN AND IT WASN’T THERE. THIS SEASON SINGLE HANDLY HAS GIVEN ME THE BEST LUCK IN FINDING ANYTHING AND I CAN’T EVEN FIND AN IDOL? WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF PLAYER AM I THEN, IF MY LUCK ONLY TAKES ME THAT FAR?  

Me getting dragged into an alliance in this game without lifting a finger? It’s likely (it’s what I do in like every game honestly) and it’s happening. I guess that’s just the power of my social game, like Michele who? Anyway to be honest this’ll probably result in Kai sending Jay home. I still don’t know if he knows I’m a host but it’s not like I can ask him but hopefully he doesn’t find out if he doesn’t and hopefully some snake in our tribe won’t tell him oops. 

So I am now in an alliance with JD, Alex, and Drew. This is hella cute and I am so excited to see how well we do. I hope to go far with this group but as seen in previous games; Drew is a beast. Like he knows his stuff. And Alex might not still completely trust me from India (RIP) but I am starting fresh with JD! I am so happy to have met a new person and to be working so well with them so far

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ep. 1: A Tainted, Cursed Bloodline ~Kevin

Which host opened the portal to hell and allowed Drew to enter the mortal realm and compete on this season? That's what we're all wondering. I mean this season might as well be rigged against me with him in it. Also LA and I are conspiring to make Mitch first boot for the Rainbow Reef, it's happening. 

First night mood: 

So I accidentally updated my Skype and all the colors are giving me headache. And drew is on my tribe and he low key scares me

When you're about to tell everyone you're going to bed and then the tribe's like "if we're all up we can do a call" and so you just...silently turn off your phone and lurk away yikes anyway i'll do a confessional about important stuff tomorrow. here's to me not dying! 

OKAY SO Motu Nui has started and I saw the first cast reveal and I'm like "Hell Yeah" but then I wasn't on it so I'm now "Oh hell no" Like, I know and am friends with Drew and Ashley and I've played with Alex and Steven before but of course I'm not on their tribe! So I'm on a Tribe with Jay B, who flipped on me/blindsided me in another game, Zack who recently voted me out in another game and L.A who I recently voted out in another game. SO, I basically just have a bunch of people who I have bad histories with. And to make things worse a Selfie Scavenger hunt had to be the first thing. I do so terrible in these and the one time I did well, I got voted out. Also, I've got the best placement of everyone in my first season. that's kind of scary because maybe they'll think I already had a fair shot. But maybe I can use it to my advantage and basically say: "I can get to the end, stick with me." I'm going to try to be a bit more aggressive this game and actually get stuff done. Step 1: Find an alliance. I don't want to be pulled into one, I want to start it. Worst case scenario, I'm voted out for being too aggressive, but in a second chance season, that's not a bad thing. Although hopefully it wont come to that. 

omg whew! Night one, game just started a little bit ago, and I am.... excited. I kinda find myself in the same position where I was in Emathia where I don't know too many people, but, with that being said, in Emathia I knew no one, at least in this game I know three other people on my tribe already. So! Off to a better start already! In detail: Jay - MY MOTHER. I love her so much. She hosted me in Emathia, and we're playing together in Dead Sea right now, and we... get along so well. I really wanna work close with her in this game bc I feel like she lowkey underestimates me, so she'll try to protect me. Then I can just easily user her as a meat shield. Kevin - Idk him. We pm'ed a bit back and forth when the game started, he seems sweet and really nice. I'm def gonna talk to him more. Sydney - UGH I LOVE THIS WOMAN. We're both from the Big Brother community, and we've played quite a few games together, and while we never actually worked together, we also have never worked against each other. I think she's the type of person who will stick to what she knows, so us already being kinda close ish and having a slight connection will hopefully drive us to work together in this game. Zack - also from the Big Brother community. I met him fairly recently-ish. And we actually.. vibe pretty well. I wouldn't call it necessarily 'getting along' or 'working well together' but idk I just get the feeling we both have kind of an unmentioned thing between us that we can trust each other. I def hope that carries into this game. Keegan - Okay idk him but from seeing him in vl's and stuff I think he's super well liked?? Idk. I'm just gonna have to talk to him and see if I can get along with him. LA - Okay, another person that I think is really well liked. I see them in the Athena VL a lot and I think they also played Solomon? Idk, they seem really cool tbh. I'm gonna talk to them and see what they're like And finally Kai - I don't know them. They're in one of the group chats that I'm in so I think they're close to the people I'm close to, so maybe we'll get along really well. I'm hopin'.

new game new challenges! I think the biggest issue with this one, as far as tonight goes; is that me and LA are in the same room. I mean, we are roommates but right now we are not living together so it's a great time really. Okay so I like Alex right now, he's the only one that I have really talked to much and he seems a little gullible, if he trusts me, I think that I can use him. Pain in my ass though~ I don't know anyone on my tribe and Lori got Jay B and Kevin, two to my none.... I will do it, I wanna kick her ass anyway so beating her with no one that I knew asap will feel better then the other way around. I think that Ben will be a good one to have around, have to see about after his graduation though, to see how active he is able to be but understandable with graduating! His cap looked amazing too. I want to work with Jack, at this moment because I think we could both use an extra number but have to see how that goes later too. Hoping that we can just win this one, and get to know each other more before having to really make a line in the sand with the tribe.

Whew so I'm gonna talk about the people in my tribe because I'm bored and my opinions are important LA - The Walmart version of Charlotte :/ Jk I love her, and she's said she wants to work with me Zack - I haven't spoken to him but I know him from other games (I think) and he's iconic (I think). Jay B - My iconic sab sister. On one hand...a legend. Like, she says me and Colin are the only two people she knows on this tribe really, so I guess that's good for me. On the other hand...I haven't really actually played with her but from what I've heard of her short time in Motu...she's a good player and ummm I am not so maybe uh watch that Keegan - He seems nice. Apparently he has beef with Jay B although idk how serious that is. Yikes on bikes. Sydney - She's from a tainted, cursed bloodline. But she seems nice I guess? Colin - Who? Nice I guess. Kai -  Who (part 2)? Like I said hi to him and then he's like "okay so straight off the bat. Alliances? How'd you feel?" and I literally was just like "What" and he never responded sdaslkdjaslj but??? I'm not gonna reject an alliance offer but also??? If he's gonna offer an alliance to me, a stranger, he's probably doing that to everyone. And I know he was a big threat or something in Bahamas so...yikes! And then a ranking of people because, again, my opinions are important: LA Jay B Sydney Keegan Colin Zack Kai everyone else in the cast, whoever they are Amanda Mitch Abbey D*ncan and then last and certainly least, Dr*w ANYWAY I got 2 stamps already from the Indigo and Yellow reefs which is nice. I'm probably gonna take a note from Steffen's book and make a spreadsheet for this so I don't repeat paths or anything. Here's to me getting a Rainbow Idol that I'm not strategically competent enough to use successfully! 

Introducing the new Jay B: gentle. Low key. NOT playing the best social or strategic game. (Until late merge). I haven't talked to everybody on the tribe and I'm not being crackedt and I'm not taking lead in the immunity challenge! Who is she? She's the winner of this game.

So basically it seems like Kai is desperate for allies because he's a newbie and the only other person from Bahamas is someone he voted out. Sooo yeah he wants an alliance. I guess that's cool, but it's also fishy and I know he was a big threat from his last season. So I'm gonna try doing some snooping later on and see whether this alliance is specific to me or if he's going around doing this to everyone. 

fuck if i know

L.A*SCREAMS* KEVIN AND JAY ARE HERE. I'm excited but also lowkey SCARED. I wanna work with them, I already told Kevin that but I have yet to talk to Jay about forming an alliance. I haven't talked to the rest much, I messaged everyone, I'm pretty sure. I've been talking to Kai a bit so hopefully something can happen there too, even though Kevin did mention they seem a little paranoid already. And I found one stamp in the rainbow reef so far.

In addition, there's this interesting thing where I feel it can only be described in the form of a chart

Basically, trying to make an alliance of five is hard when there's  multiple people with varying relationships. If you leave one person out they're going to know about it and everything gets all jumbled up. Except Madison. Poor Madison. Also fun fact: Jack said he wrote the greatest confessional but I don't get how that's possible when he hasn't spoken to a whole lot of people (according to what I've heard thus far)

Well I am back. Haven't played in a few months, needed a break after the mess of India. Anyways, what better game to come back to than one themed with Moana?? The selfie scavenger hunt seems to be going okay, I am usually very good at these when they are individual so I am having some issues trusting everyone to get what they signed up for done. But its okay! I like everyone so far, havent talked much to anyone but Drew and Alex, with which I am in an alliance with. I hope it lasts, for a majority we will need two more people.... So let's see how this goes. 

Got my second prism pass stamp completed. That's alright but I wish I'd been able to get two or three done in one day. Someone has probably already gotten the rainbow idol. That's too bad because I really wanted it. Maybe they haven't. Who knows LA and Sydney are kicking ass in this challenge, MVPs for sure. But other than that this tribe is a total flop. That's a bit harsh, we aren't terrible but there is no way we are winning this challenge, not even the slightest chance. I just hope my contributions, albeit slight, are recognized and I'm not the first boot. That would suck. 

Ahhhh i really want to like these people on my tribe because they seem so nice but I don't do well with conversation, so for the first few rounds I have to hope that my humor combined with our tribe winning immunity will help me survive. I just want to not be first out this time. Also, I have my purple stamp, so I'm 1/7 of the way to filling out my prism pass. I also would like to find an idol because you can never be too secure in this game. I think the odds of us winning are very good, and we all have a different set of skills to bring to the table, so here's hoping I don't jinx us!

Ariel's given me her blessing, so with that I can emulate her gameplay and become a snake #blessed And um we lost. I smell riggetry but...anyway. Sydney LA and I were on call and like as soon as the challenge results came up Sydney just said "yeah let's vote off Zack" and I mean that's pretty much the obvious choice. I like him but like the venn diagram of beneficial contributions done in this game and the things zack has done in this game is two separate circles. So it'll probably be him. On a side note an alliance of me sydney and LA? I love legends

Well we lost. No surprise there. And Zack got a strike. Surprise surprise. I know the obvious choice of vote. But when does anyone ever do anything obvious? Hopefully I'm not the target, I'm going to try my best to not get voted out first. 

After having to redo my flour to the face video, posing as a mannequin, and getting punched in the face with a pizza, WE WON. Woo! So Drew Alex and I have some more time to figure out who else we want to work with instead of rushing because of a tribal. This is great! 

Something strange has just happened to me. Something that's never happened to me in any ORG. Someone /besides me/ proposed a vote. Amazing. Truly incredible. That's the most crucial step to not being seen as a threat - not being the person who throws out the names.

It seems for the most part everyone has agreed on voting Zack. LA, Kevin, Colin and Jay. With me that makes five. Enough for a majority. Sydney hasn't been around yet so I haven't asked her thoughts and Kai hasn't told me his thoughts yet. Hopefully people do the smart thing and vote out Zack. He got a strike in the challenge!! But if there's one thing I'm familiar with (here's looking at you Switzerland) it's that people will do anything to stay in, even if it means keeping the flops around.

I went around to most of the tribe this morning to throw Zack's name around and it looks like it worked, and it seems like everyone is voting Zack. Some people were doing that thing where they're like "oh i've heard Zack but you know I'm open to whatever" which admittedly I've done and honestly probably will do in the future of this game, but it's kinda annoying when you're on the receiving end. Luckily it seems like Zack's the only name thrown around and no one else is thinking about anything else. We probably SHOULD split the vote, but honestly seeing from how inactive Zack's been I doubt he's been looking through the Reef. That sounds like something someone says right before they get idoled out, but...hopefully not. Speaking of which! Three stamps now, soon to be four. I've had bad luck with the Purple Stamp but hopefully tomorrow things will get better. I think in Taveuni it took Jordan like four rounds or so to find the Rainbow Idol, and that was with Jack C's aid and with his puzzle skills (that just gave me the thought of what if Jack C's decided to become someone else's lap dog this season I'll shit if that's the case) So...I think it's good progress? But also like if I can do something, a slug could do it and quicker. So...yeah. If I don't get to the Rainbow Idol in time, maybe at least I can find a regular idol on the way.

WHEW we lost the first challenge and tbh... my paranoia is running high. It shouldn't be. I'm pretty sure I know who's going, and everyone has been straight up and not weird with me, but I just got.... a bad feeling. Maybe it's just because this is the Athena series and last time I thought I was safe everyone murdered me. Idk. We'll see! I've gotten around to talking to (almost) everyone. And this tribe is actually... pretty great. Like I'm genuinely shocked at how well they can hold a conversation. I'm gonna have to step my social game up bc right now it's really lackluster. Zack hasn't responded to me but I already know him prior to this game so (plus he's prob about to be first boot!). I didn't help very much in the immunity challenge, but I got a challenging video done that no one else was willing to do, and I literally sent a selfie from the ER explaining why I wasn't much help, so hopefully these bitches won't hold a grudge against me.

#boardmyboat #confessionals

[survivorathena-motunui]

Winner Reveal

First Vote: Ashley

Second Vote: Jack

Third Vote: Ashley - Keegan tried to sell your game as less "strategical" but ultimately it felt like you were calling the shots. Congrats on finessing me just as well as you did in FVF5 once again!

Fourth Vote: Jack - I don't know if you're going to win, and I'm even less sure you ultimately deserve to. But my vote is for the the only player in the finale, and possibly the only person in the merge, who treated me like a person and not an obstacle. It meant a lot to me, and it's really my only right option tonight.

Fifth Vote: Ashley - I'm voting for you because, despite you brutally slitting my throats and stealing my lunch money, I'm a feminist, and also because the other two are some social flops. Like, y'all couldn't pander for your life. Maybe you'll win or maybe you won't win but you were the only one who could actually give a decent answer to my question. So go you, but just remember, no matter what, Jay's the true winner of this season!

Sixth Vote:

And the winner of Survivor Athena Motu Nui: Second Chances is...

Ashley - Listen, I can be the Bitterest Betty possible. I can talk about how awful y'all were, and how everyone else is better than you all. But here's the thing, here's my favorite thing about being on the Jury. I like seeing people be real with me. And realistically, that's what frustrated me the most with you. It was that we had an alliance and you knew I wanted some people out, etc. So for you to be in an alliance with me one day and vote me out the next seemed fake as hell. So, funnily enough, you calling me out on my bullshit in my jury speech is what earned my vote. I don't like people who try to sugar coat things with me. Yes, I appreciated Keegan's answer to my Tribal Council question, and I appreciate the path that Jack had to take to get there. However, that's the most real to me you've been since maybe the Karen boot of TS India. You not thinking you had my Jury Vote gave you, what you thought, was the ability to call me out on my bullshit, and that's what I appreciate. You might not win overall, but you won my vote

Seventh Vote: Ashley - I will always be the ham to your musical pig, even if you did backstab me.

Congratulations, Ashley! You truly made the most of your second chance! Thanks again to the cast, viewers, and my fellow hosts, for an incredible season!

#boardmyboat #winner reveal

[survivorathena-motunui]

Final Tribal Council

Below are Ashley’s responses.

And with that, the power shifts to the jury. Votes are due tonight at 9:30pm EST. Winner reveal will be live at 10:15pm EST.

#boardmyboat #final tribal council

[survivorathena-motunui]

Keegan’s Opening Statement

Hello everyone! To start off I just want to thank everyone involved in the season. You've all helped make this my favourite season to play in.

I started off this Second Chance wanting to play a game I've never played before. I wanted to make the moves I was too scared to make in Sentinel Islands. And I did. I set aside my paranoia and insecurities and I flipped, I lied and I made the moves I felt were necessary for my own game. In Sentinel Islands, and other games I've played I have always been the loyal alliance member. I would stick by the people I became close with until I was voted off. Therein lies the problem. I was always voted off. I still relied on loyalty and trust with other players but I set aside all personal feelings and based my votes purely on strategy; what is the best way to get to the end? It wasn't an easy road for me. Every Final 2 deal I made eventually imploded; First Kai had to leave the game due to personal events. I destroyed my F2 with Drew by voting out Alex. And perhaps the most painful of all was Ashley voting for me in the F4 tribal council. So to all you bitter jury members, I understand and I'm sorry.

My first major move in the game was voting out Colin. I needed to worm my way into the good graces of Alex, Steven and Ashley if I had wanted to survive the swap. I willingly put myself into a minority position in the hopes it would spare me until merge. From that emerged my F2 with Ashley and we came to the conclusion that Alex was a dangerous player with a lot of connections. So begrudginly I voted him out. I knew this would seriously impact my game relationship with Drew, who wanted the three of us to work together to the end. But Alex scared me more than any other player in the game. When the merge hit, Drew had a singular mission: destroy everyone who voted out Alex. I misplayed an idol because of some false info that had propogated around the tribe. But because of my relationship with Ashley and my connections to LA, Kevin and Jay from my OG tribe, we had the numbers to get Steven out. At the final 6 I devised the plan to bring Jack in and split the votes between JD and LA. If JD played her idol, there would be a tie between LA and Jack and we could break up up the strong duo JD and LA had become. No idol was played and we sent JD to the jury with it in her possession. For some reason, I became the target at F5 and F4. Jay could have flipped and voted me out in the F5, she had that power, she had the ability to break up me and Ashley. However, I believe that I had built the trust and connection with her that she didn't take the offer and stuck with me.

Now, we get to the final 4 and Jack wins immunity, which he very much needed. I'm honesty very hurt by the betrayal of Ashley. Jay, I have no ill will towards you. You did what you had to give yourself the best shot at making FTC. Ashley on the other hand, took a deal from Jay, saying that if she forced a tie between me and Jay, letting her go to firemaking, Jay would give her her jury vote if she lost. Ashley betrayed her longest and strongest ally in the game because of a possibly bogus deal to get a single jury vote. And that hurts me a lot. But I persevered and I won. I won the firemaking challenge to put myself into FTC.

I certainly did not have the best social game but I feel like I played a very strong strategic game. I took the advice from someone in this very season to set aside personal feelings, set aside outside game relationships, and play the game. I can understand you feeling bitter, betrayed or hurt by my choices in this game. But I ask you to look at the game objectively, and vote for who you feel deserves it. That may not be me and that's okay. I trust you will all make a reasonable and level headed decision.

Thank you.

#boardmyboat

[survivorathena-motunui]

Jack’s Opening Statement

Hi everyone! I’ll admit I’m not exactly good with opening speeches, but I’ll try to do the best I can. Admittedly, I was pretty out of the loop and was doing pretty much nothing for the entirety of premerge, and even into the first 2 votes once we merged. After that, however, I began to use my ‘dazed and confused’ status in order to keep moving forward in the game. For example, in final 7, when me and Drew were being decided between for the vote, everyone wanted Drew out, not only because he had the idol, but also because they were more scared of him than me. Same thing at final six, when the votes split and tied, people went for JD, who had accomplished more big moves than me. And then in the final 5 and final 4, when people were getting a bit more nervous at the possibility of me winning this game, due to not having angered the jury like the rest of them, I was able to win key immunities that helped me get to this spot in the game. I’ll admit I didn’t make flashy plays, or deep social bonds, but the name of the game is Survivor. And I did what I needed to do to survive, and I’ve made my way here despite being told that I’m the biggest threat to win the game. I laid low, and then when I found myself in danger for being TOO under the radar, I won the immunities that I needed to stay in and reach the final tribal council. I probably forgot to mention stuff, but I’m looking forward to your questions and hopefully I can answer them to the best of my ability!

#boardmyboat

[survivorathena-motunui]

Ashley’s Opening Statement

Hello everyone! When I started this game I thought full heartedly I would be a flop. However it seems like that isnt quite the case. I would like to take my opening statement as a time to thank all the hosts who dedicated so much time to making this season great! I love each and every one of you. Moana is one of my favorite movies so this season has been extra special to me. Thank you for casting me and giving me my second chance ❤. I look forward to talking to everyone at FTC!

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