Confessional

[Sally Schumann]

Is that to be supposed the "Silence, I'l kill you!" call out? xD Keep it up, girl!

[Rob Mariano]

Jan 20, 2012 1:24:19 GMT -5 Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson said:

So in another game, I just got called out by a PW for depending on past relationships, and thus playing a weak game. I'd like some of your opinions if my doing that here is making me a weak player. I don't think I'm depending on my past relationships, but more so using them. After all, you gotta use what momma gave ya!

I think if we answered that, that it will influence how you play and that is a no-no

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

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I guess there was another player here that I was very close to in other games.

Bob Dawg Mason.

We're actually married... well we are as DDanielle and Bobby, anyway. Natalie, if you hadn't noticed, my last name is Mason on the SI2 boards.

Anyway, we dominated a game called Survivor: Manchuria together. We made final 3 with this other stupid bitch and I ended up winning! Woo!

Anyway, I love him dearly and I'm very upset he's leaving. Alas, I have many others to work with!

Still can't wait to blindside Silas <3 Assuming I get that opportunity.

That's all for now!

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

Shit. Problem.

So after talking to JT, we're starting to think that Bubba's running the show around here. I don't know if you guys know their group, but there's a pretty close group of friends, and I think that involves:

Erik H, Bubba, Lindsey, Hatch and Dave. I don't know how well I'm wedged in there, but I know that I can't get them to turn on each other.

This is very interesting. After Silas goes, it could very well be Jessie. And if she has an idol like I suspect she does, well then you guys might just witness a blindside!

We'll see. I'm very alert right now/

[Rob Mariano]

Are those 5 gonna be your targets or...?

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

as for right now, probably not. As long as bubba thinks he can control me, he will stick with me. Not sure when I'll try and make a move. Probably closer to merge.

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

So I just talked to Bubba about it openly, and if he's pulling the wool over my eyes then oh well. He says that most of his friends don't even know who the others are, and some of them hate each other anyway.

Not really worried. I think there's a lot of things in this game that can happen to these people before my head's on the block.

As for this round, we're hoping that Andrea, Silas and Jerri are put up by Eliza. This would not only allow us to blindside Silas, but keeps Eliza at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of Old Burrunguy. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much for old-burrunguy, but I need to keep myself safe as well.

I've been coaching Andrea on how to try and stay safe, by staying quiet. I don't think we'll be in these tribes forever, so having a strong bond with Andrea certainly won't hurt me. I just need to keep my options open.

I am parchment-giddy... I already want to make my Silas vote. LET'S GO ELIZA

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

Oh god this thing needs an update.

I'm probably being a bit sloppy with my playing, but I want to see a few moves be made and I'm trying to establish the connections to pull of said moves. So I'm taking a few risks but hopefully in the end it works out.

First and foremost, is the next time we go to tribal council. I know that Jerri and Jessie are close, and I want to take out someone like Eliza, who isn't very useful to me. Or anyone. I've also heard that Jessie has an idol, so I could probably take out Eliza and flush Jessie's idol in the same round, if I play my cards right. I just have to make sure we don't get any cute ideas about splitting the vote. That could go badly.

Another one of my plans, is I want to blindside Hatch. I really don't trust the guy- I think he'd flip at any opportunity to better his place in this game. If Eliza goes, this can happen at 9. Jerri claims to have Lindsey, and I'm not sure about that but I don't think Lindsey likes Hatch anyway so that could work. Assuming that Jerri, Jessie, Amber, Lindsey and myself vote out Hatch, then we're at 8. I dunno how long we'll stay in these tribes, but once we hit 8 Jessie can go. This will still leave a lot of Old Burrunguy intact, but we're just trimming the fat, if you will.

I'm not sure how much of this can come into fruition due to swaps and me being concerned about my own safety, but I'd like to try and shake things up a bit and further the dynamism of my character. Gotta keep playing!

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

I certainly need to write one of these... Shit has gone down!

Last time I left you, I was strengthening connections around my tribe. I am basically close with... just about everyone! Or at least I was trying.

We went to tribal, and I wanted Lindsey to go, but when that wouldn't go through it had to be Jessie. That was okay, because I thought Jessie would idol herself and someone like Eliza would go. Wrong!!

I'm in class all day Wednesday, so keep in mind most of this is happening via PMs on my phone, which gets shitty service as it is. That aside, I find out the target has switched to Jerri! I also told Jerri about Jessie's idol, so that's happening. While these Maguk bitches are plotting and scheming, I'm working my ass off in class. I then find out that they know no one is splitting the vote, and I they're going to idol out Bubba! So now I'm like wayyyyyy behind. Unfortunately, as much as I want to save Bubba, I can't. I pleaded for Eliza, but I couldn't get it to change. I was working on a massive group project, so I couldn't even get online and try and get three more votes for Lindsey. Bubba just died, and I felt like a lot of it was my fault.

Apparently Jerri told Bubba that I threw him under the bus, which isn't even the case. He seems to know, but I lied to him anyway. I mean, he'll read this after the game and that's fine, but for now I just sorta felt bad, and didn't know what to say.

Without Bubba, there's really nothing tying me to old Burrunguy, so I'm just sort of a free agent at this point. I really like Andrea, Jerri and Jessie, so something will probably happen there on my tribe.

WRONG.

We get swapped. Of fucking course.

Now I'm on a tribe with these new bitches, and they all just seem like old Gunlom to me at first. Well, I was a tad wrong, as Alex and Ralph aren't... but whatever.

I heard from somewhere that Chicken and Ralph have a secret deal... I don't even remember from where but it's something to remember anyway. I've been chatting around this new tribe. I'm still in an unspoken alliance with Eliza and Erik, just because we're old Burrunguy. Initially, I tried to work something with Chicken, keeping our two strong tribes together, and although he agreed he didn't really seem genuine. Ralph sorta knows he's a loner, and he's been talking to me, whcih is fine- I can use that. Colby was nicer than Chicken, and Russell S was SUPER boring.

Alex, however, I quite like. He's lots of fun to talk to, and wants to work with me. Jerri told me to try and work with him, so I think he'd join our alliance down the road. Hopefully I can pull a few strings, and start knocking out some Old Gunlom. A lot of them are still here- 6 of them to be exact. Ideally, I'd knock out Chicken because anyone playing as Chicken just deserves to die.

I was pretty paranoid about having to go to tribal, since this previous challenge was such a crapshoot. Although, like in previous challenges that seem to involve a decent amount of luck, this is one of them, I won again! So happy not to be going to tribal! Gives me more time to find my place, since this week was busy as fuck. Plus, this means I'm in the final 23, which is awesome!

Aside from Jerri, Jessie, Andrea, Alex and Old Burrunguy as my allies, I still have JT. I still intend on going to the final 2 with him. Hopefully if him and Andrea can get together, we can form a bigger alliance and work some stuff out. I'd quite like that.

My goals as of now for moving forward are just to continue to fortify the relations that I have with the people on my tribe. Like I always say, a strong social game is the most dangerous one. If people see you as someone that they can trust, they're much more likely to work with you when you need them. Some people may say that my relationships are superficial, since I break most of them anyway, but that's not necessarily true. I only form these strong bonds because I don't know how this game's going to work out. I didn't expect Bubba to go this early, and JT could go this round. You NEVER know what's going to happen in Survivor, so you need to always be prepared to re-adapt your strategy, and that's why I try to play the best social game possible!

That should be good for now, I am curious to see what tribe Lindsey picks!

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

Well Jerri and JT hate each other, so working with both of them may be near impossible.

As for the rest of these bitches, I have a strong notion that I'm going to be eliminated tonight. I may very well be fighting on DMI for a good portion of this game. At first, Alex was going to be the target, but I really didn't like that idea so I went to make a move for Ralph. Then, when I had four votes for Ralph, he came to me wanting out Erik. I'm not sure if he has an idol, or someone is going to idol Erik, but now EVERYONE seems to be down for voting him, which I just find so strange.

I've been getting a lot of information on my tribe from Lindsey, AKA Rose, who I initially expected to be against me in this game. Apparently she isn't but if I've been feeding her the wrong information I could be killed if she's been leaking. Lindsey isn't usually a malicious player, and she's been busy lately, so I sort of doubt that she'd be against me, but it's still a thought.

I really can't believe Erik is dying this easily. This round is quite possibly the most paranoid I've ever played, and it's probably because I had a bad night last night IRL, and I hated losing that challenge after working on it all day. We were so close!

It just sucked. It all sucks. I really want to continue in this game but I fear that I won't. I'm going to fight my arse off at DMI if I go there though. Hopefully, Erik's torch will be snuffed tonight. I have literally no idea what's going to happen. This game is such a clusterfuck.

I JUST WANT RESULTS WHY CAN'T THEY BE UP YET

[Rob Mariano]

Thoughts on the last TC?

[Natalie White]

Jan 30, 2012 20:23:10 GMT -5 Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson said:

I JUST WANT RESULTS WHY CAN'T THEY BE UP YET

I was trying!!!

And also want to hear your thoughts on last round and where things are going from here.

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

My thoughts on last TC were... I don't even know. I had no idea that Alex was going, and frankly I'm still shocked.

This round, I had a meeting at 9:15-10, so I really couldn't do much to get myself immunity which sucked. I'm obviously going to try and get inside people's heads for this round, but I think I'm sort of doomed. I'm not sure why JT won't give me anything to work with, but I'm starting to grow weary of our alliance since he isn't willing to help me out like he said he was going to.

As for this round, it's likely that either Colby or myself are going to go. Hopefully it's not me, since I'm better in challenges than Colby, but you never know. I need to see what I can do... and hopefully divert the target by any means necessary. I think I could do well on Dead Man's Island, but that doesn't really mean I want to go there. I feel as though if I were on any tribe except for the one I'm on, I'd be in a lot better of a position than I am now.

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

This round sucks. I'm putting blind faith in the fact that I hope these boys + Eliza want to win immunity more than get rid of a potential threat. I know that if I make it past this round, things will get better because JT will slip me his idol next round. I just have to be sure that Colby goes this round.

I don't wanna go yet I'm having too much fun, as stressful as this game is!

[Tamara 'Taj' George-Johnson]

When I was talking to Russell S on my way out, I may or may not have hinted that I had an idol.

It's funny because I don't!

I love messing with these bitches. Should be interesting if I get back in though. Whoops!

I miss this clusterfuck of a game