FINALE: "please MJ, just lose this challenge so we can just vote you out easily." ~Ariel

LINKS:

Final 5 Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688343867838414848?source=share

Final 5 Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688411393759805440?source=share

Final 5 Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688523027639599104?source=share

Final Immunity Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688523137482162176?source=share

FIC Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688603873631469568?source=share

Final 4 Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688704677475385344?source=share

Opening Statements: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688790047633375232?source=share

Jury Questions: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688790095073034240?source=share

Finalists’ Answers: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688885120917192704?source=share

Winner Reveal: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688976373335932928?source=share

Awards: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688977461387608064?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

FINAL 5

Ariel

Holyyyyy shoooooes, what just happened??? That invisible twist is giving me headaches, like who played an advantage and am I the only one who voted for the wrong person? That's okay. I'm fine with that. That round was craaaazy. That round was like riding a roller coaster, but having your eyes open the entire time. That was scary. Also where in the world did MJ and Zukiswa got all the coins needed for that immunity necklace??? Ngl, Ava going home is actually very good for my game, because I feel like if we have voted MJ out, then the next target would be me. So MJ being still here is what I need to survive this round. We just have to make sure MJ does not win immunity. Buuut we all know MJ's strength is endurance, so who knows MJ might pull of a 24 hrs run with this challenge. If that is the case then she definitely deserves to win this whole thing cause she's been running the game since day 1. Hats off to you, Queen. But I am not giving up yet, if MJ wins immunity we can still vote out Zukiswa. I am just hoping Dominique is not playing me, like I would rather be swallowed by the earth whole rather than being played by Dominique. I just have to trust Dominique, that she will not flip and play the idol on Zukiswa. Jesus, that would just be wild. Also, can we please acknowledge the fact that I made it to final 5??? Like I am damn proud of myself. But I still have to hustle. Omg, will I actually make it to the end? I don't know. Bye, amping!

Chile!!! This rouuuund is wiiiiiild. Lol. Lord Jesus take the wheeeel and went to get that big W to deliver it to MJ. The endurance Queen, does it again. Lol, MJ winning definitely stirs us up. Lol, I have never strategize this much this season than this round. We were so worried Zuki might have an Idol, like if that would be the case. We're screwed. Or hopefully Clefford already transferred the advantage to me so I can just leave tribal council so in case of advantageddon, I will be safe. But that would mean Clefford is screwed. I don't want that to happen. Anyway, our plan now is to bluff MJ and Zuki to vote for Dominique, since Zukiswa have and advantage where she can ask the host how many advantages this person have but they cannot know what the advantages were. So if they ask if I have an advantage they would think I got an idol and then they would vote Dominique. But Dominique is actually the real one who got the idol. So we cancelled their votes and we all vote for Zukiswa. Anyway, that's it fot now. It's too late here and U need to sleep. Bye. Amping! 

MJ

Hahahahahahahaa this is getting funny 😂😂😂 MJ this, MJ that! My name has been everywhere. The only good thing I owe myself is to win the next immunity. That’s my 100% slot-chance at making it to the FTC if not, it might be so difficult to convince even my closest ally because everyone has made me the “ONLY OBVIOUS THREAT” which is not totally true. Dom and Ariel are kings in their own territory. So hopefully tonight, one of them goes (between Dom and Ariel) then I win the next challenge. That’ll be it! I also think I might be having a whole lot of angry jurors facing me. I mean I did my best but they might just want to attack me for being seemingly too strong. Well, fingers crossed till then 

Clefford

Why would people take me to FTC? Because I'm a goat--- I mean G.O.A.T. To be honest, I keep picturing myself in FTC. I deserve it. I'm now keeping notes on what pitches do I have to say to the jury. But if MJ sitting next to me, will be hard because the jury see me as just a number of her. Or do they know that we are working together? Maybe. But I hope that I can separate my gameplay to MJ's. I do have the upperhand. I'm aware of my accomplishments in this game, but the job is to sell it to the jury (if I really make FTC). I actually have a pretty good arc in this game. Like pre-merge, I'm out there. My name was always in every tribals. And when I realized that people see me now as a threat, laying low was the key. I have to hide and use people as my meatshield (Ava and MJ). They became threats which is good because I became invisible yet in the right side of every functions of this game. I want people to target each other and be the one who contributed to it. When I know that they're targeting people that I don't want out yet, I move and make sure that they're not leaving because I will be resurface in the hectic moment, which is not good. I managed to keep people that was beneficial to my game in certain moments. I don't know. I just see myself as the winner of this season. Yes, the definition of delusional now applies to confidence. Let's just hope for the best.

Zukiswa

Well, this is ir isn't it? Final five. Who knew I would still be here. My alliance is still going strong. I'm sure though that people are starting to look around to see what moves they can make to get to the final 3 and who they are likely to win against. As for me the reason I have had such a calm low key game is because I built and immersed myself in a reliable alliance that has no flippers. We have all used our strengths to get all of us forward. I'm happy with where I'm at. I can go in peace. 

Dom

Somehow I have been labeled as a mastermind and have been told I'm playing a quiet game. The reality is, I backstabbed MJ and Zukiswa by not voting opposite of what they wanted. The reality is, because it was the invisible round, they don't know. A lot of me going behind the scenes is how I've played. I got ariel to give me his coins to secure an idol for myself. Tonight, I am safe. It is all in how MJ and Zukiswa vote for this tribal as to who may go home. Stay tuned.

FINAL 4

Ariel

Sooo, we just did the challenge but MJ was not there. I would have love to do it with MJ. So I can compare easily our scores. Anyway, final four babyyyyyy. I can't believe I make it here and I feel like I have a good chance to make it to the end. All I am hoping for is MJ does not win immunity. Please. She needs to be voted out. Anyway, if MJ does win, which pls don't. My best bet is to pull Clefford to vote Dom, so Dom and I would go on a fire making challenge. Or I could try to pull a 2-1-1 vote. Tell Dom we have to vote Clefford, Clefford and I vote for Dom, MJ will vote for me. That's a 2-1-1. Or I could also tell MJ if she voted me out, I'll be Cleffords champion and I will leave a very convincing jury speech for Clefford to win. I feel like I do have that skill, so she better believe I can do that. Anyway, please MJ, just lose this challenge sonwe can just vote you out easily. Bye. Amping

Why am I nervous now??? What is going on??? Oh nooooo why do I feel like MJ might be able to flip one of them to vote for me? I did messaged MJ after my impulsive answer from the last tribal question, saying sorry. I'm afraid she might have use that against me and tell Clefford or Dominique I am doing Jury management. Oh nooooo, pls. It would be a shame if i get voted out at f4. Arrrggghhh why is noone talking to me right now, except MJ which is skectchy. She's trying to bait me for sure. If they would rather vote me out over MJ, they just lost big time. I don't know. I don't understand this. I hope I am just overthinking. Bye. Amping! I had fun this season.

it would be a total shame if I am here giving confessionals every 30 minutes, only for me to get voted out this round. No waaaay. Lord Jesus, help me. This is actually so scary. So of course, MJ is doing her Queen things again. Trying to pull out a 2-1-1 vote. Convince Dom and I to vote each other and then she and Clefford can vote whoever they want. Which is exactly my plan, but she had won the immunity. Honestly if she can pull that off, that would mean she makes it to the end purely out of strategy and social game play. No way, any of us would win against her if she can pull that off. I am just gonna go give her her crown before heading out to jury if that happens. I hope, Clefford and Dom will not fall for this trap though. This would just makes Clefford's game looks bad, cause he had already betrayed Zukiswa and MJ when we voted out Zukiswa, if he save MJ now, that would just mean he's playing chicken, which is not a good game play here on survivor. Own up to your move, Clefford. Let's make this tribal council simple, and vote MJ out. Perioooooood.

Clefford

I'M STILL HERE. How did Zukiswa got voted out? Because Dom played an idol? No. It's because of me. At final 5, I have to step back and see the big picture. Think of how will I win this game. If I sit next to MJ and Zukiswa, my Day 1 alliance, it will be hard to separate my game because we've been working together. When we got swapped, I created another secret alliance with Dom and Ariel. I pretty much trust both of them, specially Dom since she saved me from Golgotha tribal. So, who's the best group to sit with in FTC? I decided to be with Ariel and Dom without MJ and Zuki's knowledge. With MJ winning F5 immunity, our only target is Zukiswa. I portrayed double agents at that moment between MJ x Zuki and Dom x Ariel groups. With Dom having an idol, my concern was Ariel, because MJ wanted him out. So with the coins that I collected, I brought Safety Without Power advantage and gave it to Ariel, because Zuki have a advantage count revealer that she could used to someone to reveal the amount of advantage that someone have. Since MJ wanted Ariel out, I had to give my advantage to Ariel and let Zuki use her revealer to him, so that they would know that Ariel have an advantage and switch the vote to Dom. I now told Dom to play her idol because Zuki and MJ were voting for her. I also had to vote with MJ and Zuki, to prevent damage control on MJ. And BOOM! Zuki got voted out with 3-2 votes (Dom played the idol). Now, Zuki and MJ still don't know that I betrayed them. Don't get me wrong, I'm sad that I had to do that. I won FIC, and I have to vote MJ out now.

Dom

This is the one and only time to take MJ out. If this doesn't go as planned, my suspicions about Clefford for last tribal and this tribal were true and he cannot be trusted at all. If not, I'm sure I will sit on the Jury. Well played MJ.

MJ

I’ll drop two confessions lol. One for the VL and the other is what’s going through my mind. First one 👇 Final round and I only have a 0.1% chance of making it to the FTC. 😅 Dom and Ariel will definitely not take another chance with me, and my ever loving Clefford has all of a sudden turned deaf hears to my messages and calls. That only means two things; 1. A 3-1 vote at tribal (where MJ becomes the last member of the Jury☺️) 2. Or a 2-2 /2-1-1 vote, where MJ ties and takes a final chance at the tie challenge OR either Dom & Ariel gets voted out with a 2-1-1 vote.(Don’t ask me how lol, nothing is impossible!) If the former happens, I gave a good shot and played an excellent game. But, If the latter happens, I played an Extraordinary game. 😊 Either ways, I had an excellent game play generally ♥️ Second one 👇 Critically speaking, this is a game and one of Clefford best shot will be eliminating me tonight at tribal. But here is a simple and true fact. I don’t think he has a chance of winning either with me at FTC or with Ariel or Dom. So the sincere question for Clefford will be; Will you rather take your friend (MJ) to the FTC and have her win against you or you’ll rather take your “Game enemies” to the FTC and still have them win against you??? 😅😅 so the ball is in his court to decide tonight. It wasn’t as though I couldn’t eliminate Clefford, he wasn’t just an option. The energy I received today from Clefford was rather predictable and disappointing but it’s a game after all. I hope he is true to his words. He also has a soft heart and I’m very sure he struggled with whatever decision he made. Still, the alliance I had with him & Zuki was one of the best thing that happened to me in this game 🥰 I still don’t know who to vote for lol. Clefford might not have the mind to vote against me, but he might also not vote Ariel off. So he might do Dom and expect me to reason it out. But doing dom is a risk I’ll rather not want to take. So I may just do Ariel and hopes he doesn’t flip. All I ask is a chance to fight my battle at the tie challenge 😁 I hope he grants it 

FINAL 3

Ariel

I made it to FTC. Honestly, I was kind expecting it. LOL. Bring back my confessionals where I said I will be blindsided each round. HAHAHAHAHA I don't know how to feel. It feels so good to be able to make it to the end with the person that I trust in this game. Also, I have always wanted to go to FTC with another Filipino. At my first season, I got Pule with me, but unfortunately I was removed from the game. At my second season, I could have Esteban but like, our games was just not aligned. Lol. And now finally, I got Clefford, my ride or die, and we made it to the end. Honestly, I am just so proud of both of us. Clefford played a very daring and upfront game. He took risks that I would have not take myself. I would be proud of him and be genuinely happy if he won this season. But that does not mean, I don't want to win this season. Don't get me wrong, I want to win this season. And I feel like I have a chance to win this season. Third time is a charm, they say. Let's see. Thank you, everyone for watching this season. May we all have better day coming ahead. Amping!

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NOTES:

Ariel and Dom give Clefford coins to buy the Safety Without Power

Clefford does WAY too much to get Zukiswa voted out. He begins to unnecessarily lie to MJ and Zukiswa, and builds a plan with Dom and Ariel that does not need to happen

Clefford tries to sniff out what Zukiswa’s advantage is DESPITE having been given it. So, he actually does know what it is, but has forgotten after all this time

Clefford gets slightly caught in his lie to MJ and Zukiswa

MJ and Zukiswa want to target Ariel

Clefford gives his Safety Without Power to Ariel

Ariel calls out MJ in the tribe chat, with Dom backing him up

Clefford debates on whether he should vote for Zukiswa or Ariel

Clefford lies and says he voted for Ariel to MJ and Zukiswa

Ariel plans to not use the SWP

Zuki and MJ doubt that there is an idol left in the game. They wonder if they could switch their vote to Dom.

Clefford votes for Dom because he knows that she has an idol and will be safe.

Zuki is voted out 3-2

MJ appeals to Clefford’s emotional side to get him to vote with her. She begins to suspect that he might vote her out. She wants to see if she could pull a 2-1-1 vote with Clefford

Clefford is hesitating to take out MJ because he has grown so close with her in this game

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 12: "Mostly for shits and gigles because I was BITTER" ~Ava

LINKS:

Twist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688251509194063872?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688251689686482944?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688343625671819264?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Ariel

okkrrrrrrrrr, I just received my first votes in this season and it scaaaared me. I'm so glad I follow my gut last night to reply to Ava. I almost did not cause I don't want to give Ava false hope of working together when I did not plan to, turns out Ava just save my life in this game. Thanks god for Ava. We did a wordle challenge today and I really want to win this because this is such a tricky round with the invisible twist. We will be going to tribal council without knowing who win the challenge and therefor is immune. This is making it extra hard to make plans. And I want to plan this round precisely, but it's hard to do that with this twist. MJ you better wear all your protective gear cause I'm coming for you. I'm just glad, Ava, Clefford and Dominique save me this round. I definitely owe it to them. This is my ideal final 4 too. I think the four of us have equal chance. In an ideal world, we can just split the votes to Zukiswa and MJ. But doing that is taking a risk cause if one of us 4, either Dominique or Ava flips then it's over for us. That is too risky. But if we don't split that means we all vote for either MJ or Zukiswa and hopes that neither of them wins immunity and has a hidden immunity idol. This twist definitely makes everything so hard this round, not to mention it is a final 6 tribal council. Very pivotal. Anyway, I'm glad I'm still here. Bye. Amping

Clefford

I'm still here. As we go further, the round becomes more complicated. To the point that I will betray someone that I'm working with for a long time now. 

Zukiswa

This is so exhausting! .not sure how we will go into this round this blind. But like soldiers, we keep marching forward.

MJ

Wow this is one of the toughest round yet! Ariel’s vote did not go as planned yesterday because Ava flipped. Which really put a target on my back and Zukiswa’s back. One of my many options for crossing over to the next round is to win the immunity challenge but I am not really please with my score. The plan was to score between 9-12. 16 is way to high, so I might just better start thinking other options why we await the challenge result announcement. I have 30 coins which is able to save myself for a round. If I don’t win immunity, it might be a better option to play it and then hope my majority cross over to the next round. Right now, I told only Zuki my long kept secrete about the coin and she was happy and proud. Even though I honestly wish ti play it at final 5, if I don’t win tonight’s immunity, playing it might be the only option I have because I can’t trust Dom and Clefford totally at this point. Also, I wish Zukiswa doesn’t go home. I want either Ava or Ariel. I’m trying yo see if we can put coins together ti shop that 20coins item. If it’s an idol, then Zukiswa uses it. Right now we haven’t really made the votes decision. I hope myself , Zuki and Clefford makes it to the next round so we can cross to the final four easily 

Ava

https://youtu.be/im8jEBvIbqo

Dom

I don't tend to say a whole lot in regards to this game and my gameplay but this is WILD. I pretty much am deciding factor in this vote. I have challenge immunity, then i think MJ has the necklace, Zuki just bought an idol but I also have an idol to use or to save for myself for final 5....what do I choose is the question. Do I take out my day 1 alliance member or do I play this idol for them? HELP.

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NOTES:

Clefford already begins to betray MJ by egging on Dom and Ariel to vote her out

MJ tries to explain herself to Clefford, but continues to bury herself in a hole

Dom and Ariel want to purchase the immunity necklace to prevent MJ from buying it. Clefford suggests that they should buy the ink ribbon since MJ has expressed interest in it

Clefford reveals that MJ trusts him 100% to Dom and Ariel

Ariel suggests splitting the vote between Zukiswa and MJ by using Ava

Dom purchases a Hidden Immunity Idol

Dom, Ariel, and Clefford discuss how to use the idol in this round. Their plan is to split 2-2 against MJ and Zukiswa (using Ava’s vote)

MJ and Zukiswa want Clefford to vote with them and split the vote between Ariel and Ava. Clefford is leaking the plans to Ava, Ariel, and Dom to blindside Zukiswa and MJ

MJ and Zukiswa will split their votes to Ariel and Ava, using Dom’s and Clefford’s vote

MJ purchases the additional immunity

Zukiswa buys the idol

Ava and Dom are worried that MJ purchased the additional immunity.

Zukiswa tells Dom, Clefford, and MJ about the idol. Dom proceeds to freak out, saying that the group is screwed because of it

Clefford tries to get Zukiswa to play the idol on him

Clefford tells MJ that Ariel had a score of 28, so now MJ wants to stack the votes on Ariel

Zukiswa wants to target Dom because she thinks that Dom did not win immunity because she is sure that Ava won immunity

Zukiswa logics that, since Dom knows Zuki has an idol, that Dom would target Clefford if she flipped

Clefford asks that Ariel, Dom, and Ava stack the votes against MJ

MJ plays an alliance revealer on Dom

MJ figures out that Dom is an alliance with Ariel and Ava.

Clefford tells them that he has an alliance with Dom and Ariel, making the  excuse that it was for last round, not this round

Zukiswa pushes to vote for Ava and suggest that she uses the idol on herself. This makes Clefford fold and he and Dom change their votes to Ava last minute to save their skins

Ava does not use the Safety Without Power and goes to jury

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 11: "For me, henceforth, everyday is a day to win immunity at challenges 😁😅😅" ~MJ

LINKS:

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688070878353817600?source=share

Quit: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688092809105997824?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688150610436128768?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688251234123186176?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Ariel

So Els went home. But now I am starting to realize that Ava, Adeline and Els is not actually that huge of a threat. At first I thought they are just trying to play UTR but with Adeline self voting for the second time, I felt bad. I really feel bad, for taking everything as a gameplay and not considering that people might be dealing with personal stuffs. Maybe Adeline and Ava are just truly busy with their lives and not just playing UTR. I am sorry Adeline, I hope by the time this episode is up. You are now doing good. Anyways, I still stand with my ideal final 3 which is Dominique and Clefford. It looks like that's going to happen too. But I might start to consider what the jury is feeling towards me. I hope they will respect my game play by the time I explain it. Oh, I am thinking waaay ahead. Bye. Amping!

MJ

Ever since the last challenge (both touchy subject and the 24hours challenge) I’ve been very uncomfortable. Everyone thinks I might win. Everyone thinks I am too strategic. Everyone thinks this or that. The dumbest thing the remaining players will do is to never consider taking me out. That will be too dumb! So right now, I’m thinking my way out. One of the scariest thing I haven’t come to terms with is to imagine Zuki & Clefford turn down on me. It’ll be so bad lol, but I’m grateful for the alliance revealer. I’ll use that At F5 to know who is plotting bad against me 😅 and from there I can strike. But now, I have a very funny but dangerous strategy. If it plays out well, I might never get to use my coins. Before I say my strategy, I’ll explain this: Ariel said during the challenge that MJ is the biggest threat. And that went deep inside me. This is someone that is supposed to be my best man after Zuki & Clefford. I then begin to wonder, what if he actually doesn’t want me in the F3 lol. That’s so possible. I think so far, Ariel is my biggest threat. I then spoke with him and he said that he knows I might want to take Zuki & Clefford to F3. 😱 I was like oh no, I’m more close to Clefford than to Zuki so I tried calming him down. But I know Ariel might arrange my elimination if I don’t take action. Julia on the other hand, is using the “I love MJ” strategy to get close to me 😹😹 nice! Ava, needs a solace and where they can hide. It’ll only make sense to give them that shield for now. For Dom, I’ve never understood her gameplan and I only hope she doesn’t have an idol. Clefford always wants to be in charge and I’m scared he never thinks of “blindsiding MJ”. Zukiswa on the other hand is someone I’m really scared of. What if she sees me as a threat too or is she willing to go all the way with me? I actually do not know now because she leaves me with no clue. Zuki mentioned Ava and Julia trusts her, and then the perfect strategy came to me. Here is it; FINAL 7 MJ wins immunity, - MJ, Zuki , Ava & Julia forms an alliance - Clefford , Mj, Zuki, Ariel & Dom forms F5 (Already existing) We then inform Clefford to play along he knows we are elongating Ariel but he’ll never say that. Mj votes Ariel Zuki votes Ariel Julia votes Ariel Ava votes Ariel Clefford votes Julia Ariel voted Julia Dom votes Julia Then, Ariel is blindsided and voted out. Clefford pretends he isn’t aware and talks to Dom for strategy. He then finds out if Dom has an idol or not. FINAL 6 Mj votes Dom Julia votes Dom Zuki votes Dom Ava votes Dom Clefford votes Julia or Ava Dom votes Julia or Ava Dom is voted out. Final 5. Mj, Zuki & Clefford remains true to their alliance. Mj, Zuki & Clefford turns around to vote Ava Mj uses her alliance revealer to find out if there’s any active alliance without her (if there is, I may need to play my idol) Hopefully Ava goes. Then at F4, We three are left with Julia. We all struggle to get immunity, I then can play my idol. And hopefully Julia goes. This is just an idea in the air. I’m trying to see who to trust and who can’t stand me winning for now. But hopefully looks like the toughest blindside is happening tonight as Ariel will be taking his leave. Also for me, henceforth, everyday is a day to win immunity at challenges 😁😅😅

Clefford

I realized that from the start to this point, I also managed to get information about the coins concerning The Summit and on the Shop. And everytime I have enough coins to buy an item, I did it. First, the Extortion Advantage (5) which I used on Navi. I thought that I kind of wasted it, but I realized that I actually confirmed that Navi and Evan are working together because of that by not giving me coins and felt safe by losing her vote. Second, when I got 5 coins enough to buy another item on the shop, and luckily I got an advantage for the next challenge which guaranteed me winning immunity. And now, I used all of my coins buying another item for 7 coins and got a Coins Revealer and used it against Ava to know her coins situation and she got 15 coins. I already know Julia's coins, 13. This will help us on who to target and prevent both of them buying an advantage on the shop that is enough for their coins. I hope that MJ and Zuki are buying this to buy the item #2 first for 15 coins. MJ told me that Adeline gifted her an advantage.

Dom

This round will be more telling for me who I can take to the final 4. Things have been crazy but I can see it's imperative that I take out MJ and Julia when they don't win immunity. Seems to be the only option especially with advantages in play. So taking out the right people at the right time is definitely necessary.

Ariel

Where in the blackhole is everybody??? Why is nobody talking to me? The votes have been like this so far, someone will just mention a name and everyone will just go with it, but this is different. I am sensing different vibes this round. I feel like they might be blindsiding me. I should have not told MJ we should vote Julia cause she is a challenge beast, I feel like that is a warning sign for her to get me out. Daaamn. I am done. I really thought I will make it to the end. Aaarrrghhh I should have not told MJ that. Now, my only hope is that Clefford and Dom actually got my back. Plsss noo. I don't want to get voted out yet I have to talk to Clefford. Arrrghh I hate this. Bye y'all.

Ava

https://youtu.be/jyZuJfAgCtc

Zukiswa

Oh my word this is hard! I'm trying to protect Julia and I'm worried it might not work. I could actually be me tonight. If anyone had any sense it would be me.

Julia

24 Hour challenge: I was ahead as of 9:52 with 18 points. I came hard out the gate, but MJ began to creep up on me and eventually got a lead which she maintained. Even after she took a few hours rest I managed to almost close that gap but she got back on and regained her impressive lead. But we were neck and neck for the first 13 to14 hours. I was on her ass and she couldn’t shake me off. I played from 7pm to almost 9:30am next day. And in between challenges, a few of us got into this hilarious chat fest and we were all cracking up. I also worried I might miss firing on the next challenge but we didn’t lose a beat. That was so fun. But ultimately, MJ won with over 125 points. It was exhilarating and exhausting. I mean, drawing pictures, reciting poetry, writing poems, humming melody’s; and the constant program title with images!!!! But after I got back up at 2pm next day, there was a challenge request to cry on cue. Well let me tell you, I could do that by then cuz I was in pain. And I cried for a while - whether from exhaustion or sheer joy that it was over for me, or for having enough common sense to step down; or for attempting something that gave me an experience to tell my friends, or all of the above..... I had a blast and I am proud of surviving this game this long. But lesson learned: After the age of 60, you should not pull a night of debauchery, playing a 24 hour org game for any reason and for many other reasons. Such as bad decision making, much like when you get drunk…. So I lost but I had 13 coins which I thought of giving to MJ, but I had just enough to buy one thing: the jar of flies, which would be my 2nd zonk purchase! But being someone who always sees the jar half full (even if its full of flies) I bought it. In the end, I was glad I didn’t give MJ my coins (jar half full optimism) because, while it was a stupid and selfish decision, MJ may have bought them and they are totally useless except to bite me! Other players must’ve suspected that jar was no good... but not me - what do I know.... course those flies wouldn't have taken down a woman as fierce as MJ. Because biting her blood would've killed them! Much like what happened when I bought the blue herb plant - my first zonk. It was nothing more than an opportunity to turn a real looking purchase into a fake idol. I didn’t tell my ‘team’ and Cliftone bought it! I asked Raffy if I could tell him it was a fake and he said, “if you want to.” So I did. But I guess he didn’t believe me or said wtf and tried to use it when they came for him….I felt so bad But that 24 hour challenge was soooo tough. Raffy asked me to answer the Question: Did I need immunity? Did I want it? Did I think it would / could save me? Yes and No. At first I thought it was the only way to save me. It started at 7pm, but by 4 am, I wanted to push MJ to get way the heck out in front enough that no one else could beat her. And by the time I stopped playing after about 14 hours, there were not enough coins left for anyone but myself to beat her. She has shown she is decisively the most massive threat in the whole game, and because of that, SHE needed the protection of immunity to see her through to the end. That doesn't mean I wouldnt try to beat her at a challenge, but it means if I can't win, she should. Ari is tough too. He came in swinging and after I gave up at 9am, I came back at 2pm and saw she was way ahead but he was still in there! The hosts said I was the only person who could beat her because I had almost 80 points and there were enough points left to overtake her. Masochist that I can sometimes be, I was in so much pain I could barely walk, in more pain than usual from missing a sleep cycle. I was weak, groggy and disoriented. I had aggravated the arthritis in my right hip sitting up to do that challenge. I had to take some pain meds but realized I didn’t think I should resume the game and decided to surrender. I also thought about the toll it would take on MJ – who had had a brief sleep but would have to play through the day if I were to continue. I also had to attend to the undone tasks for my upcoming move and didn’t want to do further, perhaps irreparable harm, to my body. But MJ and I, yeah, we sucked up all the 3 and 2 point challenges with Ariel getting in on the action too. We smoked that game and it ended early after I surrendered. But my respect for MJ and Ari grew as a result of playing against them. I know people underestimated this 67 year old org virgin. I used to pull all-nighters when producing shows or preparing presentations or key note speeches. I am relentless in pursuit of a goal usually as it relates to justice. But I applied it to this game. And in doing so for this, I learned that MJ is gentle but with the heart of a lion and despite her beautiful calm demeanor, she was fierce. Ari too is a mean competitor and by mean, I mean, his persistence was nothing short of phenomenal and MJ knew it so she kept pushing, But in the end I gave these two 20 somethings a run for their money. Lesson they learned: Do not underestimate older people! Especially Julia T, a Queen who is old in body but not in spirit. These two people were worthy opponents. I could do the crying video then but I surrendered. And thinking back to the Touchy Subjects challenge where people predicted, I would be most likely to die in a zombie apocalypse, (still rankles!) you know what, its not the worst thing. I may indeed join them. I rather like zombies. They are inclusive, non-discriminatory, and non-binary. To them, age, race, gender, religion or political preferences don’t matter, and if I died, I’d come back to life and at least I’ll be on a winning team. And then all of you would be in trouble! And lastly, for those who think you can only win by being a villain, the outcome to this 24 hour challenge was played to the nth degree, by two people who basically didn’t feel the need to be really bad to each other. Think about that….

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NOTES:

Dom trusts MJ and Zukiswa after last vote.

Adeline quits.

Clefford bought and used a Coin Revealer on Ava, letting him know that they have 15 coins

Clefford pushes the 5 majority alliance with Dom, Ariel, MJ, and Zukiswa.

Dom tells Clefford and Ariel that they need to take out MJ as soon as she doesn’t win immunity.

The alliance decides to target Julia

MJ becomes paranoid that everyone is gunning for her. She forms a new plan to betray the majority before they can betray her.

Ava buys the Safety Without Power

Ava does not want to vote out Ariel because they see MJ, Julia, and Clefford as the biggest threats in the game that need to be taken out.

MJ is relying too much on having Zukiswa and Clefford talk to people for her rather than having those social connections herself. This will cause them to control the votes, and not MJ.

MJ and Zukiswa want to convince Clefford to flip, but he is asleep and probably will not anyways.

Ava lies to MJ and Zukiswa about the Ariel vote so that they can use the information against those two.

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 10: "I am still letting MJ and Clefford run the game. I don't mind it." ~Ariel

LINKS:

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687889417999892480?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687972914456412160?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/688070624382517248?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Ariel

wait, already at round 10? did I miss a confessional? Aghhhh anyway. I now have a time to do a proper confessional so here we go. Last round, I would have wanted Els to go, cause I still stand that having Ava, Adeline and Els still in the game is quite dangerous. Like, if my suspicions are right, the 3 of them is such a powerful alliance. Like, no cap, they would be like the Black Widow Brigade alliance of stings. Aside from that, I like DJ too, and I know I could have work with him down the line. I really feel bad letting him go. It's too bad he ends up on the wrong side. I can't fight to keep him that hard too cause again I am playing just a goat and I don't want them paying attention to me. Anyway, I still have Clefford and I think I got Dominique too, at this point, this is my ideal final 3. I think I have a fair chance against them. But it's too early to talk about that, so how about we talk about the challenge? TOUCHY SUBJECTS. Ooouccch, it bring backs memories. Lol, I am missing my flipper bestie Melissa, extra this round. I swear if this people still thinks I am flipper, I will be changing my profile name to Flipper. That sounds cooler than Ariel anyway. Lol. Anyway, so we now have Julia and Els the remaining outsider. I feel like they are just playing us that they don't get a long but I have a strong vibe that they can actually flip this game with Ava and Adeline, and then they would just need another one maybe with Dominique or MJ and Zukiswa. I'm not sure, but it would not surprise me, cause again, I know they are such a strong players, and strong players pull out amazing gameplays. Honestly, I would be amaze if that happens, like that is such a good gameplay for them. Also I will be mad at Clefford if that happens cause Clefford keeps insisting they will never work together. Right now I am just trusting Clefford with that. I am still letting MJ and Clefford run the game. I don't mind it. Anyway I still need to play dumb. And just be cool. I am actually scared cause I am talking strategy with Dominique right now about voting out MJ or Zukiswa, and I don't trust Dominique a 100%. Lol. Dominique has like hundreds of alliances. Like 90% of my alliance group chat has Dominique in it. Who knows how many alliances she actually have. By the way, I forgot to put some catchy phrases on my confessionals. How am I gonna have an episode title now??? huhuhuhuhu I think that is it for now. I hope I have given you enough tea. Bye. Amping.

Clefford

We're breaking up the “alliance” of Adeline, Ava, and Els. We think that they're working together. We told the majority 7 that we're voting for Julia, but MJ, Zuki, and I decided that we should blindside Els. Ariel and Dom also agreed.

MJ

right now I’m not settled to give a confessional, there’s a lot going on in my head because I don’t have a decided plan yet. I should cool off in the next two hours and know what I’m gonna do. So I’ll probably be back to give a detailed confession from my point of view. There’s definitely a lot happening! And I haven’t been so sensitive and alert in this game as I feel now. 

Adeline

Had a long talk with Julia while deciding on summit coins. who is unfortunately at the bottom at the moment. MJ asked if i sent her the 4 coins, i said Julia and i both decided on it. And she asked me to work with her going forward 

Dom

Things are getting interesting in the game and alliances are going to start being broken day by day. The question remains who do I work with? Who can I trust? As of right now I can only somewhat trust ariel, clefford mj and zukiswa... but that doesn't mean it won't be me.

Ava

https://youtu.be/6HrXMendofI

MJ

Welcome back lol! I don’t know why everywhere and everyone is completely quiet today 😅 the last time I got this feeling of quietness was when I was on the chopping board lol! 😅 there’s no moment that I’m not alert and I’ve definitely thought about what if everyone decides to blindside me today, what will I do? Lmao. I think so far I have a safe landing with most members of the tribe and my name shouldn’t be out at least for this round. Now let’s re-wind!!!!! DJ was voted out 😅😅😅😅😅 that was such a calming moment lol. I told him he’s going so it wasn’t an issue of blindside, we just laughed and gisted over it. Plus, I loved the fact that he was out. He wasn’t 100% true to our budding alliance and I’m happy the game took him out seamlessly without any extra effort to perform lol. That tribal was so straight forward lol. Gosh!! Now to the present!!!! Who will win if gotten to the F3? MJ Who is actually running the game ? MJ who’s the vallian? MJ SUMMARINGLY, who is the biggest threat? MJ 😅 My next move isn’t to keep quiet or to play low. From now till the final tribal, I’ll play the game as though my name is always on the chopping board. My biggest move yet would have been taking Ava out tonight but the co-majority wasn’t just seeing it that way. I could have pushed further but I’ve also learnt to respect their decisions before I appear controlling which is the least vibe I wanna pass. I have a little connection with Ava & Adeline and I only hope after Els is gone tonight (that’s if she goes), they won’t turn to me. That was why I think taking Ava out will be a major blindside leaving Els and Adeline with little choice. Now, I’m good with voting out Els. I’m just here crossing my fingers and hoping that I don’t loose any of my major alliance tonight. (Clefford or Zuki). ❤️ & 💡 

Zukiswa

This round was a mess. I just have renewed commitment to my alliance. I've not even had time to properly analyze the challange and what people say about me and each other.

Julia

After this challenge, I felt somewhat deflated. So the correct answers came from the personal reflections and the ‘what you thought others thought’ were most likely gleaned from conversations people had with each other. First, there were some surprises – like being assumed a hero and a villain. I don’t see myself as either. The ‘hero’ – maybe because I try to help people even to the point of putting them ahead of me. But the ‘villain.’ What!!! Why??? But its also kinda nice to be both to others. True, I don’t keep secrets. Especially my own. I really don’t have them. I enjoy being transparent. But some things I shared as part of game play when it came to others which everyone definitely did! So why did some say I can’t keep a secret? A few of the more interesting results was the response to who is on the bottom of the tribe…. My name was mentioned five times! But I was 1 of 4 people… I was surprised to see Els there…go figure. Yet, people, Zukiswa, in particular, was gaslighting me so hard it was hilarious. It began with how “gorgeous” my skin was in the video, it was “glowing,” to how I’m really “playiiiiing’ the game – neither of which was true. So, I was pretty sure she was using deception and manipulation to control me and know what I was thinking. So I just chatted with her – and I chat too much – I realize that – but do it anyway. Maybe its why people didn’t want to ally with me. Maybe people saw something sinister and shady in that quality. Its either I must be hiding something or I’m an open book and because I’m not ‘playing the game’ I ‘don’t deserve to be here and I’m ‘most likely to flip on my allies.’ Only on my once allies who turn on me. My sister once said that I “write books” in my texts. Once upon a time, she found them annoying. Now, she finds them precious, funny and interesting. I guess I’m an acquired taste – or not. Zukiswa didn’t realize I suspected her of trying to manipulate her, but I knew she was faking, especially when she said, that after winning 2 challenges, people were going to want to work with me; that they were scared of me, but she wasn’t. And no one sidled up to me really in a sincere way. So some people think, that some people think that I don’t deserve to be here. I think that some people worry that I might accidently save myself and then they’ve nothing left but to turn on each other. That would be juicy. Hmmm… ‘most likely to be a bitter juror…’ Wow… I wouldn’t be here today if bitterness was my M.O. Plus, that requires more energy than most people are worth. I should’ve told Zukiswa, my skin is so soft and luminous because I’m least likely to be a bitter juror and I’m not a gaslighting, backstabbing liar! And lastly – who would die first in a zombie apocalypse… how ironic that both Adeline and myself who were most likely to die first, are actually still here and were last nights winner (Adeline) and Summit Leaders. I thought that very interesting too. Perhaps they thought I would stop and have a long conversation with the zombies, or share my contact info and tell them my innermost thoughts…. or give them a helping hand in catching their next dinner and support them in voting someone off, or … oh hey – that sounds like Survivor Raccoon City – the Zombie Apocalypse is Here! Too bad you didn’t ask, ‘Who do you think no longer wants to be here.’ Even I would’ve answered: ‘Julia’…. But, like much else people have said in Touchy Subjects, even thats not entirely true

Els

Unfortunately the time has come for me to vote Julia :(

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NOTES:

The alliance of MJ, Clifford, and Zukiswa have their sights on Julia next

Clefford is now thinking of voting for Ava or Els because he thinks they are working together and see MJ and him as a threat

Ariel proposes to do Julia in the majority alliance chat

Clefford talks in his alliance with Zukiswa and MJ about how they should “blindside” Els this round. Presumably, he will leave out Adeline and Ava on this plan and only bring in Ariel and Dom. He is now working towards getting his core 5 idea planned out and started.

MJ still tries to push for Julia to go, but is willing to just defer to Clefford

Dom and Ariel are on board to vote out Els

The plan is to blindside Ava and Adeline

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 9: "Literally I don’t even know what options I have anymore." ~Els

LINKS:

Twist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687709153249181696?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687709378332213248?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687803337007153152?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687889265945870336?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

DJ

How? How did Julia and Clefford have so much chemistry in between them? Are they in an alliance from the beginning? That is so Sus! 

MJ and are having fun talking to each other. Let's see if we can agree on who to vote now. 

MJ

Omg! Result just came out and Julia won immunity again 😭 this isn’t a good news! It only means two things. Either Els or DJ goes. I and DJ are “Spousenemies” and I’m not ready to end my show with him. I know it’s gonna come to an end sooner or later but I don’t want him going now 😭 I hate the fact that I have to really try to subtly make them vote Els. That’s not even good for my game 😣 I just want DJ around me, that’s all! I’m so easy to come up with strategies in this hand but now that is down to my “Number one non-ally best friend”, my brain seems empty 😭😹 But this is the plan so far. I go on the lmao group to say (it’s either Els or DJ) I go further to say I want Els Then I go ahead to say, I won’t decide but wait for the two quiet people (Ava & Adeline) to decide. Overtime in the majority alliance, Ava & Adeline has proven to always go with what we say. So I only hope they do this time around. O already stated Els to them. Adeline will most likely say, okay Els then. Maybe Ava too, hopefully! That’s REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY. I feel I’m doing too much for the DJ that betrayed me 😒 So if my reverse psychology works for Adeline and Ava, I still have the two MAJOR & stubborn people to go 😂😂😂😂 my first class alliance 😁😍 The love I have for both of them are out of this world. My two other Ally’s , have proven to be strategically stubborn overtime 😜 they analyze the simplest move and that’s why we are stuck together 💖 so I’m pretty sure they wont just nod to my ELS suggestion. If they both agree to Els, trust me, DJ is safe . But if they don’t, then it’s a bye bye for my DJ ☹️💚 So right now, I’ll only cross my fingers and push very “soft” for Els. Pushing hard might be sneaky. And I don’t wanna appear sneaky, not even to my strongest Alliance (Zuki & Clefford) You may want to ask me: MJ, will you save DJ and forfeit your alliance with Zuki & Clefford? Or loose DJ & keep your alliance with Zuki & Clefford? Ofcourse, my alliance with Z & C is the bedrock of my success journey to top 3! I ain’t trading that for nothing! But also, my friendship with DJ gives me the right dose of vibes and energy I need to get far in the game. I need them both 😂 When next I come here, it’s either a goodbye DJ or yayyyy we made it again! Till then, Fingers can only be crossed.

Zukiswa

🤣🤣🤣🤣 You guys want us gone!! Pairing us with other people is bordering on being genius! Am I the only one watching how great Julia's game is!!! I'm in awe!! Anyhow, my day one alliance is solid. We proved that when I was afraid that it made sense to vote me out and I gave my advantage to Clefford. I did that because I thought it was either me or MJ so I didn't want the challange to go to waste if I was voted out. I wasn't and Clefford gave it back. We've kept our word since day 1 but it's not like we are without issues. MJ gets a type of way if she doesn't get her way. I've learnt how to talk her out of or into things but I think she's not happy with the DJ vote. DJ does nothing for my game, I'm not keeping him and I think I can use Else later on. She can use me for now also to stay alive. But at the end of the day Els bites. She's bitten twice before. Uuuhhh what am I going to do?

Clefford

I feel like I say more on VL than in my confessional. Hahaha! If you're reading this and get nothing from me, then you should be on VL. Hahaha! Kidding. The only thing that I realized in this round, Julia is hard to work with. Period. 

DJ

MJ tells me that I'm going tonight. It feels shitty but I'll be fine. This game has me stressed AF. I need a full night's sleep tbh Tribals and everything happens at 3.30am ffs 😭

Ariel

Fucking hate my employer right now. Fucking insensitive. I feel like dying, I have been working for 36 hours straight. Fuck this life. The majority decided to vote out DJ, I have no energy to object. Sorry I feel like my head is exploding. Bye. 

Ava

https://youtu.be/BxrbgTr8IZc

Dom

This round has gone better than what I thought. Almost too well. I'm not sure who I can trust and can't trust in this game. But I'm definitely making moves to get myself to final 4.

Els

Literally I don’t even know what options I have anymore, I now have to vote out the only person who’s voted with me

Julia

I confess – I can’t believe I won a 2nd challenge! Truth be told, I said in my application to this game that I will get as close to winning between #1-5. Braggadocio people. Pure chutzpah. But here I am – well there are 10 of us left. And I can’t be voted out tonight, so I made it to final 9!!! That’s worthy of a beer, right now… but I have to wait and celebrate when I get home from physical therapy. Don’t wanna go high to physical therapy you know… I enjoyed working with Clefford from the Phillipines on the Got It challenge. One of the things I liked about that challenge is that we had to look into each other’s eyes. We had to align our thoughts, touch spirits. It was weird and wonderful. After we finished he showed me around his grandmothers house, the sidewalk and streets outside. His niece kept trying to peek into the camera! Adorable. I then took him on a tour of the inside of my house! The towering boxes piling up in my workspace; my world, my life contained in brown boxes with various colored tapes and scribblings. A friend asked me during our weekly call, why do I choose to play this game with its ups and downs, its angst causing dynamics and how it has sucked up any extra space in my already tight schedule. She asked why don’t I do something more relaxing; more healing and beneficial to my spirit, that would help with this housing transition…. How can I tell her how playing and visiting with Clefford made me feel. I may never get to the Phillips, but I was there through his eyes. He wasn’t just some rando guy over there. He was a member of SRC Spring 2022… I develop genuine liking for people so easily. As I said to Zukiswa who I’ve been chatting with, it IS my Achilles heel. How can I vote people off when they’ve become humanized to me; personal. The truth is, I can’t…. until they hurt me in some way. How can I explain how much more I’ve learned about myself playing this game? For God’s sake, I’m 671!!! And still learning who I am. How can I explain liking people – like Ariel who I asked if I could call ‘Ari’ to help me respect his gender identity. How can I tell her how I like Zuki just for being there; for being open; for her inner spirit. The other day while leaving the senior development where I live, I stopped to chat with a woman. Her first words were, “I’m sooo lonely.” Playing SRC fills a critical space for me. I’ve never done this, but I feel so alive! It has shook me - this game has been challenging on so many levels. As we get older, many settle into familiar patterns. Like crossword puzzles, Bingo and Singo, Find the Word puzzles.… Geriatric shit… I’m sorry to the seniors out there who are comfortable with that. I needed SRC at this time and I didn’t even know it… its digital sunshine… I couldn’t react to our win last night until late. But then I couldn’t reach Clifford. Then I panicked because we would lose our vote and couldn’t distribute coins! I couldn’t imagine a worse outcome after winning. After 3 calls I decided to ‘let the chips fall where they may.” I did my best. But fortunately, he was there this morning and we completed our tasks together. Turns out, there was a 7 person alliance as I suspected. I do not know if whom I thought was the mole person was in fact a mole. But I had to take the facts of my experience with this person and follow my instincts. I So now, I gather some people are pissed. I know they wanted to vote me and perhaps Clefford, out tonight. Now, they cant and they have to regroup – go after someone else. My winning partner, bless his little heart, suggested I give the coins to him. When I corrected him saying I can’t do that, he said he meant, to let him distribute to his team to show my loyalty to them. Aaaahh they didn’t exactly invite me in, so I have nothing to prove and seeing how the game has been going, I knew, giving them all the coins would tip the power balance even further. I had to laugh, tell him I loved him, but NO! So I proposed an alternative – that we give everyone 1 coin, even the person(s) who iced me out, and then he and I would each give an extra 1 to someone of our choice. So that’s what we did. I know I’m playing by my own set of rules. I know that after I bask in tonights feeling of light and weightlessness, tomorrows another day, another grind, another challenge. So I gave my extra coin to Zukiswa and he gave his to MJ. Zukiswa has a good heart I find. This felt right to me. We also had to vote the same way, which would only count as 1 vote but if we didn’t we would simply lose that vote. I said to Clefford, I give to you and your alliance the privilege of telling me who they’d like to vote for and I will support that. It turns out that the person I thought was a mole was also on their hit list. I agreed. It was easier than a direct hit, but I still felt a sadness. She had been my second alliance and I had promised her and my first alliance I would ride to the end and would support their every vote until it came down to the 3 of us then I would go. It didn’t go the way I had planned, but its kinda ironic, it went the way it had to. Someone said I was ‘a beast.’ Perhaps, but my only weapons are love and truth. I told Jinx she was a beast to play with. She didn’t appreciate it. But to me, it’s a badge of honor. So perhaps I am a 67 year old virgin org player beast! I’ll take it.

Adeline

Hopefully everything goes to plan to vote DJ out instead of Els this round. I don’t want my bestie going home 

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NOTES:

Zukiswa pushes to MJ and Clefford that they should turn on the majority alliance because she feels that they are running too close to getting turned on. She wants to turn on them before they can turn on her

Clefford pushes to stick with the majority because his plans involve keeping the majority, taking out MJ at F5, and taking out Zuki at F4. He is struggling to keep an iron fist on his alliance.

Despite wanting to throw the challenge, Clifford does really well

Clefford pushes for the alliance to go after DJ, but MJ still thinks they should go after Julia. The alliance is divided on who to target

Adeline and Ava chose to go after DJ, making MJ sad but willing to keep DJ gone. MJ will try to convince DJ to vote Els so they have one vote on Els in case of an idol.

Clifford tries to persuade Julia to let him distribute all the coins. Julia refuses. They come to a compromise to give 1 coin to each person and an extra one to Zukiswa.

Julia gave permission to Els and DJ to vote for her at next tribal council.

Els is frustrated that DJ still wants to work with MJ despite MJ having screwed them over plenty of times in the past. Now, Els is willing to vote for DJ.

MJ starts to plan ahead with Clefford and Zukiswa to leave out Ava/Adeline of next vote so that they can form a new 5-person majority with Dom and Ariel

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 8: "Elite strat: be mentally ill and avoid the game until necessary." ~Adeline

LINKS:

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687527210315350016?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687621051107213312?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687709045837234176?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

DJ

I survived that shitshow?!?!?!?! 

MJ x DJ 💚🖤 Survivor Spouseenemies saga continues! My ego is getting too big! Soz! I need to find that Eckhart Tolle book to ground myself down. 😩

This challenge is hard! I am trying to solve a 1 star battle puzzle and still failing! I am terrible at this but I will try my best! 

Zukiswa

Last's tribal.was hectic in multiple ways. It's amazing how people you really trust just turn against you. I still can't believe that Els wrote down Mj's name. That cut. We all know that it's a game and we have to play on. I'm really resisting the urge to put Els on the chopping block but that's not my game. My game is to let off people that do not have impact on my game and keep those that do. All the people I've written down so far, I have no regrets and I did no back stabbing. 

Ariel

I WON MY FIRST INDIVIDUAL IMMUNITY ON A PUZZLE CHALLENGE. I am so happy. Ok but before that, so DJ played his steal a vote advantage which ties the vote. Not gonna lie, I was hoping that one of us from the "7 person alliance" with MJ, Clefford, Zukiswa, Dom, Adeline, Ava and Me, is going home. Like, there's just too many of us, some of these 7 needs to go, and it would have been lovely if they go by rocks cause that means I don't have to betray them. Also like, this 7 person alliance is fake af. Like, who name their alliance "lmao"??? Like for real, this alliance makes me lmao. Were put together due to the fact that we all voted for Navi and that's it. Although we have been voting together, we never really have a gameplay talks, like someone will just chat in the alliance chat "hey let's vote this person out" and then not everyone will even respond and we all just end up voting that person out. Like, is this serious??? Hahahahaha this alliance is lmao indeed. Last tribal MJ got the heat, which is nice, because that is what I want, for everyone to see she is playing the game hard. I just have to stay my connection with her very low key cause I don't want to be that "MJ is safe, let's vote out her number one instead" no, I don't want that. I want people to know MJ's right hand is Clefford and her left hand is Zukiswa, I am just in the background, following them. Anyway, so I won immunity which Yaaaaay, I am so happy about that. I slaaaaaayed that challenge, ngl. I know it definitely put a target on my back. But I am safe for now, so I can either play it cool and just follow along again or I can try to stir the wheel. If I will drive the wheel, I think I would want Els out, so that would make Ava and Adeline optionless and maybe they will consider me instead of Els, if Els is gone. That's the way I want this round to happen. I like Els, and I think we could work together but I'm pretty sure, I'll only be their 4th wheel if I indeed try to work with Els, Ava, and Adeline. So no, I'm not gonna do that. Anyway, time to work irl. Bye, amping!

Cliftone

I'm honestly shocked that I've made it this far in the game. I only have DJ and Julia left on my side and to quite honest, if the other side voted her out it may shield DJ and I for another round. It seems every day Julia wants to quit yet with everything going on in my life (work, photography, moving, etc) I'm still giving this game my heart. I understand having feelings about how someone may be playing the game, buuuuttt if you wanna go that means one of us guys wouldn't and I would love that because I'm pretty sure I'm out next.

DJ

MJ is still talking to me! Sweet-talking as usual, but I do think MJ is actually a sweet person! I only targeted her because she was easy to expose as a big threat and I had no other options. MJ said that she still wants me around in the game. I don't know if I believe that! lol

Adeline

Elite strat: be mentally ill and avoid the game until necessary. Everybody gets desperate and tells you where to vote. i have 6 sweet sweet coins and not a clue in the world what’s going on in the social dynamics of the tribe. MJs a threat apparently? Slay for her. 

Ava

https://youtu.be/Iq_HTJhg4PQ

DJ

I really hope Cliftone doesn't go out tonight and I hope I get to play the game with him at least another round. Not much in my hands now though. Que será será! It is 10.45 pm here. Time to read and then sleep. Need my beauty sleep now. Goodnight! 💚

MJ

Hi y’all! I’ve been good. I survived last tribal with a tie lol 😆 it’s so good to see how many people wanted me out. I’m such a good ass! Lol 😝 and I’m also happy to see the others stood by me. I really appreciate that moment ❤️ The only moment my heart shifted at that tribal was when I saw DJ’s voting message 😭😭 it was such a “sweet bitter” moment for me. I trusted him with all my heart 😹 after the tribal I thought I’ll vent all that anger on him but I couldn’t even keep up the flames for so long 😅😅 it’s been another cool ride “keeping up with the J’s” since then 😅 That thing you read @raffy (DJ’s voting message) was typed in pidgin English, a Nigerian variation of English that’s meant to be always savage and funny 😆 so I’ve been teaching him pidgin and he has been teaching me Hindi. To see him use those words on me, was another level of “I don’t know how to describe it” for me! It’s all good. Right now, I’m keeping cool with him because he is cool and I’ll probably need his vote at the final tribal if I get there (hopefully) Am I survivor confident? I don’t know. I’m also trying to be over sensitive. What if everyone turns their back on me tonight? Anything is possible! What’s my game plan. What if the majority alliance splits sooner than expected? What’s the minority possible next strategy? If I was in there shoes, what would I do? All these questions are in my head and I don’t know what to answer. Yes I’ve got Zuki & Clefford but these are also players I’ll have to contend with soon! I can’t even allow myself catch the thought of thinking going against them 😭 but what if they go against me?! I don’t think so. Not now. I saw Zukiswa write: “MJ plays this game hardly and fiercely. I’m envious”😭😭 whatever that means Zuki! I really love and trust you! Probably that’s my only weakness. “Love” 😅 That being said, let’s hope I don’t go home tonight 😝 because my name might pop up and I don’t have any immunity plan. Catch ya in the next round! All my love 💖❤️

Cliftone

I'm running out of time to cast my vote and no one is responding to my messages besides the people, I'm already working with. Its frustrating that this isn't in person and I cant just go up to someone and explain to them how I'm feeling and what my plan is. So it looks like at this moment my little blindside plan is dead. I know I'm making it to the next round, but if DJ doesn't then there's no way in hell that I make it further than that. Without my advantage the other side would've more than likely taken out me then DJ then Julia then eaten one another alive. Here's to hoping me and DJ's last ditch effort can pay off. Fingers crossed.

Dom

We have the people what they wanted and now there is an alliance of 7. We will see if everyone holds true to this. Not sure who I can and can't trust yet, but getting myself to final 4 is crucial. If so, I shall call this the Dom4 and will establish myself a good position to potentially win the game. As always, anything can happen so I never underestimate.

Clefford

I'm still here! In this round, we are still planning to get Cliftone out because we were not successful from the last time. Everyone in Majority 7 are down to vote out Cliftone. I feel like we can do this and get together in F7. 

Julia

I am tired. I have been packing to move while simultaneously playing this game. It is exhausting. I am also being plagued by doubt and paranoia. I began to suspect that our new alliance, Team Oops (I don’t know who named it that!) had a Mole. I also believe I know who that mole is. I began to pick up on some cues. The overarching fact is that myself and the ‘mole’ had had a connection that seemed to disappear. I noticed that the suspected mole, never said ‘thank you’ for the coins I gave them as summit leader; gave me a belated Congrats for my Telephone game win and immunity. But was so effusive with everyone else. I noticed that the mole would not respond to any of my team messages, nor had time to talk to me. In shutting down and drowning out the noise of betrayal and defeat, I even began to suspect everyone around me; even aspects of the game…I reached out to the hosts on that and they reassured me that that was not the case. Yes, the game players betray rivals, remove anyone who’s a threat and backstab you. That is the game. This game can really do that to you. Whatever made me think this would be a walk in a lovely park! Another interesting thing is I am learning something about myself not as in I didn’t realize it, but I didn’t realize that it trumped everything else about me. I was thunderstruck by it. It occurred behind a lie someone told about my intentions that was accidentally released to the participants on a vote. And I went postal. More than identifying as female, black, senior, straight – my truest identity is that I am a truthteller. Damn – I was so angry that that was done, I forgot that that’s part of the game. But for me, that was like Superman’s arch enemy exposing him to kryptonite in an attempt to destroy him. I exploded…..I was shook! How dare anyone question, challenge, negate that part of my character! And I had to explore where it came from and why it was so deep. It made me walk back to – through - the incidents of my childhood and what I needed to do to stay sane in the face of childhood abuse…. It was being able to hold two realities at the same time – as a child. Yes, my parents were lying to each other, to me, to everyone else…. But I knew it and because they were adults people believe them and not me. So I held on to what I saw, what they said, what was done. I held it somewhere they could not destroy. And I kept my wits about me. I knew they were liars and I swore then to never be like them. But as I grew up, I learned, the real world is dangerous because people lie. A lot. But this incident led to a group forming, the ‘Ooops we voted wrong’ team and we had the possibility to take control of the game. And I saw it and tried to organize us into a voting block. But someone betrayed our full strategy which the other team emulated. I knew it was a slim chance that they’d align exactly as we did but they did! And this led to a 50/50 vote with no one budging on their 2nd choice and went to ‘rocks’ which ended up booting out an unintended victim. Since then, I cannot trust Team Oops and have chosen not to share thoughts through that alliance. So, tonight, I think tonight I’m going home. But I got a twist for the Mole Person. I’ve planted a seed and turned them into a Double Agent. And my message to the Mole: Ooops. They’ll know what it means and that it was no accident. Booyah

Els

I am so positive I’m going home. Cliftone has an idol but I don’t want to ask him to play it on me unless I actually hear from Adeline that the vote is on me but Adeline isn’t active rn AHHHH

MJ

I’m smelling something fishy 30 mins to tribal and my first class alliance (Zuki & Clefford) are finding it difficult to decide. That being said, it’s possible I go tonight if Clifton plays an idol. If not, I’ll be here tomorrow to give An update! 

Cliftone

[Realizing I never hit send on this. Even tho I'm out I still wanna submit!] WIGGGGGGGGG. Bitchhhhh I snagged a major advantage that should take me to the next round. A part of me doesn't want to use it because I want to try to convince others to blindside another player tonight. The only that would be successful tho is if other players actually respond to me in personal chats. It's damn sure frustrating but as many times as I've wanted to give up in this game today isn't one of them! Gonna give this round everything I got.

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NOTES:

Els, MJ, and Zukiswa have an argument in their alliance chat on trust and loyalty. Els feels that they need to win the next immunity challenge to be safe.

The minority alliance seems to want to stick together, but are unsure how to proceed

Ava wants to still target Cliftone. MJ, Zukiswa, and Clefford want to take a step back from leading, meaning that they will vote Cliftone as part of Ava’s plan. Ariel is on board with this plan

Ariel and Dom give 2 coins to MJ, Zukiswa, Clefford, Ava, and Adeline

Julia buys the Fake Idol Kit, leaving a fake idol in its place

Cliftone buys the Fake Idol

Julia is debating on whether to tell Cliftone that it is a fake idol. She doesn’t seem to trust anyone in this game, even her allies.

MJ, Zukiswa, and Clefford are worried about an idol

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 7: " I've kinda run out of fucks to give. Maybe it's my Villain era 😁." ~DJ

LINKS:

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687346898866143232?source=share

Transparency: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687351130206978048?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687435378936905728?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687526969858031616?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Cliftone

YO WTTTFFFFFFF!!!! Navi was in my F3, so this is a huge loss for me. She's literally the only person I've spoken to every day since day one of this game. Apparently while I've been missing out on the game, others are def getting their game on. I'll need to speak with Els to make sure we're secure going forward and we may need to pick up some numbers. Looks like me wanting Tricell to come together won't be able to happen anymore. :(

Julia

Yes, so it seems that no matter what I do, or say, or try to support other, I don't belong here. People probably think I have no business in this game. That I'm too old or something. Maybe they're right. I had Navi's back. I had Cleffords. But someone I trusted in, betrayed me or they hope to topple me through lying. But, because I listen closely, take notes and analyze questions and responses, I can figure out who was in that 'big invisible alliance,' that was operating that I was not allowed to be part of. I am not sure why that comment that MJ supposedly said about me was even released if not to do damage; to me. Anyway, its all good. Right now, idc about the next challenge or any further attempts at alliances. I don't want to be on or in any alliances and I will let the fkn chips fall where they may. For someone to say that or to inadvertently drop that makes me feel small, unappreciated and discriminated against. Right now, I am hurt and angry. If I did a thing or said a thing, I stand behind it. But I don't like liars, lying or deliberate attempts to undermine me, and maybe I should just step down. I will not think about this game anymore tonight, and in the upcoming days won't put in the energy it requires to build on relationships, or create alliances with anyone. If they want to vote me out because I don't belong, they should do it. 

DJ

I got played hard by Adeline and MJ. Ava helped them feel me out about my willingness to vote Navi or Clefford. I have a conspiracy theory about what's going on now. I suspect the former Tyrant tribe are a strong alliance. (Adeline, Zukiswa, MJ, Els and Ava). Ava managed Cliftone and Evangelina, MJ managed myself and Julia. Adeline and Zukiswa picked up extra numbers for the vote. (Ariel, Dom, Clefford etc. ) and Els voted wrong deliberately and now Els has created an alliance chat with all the people who didn't vote Navi. Els is giving us ideas about what we can do to survive the next vote. Now I don't trust anyone lol Surprisingly though, knowing I was betrayed is better than being in the dark and the anticipation of what's going to hit me next. Haha I am in awe of how good the gameplay is if I'm correct in this assumption! 

Also, sad to see Navi go! We could have worked together for a long time. Thanks for the coins! :) I feel like this game is not great for my mental health though. I kinda spiral when I try to think about the game. Navi, I hope you enjoy the peace and quiet of the Jury chat for a while! 

Zukiswa

The last round was one for the ages!!! You could not pay for more drama than what we got. Soooo the votes reveal was an eye opener. I was starting to really trust Els, and I was pulling Els into our inner circle because I just love her. That she went against the alliance was ballsy of her but eye opening for me. I would never have thought she did that. Well, thats the end of that Trio. As I said in my last confession, MJ speaks without thinking about something all the way through. What happened at tribal ,though I get, it wasn't her fault. But that should never have been said about Julia in the first place.. Now I'm finding myself putting out fires that I played no hand in starting. But again, MJ is playing and playing hard. If she gets past this Julia thing, she could win the whole thing if I don't. As for Clefford🙈🙈 We spend more time protecting him than getting out people that we feel are a threat to our game. But it's all worth it because so far, I havent gotten any vibes that he's out there doing his own thing. I must say though. It's time I played. I've been mother hen long enough. 

DJ

I am buying the hidden Item number 8 in the catalogue for 12 coins. Thanks to Navi's 4 coins, I can finally afford something. That's all the coins I've got though. I'm all in. I hope it give me an immunity idol! Fingers crossed! Evan's advantage was neat! She found out who was given how many coins from the summit! I am putting my trust in Evan and Cliftone. I hope we can at least take down some people on the other side before they get us.

I got an advantage in that hidden item thingie! I get to steal a vote! Woohoo! I am not telling anyone yet! Whose vote shall I steal! ! Muahahaha

I'm sleepy and tired of people being conveniently "MIA". My immunity challenge was rough. Not my day today. Tomorrow will be a better day! Good night. 😴😴

Ava

https://youtu.be/mTOJEKNzTzQ

MJ

The last sentence in my last confessional was “I will be a wind, I want to create a turmoil. I hope it’s successful” scrap that! It wasn’t successful hahaha 🤣 I almost ended in a ditch. But I give God the glory. I await tonight’s result. I scored 7 so I honestly think I won’t win immunity because it was kinda easy to scale through till 9. So I’m sure someone scored 9 or 10 or more! Tomorrow might be my first time attending tribal as an eligible candidate lol ��� see you on the other side and pray I’m safe. Anyways for now, I’ve been added to a majority alliance so that’s immunity for me hopefully 🫣😄 Going forward, I’m a gentle girl. No one should mention my name as I hope not to do thesame lol. I just wanna be an underdog and be one in peace 😭 but the spontaneous leader in me won’t let me rest 😩😅 pray for me if you’re reading this 😆 I wanna be so calm like Zukiswa and Adeline 💖 Also, DJ has been in my dm all day looooooong!!! Since merge. Every hour we chat lol! We now call ourselves husband and wife! DJ & MJ! Today he asked me to teach him how to say something in my language and I asked what was that , he answered “Wifey, I’m sorry but I gotta vote you out” I laughed till I couldn’t 😂😂😂 I really like him but he is with the minority. I don’t know how our marriage will last in such situation. He also voted Clefford lol. I told him he wasn’t sincere with his vote because he kept avoiding anytime I asked him who he would vote out. But he insisted he didn’t know Navis name was out there. It’s just all vibe and loving up for now 😅 but I really really like his personality! I hope our marriage lasts long till final 3 🤪 I don’t wanna be a killer for the second time! Ps. I’m still worried about Julia. She looks like she’ll come for my head sooner or later 😔

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/D1rPqlFmSBY

Ariel

Happy that I end up on the right side. Sad that Navi goes home. The vote reveal was really interesting. It was so helpful because I had literally no idea who voted for who. I was shocked to know that Ava and Adeline voted with us and Els voted on the other side. I still think they are working together, maybe it is their way to get info from all over the tribe. Divide and conquer. Dj message me saying he wanted to work with me. But DJ is not giving me anything when I gave him every information I had last tribal. I will still try to work with him though. Cause if I ever change my mind and don't want to be a goat anymore, I need all the troops I can have to make a move. So I can try and building a working relationship with DJ. We can feed each other information from each sides of the tribe. I hope this time he will give me information. Lol I'm still trying to play utr. So I have to wait for people to talk to me instead of me asking them what's up. Lol I still do not have any idea who is close with who. Lol. Bye. Amping

DJ

Last couple of days have been rough on me.. What with loosing Navi, voting against the majority, getting exposed from the vote reveal, feeling like I'm getting frozen out by some people in the game, my miserable challenge performance etc. That had me down and viney for a while, but today, after a long and inspiring chat with the lovely MJ, I have had my alter ego "Detective DJ" evoked! I dug out some things from our fun conversations and packaged them as the reasons as to why she is a big threat and why we should maybe vote out MJ. I am about to say some crazy things in the alliance chat and maybe scare some people but I've kinda run out of fucks to give. Maybe it's my Villain era😁

Ariel

Wait, is my skype broken? Or are they blindsiding me??? Wait, this is weird why is noone talking who to vote for? Like I have to vote now cause I'm about to sleep and I don't know who the official vote is. Lol I feel like Ava and Adeline might be flipping this round and will turn this game upside down. Bottoms up. Leeeets go. Oh wait, I should not celebrate that, unless they take me with them. Anyway, I think I'll just leave a vote for Cliftone cause that was the last name i heard. I don't know. It could be me. So, Bye. Amping. 

MJ

Lol. This might just be my last confessional, but I strongly believe it shouldn’t, except Evan, Clifton , DJ and Els all have an immunity idol. I’ll wait till few minutes to 6pm est to cast my vote. If the immunity idol is sold out. Then there should be a quick re-strategy! But If it’s not sold out, then I think we’re still good. Hopefully the majority stand by their word. But if I go, I have no regrets. I’ll roll all my coin over to my darlingest Zuki 😂 Right now, I won’t shop. I’ll just fold my sleeves up and enjoy all the suspense! After all that’s what I signed up for when I joined the survivor super fan community 😂 I think I’ve been able to get my vote off Els and DJ’s hands. If I get more than 3 votes tonight, then someone is a betrayal! It can either be (Els, DJ or Adeline) Let’s all watch together. Im super excited for tonight. Are you?? 

DJ

This might be my last confessional. I did all I could. I had a lot of fun, but I am so tired. Haha Peace! Good night 💚

Dom

7 rounds in and it feels just as hard if not harder as the first one. You have many different group and now one big group giving the people what they want, a giant alliance...if we all stick to it. Each vote solidifies who can and cannot be trusted and where tribal lines lie.

Clefford

I made it this far! Being in the majority is not truly a good place, because it will be heartbreaking if the people I align myself with betray me. It's sad that they want me out, which is I don't understand. I'm no threat. Not that good at IC and every tribals my name is out there. It's scary, you know. 

Els

So after the chaos of last round I decided to make an alliance with all the people who voted in the minority last round and honestly I’m really glad I did! It seems like the plan is to vote MJ and I haven’t decided if I’m going to or not, MJ is very obviously a threat but if I vote with her then she’ll most likely work with me again, who knows tho

Adeline

Ok. I’m voting clifton here. Els is deciding on making it a tie. We’ll see. But I’m basically just plopped into a majority alliance with 7 people and told where to vote. Someone stole doms vote? Don’t remember who 💀 I’m chilling in the numbers but super clueless about most of this game right now.

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NOTES:

Raffy fucks up

Els starts an alliance with everyone who voted wrong (Evangelina, Cliftone, DJ, and Julia). They compare notes and realize that MJ has been playing every single one of them. They are trying to figure out who they can get to flip.

Due to this announcement Els had thrown their vote on Dom as a way to get coins from Navi. They have confessed this to their alliance with mj and zuki. They also immediately started an alliance of all the people who voted "wrong". Which will greatly favor Els and is the push to bring together the people who have still not spoken with everyone and we honestly thought may never do so.

The "wrong" votes are however still outnumbered if the others stay strong and also unclear which side els will land on

Evangelina had resurrected the progenitor tribe chat with her, dj, and Cliftone remaining. Saying they are the only people she trusts 100%, and though she wants to work with els and julia not completely due to their willingness to double cross.

DJ and Evan also believe Ava and Adeline are secretly a power duo 😆 and think it's lies that they are against one another (adeline is very much not with ava)

DJ feels off about Els, distrusting them

Ava starts a majority alliance of the people who voted Navi, creating an alliance of 7.

DJ gives out perfect reads, calling out Els for playing the middle and MJ for having people in the palm of her hands

DJ convinces his Progenitor alliance with Evangelina and Cliftone to target MJ

DJ and Julia bond in their fight against MJ

DJ uses a Vote Steal on Dom

Els wants to vote Cliftone to stay on the majority’s good side, however they learn from Adeline that they are voting Cliftone when Zukiswa and MJ have told them they are voting DJ. This lie shows Els that the girls have no interest in siding with them.

Els confronts Zukiswa and MJ, who continue to try to lie and cover their asses. Els knows they are lying and decides to vote for MJ

The tribe goes to rocks

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 6: "And by the way, where are the Raccoons??? Will they make an appearance? I hope so..." ~Julia

LINKS:

Merge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687089287369474048?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687162410723885056?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687249927096745984?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687346374770098176?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Ariel

Meeeeerge. Yay, I make it to merge, which is my goal. Right on time too, cause Jinx put me on the spot light. That was intense tribal. I don't know what to do now. I have to lie low. Y'all can do whatever you want. I need a rest from that tribal. Lol.

DJ

I was so relieved to hear that we have merged, but now it is such an unknown territory for me! I have sent messages to all the people I hadn't had a chat with prior to the swap. I did my due diligence. All except for one, have developed into conversations with varying degrees of quality and quantities. I haven't heard back from Ava yet. I hope to hear from them soon. I'm friendly with everyone. I will have to betray someone directly or indirectly soon though. I'm dreading it already. Let's hope I can find out something tangible in terms of who is being targeted next, but before that, I would ideally like to place 4th or 5th in the next immunity challenge. 

Julia

I hate this confessional thing especially because this is the 2nd time I erased my writing without meaning to. Anyway, I made it to the Merge. Everyone surfaced this morning, surprised, congratulatory, some I'm sure were pissed at who was left - their worst threats or the easy pickings who were not so easily picked off. I didn't really think I'd still be standing. In fact yesterday, I tried to switch with Jinx, who jumped from her group to support me, she said, (and I was convinced to vote for, but didn't want to vote off). But it was not allowed and I accidentally voted off Dominique who was SUPPOSED to support Jinx whom I was trying to save. Jinx felt that my mistake caused the Dom to jump ship which I don't believe because I don't think Dom was really on her side, but she believed they were.... anyway... never mind...other mistakes were made by others and it went on much later than we'd expected. In the end, Jinx was bumped, and got really upset and the person who reached out to me who I wanted to support, Clefford, is not speaking to me at all, and the person I accidentally voted – Dom - for got daggers with my name on it. Tsk Tsk - But I am not afraid of being voted off - I want to be VOTED OFF - kinda sorta... I'm in the midst of moving and as the game has now gotten tougher because of the merge, I don't know how I'll manage to keep up with all the shenanigans Anyway, now we have to regroup. Are our old alliances still valid? Did what we learned from the maneuvering of supposed allies teach us anything, prepare us for this round? Who can I/ should I trust. What does trust mean anyway when everyone wants to get to the top of this little rat race and most are willing to throw each other under the bus? I guess that's the point...And by the way, where are the Raccoons??? Will they make an appearance? I hope so...

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/i5qhu6zKXjU

DJ

I don't know why I thought that the first individual immunity challenge would be an individual game like the very first round of the typing game. 😅 I have no idea who to poison and how to do the damage control afterwards.

Adeline

Why is being inactive low key working as a strat right now. Threat level management is when don’t talk? Right? Anyway. Evangelina told me about her advantage, Els and i still sharing coins. MJ is giving me coins bc i gave her immunity basically. I’m just watching it all happen. Chilling. DJ thanked me for NOT giving him immunity? Maybe he thinks it’s to keep his threat level down idk 

DJ

The scrambling is about to begin! The conversations with scrambly people are tricky. I don't know who to trust. The paranoia in my head is crazy.. That can't be good for one's mental health 😅

Navi

So I’m happy that we’ve finally merged, but people have my name in their damn mouths, so that’s fun. DJ told me that Ava specifically is wanting me gone for some reason even though last I checked they’re supposed to be aligned with MJ, who I have an alliance with. So I’m gonna have a chat with her and be like “get your people in check” lol. Julia what’s to get Dom out since they didn’t get along in the swap tribe, which I’m cool with since Dom is someone I don’t really have a connection with. Els is down for that too. Also I have 17 coins now, but Els mentioned that they got the 18 coin hidden item and they got a disadvantage so now I’m kinda holding back on buying something. Like is it even worth spending that much only to get shit? I dunno.

Ariel

Soooo, I forgot if I already confess or not, but here we go. So, Jinx is voted out. Clefford definitely got some heat. I don't know why. Also, I ak relieved that people are not looking at me from that last tribal. So glad MJ is proving time and time again that I can trust her. For now, I can keep staying lie low and let MJ do the moves, let her lead me, I want my goat status badge right now. I don't care. It is beneficial for me to just stay low so that's what I'm gonna do. I am not hungry to do big moves anymore. I did that last season, and although I enjoy it, it definitely did not help me get to the end. Now, I'll try to keep Clefford as long as I can but if he continues to get heat from everyone, then I have to let him go. Right now, Mj wants Navi gone. Which for me is not a good strategy. If the reason why we have to vote out Navi is because she us working with Evangelina then we should vote out Evangelina instead so we can have Navi work with us. But you know, goats only follow, it does not lead. Bye, amping. 

Waaaaiiit. So, Navi already knows she's on the chopping block. And she have heard Dominique and Clefford's name as well. Dominique wants Julia out cause she feela like Julia is coming after her. But none of it sounds like a solid plan. Why is no one talking to me what to do with my vote? Are people just silent right now or are they plotting against me. Omygaaad maybe this is my boot out round. Well, I have already made merge, so I guess mission accomplished. Sayonara. Amping. 

Cliftone

Yesterday I was pretty nervous about my placement in the immunity challenge, and what that might mean going into the next Tribal. However, conversations over the past couple of hours has started to sway me into feeling a bit relaxed. But of course I could be getting played 🤣😂 I guess we’ll find out soon enough!

Julia

This is the 'nicest' damn group ever. In a real jungle situation, we would all not survive.... or maybe we ALL would. Dedpite the 'Infection' Challenge, nobodys is targeting anybody almost. Nobody wants to vote anybody off!!! Everyones reluctant to say a name or form 3 way alliances with the intention of voting a particular person off in a block vote... at least in the few Ive talked to. They do want to be in alliance but just dont want to offer up a name! And dont want it to be them voted off. And me personally, Im just trying to keep everyone I can, safe, which is crazy. Only one person I sense would be out to bump me - Dom. She told someone I wasnt trustworthy, based on no interaction with me at all. I may be a bit clumsy, awkward, forgetfull and got a brain like a collander, but Im honest and if I say it was an accident that I voted for you Dom, before Challenge #6, it was! Subconscious, sure, maybe cuz YOU put your name on my lips in a back handed way. So, this time, its intentional but I just dont have hard feelings towards her. Her name comes to mind cuz she said that. Thats it! But someone jst suggested another name - Navi. But even tho she secretly dropped me in our first challenge despite being in a secret alliance with me, I dont want to see her go - yet. What is happening is the reactivation of a formal alliance ofvwhich Navi is a part - The 3 Mousketeers, and some 1 on 1 convos. Ive got 2 def people willing to vote Dom and 1, split btw Dom & Navi... Tonights gonna be interesting....

Dom

Man I made it to merge! Such a goal of mine in this game. But moving forward I now have to be skeptical of everyone because people can and will flip at any time to save themselves. It makes me trust no one. I was hoping I could use those damn cans to knock some sense into people, but they're just empty and have no purpose...go figure. Now I'm forced to trust some people and Julia is really out to get me. Although I have zero ideas why...

Ava

https://youtu.be/7WILealgkUs

Zukiswa

Dudeeee🙈🙈🙆🏾‍♀️🙆🏾‍♀️🙆🏾‍♀️ This round is crazy!!!!! The way I fight fir Clefford he should really pay me🤣🤣🤣 It's getting harder and harder to hide my alliance with MJ and Clefford. But I guess that's the nature of the game. I've really tried to rail MJ in in terms of keeping her cards close to her chest but I don't think she can help it, she is just a social person and she wants to be nice to everyone. Me, I'm very clear where my loyalties lie and what my end game will be if things really go all the way. I don't make promises that I can't keep and don't make suggestions unless it's in my inner circle. It's easier to let people think they can control you. What's the point of wanting control when things are going according to the way you want and other people look like they are playing a better game? Thank God gor Friday evening wine!!!🥃🥃🥃

Adeline

Definitely voting Navi here i think. That’s what all the other tyrant people are up to 

MJ

I made it to merge! Yipee 🥳 Jinx got voted out just as I wanted 😅 (we’re both smart 😁) and then I won the first immunity post merge 🥶 I didn’t really like that, but I guess my social game play is fair for now. I have touched base with everyone but not too involved to be called a betrayer.   After winning immunity, I knew I had to do something to take eyes off me. I had no interest in controlling votes or driving it. I waited for them to pick their choice (Ava , Clefford , Zukiswa) picked Navi and I agreed. I didn’t personally convince anyone to vote Navi or not to. I only skillfully defended Clefford where I had to and threw Dom and Julia’s name out for those who cared to ask. Back to my game plan to remain neutral, I teamed up with Clifton on this. Since we were both at the summit, I told him to mention five people he would like to give coins, I encouraged him to consider giving people he wasn’t so close with like Zuki & Clefford. After influencing his decision , I was left with people I clearly wasn’t so involved in and that was perfect for me. So I literally shared coins to my game enemies ( Navi, Evangelina)and the ones that are just building trust in me (Els, Ava) and Adeline (she gave me immunity) . After coins was distributed, almost everyone came thanking me. My Allies believed I did and my non Allie’s were surprised at my gestures. That was the perfect opportunity to strike a chord in everyone’s heart. I messaged everyone saying, hope you got a coin and beautiful conversation ensued from there. Evangelina poured her heart to me, same with Navi. They don’t see me as an enemy, but hopefully, they will see no reason to take me out. To the people I didn’t give coins, and I’m still trying to get them trust me, I told them in their chat “I and Clifton made sure you had a coin 💖” such a beautiful experience 😅 right now i hope Navi goes. Because she didn’t seem true to our alliance. She doesn’t even chat me or Ariel. We always initiate the chat , not until she’s at the bottom. Well, Goodluck Navi 💖 I’m not so bent on anyone going next so far it’s not me. My next strategy is to be a wind . I will create a turmoil that no one will know where it’s coming from. I’ll only do this for the next round and I hope it is successful. 

Els

So it’s looking like it’s gonna be Navi tonight, hopefully she’ll give me her coins! Finally in a merge alliance (it’s with Zukiswa and MJ and I am super stoked abt it)

Clefford

OMG. I don't know where are votes going. I haven't really had a time to strategize. 

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NOTES:

Clefford, MJ, and Zukiswa talk about who they trust and who they want out. Clefford wants to target Els and Ava while MJ wants to work with them. They both are targeting Evangelina, Julia, and Navi. Evangelina is high on their threat list, despite the fact that she has no solid allies. They want to bring in DJ to work with.

Cliftone and MJ are the Summit leaders.

Els and Julia want to target Dom this round. However, Els would be willing to target Cliftone or Clefford.

MJ, Zukiswa, and Els start an alliance. They discuss that the names they heard are Navi, Dom, and Clefford. They all agree that they do not want to go after Clefford. Instead, they want to push for Navi to get voted out.

MJ gave coins to Ava, Evangelina, Els, Adeline, and Navi. Cliftone gave coins to DJ, Clefford, Dom, Zuki, and Ariel

Dom made a panic alliance with Ariel, DJ, and Adeline. Dom is being left out of the vote. No one is telling her what the plan is

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 5: "you can convince people with lies but you can change their minds with your truth" ~ Jinx

LINKS:

Twist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686892709730025472?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686899487965413376?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686991178730717184?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/687088609565786112?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Adeline

Ava mutinied to come find me And vote me out i stg. I have Patagonia trauma. Anyway, Now our tribe has an easier vote out so slay.

Julia

VL - Well, first of all, I needed that break frim Tribal like the Celtics and GS Warriors do btween playoff games! And while 2nd place wasnt the win, it kept us, Golgatha, out of the dog house. That was the first 'not loser team' Ive been on since this game started. I want to applaud Clefford who took the lead on Traiker Challenge, and I wont criticize (which is soooo hard for me) bcz my editing skills are 0 and no one else on my team could do it or volunteered. So for that, I gotta hand it to Clefford. The only thing I will say, was had he taken more of my advice, and worked with me (yet again some of my teammates dont seem to appreciate the wisdom I may have which comes with maturity) I could have helped us to a slam dunk over Tyrant whom, however, created a wonderful, kind of film noir trailer! That Ava jumped to Tyrant is no surprise so tonights little Mutiny twist, lost us a team member. Now I have to watch my back, again. There is no feeling safe. But, while my mind feels a little rested, I also feel a tad apprehensive. Nonetheless, I am ready for whatever Raffy and his minions conjure up next!

Ariel

Ok so I just watched Tyrants movie trailer and it scared me. The names they mentioned scaaaared me. Are they now going after me???? Hunter already went home. Please no. We'll all be dead soon. HAHAHAHA Anyway, so my dear friend Ava mutinied. She said she wanted more coins, more coins my ass. I know they are working with Els and Adeline, which is great for them. I definitely need to watch out for them and need to now start gathering my troops. I know I am their number one target because I am the only one who knows how close they are. Also, Zukiswa and MJ are toast if Tyrant lose this challenge. Please not, because I feel like I can work with Zukiswa and MJ. Jinx mutinied into our tribe. I think Jinx might have felt left out on the tyrants tribe but Clefford my number one ally is thinking Jinx might be up for trouble. I feel like I can work with Jinx, hopefully that is true. Anyway, that is it for now. Bye, amping!

Cliftone

I survived yet another Tribal! Currently getting caught up on what I missed, and boy do I surely wish we were actually marooned so life couldn't interfere with the game lmao

Jinx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fqTRqrXsE8

Navi

I am SOOOO not looking forward to this challenge. My memory is awful, I’m going to be so terrible at this! I knew I should have taken those fish oil supplements 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I guess I’ll make the most of my half brain cell 🙃

Jinx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSw5JKkhFc

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/KEUysaTJubI

Ariel

So in case you lose track, in our tribe we now have me, Clefford, Dominique, Jinx, and Julia (in alphabetical order. LOL). So Clefford and I, are like working together. We are both Filipinos and I would love to work with another Filipino this time for real cause the last time it was a flop shout out to Esteban of Patagonia. And I also have my original BSAA tribe with Dominique and Jinx. And then we can also keep the original Galgotha tribe, so that is everyone except Jinx. Now what should I do? The fan in me says pull out a 2-1-1-1 vote, cause I know that would be iconic. We can tell Julia it's Dom, tell Dom it's Jinx, tell Jinx it's Julia and then Clefford and I vote whoever we want. But that would bust out our low key alliance-ship. So that is a not a big NO. Okay, real time update, Julia wants Clefford out. Say whaaaaaaat? I thought Clefford already secured Julia, maybe Clefford is not playing a savvy game as he thought he is playing. I'm not gonna tell Clefford that tho because I don't want him to be frantic and paranoid. I'm just worried though that they might figure out I'm pulling the strings. Please do not let this round back fire on me. Okay, another update, Jinx want Clefford out. Hahahaha Clefford? What are you doing??? Dom is with me in keeping Clefford though so I hope I can still save Clefford. If not, then maybe it is best to let him go. I don't know what to do. I'm so glad Dom is here. Lol. I really thought I just have a fake alliance with Dom, turns out she's the one I am trully working with right now. Hahahaha this is funny. Idk. Bye for now. Amping!

Jinx

you can convince people with lies but you can change their minds with your truth 

Ariel

Shiiiiiiiit. The tables have turned. And the game have flipped 180 degrees. So now, there is Dominique and Clefford on the one side planning to vote out Julia. And then we have Julia and Jinx on the other side wanting to vote out Clefford. Liiiiike, what? So as what I can see, Clefford and Jinx will never work together so, I guess there's nothing I can do about that. I don't know what to do. I would like to play with Jinx and Julia, because I think they are more stable to work with. Clefford just told Jinx that me, Dominique and Clefford are planning to vote out either Julia or Jinx, which is not a good strategy Clefford. Please don't sink my game. Jinx is now sensing that Clefford and I might be ride or dies, which I'm worried that people might start to see that. I don't want to vote out Clefford but I can't save a sinking ship. I don't know, I think it's better we vote out Clefford. This is gonna be sad but I got to do what I got to do. Ambot. Bye, amping!

Fuuuuudge, Jinx is so good at this game. They manage to flipped me against my number 1 ally Clefford. Idk if I should go with them and Julia and vote out Clefford, if we do that I feel like I am toast. Like, I want to trust Jinx and Julia but I don't think I should. If I vote out Clefford right now, that means I have no voice in this tribe and I need to take control in this tribe. Voting Jinx means keeping my number one ally and voting someone who is a threat. I see Jinx as a threat right now, they are so good in convincing someone to go their way. I feel like though, keeping Clefford would expose that we are indeed ride or dies and would just hurt both our games. I need to talk to Dom and see what she thinks. But either way, one of them should go, either Clefford or Jinx cause they will never work together, and I need a solid tribe that is willing to work together. Also, Jinx, transferring in our tribe is a little bit sus and now they are targeting Clefford. Like no Jinx, you can't just come here in our tribe and cause chaos in our harmony. I don't know what you're up to. And I am not letting you do it so easily. I hope I can convince Dominique to vote my way, we have to vote Jinx out. I'm so sorry Jinx. I really think you're such a cool person but strategically I can't let go of my number one ally just to keep someone like you who is such a social and strategic threat. Idk. Bye. Amping.

DJ

We won! Yaaaay! I am feeling goooood now. Maybe a little too good. 😅 I have bonded with the new tribemates and I genuinely like them all and I don't want to vote out any of them before the merge at least. Haha Gotta win the next couple of challenges too!

Ariel

I'm gonna be playing with fire right now and try to pull Julia on our side. Clefford and I will try to work something with Julia and see if she's willing to vote out either Jinx or Dom. And if this doesn't work, then I'm toast. I'm pretty sure this will back fire on me. And maybe this will be my last confessional. Sayonara, it has been fun. Amping! 

Julia

This is getting harder and harder. Yesterdays Challenge - the telephone call about Magical Realism was insane. I took it on bcz I take good notes, and I take responsibility - and I thot it would be easier. But, it was so long, I almost threw my pen down! A few times I couldnt help laughing and Raffy was so serious about his topic. And by the end it was a blur. I felt bad for the person who I relayed it to.... OMG and having to listen to them struggle to pull up answers to disconnected fragments was painful even tho I was sitting there noting things I did say, names, concepts, dates, but that would have been hard to remember for most people. Anyway, i understand my heads on the chopping block tonight but a blindside plan is forming and I considered Voting -O- nobody. I dont know if thats ever been done and if some kind of tie breaker would be implemented, but there it is. Im sorry to the person im voting for but I think they'll understand - after all, its only a game

Clefford

So happy that I've reached this far. This should be an easy vote, but where's the fun if we'll playing this safe? I know that this is a risky move that could cost me. Ariel and I been waiting for Julia to come with us and make an alliance. I called her and solidify her vote to take out Jinx. She's a threat coming to Merge. Only if I reach Merge. This vote is very tricky. I just really hope that Julia is genuine. Because if she don't, I'm going home. 

Ava

https://youtu.be/fYnRV6RK-zg

Zukiswa

This has been a very quiet round. I think like myself people had hectic weekend. I'm vibing with everyone though. Having conversations with everyone in my tribe. MJ is still my number one. Ava coming from Umbrella also gives me little cushion even though we have not yet spoken strategy. In as far as my long game is concerned, still MJ and Clefford...and together take some umbrella peope. That's just my plan but my three mat have different ideas which I'm all ears for.

Els

I am so slay at survivor. No but anyways, sad jinx left, happy Ava is here!! It sucks that one of my allies got voted out but he wasn’t one of my main allies so I’ll be ok. I was so nervous abt the challenge bc I did not think we did well, but hey we didn’t lose!!! Adeline and I should finally have the right amount of coins to buy the mystery 18 coin item we’ve been wanting to buy so yay!!!

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/es5crZH-17A

Dom

This round has been the most complicated thing as to who to vote for. And even within that, everything could be flipped around and I could be voted out. I will never underestimate any player in this game. If all goes well tonight, I will lose some people but gain some tonight hopefully as well. But that's survivor for you.

MJ

Sigh. I had a hectic day so my confession may be as well short. From the last time I confessed here are the few highlights… 1. The munity twist came in and it successfully scattered my plans 😹😅 but it’s survivor anyways. We expect different twist always. Jinx who is supposed to be my easy vote, migrated to Golgotha leaving my strategic mind with the option of Ava , Els or Adeline. Right now, it’s hard to decide the only option is for us to keep wining. 2. It’s so sweet that my coins is gradually growing. Atleast I’m recovering again hahaha I really hope to make a better choice the next time I’m purchasing 3. I’m looking forward to the next challenge and I hope we take the crown as always. Also hoping to contribute a lot better in our upcoming group challenge. 4. Lastly, I hope Clefford got his tribe on lock and hie his ready to vote Jinx out (except she has an idol) because she’s got extra coins to purchase now. If not, voting her out might be a great choice. And I really hope Clefford doesn’t go for now 😭 I can’t wait to link up with him at merge. Hopefully!

Cliftone

It's my first time NOT going to Tribal and I couldn't be more excited!! Though I am worried for Julia. I really want the Tricell Four to be able to come back together at the merge. That would be so epic!! Hopefully there isn't too too much of a shake up post Tribal.. but we shall see.

Jinx

https://youtu.be/MXMT52mMaJA

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NOTES:

Ava mutinies to the Tyrant tribe for the coins

Jinx mutinies to the Golgotha tribe for Julia.

Clefford wants to target Jinx because he suspects that they are working with Els, Ava, and Evangelina and is scared to be against that group at merge

Jinx wants to target Ariel because he is giving them bad vibes

Adeline and Els are ready to target Ava if they lose

Jinx and Julia discussed Clefford wanting to target Jinx. Jinx is unsure what to do because their only close ally on this tribe is Julia. They are unsure about their position with Dom and Ariel.

Dom, Jinx, and Ariel start an OG BSAA tribe to discuss tribal council (Hear Ye, Hear Ye)

Jinx attempts to convince the alliance to target Clefford instead of Julia, but they remain unconvinced (because secretly Ariel is a ride-or-die with Clefford, but Dom does not know that)

Jinx manages to convince Ariel to vote Clefford for a short while, but Ariel turns against Jinx instead

Ariel and Clefford want to vote out Jinx, and are trying to convince Julia to vote with them. They seem reluctant to ask Dom to vote Jinx with them.

Dom tells Jinx that she is voting for Julia. Jinx tries to get them to flip to Clefford to no avail

However, something happened between then and now that makes Dom flip to vote out Clefford

Cliftone bought a Coin Revealer

Els bought a Challenge Disadvantage

Zukiswa bought an Advantage Revealer

The vote ties between Jinx and Clefford 2-2-1 (Dom was the other person who got a vote)

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EDGIC:

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POWER RANKINGS:

Episode 4: "I should have chosen someone I am cool voting out for" ~ Ariel

LINKS:

Tribe Swap: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686622951422984192?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686623306875633664?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686806904467570688?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686892449070776320?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Ariel

I was kinda expecting thaaat. Ok. First of all, I got all the people I wanted to play with. Now, the problem is if in case we lost a challenge, I don't know who to vote for. I have an alliance with Dominique and Adeline, so if I betray Dom, that would not look good. I really like Julia and, Ava so I don't think I can vote for them. Also, I feel like Ava might be a trustworthy ally. And Clefford of course is my number one. I know Navi is nkt going to pick him, that's why I wanted Navi to go first so I don't have to choose Clefford cause I don't want our alliance to be known. 80Idk. Idk. Idk. Somehow I feel like I fucked this up. I should have chosen someone I am cool voting out for. I don't really want to vote Julia, but t she's the least person I had talk to. Areghhh idk. Bye amping. 

Cliftone

Three Tribals in a row and I've managed to escape each one! Now to get through this Tribe swap phase untouched and make it back to my alliance!

Adeline

Best tribe ever made up of Els, Zukiswa, jinx, MJ, and i, literally sucks so bad if we go to tribal though because i want all of these people in an alliance 

Julia

I feel like Ive been dropped into a wormhole. Time is shrinking and expanding at the same time. Deadlines, challenges, confessions, voting, worrying, anxiety... round and round at both a dizzying and lethargic pace... im in a new tribe, with a new weird name... Golp something or other... i cant even say it.. where is everyone? Each challenge gets tougher to accomplish while attending to my tasks and other obligations. I miss my former tribe even tho most werent talking to me, id gotten used to them; analyzed them; felt i knew their shady asses... today, i became a warrior princess, fighting off demons with the magic of my mighty amulet... but can I link up telepathically with my new tribe members to vanquish our common enemy......TBC

Navi

So I’m not as sleep deprived as I was last round lol. The twist at the end of last tribal ended up being the tribe swap, and the MAN alliance basically had full control of who went where, which was pretty sweet. For the first round, we picked from old Tricell first. Since I was last in the draft, I ended up with Cliftone. That worked out since I’m aligned with him and I already trust Els enough to navigate the swap on their own. Plus this give us a chance to bond a bit more so that I have another option aside from Els should I need to get rid of them down the line and visa versa. I picked DJ next because we got along well enough via the one world twist. Plus we’re both Indian so that’s something we bonded on immediately, even though we grew up in different countries. He also seems like someone who has a good head in his shoulder and is willing to collaborate. He mentioned to me that he felt the most comfortable with me, and that in his old tribe he was working with Ariel and Adeline. I’m currently working with Ariel as well and Adeline seems cool based off the few interactions I’ve had with them. I encouraged DJ to try to get to know and get closer to Cliftone and to align with him so that if we have to go to tribal, we can target the other two in the tribe and Cliftone and I can keep him safe. I picked Hunter next since he mentioned earlier in the game that I was one of the few people to reach out to him right off the bat. Obviously time has passed since then, but I’m hoping that he keeps that in mind since I tried to come across as enthusiastic to have him in the game that first round. He also expressed concern that he may be the first boot in his o.g. tribe, so hopefully this gave him some confidence. He could also be bullshitting me but oh well I already made the decision 🤷🏽‍♀️. Finally, I had the choice between Clefford and Evangelina. I went with Evangelina since Clefford is a bit of a shit stirrer from what I understand. I remember Els telling me in the last round that their trio agreed to ally, but then Clefford immediately told Els that he was going to vote betray lol. That in turn led to Els also picking betray. Plus they mentioned that Clefford very early on in the game, like I don’t even think a day had even passed yet, twas very into wanting to work with them (I’m assuming he laid it on thick lol), which made them sus of him. So I didn’t want to deal with that, I have enough on my plate as is, Ariel can deal with him 🫠. As for this challenge… Look I tried. Acting is just not for me, folks 😭 Also I keep forgetting that I have coins and that I can spend them on shit fml 😭

Ariel

Ok, so I don't know if I have submitted a confessional for this round already, but anyway here we are. Nothing really is going on right now. I'm feeling good with this new tribe, I should be because I am the one who picked this. Lol. Anyway, right now I still don't think who to vote for in case if we lose the challenge. I hope not because Clefford really work hard on this. Anyway I'm just hoping that we win. It would be interesting to see what will happen to the other tribe of they lose.

Well well well, look who's back? Me. Cause I just got a coin. As I said, I don't really care about these coins, cause I don't want to rely on these advantages, but it definitely feels good to receive a coin. Lol. I'm not sure if it comes from MJ or Ava tho, probably MJ, I am much closer to MJ than Ava. Anyway that's it. Bye.

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/WwIaQzd91Js (pt 1) https://youtu.be/R88moN_VIiU (pt 2)

DJ

I was hoping we would at lest be safe and some other tribe would be a train wreck. Turns out, we were the train wrecks. The Black widow brigade literally killed me haha DJ Khaleed 😂

Zukiswa

This was a perfect challenge. I got to know my new tribe mates. I'm just sad to part with Clefford! I enjoyed playing with him. I'm vibing also with my new tribe mates. I'm loving Els and Jinx is a vibe! Adelinr and MJ are my people.

Cliftone

Twas the day of Tribal and my nerves are bad. Since I offered to edit the video for the immunity challenge, I fear that may open me up for votes. However, with an inactive Tribemate, anything is possible!

Navi

So I’m going to tribal again, what a shock! It seems like I always end up on a tribe that can’t get its shit together when it comes to the challenges lol. I’m also being extorted, so that’s fun 🤩! The extorter want my ten coins, otherwise I don’t get to vote this tribal. I’m planning on refusing and would rather navigate this round without a vote. Ideally I’d like to target and get out Hunter since he contributed the least to the challenge and doesn’t seem to be as active as the other members. I think Cliftone and DJ would be down, but I’m not sure Evangelina would be since she and Hunter were both on the same starting tribe. I’d like to have her on board as well so that it doesn’t matter if I don’t have a vote. But that’s gonna involve work so I better go and do that lol. So yeah the goal of this vote is to make it 3-1 against Hunter.

DJ

The game is stressing me out. I'm getting anxious and paranoid. The 3.30 am (6 pm EST) tribal time is making my sleep cycle twisted. I am meditating and trying to have a good time IRL, but then there is a little bug of worry about the game in the back of my mind constantly... I underestimated how taxing this game could be for me... Going to tribal is no fun at all!

Dom

This week has been rough for me IRL and I haven't been able to talk with my new tribe. Something so necessary in games like this. I'm hoping we have done well in the challenge and my alliance can stay strong through tribal lines.

Ava

https://youtu.be/PmhzikFixdo

Jinx

https://youtu.be/fmQUzyV4iyI

Els

So, MJ told me that in case we go to tribal she wants me to be in a trio with her and Zukiswa to ensure our safety and ofc I said yep! Adeline and I are both trying to get coins to buy one of the more expensive items, we have a total of 10 between us rn!

Hunter

Alone and not talking to anyone bc oh guess what im superior 

MJ

Sigh* LOL It’s been going well but I’m also getting a bit nervous. This is my first time playing an ORG. Here are my major highlights since the last time I confessed. 1. Because I get to sit out at the last challenge, I was able to control how some voted(ally or betray) because I knew who I was saving. It all went as planned but the other trio grouped allied which resulted in a general tribal. I controlled Ava’s vote to betray and send jinx to tribal because I wanted more people at tribal since I was saving Els and Clefford in their trio group. Prior to that, Ava and Navi told me Jinx said they don’t mind going to tribal and they also don’t mind allying (kinda indecisive) so I decided it’s okay we send more people to tribal since we wanted more people at tribal though. When Raffy read the result, Jinx went so hard on Ava immediately. They even sent a voice note to the general group talking about how Ava betrayed and all that. (It was at that point I knew I’ll have to get jinx out or someone else gets them out) 2. General tribal went well and we were able to get Tony out even though I didn’t vote, I was able to control the process too. We were swapped and placed in a totally new tribe. I picked Zukiswa first before Clefford because I have seen how she’s been calm to handle things in the midst of chaos and that’s been working for me. I wasn’t happy when Jinx was placed in my tribe because I wasn’t just vibing with them after how they went hard on Ava privately and publicly. They reached out to me a day before in my private chat saying they find me smart and wise. We joked a little and they made a statement saying “you are a politician and I’ll vote you out” they were joking though, but that wasn’t no joke to me! 3. Our first immunity challenge kicked off as a new group and the first thing I did was to strategize. We are a team of 5 and all I need is a 3 against 2 alliance and I’m good, at least assured of a place in merge. I and Zukiswa are very strong and allied, so I only needed one extra person to this tyrant trio alliance. I remember how Clefford and Els worked together in the trio and we were able to build Els trust in us ( I and Clefford). I leveraged that immediately and told Zukiswa to reach out to Els. So far now, we’re the strong 3 (hopefully Els is solid on this) no alliance chat yet because we don’t wanna seem so desperate to her. The reason why I didn’t consider Adeline was that, Ariel told me before that Adeline and Jinx are super close. Since Jinx is my target, I can’t be friends with Adeline for now. I was encouraged and happy on how my tribe pulled off the trailer challenge and won. I love Adeline more but then I know this is only a game. My strategy is still intact. 4. Another highlight, was loosing my coins 😂😂 I lost 6 coins because I shopped a useless jacket 😂 but yea I’ve been able to get three coins after that. We have done four immunity challenge so far and this is my 4th win literally 😭🥹❤️ So that earned me a coin. I was chosen for summit and I had 3 coins to share. My tribe looks tight and I don’t want to pass a wrong message so I wanted everyone to have a coin even though I needed extra badly. I knew I had to give jinx a coin to make them so relaxed with me so they don’t sense I have my eyes on them. Luckily at summit we did the public sharing of coin and to my surprise , the sweet Clifftone offered to give Els a coin. Ava offered to give Adeline a coin too. And now I only have two other people to settle. I gave Zukiswa 2 coins and jinx one. I told Zukiswa I lost some coins and asked her to give me the extra one. She wasn’t happy I purchased an item without telling her. She says her coins are my coins 😂😂😂❤️ But this is survivor, you don’t even trust your best friend 😁😹 5. I’m guessing who might be voted out at the next tribal from the loosing tribe. I’m hoping hunter 😹 but he’ll be very useful at merge. Looks like he has no strategy. That’ll be all for now! Bye ❤️ I have a question for Raffy or Amy. Is it still allowed to create an alliance chat? With tribe members. I don’t want you answering this question in the tribe that. Bc If you do, you’ll be shooting me in the leg and our unity may be discorded. I’ll appreciate an answer in my host chat because I don’t want anyone sensing there’s an alliance chat without them already. 

Continuation Lol So there’s this perception about Els, she’s so loving and sweet and she wants nobody out from our tribe 😁😹 as much as that is a beautiful thought, this is survivor and there can be only one winner. It appears to me she’s doesn’t like blindsiding. I also don’t like it and that’s why I’m avoiding talking so much with jinx but also keeping my neutral cool with her. I’m not promising jinx friendship so when I vote them out they won’t feel betrayed. Els loves the tribe so much and hopes we never loose. I do too! But I need her to be firm in thoughts and decision. More reason I haven’t created the alliance chat yet. I hope we don’t loose but if we do, someone has to go. I love the tribe but I’m also open to loosing tribe members (just two or one hopefully at most)

Clefford

Doing a challenge with my swapped tribemates was fun because it tested we really wanted to stay and make new bonds and also to prove our worth in the challenge. Directing and doing a film is one of my dream someday. I was really happy with the challenge this round, because I can showcase my skills in this certain challenge. I worked very well together. I expected us to win, but Tyrant did great so we came in second. I used my Extortion Advantage to Navi. I have to know her position in her new tribe. But, I felt like the advantage was a waste on using it to her. Was it the right move? 

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NOTES:

Tribe swap occurred

MJ, Ava, and Cliftone were chosen as Summit leaders at random

Clefford wants to use the Extortion Advantage against someone on the losing tribe to get more tribes or impact tribal council

Julia gets frustrated with the lack of activity on her tribe in regards to the challenge

Mj gave Zukiswa 2 coins and Jinx 1 coin. Ava gave Julia, Clifford, Ariel, and Adeline 1 coin. Cliftone gave Els, Navi, and Julia 1 coin.

Clifford extorts Navi for 10 coins because he figured that Navi had more coins. They can easily vote out DJ, but he also thought that DJ is a swing vote. In that case, every vote is important, so choosing her is also good. He just hopes that Hunter and Evan stick together.

Navi refuses to pay it, choosing to navigating an easy vote without her vote.

Els wants to vote out Zukiswa, but MJ wants to work with her and Els wants to work with MJ. Els is having a hard time envisioning if they could vote out anyone since they want to work with everyone on their tribe

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EDGIC:

Clefford: MORM3 Ariel: MORP3 Dominique: UTRP2 MJ: MORP3 Zukiswa: UTRP3 Ava: MORM3 Julia: UTRM2 Adeline: MORP4 Els: MORP4 DJ: MORP3 Cliftone: MORP3 Evangelina: MORM3 Navi: CPP4 Jinx: CPP4 Hunter: INVN2

Raffy’s Winner Picks

Els Jinx MJ Adeline

Amy’s Winner Picks

Jinx Adeline MJ Zukiswa

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POWER RANKINGS:

Tyrant

1. Els 2. MJ 3. Adeline 4. Zukiswa 5. Jinx

Progenitor

1. Navi 2. Evangelina 3. Cliftone 4. DJ 5. Hunter

Golgotha

1. Ariel 2. Clefford 3. Ava 4. Dom 5. Julia

Episode 3: "if not I’m 15% screwed" ~ MJ

LINKS:

Twist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686440210283839488?source=share

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686440280307679232?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686530464076496896?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686621743673147392?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Adeline

Els and i are pooled coins, and bought a heart key which lets us (me since i have it) know about every active alliance that the player of our choice is in. Useful for merge, not really now. Dom and Ariel recruited me for an alliance. I don’t trust Ariel but I’ll work with him lol 

Julia

How do you dread and hope to be voted at the same time? Voted out: you get time freed up, you go back to your life. Not voted out: 'Wow, guess they all dont hate me after all.' Oh no - whats next. Frankly, i was very surprised at the 1 vote for Tony! 2 people didnt show - was it one of them? Or was it one of the tiny little faces sitting in front of me? The tribe has been tip toeing around, nobody saying much - so I thot it was me going home for real and to take the stress off, i focused on my upcoming move and ttied to look at the positives. But now another twister challenge... well even tho i didnt win any challenge, i got some booze

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/ZNmAomxLGYI

DJ

From what I've gathered from talking to a couple of people, the majority of people seem to be leaning towards choosing ally. It is a safe choice and the likely outcome will be a joint tribal Council. I hope there are people who have made more enemies than I have. Haha I am not aware of any enemies if I have actually made any. 

Zukiswa

Nooooo guys this was a hard challenge! You're doomed if you do and you're doomed if your not. I'm very careful not to burn any bridges here and I'm praying I won't have to. Mt trio is not very convincing that they'll vote Ally. I don't want to go to tribal, but I may find myself there this time.

Navi

So the last tribal council ending up being pretty straight forward, but now this round is a lot more complicated and I’m not gonna lie, haven’t completely grasped it yet 👀. So I get put into a trio with Ava and Jinx. MJ immediately tells me that her and Ava are close, and I’m like “hmmm interesting”. She is very clearly wanting to save them this round. She also mentioned that she’s gonna send me to the summit and that I’m safe regardless, so that’s cool. She lays out a plan where Ava and I vote Ally, and I just say sure because that’s what you’re suppose to say. I also just submitted ally as a place keeper in case I was too busy to submit later or if the others were busy to talk game today. Chatting with my fellow tribe mates, Cliftone is voting ally since he thinks the other two in his trio are gonna vote betray, Tony was saying that the Tricell tribe should all vote betray, and Els and I are voting betray. And I haven’t heard back from Julia today but I’m sure she’s living her best life right now we stan 🙌🏽 That decision came easy to me since Jinx said that they were considering letting Ava and I vote betray and then send them to tribal council. Ava seemed to be in agreement when we were chatting one-on-one but didn’t confirm the plan with me. I’m assuming Ava told MJ this since they’re close, and now MJ is trying to convince me to switch back to ally and I feel very micromanaged right now lol. And of course Ava is not responding when I asked for confirmation so I guess we’re just gonna be in limbo lmao So I dunno what I’m gonna do. I’m honestly not the most invested in this round tbh, but whatever I’ll figure something out. 

MJ

Omg! A lot has been going on. I’ll have to break it down. 1. Ava asked that can they work with me, she trusts me and she will like to work with me. We’re thinking of forming an alliance with Clefford. It’s all good for me if we have Ava in our numbers. I carried Zuki along because she’s my strongest ally. 2. I got to sit out at the next challenge and it’s been a roller coster ride. It’s an opportunity to work with my non-tribal Allies (Navi and Ariel) and that’s what I did exactly. 3. Ariel is in a trio with Clefford and Els and I love Clefford a lot to not save him lol. So I’m picking Ariel for summit and I told him he has to play in favor of Clefford. Ariel plays ally, Clefford plays betray. Whatever Els plays , Clefford isn’t going to tribal. Els looks genuine and I can sense she trust me . She also trust Clefford so we are hoping to work with her after the merge. She came to me that she was confused on what to do and I told that only one thing “you can totally trust Clefford, do what he says (for this challenge)” that way either she plays ally or betray , Clefford either sends Ariel to tribal who is already immune or Ariel technically goes to tribal (immune still) that way, Els trusts us better and we got the number going 4. Navi is in a trio with Ava and jinx. Perfect timing to get Ava to trust me more and more and more LOL. I told Navi I’m picking her for summit and she’s happy but she has to play what I instruct in order to save Ava. This time I want them to send jinx to tribal becuse more people need to go to tribal else everyone may end up in tribal LOL We agreed Navi ally, Ava betrays and jinx does whatever she wants (that way they don’t make an enemy) Navi is obviously safe. Does it make sense for me to immune a safe person without looking ridiculous? I’m still trying to make Ava and Navi see this. We have few minutes left to decide. I would prefer Ava only betray and she sends them both to tribal then it looks like I’m saving someone who is obviously down just like Ariel. I hope they see it this way and decide fast. Lastly, oh my Zuki 😭 I feel so bad I can’t help her. I never spoke to Dominique or Tony so I can’t pick them for summit (atleast not yet) which leaves my Zukiswa vulnerable. At this point I only hope she doesn’t end in tribal. I feel whoever goes to tribal tonight, the target would be on any umbrella member because only we have our numbers complete . I wish no umbrella member goes to tribal Hahaha . 

Navi

Okay so I switched back to Ally since I don’t have the energy to have a back and forth on this whole thing with MJ, like she is taking this shit seriously lmao. Plus voting ally had been my original plan prior to talking to everyone so I guess it worked out? As I mentioned earlier, MJ did come across as micromanage-y, but I’m cool with letting her think she controls me. I’m not telling her squat about my allies in this game like she has with Ava. I’m keep that close to the vest for now. I’m still totally cool working with her, but this has given me perspective as to how to navigate the mid to late stage of the merge should be both be there. I let Els know since they’re my closest ally that I switched to ally, so there’s that. Whatever I’m going on that summit trip, skippin tribal, and gettin dat coin so who careeeesss 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 I’m also running on very low sleep since I had to work till midnight last night and was up by 5 this morning so that’s probably affecting my judgement but oh well!

Navi

So that happened lol Whatever, I’m safe, Ava has heat on them, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re pissed at MJ right now. Now to figure out how to divide these coins up…

Adeline

Joint tribal joint tribal joint tribal. Haus of K-yas has been formed (Hunter, Els, and i) Hunter seems so disconnected from the others so he’s perfect for Els and i <3 Joint tribal is a slay as long as i don’t go home 

Julia

Oh man this is gettin real messy. One of the members felt betrayed in this last challenge and Im all in my feelings about that. Poor kid... Im so glad im in the game. But, I am also glad i could tell myself it doesnt really matter, so I could ward off my 'hurt' cuz certain kids didnt wanna play nice with me and my secret alliance was not there for me when i was gettin paranoid before first tribal. But its all good. I didnt reach 67 years of age for nothin... my spidey sense gave me guidance and i snaked thru. Now its tribal #3 and we're all in it! OMG! Dont know what to expect. What will the challenge be? Well, if its too hard, too many of us will fall and that wouldnt be good for the game, now would it? Maybe, we'll be secretly pitted against each other and if thats the case, I know who I wont turn on... now what were their names 😳

Clefford

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF. If I get voted out, I deserve it. Forgive me. 

Ariel

This round is chaotic AF. Chaotic twist brings chaos. And I kind of love it??? HAHAHAHAHA well it's because I am safe. Or am i? I swear if there is another twist this round that will make one of us summit people sent home, I swear this season is just a huge chaos in hell. For now though, I am looking good as the only one who ally on our trio and Els and Clefford betrayed. To be fair I only played ally cause I already know MJ is picking me to go to summit with her and Navi. Lol. I kind of look like a wet baby chick who is save by its mother hen. Thank you, MJ. See what making connections to other tribes brings. I really love our M. A. N alliance with Navi and Mj. I am just scared that people might start to notice the 3 of us has an alliance. I know Clefford already knows. The whole umbrella tribe probably already knows. So, I am not sure if I should fully trust MJ. I think MJ's loyalty still falls on her tribe and not on our alliance. I have to watch out for that. I have a one on one alliance with Clefford, I hope people don't notice that. I just have to remind Clefford to keep our alliance low key. He kinda was hectic this round. I hope he can recover from that. Now that I am safe though, I want to protect my tribe in anyway I could. It seems like the vote is going to Tony. Which I am fine, but I would have love it more if the votes goes to someone from the Umbrella tribe cause they are staying strong as hell. Which clearly does not look good for the other two tribes unless the other 2 tribes decides to work together. Right now though, I might just have to stay low. It is not time to come out of my comfort zone yet, I think I am safe as long as I keep stay low. Ok. This confessional sounds like a mess cause I am typing it on my phone. And I don't know, forgive my typos. Anyway. Bye amping.

Cliftone

Had high hopes to not be heading to Tribal but man THREE IN A ROW for us here at Tricell. We are wayyy overdue for a break 😂 With the way things are looking, the entire tribe SHOULD be able to escape this Tribal unharmed. Pray for us!

Tony

This round was a whirlwind shitshow. I was very much inclined to be ally. I was going to set it and forget it. But then there was some bs about chat in Umbrella maybe going to vote Betray, so I didn't think I should trust Zukiswa. Then Els is talking about getting everyone in Tricell to go Betray, to keep our asses out of tribal for a third time in a row. Had everyone on board - except Julia - who I wanted to protect from retribution, and honestly, I loved their whole trio. Anyway, Navi and Cleftone go Ally at the end for reasons of their own, and I'm looking at a lot of pissed off people. Womp womp.

Ava

https://youtu.be/5t-m334iYBc Update: Tony is not going to try and connive. Just going to vote with his tribe and ally's. I hopefully will be safe. I will miss Tony if he goes. Sort of wish it was me. 

Tony

Fully expect to be out this week. I am frankly surprised that I made it this far, all things considered. Frankly, I would have been happier to have gone out on the merits of my performance - such as they were, than under my terrible decision to betray. It didn't help that I was called out by name in One World chat, but that's the way it goes. It will be good to have my life back.

DJ

I heard Evangelina is gunning for me. I am going to try my best to not get voted out. I have to make more effort to talk to more people because the reason I am getting targeted seems to be because I haven't had a chat with Evangelina. I tried to chat with Tony two days ago and I got no reply. I am making effort, but I am trying to connect with a manageable number of people at a time. I thought talking to too many people might create trouble for me. This joint tribal council is really putting me in danger. I hope I survive.

Dom

This week's twist was ridiculous-ly AMAZING. That is definitely what this game is about. It reveals so much about others. Currently I have a 3 person alliance and after this vote will 100 know I can trust them without wavering. I've made friends in other tribes and think this could be used to my advantage later on. If I'm not voted out tonight, then I think I have set myself up well. 

Navi

So both Jinx and I were surprised by Ava’s vote. We both assumed they would also go ally, albeit for different reasons. Turns out MJ had Ava vote betray to send Jinx to tribal, which ended up blowing back on them in the One World chat. Jinx has told me that they also found out that Ava and MJ’s tribe made the plan but the misunderstanding about their initial message to us was still correct (at least on my end). Jinx doesn’t seem made at me though so that’s a plus. I hope this means we can use this bond to potentially work together later on down the line. I’m totally cool with MJ taking the lead at this point since this will eventually get back to everyone else, and when it comes to crunch time at some point in the merge, I can use the info I got this round to potentially get MJ out if she’s a big threat to win at the end. If she’s not, maybe I would consider taking to her to the end. She seems very committed to wanting to work with myself and Ariel, so I want to keep her for now. Plus it’s still very early and a lot of game still needs to be played, so I’m cool either way. Now the vote is gonna be between Ava and Tony. MJ is going hard to save Ava, so it’s possible we may lose Tony this round. I tried letting both Ava and MJ know that Tony doesn’t want Ava to go, but MJ kinda shut that down so so much for that lol. I don’t have a vote but I’m also safe. However I don’t want to over extend myself too much to where I’m targeted the next tribal. I’m honestly more concerned about the post tribal thing that the summit leaders have to attend. I don’t like this one bit. As for the summit coin distribution, I have a given a coin each to Julia, Cliftone, and Els since I vibe with all three. I’ve been admittedly busy with work so it’s been tough trying to stay in the mix, but I’m doing the best I can!

Els

Hey confession!! Sorry I don’t have much to say this round, there’s so much going on it’s just hard to collect all my thoughts. I definitely see myself working with clefford and MJ and I think that there is a future alliance brewing there, it looks like Tony is gonna go home and I’m also calling a swap of some kind!

MJ

What’s happening Is like an official welcome to survivor! Everyone is going to tribal except the summit! I don’t even know how I feel. I just have headaches and I can’t wait to end this round. Plus I hope Tony Goes, if not I’m 15% screwed lol. I5% isn’t a bad thing though hahahah

Jinx

i was emo last night but this morning im back and ready to run this bitch

Cliftone

Twas the night before tribal and I’m feeling pretty good. I’m not too worried about the vote. Everything should work out the right way the way. Best of luck to my Tribemates. I really hope everything goes smoothly and we all get through untouched especially Tony.

Hunter

So basically being more active here. Im kinda realizing I dont belong. i feel like im pissing off people and i dont mean to ever. I think tony is going home basically so hopefully he does and its not me 

Jinx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU2epwwkDn4

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ROUND NOTES:

Dominique starts an alliance with Adeline and Ariel

Julia posts a confessional in the One World Chat

Clefford tells his tribe (Umbrella) that they should all “Betray.” Furthermore, he thinks they should all trick their trios to “Ally” so that everyone in Umbrella is immune (despite not trusting half of them).

Evangelina is staying true to her moral compass and wants to “Ally,” in spite of Clefford’s plan

Hunter, Els, and Adeline started an alliance (House of K-yas)

Zukiswa works very hard to convince her trio to “Ally.” The betrayal will be intense.

No one listens to Clefford. They will all go to tribal council as a result.

Els convinces Tony to switch his vote to “Betray.” They try to convince Navi next

Jinx calls out Ava for betraying

Els, Adeline, and Hunter discussed targeting Ava with Jinx

Ariel, Adeline, and Dominique discuss wanting to target Tony

Clefford  and Zukiswa want to target from BSAA, but MJ wants to target Hunter for throwing Ava under the bus.

Clefford’s name is going around, so MJ, Zuki, and Clefford are trying to do damage control. They throw out Tony’s name as a way to get the heat off Clefford. They are unsure if they have the connections to make that vote work

The names going around right now are Clefford, Tony, Ava, and Jinx

Clefford tells MJ and Zukiswa about his Extortion Advantage

Evagelina expresses concern about voting Tony, bringing up that they are IRL friends. MJ says that the Umbrella tribe needs to vote Tony because, otherwise, Ava wil leave

Evagelina tells her tribe that  she is voting for DJ. MJ wants the tribe to vote together. The Umbrella tribe is a mess.

Adeline spread the Tony lie about him deceiving people. Adeline is trying to get people to vote out Tony

Jinx tells their tribe that people from the other tribe were PLANNING to betray from the get-go, pointing out that Ava was lying when they said they had “misunderstood” Jinx

Julia and Jinx bond closely. Jinx is now ride-or-die with Julia

MJ has given Evangelina, Ava, Clefford, and Zukiswa one coin each. Navi has given Els, Cliftone, and Julia one coin each. Ariel gave Adeline, Jinx, and Dominique one coin each

Evangelina bought a Summit Revealer

Cliftone tells Els and Navi in their alliance chat that he is voting for Ava because he wants to be tribe strong and thinks they’re shady

MJ thinks that the decision she will make will be a schoolyard pick. Clifford tells her to separate Ava and Els, and Jinx and Evangelina

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EDGIC:

Clefford: OTTM5 Ariel: UTRP3 Dominique: UTRP3 MJ: UTRE2 Zukiswa: MORP3 Ava: CPN4 Julia: MORP3 Adeline: UTRM2 Els: UTRE2 DJ: UTRM2 Cliftone: UTRE2 Evangelina: MORN3 Navi: UTRP3 Jinx: CPM5 Hunter: UTRP3 Tony: MORN3

Raffy’s Winner Picks:

Adeline Jinx Els Ava

Amy’s Winner Picks:

Adeline Jinx Ariel Els

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POWER RANKINGS:

Umbrella:

1. MJ 2. Clefford 3. Zukiswa 4. Ava 5. Hunter 6. Evangelina

Tricell:

1. Julia 2. Els 3. Navi 4. Cliftone 5. Tony

BSAA:

1. Adeline 2. Jinx 3. Ariel 4. Dom 5. DJ

Episode 2: "This round was literally determined by Rock Paper Scissors" ~ Els

LINKS:

Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686258095295528960?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686348384424099841?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686440161313259520?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS:

Adeline

Once again, i pregame and think I’ll stay UTR but the game starts and i get impatient and just want to do something. so i volunteered for the summit/hero challenge. And my arch nemesis Ava is there too....

Zukiswa

Today was a quiet day. Nothing major happened. I was so happy that my tribe won the challenge and the plan with my alliance worked. Clefford has really come through and I now trust him. Looks like me, MJ and Clefford are my ride or die in this game. I am also making very interesting connections with Jinx and Ava. These are that at a human level. We have not even spoken about the game yet in our one on ones. It's just very exciting. 

Julia

I confess, the relief at not having tribal tonight, is palpable. I almost got 'tripp'ed up but plans have not been derailed. However, they have changed a little bit. I was trying to save Tony and i dont know why. He dissed me, so ok Tony, dont come looking for my help later.... these boys dont wanna play with me... their loss...im used to being underestimated. Thats one of my superpowers, so im throwing my hat in the ring like a boomerang baby

Ariel

I am writing a confessional early because waiting for the challenge result is making me nervous, and there is nothing I can do about it. So MJ is trying to form an alliance with me and Navi which I am actually really excited about. We all came from different tribes and have different time zones. So yaaaaay! This is actually makes me excited to merge. Hopefully the 3 of us makes it to merge. Speaking of merge, I still have to put myself in a good position within our tribe for me to Survive. And honestly, I have no idea what's going on with our tribe. I have a good talk with all of my tribemates but that is all I got. I don't know who is close with who. I hope Adeline trust me enough to keep me. I feel like I could work with Dj and even with Jinx and Dominique. But my main priority for now is try to work with Adeline, so I can connect to Ava and Els at merge as well. Idk, I am just hoping we will be safe again. I don't want to go to tribal council. Agggh By the way, Survivor SA just dropped the cast and trailer for their newest season Survivor: Return of the Outcast and it looooooks a FIIIIIIIIRE. Go check it out if you haven't. That's all. Bye, amping!

Cliftone

Waking up to a new day after the first Tribal was CANCELLED. Boyyy did we get so lucky! Especially me being that I actually missed Tribal. I would've gotten my first strike had it not been for Brandon being booted. Going forward I really have to be on top of things!

MJ

Yayyy! I eventually created an alliance with Navi and Ariel and we now have an alliance chat. I’m still on the look out but they seem sweet. Hopefully we all make it to the merge cos that’s the whole essence 😂

Adeline

Been way too tired to make video confs. But basically i volunteered for the summit. Ava was there 😡 nemesis. And then we all started the challenge and all couldn’t do it. So we negotiated for a bit and decided to go with rock paper scissors between the three of us. Ava won first, i won’t second, tony last. And we bribe the hosts so that they would tell our tribe that we gave up on the actual challenge LOL. Gave my coins to jinx and els

MJ

Hahahaha I probably the happiest girl in “Fiji” right now 🤣😂😅🤣 my tribe won immunity again! Whoop whoop! We’re giving the “Taku vibes” from survivor US season 42. Ava is really a useful tribe member and they’ve proven that twice. They also gave me a coin which means they trust me enough or like me at least. Everyone in my tribe says we should keep winning till merge! Yes I wish so too but I can’t stop thinking , what if we find our selves at tribal pre-merge. I don’t want that to catch us unaware so right now , I’m trying to make the best possible safest and wisest alliances ever. I’ll make Ava a very good friend but not an obvious ally except if they propose it. I think I’m just still trying to wrap my head round a-lot of things which is okay. Lastly, I need to check up on my one world ally (Navi) and make sure she isn’t gonna home. Ariel and I need her. That’s all for today. I slept of twice typing this. LOL

Zukiswa

Today was not so loud. I think I've made some connections with people outside my tribe though. Jinx feels like my first born. But I know this is a game and I can't play it like a Mom. 

Julia

I am kinda bummed out that we lost the challenge and going back to tribal council to vote someone off. While i think our orig plan - with 2 variables will hold, and neither involves me, anxiety, never far away, IS nibbling at my fringes.... the member that lost the challenge would not engage in a alliance with lil 'old' me the day before and now its too late as ive solidified a connection in an interesting way.... tsk tsk... im glad i understood the assignment ahead of time, as in.... if you accept the challenge and fail, you gotta start dog paddling... now had that member been willing to form an alliance, Id be trying to save his arse... instead now i may be helping to orchestrate his virtual demise mwa ha ha ha ha

Evangelina

https://youtu.be/lCM9_bTdIzE (1 of 2) https://youtu.be/xBrIDtSQsGo (2 of 2)

Navi

Alright so it turns out we didn’t have to go to tribal for the first round… But then we still lost and we’re gonna lose a person regardless this round (yay…) So much for making the most of an opportunity, eh? Well I reached out to Els since they’re the person I trust the most at this point. They asked what I thought about the vote, I pitched Tony since he was one of the targets last round. I’m not super married to the plan, and I let them know that I’m will to hear out any ideas they have. They haven’t responded back yet. Everyone else has been radio silent except for Tony. We’re just talking about Canada lol. This vote is gonna be tough to coordinate on my end since I’m gonna be busy tomorrow (yay work 🙃), so hopefully we can get a plan going and get the pieces in place before I get really busy. But knowing my luck it’s going to be the most arduous process of all time 😭 Oh also, I’m now officially in an alliance with MJ and Ariel. I’ll try to update if anything major happens.

Ariel

Am I toast or am I f*cked? Shooooot, this definitely is not the best thing to happen to me right now. I feel like, Jinx and Adeline definitely is working together either with Dominique or Dj. Adeline and Jinx, both did not give me any coins. So that sucks. It means I am definitely not on their good graces, which I don't really know why? Is this about the time zone thing again? Is this about my past gameplay? Cause that sucks if it is.   Anyway, there's nothing I can do about it. I guess I am just here waiting for my slaughter day. Erst, swap when??? Bye!

DJ

Adeline got us safety! That is a relief, but I am a little worried about how difficult the second challenge was! The difficulty level went up so drastically from the first round to the second round. I need to work more on my social game if the challenges are going to get more difficult like that.

Tony

https://youtu.be/40x8kmATL5M

Clefford

I can now say that the game has really started. I am that kind of person who is organized and want to see things my way or atleast have a control of it. I tried my best to control where coins would go. I had to give 4 coins to Els to prove my alliance with her and 3-3 for me and Jinx. I distributed m coins to MJ and Zukiswa, which both are in alliance, and to Ava since they got the highest score on our first challenge. As the second round started, Ava volunteered to be our Hero in the next challenge. We were all curious on how it will go. They also represented our Tribe at the Summit. When the challenge results been released, I was so proud of Ava for being the number one in the challenge and managed to secure our back-to-back immunity challenge wins. They are so great! BUT, I didn't received any Summit coin from her. I was so confused, because she should've reciprocated my gesture by giving her coin when I gone to The Summit. I felt like I lost control at that moment. I only got 5 coins for these rounds. I got scared of my position in my tribe, even though I'm in alliance with MJ and Zukiswa. I spend all of my coins at the Merchant's Emporium and got an Extortion Advantage where I can extort coins from someone. They must give it to be before tribal or else, they'll lose their vote on Tribal Council. I was so happy, because it was well spent! Now, I'm making observations on who have the most coins, so I can use this advantage. 

Ava

https://youtu.be/oeIOvJkpcbM

Moth

My confessions have been boring and I apologize. I did not expect to be this busy X I hope it’s Tony. I’m happy it’s not me

Els

Hiiii, I bring you another confession that I should’ve done way sooner! This round was literally determined by Rock Paper Scissors It’s rock paper tribal Anyways Julia and I got on a call and rlly bonded, she revealed that she originally wanted me out bc she saw me as a threat and I was like omg but now she wants to work with me until the end bc she didn’t want to lie to me! Summit gave me 4 coins, assuming 2 from Adeline 2 from Tony, I think it’s best that we keep Tony and vote moth out bc I love moth but they haven’t been active at all I wish Tony had trusted me enough to tell me abt the Rock Paper Scissors but hey he gave me tokens so I’m not complaining!!

Jinx

im so fucking stressed right now 😭 and i have to make a confessional? *nancy wheeler vc* ITS BULLSHIT

Dom

So far I'm working on getting in the second person in my 3 person alliance. If this goes well and we all stay true and confident we will be good until the merge as we have pulled in over half the tribe. In this game you can never be too sure so I'm always on the skeptical side, no not paranoid. We will see how this plays out. 

Cliftone

Tribal tonight!! I cannot wait to see how this all goes down (being that it's my first ORG and all) Even tho it's our second time having to head to Tribal, it'll be our first time actually voting someone out. I'll be submitting my vote right after this confessional.

Hunter

I honestly think these ppl r odd i like the els person and Adeline 

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GAME ROUND NOTES:

Ava, Tony, and Adeline volunteer as Heroes and Summit leaders

Ava volunteers without discussion with their tribe

During the challenge, the participants give up trying to do the challenge. They negotiate that they will pretend to have done the actual challenge, but will decide who wins by Rock, Paper, Scissors, Tony lost, sending Tricell to tribal council.

MJ, Navi, and Ariel form an alliance

Els and Julia grow incredibly close. Julia admits to Els that she wanted to target them, but this only brings them closer together

The Summit distributes their coins as such: Ava with 3 coins gives to Hunter, Moth, and MJ; Tony with 6 coins gives 2 to Evangelina, 2 to Els, 1 to Navi, and 1 to Julia; and Adeline with 3 coins gives 2 to Els and 1 to Jinx

Ariel freaks out because he hasn’t been given coins

Clefford feels betrayed by Ava because he didn’t get a coin from the Summit

MJ has figured out that the Summit  gave coins to Hunter, Evangelina, and herself. They assume that Ava was responsibility for all of these (even though, they only gave coins to Hunter and MJ)

Clifford received the Extortion Advantage

Future Legends decides its better to get rid of Moth than Tony because the latter is more active

Els gave their 4 coins to Adeline

Adeline purchases the Heart Key which is an Alliance Revealer

Els doesn’t trust Navi because Julia told them about her telling Navi about voting out Els. Els is suspicious of Navi not telling them that Julia tried to target Els

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EDGIC:

Clefford: MORP4 Ariel: UTRM3 Dominique: UTRP2 MJ: UTRP2 Zukiswa: UTRP2 Ava: MORN3 Julia: CPN3 Adeline: MORP3 Els: MORP4 DJ: UTRE2 Cliftone: UTRP2 Evangelina: UTRP2 Navi: MORP3 Jinx: UTRP3 Hunter: UTRM2 Tony: UTRM3 Moth: UTRM2

Raffy’s Winner Picks:

Navi, Els, MJ, Clefford

Amy’s Winner Picks:

Navi, Clefford, Adeline, Zukiswa

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POWER RANKINGS:

Umbrella

1. Clefford 2. MJ 3. Zukiswa 4. Evangelina 5. Hunter 6. Ava

Tricell

1. Els 2. Navi 3. Julia 4. Cliftone 5. Moth 6. Tony

Progenitor

1. Adeline 2. Jinx 3. Dom 4. Ariel 5. DJ

Episode 1: "if they all don’t make a fucking alliance with me soon i might take matters into my own hand" ~ Jinx

GAME LINKS:

Cast Reveal 1: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686077425649614848?source=share

Cast Reveal 2: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686077511228178432?source=share

Cast Reveal 3: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686077600004702208?source=share

Twist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686078176501334016?source=share

Idol Hunt: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686078179777167361?source=share

Immunity Challenge: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686078190488338432?source=share

Results: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686167118130069504?source=share

Tribal Council: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/survivorraccooncity2/686257550601125888?source=share

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CONFESSIONALS

Jinx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4efoFMFhK4

Julia

I have never had so much fun /not, struggling to play a GAME!

Adeline

HAHAHHAHAHA NOT ELS AND I PLAYING TOGETHER THIS IS GONNNA BE A DISASTER. We are born from the same clothe of chaos. I told her that we have to go by roblox rules (we play survivor roblox together w/some Patagonia cast and the rule is that we don’t start coming after each other until late merge). She agreed. So we’ll see 👀 Hunter is obviously an immediate bond. I messaged first and said “vape alliance?” Bc we were both vaping on call 💀 we have gone back and forth a bunch already. Love the amount of queer folks this season. So far no one is bland and that’s how i like it. If everyone has big personalities here? I’m not gonna be as much of a target lmfao. As for the twists? I’m literally just vibing. I got 7th last game with no advantages so if i don’t get sweet sweet fire tokens? No worries. I’ll slay my way to the end. Video confessionals will come when i actually have more to say but for now?: Ava is my enemy (/HJ). I have not one ounce of trust for them. And i hope they get voted off before we swap or merge or whatever other batshit twist we have this season.

Cliftone

This is my first ever ORG! I'm feeling confused, excited, and so many other emotions. I'm so ready to bond with my tribe and hopefully we can make it to the merge. I've gotten to speak with a few tribemates and hope to chat with everyone else soon. The One World theme for this season throws me off a bit, as now there's even more people to get to know from the beginning but will allow for awesome opportunities down the road. 

Adeline

Taking notes on everyone like a madman. So far I’ve talked to Els, obviously. Zukiswa DJ Hunter <3 Jinx <3 Navi And Dom I think that’s it? Anyway, life is good I’m having so much fun already and Im praying the children of chaos (Els, Hunter, jinx and i) survive to merge or a swap with each other. We’re not an alliance yet, but i will make it happen. Els and I are covering our bases in terms of communicating with the cast so we’ve spread out.

MJ

This is the first day and my head is hot already 😅 Starting with my tribe, I have a good alliance with Clefford and Zukiswa. But I have a very stronger bond with Zukiswa, although we agreed to both play it neutral, no one should know we are that close so they can be free to form an alliance with us. Ava seems welcoming , same with Evangelina. Nothing much about them for now , we’re just getting along. Hunter seems like a cool guy that’s trying to get the hang of everything lol. But as it stands, I have an ally with Clifford and Zukiswa. If any of us makes it to the summit, we’re distributing the coin to favor our ally. To the other tribe, I have a plan of forming an ally each from the two other tribe. I thought I can target people of May age group. Alas, I found Navi from Tricell and I love her already. She’s from Canada ans she’s also 25. Ariel from BSAA is 26 and he looks solid. I’ve started a conversation with him, but he’s yet to respond. Hoping to form an alliance with the three of us so we can also have information of what is going on from each tribe. I hope they don’t get voted out soon. I have Tony on my mind because he looks collected and matured. Although, I haven’t made any move yet. Lastly Jinx reached out to me and I love her genuineness already. That’s pretty all about the first round. Right now, I’m working so hard to have a good score in our challenge so I don’t keep my tribe at the bottom.

Tony

I drew the short straw this week... I am the world's least-accurate, slowest typist, so of course that would be the first challenge. I probably cratered the average. :| In other news, this is my first ORG, already meeting cool people from around the world. Let's see where it takes us!! 

Navi

Hello, I’m Navi and I’m a member of the Tricell tribe. So far, the tribe overall is pretty nice. I’m made the closest bonds with Julia and Els, and we’ve agreed to be in an alliance together. It got together fairly quickly, we just liked each other’s vibes and poof, alliance. Plus I find myself most comfortable talking to them. It’s funny though since Julia accidentally added Tony to our alliance chat and Els immediately removed him. They mentioned some concern about it, but I reassured them by saying that it’s still early, Tony probably didn’t even see it. And even if Tony did see it, I’m sure Els and I could do decent damage control to mitigate the situation. I’ve had a bit of a convo with Moth, but it’s still very general, surface-levely talk right now. It’s fairly similar to my convos with Tony. Clifftone is someone else I think could be a potential ally in this game, based on his bio I think he’s someone that I can bounce ideas off of and could work well with. He’s busy with work though so it hasn’t worked out yet. Thanks to the One World twist, I’ve had the chance to chat with other people in the game even though we’re not on the same tribe. Adeline messaged me because they liked my picture lol. I have chats with everyone going at this point, but not everyone has responded to my messages at this point since the time difference is a thing. I’m trying to get ahead of this game socially since that honestly all I have at this point lol. Another noteworthy convo was with MJ. She mentioned that since we’re both the same age that we could work together. She also mentioned that since Ariel is around the same age as us, he could be someone we could work with too. The thing is I haven’t had a chance to talk to Ariel yet, I think it’s nighttime where he is so I haven’t even really introduced myself yet. However, I am glad that depending on how I approach this, this could be something useful for me down the line. Another person not from Tricell that has piqued my interest is Clefford. Els mentioned that Clefford messaged them pretty early on in the game stating that he would be interested in working with them. Els speculated that he must be saying this to everyone. I have initiated a chat with Clefford but he hasn’t offered up any sort of alliance with me. Els and agreed that it would be best to humor him out and see where this goes as this could be something that could help us down the line should we all make the swap or merge. For the summit, Julia actually said that she voted for me, and Els agreed with that and voted for me as well. Since I can’t vote for myself, I just voted for Els. I haven’t had the chance to ask anyone else yet how they’re voting for the summit, so I’m hoping either Els or Julia have been sniffing out that info. Also, since there is a currently component to this game, Els and I were talking about how it would be a good idea pool our coins together. They even offered to give their coins to me, which was very unexpected but also nice? I didn’t expect them to offer up their coins, usually the person who brings it up what you to give them your coins. This in turn has made me trust Els more. We also talked about how any sort of game advantage or idol is likely in one of the higher priced hidden items. As for the challenge… oh boy is this not my forte. I suck as at challenges. Whenever I play an org, chances are I’m the worst challenge performer on the tribe. Which is why I to try to be proactive in making social connections to help me get by to the merge to make up for that. Anyways, I ended up submitting a score of over 1200. I hope that’s sufficient enough to get us through this round so that we don’t have to go to tribal. I just need more time to get to know these people before I can make any sort of long term plan. But yeah overall, I’m doing my best to try to be proactive so that position-wise I will be covered and no one will try to come after me. It’s still early so I’m not super married to anything at this point, but the social seeds have been planted and I hope they eventually flourish in a way that gets me to the end and get the win. But also if I’m in the final tribal with Julia and I lose to her, I am totally okay with it because Julia is an icon lmao. I’ll try to get another confessional in this round, especially if our tribe does end up going to tribal. But yeah, I don’t know if this was super great but if there’s any questions pertaining to my game you’d like to know, feel free to let me know! Adeline

Love nobody ever reading tribe chat. Why is this a ghost town

Ava

https://youtu.be/vXLu86TYJTM

Cliftone

OMG!!! I really can't believe we not only lost the immunity challenge but are also going to tribal! I had sooo much confidence heading into this challenge and now I know going forward that 110% just won't do, I have to give EVERYTHING. I've been so focused on staying Tricell strong, and so confident we wouldn't be in this situation so early, that I have absolutely no idea whose name to write down. *Super gulp*

Adeline

Okay so I’m just going in swinging i guess. Els and i have plans for getting eachother more fire tokens to pool and buy together. Just told hunter that Ava is shady. (Purely because they voted me off last time and they’re way too good in immunity challenges). Was just feeding him fear about them lol. I didn’t even need to. But no ones talking right now 👀 so i got bored.

Ariel

Hi everyone! It's me again, 3rd season in a row, let's go! First thing first. World world is the right theme for this season because we are indeed from all around the world. This is the first time I played with so many people from different places. Yooooo, diversity, let's goooooo! 3 tribes of six is a first for me. And it is actually kind of scary. There's only a few people, it's so hard to lie low. On top of that we might have an inactive member. Brandon, Brandon, where art thou? Anyways, I can't believe we won that challenge even with Brandon not submitting a challenge. I'm so happy about that. What I am not happy is that I got the lowest score out of the 5 of us. I hope they don't see me as a useless member. I hope I can do better on the next challenge, so they can't use that as a reason to vote me out. Please don't vote me out yet. I would love to think that I have a good connection with everyone for now. I have a good talk with Dominique, Jinx and DJ, and of course Adeline. I feel like Adeline holds the most social power in our tribe right now, so I should definitely stick with her. I'm happy to see Ava and Els on the different tribe too, good thing it is one world, we can still communicate. And also, hahaha, my friend Clefford is here too. Anyway, those connections are useless if I don't make it to merge. So I better work my ass off. Oh yeah, there is also a coin thing. Uhmmm, I'm not really a fan of advantages, so they can have all the coins they want. But let's see, desperate times can lead to desperate moves, so who knows I'll be digging for those coins in the next episodes. LOL Ok, that is it for now. Y'all wont read this long ass confession anyway. Oh I know, I skipped the long confessions too. HAHHAHAHA Bye, amping!

Evangelina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-4UuQLgzA&feature=youtu.be

Zukiswa

Imagine! I avoided 1st tribal!!! This was very exciting! It actually feels like the real thing! So I'm in a day 1 alliance with MJ and Clefford. Im feeling confident about MJ and a little nervous about Ckeffotd because he is so young. I mean he is 18! But I'm choosing to trust him. I have a good feeling about him. MJ I trust. I don't know if it's that we are both from Africa but I just have lovely vibes about her and she's smart. I feel she is going to be that friend that makes sure that your do your part in a group assignment at school. She is going to keep honest and working hard. As for my other tribe mates I'm still learning them. All in good time. All I good time.

Jinx

A Conversation in Jinx's Host Chat: jinx, 12:15 AM ALSO MOTH HAS PLAYED THIS BEFORE NOW HOLD UP SO DID ELS????? Raffy shrugs jinx, 12:15 AM EYE- no els playing very season okay boston rob not* HELLOOO????? (Image of Els' wiki page) 🧍🏽‍♀️ AVA TOOO??? LMAAOOOSKDKDKSKKSKSKSSMAISBSBDHED THIS EXPLAINS THEIR SCORES OH MYYYYYYYYYYYY GOODNESS EYEYEYYEEH i need to look for evangelina as well (Image of Ava's Wiki page) ‘it’s never too early to vote someone out’ if they all don’t make a fucking alliance with me soon i might take matters into my own hands when i make a veterans alliance >>> jinx, 12:20 AM imma say heyyyyyyyy PLSSS ELS HOSTED TOO??? oh my god i just know they’re smug as hell rn moth/els/ava alliance mayhaps and then i know adeline and els know each other and i will find out how 😌 LMAOOO THEY ALL PLAYED A BLOOD VS WATER SEASON TOO????? cmon tyson! when i get the white board out NOW MOTH AND AVA WENT FAR TOGETHER EYE- maybe not together but yeah that’s moth moth amy, 12:25 AM Deep in the wiki research jinx, 12:26 AM im only on my phone too also like 🧍🏽‍♀️ these ppl about to eat us UP els saying their cursed placement is 9th i see why however that’s p amazingly consistent

DJ

I was relieved to find out that our tribe came in second even though Brendon didn't submit the score. I am getting to know people on my tribe slowly. They seem cool! 

Clefford

Hey guys! I'm really excited for this season because of a very diverse casts. Specially in our tribe, we have African, American, Asian, and European. I love that! We're having a hard time communicating with everyone, because of different time zones, but we can manage. I'm so happy that my tribe, Umbrella Tribe, won the challenge and added 1 more coin in our pocket. Everyone did their bests and we dominated! I just hope that we continue doing that as a tribe and rule the challenge department in this game so that we move forward together and avoid Tribal Council as much as possible. [VL] I created an alliance with Zukiswa and MJ. They're nice and I got to connect with them easily. I told them that we have to control the coins distribution and should atleast get share of it in every Summit. So, it would be nice if one of us will be in charge going to Summit as much as possible. Since we are in One World, I got a chance to have a conversation with Els of Tricell Tribe and Ariel of BSAA Tribe. I told them that they should consider me if they want to make some magic in the future. IF we make to merge. IF I make to merge. I'm scared to be so exposed in this game, because I really play hard. I'm here to do my job and play hard. I don't really care about winning, actually, I just want to play. Hahaha! But, it would be great if I did really win this game. At the Summit, I pitched that we should just divide the 10 coins to 3-3-3 and give the 1 coin left to the tribe that is going to Tribal Council. Nope. Tricell Tribe is going to tribal, and Els is there, so I talked to Els, which is also their tribe's representative in the Summit, and told her that she should just get the 4 coins and distribute it on her alliance, so if something happen that could danger her life in this game, they can shop and hunt for idols in Emporium. That's all for now. Hahaha!

Els

Hello confessional I am finally trying to get this in a little bit early rather than submitting this at like 5:55 right before tribal in my normal fashion but yeah, today I basically just want to give a breakdown of what I think of everyone so far (of course not all 18 people) but some of the people I’m in alliances with because y’all know I’m in alliances already!!! like I would literally be crying if I wasn’t, and some mishaps that have already happened. So let’s start with who I consider to be my closest allies off of the bat! Adeline: so Adeline and I know each other from Patagonia but we’ve never played together bc I helped host in that game. However we do both know that we’re children of chaos and we’re prepared to go batshit. Basically we’re talking to pretty much different ppl with almost no overlap which is good because between the 2 of us we’re talking to pretty much the whole cast! Btw we agreed to not go for each other until late merge Navi: Honestly I love Navi so much, literally the person I trust the most on my tribe, I’ve already given away like 3 coins to her in proper Els fashion and both of the alliances I’m in she’s in too!! We tied for summit vote meaning we’ve both gotten ppl to trust and like us and I’m super happy that I get the chance to work with her going forward, hopefully by pooling our coins we’re able to get something good!! Julia: I love Julia so much!! She is so sweet and fun to talk to, ever since the first night on call I knew that she was definitely someone I wanted to work with and although the Tony incident (which you will learn about later) was super stressful I still think that we can do amazing things in the game! Cliftone: we immediately got good vibes from each other and that’s super good news!! I don’t know too much about him yet but I just trust him like implicitly Ok now onto alliances!!! The three mouseketeers!! Me, Julia, Navi My day 1 (ig 2) alliance!! Love them so much, Julia accidentally added Tony to the chat but we don’t think he saw??? 4th mouseketeer? I don’t know her Future legends squad!! Me, Navi, Cliftone I love the energy from this group!! We all agree on things super quickly and I can see myself working with these two long term As of rn the vote is on Tony bc of challenge scores and the fact that he has a friend in the game! Will keep y’all updated xoxo go piss girl <33

Dom

Game is going well so far. I have one sure alliance but in this game you can never be too sure. The minute you get comfortable it can all flip. So for now my alliance with Ariel will be kept secret until we can pull in another person we can absolutely trust. Then we will have half the tribe and are good until merge in a perfect world.

Julia

The plot thickens... first thing on my mind when i woke up Survivor RC... so yesterday i tried to make a move, backdoor strategy but two raccoons didnt take the bait. So i havd been scurrying myself this morning to see if i can surface any betrayals. But unbeknownst to my 3 way alliance, i had made a 1 on 1 alliance with one of the 3 way members which is still active to my relief. So we're plotting A. How to have each others backs to the end and B. How to take down the 3rd member of the alliance. Its dastardly for sure, and i do so love the ultimate target, who's so cute and sweet, smart and savvy, but must be taken out. Sorry dear target. But this is Survivor RC and that is the deal. Meanwhile, the sub alliance convo must be cloaked and both i and my sub prime alliance are now surfacing as if we havent been chatting. However, if my plan backfires, I am also preparing my pretty neck for the chopping block

Navi

So things have gotten a bit… complicated? Let me explain. So as mentioned previously, I find myself in an alliance with Julia and Els. Now Els and I are in this for the long run, we love this crew, all that fun stuff. The thing is that Julia thinks that Els is a dangerous player. I agree with this to some extent, but Julia wants them out, like, this round. Which is crazy but also hilarious because Julia will message me being like “I think Els is in an alliance with Tony, they’re in an alliance with Moth”, just off the wall stuff that can justify her targeting Els this early even though Els has no idea that Julia is targeting them. At least that I know of. I told Julia that while I agree that Els has potential to do well at this game, I don’t think we have to get them out right this second. Julia wants to the both of us to work with Tony, who is barely giving us information and has a connection on the other tribe! That being said, I hope Brandon does get eliminated from the game so that all of this plotting and scheming will be meaningless. I’m just here for the memes at this point. But yeah, Els and I are still good as far as I know. We made a three person alliance with Cliftone, which is good. I’m also working on my one-on-one relationship with him too since like I mentioned earlier, I think he has a good head in his shoulders. I have been chatting with Tony a bit more this morning, but it reeks of desperation since he’s on the chopping block. And no one’s heard from Moth in a hot minute so now they’re the target. Also as mentioned earlier, Julia is being an entertaining, messy player and I’m here for it! In terms of relationships outside the tribe, Ariel and I chatted a bit and he’s the one that actually mentioned the Brandon thing and how he would actually be okay if he was expelled from the game due to inactivity. This aligns with what MJ was pitching earlier about having a cross-tribe alliance with the three of us. Like I said before, another potentially great option for me down the line should we all swap together or make it to the merge. But I still need time to develop an actual relationship with them both before I put all my eggs in their baskets. Other relationships I’m trying to cultivate are with Adeline, Clefford, Zukiswa, and DJ. I’ve put out the feelers with everyone in the game, but they seem to be the ones that are reciprocating the most. And yeah I think that about does it. If anything else crazy happens, I’ll try to get it in before the deadline. Hopefully I’m not too in over my head lol.

Moth

Hey y’all! I am currently wt my gfs house. I feel really bad because I did not talk- at all yesterday and that probably means I’m going to be voted out tonight. I’ll see what I can do 

MJ

Day 2 on survivor racoon city. Nothing much, we were so happy our tribe won immunity at the last challenge and we promised each other to keep this going. Clefford was voted for summit which means I’m definitely adding up a coin hahaha #strongally. Also I was able to establish a strong connection with Ariel from the Tricell tribe and he’s so fun plus we have some common grounds. I chatted for so long with the supposed “weird Hunter” but I’m loving every bit of his character haha he is a sincere young boy ❤️ I did surface chat with the other people. Hopefully I should be able to create an alliance chat with Navi, Ariel and myself. I hope Ariel isn’t voted out. That’s pretty all. I’m really enjoying this so far 

Hunter

the people are weird tbh, im def first boot bc i lied about my challenge score to mj but she said she thinks im unique basically im serving sorry i flopped this oop hope u werent expecting too much

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EDGIC

Clefford - CPM5 Ariel - UTRP3 Dominique - UTRP3 MJ - MORP3 Zukiswa - UTRP3 Ava - UTRN3 Julia - MORM3 Adeline - CPP3 Els - CPP5 DJ - UTRE2 Cliftone - MORP3  Evangelina - UTRE2  Navi - CPP5 Jinx - MORP4 Hunter - UTRM2 Tony - UTRN2 Moth - UTNR2 Brandon - INVN1

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Edgic Explained:

Rating

INV: Irrelevant and non-influential during the episode. Likely does not leave many confessionals or talk to other players. UTR: May influence the story however after the end of the episode, nobody has caught onto their game. They are gaming, but they aren't on other players' radar as a big threat yet. MOR: Not quite under the radar, not quite complex personality. Has some change but is not a major character. Probably in the middle of the pack during challenges, and is in a comfortable position. CP: Well rounded character, we are given insight into their way of thinking. They may be more influential to the round and are spearheading decisions, or may just be active in the processes. OTT: Oversimplified and one dimensional. Character trope type of player. Likely involved in a public fight, or may just be flying off the handle that round.

Tone

PP: Overly positive to the point they are seen as a hero or saint. P: Discussed in a positive manner by other tribemates. M: Noteably positive and negatively discussed by others. N: Given somewhat of a villains edit. May be ambiguously viewed as negative by other tribemates. NN: So negative that people despise having them in the game and on their tribe. E: Not discussed as positively or negatively by others; only discussed in neutral terms

Visibility

1: The least visible. Doesn’t leave any confessionals, and is not around to play the game

5: The most visible. Leaves many confessionals or long confessionals. Is actively a part of the things happening in that round. Is talked about by many different people. 

POWER RANKINGS

Umbrella

1. Clefford 2. MJ 3. Zukiswa 4. Ava 5. Evangelina 6. Hunter

Tricell

1. Navi 2. Els 3. Julia 4. Cliftone 5. Moth 6. Tony

Progenitor

1. Adeline 2. Jinx 3. Ariel 4. Dom 5. DJ 6. Brandon

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RAFFY’S GAME ROUND NOTES

Els gave all of their coins to Navi.

Clefford starts an alliance with MJ and Zukiswa. (Clefford X MJ X Zukiswa)

Hunter is on the outs of the Umbrella tribe

Adeline bonds with Hunter and Els. Els and Adeline are going to work closely.

Jinx discovers that Els, Moth, and Ava have played in Stings before. They are on the fence on whether to work with them or against them. Seem a little unnerved by their experience

Els creates an alliance with Julia and Navi. (3 Mouseketeers)

Els and Adeline want to target Tony, Ava, and Ariel  in that order.

Els tells Adeline about the 3 Mouseketeers.

Cliftone creates an alliance with Els and Navi (Future Legends)

Jinx, Clefford, and Els go to Summit. Jinx and Clefford were voted in. Els and Navi tied, but they decided to randomize, making Els go to Summit.

Els gave their Summit coin (the one they got for going to Summit) to Navi

In the Summit, Jinx stalls the decision to put pressure on Els and Clefford. Jinx wants to do a call, but the other two are ignoring her requests, causing the stall.

Clefford proposes that they split the coins 3 to him, 3 to Jinx, and 4 to Els (since their tribe is going to tribal). He also wants them to divide their coins privately in their host chat. Els agrees.  

Els wanted to target Tony, but Julia shifted it to Moth because she talked to Tony more. Moth is the target for the most part

Dominique and Ariel are working together.

Julia views Els has a big target that needs to get voted out ASAP. She tries to convince Navi to go against Els. However, Navi does not seem to see the point in going after Els because they grew close and that’d be a move too big too early. Navi sees Julia as messy and a bit of a loose cannon.

Jinx tells Els that they know about the Stings wikia. They discuss Tony and Evangelina being friends for years. They discuss feeling bad vibes from Clefford

Els reveals to Clefford that they have played ORGs since they were 13.

They decided to agree on the previous proposal. Clefford gave his to MJ, Zukiswa, and Ava. Els gave theirs to Navi, Julia, Cliftone, and Adeline. Jinx gave 2 coins to Dominique and 1 coin to Adeline

Clefford lies to MJ and Zukiswa about the Summit, saying that Els got 4 coins to share because they won a mini-challenge.

Julia tells Els that she thinks that she’s going tonight. Doubt and paranoia set in. Els tries to reassure her that she’s safe.

Awards

Welcome to the Award show!

Player of the Season (POTS)

This award goes to who Amy and I feel was a defining and important player this season. This entire game was controlled by this person. Their fingerprints were on the back of every vote at merge, and people were willing to die on the sword despite them being the biggest threat. Their paranoia and overthinking might have caused problems in any other season, but, like many great players before them, this cast was the right one for them to unleash their strategic, social, and physical abilities. They needed only one more win to claim victory, and Amy and I were devastated to see them lose out. The winner of Player of the Season is...

MJ

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Fan Favorite

This award was decided by the VL/audience of the game. This person never gave up, even though they did have times of weakness. But their vulnerability with us and the players showed true heart, dedication, light, and love. I would love to play with them and host this person again. Sometimes the best and most enjoyable games to watch are those where you say “Fuck it. I’m doing what I want to do, not what people tell me.” Without further ado, this award goes to...

Julia

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Villain of the Season

This is my personal favorite award because I have been a Villain since I started playing ORGs. In terms of Raffy hosting, this is probably the award with the MOST esteem. I give this award to someone whose villainy was shown in their cutthroat strategy, their undying dedication to late night strategizing, and the way they cut through this game like a butter knife as they captured the pieces of the game. This award goes to...

MJ

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Hero of the Season

But what is a villain without their hero rival? This award goes to someone whose light and love was received by everyone who talked to them. They were true to themselves, and they showed that you can make it far in games by being yourself and being true to what you believe in. This award goes to...

Julia

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Best Alliance

This award goes to the only alliance in this game who were consistently organized, always planning, and the only ones who thought of every possibility (and I mean EVERY possibility). This alliance award goes to...

MJ x Zukiswa x Clefford

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Best Move

This award goes to...

MJ’s and Zukiswa’s Navigation of the Invisible Round

The reason I am giving this award to them is because Amy and I were CERTAIN that one of the two were getting voted out. Clefford had already started to backstab them by creating an alliance with Dom, Ariel, and Ava. And, if he had manage to convince Zukiswa not to play the idol, this award would have gone to him. However, Zukiswa and MJ managed to successfully use the coins that their superior social game had gotten them to buy both a hidden immunity idol an the immunity necklace. When Zukiswa stood firm in her decision not use the idol and vote Ava, despite Clefford’s attempt to get them to vote Dom who had immunity, it showed that she wasn’t going to let someone else lead her to destruction. As a united front, Zukiswa and MJ managed to scare Clefford enough to make him back out of the plan to vote one of them out. This move isn’t about one specific thing that ensured their survival. It was about multiple things they did before Final 6 that secured their coins, secured their voting power, and secured their safety. If one of them had won, this would have been the game-changing move.

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Best Pre-Juror

This award goes to a person who I would have LOVED to have at merge. They would have shaken the table and shaken the status quo of this game. It was truly a shame to see them go so early. I have no doubt that they would have made it much farther if they had survived their vote-off. Best pre-juror goes to...

Jinx

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Most Robbed

Our last award goes to two people. These two were the most robbed people in this game in that they could have gotten much farther and were screwed over by things they had no control over. They are also people I would love to have seen make it farther as they would have ate this game up. Most robbed goes to...

Evangelina an Jinx

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Best Confessionals

This award goes to the person who left some of the best confessionals throughout the entire game. They were detailed, clear, and expressed their current and next moves. This award goes to...

Ariel

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Silly, Fun Awards

Here are some fun, non-serious, silly awards!

Best Rivalry: Julia and her microphone

The One Who Got the Most Sleep: MJ

Best at Being Asleep at the Wrong Times: Ariel and Clefford

Person with the Best Reads that were Ignored by their Allies: Zukiswa

Most likely to play their next game the same way: Els & Ava

Best submission to the 24 Hours Tasks: Ariel's stuffed animal, Julia reciting poetry, Julia's pencil drawing, MJ crying

Least Paranoid: Ariel and MJ

Best Idol Play: Cliftone

Iconic moments: Evangelina and the wheel, Julia voting Dom, MJ buying immunity, Clefford almost convincing Zukiswa to play the idol wrong

Fake Out Winner’s Edit: Navi

Never Knowing Their Next Move: Julia, Clefford, MJ, Els

Winner Reveal

Welcome to the Winner Reveal of Survivor: Raccoon City, the sixteenth season in the Survivor: Stings series. One of our three finalists will join the likes of your hosts, Raffy and Amy (x2), and the most recent winner of Survivor: Stings, Megan, in the esteemed Winner’s Circle.

Here is the link to watch the Winner Reveal:

(Insert link)

Thank you to everyone for playing in this season! You guys were a fun group to host because of the constant paranoia and overthinking. You guys gave it your all, and your hard efforts were very entertaining to the hosts and the audience. I hope you can take something away from this experience.

I will now get to the vote. You WANT to see your name written down. The person with the highest number of votes will win the game. If it ties, then the finalist not in the tie will choose the winner.

For the last time, I will read the votes:

First Vote

Clefford

You have played a great game, and with the MJ vote you've come out on top. I believe you had the most outwit in this game and I appreciate it so much. You played with many people and had a great social game to have you playing sides and manipulating votes. I'm impressed with you and I hope you can play again - if only so i can beat you 😈 congratulations on F3 and hopefully, congratulations on the win 🥰

Second Vote

Ariel

I choose to vote for Ariel who just yesterday was the biggest mystery to me in this game. Ariel, I think you did the best job explaining your game in a way that was both thorough and non-exaggerated. So much so that I'm sad I didn't get a better chance to know you. Good luck.

Third Vote

Dom

This was a very hard choice for me. But your honesty in response to the questions swayed me. I wish I had had the opportunity to get to know you better. Congratulations, if the  majority of others agree with me and you win.

Fourth Vote

Clefford

You played a really good game and totally deserve the win!! Congrats on f3 :))!

Fifth Vote

Ariel

Congratulations on making it this far and hopefully pulling out the win. While a LOT of us wanted to give our vote to MJ, for me you were right up there as well and I will gladly vote for you to win.

Sixth Vote

Dom

Well done dearest. You have played a stunning game. I hope THIS vote for you sticks. Clefford...here's me blindsiding you.

Seventh Vote

Ariel

I don’t think the game ends when you get voted out. I think the game continues until when you decide who to vote for.

A proper pinch of every ingredients (Plenty strategy + a little bit of social skill intertwined with a tiny pinch of integrity) gives you the most balanced nutritious survivor win. Because wether you like it or not, not everyone will vote based on strategy. The way to some people’s heart is through that minute portion of social connection & integrity that was displayed.

Fortunately for you, I’m that teacher that awards marks based on every T crossed and every I dots. You didn’t score highly well, but you touched every aspect of this game. And because of that, you have my Vote.

Hopefully Ariel 😅, THE JURY HAS SPOKEN! And if they don’t speak this way, we will celebrate your 7th brother 🤣 and give him two whips for being such a snitch 😄♥️ All my love to you both 💕

Eighth Vote

And the winner of Survivor: Raccoon City is...

Ariel

I’m voting for you because you’ve got me intrigued by Butong. Love coconut lol

Ninth Vote

Ariel

You played a good game. Enjoy your million dollars!

Final Tribal Council - Jury Answers

Here at the finalists’ answers to the jury questions.

Ariel:

Cliftone: What is THE biggest move you made throughout the entire game? (can be known by all but I would prefer something that’s “your little secret”) And how do you think that decision got you to this moment?

For something that is known by everyone, it may not seem to be a big move for everyone else, but for me it is, it was voting out Jinx. By doing that, I was able to keep my number one ally, which became my informant at the last stage of the game, Clefford. And I was able to pull Dominique in my side. And that's how this final three is made.

For something that I only knows, I throw the final 5 immunity challenge, because I wanted MJ to be there at Final 4 over Zukiswa. If MJ have not won the Final 5 challenge, we would have voted her out at that round, and there would be a good chance that Clefford and Dominique might rather take Zukiswa to FTC with them over me. By letting MJ won, I make sure that Dominique and Clefford's eyes are all set to voting MJ out at Final 4. If in case MJ won the final 4, I would try to pull a 2-1-1 vote, let MJ vote for me, convince Dominique that we are voting for Clefford, Clefford and I vote for Dominique. Or worst case scenario, I'll go to a fire making challenge at least.

DJ: Did you let the tribal lines and luck decide your alliances or did you choose your allies deliberately? If you did make a strategical choice to align with and be loyal with (to any extent) someone outside of your tribemates, who was it and why did you choose to make an alliance with them?

On the BSAA tribe I did choose my allies deliberately, I align myself with Dominique because I saw that Dominique trusted me. I also align myself with MJ because I can just sense that MJ is going to be a powerplayer. Not only did I want to be on her good side, but I also wanted to have a meat shield. And then Clefford, of course is a friend of mine outside the game. So I already have a connection with him on a deeper level.

Post merge, I definitely let the tribe lines decide the majority alliance that I have. I know it is frustrating to see the majority sticking together, but the tribe lines fall exactly how I wanted it to be. I have a good personnal connection with everyone in the Majority of 7 alliance, except maybe Zukiswa, because I feel like, Zukiswa and I are only connected by MJ. I wanted to align with you DJ as my one on one alliance outside of the majority but unfortunately, there were more pros of voting you out than keeping you, as I have said on my opening speech.

Evangelina: Is there anybody on the jury you would want to apologize to or an action of yours you want to defend? Explain in detail. 

Yes I do, in fact it is you and Cliftone. I am sorry to both of you that we weren't able to connect at the merge. And as I have said in my opening speech, I did not want to message you first if there is nothing I can offer. I don't want to be playing your emotions by giving you false hope. At that point the lines have been drawn, and if I try to connect with you I would just be giving myself a hard time voting you two out of the game. The majority of 7 is very beneficial to me, so at that point, my gameplay was just stick with the majority. Again I am sorry.

Els: Congrats guys!! I have the same question for all three of you, how did you use the unexpected aspects of this game (twists, summit, one world) to your advantage? Once again, congrats on f3!

With the summit and it's coins, I use the coins as a currency of trust. For me, allies are always better than advantages. I don't have any plans on collecting coins to purchase something on the shop, so instead of buying advantages I use the coins to buy trust and solidy my alliances. When I went to summit after winning the 2 star battle puzzle challenge, I told Dominique let's just distribute the coins equally to the remaining 5 members of the majority alliance. Because I wanted everyone in that alliance to feel that I value them equally, because I wanted that alliance to stick together. At Final 6 and 5, I gave all my coins to Clefford and Dominique, to show that I still trust them even though they have blindsided me with the Ava vote.

With the one world, I use it to get in touch with the people I know before the game, like you Els, Ava and, Clefford. Also I got to connect with MJ and Navi because of this twist.

Julia: This game was a fun thing to do, my moods waxed and waned with the games ups and downs. Thank you for the gift of time to play longer than expected and run with the, well... cubs...  As an old wolf, it was awesome, but now I rest. Good luck. What will you do with the (theoretical) Million $ and more importantly, what new thing did you learn about yourself?

What will I do with the (theoretical) Million $? I would treat myself a dinner because I deserve that. I will also tweet about me winning my first Survivor org and maybe even change my skype profile name to Ariel: Winner of Survivor Raccoon City. Lol. I'm sorry but bragging rights is the only real prize here.

What new thing did I learn about myself? I think the biggest thing I learned about myself is that I am good enough, and I don't need other people's validation. I don't know why, but believe me or not, the Ariel you all have been playing is so different from the Ariel last game I played. I was so insecure in my last game, I was so power hungry, I wanted all attention and when I was voted as the flipper of the season during a touchy subject challenge, I flip and give people what they want. I was chaotic and so insecure. This season, I learned to trust the people who trust me, I did not betray anyone out of no reason. I learned that other people's perception of me, is not necessarily the reality. I learned to accept that I am good enough and I am capable.

MJ: Your sincerity and truthfulness is one thing I loved while playing with you, you’ll always tell me (“MJ your existence in this game still scares me because I know what you’re capable of 😅”). Even though you seem not to have a CONVINCING GAME STRATEGY on how you played, your quest for winning every individual immunity challenge kept me on my toes and I must admit, that was admirable! 😊However Ariel, I felt like my unsuccessful attack on you at F7 brought you into the games lime-light 💡 and gave you a different ambience from the two others sitting next to you. Ariel can you tell me one thing you did before my attack on you at F7 that was distinctively different? Without mentioning your 2star battle win. Tell me a strategy you played before I launched that unsuccessful coup. I’ll be eager to hear from you.

The only thing I did before the "infamous attack", LOL, is managing my threat level via downplaying myself and playing an under the radar game (thus, I was voted as the sheep of the season and someone who doesn't deserve to be there), I waited for the right moment to blindside you (which didn't happen cause you blindside me first), and making sure I have enough allies to back me up for me to take you down. I know it wasn't much, trust me I wanted to do all the flashy things too, but I know if I do that, I would just be bringing myself to a lime light and people will start looking at me and I would have not make it here. So yes, while you were leading the pack on taking the minority down, I was preparing myself to take you down at the right moment.

Navi: What’s your go-to drink? Also any plans for the summer?

Can it be a non alcoholic drink? Because I don't drink alcohol anymmore. Anyway, my favorite drink would probably be, what we call in our native languange "butong" which means fresh coconut juice. Put some ice on it, and a little bit of condense milk, put some young coconut meat, aaaahhh refreshing!

Zukiswa: Ariel there are a few people that feel like you've played a great game. Tell me about the people that helped you play that game. Who played the biggest role in getting you to Final Three? Are any of them sitting next to you?

I have to say, MJ, Clefford and Dominique. Me and Dominique were working together since the first round. Clefford and I were working together since tribe swap, and again were friends outside of this game. And I put them two together to take out, my meat shield this entire game, which was MJ. I think Clefford played the biggest role in getting me here, by using Clefford as my informant as a double ageant, that's why we played the idol on Dominique, cause we know y'all are voting her instead of me. Using Clefford as informant, I made sure that myself, Dominique my alliance since round one, and Clefford my ride or die, would be sitting here in the final tribal council.

Clefford:

Ava: You were voted by some of us jury members in the touchy subjects challenge as THINKING you ran the game while MJ was voted as actually RUNNING the game. I'd like to hear why you would believe to be the person who took charge/was running the game. Why do you deserve the win over the others? What specific moves throughout the games may help your case that maybe not everyone knows about? There were moments in the game where it felt like you were scrambling while other players, specifically the ones sitting with you at FTC, were not. (specifically referencing the tribal council that was invisible/i got voted out at). Is this a true statement? Did you feel scrambled at other occasions? 

Hello, Ava! The thing is, I believed that I was the one running the game. It’s just in your eyes, it’s all about MJ. Let me put it this way, imagine MJ as the face of the group in our alliance with Zuki. Having votes in every Tribal Councils pre-merge, I couldn’t afford to be seen as a threat, because look, all the threats in this game are now out. As much as possible, I tried to keep all the threats longer, Ava, Julia, and MJ to keep them busy targeting each others.

I think I really deserved the win, because I have a pretty good arc from pre-merge to merge and at the critical moment of my game, Final 5, where I made a huge move on eliminating my Day 1 alliance, Zuki and MJ. I can’t sit with them at FTC, because all eyes are on MJ.

I also took charge in eliminating other alliance, so that my alliances will dominate this game. Navi and Evan; Ava, Adeline, and Els; MJ and DJ. And lastly, my alliance with MJ and Zuki and go witht he alliance who I think I have more chance of winning this game.

And yes, there were moments in the game where you guys see me scrambling, but that’s very Oscar awardee of me. To tell you the truth, I play and emotional strategic game. And kudos to Jinx for the only one who realized this. I use my emotions to get to the good side of others and use it as strategy to advanced in this game. This statement and emoji will summarize this: “I’m scared. I think they’re voting for me. Please don’t vote for me. 🥺”

I feel like if we’re talking about outplaying, outwitting, and outlasting everyone, I’m pretty sure I did all that. Managing my threat level from pre-merge and merge, using all the 4 advantages that I brought in very useful way, and keeping all the threats in the game longer to keep them busy and then eliminating all of them in the right moment.

Cliftone: What is THE biggest move you made throughout the entire game? (can be known by all but I would prefer something that’s “your little secret”) And how do you think that decision got you to this moment?

The biggest move that I made was eliminating my Day 1 alliance with Zuki and MJ. Sitting with them in FTC will be difficult for me. You may say that I can separate my game with the two of them, but as I said, it would be difficult because all eyes are on MJ. Secretly eliminating Zuki was hard and organizing this move by myself. Imagine myself in a call with the two of them creating plan to vote Dom and Ariel. I lied to their faces. And then Zuki’s out without any visible blood on my hands. To complete this move, I then eliminate MJ and go with Ariel and Dom. That I believe the biggest move that I made and the word “secret” fits perfectly.

DJ: Did you let the tribal lines and luck decide your alliances or did you choose your allies deliberately? If you did make a strategical choice to align with and be loyal with (to any extent) someone outside of your tribemates, who was it and why did you choose to make an alliance with them?

I chose my allies deliberately. Creating an alliance with MJ and Zuki was the best because we dominated this game. I chose them because I know that they will protect and norture me. Being the three POC in the Umbrella Tribe, I know that we have each others’ back and will stick together on moving forward.

Ariel is a friend outside of this game. He was actually the one who invited me to join this ORG. So being separate in different tribe was good for us to secretly work together and get intel from our alliances. We tried to keep it low-key so that others will not suspect that we’re working together.

I was almost got voted out in this game in Golgotha Tribe. But luckily, Dominique saved me. And I know because of that, I can trust her. So I created an alliance with the both of them.

Els: Congrats guys!! I have the same question for all three of you, how did you use the unexpected aspects of this game (twists, summit, one world) to your advantage? Once again, congrats on f3!

SUMMIT – The moment that I realized the function of The Summit, I immediately told MJ and Zuki that we should control all of the coins. Being one of the first summit leader, I managed to create a one-on-one alliance with you Els by giving you 4 coins to prove it and 3 coins for me and Jinx. Remember when I told you and Jinx that we got 3 coins each and there’s come a quiz with Raffy on whoever gets the correct answer get the 1 coin left. I play this game from start to finish.

ONE WORLD – At first, I thought One World was just like having lots of messages from different people. But, I realized that I can use this to know where were the votes will go. Like telling people that I’m scared and I think it’s me, and then they’ll tell me that you’re not. I managed to know where were everyone’s heads and who works with who.

TWISTS – These were messy, but I also managed to think smarter and used this to advanced. With Joint Tribal Council in Round 3, I told Umbrella Tribe that we should play this particular challenge by Betraying and also told Els to do the same. In Mutiny, Ava gone to Tyrant and Jinx to Golgotha was very blurred for me. But I used my emotions to let people see me in my tribe that I’m weak and needed protection. For Pairs Twist, I used this as advantage to save Julia and win the immunity challenge.

Evangelina: Is there anybody on the jury you would want to apologize to or an action of yours you want to defend? Explain in detail. 

Many. To Els for voting for you. I was really sad that I did that, because I really wanted to work with you. To Ava, I’m so sorry. You were so nice to me. And to Zuki and MJ, guys, please understand me. I really value the friendship that we created, but for me to win this game, I had to eliminate both of you. Please understand. To be honest, I really expect you guys to vote for me. I’m really counting on you two. I’m so sorry. Please.

Julia: This game was a fun thing to do, my moods waxed and waned with the games ups and downs. Thank you for the gift of time to play longer than expected and run with the, well... cubs...  As an old wolf, it was awesome, but now I rest. Good luck. What will you do with the (theoretical) Million $ and more importantly, what new thing did you learn about yourself?

Hello, Julia! Please believe me now I tried to work with you and protect you. I always say that to you. Okay, I learned many things in this game. First, I can really connect with people from around the world in different ages and walks of like. With different craziness that put upon us in this game, I realized that whatever people show in front of us, we have to figure it out and use it in our advantage in moving forward.

MJ: My day 1 alliance 😅 I told Zukiswa from the very first day that we shouldn’t trust you totally, but we fell in love with your innocence along the line. We pampered you, protected you, nurtured you and saw you happy. My happiest moment with you was when i took you a 23mins long tutorial before the final challenge about our knowledge about the game, and I was genuinely happy you won your first & only individual immunity. Clefford, what I wish you knew was that, Eliminating MJ would never have made her strategies, credits, points, and game success transferable to you 😊 our games were distinctly different and would never be mistaken for each other. That being said, Zuki said (inferring from her question to you) that she’ll give you her vote so you can learn what trust and unity means. My question is; Clefford,  Do you think MJ will vote for you??? Answer Yes or No. and give a short reason to back up your answer.

You will vote for me. We’ve been together in this game from start to the point that I had to eliminate you and have more chance to win this game. Understand me please. Vote for me. I really count on you.

Navi: What’s your go-to drink? Also any plans for the summer?

Hello, Navi! I apologized that we haven’t really got to talk more, but I still remember our conversations. Okay. I’m poor so I don’t really have may options for go-to drink. I only buy a probiotic drink Delight or nutritious juice drink Zest-O apple. Both healthy, because my health is really weak. Hahaha!

I spend most of my time watching films, TV series, and reality shows. I’m always at home. Have no social life. But I have new motto, “Life is short and the world is wide.” So I hope that I can be an outdoor person this summer.

Zukiswa: Clefford...you've been a bad bad boy! I leave you for one round of the game and you do this! I get it though, I understand...self preservation and all. I told you I would never flip on you and here I am keeping my word. Let's see if you win because I'm telling you now, you have my vote. Here is my question...tell the jury how YOU in particular made it this far. How you survived Umbrella and how you got to merge...and then tell us what you had to do to get to Final Three.

Zuki! Huhuhu! I’m so sorry. I got this far because I play hard. Not really showy, but discreetly. Also, having you and MJ with me is one of the reason. I had a pretty good position going to F3 even if we’re still at F5, but I had to think bigger to win this so I eliminate you and MJ. Thank you so much, Zuki. I’m really counting on yours and MU’s votes. To be honest.

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Dom:

Cliftone: What is THE biggest move you made throughout the entire game? (can be known by all but I would prefer something that’s “your little secret”) And how do you think that decision got you to this moment?

For me, I had a lot of ideas in this game but wasn't sure how to execute them. I had to really make sure the votes landed in my favor but also made sure that I passed off votes as others thoughts and actions as well to take the target off of me. Jinx and Tony to state a few. And some didn't work out like at the time I planned like DJ and Julia. But this was how I kept the target off of my back and it worked because this is where I sit.

DJ: Did you let the tribal lines and luck decide your alliances or did you choose your allies deliberately? If you did make a strategical choice to align with and be loyal with (to any extent) someone outside of your tribemates, who was it and why did you choose to make an alliance with them? 

Tribal lines did play a huge part in who I aligned with but definitely didn't hold me back when it came to merge and later in the game. My alliance and I picked up and dropped who we had t along the way. My original alliance was Ariel and Adeline, nearly day one. Then adeline was aligning with Els and Ava, therefore dropped from the alliance. Clefford was added and we worked with Zuki and to an extent, you DJ, along the way. Having tribes definitely helped make alliances but it didn't last forever.

Evangelina: Is there anybody on the jury you would want to apologize to or an action of yours you want to defend? Explain in detail. 

I don't feel that there is anyone I need to apologize to. But I do want to say this. Julia and Zukiswa are both my favorite people in this game and they had a great run and played it well. For me, it was always I need to get them out before they get me, as I felt they were just that good. I'm thankful for both of them and absolutely love them both.

Els: Congrats guys!! I have the same question for all three of you, how did you use the unexpected aspects of this game (twists, summit, one world) to your advantage? Once again, congrats on f3!

These twists and gameplay were unlike any other. Through one world, I was able to meet a few people but I think most notable for me was Zuki. Through the coins, as stated earlier, I was able to obtain enough to buy an immunity idol. Thank you Ariel. I secured this through trust and loyalty. I was also able to give my coins to whomever I wanted and that was really helpful as well because if there was something one of us needed we were able to secure the coins to do so through this.

Julia: This game was a fun thing to do, my moods waxed and waned with the games ups and downs. Thank you for the gift of time to play longer than expected and run with the, well... cubs...  As an old wolf, it was awesome, but now I rest. Good luck. What will you do with the (theoretical) Million $ and more importantly, what new thing did you learn about yourself?

hmmm, theoretical million dollars. I think I would pay off some debt, send my sister through college, and honestly travel the world. I love traveling and have a few vacations planned but I've never been overseas. That is something I've always wanted to do.

MJ: Dom, I think you played the weakest game so far and your game lacked passion.I’m sorry to point, but please how can you explain YOUR PASSION for this game after scoring 7 in that “Trivia question” challenge, it was about your simple knowledge and passion for the game.  - How did you miss knowing who got voted out during the mutiny twist? - How did you miss knowing the first person that was voted out and not removed? - How did you miss knowing who got voted out during the pairs twist? - How did you miss tyrant tribe trailer’s title ?😳 I know you obviously didn’t get all as incorrect, but the result showed you only scored 7 out of about 22/33 points. That wasn’t about intelligence, it was an obvious show of your LACK OF PASSION! You weren’t following with your heart. You only wanted to win. And that’s not how to win! Passion brings in the strategy, and since your time in BSAA until when I left you at the final four, you were only a wave that followed the wind.Still talking about your lack of passion Dom, you were nonchalant about those games & challenges and only depended on the immunity idol you shopped by luck. Even though, Ariel also played a soft game, unlike you he HUSTLED  for those individual immunity idols! You never did. The day we played the “hand on the hard idol”, Dom you never attempted it 😅 because you had a lucky idol? What if you attempted it and won, then gave your idol to Ariel, wouldn’t it have been an easy access to take me out? Considering I had used my 30coins immunity in the previous round and I only had a “winning the challenge” backup for F5. I only won for that round because people like you refused to push! You were extremely relaxed and was only focused on your lucky idol.To cut my story short Dom, With reference to the “Trivia questions challenge”, please explain how you actually played this game with your heart and deserves the winner spot. 

For a lack of better words, you are believing the lies you have been told. Clefford gave Ariel his idol, while ariel supplied me coins to get the idol I had. Unlike some, I deal with A LOT of outside factors and just so happened to have one going on at the moment that involved court dates. There are certain things I couldn't play to my liking, like the trivia challenge. My passion of the game will never lack, as I've watched, known, love, live, breathe survivor since I was a child. My passion and drive to play the game never lacked as I chose to play a very behind the scenes game with truth and honesty, opposed to upfront which is a license to be voted out. It wasn't that I didn't attempt the challenge, it was that I didn't have a good chunk of time to even complete it. Not sure if you know, but I'm the head of my store and work sometimes from 9-12:30, then back up at 9. Clearly my few words of choice allowed you to be deceived and vote me instead of ariel. Clefford, Ariel, and I were in an alliance since before the merge and the plan stuck. I think that speaks to all 3 of us and where we made it today. I'm not sure that you actually have a point here, besides trying to tear into me for no reason but I hope this answers your question.

Navi: What’s your go-to drink? Also any plans for the summer?

I love exploring and trying a good beer. But also every place I end up going to, I always try their house made margaritas to see who has the best.

Zukiswa: You have been one of my favorite people in this game. You may not know this but I've steered the vote away from you a number of times. I valued that you helped me keep Clefford after the Trio challange. Now Im sure you wish you hadnt 🤣🤣. You have been a straight, up front and honest person in this game, to me atleast. I respect you Dom. I hope Raffy and them make you answer my question last. Tell us something you haven't been asked that you wish we knew about how great your game was. Good luck!

Zuki! You are easily one of my favorite people in this game. Your gameplay and strategy carried you and me both as far as you and I have gone. Thank you! Honestly, I haven't made a bunch of up front, big time moves purposefully. I could have, and it would've involved betrayal, which is why I didn't.  Honesty and trust can go a long way and will carry you to the end if you play your cards right. I could've betrayed so many, but didn't. I think the tipping point for me was with Jinx and Julia and not knowing which way to vote or to lean but in the end came out on top as I was the deciding factor in those votes. Man that tribal was wild. Anyway, You're amazing Zuki! Much love to you!

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This concludes the discussion portion of FTC. The power now shifts to the jury. Jury, you will have until 5 PM EST tomorrow July 5th to vote for the winner in your host chat. 

You will be voting for who you want to win this game and be crowned Sole Survivor. Please leave a voting message with your vote. It is the last one, so make it count!

Final Tribal Council - Jury Questions

Here are the jury questions to be answered by the finalists. Finalists, please answer these questions in your host chat. Make sure to specify which question you answer. Please answer them all in a timely manner. You will have until 6 PM EST July 4th to do this. 

Ava: 

For Clefford: You were voted by some of us jury members in the touchy subjects challenge as THINKING you ran the game while MJ was voted as actually RUNNING the game. I'd like to hear why you would believe to be the person who took charge/was running the game. Why do you deserve the win over the others? What specific moves throughout the games may help your case that maybe not everyone knows about? There were moments in the game where it felt like you were scrambling while other players, specifically the ones sitting with you at FTC, were not. (specifically referencing the tribal council that was invisible/i got voted out at). Is this a true statement? Did you feel scrambled at other occasions? 

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Cliftone: 

For everyone: What is THE biggest move you made throughout the entire game? (can be known by all but I would prefer something that’s “your little secret”) And how do you think that decision got you to this moment?

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DJ:

For everyone: Did you let the tribal lines and luck decide your alliances or did you choose your allies deliberately? If you did make a strategical choice to align with and be loyal with (to any extent) someone outside of your tribemates, who was it and why did you choose to make an alliance with them? 

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Els: 

For everyone: Congrats guys!! I have the same question for all three of you, how did you use the unexpected aspects of this game (twists, summit, one world) to your advantage? Once again, congrats on f3!

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Evangelina: 

For everyone: Is there anybody on the jury you would want to apologize to or an action of yours you want to defend? Explain in detail. 

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Julia: 

For everyone: This game was a fun thing to do, my moods waxed and waned with the games ups and downs. Thank you for the gift of time to play longer than expected and run with the, well... cubs...  As an old wolf, it was awesome, but now I rest. Good luck. What will you do with the (theoretical) Million $ and more importantly, what new thing did you learn about yourself?

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MJ:

For Ariel: Your sincerity and truthfulness is one thing I loved while playing with you, you’ll always tell me (“MJ your existence in this game still scares me because I know what you’re capable of 😅”). Even though you seem not to have a CONVINCING GAME STRATEGY on how you played, your quest for winning every individual immunity challenge kept me on my toes and I must admit, that was admirable! 😊However Ariel, I felt like my unsuccessful attack on you at F7 brought you into the games lime-light 💡 and gave you a different ambience from the two others sitting next to you. Ariel can you tell me one thing you did before my attack on you at F7 that was distinctively different? Without mentioning your 2star battle win. Tell me a strategy you played before I launched that unsuccessful coup. I’ll be eager to hear from you.

For Clefford: My day 1 alliance 😅 I told Zukiswa from the very first day that we shouldn’t trust you totally, but we fell in love with your innocence along the line. We pampered you, protected you, nurtured you and saw you happy. My happiest moment with you was when i took you a 23mins long tutorial before the final challenge about our knowledge about the game, and I was genuinely happy you won your first & only individual immunity. Clefford, what I wish you knew was that, Eliminating MJ would never have made her strategies, credits, points, and game success transferable to you 😊 our games were distinctly different and would never be mistaken for each other. That being said, Zuki said (inferring from her question to you) that she’ll give you her vote so you can learn what trust and unity means. My question is; Clefford,  Do you think MJ will vote for you??? Answer Yes or No. and give a short reason to back up your answer.

For Dom: Dom, I think you played the weakest game so far and your game lacked passion.I’m sorry to point, but please how can you explain YOUR PASSION for this game after scoring 7 in that “Trivia question” challenge, it was about your simple knowledge and passion for the game.  

- How did you miss knowing who got voted out during the mutiny twist? - How did you miss knowing the first person that was voted out and not removed? - How did you miss knowing who got voted out during the pairs twist? - How did you miss tyrant tribe trailer’s title ?😳 

I know you obviously didn’t get all as incorrect, but the result showed you only scored 7 out of about 22/33 points. That wasn’t about intelligence, it was an obvious show of your LACK OF PASSION! You weren’t following with your heart. You only wanted to win. And that’s not how to win! Passion brings in the strategy, and since your time in BSAA until when I left you at the final four, you were only a wave that followed the wind.Still talking about your lack of passion Dom, you were nonchalant about those games & challenges and only depended on the immunity idol you shopped by luck. Even though, Ariel also played a soft game, unlike you he HUSTLED  for those individual immunity idols! You never did. The day we played the “hand on the hard idol”, Dom you never attempted it 😅 because you had a lucky idol? What if you attempted it and won, then gave your idol to Ariel, wouldn’t it have been an easy access to take me out? Considering I had used my 30coins immunity in the previous round and I only had a “winning the challenge” backup for F5. I only won for that round because people like you refused to push! You were extremely relaxed and was only focused on your lucky idol.To cut my story short Dom, With reference to the “Trivia questions challenge”, please explain how you actually played this game with your heart and deserves the winner spot. 

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Navi:

For everyone: What’s your go-to drink? Also any plans for the summer?

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Zukiswa:

For Ariel: Ariel there are a few people that feel like you've played a great game. Tell me about the people that helped you play that game. Who played the biggest role in getting you to Final Three? Are any of them sitting next to you?

For Clefford: Clefford...you've been a bad bad boy! I leave you for one round of the game and you do this! I get it though, I understand...self preservation and all. I told you I would never flip on you and here I am keeping my word. Let's see if you win because I'm telling you now, you have my vote. Here is my question...tell the jury how YOU in particular made it this far. How you survived Umbrella and how you got to merge...and then tell us what you had to do to get to Final Three.

For Dom: You have been one of my favorite people in this game. You may not know this but I've steered the vote away from you a number of times. I valued that you helped me keep Clefford after the Trio challange. Now Im sure you wish you hadnt 🤣🤣. You have been a straight, up front and honest person in this game, to me atleast. I respect you Dom. I hope Raffy and them make you answer my question last. Tell us something you haven't been asked that you wish we knew about how great your game was. Good luck!