Thanks Alois. I think I got trapped in the Lorenz whirlwind and after the round where he got idol'd (gosh why did that happen?) I should have just declared the relationship dead in my mind and not tried to work with him. Aaaahhh hindsight.
Also I had too many new people to meet at the merge and not enough time/energy/charisma. (I think that I missed an opportunity to do more tea-partying etc.)
I am glad that I played this game because I had fun with a lot of people here (Annette, Dimitri, Edelgard, Shamir are the standouts), but apart from the ego blow that it is to be 12th (ugh), I'm actually sort of relieved to be out. I hated needing to use it as an excuse all the time but it really was a struggle to play the game properly alongside life commitments. Usually I manage it better than I did here, but for some reason I just couldn't make it work as well in this game.
I hope Dimitri, Edelgard and Shamir do well.
I expressed it in my confessional, but I do think Petra's messaging is quite annoying and I'm especially irritated that Annette asking her to tone it down caused her to be voted out. It is the sort of messaging style that I think would be more difficult to make sense of for anyone less familiar with English language, and so to take issue with being asked to change it feels absurd to me.
For as long as I can last, I will resist the temptation of confessional access, just because I think it will be more satisfying for me to wait until the full reveal and savour everything then. We'll see how that goes!
