You guys spent ~1500? That's a lot more than just one person, I think you're being a bit optimistic there.

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Our interaction may have only been brief, but even from our 2 PMs each, I knew that you were a real player, someone who was thinking deeply about the game! From what I heard, you managed to have both people who felt threatened by you, and people who were intensely loyal to you. When that's the case, only a small difference of the numbers can make the difference between being a pre-merge boot and winning the game. And certainly, in other circumstanes, you may well have been sitting here writing a torchwalk for me!

on the firsst month of christmas my true love gave to me

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Klaus, you were so entertaining! And I think it's a disgrace that none of the Ivanhoe peeps got to experience your puns and fun attitude. You had this way of taking any ridiculous conversation topic and just rolling with it, and obviously me being me, queen of awkward conversation, I very much appreciated it. I seriously think you would have had such a knack for the social game if only you were around more often, and perhaps that was part of why I felt threatened by you!

In any case, it was a pleasure being your little helper, and I hope you're keeping warm up at the North Pole.

then there's less active peoples like you (no offense) and max, don't *dislike* em' but there's not much else to like really, see what i mean?

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You actually are one of my fondest memories from my awkward start to the game, in large part because I was especially awkward with you for some reason, and I feel like we together baked this cake of awkwardness! From the random rhyming that neither of us actually wanted to do, to the game talk that was just a little too honest, looking back it was all rather fun. I still have no idea which Rushmore faction you would have ended up in had you stayed in the game, because even at that point, me vs. Foxy was inevitably going to come to a head. However, as I said in my confessional, I still like to think that there was some potential there.There was a kindness to you that I really appreciated.

Chapter 14


So I go between two main states of mind/moods.

Mood number one:

"OMG OMG OMG what have I done? Why did I do that? What on earth was I thinking? MARGOT DIDN'T DESERVE THIS! THEY'RE ALL GOING TO VOTE ME OUT NEXT OR MAYBE EVEN RIGHT NOW AND THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE TO FACE THE PRODUCERS WHO WILL ALL BE LIKE WTFF AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

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Mood number two:

"F the haters! I did what I wanted to do and I feel EMPOWERED! Nothing can stop me. I will make all the friends! I am INVINCIBLE"

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As you can see, this is quite a bit of emotional whiplash going on.

I think most of all I just had to get out of that situation where I felt like I needed to play my game in the best interests of Margot and Richie. Richie has this way of asserting what he thinks is the best plan in a way where he (probably accidentally) discourages disagreement. Even his response to my vote on Margot is starting off with the assumption that I my feelings of needing to separate my game from his and Margot's are not valid and must have been an idea that someone else put into my head.

Ultimately, effectively "saving" Oracle by doing a move with Suzy was the best way I could think of building connection with Oracle and Suzy, leaving me with options outside of Richie and Margot at the end. If my attempts at building that connection with Oracle and Suzy didn't work, then they didn't work. But if I had just voted with Margot and Richie then to them I'm still part of the Margot/Richie club and there's no reason for them to see me in a different light.

Chapter 12


It will likely be a Royal vote this round, with everyone saying that to me, even though I have told both Suzy and Margot that I'm worried about Richie (even after them knowing about the rings) and even after having hinted to Oracle and Gustave that I could at some point be down for a move.

What I need to work out is what my chances are like if I make it to the end. After the bloodrush of surviving the F10 tie vote and being targeted in the round following I thought that just getting to the end might be enough, but now I'm not as sure.
If I make it to the end with Richie, can he claim that the rings was his ingenious move to procure my fealty?
If I make it to the end with Margot, can she claim that she was just the bigger threat in our duo?

I need to be so careful though. If I confidently strut to the end with the threats, confident in my own game and say pretty words at the finale, I feel like I could win this.
If I show doubt in my own game by attempting to make a move and failing, then that's a bad look.

But, if I somehow were able to use Gustave and Oracle to eliminate Margot and Richie whilst also making it to the end myself, now that would be flash, I think. But can I do that? How do I do that?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Chapter 10


I made it! How long I will remain in the game for, who knows??

Also I'm now very scared about the possibility that I exceeded my half hour and will look like I was throwing the challenge when I wasn't. Aaahhh!

Anyway, there were supposed to be 2 people changing their votes to Young Writer, Oracle and Suzy, BUT there were still 3 votes for me on the tiebreak. The rumour going around is that Royal flipped to vote for ME, but that does seem a bit bizarre and so I treat such rumours with skepticism. Particularly since I just outright asked Royal if he voted for me and he said no... I shall get to the bottom of it! I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Oracle actually kept his vote on me and wants to blame it on Royal so that he can try and turn me against Royal. It wouldn't be the most nonsensical thing that's happened this game.

Meanwhile Oracle talked almost the entire revote period about how there was going to be some big explanation coming about why he voted for me, and this is what he posts...


Is it just me or do all these words say almost nothing at all?

On the topic of words, Richie sent me this PM (and trust me, my preceding PM to him was about 1/8 of the size)


This is clearly also a lot of words, but at least there is one clear message.

And I know how to play Richie's games. The only rational response was this:


(there was more to my PM but it was all boring stuff)

Overall I am tired of these boys and their immature romps! Richie and his excuses, Oracle and his "oh that round was so hard for me!"


Trying to argue that attempting to blindside me is a "funny way of showing" his trust in me is a laugh.
And I don't doubt that he went through a hard time last round, but he was the silly pug that voted for me GOSH! It's not my fault he went and did that.

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Also they had the chance to get me out whilst I was desperately clutching foxy's tail and they didn't take it. Well time for me to show them!

(What I will show them, I don't know)

(Good heavens! I will be keeping my clothes ON, thank you very much)