The Many Confessions of Mr. Marty

[Marty]

Why hello, hello everybody! Mr. Marty here and I'm just fired up for this game so far. Truth be told, I'm actually pretty shocked that we managed to pull off the win, but I'm not one to complain, so it's absolutely awesome. Nobody really seems fully sure of what to make of this whole Temple twist and everything, but from what I can tell the general assumption is that it's full of stuff like Hidden Immunity Idol clues, or vote blockers, or something like that.



I'll talk a bit more about this in my first impressions below, but I've found myself in a lovely little alliance that seems to have been nicknamed "The Fabulous Four" with Andrea, Tyson, and Lindsey! Now, this is actually pretty awesome because I like all 3 of them, but since this is a tribe of 9 and not 8 or less, I've been kind of thinking we should see about maybe a possible 5th vote.



First Impressions:





Andrea: I really like her, to make it simple. I just feel like we clicked right away and a lot of the time we seem to have the same ideas. She seems like a smart one, and somebody good to have around.



Chris: Chris seems like a decent all around guy, and he was the first person who did up the whole schedule system that helped us a bunch with the challenge. He comes across as a bit close to Joe though, and Tyson had the same thought.



Joe: After yesterday, it seems like he REALLY doesn't like Sonja because of challenge stuff. He's a bit quiet, but alright. Also, seems kinda close to Chris maybe.



Lindsey: Simply put, Lindsey's awesome. She's one of the first two people I started to gel with and I'm glad we're looking to be on the same side instead of on opposite sides. She has her opinions for sure, but I think she's a little more calm on them than say, Andrea sometimes might be.



Malcolm: I don't really have much to say on Malcolm. I mean...he did part of the challenge on his own, which was nice. I've never spoken to him though, since he hasn't sent me a PM, talked to me on AIM, or even responded to the couple of IM's I sent to him.



So: So seems kind of all right. Like, to me she doesn't really stand out overly one way or another and seems kind of level-headed, which is good. Apparently she and Andrea were talking late Thursday night after everybody went to bed, so maybe she could be a possibe 5th.



Sonja: Sonja, Sonja, Sonja. I don't even know what she's thinking. We were doing Crate 40 in the challenge, and Sonja comes on and starts trying to monopolize the chat and the challenge and starts talking to us like we're 6. She made us go and redo Crate 38 like 5 times before we could move on and tried to take credit for the schedule system Chris made, and Andrea used while he was away. I tried saying we were just wasting time with it, but she just kept harrassing about "Crate 38" this and "Crate 38" that, and kept posting on it in the board so we'd have to do it. It got so bad that Andrea and Joe wanted to keep Malcolm over her if we lost. And I can't really blame them.



Tyson: Tyson is actually the first person I talked to in this game, and we started just bonding over Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and stuff like that. I pretty much think I want him to be my right hand man in this game (at least as things stand now), but I just want to make sure I'm not jumping the gun on things by thinking that first.

[Marty]

Episode 2: Putting the "Fun" in "Dysfunctional"




I took one look at the results thread and nearly fell out of my seat. Like, we screwed up so much and were so hectic and unorganized with this whole damn challenge that I thought there was no possible way we didn't lose. Instead, my jaw hit the damn floor and I was all "Yo, wait wait wait, WHAT?" in the best possible way. I gotta say though, this round, this crazy freaking round. Sonja went and was all "Sonja" again after Joe set up a bunch of stuff for the challenge in an obvious attempt to get us to send him to the Temple. So, Sonja being herself goes and does a bunch of other stuff without being asked, tries to take over the challenge, and probably was trying to get HERSELF sent there instead. Like sure, I'm fine with things being made easier for me (and that's not what's bothering me here), but nobody asked them to do it, so I don't really feel in debt for it. Plus, I'm pretty sure Sonja did more harm than good.



She even went and started a fight on the board with Todd and later Brandon from the other tribe too for who the hell knows what reason. Then when we somehow win, she goes on to me about how she knew she could help make sure we won. I don't even really know what to make of her at this point. Tyson was talking to me and mentioned how Chris and Joe were talking to him about the idea of having an all-guys alliance with him and I in it, and Chris came to me shortly after talking about it. I agreed of course, but I'm not really sold on the whole idea. Something about Joe kind of seems off to me, and while I'd like to keep Chris around a bit without Joe, he seems a bit paranoid sometimes (it sort of reminds me of Hayden from S1, but it doesn't really matter to me).



Another amazing thing happened though. So actually showed up again after disappearing for 3 days! It turns out that she lost internet for a couple of days and had to try and use local wireless spots to sign on. Andrea and I were were kind of getting worried that we'd have to look at either Malcolm, who's in a different timezone and is very rarely on AIM (and even then, only in the tribe chat), or Sonja (who's pretty unstable and probably the last choice anyone would want) for an additional vote. But with her being back, you could say I'm "So relieved" to see her. I'm hoping she's here to stay and that she'll help me move forward. I still haven't voted in the Temple poll yet though because I want to converse with Lindsey and Tyson on which of us to send. Now...I'm not saying I'm incredibly tempted to vote for myself but...I mean if one of us has to go there and Lindsey already went, well...why not?

[Marty]

Well, going off of Tyson seeming kind of bummed a little for the past 2 nights, it looks like we messed stuff up and Joe went off to the Temple. I don't really know what stuff he saw in there, or what if any impact it's going to have on the challenge. Even though he's sitting out, I got to talk to Malcolm for a little bit and even though he was invisible (seriously, that's irritating and bugs the crap out of me when people do it), it was nice to know that he's actually around and going to be more active in the social part of it.

So offered to sit out if nobody else wanted to, and Andrea asked me on if we should ask Sonja to sit out the challenge because she seems to do more harm than good at times and isn't really the most self-aware person in the world. It's whatever as far as ideas go since if we win then we'll still have a lead even if she messes us up, and if we lose we can probably just vote her out. That being said though, I seem to always either catch Lindsey either when she's about to leave or at a time where she just seems to let conversations drop. Now, I don't know if she's got something going on in real life or not, but it sometimes makes it hard to reach her.

What's important now though is just that we all get focused as a team for the challenge. And you know, that everybody actually freaking gets on the same page for that Temple vote so we don't mess ourselves up.

[Marty]

Me after that challenge:

[Marty]

Episode 3: Stuff is Messed Up


There's a lot that I could say about that past Immunity Challenge...but I won't, so I'll just leave that part at that.

Everybody seems to be thinking of So for the vote, and she didn't help things for herself by kind of sounding like she was giving up when she came on. I'm irked that Lindsey got so super over the top about the possibility of So knowing who she is. Like I told Andrea, it'd be different if she just didn't like it because she thought that "isn't So's secret to tell" because then okay, I kinda get it. It's more like she thinks that she'll be instantly targeted by everyone if her alias gets exposed, which just seems weird to me.

Malcolm was talking earlier and seems to be trying really hard to save himself and stay in the game, which I can totally respect. The thing is though, I'm not sure if he's trying to make a solid alliance or just offering alliances to everyone. He said he got along with me and wanted to work with me, and said the same to Andrea. However, he also told her he was all "Team Joe", which means he wants to work with Chris too, and he wants to work with Sonja. If he's trying to like bridge Joe and Sonja together so they wind up working with each other, that could be really bad and isn't something I want. Plus, I don't fully trust Joe (at least not at the moment). He said that in the Temple he had the opportunity at a Double Vote power for a Tribal Council, but that he didn't take it. There might have been one sure, but I kind of doubt he didn't take it. Either way, I have to try and keep an eye on things and my options down the line.

[Marty]

Round 4: Clusterfucked

(Sorry about not doing a confessional for the past couple of days. I meant to, but something kept coming up)

Things are going absolutely crazy right about now. Like ever since the swap I've been having to nonstop talk to people so much that at one point I was thinking "shit, the viewers are gonna think I bailed and went inactive". At first I was upset about not getting sent to Temple, but that feels like forever and a day ago considering everything that's gone down. The tribes get swapped, and Andrea and I wind up on the same tribe as Joe and Sonja. Sonja winds up as the leader and tells me she "picked all her swap choices with random.org", which might actually be true seeing as Joe's on this tribe too. Chris wound up on Exile from the whole thing too.

I went and talked to Joe a bit, and he told me that he'd played with Chris and Brandon before and that Brandon and Chris knew each other outside of the game. He also said that he didn't think Brandon knew who he was, but it's obviously a bit suspicious. Talking about suspicious, Joe goes and takes like 20 or 25 minutes longer than anybody on the challenge, making us lose. Us losing of course, puts Joe's close ally Chris on the same tribe as us. He then goes and targets Sonja saying that she fucked up the challenge and was hell to try and deal with and that everybody agrees. The thing is though...he's the ONLY one that said they had a problem with Sonja during the challenge. Chris just avoided the subject of it, and everybody else said they were fine. Like, I apologize if he legit didn't intend it, but it just comes across as Joe being arrogant and being like "I can throw a challenge to replace Sonja with Chris just because I feel like it".

Initially, I was going to have me, Andrea, and Sonja vote Brandon to get a Huyi out and weaken Joe, but then it was like "maybe we should get Joe out", then it was like "maybe we should just let Sonja go". It was like going from a shitstorm to a storm of shit and just getting so frustrated at having everything get all shot up.



It's just a giant mess and I'm so glad that I talked to RC and PG, and they both think Joe threw it too. Andrea feels liike we're taking a giant risk no matter what we do, but she feels like she trusts RC and PG more than Joe and Chris. Now, I know I want a guy to win the season as much as the next person, but that's because of the obvious fact that you know, I'M a guy and want "that guy who wins" to be me. Right now, it's looking like Joe's going to go and a couple of people are going to be surprised. Unless of course, something weird happens. Then, well...I'll either be the one shocked. Or going for speaking up.

[Marty]

Round 5: Ticking Bombs

I've gotta say, the moment I saw what the challenge was and that it was speed based, I figured somebody would go and have things instantly setup to get a crapton of balls. Of course, it's exactly what happened and RC wound up winning. I was hoping it'd be some sort of Tribal Immunity challenge though...even though from the moment it was listed as "Focus" I knew it was going to be individual and it'd be a Double TC. Tyson winning on the other tribe's awesome, but I kind of worry about Lindsey and even Malcolm a bit. My initial plan was to hope that Chris would be okay, calm down, and realize that Joe going was Joe's fault, had to do with Joe, and didn't directly mess up Chris's position as much as he'd initially think.

HOWEVER, that didn't happen and while I was talking to Chris about "not giving up" and "never knowing what'll happen", with the intent of voting out Brandon to keep original tribal lines from becoming a little bit scary once merge hits, he was throwing me under the bus to RC. This was while he was telling me he didn't want to rustle, ruffle, or hustle any feathers which is absolutely ridiculous. Like all he would've had to do would've been to try and suggest Sonja, or Brandon as a vote to other people (at least at first), tell me we were still good, and wait for me to try and work things out...but he didn't. I get being pissed at me for breaking what he thought was an alliance with him and Joe, but they kept starting things. Hell, I tried to work things out with him even despite the Joe vote and the fallout from it by reaching out and genuinely wanting to work with him without having Joe around, but he tried to use it against me.

He's even gone to (apparently) making stuff up about Brandon to RC to try and use it against me, and been pushing to PG that he doesn't trust me. Sure, I can get where he's coming from, but I really feel like his and Joe's actions from after the swap towards Sonja were just purely emotional and not rational. Like, sometimes you have to work with people you don't like. My main worry though...is what if Chris got to look for an Idol or actually FOUND ONE while he was on Exile? I don't want to sound crazy or paranoid, but he has to know he neck's on the line, and his response earlier was to just...take a nap? That's really fishy to me, and Sonja being AFK for the past couple of days isn't helping things. Should I just vote Chris? Should I throw one on Sonja just in case? I'm starting to be unsure, but something on Chris's behaviour just seems 'wrong'.

[Marty]

Dammit, for the other tribe voting out Lindsey. And damn you Joe and Chris for making me vote you out instead of Brandon and lose our original Huaiyu number advantage. This was you, not me. You freaking did this to us.

[Marty]

Shit, why did I blow that Krusty GIF already? I just found an even more appropriate usage of it. Malcolm and Sonja not even doing it and not getting to vote, with Sonja likely getting removed? There somehow being 2 Immunities (despite Reynold having to give his up) instead of it going to some tiebreaker? The challenge part of the game apparently being the most important part of it despite that being far from true? People ACTUALLY giving Sierra Immunity despite her being shady as fuck? Yeahh...this just doesn't sit right, and I hate the challenge was so much of a luck-based one. It just feels annoying being in a shitty position when it's like it wasn't even based off of something I did. I know this is ranty, but maybe we'll get lucky and there won't be any more posting challenges for a good while.

[Marty]

Round 6: Lost and Forgotten

(First off, my bad on the rant earlier. Remind me not to do a confessional right at the end of a mess of a day online and off. Though hey, I'm just glad I didn't go apeshit on people.)

This whole round has kind of felt like a bit of a beating back to back, I've gotta say. From finding out that Lindsey went, to Malcolm and Sonja not doing the challenge and being unable to vote, to both Reynold and Sierra winning the challenge and going to the Temple together, it just hasn't felt like a good time. Reynold lost his Immunity because of a Temple punishment which I can assume might've been from earlier, but he still gets a chance at another Temple thing. It's a bit weird that suddenly winning challenges is apparently the most important aspect of the game (when it's anything but), but I have to adjust how I approach things more to better deal with it.

Supposedly everybody's been talking about voting out Sonja, which while I don't like it since I figure she'd help me out if she was around, is something I'm not really in a situation to control at this point in time. RC goes and shows me a conversation between her and Sierra where Sierra talked about voting ME out. The hilarious thing is I get shown this shortly after I finish a conversation with Sierra where she goes on about how the only fair vote is for Sonja to go and how wrong it'd be for anybody to go before her. Like hey, sorry for being honest and saying that there wasn't time for me to give you tokens (which really, I wasn't going to give her any in the first place), and for showing loyalty to my post-swap tribe by giving them all a token, but I didn't really do shit to her yet.

It probably goes without saying though, that I want Sierra out the moment I can do anything about it, and I talked to Tyson and Andrea about it a good amount. RC brought up the idea to me when she showed the convo, which is good if she actually means it. If I can get RC/Brandon/Peih Gee to vote with me/Andrea/Tyson, then that'd be awesome, but it's probably not that simple. I don't fully know if Brandon's with Sierra, or Reynold/Fabio, or whatever. Either way though, I've just got to make sure I don't do something stupid and get myself booted this round before I can fully re-assess things.

[Marty]

"Discipline", huh? Hm...I'm starting to get this strange feeling of deja vu, lol.

[Marty]

Aww, I was actually kind of hoping I could still do the old "change the number of posts per page" thing you used to be able to do on some forums so it'd be like 5 posts instead of 15 and I could do it even faster. 

Guess I'm doing this the normal way, lol.

[Marty]

Round 7: Deadly Weapons

And so ends another long and stressful posting challenge. I really don't have anyone to blame but myself for accidentally posting 16 times on that one letter, so what can you do? With Peih-Gee winning Immunity, I actually feel a good bit better about things than I would've if someone like Sierra/Fabio/Reynold won it. Also, apparently Malcolm was holed up in the hospital for 4 days or something trying not to let his intestines escape through his mouth, so it's good to see he's at least well enough to answer his question and hopefully vote. This of course happens after Reynold, Sierra, Fabio, and Brandon all start talking about Malcolm going this round, and it gets me thinking. Sure Malcolm going "isn't me", and sure it gets me one round further, but what then? I mean, this is ignoring that I might want to keep Malcolm around to possibly goat him, but when Malcolm's gone, they'll probably just go after myself, Andrea, and Tyson next, and finish it off with PG and RC.

This brings me to Brandon. I talk to him about the vote and things and he brings up Reynold and Sierra being a power couple, and how Fabio's with them, which does add up to what Andrea, Tyson, and I (or alternatively Team ATM) thought. However, he then says that after this round he can swing Fabio over (despite saying he was close with them) to weaken Sierra and Reynold by voting out Todd. Now, this just doesn't add up to me. Tyson said Todd was going to go for being an outsider when Lindsey went until she lost her shit, and everybody says that Todd's hard to hold a conversation with. It's like, someone tell me how in the blue hell that voting TODD out instead of...oh I don't know, one of Reynold/Sierra, would weaken them? It just really doesn't add up to what he's saying. Like, I'm a man of rationality and logic, and the things Brandon's trying to have me believe don't seem to fit into either of those.

One of my questions is who Malcolm was told to vote for, and if he was told to do it so people could pile their votes onto it, or if he was told it to keep him calm. They seem relatively 'sincere' about wanting to vote for Malcolm like they did for Sonja last round, and if so, then there might be a legit chance for a big move if PG and RC are up to take a chance. I told this to Andrea and Tyson, but if Sierra/Reynold/Fabio/Todd(?)/Brandon(?) vote for Malcolm, Malcolm votes whoever, and me/Andrea/Tyson/RC/PG vote for Sierra, it'll tie 5-5-1. If that happens then Malcolm and Sierra won't be able to vote. That'll make it so that we can vote out Sierra 5-4 on the re-vote and have Malcolm vote with us for at least the next vote to make it so we'll have majority. I'm really hoping RC and PG show up and are a go for the vote, because I'm not planning to just sit back and be rolled over.

[Marty]

Full confessional later, but it kinda sucks RC and PG bailed on the plan, and made Andrea change her vote as a result. I'm not sure how much of it was due to the possibility of them being with Sierra, and how much of it was them just doing whatever.

That being said...this whole challenge and split thing is kind of hilarious and possibly good. Yeah, this could be called "Survivor: Endurance Edition" by now, but I'm laughing a bit at Sierra. So, she's gonna put my name down this round, huh? 

[Marty]

(yikes this was longer than I expected)

Round 8: Her Eyes Hold The Apocalypse

Yeah...RC and PG made the plan fail so I knew my vote for Sierra wasn't going to affect the outcome, but holy shit did it do so much more after Tribal! I come online sometime after the results and Sierra flips the holy fuck out on me for putting her name down when it had no real chance of changing the outcome. Of course, it WAS a giant "screw you" vote anyway so I'm not gonna act like there was nothing behind it, but I'm just like sitting there and she's going the fuck off on me. THEN she's like "bitch talk to me in the public AIM chat or don't at all" so I'm all like "okay sure" and she acts like a giant crazy person in front of EVERYBODY. I'm trying so hard not to burst out laughing as I just kept my cool and let her go off while Reynold and others talk about how insane and how much of a loose cannon she is.

The best part though? She kept spouting on about how she'd "vote for me every Tribal Council until I got put into Pre-Jury", and now with this twist of splitting us up she can't even vote for me! And even if I get voted out (which I don't really think would benefit anybody on this quasi-tribe but Fabio), I'm on the Jury anyway. Hell, with Andrea beasting Immunity and trying to get Sierra out, it's entirely possible that she not only won't she get the chance to, but that I'll outlast her anyway. Reynold claimed that she was someone he wanted to get rid of, and with Andrea winning Immunity (and Todd getting Immunity from PG according to her in a bit of an eyebrow raising move) that's possible if he truly wants to. I'll believe it when I see it though.

Over here though, I've been pitching the idea of voting Fabio out and having NuHuaiyu stick together so we can move forward. I mean, from my perspective it just seems like the best thing to do because it means eliminating someone from the other side, keeping a bunch of people I feel are allies around, and because it's not me getting voted out. I'm a little bit skeptical of RC and PG for things last round and because both RC and PG's claims about the other kind of contradict themselves, but I've gotta work with what I have available right now. The fact is, I need at least one of their votes for Fabio to go, and that RC told me she wasn't going to let me get voted off "no matter what", so I have to at least trust a little bit that she's not just lying "because why not". She said voting for Tyson was because he showed to be untrustworthy by lying over the HII clue, which if true is something I get, but there might have been a sense of weakening Andrea and I so we wind up being 'forced' to stick with them. Either way, I have to at least trust in their rationale and hope everybody understands that keeping me makes more sense than voting me out. I've just gotta reaffirm that.