Mike made a huge point saying to not trust zach and heather.
I tried not trusting Heather, do you know where that got me? Of course you don't, I was evicted by Heather too early in the game for you to remember who I am.
I'm all for not making mistakes again, so with my streak of "Whoever works with me will immediately going home", I'm turning my attentions towards Zach and Heather and strengthening my bond with both of them. Why? Because the last time i was on Heather's bad side, I went home 6-0. Call me a floater if you want, but these are the white water rapids I'm floating down.
Also this is short and sweet because I have horrible service and I'm on my phone.
Quite frankly, I saved Boog because I was tired of watching my allies go home, so I decided that maybe I should get different allies.
Also, I wanted to create a rift between me and my group. I'm just kind of a number right now, I'd rather go down on a bad move then almost make it with no moves. During my season, I waited around and tried to follow a solid group of people and they ended up casting me out, I said from the beginning I'm just going in with a casual approach, people are noticing who I'm close to, so I need to throw myself under the bus to put me back in a Wildcard position
I'm taking heat right now but I'm not worried yet, I'm a weak player who lies and is untrustworthy. A few days of no one talking to me and I'm back up and running, because in the end, there are way bigger threats than me.
Stupid? Probably. ill-advised? Definitely. But c'mon, if Boog left, I'd get bored in the house.
Alright so a lot to talk about, I guess. Heather went home, which was good. The past couple rounds I've noticed how much Zach and Heather had this game on lock, so a chance to get her out worked to our advantage. Brian came to me and said we should keep Nick, and since I was already doubting Heather (you can't message someone 19,327 times asking if you're safe. After 19,326 times it gets a little weird, it worked out.
Well now I'm nominated, which is fine. I get it, I handled the Keith/Boog thing with a low level of class, so I'm not totally surprised I'm up. I think I'm the only one who's use veto on me, so I'm just gonna focus on pov, then start fighting for votes. I think I could still win this if I survive this week, Zach distanced myself from everyone with his speech (which was really well done btw), and right now everyone wants to take out the groups, whether it be Coven or the trinity (Heav, Ry, Sofia), so single players would be overlooked because the HOH would want their vote, that's how I'm seeing it anyway
Also me and Heather were talking about BB17 and who would be who, I'm either Steve, because I'm not AS smart as I think I am, or Austin, just in that "ugh stop it and calm yo ass down" sort of way.
My mom wished me good luck in the Veto comp btw, I doubt the other player's moms wished them good luck. Take that, Danielle Reyes.
Got a lot to cover, but a short attention span, so here we go. Starting with last week, Zach put me up. Everything was alright, we smoothed things over yadda yadda yadda. Cerberus happened to the game so it went on pause. Zach wins HOH (again) and says i'm safe this week, and he wants a coven member to go. He puts up Boog and Candice, Boog wins POV and he comes to me, saying he has to pawn me.
I'm calling BS on that. If he really wants someone from that three group alliance is to have two people on the block from it. Instead of one threat and one pawn. Because what if Nick is with the girls and i get evicted 3-1 given Brian evicts Candice. Then all 3 members of Coven plus whoever would vote the other way would be up against him and Brian. It's way too late in the game to be putting someone up as a "pawn" like this. Besides, after he made sure to make a point of telling me that he "took a leap of faith" in not nominating me in hopes that i was with him, yet he then immediately comes to me with the numbers saying I'm going up because they wouldn't keep Neda. His explanation for it doesn't add up tbh
Past that, I'm gonna be honest. idk what I'm doing at this point, I've never made it this far before lol (unless i'm evicted in the morning than damn). More so I'm just faking confidence sticking to my guy.
Quick impressions on the remaining group
Boog - I like Boog. if I can get Neda and Candice to go, she'd be a good final 2 candidate with me.
Brian - ofc i like this dude. i think he's pretty cool, but I know he has to go soon or else I will.
Candice - hope she goes home b/c i don't talk to her ever and she's on the block with me
Matt - he's ok. he reminds me of dan from rnf9
Floptina - not sure about her. she could go, she could stay, wouldn't affect me too much
Nick - he's cool and i still dig him, but meh. He's not somebody I see taking me to the end or me taking to the end either way.
Zach - I'm still cool with him I think, and I do think he just wants to make sure candice leaves, but yeah, that's the second time he's nommed me. if I win HOH next week he's going up
I would like to agree with Candice. Have I done anything game wise, absolutely not. But we started with 27 people, AND I essentially started with not really knowing anybody. Even the people in my season were cold at first (Ryan. Danielle didn’t even want to play i don’t think, Heather was more about getting her own group together than talking with me. Nicole only really talked to me once she got put up on the block). I just started working on relationships with people and laying low, figuring there's enough people playing the game. Let’s be honest for a second, if it starts at 27, and you’re all for playing the game hard, you aren’t gonna make it to the end. It’s a marathon, not a race. I’m getting all my work done before 8 tonight so I can do my best with HOH. I think this is the first HOH that I really really want. I’m gonna put up Nick and Zach if I win. Nick b/c he only talks to me to make sure we’re okay, and Zach because you can’t put someone up twice in two weeks and insist it’s completely innocent. He’s just trying to keep blood off his hands because he thinks I’ll be understanding about it and ready to play along.
I have a theory, the game resets at jury. All of those vague deals you made beforehand are now staring at you in the face and you have to make choices on which ones you want to act on. Zach has made it clear that he's gonna play buddy buddy with me, then continue to put me up because his other options look bleak, so I've been talking to Boog and Neda more, who I'm sure have tons of their own deals (and hell boog voted to evict me), but they're the only ones who agrees that Zach needs to go. I've been reading Zach's season and studying him, and the only possible way is for me, neda or boog to win and put him up, so he can be next to nick or brian, so whoever voting, it'll be 2-1.
Watch, I say all this and i'll end up in last place for hoh, eh?
I have a feeling that I'm Boog's only ally. I would be a horrible choice for an ally tbh.
So this whole week have been interesting to say the least. I was definitely blindsided in that, but it wasn't really a smart move to do that. Apparently Nick pitched to Neda that he was going after Zach next round, and she bought it. Which if that's really what happened, what the hell is that? It's the final 5 in the game. Nick and Zach want me and Boog gone, so they can coast to the final two getting rid of neda in the final three HOH's. I get that I was the fourth man in that, but all Neda did is take Brian's spot as the distant third
it's definitely Boog and I against the house it feels like. Boog can't play this HOH which sucks, but we already decided we'd do a Rocky montage of me hitting meat in a shack and help me practice for the HOH. Wait, no, he loses in the first movie doesn't he? That's a bad example.
Also Zach has this way of speaking, where he tries to frame it to where it's your fault. I didn't bring anything up to him, but it's definitely something to think about going forward
I'm sitting here studying past season DR's and talking game with Boog, and it has made come to realize that this is the War part of the game. I haven't made it this far before, so I had no idea what to really expect. There's clear sides in this war. It's Nick and Zach, with Floptina flopping around outside in the middle, and then there's me and Boog. In the beginning of this game quite a bit of people only really talked to me when they DIDN'T want to talk game. Mostly just to chat and that. The only time they would talk game would be to see where my head was at and then having to go. I've had to jump through hoop after hoop, losing potential ally after ally, and it's frustrating. I get that I'm still horribly new to all of this. I reek of nOOb but I'm definitely out to get to the end of this. I've dedicated way too much time to this to go down without a fight.
Zach has always been shady, and continues to be so. It feels less like after I blindsided him that he doesn't trust me, it's more so that he uses that angle to play on me. He's trying to act so nonchalant about it all and sweeping it under the rug while trying to be all matter of fact about it, I don't like that. So yeah, I'm gonna try my best for HOH, knowing my track record I'll get confused halfway through and finish in an insanely late amount of time. But hey, me and boog are #TeamUnderdogs, so whatever happens, we got this.