Haus of Uhas II

[nick]

Matt's trying to get Rachelle to backdoor me

FUCK that guy!

[nick]

Rachelle
Matt Hoffman 7:19 pm
What's a better use of an hoh? To get out someone who isn't around much (and I try talking to him every other day when the game first started, and I never heard a bad word about you this game from his) or someone who's likable as fuck, who everyone wants to keep around

Likable as fuck tysm Matt <333

BATHING IN YOUR BLOOD NEXT WEEK MOFUGGA

[Shir]

I ship Matick

[jon]

This matt guy has the right idea.

[nick]

Sofia/Rachelle are HoH, Sofia is dethroned when Neda/Candice bomb BotB, Rachelle remains HoH ETC ETC let's fast forward

I set up a group chat with myself, Rachelle, and Sofia. I trust them enough right now because I really don't think they'd break the alliance within the first round of forming it, that'd be kinda weird

So the point of the chat was to figure out a backdoor target. None of us wanted Candice/Neda to remain nominees, so the options were Drew, Shilpa, or Boog. Zach and I went back and forth but settled on wanting Boog the most. I have the least game talks with her of the three by far so that was my best bet. BUUUT that didn't really take off. Whenever Rachelle and Sofia would talk about it, they mostly just said Drew or Shilpa, never Boog. Heaven said the same to me earlier today. Makes me wonder about them and Boog a bit but NO BIGGIE NO BIGGIE, keeping it in the back of my mind for now

There were major pros and cons to backdooring both Shilpa and Drew. The three of us talked about it for awhile and things settled on Shilpa pretty definitely. Much bigger long term threat than Drew is was the main selling point

Sofia won Veto and things were falling into place pretty well. Neda came down and Shilpa was gonna go up against Candice and very possibly out. Buuuuuuuuuuut then I had a change. I was pretty okay with Shilpa going. We've been trying to get on the same page but it just hasn't really worked out too well. But the more I thought about things earlier today, the more pros I saw in Drew leaving over Shilpa for my own game. I don't wanna be a stubborn ally to this new group of six, but at the same time I really cannot give them even more power and help them eliminate all of their competition if that competition can benefit me. Gotta play my own game

Once Christine won Veto I kinda used that to suggest that Drew should go. Drew/Christine/Ash seem like way more of a tight trio, so leaving them in next week and all able to play HoH seemed like a bad idea. Sofia and Rachelle were discussing in our chat how they were about to put Shilpa up and backdoor her when I threw this idea out there. Didn't take long to get it to stick. We weighed pros and cons out a bit more and suddenly it was Drew going up instead

Sofia/Rachelle might think I was selfish or have something with Shilpa now. I know they noticed that I pushed for Drew instead. I talked to Rachelle about it afterwards and she made it seem like it wasn't a big deal. Sofia told Zach that I was pushing for Drew but it didn't seem like she cared at all. Hope not, but I can't be too worried about that right now

I WAS a bit selfish for sure (: . I do think there are huge benefits to Drew going and cons to Shilpa staying, but they seem to benefit me the most out of our group of six. Drew nominated me last week and proved he's fine with me leaving. I know he seemed to want me to stay at the end there, but he still considered getting rid of me initially and again over Brittany where as I'm not sure I see Shilpa coming after me anytime soon. PLUS I'LL BE HONEST it's kinda nice to survive being nominated by Drew then turning things around on him and being the reason why he's leaving the very next week. It's good to claim a move of my own (mostly) and hopefully some people recognize that I struck back at the HoH who nominated me so they have second thoughts about nominating me in the future (wishful thinking?)

OH AND, when Rachelle told Drew she was choosing him as renom, he immediately said I should go up instead because I have connections and that I'm a big threat. WELP! I felt 150% better about my push to get him up at that point, who can blame me really

Drew's a really nice guy though. He came to me after he was put up and asked me if I was evicting him. I told him yes straight up (I broke my rule) and he said no hard feelings and that he's glad we met and he hopes to play Sausage one day etc etc. GOOD GUY. Nothing personal turning this around on him, I like him quite a bit

Then comes QUEEN SHILPA!

Shilpa
the thing of it is
why did i have to hear from heather
who the replacement nominee was gonna be
and shadow knew, he didn't tell me
sofia didn't tell me she was taking down neda
there are things going on that i don't know about
which is fine, that'll always be the case
but i'm not playing for 8th again to sit idly by while shit happens
drew is going to be someone who will make moves that could benefit us
i see candice as a cog in a machine that's already running

Lawl. First of all this is kinda silly because Shilpa told me during the Veto/renom period that she wasn't planning on talking to Sofia or Rachelle whatsoever and just wanted to wait and see who Rachelle renoms with. Uhhhhh wut. Okay gl with that have a good summer. She can't be mad that she ~had to hear about it from Heather if she wasn't trying to actively seek this stuff out herself. And I dunno why she expects Zach to come tell her this stuff either, but if she's mad at him for this then whatever. I was also very much involved with what was going on and wasn't telling her. Not sure if she knows that or not

Obviously she's right in starting to put the pieces together of a large thing at work, I'm just not sure she realizes I'm in it yet. She very well could, I think I'll know sooner or later, but for now she's telling me a lot of information so I'm not so sure. I keep having to act very naive with her when it comes to some of this stuff but she knows I'm not dumb or passive so she's gotta suspect that my hands are in some of these pots

SHILP'S GOTTA CHILL THO. She was THIS close to getting backdoored tonight and she has absolutely no idea. She's been in the dark for so much shit. The good thing is, I now have this in my back pocket if I need to use it. I can go to Shilpa and tell her that Sofia/Rachelle were this close to backdooring her instead of Drew and I pushed it to Drew instead at the very last minute and saved her. That could be big for me for the future, another reason why I did it

Zach knows that Shilpa doesn't trust him anymore and has connected him with 'the trio' because I told him. Once he heard, he got super pissed and really, REALLY wishes Shilpa was leaving now instead of Drew. Rachelle kinda does too because of the shit Shilpa was saying tonight. I can tell Zach/Rachelle talked about how they wish I didn't push for Drew so that Shilpa could've gone instead. Zach and I were Skyping and he doesn't hide his emotions from me terribly well, I know he's not happy with me for it but that's not a big deal to me. Truth be told, I would've been fine with Shilpa going now as I've said and part of me wishes that happened too just so I wouldn't have to put up the slight facade with him anymore, but I do think I have more options going forward this way and there are definitely huge pros to Drew leaving this week that I know Zach sees

BUT NOW it's time to gather the votes and make sure it actually happens so that any of this spiel actually matters. That's a whole other story that I'll try to tackle tomorrow

[nick]

Mike
Like I get Drew nominated you but at the end of it...he was going to keep you in a tie.
So it's kind of a shitty repayment to vote him out when it was a step in the right direction towards potentially working together.

Nick
true, but he also tried to backdoor me last night
so there's that (:

DON'T GIMME THAT SHITTY REPAYMENT TALK!

Candice was by my side last week, voted to keep me, did NOT nominate me!, didn't consider getting me out, and didn't tell Rachelle to backdoor me. Would it not also be shitty repayment to Candice?

Drew nominated me last round and tried to backdoor me last night. Shilpa and Mike haven't been able to give me one reason why I personally should save Drew and evict Candice. Obviously I don't think they see where I fit in the bigger picture, so they don't know that I'm behind Drew going up or saved Shilpa or am ~involved with the trio right now. Since they're in the dark about where I stand they probably think I'm being a stubborn naive idiot for wanting to keep Candice over Drew, since they know Drew is against the trio and Candice could be a number for the trio. Especially Shilpa after the Casey vote too. MEH! I'm fine with letting them think that, it's better than them having my position pinned and realizing what I'm doing

Now Matt's messaging me and being dodgy about who he's gonna evict. Pretty sure Drew/Shilpa scooped him up. He said to people that "Drew and Shilpa have no one in this game". Oh Matt, you sweet simpleton

I'd like Matt gone very soon. He's very fake with everyone and has an odd social game right now. I barely read anything he tells me because I'm pretty sure it's all horseshit. When he came to Rachelle about naming a replacement nom, I was 99% sure he was gonna push for me to go up there. LO AND BEHOLD! Drew wanted me backdoored last night for my connections, Matt wanted me backdoored because I'm 'likable as fuck'. There are worse reasons for people to be coming after me so I'll take it, but still NO BUENO! 

[nick]

Yikes. Shilpa is turning everyone off right now. She's being too aggressive and overbearing to try to get a vote to save Drew and no one is enjoying it at all

Neda was a question mark for most people last night. I heard she was emotional and being badgered by both sides so I decided to let her chill and talk to her today. I think that paid off big time for me. She came to me a little while ago and the first thing she did was thank me for not pestering her and being patient with her. She seemed in the dumps and asked me if I thought she was annoying and if everyone in the game hated her and all. It led into some good serious game talk between us for the first time more or less

She told me that she got off AIM because she was sick of dealing with people, but Shilpa won't stop snapchatting her and bothering her about it. It's really turning her off and she doesn't want Shilpa to get her way at all. Rachelle's annoyed too and wants to target Shilpa and Heather next week

I'm trying hard to maneuver myself in a good position. I thinkkkk it's working out for me and I might be sitting pretty if I keep at it, hard to say though. The funny thing is, if they get the votes and Drew ends up staying...I might still be relatively okay and well covered on that side for the time being

[nick]

lolol, this is awkward. I've been telling both of these people two different things. When I was on the block I worked on getting Mike's vote by telling him I'm dead set against Sofia and co. I was telling him the truth though!!! At the time

Now things have obviously changed and I'm loosely aligned with Sofia. I would've felt best about Ryan winning of the three but this isn't the worst case scenario for winners. Could've been Ash/Christine or something

I would be surprised if I was either person's target this week. I don't see why Sofia would turn on me right now unless she hears that I'm up to some shit. I did fill her in on telling Mike that I was against her during Week 2 tho so that she wouldn't hear it from someone else. I think/hope she didn't care, she didn't seem to and said that it was my best bet to do that. I caught her on as results were going up and we immediately started talking about her nominating two weak people

Mike could be trickier. He didn't seem happy that I didn't give Drew my vote last week. "Shitty repayment" etc. I think he was close with Drew so maybe he'll want revenge or think that I'm not on his side anymore because of it. After Sofia nominates two weak people, he has to nominate the next two weakest or one or two people who are willing to throw though. Hopefully he doesn't have me in mind for either of those

If he does remain HoH, I'm sure he'd try to backdoor Sofia unless their feud is for show and they're secretly together (a common conspiracy theory people are having). And if Sofia won Veto, how could Mike not go for Heaven really? It would be the first real opportunity and I can't see him squandering it to get me out

I'm gonna keep my head down this week, not say conflicting things to each HoH if I can help it, and stay out of trouble

[nick]

Neda and I exchanged snapchats I'm scared

[Shir]

Enjoy

[nick]

WORD ON THE STREET IS Mike is gonna nominate Candice and Ash and hope that they lose. Big chance that Ash volunteered to throw again. Given Ash's throw history I'm not too concerned

Pictured below: Ash's throw history

[nick]

I'm gonna keep my head down this week and stay out of trouble

LOL MISSION FAILED I just can't help it 

[nick]

NEW ALLIANCE BORN?

SPOILER: Click to show

(Candice/Neda/Me)

[Shir]

Very nice.

What happened between your last update to now then?

[nick]

Candice said she wanted to Skype with me so we jumped on last night. I wasn't sure if she wanted to talk so that she could confront me about the Shilpa thing or if she just wanted to talk game so she could report what I was saying back to Shilpa since they made up and have their eyes on me now

It started off with general game talk and then we got on the subject of Shilpa. Candice was like, "I guess during week 2 Shilpa got word that I wanted Drew to backdoor her, idk how she knew." I was like o rly I THINK YOU DO KNOW HOW SHE KNEW!

I felt like she was giving me an opportunity to admit it and if I didn't then I might've been dead to her, so I did. I explained to her that I only did it when everyone was sure it would be me vs. her on the block when Drew told her she'd be renom. I said I was nervous as fuck and that I needed Shilpa/Drew on my side for the vote and that felt like my only chance. She acted surprised even though obviously I knew she already knew and she said that filled in a lot of blanks for her etc etc. I apologized and she acted okay with it and said she would've done the same if it was me vs. her on the block

So I thiiiiink I did okay with that but it's hard to tell. I wish she just told me that her and Shilpa talked and thought I was pitting them against each other, because if things were busted even wider open like that then I really could've sold my case for why I'm with her and Shilpa isn't. But with both of us pretending that Candice was just hearing about this for the first time and hadn't talked to Shilpa, I had to hold back and couldn't say everything I wanted to about it

I'm really hoping she's smart enough not to run back to Shilpa and spill everything, I don't think it would be in her best interest to at all because I feel like we made progress. I wanted to go a step further and give her a reason to hopefully not throw me under the bus, soooo..



ALLIANCE!

We were talking about Neda and how much we liked/trusted her and I suggested we get her in the call. She joined up and the three of us had some fun/informative talks about the game and where we stand in it. Neda was lowkey talking about getting us three together a couple of days ago anyway so this was the perfect chance for it. Also, Neda was very anti-Shilpa in the call so it was good for Candice to hear she can't trust Shilpa from someone other than me. Otherwise she'd just assume I'm working on turning them against each other some more


Stray thoughts/things I learned:

- Neda was very annoyed by Zach butting into our house last round. She wants him gone sooner rather than later but is afraid to cross him right now

- They were a bit afraid that I was too close with Zach and weren't sure how much they could say with me there. They didn't outright say this but it was obvious

- Candice and Boog are tighter than I realized and Candice seems to wanna bring Boog in as a fourth

- Keith has had talks with Candice about knowing Shilpa/Heather are too close and have to be split up

- Neda found out Memphis called her annoying and hates him now

- We all agreed that Heather and Memphis are untouchable so far

- Shilpa told Neda "I know I'm guaranteed f10 but I want to win this time". Neda was like um bye

- If final noms are Hayley/Christine then the two of them might lobby to keep Christine


Call went on for a couple of hours and we all seem like we're mostly on the same page. I think the two of them trust each other more than either trusts me but that's not a big deal right now, I can work towards that. I had fun Skyping with them so I hope things work out. Not gonna tell Zach or anyone else about it, I hope it stays under wraps for awhile