Memphis the Mixologist 2.0

[memphis]

After over a week of ignoring me because of the Hayley/Ryan vote - Mike finally IMs me, when he knows that veto is not going to be used. *Sigh* He immediately starts throwing Matt under the bus to me - saying how Matt is super likable and not good at challenges - so he'll be around for a while and I would be a target over him. The same things were said about Ika and Hayley and look how that turned out. People aren't playing like that this season - except for me :x Although I feel like I've kinda fallen into it by not winning HOHs and never playing in POVs. I'm still the only person who has yet to be nominated - over a month into this game. So yay for that.

But still, Mike would make a good point if I wasn't already aligned with people and didn't know how expendable he thinks I am to him. He told his brodown showdown/suicide squad that they could "use" me for a few rounds, lmao okay. And it's so clear he's working with Sofia - so if she's not leaving, one of her allies must. That said, I'm trying to get a better rapport with Sofia, as we haven't spoken in a little bit (I honestly never really see her online), because if she's staying - I don't want her to target me. I would hope she goes for the coven or the bros. Again, I need to play the middle. 

[memphis]

I hate so many people in this game. OMG I'M SO RANDOM.

[memphis]

Oh gosh, where do I even begin? You guys probably already know what has happened - but apparently our alliance has been outed. I was foolish to think that Ryan/Hayley vote wouldn't expose us like that. From what I've heard - the coven (Boog, Candice, Neda) has said that Sofia is going around telling people that myself, Zach, Heather, and Nick are in an alliance. However, Sofia says that it's the coven saying this - not her. I don't trust any of them. Apparently the coven think that we're trying to play the middle between them and the trio - which is partially true. Part of my gameplan was to play the middle. HOWEVER, they are claiming that we are responsible for turning them against the trio - which is total bullshit. They've been after them since day 1. Ryan and Heaven have both told me personally that none of them talk to either of them, especially Ryan. I feel for Ryan - the reason he's been targeted is because of his reputation and relationship with Heaven. But none of these people have ever sat down and just talked to him, person to person. He's a really nice guy and that's part of the reason why I kept him 3 rounds ago. It was funny because with that vote - they just expected everyone to vote him out, assuming that he built no relationships with others. 

So going into this vote - I knew Boog/Candice/Neda would be voting Matt out. Keith had expressed interest in voting to keep Mike - which now apparently he is being grouped in with the gatorade alliance now (via Neda), so he probably wants to distance himself from that. Sofia told Heather and Zach that she was evicting Mike - but then the coven were so sure they had her vote, we didn't know who she was lying to. Votes come back 6-5, so obviously she was lying to us. The fact that she voted with the coven scares me going into this next HOH because I feel like if she wins, she is going to put me up. Ugh though, this vote was extremely annoying because Brian would not give a straight answer to me. That is legit the only thing Mike got right in his exit speech. 

Me: Hey Brian! What do you think about the vote?
Him: I hear majority is voting Mike out
Me: So you're voting Mike out?
Him: I'm thinking that's what everyone else is going to do

THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED BRIAN. and then he'll just say the most confusing shit. Sometimes I think he just copy/pastes words he sees others have used in hopes that they'll form a coherent sentence. I really don't understand some of the things he says sometimes, lol. But I do trust him. I do think he's on my side and we've built a pretty decent game relationship. 

Oh and at Mike being ~disappointed in me. I'm not even important enough for a full multi-sentence rant But I mean, he never really spoke to me at all and it's been obvious we're on opposite sides - and if he was up to date on all the house rumors, he would know that I was most likely evicting him. He did say that he had heard I was leaning towards evicting him but wouldn't tell me who said it. The only people outside of my alliance that I told my vote to was Matt and Brian. Matt obviously wouldn't tell him (Hey Mike, here is who you need to campaign to!) and Brian voted him out too. It was obviously one of the coven or Sofia - because they have a guestimate of where my loyalties are. 

I'm debating whether or not to do this HOH tonight or tomorrow. I'm pretty tired right now and would like to be well rested for it. I would really like to win this one. I know this is the kind of stuff that Sofia is great at - but going into this challenge, the odds are in my favor that someone will win who won't nominate me. Zach, Nick, Heaven, Ryan, Keith, and Matt I know would not put me up. Candice, I'm not entirely sure about - she could, but I think she would go after Heaven/Ryan before me. I would hope Boog would do the same but I don't have the same relationship with Boog that I do Candice. Boog and Sofia, there's a definite chance I would go up. Neda? No fucking clue. She's a troll and I can't stand it. I feel like I've never had a real conversation with her. I get that this is her shtick but it's really grating on my nerves now. If I were to win this one - my nominees would be Boog/Neda and try for a Sofia backdoor. My only worry there is if Sofia gets picked and wins POV because she's obviously going to use it. But I'm getting ahead of myself - just need to see who wins this and I can go from there. 

Oh and just FYI Mike, fuck you. The way he spoke to Heather on the way out just boils my blood. He literally described himself. Heather is one of the nicest people I've ever met in an ORG.

[memphis]

Oh and this is something that I've been thinking about for the past few rounds now. I trust Nick for the most part, I really do. But there is a part of me that knows he has other deals that could possibly take more importance than his alliance with me. He's a smart player and if he sees an avenue that's easier for him that doesn't include me - he is going to take it. I know he's close-ish to the coven which is why he's pulling so hard for Sofia to be the next to go whenever Heather or Zach bring up that a coven member needs to go next. I've been relatively quiet about that because I would rather see Sofia go. Once she leaves, we have Heaven/Ryan vs. Candice/Boog/Neda. But yeah - I'm starting to grow weary of Nick but for now - I do think he's on my side and has my back. 

[memphis]

I feel like I could be going up :/ 

Here is my chat with Sofia and she basically says I'm a possibility. I feel like Nick is going up 100% and he feels it too. Worst case is that both of us go up. I basically told Sofia that I was never on this anti-trio mentality the house seems to harbor against them. For the most part, that is true. I've never told anyone outside of Zach, Heather, and Nick that Sofia would be a backdoor target of mine. So for all she knows, what I'm saying is true. and it partially is. If I did win - Boog and Neda would have been my nominations. My hopes are that she believes that and does not nominate me. If she thinks I am after the coven, she would want to keep me in so she can play the middle, right? I'm going after the coven, the coven is coming after me and she stays safe. 

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Memphis Garrett 

You're probably getting swamped with IMs right now haha but when you're free, could we talk? 

Sofia Valentine 

We can talk 

Sofia Valentine 

I just might not be quick but I'll respond as soon as possible 

Sofia Valentine 

What's on your mind? 

Memphis Garrett 

No worries about slow replying! I know we've never spoken game so I was just wondering where your head was at going into this week? i know there has been some rumors going around and i sorta feel like i'm out of the loop on all the house ongoings haha 

Sofia Valentine 

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't cautious of someone like you but I don't have my mind made up yet, just an idea 

Sofia Valentine 

I'm trying to give everyone a chance to talk to me 

Sofia Valentine 

Before I run and do nominations 

Memphis Garrett 

I've honestly never been after you. There are people in this house that have been after the "trio" since the very first week and I have never been one of those people. and I feel like ever since I voted to keep Ryan - those same people have been cautious with me. 

Memphis Garrett 

and what annoyed me about that is that people just expected a "trio" member to go if they're up and then got mad when it didn't happen 

Memphis Garrett 

ooh, i think my net just went out for a second, sorry lol 

Sofia Valentine 

You're fine lol 

Sofia Valentine 

Yeah 

Sofia Valentine 

I've heard since the beginning about people trying to get me out 

Memphis Garrett 

if i had won this hoh, i definitely would not have put you up. i would have gone after the people who i feel don't really trust me which i think stemms from that ryan/hayley vote. i think people just excepted me to vote him out because "omg one of the 3 needs to go!!!11!" and that mentality has never really worked on me. 

Sofia Valentine 

So you would've gone for who? 

Sofia Valentine 

The coven? 

Memphis Garrett 

I would have done Boog/Neda noms. Boog and I never talk and I feel like I've never had a real conversation with Neda lol Like I feel like I could never talk game with Neda because she's so trolly. 

Sofia Valentine 

Neda trolls a LOT lol 

Sofia Valentine 

I don't know if there is a method to her madness but she does it a lot 

Memphis Garrett 

yeah lol i feel like at the beginning it was kinda funny but now it's getting really tiresome.

That said, if I do stay this round and a backdoor opportunity comes up - I would try to go for Sofia. :x I basically laid it all out for her though. My only worry is that if she goes back to the coven and one of them is MVP - they could put me up. However, I still feel like maybe they would do Heaven or Ryan considering they are both after the coven as well. I mean, who would you want after you? Me? or Heaven/Ryan? The latter is far scarier. 

Sofia has stopped replying to me - but I did say all I needed to say. She was short with me but she holds all the cards now. So I hope she thinks it over and doesn't nominate me. *fingers crossed*

[memphis]

Also that HOH competition was so hard. I thought I did awful but I'm pretty proud of myself for getting 8/10. I really thought I completely bombed it. Even my tiebreaker was close-ish. I had thought after I did it that I had gone to high but I wasn't THAT far off. I don't want to be evicted in this game without winning anything

[memphis]

So that didn't work. I expected to get nominated but her speech was complete garbage. First of all, I excluded her? Is she joking? I took a look back at our log and almost every single time we have spoken - it has been myself IMing her. After a while, you get tired trying with someone. It's the same problem I have with Boog. When we do talk - she gives me absolutely nothing to work with conversationally - so what the hell am I supposed to do? It doesn't work if only one person is trying. 

and of course she wins the veto, it wouldn't be any other way. After the 10/10 in the last HOH - nothing surprises me anymore. What kills me though is that Heather was one point away from winning and she would have taken me off the block So now, unless Sofia has some master plan that she has told nobody - I'm assuming the nominations are going to stay the same. I'm not even going to try and campaign to her to use it on me because it would be a waste of time - I know she won't. I laid it all out on the table for her two nights ago and she didn't want any of it - so I have nothing else to offer. 

So I need to work on getting votes and with the votes to save - it makes it so much harder. I feel like Nick is probably more of a target for Sofia than myself. However, I know he's closer to the coven than I am - but he has burned them with the past few votes, so who knows. I know Matt/Heaven will most likely save Zach and Heaven could get Ryan to as well. Brian? I honestly have no idea - it's a toss up between Zach and myself. The only person who I'm confident would vote to save me right now is Heather. Hopefully I might be able to swing Keith - but I don't know. We'll see how today goes.

[memphis]

Candice is a no-go, she told me she's saving Nick - which means the coven is probably all saving Nick. Heaven/Matt are for sure going to save Zach or me - and I'm sure Heaven will pull Ryan to do the same. I'm still going to try and see if I can get Ryan though. My only chance is a 3-3-3 tie and just hope that Sofia would evict one of the other two over me - which means I need to get Heather, Keith, and Brian to vote to save me. Heather I have and she and I can hopefully both work on Keith. Brian is going to be hard - because 1) he never gives a straight answer and 2) I don't know if he's closer to myself or Zach. 

[memphis]

So Keith told me that he will probably vote to save me because he talks to me the most from the nominees. Yay. So I have two votes, and I need at least one more to tie it. If I can tie it, hopefully Sofia would evict Nick over me - but then again, Sofia does what Sofia wants - she could evict me. Brian isn't on AIM right now, ugh. and I'm going to PM Ryan after the veto ceremony is posted. I really have had his back in this game and I'm hoping he returns the favor. Then again, as have the other 2 guys sitting next to me. Vote-to-save makes everything so much harder. Because I feel like Brian and Matt would both evict Nick before they would evict me - but they would SAVE Zach before they save me. Matt, for sure. Brian, I need to feel out.

[memphis]

Memphis Garrett 

do you have an idea of what you wanna do with this vote? I know it's early so I totally get if you don't know what you're doing yet. i figure that sofia isn't gonna use the veto lol 

hartattackbb 

I think I have an idea, I just have to go over the votes with people to make sure it's feasible

[Shir]

I was gonna respond to your tweet with EXPOSED. But then I realized me saying that would totally ~expose. So I didn't

[memphis]

Aug 5, 2015 18:44:26 GMT -5 Shir said:

I was gonna respond to your tweet with EXPOSED. But then I realized me saying that would totally ~expose. So I didn't

LOL. Well people already know about us, I picked Heather for the veto, and one of us is for sure leaving... so at this point, it's like whatevs lol. 

[Shir]

Lol <3

[memphis]

I'm not getting good vibes from my conversations. Ryan and Brian were both so non-committal but I think they're leaning towards voting to save Zach - which means the only votes I think I'm going to have are Heather and Keith's. I'm going to keep trying though. 

I was on call with Heather and she was pretty much in tears about this round. I hate that this week has made her feel like that She's such a nice person and I don't want her to be sad over a game. Because at the end of the day, this is just a game. I just love her <3 and would love to continue playing this game with her. But if that doesn't happen, we're still going to be friends outside the game. I'm so glad that I met her this season. 

[memphis]

I'm annoyed. The way I see it... the votes are going to be 4-3-2 - with two votes for me to stay and four votes for Zach to stay [if this was a vote to evict between the three of us, I feel like I could for-sure get the votes to save myself]. I brought up the 3-3-3 plan to Zach to see if maybe we could get one of his 4 to vote my way - and then we'd tie it. If we could get the votes, I would obviously go to Sofia beforehand and try to make a deal - telling her that I would stick to my word before nominations and go after the coven next week. According to her, she just wants one of her nominees gone, doesn't care which. But when I spoke to Ryan today - he told me that Sofia was pissed that the coven was voting to save Nick. Plus, her speech seemed more geared towards Nick as a target than myself. Even Zach said that he doesn't believe Sofia would evict him - either me or Nick. So I really do think she would vote to evict Nick in a tie over me.

So anyway, when I brought it up to him - he was not receptive at all. He doesn't think it could work. But I told him - he has 2 for sure votes, and I have two for sure votes - we would just need Ryan and Brian to split it and we'd be good. If we went to Brian and told him this - I really do feel like he would go for it, because I feel like he wants to keep both of us. It's completely plausible. He kept denying that it was but wouldn't give me any reason. and then says he doesn't want to campaign against Nick. I understand that but I really thought he was closer to me. Then he logged off AIM before we could even finish the conversation. and it sucks, because if this was reversed - I would take this risk in a heartbeat if it meant that both of us could stay in the game. So I'm feeling a little hurt and foolish, tbh. At the start we said we were ride or die, but I guess not. :/

and seriously, screw Brian. I drove myself crazy trying to be aligned with him and when I finally need him for me, he's nowhere to be found. At least if I do get evicted, I no longer have to decipher his IMs anymore.